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Crazy Fishers Driver - watch out

Watch out residents of Fishers; Mark now has a driver's permit. It's hard to believe. We've been nagging Mark to take driver's education for more than a year. Weird, we know. But finally I just signed him up. Your mommy can't drive you to work when you're an adult!

Originally I wanted Mark to take lessons in December, but since I'm the main driver's assistant and was down with foot surgery, we needed to wait until now. Saturday when we went to get his permit, I forgot to have Mark bring his glasses so we made two trips to the BMV. It only took about 2 hours with permit in hand before Mark was driving around the east side of town. He's actually pretty good! He even admitted to being happy about taking the class. He goes each day for class and drives 2 days a week. With Jazz band that means that he's out each day after school until 7. Long days for sure!

Mark wants to be my constant chauffeur. Too funny. He has watched plenty of movies in the past few days. I think it has more to do with driving to the video store than it does watching the movies. Sunday he drove me to work to pick up some paperwork. He also drove me to the Holiday Inn in Indianapolis as I had a meeting with some teachers who came to visit from TN. He waited for me for 2 hours in the lobby just to be able to drive me back and forth. Even waited without complaining. Good for him! He's finally enjoying the much anticipated freedom of having the ability to drive. For us, darn it...more insurance premiums.

Aww, ain't he a cutie!

Ok, being silly again. Like that is a big surprise! Mom and Dad found some old pictures. One in particular is creating much commotion between Fishers and Lansing. We call it the Mona Lisa. Check it out and move along and watch my eyes follow you! This picture was taken of me when I was in 2nd grade. I was the flower girl in my uncle's wedding. My mom also cut the dress short after the wedding and I wore it for my First Communion. Dig the hair mom, what where you thinking!

Mom and Dad gave me an 8 x 10 of the picture a couple weeks again. The following week I hid wallet size photo copies of the picture all over Sarah's house. Then when I returned to Lansing again, we actually found the dress. What a hoot! Since it was the right size for Liam, he actually was brave enough to try it on. You can imagine how we laughed. Check it out, Sarah even made paper banana curls for Liam. Wait until he is a teenager, looks like the perfect blackmail photo.

Back to Reality

My week of spring break is almost over, darn! It will be back to reality on Monday morning. I wish I could tell you I accomplished great tasks, but I did not. I accomplished very little but I was relaxed doing it.
The week started with a birthday celebration. Juan got me a cute cake to share with my family. It even had cream cheese filing!

I caught up on a lot of sleeping too. So did the dogs. I almost got too much sleep as I tossed and turned a lot. I did get up at 5:45 each morning, my regular time, and just went back to bed again, then stayed in my jammies until about noon each day. I'll pay for it on Monday for sure. I had a couple days on my own. Juan was working in Ohio, Mark went on a band trip to Chicago, and Liz was gone so the house was mine for 2 full days! Did not really do anything special but did get all my TVs shows that I taped caught up. I got some Wii bowling in too. I had a "six-pack" of strikes. I was so impressed, I had to take a picture of my score.

I did not do my usual vacation thing, make a list of things I wanted to accomplish and work on it all week. I did randomly clean all the windows inside and out in the family room yesterday while watching Jeopardy. I did think about doing a bunch of things like cleaning closets, scrapbooking, cleaning kitchen cabinets, straightening out the garage. Oh well, that all will have to wait now that my break is almost over. I can't start anything on Sunday, that is the last day before break is over and I need to think about how it is my last day. I think I might rent a couple movies tomorrow.

Now this is a cute dog cake

Last week was my birthday. One of the gifts I received from two gals in my office was a cute dog cake. Little did they know about the ongoing cracks I was making since Easter about my sister's Easter Dog cake. The small cake was made from two cupcakes and decorated to look just like a cute little dog. It even had bows in it "hair."
I had an enjoyable birthday   Juan took me to dinner. I had a craving a Bleu Ribbon Hamburger from Red Robin so we googled it and found two locations in Carmel. The first stop was very busy as that particular Red Robin just opened so we went to one on the west side of town. It was delicious and reminded me of being up north since that was my favorite hamburger in the "region."
That evening, Juan, Mark, Liz, her boyfriend Nick, and I shared the little dog cake. We all got a lot more icing than cake but it was worth every bite.

Chicken Dance

The crazy sisters are at it again with that darn chicken. Oh, and now the wooden tiki too!
The competition was fierce over the last several weeks. It started when Sarah and Liam came for the weekend late March and according to them "left the chicken is such a good hiding place that we would never find it!" To make a long story short, we did find it hidden in a pillow and actually re-hid it in her house over Easter weekend. We played along that we still did not find it, she then found it and played along that it was still at our house. Then, she has the nerve to smuggle the chicken back into my house this weekend with my MOTHER!
Sarah was afraid that we would search her luggage so she had my mom carry the chicken and the tiki into the house. That is not fair. My mom and dad were suppose to be the neutral party! But as Mom explains, Sarah is her "baby." Give me a break!

While Sarah, Mom, and I went out yesterday exploring Zionsville, Grandpa took the boys bowling, Pat took a nap, and John went to the hardware store to get anchors for the wall hanging he gave me for my birthday. Last night when I was getting ready for bed I was checking out the wall hanging and stepped back to see how it looked when I noticed something yellow on the garden shelf. CRAP! The chicken was indeed found again in Lansing and was brought back. I called John into action. He went through Pat's coat to find the car keys. They were found and the chicken was hidden under a blanket on the floor of the back seat area.
As they prepared to leave, we knew we probably had the tiki but with all the extra people in the house and luggage it was hard to start looking. As soon as they left we started and sure enough we found the darn tiki in the tree in my bedroom. Pretty clever, Liam! About an hour into their ride, I sent Pat a text message about the dogs being uncomfortable in the car. No return text. Sarah called later to tease me about the tiki as she knew I found the chicken (she looked on the shelf before she left and realized we found it) but she had no idea we were hiding it back. I explained that the dogs were uncomfortable and sure enough she lifted the blanket they were laying on and there was the chicken!! Hee Hee.
Mom and Dad...beware. You are getting a tiki soon. You are no longer the neutral party. Guilt by association. You better sleep with one eye open!