Are We Ready for Summer?

I think so.

Grass

Ah, I remember my childhood in the grass. It was lovely. You could sit on it, lay on it, and roll around on it. Mom kept an immaculate lawn, as did most of our neighbors. Here in Kansas, there are big, luscious, carpets of grass in my neighborhood, they are just begging me to have a sit down. See what I mean?
As I sit here typing this, I am looking out at my back lawn and I want so badly to go lay on it in the morning sunshine. But I'm not going to. The fear is within me, because hell hath no fury like a panty line full of chiggers.

Busy Easter Weekend

I don't know what to post about really so I'll just write about Easter weekend. (Even though that's what everyone else is doing, and I have a strong dis-like for doing things that everyone else is doing. It's just the way I am, don't fight it.)

Saturday morning I went to my history class. My teacher ended on a very uplifting note-The end of WWII, 60 million people dead and 2 A-bombs that may or may not of needed to be dropped to end the war. Isn't it a beautiful world? Praise Jesus.

Then, I got home from school just in time to go to the annual Hull Family Easter Egg hunt. It was a smaller crowd this year, but good times were had by all. (And if you were wondering, Dajin Skeem won the prize this year for most eggs. I think he had in the neighborhood of 280-290 eggs. He got a dollar. When the bishop's kid wins, you gotta wonder if it's a conspiracy.) Anyway, pictures...

Listen up!! Melanie explains the rules of the hunt.

My friends! (we are missing Cathy and Dorothy though.)
After the hunt, my boy got beat up by a kid half his size, and he loved it.

Sunday brought the event I was dreading all week. Easter Lunch at my sister-in-law's house(a woman screams in the background)! Oh, it was awkward, and to make it even weirder, her ex-husband and his mother were there. But, you know what? I survived. Nobody tried to press me into long conversations, so I never really had to speak about myself. I was totally avoiding eye contact though. I'm sure it was written all over my face how uncomfortable I was. (I'm not very good at hiding my emotions, my sister and bff always said they could read me like a book.) But what do they expect? My husband's family has burned me pretty bad, more than once. We got to take things slow. Here is a picture of my kids playing with their cousin whom they haven't seen in almost two years. They loved each other.

We then went to visit my husband's Grandmother and Aunt in Overland park. We hadn't seen them in awhile. Grandma was all a buzz about a blue heron and some mallard ducks that have visited her pond out back. It was a nice visit.

And that was my Easter. I hope you liked it.

Leslie-palooza!!!

(Not to be confused with Leslie-a-palooza, my surprise 30th birthday party someone is gonna throw me in May 2010. I have it all planned out, complete with authentic Mariachi band, it's going to be a blast. You should come.)







This just so happens to be my.....................







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200th post!!!







Wow, I can't believe it's my 200th post and people actually read my blog and tell me it's funny.







Well, what should I do to celebrate such an important milestone in my blogging career?







What to do.....



What to do.....







I know! A quiz. Everybody likes a good ol' fashion quiz, right?



Question 1

True or False

Leslie's favorite song of the moment contains the same swear word that Leslie allegedly said in front of Melanie and Cherise at playgroup, on two separate occasions.



To see my favorite song's music video, click here. It's awesome.

Question 2

Multiple Choice

Leslie's computer crashed on Saturday. She lost everything. The items Leslie is most up set about losing is:

1. Pictures of those sweet adorable kids.
2. Her games Cake Mania, Farm Frenzy, and Ranch Rush.
3. The link to her accounting homework on line.

Question 3

Fill in the Blank

Leslie had to yell at her kids ______ times before they did what she asked them to do.

Question 4

Multiple Choice

Leslie drops some food on her kitchen floor. She...

1. picks it up off the sparkling clean floor and eats it.
2. picks it up but looks at it cautiously before eating it.
3. picks it up, eats it but notices that the food now has more texture than before.
4. leaves it there. Leslie's kitchen floor is disgusting.

Question 5

Multiple choice

Leslie, Leslie, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

1. With silver bells and cockleshell, and pretty maids all in a row.
2. Inside, Leslie has 9 plants, including 2 different colors of shamrocks, and some bamboo.
3. The only thing Leslie grows is leg hair and toe nails.

Answers:

1. True
2. 2
3. Ha, ha! Trick question. I haven't yelled at anyone today---yet.
4. 4
5. 2, but I know you thought it was three. You are so transparent.

Thanks for participationg in my quiz. Aren't you gonna tell me how you scored?