Embarassed?...

I'm starting to wonder if my dad is embarrassed by the crew of ragamuffins that keep surrounding him.....



Nah, who could be embarrassed of this?

All in all a very super fantastic, family party day, and specifically to my brother John..... ALOHA!!!!!!!

Hard working...

We haven't posted in a week, that's because Buddy has been hard at work. First redecorating mamaw's house while she was away...

Then our container arrived for our big move...

So someone had to prepare it for moving in our furniture. As you can see I'm pretty helpful. I sent papaw in to help while I supervised...

Maybe I shouldn't show the pictures of him wearing the harness I put on him to help hoist the couch into the truck bed? Oh well, I'll just post another of him redecorating...

For a small fee, he'll redecorate your house too! You know you're tempted!
So all in all a super fantastic, anxiously awaiting our retirement, day!

Starstruck....

One of Buddy's teacher's is an actress, yesterday we went to one of her plays. Some one's mother didn't pay attention and notice that his teacher was only in the play every other day. Someone wasn't happy with their mother, although that certain someone loved the play and said "it's better than the movies"! Tonight I corrected my mistake and we went to go see Mrs. Erin in HAIRSPRAY. She played Amber the mean one, and boy did she do a fantastic job! Buddy was so awestruck he didn't wipe that goofy grin off his face until, well, actually he's sleeping with it on. He kept leaning over and confessing his undying love to Mrs. Erin through the entire play. Then he gave her a standing ovation every time she came on stage. She even gave him a backstage tour, poor boy just held her hand the whole time and couldn't even talk he was so in awe of her. Hopefully she'll bring some pliers to school tomorrow so she can get him off of her, because the way things were looking she has no hope of escaping his schoolboy advances! At the end of the show he announced that he wanted to be an actor, thankfully we are one step ahead of the game and already have our head shots...

Watch out world, here he comes!!!
All in all a very super fantastic, loving on Mrs. Erin, day!

Spitfire...

Yesterday my grandmother passed away. She was the only grandparent I've had for the last 20 years. When we were growing up we had a rite of passage where when we turned 12 years old we got to spend the summer at her house, working at the grocery store that she owned. I didn't do so well with my rite of passage, my mom came to pick me up by the weekend (in my defense my grandmother lived in a very, very, very small town and had sold the grocery store that year so there wasn't anything to do). Of course before my mom could come pick me up granny took me to get my ears pierced (which was against house rules), yeah, she was a rebel. Granny was very particular too, I'm sure that being OCD is genetic, and she is my direct line at my compulsiveness. Her house could never be "too clean". When I was in college in Kentucky, she lived 2 hours away so I'd go stay with her some weekends. Cleaning her refrigerator always reminded me of living in the dorms at BYU where on checkout you had to clean the edges out with a toothpick to checkoff. Seriously, who does that? Well my grandmother for one, I won't mention the other person in the room with me, oh I'm alone, strange. She was such a strong person, she started a business with no more than a basic education right at the ending of a depression in a very poverty stricken area. She had some serious Chutzpa. Really, if you knew her, you would totally agree. When I was in college I colored my hair a nice tangerine color and then pierced my nose. You should have heard her agreeing with the dismay and horror with my mother on the phone, then as soon as she hung up the phone it was as if I was the most beautiful person in the world, not at all the freak that I appeared to be to everyone else in the back woods of Kentucky. So here is a picture of my favorite Shirley...

90 years as reigning queen of chutzpa in Mousie, KY
In other news, thought I'd share this picture from the porch from my house in Hawaii...

That's the ocean you're seeing in the background, jealous yet? Yeah, me too since I have 3 more weeks till I see it in person!
So all in all a super fantastic, celebrating our chutzpa day!

Twisted Sisters....

Dear Donna,
Thanks for letting Hyrum stay with us. We've had quite the adventure and aged mom about 10 years. I sent the boys out to play today and she insisted on standing at the back door watching, I smartly chose to read a book. They gave Blue a bath, in the freezing cold, with mom's decorative watering cans....needless to say that didn't turn out so well for anyone involved. Then they had a sword fight, not sure who won since they both ended up crying, your son chose a small stick faced against Buddy's broom handle(we may need to have him over again to give him a class in weaponery). Then they climbed a tree, you should have seen mom freak out, like kids aren't made to climb trees or something. Things only got interesting after dad came home and whipped out the power tools! They had a farting contest in the bath (depending who you ask, is who won, so I'll go with a square tie on that one). Now Buddy is trying to rub some of his cultured interests off on Hyrum by having a Sonic movie marathon...
All in all a super fantastic, playing, day!

For Hire....

Secret Agent
Code name: The Budowski
Will travel....

Specializes in toxic gases!
Secret Agent carrying case included....

All in all a super fantastically secretive day!

Dental Hygienist...

The other day I told Buddy to go brush his teeth before bed. I guess he was trying to hurry, because he loves to go to bed on time(insert sarcastic inner monologue here)....

In other news, both of Buddy's teachers were sick on Monday so Buddy had a substitute. It was a new experience for him, now I'm questioning if the school's chef filled in since all he talked about was Chef Renee and then he insisted on making dinner!


It was fantastic! So all in all a super fantastically yummy day!

Gettin' some....

Yep I'm talking about getting lei'd, which Buddy has recently. Of course that's just in preparation for his last day of school when he's going to lei everyone! Wait, is that inappropriate?

I mean, he's not lei'ing complete strangers, I did raise him better than that! Slightly anyway! In other news, while I was trying to talk Buddy into watching an episode of I Love Lucy instead of the Three Stooges tonight, he finally relented and said that I was really funny. Of course we're still watching the Three Stooges and not Lucy, but at least it's an improvement! Maybe I can live out my dream of being on Saturday Night Live.
So all in all a super fantastic day!

Who me?

All in all a super fantastic, isn't he cute, day!

Boys rule....and of course, girls drool...

So today when I went to Costco to pick up Buddy's Valentines...

(Once again I'll give a shout out to the wonderful people of eBay that continuously pump out Sonic the Hedgehog inspired gear so Buddy can relive the early 90's in style)
We decided to peruse the DVD aisle and look for his newest love... The Three Stooges. He discovered them Saturday night and has insisted on staying up every night to watch them since. He will sit and laugh non stop! Unfortunately we didn't find the Three Stooges, but they did have all of the episodes of I Love Lucy. Jackpot, right? I think Lucille Ball has got to be the funniest person of all time and I love every single episode of I Love Lucy, she totally beats the pants of the primitive hijinks's of the Three Stooges, at least that's what I thought. Buddy was sure to tell me that girls are not funny like guys, EVER. Now I'm seriously rethinking this raising a child with humor crap, I must not be doing a good job at all after our argument! Hmmm, I always thought I was funny, and a girl, yikes, what a reality check! So there you have it, I am not funny, but thank goodness one of us is!

So all in all a super fantastic, what should I do now that I know I'll never be destined to work for SNL, day!
By the way we did end up going to the store to pick up a little something so we could get our funny on (in 3D nonetheless)...