A Man and His Tools

Never mess with a man's tools. Or his car. What is it with tools? I don't get it and probably never will seeing as how I am female. I live with all males though (I know, poor me!) and all I see all day over and over is how different God made male and female. Case in point....Steven is working on laying tile on our kitchen and dining room floors. Of course, the boys find it their duties in life to help Daddy while he is doing any sort of project. This one is right up their alley because it is inside, out of the cold, not too loud, and right in the path of their favorite place in the house...the pantry. Tonight the grout spinner/mixer thing came out. Don't even ask me what it is really called because I wouldn't be able to tell you if my life depended on it. The boys knew what was up though. They saw a cool tool. They saw fantasy. They saw complete concentration on something totally male. They didn't notice me. They didn't notice food. They didn't notice their blocked pantry door. All they saw and focused on was this tool.


I know I am their Mom and I am supposed to love all thing and think everything they do is cute, but come on? Who doesn't think this is the funniest thing ever? Owen even went as far as touching the spinning metal thing. Daddy didn't stop him so I assumed that was okay with this tool. I guess I should learn more about male things just in case Daddy isn't watching so closely one day.

Every male gets tired though in his quest for home project completion. Once you get tired just pull up your Cars chair and take a load off. Steven accomplishes this with a beer and pretzel after long nights of laying tile. My other two little males just crash with something on a lighter scale like maybe a sippy cup of milk or a bottle. Gotta love them!

Why Yes, I DO Own a Buick!

I never thought that I would own a Buick. Well, maybe in my 60's! Not my 30's! Let me just tell you, though, we couldn't afford Lexus (total luxury) so we went with the next more affordable luxury which just happened to be a 2010 silver Buick Enclave. I am in love. I don't even know how to function with all the bells and whistles that this car possesses. It is going to take some learning time, some parking in Africa so know one will ding me, and some driving too slow everywhere I go. No one will think anything of that last one because they will figure that a Grandma is driving it anyways:)

More importantly, it is everything we wanted/needed in a car. We have researched for months, spent countless hours on the internet, shopped for hours, and prayed for just the perfect deal for our little family of four. Bam! Everything I wanted. Silver, leather, all power, bucket seats, XM radio, Bluetooth, heated seats, etc. I could go on and on about this new ride, but I won't bore you. Just want to say, "Thank you Jesus!"

An Oldie But a Goodie

Let's take you back 26 years. Can you remember 26 years ago? That makes me feel old, but I can remember it. I was 5 years old. My sister was 3. Our favorite thing to do was go to my Grandma's and play with her and all the fun things she had around her house and outside. Half the things were made up things, but we were girls and using our imagination was most of the fun. Someone found this picture and forwarded it to me. I was so thankful to see this picture. I don't have many of these around of my sister and me from that long ago. Who knows why we were in the back of a truck or what game we were playing, but I thought the picture was cute anyways. Cute if you pretend you don't see my bowl cut and my sister's mullet:) Ahh, the memories!

Christmas Number Three

Last Christmas celebration, I swear! This one we were in Norman to celebrate with Steven's side of the family. Craziness in a different way. More kids. Smaller house. Such a fun time though. The kids rarely fight (as compared to my side of the family) and they always have a blast together. Here are 6 of the 7 grandchildren all piled up for one photo shoot. Never mind Owen's nose picking. He is only 1:)

Eli is great with the kids and I am amazed all the time how much this little man is growing up. Still such a boy at heart though....

Owen really scored at this house. Two of his favorite things he got for Christmas. Teddy Grahams and Goldfish. Yes, the boy likes to eat:) He got other things as well, but his most important gift of the day came in the Sam's size box of his favorite snack!

Everyone has to have a weird, did that really happen, type of gift every Christmas right? Well, this year it was Monkey Butt. Don't even ask. Just Google it. Let me just tell you, it will probably come in handy next time either of these boys go on a vacation where a lot of walking occurs. Oh.....only Denise to give these types of gifts. Denise if you are reading...we LOVE YOU!!!!! Thanks for the Monkey Butt and the laughs:)

Christmas Number Two

Ava the little cleaner! She was helping with some of the mess after our 2nd celebration of Christmas. Christmas number two this year was with Mom and Dad, aka, Nini and Pappy. The kids LOVE this Christmas, of course, because it is toy mania. Stay up late mania. Eat whatever you want mania. Run around and yell crazy mania. Watch as many movies as you can mania. Are you getting the picture yet? Fun times! No really, we did have fun. Things and times just change though when you add four kids under the age of four into the picture:) One thing is always certain though; Ava will always take a picture with her favorite aunt/gymnastics teacher:

Not to be outdone by his cousin, Will had to get into the action:



Christmas number two was a total success. I am so very thankful for my family. They truly are a blessing to me and my family. Speaking of family, here is a shot of the fam at Christmas number two. Happy holidays. Ho Ho Ho to everyone:)

The Ringing Box

I love to be right. What can I say? Maybe it is part of being a woman? Maybe it is part of being human? I love to be right.

Case in point...last night during our little family of 4's Christmas celebration. Right in the middle of opening presents the phone rings. Steven answers it. He puts the phone on the floor (he said table). Not correct.

Later on in the night I realize I hadn't heard the phone ring all night. Strange. I thought back to where I had last seen it. On the floor during the craziness of opening presents. Steven picked up all the wrapping paper when it was all said and done and placed all the trash (and now we know phone) in a big box and put it outside at the curb. It was trash night.

I told Steven, after we had paged the phone for quite awhile with no sound coming from ANYWHERE in the house, that maybe, just maybe he threw it away by accident. Of course not! Why would he do that? He didn't do that? He put the phone on the table, right? Wrong! After more nagging on my part he finally decided to go grab the box by the curb just to prove me wrong. It wasn't in there!

I pushed the pager button one more time and LOW AND BEHOLD the box started to ring!!!!

Have I mentioned I love being right?? I love being right!

Christmas Number One

Christmas in the Kueny household arrived tonight since tomorrow begins our journey to both parents in Tulsa and Norman and a set of grandparents in Bartlesville. The boys were excited. Okay, really just Will. Owen looks thrilled in these pictures, doesn't he? He actually did enjoy helping Will open gifts and share in the experience. He could have cared less to be totally honest! He ate his gifts. Those were yummy. See what I mean?


Will was thrilled with his new Wow Wow Wubsy DVD and Max and Ruby DVD. Great! All I need in this house is two bunnies with no parents:) All Momma's out there know what that sentence means!!! Will is also very interested in coloring right now. We got him some fun coloring things to enhance his new skills. The boy has got some skills. He already knows how to stay inside all the lines. I am proud. Very proud. Here Will is proud of his new coloring experiments:


Before it all started there was peace. Pretty packages, no mess, and no trash everywhere. See...here is proof: