Bring It On

The Mizes are soon to be ready for WWIII.  We bought a huge upright deep freezer.  I also bought Tommy a vacuum sealer.  I'm fairly certain we could hold a herd of cattle and a year's supply of breast milk in our garage now.

It all started with me...

We have a small chest deep freezer now.  We have deer sausage, all kinds of "fundraiser" cookies, and a couple months supply of breast milk.  My plan is to have enough milk on hand for my parents to use when I go back to work.  The freezer we have got too small. 

So, we asked Pawpaw for help.  We asked him to keep an eye out for a scratch and dent upright freezer since he's in Lowe's about 10 times a day.  One week later, we have a huge deep freezer in the garage that we got for half off and got free delivery!!  They actually ended up fixing the small dent that was in the door before delivery.  Now we have a completely repaired scratch and dent freezer that we got for half price!

The worst part of the deal is now we have to "sort and clean out" the old freezer.  Tommy is a man possessed!  He loves to clean and organize things.  (Can you say OCD???)  He's all excited to take on the new project and Erin and I are busy looking for a good excuse to sit this one out!

He actually asked me if I have given any thought to what food I want to keep in the house freezer as opposed to the outside freezer.  Yeah, right!

Udderly Scary Halloween

For those of you not on Facebook, here are the pics from Erin's Halloween photoshoot.  She's dressing up as a cow in honor of Granny and Grandpa's herd.

She was not thrilled to be involved in this project.  What I didn't end up buying was the one of her really pitching a fit.  She got so upset about being on her tummy in a cow costume that she lost it.  She managed to get herself rolled onto her side while she screamed bloody murder.  She clinched her fists and eyes shut, went straight as a board, and was mid-scream when the lady took the picture.  It really was funny looking, but I don't need to pay for a screaming baby picture when I can get it for free at home :)

Iron Claw

Okay, growing up with just a sister I never learned much about wrestling.  We were tomboys but never into wrestling.  Tommy on the other hand had a brother to practice on, and he's a HUGE WWE fan.  (It's okay to laugh - I married him anyway!) 

Tonight we were eating dinner and Erin was sitting in her chair at the edge of the kitchen like she always does.  She was fussing and wiggling and then all of a sudden got completely quiet.  We both looked over at her and Tommy said, "ever Iron Claw yourself?"  She was sound asleep and had put a wrestling move on herself!  For those of you who don't know, Iron Claw is a wrestling move.  Since marrying a WWE freak, I've had many wrestling moves thrown on me.  Iron Claw is not one of my favorites! 

I'm sure Roxie is really looking forward to the day Erin learns more of the "classics" like body slamming and the Half Nelson.

Lights, Camera, Action...

Daddy went to the Texans game today and we stayed home to have Erin's pictures made.  I tried to time it at her smiliest time.  She napped and ate right before they got here (the photographers come to the house).  I put her outfit on and she was smiling at them the whole time they were setting everything up. 

It was lights, camera, action time - no smile!  Erin decided to keep all her smiles to herself from that point on.  She didn't fuss and cry, she just didn't feel like smiling.  They would put the camera down to change the background or setting and she would smile.  It was a total cat and mouse game and she won!!!

I think in the end we did get some cute ones.  They should be posted soon on the Magek website.  I'll let you know as soon as they're up so we can all preview them.

As soon as the photographers left, she ate and passed out.  I hear her waking up now.  I'm sure she'll want to know if the Texans won.  She was very worried about it...

Country Time

We went to Centerville this week so Little E could spend a little time with Grandpa and Granny.  We had a great visit.  Erin's retinas are still burning from the Paparazzi like photo session with Granny.  She got some good ones and they were up on facebook before we even made it out of the driveway.  Erin wasn't quite as smiley as she usually is, but she still managed to turn on the charm. 

I think her routine was a little off.  She didn't nap much while we were there.  She takes after her Momma - she didn't want to nap and take a chance on missing something.  So, she was nosey and stayed awake most of the day.  Needless to say, she crashed hard last night.  She went down at her regular time and I had to wake her up at 9:30 this morning to eat!!  She would probably still be snoozing.  I'm not sure, but I don't think many people with 3 month olds say they have to wake them up to feed them - crazy!

Here are a couple of good pictures.  Her bib says "Grandma never says no".  How appropriate!

I'm sure that Grandpa, Granny and Yella all slept really well last night too.  I don't think they're used to all the noise and disruption Erin brings!  Yella offered to start the car for us when Erin started crying again.

I snapped this picture on the way out.  It's the neighbor's donkey.  He is always at the fence begging.  Jimmie feeds him every evening when they make their "corning" route.  He just cracks me up.  We can't leave their house without him checking us out.  I wish I knew what his name was.