How lame am I?

Is it totally lame to come to your own blog and just sit there....so you can listen to the music?! so sad. I have most of that music on CD, too.

I just finished this evening's activities. And tonight is a relatively easy night. Walker went to Trevor's to play (I told him Trevor could come up here and play...but somehow that got translated into inviting himself over to the Smith's yet again). Matt and Cooper went to flag football practice a little after 4 pm. Reese cried for about an hour...don't know what the deal was.....so we sat there listening to Johnny Cash on my blog (told you...lame). Everybody came home and Matt picked up supper (dinner group...yay!). We ate. Most of us anyway....Reese promptly throws anything...ANYTHING... you give her to the dog. Unfortunately, he doesn't eat things like pineapple....so we play pick up after dinner. He (the dog) does pretty well at cleaning up though...almost makes it worth keeping him. I said almost. Then I sat with Walker through piano practice....learning all kinds of new stuff...he's doing well. Then I sat with Cooper through piano practice...also learning all kinds of new stuff (have I mentioned that our piano teacher comes to our house!!!! isn't that the best! Thank you for the referral Taylor's!). Then I helped Cooper with some math homework (which Matt then checked....it's true that in the past I have 'helped' with his math homework and he has gone on to lose points...so Matt feels the need to check behind me...whatever.) Then I helped Walker with his reading and word lists. Sent an email about scouts tomorrow (please release me from that calling!!! I canNOT do both cub scouts and young women's) and here I sit. whew.

How did my mother raise nine children? just the laundry alone would kill you.

Speaking of laundry....better go throw in a load or two......

WaHOo!!

Look! I made a play list!!! Please excuse the abundance of Johnny Cash....he's a personal fav of of mine. I was totally sad to find out that he was in concert here while I lived here and I didn't go. Now I'll never get to see him in person (he's dead, people). I LOVE his music. I attribute this abberation in my otherwise noncountry/nongospel musical taste to the fact that when I was camping with my family as a kid my dad would listen to his country 8 track tapes and I had no where to escape to (if you know me, you know I don't like dirt)...so I learned to love it. I'll amend the musical selection later (oh the possibilities! My kids know the lyrics to many Queen songs and think Freddy Mercury would have won American Idol fer sure! Cooper came up with that one on his own)...but I'm just so excited to have a playlist. So sit back and listen to the profound songs of the man in black...Johnny Cash. Particularly The Man comes around...that's from his last album a few months before his death.

Now...I've got to go get something actually done today :)

p.s. Matt, the Johnny Cash album that's live from Folsum prison would be a fabulous x-mas gift!

Can somebody teach me?

Ok...I have a few things that I'd like to know how to do on my blog. So I wondered if any of your afficianados (did I spell that right? probably nobody else knows how to spell it so I'm probably fine)
1. See that slideshow thing there on the side? Go ahead...look. Ok..Those are just random photos on a subject that I specify (for example...right now it's showing you 'fall leaves') I would like to make that a slide show of my own photos. For example, I'd love to have a slideshow of soccer photos. But I can't figure out how to make them my own photos.

2. I'd love to know how to post short video clips. I have no earthly idea how to do this. And Heather...if you're reading this, when you slurp your blog (don't I sound fancy?! I only know this term because Heather told me about it) what does it do with the video clips when you make a hard copy? Wait..I just found an 'add video' button....I suspect this has something to do with it....hmmm.

3. I'd like to know how to add a list of music to the blog. I've seen some blogs (and I think Shelly's is like this) where there's a list of songs at the bottom and it runs through those songs or you can pick one.

So, if anybody can tell me how to do this, I'd be oh so happy. I should add that I will need detailed instructions, probably in writing :) I'm not very S-M-R-T when it comes to this stuff.
Muchos gracias

I took another 47 photos of the baby....she doesn't cooperate.

They are also from August, 2008, in St. Louis. I took about 47 pictures trying to get a cute group photo.

Walker in St Louis, August 2008

Add 'blogging' to the list of things I'm not keeping up with.....

oy vey. Always so much to do. I swear there needs to be about 3 more hours in the day. Though I'd probably burn through those, too and still feel like I didn't get anything done. I fully intended to keep up with the blog. I thoroughly enjoy reading up on everybody else's but I never feel like I have anything important enough to say...nothing 'blog worthy'. So you...dear reader...are stuck reading the mundane. Sorry. Hopefully my skills will improve with time.

I still have not mastered the art of transferring photos from my camera to the computer...so alas..no new photos to behold. I have a great one of Walker before he lost his 2 front teeth...back when they were crazy crooked hobo teeth. They could not fall out fast enough for me...but he wouldn't let us touch them....dangling though they were. And have I mentioned that I HATE the whole process of losing teeth. It's just gross. He finally lost one of the front teeth the other night. The second one he lost at church during sacrament meeting. He was biting on his dad's hand, who knowing the tooth was on it's last leg, kind of jerked his hand. Lo and behold...the tooth goes flying (sorry Bode family...we won't sit by you next time :) We had a few families looky-louing at the commotion. We never did locate the tooth...but the tooth fairy didn't care. See? wouldn't it be great to insert a before and after photo of Walker right here?? So, instead I'll just post an older photo or two...just for fun.