Ribbit.... That's Disgusting!

I've noticed that I've written a lot about this lizard lately, but come on,

if you looked our your front window and saw this face looking up at you, wouldn't you blog about it too? Today something unexpected happened though...

Our green little friend is pretty predictable. He doesn't do much other than

lay around on the flower box, or do his push up's while flexing out that giant

red thing under his chin. Today, we got quite a different show. He started licking his lips

(I don't think he has lips, but we'll call them that for lack of better terminology) like he was hungry, and then all of the sudden....

Wham! He starts eating the dead flesh from his own tail!

This is National Geographic material here people, going on in my front yard!

The kids all began to shriek, "that's disgusting!", and it was!

A lizards got to do, what a lizards got to do!

Below is a picture of him holding the remnants of his former tail covering,

just before he devoured it. I'm pretty glad we don't have to eat our

own dead skin peelings.

Stay tuned for more exciting adventures of Ribbit... the WONDER lizard!

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Our Creature

No, our creature is not Miss Maidie Ann....

although, she sometimes ACTS like a creature!

She is once again looking to find our little window friend, Ribbit.

Who happens to be here this afternoon!

When he spies us, he decides he's not in the mood to show off. He abruptly descends to his window apartment below our flower box.... but we can still see him.

When he discovers that we aren't going anywhere, he turns tail and hides.

Lizards are so fickle!

Take a look at these lovelies! I just have to squish 'em... often!

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Random Photos of Miss Maidie

It's always fun to find pictures on the camera that I didn't take.

Random moments shared by Tyler and the kids.

Here are a few of Miss Mae Mae.....

Looks like they were having fun!

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The Unveiling of "Sauce"

Pine Wood Derby time people.....

What's wrong with this?

We are the Pearsons, and we know NOTHING about how to construct

a cool/fast/derby appropriate car.

Luckily, we had a kind friend who invited Tyler and Talmage over to his house to help.

The boys got online and checked out different cars to see what Talmage liked.

Once they found one he liked, they took the picture to Dean's house. Dean cut out the car and Talmage sanded it down.

Then.... Ty had to leave out of town to Dallas, which left ME to pimp out his car.

@#$%#%!

I had Talmage draw the design he wanted on a piece of paper.

Then I took his design and sketched it on his car.

Once we had the design on his car, Talmage took good ol' acrylic paints and put the color on.

Ty came home the day of the race and was able to help Talmage put the wheels and the finishing touches on his car. He names his car, 'Sauce'.

Talmage insisted that his spider be present for this picture.

Check out the 'Sauce' being called on deck.

Pictured below: Henry, Talmage, Logan, Fudgie (yes, he really goes by that name. Kind of like Talmage is Sausage... only I don't even know this kids REAL given name...) and some other random scout.

Our friend Dean (this is the guy who served with Dan on his mission Michelle) is pictured below in the red checkered shirt, he's the one who helped cut out "Sauce". He also built the race track years ago and set up a sensor to determine the winner and also log the time.

Mae-Mae sweet.

Talmage, Eric and THE TRACK!

Our Pine Wood Derby was set up so every car would race each other twice. Once all the cars had finished they combined the total times and the 'Sauce' was #1..... NUMBER ONE!! It even snagged the track record at 2.70. Then they took the five fastest cars and did a race off between them. Talmage was so funny to watch as his car would race. I didn't watch his car, I watched him!

The 'Sauce' had a great run! Despite being #1 in the preliminary races, it finished #2 in the race off and was conquered Henry Wood's car, "Bullet". Sauce still holds the track record though, and that will carry on to next years race!

Maybe we Pearsons do know a thing or two about creating a cool/fast/derby appropriate car!

Go Sauce!

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