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hodgepodge it is.

let's get right to it: mini header style. 

little girls point, michigan:  last weekend we went to 'the point' to camp with matt's family.  there was a crew of about 25 of us there.  matt's grandparents rented a lodge there and we had three days of good food, good times, and mosquitos.  i will post all about this later, but i promised myself i can't proof these pictures until i get all the rest of my proofing done.  so, stay tuned for more on this.  oh, and by going to 'the point', i knocked another thing off the list (number twenty-two)!  whoohoo!  i do hope we go back every year - it is beautiful there!

tucker:  he has been binkie free for over two weeks.  i think it is safe to say that relationship is over.  as tucker would say, 'oh yeah baaybee'.  sunday night he said his longest sentance yet (that had all the right words).  we were wrestling on the couch and i was above him when he looked up and said, 'mama, i see a boogie up in derr' (which btw - i didn't).  it just cracked me up!  he has been such a card lately.  every time we are outside, he picks me flowers - even if they are just dead dandilions.  he says they're 'beuuutiful' and i think so too.  god, i just love that kid.  however, i think that he's dealing with allergies.  how do you know if it is just a cold or allergies?  he's been sneezing quite a bit and his nose runs.  that's it.  allergies?  both matt and i are dealing with our allergies right now so i'm assuming he got lucky and has them too.

help a girl out:  my friend jenn is looking for fundraiser ideas.  go check out her post where she explains what she's up to and why she is trying to raise money. 

photography workshop:  i'm hoping i can get caught up on my assignments soon and share them with all of you!  i finally got my 'reflector' (aka a piece of white foam board) so we'll see how that works! 

dinner @ cove:  on tuesday night, tucker took his ladies (jenn, auntie tina and his mama) out to dinner @ cove.  it was delish.  i had the pasta lucca and tucker had chicken strips and fries.  after dinner we shared a hot fudge sundae.  mmmgood.

blog slacker:  i haven't been writing or commenting as much.  it's summer in minnesota.  'nuff said.

pay it forward:  i've been thinking about some pay it forward projects lately.  this contest could be the start of something really cool here on stickyfethers.  i'd love to pay it forward MORE!  be sure to enter my contest.  you could win something really cool like a giftcard to heaven target, or some fun summery gadgets and whooha's, or a five pound bag of gummy worms...you just never know what i might come up with. 

fourth of july weekend:  this weekend we have a couple family get together's we will be attending.  it should be a blast.  friday i'm also doing a little maternity photo shoot with my cousin and his wife.  yey!  i hope everyone has a safe and spectacular weekend!

thoughts for thursday:  i'm going to keep things light today.  who wants to think when there is a long july weekend ahead of us?  so, i have just a few fun questions for you to answer.  one) what is your favorite summer treat?  mine is watermelon - it screams summer to me.  two)  do you wear sunscreen?  i do on my face, but that's it.  oh, and i guess it's on my hands from rubbing it all over my little dude.  three)  how many marshmallows do you put on your smore?  two for me...nice and golden brown.

post complete:  a little reading material for your long weekend.  have a great one!

pay it forward: the contest.

swistle has organized a massive pay it forward group effort.  i decided to throw stickyfeathers in the hat to have a contest because i know how much all you readers love contests (and winning).  there are a few rules.  they are as follows:

1. the contest will end on friday, july 4.  any comment posted on or before that date is eligible for the most spectacular prize ever (in my opinion).  i'm not telling what my super duper awesome prize is though.  that's a secret to be revealed after the contest is over. 
2. the winner will be chosen by the random number generator.  the winner will then have to hold his or her own 'pay it forward' contest on their blog.  typically their contest would start with a picture of the coolest prize ever that i sent them and they would repeat the same thing i've done here.  i think you all get the picture.  it's all about paying it forward people...paying it forward.
3. if you don't have a blog to hold your own contest, get one!  haha!  no, um, you can still enter and then you can pay it forward and i can report to the rest of blogland how you did so.  fair enough.
4. the last important rule is in your comment for MY contest, i want you to tell me who your favorite superhero is.  why?  because i said so.  have fun and get commenting!

oh, and if you want to see the list of all the rest of the participants, go check them out here.

