Racing

As you may already know, my family is broke. We have no cash to even send me to college (if you'd rather me not work for minimum wage for the rest of my life at a Wendy's, you can send cash donations to our home address.) The reason for said brokery is due largely to my brothers racing "career" and my mother scrapbooking obsession, but sadly, only the former actually brings in cash and awards.

Shaughn recently received $600 for his latest racing accomplishments, which included not placing in last overall for the season (whooptidoo). Just kidding of course, I believe he came in second, or fourth, or eleventh, or twenty-third or something.
He also got another trophy for being able to drive up walls. WHOAMYGOD.

Just kidding, I was actually just too darn lazy to flip the picture.
I have no idea who this other random kid is, but whatever. Mom wants pictures on this blog, she's gonna get them.

Shaughn is currently preparing for the Winter Nationals, which means he's going to spend months working on a car that he's going to crash into a wall and my dad is going to moan and whine for a month. Wish us luck!

The family's latest project?

Last week, I (Christine, the new updater of this blog) decided that it was time to build a fully-functioning fire pit in our backyard. One of mom's millions of scrapbooking friends had just recently dug up 700 pavers in her backyard, and after hearing of our newest escapade, donated two truckloads of bricks.



We later learned that having a firepit in a residential backyard broke safety codes, so if anyone asks, our firepit is for religious purposes. I can now sacrifice goats to the gods!



In order to begin laying the bricks we had to find a way to level the ground. Dad came up with a complicated, inefficient, and rather idiotic way of attempting to smooth out the ground using string and thumbtacks. Against my protests, he was insistent that it would work. It wasn't until mom pulled out the home-improvement books that he abandoned his futile attempt in place of a screed--- a long 2x4 that we pushed through the dirt.



The firepit still isn't done, but once it is, feel free to stop by with any small animals you wish to give up to the gods.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I have done a great job keeping up with my Stampin' Up! blog but have really neglected my family one! My new years resolution is to keep this one up! We will see! This is Kirby and I toasting in the New Year! We lit some fireworks and shared some bubbly grape juice at midnight! Tim was on his way to London, Shaughn on his computer and Christine was celebrating with friends!