What flies?

Ok - if you were in sunday school with mike and i this week you already heard this, but too funny not to post.

On our way to dinner on Sat. we were having one of our deep family discussions.
Noah - Daddy - pigs fly
Daddy - No Noah - pigs do not fly (except in jokes)
Noah - oh
Daddy - Noah - do dogs fly
Noah - no
Daddy - Noah - do cows fly
Noah - no daddy
Mommy - Noah - do people fly
Noah - no Mommy
Liam - unless you sprinkle a little pixie dust on them!!!!!!

Ok - we have retired Peter Pan for a while! Seriously - can we get him onto Last Comic Standing at this point?

Wedding News

This weekend was full of fun. Mike performed a wedding on Saturday that was the first wedding that the boys were able to sit through without having to go ahead and leave out the back after the first 5 minutes. Noah did well and only asked where the cake was two times. Liam was wonderful - sat and listened the entire 20 minutes. Yes - that is 20 minutes. The Bride and Groom wanted it to be a "petite" wedding and there was only one song that was coupled with the processional so while Mike's speaking portion was wonderful as usual and the same length overall as usual - the wedding in it's entirety was rather short. Then we went to the reception where we had snacks and took these pictures. It was a wonderful day.

We then went to a birthday party of a friend of the boys on Sunday afternoon and rounded the weekend with some fun at home. Happy Birthday TJ!!!!!

Just good clean fun.

I spent the better part of today at the car dealership handling subsequent problems from the accident where the girl hit me. Man I hate dealing with insurance and car places. Talk about out of my element, but I did it! I did not have Mike come up there but believe me I wanted it at one point but he talked me down from the ledge and I made it through. Women can do this - I promise!!!!!!

Have a great day!

Lost and Found

Do these belong to you? If so - email me and I will return. They remained at my house since Sunday after the party of all parties. That for another day! Have a great one!

Random Thoughts and senses

Ok - I had this incredible whitty and in my opinion hillarious blog typed and guess what happend when I went to post. Nothing - ERROR!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRR! I will attempt to recreate my creativeness, but who knows - first time is usually best.

I have only two things to post about today.

1. All who desire to cook fish or seafood at home should be aware that when cleaning up it is necessary and recommended to run your dishwasher with those dishes in it and to run your garbage outside as well as your garbage disposal if you have one. Otherwise - WOW that is a strong smell the next day when entering your house. It only goes to prove that you do not always know you are living in stink until you are out of it and then re-enter. Oh my!!!!!!! I now sit here typing while hearing the dishwasher going, the garbage is out and the disposal has been run with some lemon dish soap and ice for a while. I also could not resist the clorox wipes as well as the febreze swiffer for good measure. I think I meet health code again.

2. When you have conversations with others there are those that do talk and process much slower than me. I am not talking about your occasional distraction, pensive moment as if to say - I better watch my words, etc. It is that unusually long pause inbetwen exchanges that might pose a lesser person to ask them to turn up their battery, go get a soda while waiting, move on to something else thinking the other party is not interested, etc. No my friends - I am talking about long pauses that make you think - this would make a hillarious Sat. Night Live skit - the ones that make you ponder the spots on the wall behind the person you are speaking to, the ones that make you think - man I have to go use the restroom - is there time. Well welcome to my life - I have a client that this so difficult with I have made myself start counting to ten before firing another sentence just in case he is ready to say something back because if not - I confuse him. Can this be taught - or is it a gift. Lord help me on this one. I know I have been accused of beinga motor mouth in the past, but come on - is this my punishment. Pentence -perhaps.

On a side note - the boys are doing well in their combined room and I think we like it. I will post pics after the angels clean the room - I can not and will not post dirty room pics of my two precious boys' room on my perfect blog:) It may be 2010 before those get on here but I will try.

Whew - I did have a lot to say - perhaps it is a result of the lack of words spoken today - refer to #2

Home Improvements

Well - since the last development we have a new roof. They started Thursday morning at around 7:30 and were done at around 3:30 - too fast. It is nice and I love getting to get rid of the brown orange roof finally after 3 years of living with it. Now the only issue is that the trim color we just painted looks too light now - we need contrast apparantly. The problem is that I am not good at this one so back to the drawing board. Mike was sweet enough to say that he would paint it again if I wanted. What a sweetie! I hate this process but the outcome does make it worth while.

Liam and Noah begged to stay home yesterday so they could watch the roofing. That was a big no, but we did drive by several times to "check on it" and all was well then.

We did move the kids into one room and are in the process of converting Noah's nursery into a playroom. Pictures later - have not had time to take any. They have slept for two nights in the same room and so far - pretty good. A few glitches but nothing earth shattering.

Work is good - crazy problems with internet, emial and connectivity this week, but all seems on the road to progress - progress that is a funny word. It is intended to move you forward - but in the mean time - you are converted back or worst case - standing still? mmmhhhhh!

Have a great day and know the McCarthy family loves you all!!!

4th of July - I'm Back

Ok - this was more than a hyadis ?(sp) but at the prodding of a few special people in my life I am now going to try and do this again. I will start with the most recent as I am in no way trying to catch up since the last blog. If you want to know the inbetween stuff - call me - I am here :) .

We had a wonderful 4th of July. It started out with dinner with friends and a visit from my parents after some fun at the local splash pad with awesome friends. Then we went to the parade (as all good Beltonians do) and it was down home and wonderful. I love this town! We saw Mike drive the lotus and it was the highlight of the boy's parade - until they saw the HEB Buggy and then Dad was pushed aside for a larger than you can imagine engine powered shopping cart while chanting HEB - no where on this planet does it get better than this!!!! We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful display of good clean hillarious fun! We sat with friends and that was the icing on the cake. Then after mandatory naps we headed to the Rodeo - the boys had never been. While it was no masterpiece of performances, we had kick dirt in your face seats and that was awesome. We saw everything up close and the Kids were tickled to be so close. Thank's to UMHB we scored the seats as they were given to us and it was a huge blessing. Noah enjoyed the popcorn the most and Liam the blow up crocodile he was given as a freebee. We were exausted but had soooooooooooo much fun. One other thing happened this weekend, but that is for another post. Well - I have rambled enough. Here are some pics of the weekend. Enjoy - I am learning on the picture thing so please be patient with me.

Brody and Noah at parade - interested in nothing at the time

Liam at parade

Lotus and Miss MHB - that is Mike driving -and no - no tickets or accidents this weekend!!!

The famous HEB cart

Mr Magoo we are not - but safety first when it comes to sparklers - thank's daddy!

Noah Did not last past the first sparkler - he said it was "Sparking" him.

The Rodeo - Forgot this Bull's name but he is famous for things such as this.

Ok Friends - my first official post back - Enjoy!