The Price Family Home Companion

Mountiful

Canadians have done some earth-shattering research to uncover some mind-numbing facts. The result of the unprecedented study is that kids that eat a bunch of junk and aren't active will most likely be fat. Them Canadians are pretty sharp, eh?

fast food + little exercise = fat kids

The paragraph that reads begins 'Its like making sausage' is completely lost on me. I guess you have to know more about sausage making to make the leap.

I'm Hating It

Is anyone else annoyed by McDonald's new "I'm Loving It" marketing campaign? Whatever happened to "Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun?"

Was it axed because the FDA required them to put nutritional facts in the jingle? Because I can understand getting rid of:

Two all-beef, 80% fat-free patties, special sauce (water, vinegar, bacterial cultures, spices, red dye #3), organic lettuce, cheese, pickled cucumbers, chemical free onions, on a agriculturally processed bleached white bun.

It's just not as catchy.

In any case, at least they don't have that really annoying Jared guy.

The Vintage Rosary

The weather was absolutely beautiful this weekend! In addition to our mundane weekend errands we decided to take a day trip to the Vintage Rosary.

The Vintage Rosary is essentially this couple's garden that they open to the public (Tuesday through Saturday). They raise and sell hundreds of varieties of roses, perennials, etc on the grounds. So, if you or anyone you know is interested in roses, it's worth checking out.

The rosary is located in Needville (a small town to the southwest of us)... which ended up being a little bit further away than we anticipated, but not too bad (about 20 miles).

There's not a whole lot to report about the place that the pictures can't convey (in the October album). It was a nice day, the grounds were neat (we got several ideas for our own "garden"), and the owners were very pleasant folk to talk to. They had a huge great dane named Maxim (probably 5 feet tall... just HUGE I tell you)!

All in all it ended up being a good way to spend such a gorgeous afternoon.

Muchas Risas

Over the past several weeks we've been driven up the wall and back down by Salem's bowel retentive fits. After many moons (ahem) that's all behind us (sorry) now and she's feeling much better...

Still, there were some shining moments; like the "contest" to name the bedtime concoction we gave her.

Salem's usual pre-bedtime drink is a sippy full of whole milk (that's actually her wake-up drink of choice too). The menu this night called for a super-secret blend of the usual, soy milk, and Milk of Magnesia.

I so proudly dubbed the brew Milk of Milks.

With classic one-ups-man-ship flair, Chantell called it Tres Leches.

Back Online

I doubt many noticed, but we've had some technical difficulties with the site. We're back online now and I've posted and cataloged pictures from our recent trip to Lubbock in the September and October photo albums... be sure to check out Brody's new-old house.