My Life as Mama Jodi

Found another fun meme to participate in, you can read more about it here.
If you want to jump in then head on over here to find this weeks questions.

Congratulations to
KIMBER & BERLEEN!
at once a week…a great milestone

Welcome to the September 2nd edition of
Thursday Thunks!(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog… simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture – we don’t care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don‘t forget to go visit the other participants’ blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That’s what all this is about after all, isn’t it?
We’ll have so much fun and become lifelong friends….

Thursday Thunks: At the ZooThe TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of my neighbor’s wife’s eyes and the number 33,333.

1. Would you rather have a pet hippo or a pet elephant? An elephant

2. Why do you think bananas are shaped the way they are? No clue and never really thought about it.

3. In one word (OK, you can go three to four MAX) , what do most people describe you as? Caring

4. Choice (stupid but a choice…): Loss of vision, ability to speak or hearing – which do you choose? (you have to choose one….) It’s like a law. But we can’t make you. hearing.. they I don’t have to hear the kids fight

5. Do you like lemons? Do you use them to clean with or just as a food source? Or are you saving them up for 2012? I like lemons, and just as a food source… and I am not saving them for 2012

6. When you are feeling icky with that sickness feeling, what is your first choice for feel-better medicine? Nyquil

7. You are starving. You have not had anything to eat for days. In front of you is poison ivy, a live hissing cockroach, and a rotten stinky piece of some sort of mystery meat to eat. Which would you pick and why? Ewww…. none of the above, I will continue to starve.

8. Who was the last person you bought a present for? What was it? Will you buy Berleen one? Danielle, baby items for her shower. Probably not, as I don’t really know her.

9. Name 3 things you want your kids to learn before they grow up. (If you don’t have kids, feel free to explain to the other players why you chose the “no kids“ choice. Yea. I know. (Those who have children will NEVER get it. And no, don‘t explain it…) How to save money, How to stay out of debt, and that money doesn’t grow on trees…

10. What was your favorite toy as a child? What happened to it? Lite Bright…… who knows what happened to it

11. If you could paint your house ANY color you wanted and your friends, family & neighbors would love the color from the moment they saw it, what would it be? Purple of course

12. If the Pillsbury Dough Boy got into a fight with Mrs. Butterworth who would win? And would anybody get hurt? And do we seem desperate even asking? Mrs. Butterworth, as the syrup will make the dough all slimy. The Dough boy would get hurt. Desperate?? Hmmm, maybe

13. What was the last thing you would guess that Kimber took a picture of? Oh. And consider the meme listed below. Click on it. It rocks. her dog?

While at Michigan’s Adventure I saw lots of kids walking around with those pendant lights necklaces. I am so glad my boys are older now and not into all of these flashy gadgets. But then again maybe not, as now they are into the more expensive things like the Ripcord attraction, and those are much more costly! *Sigh*

Then there was my friend Robyn who got sucked into the carni type games and spent $12 just so she could win 2 stuffed animals for her boys.

Weekend rewind. If you want to play along, grab the above button and tell me all about your weekend!

Friday ~ Trent had a doctors appointment in the morning, physical and shots.. poor baby. Then off to get groceries, grabbed some lunch and headed home. Figured out what yarn I needed to start on some hats for a friend, then off to Michael’s to get said yarn. I was just planning on hanging out at home for the evening until I received a phone call from my sister in law.

She wanted to know if I wanted to go see Donny and Marie at the Soaring Eagle Casino. She was given 2 tickets. So off we went. The GPS said it was an hour and 41 minute drive, so getting us there at 8:16… 16 minutes after it started. Oh no, not on my watch. I was determined to get us there by 8, and by golly I did! Now finding a parking spot was another story. So many people there gambling their money away! What a shame! Any who, we found a spot, met the guy who had the tickets for us, and off we went.

What an awesome show, and SEATS!! So wish I would have went with my gut and grabbed my big camera anyways, even though it said no cameras/video equipment. So many people were taking pictures, I tried with my little camera, but they didn’t turn out. Oh well! It was great just seeing them.

Awesome night!!

Saturday ~ I did a few errands then headed back home, as Trent was sick. He was experiencing some side effects from his shots he received on Friday. John worked in the basement on the guitar, while I knitted most of the day. I snuck in a nap.

Sunday ~ Had every notion to go to church (even with it starting earlier than the norm), but Trent woke up yet again with a fever, so I stayed home with him. Loaded up the crock pot with a pork roast, using Tastefully Simple’s Vidalia Onion Dressing. Oh my did it ever taste good!

Just a lounging kind of weekend here at the Saladino household.

What did you do this weekend? Let me know if you play along!

It’s Monday again. Time to get your menus planned. Stop on over at Laura’s and see if you can some tasty new ideas for dinner.

Sunday ~ Pork roast, potatoes, carrots and rolls

Monday ~ lasagna and garlic bread

Tuesday ~ leftovers from above

Wednesday ~ ham, scalloped potatoes, corn and corn bread

Thurs ~ pizza

Fri ~ BLT’s and corn on the cob

Yesterday was a day at the park. Robyn and her boys and Trent, his friend and I went for the day. Lots of fun was had by all. The weather was perfect, well except for the breeze when we were at the water park, made for some chilly moments.

Trent and Juan wanted to ride on the Rip cord, so $40 later, they were on their way. Yikes!

All geared up, and next in line

Time to get hooked up

Up they go

Going up higher still

And their flying

Thumbs up… they enjoyed it

I took a short video of them

Cohen had fun riding the rides as well

Aden was so thrilled that he could ride a few of the rides by himself

Lounging around the water park

Co was ready to go, he was cold