Posts Tagged ‘the man’

When you live in a house with 9 people things break. When your double oven breaks.. and you normally use both ovens at least 4 times a week… it will put a kink in your meal planning.  Last Monday my menu was: ham, scalloped potatoes, peas and homemade rolls.  It was impossible to make the rolls, ham and potatoes without both ovens.. (first world problem I know). So I had to call my local fix it man… you know The Man.

The Man with the double ovens…trying to fix them.

no pictures please..

There's a red neck joke in here somewhere.. you know the one about your oven being up on blocks…

Don't look.. it's my oven guts!

See that cut above his wedding ring?  We call that  a Workers comp claim.

In just a hour or so he fixed my ovens..

About 18 or so years ago my mother told me… "Suzie, you should marry this guy!  He's a hard worker, He can fix things! Do you know how nice it would be to have a man that could fix things?"   Every once in a while (at least once a year) a girl should admit how right her mother is…So once again you are right mom.  "It is nice to have a man that can fix things!

My laptop isn't exactly new. In laptop years it is pretty old. It is used constantly and without it I would be lost. About a month ago it started getting hot and shutting off. I called The Man to let him know of my problem. He diagnosed (without even looking at it) as being a "dirty fan." I asked him if he'd fix it that night and as usual he told me "Just remind me." When he says this I always think.. "what am I doing now?"

A month went by and it shut off a few other times.. and the above conversation happened a few more times.

Then I got lucky.. and it just happened to shut off when he was home…

I didn't really believe his diagnosis, after all he hadn't even looked at it… But Check out how dirty that fan is! (You know you've always wanted to see how dirty my computer is…) Please don't judge my dirty fan.. this has nothing to do with how clean I keep my children or house..

When I started dating The Man, my mother grabbed me by both arms, looked me square in the eye and said; "Suzie he can FIX things! Do you know what that means?" At the time I didn't really.. because well I grew up without someone who could fix stuff… so I had no idea of the benefit.

My mother would be proud, The Man is showing #2 how to clean the fan on a laptop. Maybe just maybe he'll be someone's man who could fix things. I hope that girl will know how lucky she is.

It's Optimus Dad..

Today is The Man's birthday. To celebrate him I thought I would put up a few of my favorite photos of him.

#4 and #5 participating in the pinning of the head of the household.. a festivus tradition..

Caption on this picture is… "Woman PLEASE!"

This is #2.. and his SUPER LONG tongue. I was trying to take a photo of his dad.. and he kept sticking his tongue out in front of my camera lens. See his dad?.. He thinks that's funny.

The Man and #1

That's a lot of people…

Nonconformist…

He is showing us "how it's done" on the trampoline.

Dad and his Pookie (#3)

#5 and his Dad

Snuggling with #6

Father Daughter Dance 2009

BOYS!

My Favorite!

Happy Birthday! I love you!

A couple of weeks ago The Man and I won tickets to the American Royal Rodeo. (Thank you KOFO 1220) The American Royal is a month long agricultural-FFA-animal show-BBQ-rodeo festival.

The Man and I waiting for the Rodeo to start..

Before the rodeo started we checked out some of the exhibits. I'm slightly

afraid of horses. The man here.. not so much. I was pretty sure this horse

was going to break down the pen and bite his hand off. As it turns out..

the horse was pretty nice.

PIG RACE! Check out the girls in the blue cowboy hats. They are really

into this race!

Ever see a pig swim? You should check out Swifty!

This cow would not stop MOO-ing.

What I really want to say is.. "That is nipple number 5, a good dairy

cow should have like 4. (one of my favorite lines from Napoleon Dynamite.

I liked these white cows.. but my friend Claire says that white

cows are dumb and I should only like Angus cows.

Cows aren't usually this clean and fluffly looking. This cow (along with

the others at the Royal) have been washed and blow dryed.

I think this is one of those Angus cows Claire was talking about.

The rodeo was great.. I always slightly freak out at the bareback

riding. They seem like they are thrown around a lot.

The bull fighters.. fighting a bull…

The Budweiser Clydesdales even made an apperance at the rodeo!

We had a great time.. Thanks so much to KOFO for giving us the tickets.