Pictures, Of Course/I Love a Parade/Small Deluge of Somewhat Political Videos

Bennett was spotlighted at school this week, so I was going through pictures of him to make a poster about him. Here are some of my favorites of him when he was two. I think the pomegranate picture may be my favorite picture of him, but I love the little GQ model picture on the beach too.











I'm not the photographer some of you are, but I'm kinda proud of these shots of Laraine. Of course my subject matter here is gorgeous, so I can't take much credit, though this gorgeous subject matter doesn't care to hold still for poses, so I do have to catch her when I can.
































Here are a couple of recent shots of Bennett. He adores both of his younger siblings. He loves posing with Jasper. He gets angry with Laraine sometimes, but he adores her too. Yesterday she was having a fit and making things difficult when I went to pick Bennett up from school. I needed to break a $20, so I decided to stop on the way home and get cherry turnovers at Arby's. I said, "I'll get one for you, Bennett, but I don't think I can get one for Laraine because she's being so naughty." Bennett said, "Oh, please get one for my sweet little sister." So I did, and everyone was happy. The picture to the right is him in his UNbirthday crown holding his poster/card from the kids in his class. His birthday is in the summer, so he got to have an UNbirthday, which he loved.

I've got to rant a little bit now; forgive me. Last week was Dixie Round Up, so there were a couple of parades. I can't remember a single time when a parade hasn't been a disappointment to me, but I decided my kids should go to a parade, so I took them on Saturday. As I said, parades are generally a disappointment, but seriously folks, this thing was awful. Okay, there were some school marching bands and a couple of horses and the rich Dean Terry family in a stage coach (I guess they got to be in the parade because they're wealthy and have a stage coach), which were all okay and somewhat amusing. I didn't even really mind the car with some beauty queens on it, though I am opposed to beauty queens in a general sense. What I really thought was simply lousy was that other than the above mentioned, this parade was just cars advertising stuff, including a long line of new cars from Sun Painter Auto Dealers or whatever wanting to show off their wares. There were mainly cars with signs printed on them just advertising stuff. Baja Broadband just drove one of their trucks down the street. What the heck? It was like watching a long and horribly boring commercial with short moments of vague excitement when beauty queens and rich dudes in stage coaches drove by. At least most of the cars threw out some candy, so it was bearable for the children, who were otherwise bored. Still, if I wanted cheap candy, I'd go to Target and save myself the trouble of managing small children at a parade in the hot sun. Look, I figure parades are kind of funded by businesses wanting to advertise. Fine. Said businesses should at least be required to sponsor or make floats. For example, Baja Broadband could've made a computer float or something. Anyway, that's what they're calling a parade?

Here's a video from The Onion that had me in tears with laughter. You've got to cry about it, but at least we can try to find the humor (also, looks like a decent razor):
Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Here's another one my brother-in-law, Jonathan, found on YouTube; he edited it a bit for language. Anyway, I'm afraid it ain't funny. Let's hope we elect someone who is less trigger happy this time.

Like this guy...



Moving on...Today's review is "Firefly"/Serenity. I've decided to post my book reviews on Goodreads, so there are some links to my latest book reviews below:

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