Archives for October 2008

So today I picked up the kiddies from school at 1:00 and headed through East Chase to get me a SB. I got tons of gift cards for my birthday (YEAH)!! I get my usual (grande mocha frappacino $4.40) and I usually just look at it for a minute or two after I drive off, anticipating that first delicious sip. I get all the way to the light on Taylor Road (you Montgomerians will understand) and take my first swig. Aaacckkkk. Awful. Pumpkin something. Spice something. I immediately do a U-turn (probably illegal) in my big ole Suburban and head back to the drive through. Wasn’t sure whether or not to go in (but I had all 3 kids) or go back thru the drive thru. Went back thru the drive thru and explained that my mocha had some pumpkin spice in it. SB girl tells me to pull on around and she’ll make another – that she’s had another complaint earlier that morning. I pull around, wait in line, and when I get my Frap #2 and take a sip…. Aaackkkk. Awful again! OK, we went through this 4 times. Each time more pumpkin spice and each time a grande mocha frap goes in to the garbage can. She finally talks me in to a white mocha frap b/c it uses a different syrup (I guess). I take a sip of the VENTI (she’s feeling sorry for me) and Aaackkkk. MORE PUMPKIN SPICE!!!!!!!! I’m thinking this taste is embedded in my tongue at this point. I finally tell her that I must just drive to the other SB by Publix (which I usually go to) and get a Frap that DOESN’T taste like pumpkins. She agrees and says she’ll call them to tell them I’m coming since I’ve already paid her. So I drive over there, chewing a piece of gum on the way to rid my mouth of this taste … good thing gas prices are falling…. Wasn’t sure whether or not to go in (again) and head thru the drive thru. I order and try to explain why I’m there and she tells me to pull around. She has NO CLUE what I’m talking about, but proceeds with making my Mocha Frap. Another SB girl shows up and she confirms she received the all important call from the other SB and that my Frap is coming right up. I was afraid to take a sip, but did and it was YUMMY! 45 minutes later, Garrison is asleep in the back seat, an entire DVD of Letter Factory has BEEN over, and we head home! I am now very leary about that SB branch and will stick to my Publix spot from now on. I’m afraid that if I go there and get a perfectly good mocha frappacino, it will still taste like pumpkin spice. It was THAT traumatic to my mouth.

I did see (on both trips thru that drive thru) that they are having “open mike” night on Saturday night. Yes, at Starbucks. Yes, in Montgomery, Alabama. Lovely poems and such. If Jeff would not kill me I would actually go and see what open mike night in Montgomery could actually look like.

I went to the infamous Beth’s in Wetumpka on Friday. She had some precious fabric! However, I was good and only bought this cute periwinkle w/ tiny brown polka dots, a lime green fine wale cord (great for C’mas trees) and 2 of these great bibs. Have I said already that I LOVE this elephant? This is a great bib too! I need to go back and get some more. She had 3 and I bought 2 – should have bought the 3rd one too! I may see if they can order me a dozen or something.
Yes, this is Mallory standing up in her crib! I had to lower it all the way down yesterday b/c she is not even 8 mos yet, but has figured out how to pull up already. Both boys didn’t stand up or walk til they were 14 or 15 mos, so I’m a little in shock. She is on the move crawling and getting in to everything already. Tore up 2 pottery barn magazines today!!
These are my sweet boys. Garrison often wants Browder to “Hold You”. Another funny and strange thing – Garrison thinks he is either Browder’s official spokesman, or he thinks that his name is “MeBrowder”. Everything is “MeBrowder play with cars?” “MeBrowder go outside?”. The only problem is that half the time Browder isn’t even here!!
Here is G in the bike trailer w/ his Auburn pom pom and spiderman hat on. He’s a little excited about this bike ride w/ Daddy.

I’ve been STILLLLLLLLLL catching up this week. I think I’ve just about done all the pumpkins I can do. Actually I have 2 more I think. I’m a little sick of pumpkins (however cute they are) so I did a scarecrow on a shirt for Garrison. I think I’ve appliqued 48 pumpkins in the past month. I had someone ask for something fishing, so I just did a cute stick fisher-boy on an army green shirt. The colors were tricky, but it turned out really cute and I want to do this for my boys. Will post in a minute.

Yard sale #2 was a success (Deer Creek). I saw a few of the same yard-salers there from the one at my house. I’m really curious about what they do w/ the stuff they buy. I’ve heard they re-sell it, or are they hoarders?, or do they decorate their house w/ it? I still have a couple of boxes in the garage and need to clean out my closet before I make a trip to Salvation Army. Too bad there isn’t another sale this weekend. It was actually a lot of FUN!

Jeff is out of town til tomorrow so I’m probably staying up late to play catch-up. We had cheeseburger helper for din din and honeycrisp apples, which were YUMMY! I always struggle with picking out the right apple. Highly recommend these.

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G & Mallory playing together!