wwdd?

what would deanna do?

who the hell cares!  she's certifiable!  who would give up this dish? 

oh, and if graham bunn happens to read this:  come on over, my husband won't mind at all if we shoot a few games of hoops together.  only if i'm shirts and you're skins though.  :) 

my eyeballs just melted out of my head from staring at this picture.  damn.

thoughts for thursday.

i can barely think straight i'm so mad at typepad.  it ate this post as well.  bastard.

so, last weekend matt went out with some friends.  he met one of our friend's fiance, who told matt she felt like she knew him and tucker from reading my blog.  atleast this was matt's version of the conversation.  i asked matt if he thought that was weird at all.  all he did was groan (as in, i don't care what you do but i want to go to sleep right now so leave me alone).  yeah, he could care less about all this blog stuff.

it got me thinking though. 

in this post, random people are those who are not exactly friends, but they are not strangers either.  in my case, they probably live or have lived in the same town as me...but we don't talk on a normal basis.  kwim?  eh, it's not really a good definition but i think you get the point.

in the past, there have been random people that have come up to my friends and talked to them about something we had done.  until my friend's realized where they had read about our escapades, they just figured these random people were stalking us in the bushes somewhere.  there have also been times when i go to tell my parents something and they have told me, 'yeah, i read that on your blog'.  whoops.  guess high speed internet really is high speed.  it's beat me to the punch a time or two.

however, just because there are random people reading, i don't really censor what i talk about.  if i wanted to share about how i remove the pimple off my forehead in my self portraits, i would.  if i didn't want to share how we pulled off a sweet prank last week, i wouldn't.  everything gets filtered at the fingertips.  i have no worries or regrets about my blog content.

so, back to the thoughts i want your feedback on:

1. have random people come up to you IRL and talked to you about something on your blog?  i've had this experience a few times.  i actually like when random people tell me about things they've seen on my blog.  usually it's a compliment of some sort (i love your blog or your photography is amazing or you have the cutest kid EVER).  okay, i'm really emphasizing what they say, but roll with me here.
2. do you censor what you have on your blog because the random people are reading?  something you would feel safe sharing with a friend or even a stranger, but not those 'inbetween' people?  um, i guess to some point i do have a censor.  i don't talk about my marriage much.  i don't talk about work at all.  i don't talk about my aunt greta and her crazy husband bert - but that's because i don't have an aunt greta.  ha - gotcha!
3. does your hubby care what you share on your blog?  um, i think i covered this. 

oh, and all your random people that are reading right now, leave me a comment so you are not a stranger anymore!  then we can become bff's and hang out at the lounge on saturday nights and have jag bombs together.  or not.  :)

other thoughts for thursday bloggers include:  kristi, heather and denise.

ps. this post sucked to rethink/retype all over.  ergh.

well, i was feelin' good.

i just had a freakin' post done and typepad chewed it up and swallowed it.  jerk.

i had told you about how good i was felling tonight.  i had a ton of stuff done around the house.  it was clean for one thing.  everything from laundry to floors and i also had things ready for the weekend.  yep, i told you that my weekend starts tomorrow after work.  don't hate me.

i told you that matt mowed the grass last night and that it made me happy.  yeah, a nice fresh cut lawn makes me smile.  come on, admit it, you like it when your yard looks good too!  i wish i could have a lawn like a golf course.  really.  i think next weekend i'm going to go buy some sweet kentucky bluegrass seed to throw on the lawn.  that and about 15 bags of fertilizer.  it needs it.  bad.

i also mentioned that i never really updated you on all the fun we had last weekend.  i didn't take any pictures, well, i took a few.  i have one of the bride taking a jag bomb in the parking lot.  i have a video of the groom taking off the bride's garter.  i don't have one of me taking my first jag bomb ever.  thank god for that.  jenn has some sweet shots - she should update her blog soon and share them with us! 

oh, and i told you i hope to write my thoughts for thursday post tonight - its an interesting one!

a night outside.

last night i took a break from being a slave to my computer and we went outside until the mosquito's nearly drained our system of blood.  i took some shots of tucker, however the kid still refuses to even glance in my direction when i have my camera out (trust me, i've tried allllllll the tricks).  i got a couple shots i like.  this one i decided to play around with more than the others (i used a bunch of brenda's actions).  fun stuff.  you can see bigger versions of the shots here.

