He pulled the newspaper off the tip and we saw this… a big cinnamon gummy bear. In a split second my mind went through a million thoughts.. Which ranged from.. “Oh.. it’s a gummy bear roaster.” (Someone would normally think that was a weird present.. but not for my parents! They always find the more obscure gifts.. they have a talent!) Then I thought.. “That handle is awfully short for roasting gummy bears.. wouldn’t you burn yourself?” Which immediately rolled over too.. “I wonder what a gummy bear does when you roast it, and why would someone even want to do that?”
It was a couple seconds after that (while Aaron was still staring at it..) That I realized it was a meat turner thingy.. (do you think this has an official name? Let me google it.. please hold………………………….
According to Google.. its called a Meat Hook. And here is the best picture I could find of it in use… Our’s even has our name engraved on it! 
And the reason for the gummy bear was just to protect the tip! But we’ll let you know how a roasted cinnamon bear tastes…
Or how about the red splats all over our back porch…..
Or the chop lickin’ goodness!!!!
That’s right.. we picked more tomatoes!! I don’t have the energy to do this very often. We planted our grape tomato plant in the worst possible location! It’s smooshed on 3 sides by the air conditioner and wall and fence. It is almost impossible to pick all the tomatoes off of the back and sides. Not to mention we tied it up so tight that I can’t even get into the middle.
So when I finally get the energy to pick.. I pick almost everything that is slightly red! There were quite a few that were way more than over ripe.. Riddick loved them! He had a really hard time not eating out of the bowl while I was picking.. but every time one bounced out he was right there to swoop it up!
Then we moved on to the roma’s. He was a little confused by those! They are a little to big for his little mouth!
So uhhhh.. an ideas what to do with these now???????
Sometimes I feel like we grew a garden just to say we did. I honestly throw away so much of it. I feel bad, but I don’t know what else to do with them.. I don’t know how to can. And I could freeze them to use in sauces and soups but that would involve peeling them and I’m guessing it’s not that easy to peel grape tomatoes…
One more topic… The baby/dog room. We rearranged the dog’s room a little so we could tuck the baby somewhere in the corner with as minimal damage to the dog as possible! :)
(please don’t ever tell our kid about this.. although I think he’ll realize his place in the family pretty quickly…) (kidding… sorta..) :)
The dog’s bed is on one wall.. and the crib is on the other..
I was just telling my mom how full his crib is right now.. We just keep filling it with baby stuff. It’s a central location to store everything… It’s about 95% fabric right now..
This is what the dog’s room looked like a couple months ago! So we’ve made some SERIOUS progress…
Have I ever mentioned this???? On the wall above where the dog’s bed is now is this really cute vinyl wording.. but unfortunately we aren’t doing a cowboy theme.. and all of the other vinyl removal we’ve attempted hasn’t worked too well. We can get them off just fine, but considering the house is 3 years old, the paint as faded a little, but not under the vinyl! So you can still see it…. I think this is where we will hang the quilt I want to get. (since they don’t make it in crib size..) or I guess we could hang a long picture frame.. or something.. Guess we’ll get creative!
Did I say one more topic?? Sorry.. few more…
last but not least.. the Polaroid from Benihana’s on his birthday… The Polaroid from 2 years ago hasn’t left the side of his computer for 2 years.. yet.. last night when I needed it, it was mysteriously missing.. Oh well!!
I wish our dog had his own room. He sleeps in our bed, and is such a bed hog!! And it’s been so long now that I know there’s going to be no changing him…
But it looks like you are getting prepared! I’m still not even close!
And I’m glad it wasn’t a gummy bear roaster – that would be kind of weird!!
Oh… he doesn’t sleep there!! It’s his “day time bed” He has to be able to see out a window and watch the world go by during the day! And he sleeps in there when we aren’t home. It’s also where all of his toy’s live.. (Which take up half the room!!!) But at night he has a big huge bed on the floor on my side of the bed. He used to sleep nose to nose with me before I got married. But Aaron doesn’t like him on the bed.
Although he does bend the rules when he thinks the dog “isn’t feeling well” (That’s pretty cute!)
Well, the gummy bear roaster was almost a Mollie Tongue roaster, so be thankful it just game with a gummy bear!!
So, why does everything in the crib look girly. You are having a boy, right?!? It just looks kindof pink and fluffy, but maybe that is just my computer.
That birthday present is so funny, but will probably get lots of use. Just funny with the cinnamon bear.
You’re right.. there is an awful lot of pink inside the crib..
I just have this addiction to girly fabric. I don’t know why… but I can’t stop buying it! Some of it was from when I didn’t know what we were having.. but most of it is new..
Soooo.. someone I know better have a little girl sometime soon so I can use so of the fabric that I’m DYING to use!! :)
Right now, there is a blanket I made for Rachel and Zack for the temple and another blanket I am making for another friend that is girly.. but everything else is just sitting there waiting….
He’s (Aaron) going to be fun to play with for years to come and Ryley…If they make it anywhere in the free world…you know what you are getting for Christmas!!
What’s she getting?? All I want for Christmas is the Sex and the City Movie!