what to wear

 

It's always a challenge for Halloween deciding whether to be a fajita, enchilada or a burrito...

plus shipping and handling

 

It's only illegal if they put a lid on it and one of those stickers that says, "checked luggage". Boy, is the TSA in for a surprise!

out of the archives

we missed a soon-to-be classic here, so we just had to post me dancing to some song called bubble toes, with the ever-versatile cheese-stick making an appearance...

Graham cheesy toes from jacq scott on Vimeo.

flying Grace

 

the way to beat the summer heat!

guess my age

 

That's right. It's my birthday. I can wear the new child-fad sensation silly-bands. Nine of them... in order to dress to the nines!!! I'm literally on cloud nine because I got everything for my birthday... the whole nine yards.

summer plans

 

We are eyeing some big plans for this summer. Aye, we are. A big aye-aye, captain. All eyes on what we're planning for this summer. I can't tell you how big these plans are. I can just say, BIG. A big eye-full of plans. Big eye.

lost

 

I might not have survived the mysterious plane crash onto this mysterious island mysteriously unless I had been sporting the pink-and-other-flowery-multi-colored life-suit which I happened to find underneath my seat on the aircraft...

politics

 

I was just doing my job of digging myself into a hole until Connor came along slinging mud on my face. Daddy said, you guys should work for the government...

 

beached bums

 

look what washed up from the depths...

dare we say...

Mom and Dad said to each other, "Don't call him a daredevil or a stuntman--it might stick. It's not his identity..." I don't know what all that means. But this is fuuuuuuuuuunnnn! My name is Graham and I am 7 years old.

dare we say... from jacq scott on Vimeo.

They also mumbled something about "birth order." Not sure what that means either...

doorknob trick strikes again

This time it was me. So what do YOU do when it's 10:14pm and you're tossing & turning & just can't sleep? I tie a string around my tooth, tie the other end to the doorknob, and WHAM! One less eye-tooth, and one peaceful night's sleep! Dad really gets into this stuff...

 

oh dear

 

on adventure day we pull over on the side of the road and watch "the deer and the antelope play..."

Dan?

Daddy taught us a phrase that he learned at youth camp one summer. We know how to respond whenever he says, "Dan." We know that's when he means business. Here is where he caught us on hidden video...

we don't do that here from jacq scott on Vimeo.

horsin' around

 

Mommy and Daddy always say, "No horseplay," then they make us get up on a big fake horse and tell us, "This will look great on the blog!" Then they say, "Hey, what's wrong with that?" to which we always reply, "Hey is for horses!"

doorknob trick works!

I lost 2 teeth in one day. This video captures the demise of the second.

doorknob trick worked this time! from jacq scott on Vimeo.

Tooth?!! You can't handle the tooth!!!

behind the curtains

 

Wanna know what happens behind the curtains? We do too!

kung-fu birthday girl

Grace Turns 4 from jacq scott on Vimeo.

making snowballs

 

I guess that's what this guy is doing... Daddy makes weird stuff out of snow. Sometimes, he's just so immature. We said, "Just because we set a 100-year record for the most snow doesn't mean you have to make THAT." But he didn't listen. Parents!

snow fun in Texas

It's snow fun here in Texas today. We thought that homeschooling meant that today's class project would be studying the aerodynamics of snowballs, etc. But Mommy said that snow fun in Texas is a pun and that today we get to learn what puns are. What's a pun?

snow fun in Texas from jacq scott on Vimeo.

Apparently homeschoolers don't get "snow days."

the new black

 

you guessed it...

tribute to jimi henrix

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same

 

If I sneeze I fall on my knees
And the feeling starts to wane...

 

mommy look what i found

 

This group of animals is also known as horsefoot, king crab, or saucepan. Some people call the horseshoe crab a "helmet crab", but this common name is more frequently applied to a true crab, a malacostracan, of the species Telmessus cheiragonus, so... Mommy, can we eat it with ketchup?

saved from the giant puppy

 

Yes, I single-handedly rescued the earthworm from the huge stomping chomping Chowder-dog. I was about to eat breakfast when Daddy reminded me that every little life is precious. This was soooooo worth it. He now has this photo to prove forever what a brave little girl I am to save the slimy oozing sticky earth-dwelling snapshot of squirminess from an almost certain death and/or maiming. And then I got to eat breakfast! I am soooooo happy!!!

beachy-keen

 

We're always this happy at the beach whenever we don't get chomped by sharks!

yes sir!

 

Some of us may be a better fit for the military than others... but we are a family of many hats.

brain-freeze

 

Here we are, perfecting our communal brain-freeze! By the way, you can still see how high the water rose on Galveston island during the last major hurricane--like about 6 or 8 feet! This was at the Strand district on the Bay side.