Linda Rokos Watts

1. If my hands or my feet get too hot i start feeling claustrophobic . 2. I have always wanted to go to culinary school and thanks to "the foo" I am. 3. I could eat a whole jar of Nutella in one sitting if given the chance. 4. When I was a little kid (about 6 or 7) you couldn't tell if I was a little boy a a little girl. Definitely a tomboy. It killed me at that age to put on a dress. 5. I have to hit the snooze button at least 5 or 6 times before I get out of bed, but I love getting up early in the mornings. 6. I want to learn absolutely everything there is to know about flagstone. 7. I miss my grandmother and grandfather, I feel like I missed out on opportunities to really get to know them as a kid. They would spend some summers here and I would spend some time in Czech but I still feel void that will never be filled. 8. I think my little brother is one great kid. 9. I sometimes wish I could hop back into a slalom course and have the ability to shred through it lik...

Another beautiful weekend is slowly coming to a close. There is nothin better then having a lazy Sunday morning with Sponge Bob, pumpkin spice pancakes, a great cup of coffee and my two favorite people sitting next to me, a trip to the shoe store to buy some new shoes, a trip to the park to run around, and to top it all off a football party for a big football game. Ahhhhhh , Sunday fun days ROCK!!!! Happy Super Bowl Sunday!!

Up at the house they are EVERYWHERE! We've had six huge bull elk (I hear that's unusual) hanging out in the neighborhood . I keep sending Connor pictures of them as a tease. You see.....Connor this year didn't catch (kill) an elk. He and his buddy Mitch both had tags and neither one of them filled them. Poor guys hiked for days in the cold and not one shot. I (almost) feel bad sending them the pics every couple of days of these huge beast outside our door. I think they are even becoming friends with our chickens. :)

We all do it....... (those of us who have kids) I am going to take a minute and brag about my lil one. She had a school musical last night about Africa and she did such a fantastic job. I couldn't be more proud of her, and to top it off she got an A on her report on the Barbary Ape that she worked very hard on. Stella amazes me on a day by day basis and I am one lucky mama to have such a kick ass kiddo! She has taught me more about love, life, trust, honesty, and the human spirit then I ever thought possible. Above is a picture of Stella in her African costume and one of her best buddies Lukas.

We have 7 chickens and one rooster. We bought them last spring as little baby chicks. We had one die pretty quickly after we got them so I ran down to the country store and bought another one to complete the 8. Seven is not a good number so we needed another. Mind you we had had the chicks already for about a month when the first one passed away and they grow quickly. The new chick that I had brought home and named Ricky Bobbi was small compared to all the others. Within about a week Ricky Bobbi had caught up to the other chickens and she just kept growing and growing. Needless to say Ricky Bobbi ended up being the biggest chicken of them all, so big that she had a huge waddle when she walked and about a month ago she died. We think it was a heart attack and my poor mother found her in their little chicken house and had to get rid of her. Around the same time our rooster named " papuchci " (a Czech word for slippers) went missing one afternoon while the chickens were out in ...

Some Wednesday nights I'm lucky enough to have date night with "the foo"! It's one of the only nights during the week that neither of us have evening obligations . Stella has piano after school on Wednesdays but that ends early in the evening, then it's dinner, homework, reading and bed time. I'm so lucky to have my parents to watch Stella for a few hours while I sneak out after Stella goes to bed. It's so easy during the week to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of things with Stella's swim team practice on Tuesday and Thursday in the evenings, and homework and piano and any other of the million things we've got going on. It's great to be able to break up the week with a lil treat like date night. So.... here is a big THANK YOU to my parents for watching the lil one! I'm a lucky girl! :)

For the last couple years I've gotten in the habit of making lists. Lists for, traveling, packing, life, day to day stuff, shopping lists, things-to-do lists, and any other lists I can think of needing lists for. I was coloring today with Stella and I felt the need for a list come on, so instead of our normal coloring I started to list. It wasn't one of those very important lists, it was simply a list of things that I need to get done and there is no better way for me to remember all of those things then to see it in black and white. (or in this case lots of color) I'm not much of an artists but Stella on the other hand definitely got her artistic side from her father who is his own right is very talented. I've tried to do all I can to encourage Stella to explore that side of her. My parents even went so far as to buy Stella her own art studio this summer for her birthday and put it above their house (pictures of that will be posted soon)! It's a 10 foot by 10 f...