Secret Agent Man

Skills

Kaiden and Tyke are cousins and best friends.  They love to spend time together.  Today Kenny was at his dad’s house painting a trailer.  Grandpa Simpson was babysitting Tyke, so the boys got to play together while the guys worked. After the trailer was painted, Kaiden and Tyke came in to talk to Kenny and Grandpa Simpson.

Kaiden: Dad, me and Tyke want to work so we can make lots of money.

Kenny: Okay, what do you want to do?

Kaiden: We can paint and then you can pay us lots of money.

Kenny: We are done painting the trailer.

Kaiden: What can we do to work to make lots of money?

Kenny: I don’t know, what skills do you have?

Kaiden (with a serious face): Well, I have Ninja skills.

Tyke: Ya! I have Ninja skills too!

Grandpa Simpson about fell off his chair laughing.  So if you have a need for a Ninja and you have lots of money, just give Kaiden and Tyke a call.

ICE ICE BABY

I have a new found respect for Scout leaders. 

Tonight I drove Kendall up to the top of our street and then turned on a steep, slick, snowy, icy side road and led us out into nothingness. I stepped out of my car into 2 feet of snow and a howling wind mixed with snow.  I trudged up to the side of the mountain where my son has dug himself a snow cave.  Actually they started digging the caves on Wednesday.  Tonight they will finish them and then SLEEP IN THEM.  Did I mention they are at the top of a mountain with the cave openings facing the wind? And we are forecasted to get 1 foot of snow up here tonight.   I just have to give a big shout out to the men who are going to freeze their keisters off tonight.  I am sure the boys will love it.

 

The scout returns

I took some really great pictures of Kendall BEFORE he went to scout camp.  He had his hiking pack on with sleeping bag and camp roll.  The whole think was bigger than him……and then I deleted them.  ARGGGG.  Anyway this was his first year of scout camp.  It cost a small fortune to get him outfitted complete with new sandals and new hiking boots.  He came back dirty, stinky and sunburned but he had tons of fun.

 

Oh and remember that small fortune?  It went up in flames.

Note to scout:  Don’t leave your BRAND SPANKING NEW hiking boots unattended next to the fire to dry.

This is really not a hard question….?

Me: Do you like my hair better curly or straight?

Kenny: Both.

Me: If you HAD to pick one way for the rest of my life would you pick curly or straight?

Kenny: Straight. And then I’d buy you a curling iron so you could do it both ways.

Progress

Here are some pictures of the Nova that Kenny is restoring. Kenny laughs that everytime I see the car it looks worse, but there is actually a lot of progress being made.

Price of Beauty

Here is a picture of my husband getting his nose waxed. I am not really sure why he keeps getting this done. His sister Kristi is the owner of Dragonfly Hair Studio where he has this torture...I mean procedure done. Before she even gets ready to pull the sticks out, his eyes start watering. I dont plan on finding out for myself, but word on the street is this hurts worse than a bikini wax.

I couldnt resist getting a picture this time. The second shot is right as she pulled the stick out. And men say that women put themselves through torture for beauty?

Really expensive piece of metal

Kenny is restoring a Chevy Nova. When he is finished it will be a beautiful, shiny, FAST, money pit. I mean car. This weekend he brought home the custom made motor. I tried really hard to be excited about it but it really just looks like a hunk of metal. A VERY, VERY, expensive hunk of metal. My father in law and husband carried on what seemed like a conversation in a foreign language about this hunk of metal. I caught a few words like, torque, horsepower and calibration. I am sure he was looking for a bigger reaction from me...but I just dont get it. If your husband is into cars, have him come take a look at this thing. Then Kenny will have someone who cares, to show it off to.