Back to School Ray

Here is the latest Ray, my favorite light bulb!

As always, please come join the fun at highlowaha.com.

Psst... Hi Karyn!

Hey, it's Drew & JB. Remember us? We live here.


JB, doesn't it suck that mom is writing more about her friends blog and crap than about us?

Yeah!

What's up with that sh*t?

Drew, watch your mouth!

Shut up! You're not my mom.

No, I'm not your mom. She isn't writing about us anymore. Remember?

Yeah, you're right. Sorry. Maybe if I could swim like Michael Phelps and set out to win 9 gold medals, she'll start writing about us again.

Yeah, and I'll be the king of England.

You can do it!

Go for it, Drew!

I should!

But, I'm going to be the King of England.

He is.

We'll see.

Don't eat me.

Steak sounds good.

Oh sh*t!

Hey Sexy!

Hey Sexy!

No, not you. You're not my type. Karyn can have you.

I'll take him.

You're married.

So. Busted.

Listen boys, I'll still write about you.

Promise?

Of course.

Okay.

Let's go out for hamburgers.

My favorite.

I'll have lamb chops.

Oh sh*t!

Watch your mouth!

The End.

If you think that was funny, you should check out Karyn's original post.

No animal or child actually swore in the making of this blog post but we did have hamburgers for dinner.

Highlowaha Decathlon

The Results.

and check out Ray.

Highlowaha Week Two Wrap Up

Today is the last day of the Highlowaha.com Decathlon. It has been a fun two weeks. Our tasks this week were:

Monday was Name that Tune where we re-wrote the words to the song Kokomo from the movie Cocktail. I'll post my song at the end since it's long.

Tuesday was the Incredible Discus where we had to design a card for National Cream Filled Donut Day on September 14th. My creation lost by .5 point and is pictured below.

Wednesday we threw the Javelin and had to get someone that lived in Montana to post a comment for us. Thank you Jeff Wald at Carroll College in Helena, MT!

Thursday we wrote a haiku. Mine was about one of my favorite treats though after I posted it I thought it should be rewritten. Both are below.

Sticky Goodness

pink cotton candy

melting on my tongue so sweet

a beautiful treat

re-written, it fits the haiku style like this:

Cotton Candy

pink sticky goodness

melting on my tongue so sweet
a beautiful treat

Today, Friday, we are in it for stamina with the 1500m, Record Time.

We all start with 15 points today and our goal is to have zero at the end of the day. Starting at 7:00am in each of our own time zones, we are required to make 15 posts between the top of the hour and the 15 minute mark of that hour and cross at least 15 hurdles. The contest ends at 12:15am in our respective time zones. :)

It's been a fun creative week! Thanks Claudia! If you made this far in todays post here's the song I wrote:

Its cookies, and Ice Cream ooo I wanna taste 'em

For creating, and memories, Random Acts of Kindness

Fun People, fall in love, with a new idea

Ice Cream

Off the Internet keys

There's a blog called Highlowaha

That's where you wanna go to get away from it all.

Bodies at our desk

Logging in, we all do our best

We'll be falling in love

With the kinship of Claudia's tests

At Highlowaha

(Chorus)

Its cookies, and Ice Cream ooo I wanna taste 'em

For creating, and memories, Random Acts of Kindness

Fun People, fall in love, with a new idea

(Ooo I wanna meet you) at Highlowaha

Log on Daily

But not on Domingo

That's where we wanna go

Up at Highlowaha

New techniques, that craft-like mystique

We'll put out the word

And build a community

One by one, we enlist as many friends as we can

Everything's alright

Ideas reach new height

that dreamy look in your eye

Gives us innovative tricks to try

Up at Highlowaha

Chorus

Scrap Journals, I wanna try its true.

No, nobody knows

A blog quite like Highlowaha

Now if you wanna go

And get away from it all

Go to Highlowaha

Chorus 2x

Belly Buttons

We had the funniest conversation at our monthly birthday cake social at work. Outies are a deal breaker for a girl in my office. She wants them pushed back in. Is there a cosmetic procedure that can turn an outie into an innie?



The discussion then led to belly button transplants... what in the world? We're in all born the same. So, when women have tummy tucks sometimes they lose their belly buttons and have to have a transplant! I just didn't know that.



It's not as funny writing about it now because you can't see the other girl in the conversation say, "No Outies! No Outies!" And the guy in our conversation asking at what point do you ask about the belly button. It's topic of conversation during the second date.

Anyway, I know it must not sound funny now but it made me snort.

July & Half of August

This blog may be slowly turning into a non-update page of what the O'Prys are doing and more of stuff that I just like.

Oh well. Get over it.

I can't believe how fast this summer has ZOOMED by! I registered the boys for school last night and next Friday we Meet the Teacher. The first day is August 25th.

The boys in the pool on July 4th.

What did July hold for us.... well, we went to Refugio to celebrate my mom's 70th birthday. That was fun. I realized something while we were there. That was the first time in a long time that I had my mom all to myself without my siblings. It was kind of nice. Not that I don't like my siblings. While we were at home, I went through several boxes of my junk. I can't believe I even bothered to box some of that stuff up! We also went out the grave site where my grandparents are buried.

JB O'Pry at his great-grandfather JB Gumm's graveside.

Mom made it more that clear that she did not want to have a party for her birthday so we decided we would have dinner at my sisters house. What my mom didn't know was that her two sisters and her friend Judy were also coming. When we drove up at 4 and she saw the extra cars, my mom went into panic mode. "Who did you invite?" I didn't invite anyone! And that wasn't a lie. My job was to keep her busy until 4. It was funny and she was pleasantly surprised. It was just the right size for her. Dinner was great. I ate too much.

Mom and Judy drinking champagne.

The last day of July and first weekend of August we went to Wimberley! Yay! It's a close to camping as I will go. The beds leave much to be desired, it's hot with no air conditioning and you have to bring a lot of STUFF to get through the 4 days. Actually, we could take a lot less STUFF and still get by during the 4 days but hey, we're spoiled creatures.

Abby, Drew, Mckenna and JB play Wheel of Fortune. We brought two tv's this year.

The river is so much fun. This year the 2nd cousins (Wilson, Hannah, Duncan, Abby, Mckenna, Drew and JB) went down to the rope swing. It was fun watching them all swing out into the river! I even tried. It was not graceful! I also did not take enough pictures.

We ordered Chinese food, logged into our Virtual Dinner Party on Highlowaha and watched the Olympic Opening Ceremonies on the 8th. That was fun. JB decided he wanted to cheer for Turkey because they have a funny name. To which later he called them the Chickens. Drew opted out of the ceremonies in favor for the Ranger's game- my little sports fan.

Watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

This week I have been competing in the Highlowaha Decathlon. The first challenge was creating a caption for a cartoon. The second challenge is a ChampionCHIP bake off. I have my secret ingredient ready. The third challenge was to create a product to help you with your craft products. My product was the Easy Cutter- which one first place. Yesterdays challenge was to create something with a toilet paper roll. I created the Love Chi Windsock. Today's challenge... boggle! UGH! Creative I can do... vocabulary and spelling... not so much. Five more challenges will be announced next week and our baked item is due on the 21st. It's been fun!

Love Chi Windsock for Highlowaha Decathlon. It won 2nd place.

Okay, so the photos are loaded and I'm reposting this post. :)