A look inside Ward & June Cleavers House 2009

My mother-in-law not only has cute, hunk-a-hunk o’ burnin’ love children (see The Man below)

But she also has incredible style. We were at her house this last weekend, and being the freak show I am.. I snapped a couple of photos. You see my mother-in-law has fabulous style. I love to go to her house and see what she’s added moved or changed. I’ve blogged about her house HERE and HERE before.

When I first met her, she had cows. She’s has put 90% of her cows in decorating time out, and only has a few up right now. I’m going to showcase those today.

I think this cow is so cool. I collect pigs.. and I would love to have him in pig form.

Do you remember Elsie and Elmer the spokes cows for Borden milk?

They used to have all kinds of Elise and Elmer items. I wonder if those are in decorating time out,

or if they didn’t make it through the Great Auction of 2007. My mother in law is like that. She will collect things

then just say, “It’s time to get rid of it” and sell it. (this is a skill I do not have)

See the cows on the brown transferware plate?

That guy doesn’t look anything like my father in law…

This doesn’t much look like my mother n law.. but a nice old print just the same.

Happy Father’s Day

We celebrated The Man yesterday. We bought him gifts and made him a meal..

(we even let him have his favorite skunky beer)

Our appetizers were onion rings. Made out of vidalia onions .

Ribeyes, corn on the cob, garlic green beans, & Smashed Potatoes

I also made him a 6 layer Peanut Butter Chocolate cake.

(blog coming soon with recipe.. http://www.asktheebayqueen.com/eBay_Queen_cooks )

The meal turned out pretty good.

The Gifts.. were ok, except for one… Note to self when you buy shorts for your husband,

don’t do it in the young men’s section.

See how long these are?

Flashing the Gang Signs

Well.. I guess all size 34 pants are not built the same. Some are made for the younger generationn,

they are longer and baggier. The Man here is from the generation where you ALWAYS

wear a belt, and you never show your underwear.

Happy Father’s Day !

Here’s your Ticket to the Gun Show..

My husband is a weird guy. The other night we were sitting on the sofa, and I said “Hey.. show me your guns.” To which he gave me this look.

This look reminds me of this one given to me by our youngest child #5.

Different eyes.. but same stink eye look.

You see sometimes he reads my blog. He makes comments here and there about it.. but the comment he makes the most? “You make me look fat.” So now.. I present to you the Man.. (if you are one of our 5 children, you can stop reading here or be forever grossed out.)

Looking pretty darn Sexy. Oh and nice guns.

The Man’s Great TV Switch-a-roo

It was a dark and stormy night… The Queen was leaving her castle to spend some time with her favorite confirmation class youth. The Queen’s husband… aka “THE MAN” thought while the queen was out he would make a little switch. He thought the queen would never notice her TV went from normal, to gianormous. Here’s the story told in photos.

Here was the TV that once sat in my living room. I have NO idea how big this TV is.. but to me it was a normal size TV.

It also worked fine.

Here are 4 of the 5 children standing in front of the TV to show you the true size of it.

Here’s the TV I came home to. It doesn’t look so big right here does it?

Here’s the TV with the 4 kids standing in front of it.. (by the way what’s wrong with the tall goofy kid? can’t he take a normal photo?)

In The Man’s defense, he does work with electronics for a living… and the TV has sorta grown on me (no pun intended). I just thought we should discuss moving Goodyear Blimp size electronics in the Family Room before hand.

TRUE CONFESSION: Our family also loves TV like a chubby kid loves cake. (no offense to chubby kids)