we played trucks, cleaned up inside the camper, and rode in the little tykemobile.  it was nice to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather.  i hope this weather lasts for a while!

with a little bit of edge (love the urban processing action):

and in black & white:

so, which one is your favorite? 

wanna get away?

when i seen this video for the first time, i instantly wanted to copy and paste myself into it!  damn, they look like they are having a lot of fun.  i wanted to share the video here on the blog, but i guess metro station ain't having it.  piss me off.  i am LOVING their song 'shake it'.  just hit the link and watch the video.  then you'll love it too.

anyways...

if there was a music video you could paste yourself into, what would it be and why?  come on people, let's have some fun today!  would you want to show trace adkins how you could honky tonk badonkadonk?  or would you rather make love in this club with usher?  or maybe you would get the dirt off your shoulder with jay-z?  i'm sorry, but if you would be in any of weird al yankovic's music video's - we can't be friends anymore. 

now drop your comment like it's hot.

the goof troop.

tucker woke me up again this morning an HOUR before my alarm should go off.  i just love that.  so, here i am at the computer.  i found this picture that was taken on my birthday a few weeks ago.  even though the quality isn't perfect, the shot cracks me up.  there's my brother in the front with his dog, oakley pirched on his arm, and tucker and my mom in the background.  tucker looks like he's singing the opera sans teeth.  i took a bunch of these shots, but this one is my favorite.

this weekend was a lot of fun.  i'll post about that later when my brain wakes up. 

good morning baby.

even though tucker woke me up at 6am, i'm going to make a quick list of reasons this is a good morning. 

• i see blue skies and when we went outside the sun was so warm! 
• tucker is cute, even if he is cranky from getting up to early.
• matt is going to mow the lawn today - it will look so nice!
• i can hear the birds outside.
• i finally watched ps. i love you last night and it's in the mail today so we can get the next movie, juno.  i am so behind the times with movies.  seriously.  oh, and by the way, my new boyfriend is gerard butler.  seriously.  he is delish.
• laundry is going.  dishes are put away.
• saturday morning means saturday night is that much closer!  :)

so if there is anyone reading today, what is making your morning good?

flummery.

i've got nothing but flummery for you today folks.  random nonsense from inside my head.  sit back, grab a cookie and a glass of milk and enjoy.

• we are finally getting some nice weather here.  summer only lasts about 5.4 weeks here in minnesota. 
• tucker is still without the binkie.  however, this kid has managed to find every single 'lost binkie' in our house since we took it away.  last night he found one...under the fridge!  ha!
• on saturday, tucker is sleeping over at grandpa and grandma's house so matt and i can go out to carrie jo and joe's wedding reception.  we've known these two forever and they tied the knot at the beginning of the month in vegas!  congrats to them!  i can't wait to dance the night away!
• we bought my dad's old truck ('98 chevy 2500 diesel) for matt to use to drive to work and haul crap around when he is working on projects.  it will be nice that we can park our new truck and he won't have to drive it down to the plant everyday.  he filled up the tank last night and it cost him $140.  sure, it's a 36 gallon tank and it will last a long time but GAWD.
• there have been burglaries happening all over in town and it's starting to really creep me out.  when i worked at the sheriff's office i was never this creeped out.  nonetheless i hope they catch the little bastards that are on the crime spree. 
• i have an entire plate full of photography type things i am working on.  shooting, proofing, ordering.  lather, rinse, repeat. 
• i need to make some of this on sunday.  yum!
• we have a neighbor that is doing some odd things.  this, deserves its own post for sure.  stay tuned for that doozy.
• i'm missed the last two episodes of the bachelorette.  aaaah!  oh well, i skipped the first one i missed entirely, then i watched all but the last 15 minutes of the last episode.  i was tivoing it and matt changed the channel on me.  really - why do men do that?  it's not like a show had just started on another station or something - it was 845!  just leave it on my show.  this is like SUPER IMPORTANT stuff here!  :)

i hope all of you get to enjoy a great weekend!  i know i plan on it.