When was the last time you needed a reminder that we humans are pigs?

Well if you are looking for a reminder of how Americans over do EVERYTHING and need to see what the world is going to look like because we have to do everything at an extreme then I have a movie for you! The delightful children's movie WALL-E. Wall-e is a tale of a robot who was left on earth to clean up after the filthy humans as the humans go live up on a space ship and relax and get away from all the trash. Of course the government promises that these little robots will have everything cleaned up in 5 years and when that doesn't happen they end up floating around in space for the next 700 years , all the Wall-e robots die and the one lone Wall-e is left to use them as replacement parts whenever he breaks. The humans of course don't learn there lesson from Earth so for the past 700 years they have been polluting space with their trash as well. They all float around on these huge chairs and get fatter and fatter and fatter and they have a computer screen in front of their faces at all time so they forget to look around and don't even realize they could go to the pool or run around the track or get a massage for that matter. They drink all their food...cupcakes in a cup sound good? So Wall-e is this sweet little trash compacting robot who falls in love with the robot Eve. Eve's job is to come to Earth and try and find eveidence of life...Wall-e does find a little plant growing inspite of the disgusting humans and the story goes from there. Pixar is obviously looking to make a statement. I walked out depressed, my son walked out confused and my husband fell asleep for about 15 minutes of the movie as the robots beeped at each other with their names...Wall-e, Eve...Wall-e, Eve...Wall-e, Eve...well you get the point.

Good Friends and The Buddah Bubble...

Last weekend my good friend Jasa Jawn Schummacher was in town from Fresno, CA. Her family owns a lakehouse at Lake Sinclair here in good old Georgia and we went down to spend the night last Friday. The first thing I will tell you is that it is amazing that this family, originally from Los Angeles, found this lake because when Jasa said it was in the sticks...she wasn't being dramatic...it is WAY out in the sticks. Because of dog boarding issues Bennett and I were the Lanier family members to partake in this adventure.

After driving 2.5 hours we were finally there, it was so great to see Jasa! I had not seen her in about 3 years and it was definitely worth the drive to say hello to a good friend. Bennett got to work making the best of his time at the lake house affectionaly named LATOGA (LA to Georgia). While I was running my mouth he was busy with smores by the fire, badmitton, night swimming and twister with a cute little girl named Grace. Bennett and I slept in this huge air conditioned dome tent which is affectionately called the Buddah Bubble or the Yucky(see picture above of the meditating Bennett). Thank you to JAsa's Mom for adding the A/C! It rained the next morning and Bennett and Grace played badmitton in the rain and about 10 board games and then once the rain cleared it was one last swim for Bennett and we were back to Alpharetta.

The next installment-last day of 2nd grade

3rd grade here we come!

Bennett's last day of second grade was a lot of fun! I took some pictures of him heading off to the last day of 2nd grade to arrive 6 hours later off the bus as a 3rd grader! Amazing. We are as I am sure you can tell from our blog that we are very proud of him. When he got off the bus all the kids at the bus stop got shot with silly string and water guns and to top off the fun, Bennett got straight A's on his report card!

After we got home from school Jessica was crazy enough to have volunteered to put together the neighborhood END OF SCHOOL PARTY!!! There was a moonwalk, cotton candy, tattoos, pool fun and lots and lots of chips. It was great fun until the drought lands of Georgia's sky opened up and poured down rain on the party! It was great to see the kids having a great time at the party...however we never did make it to the limbo contest and it was disappointing that it got cut short. No matter what Summer is officially here!

Trying to Catch up!

Hello all my blogger friends and family! The end of school rocked our world and keeping up with the old blog has been a serious struggle. I just got some cute pictures from the end of the school year of Bennett crossing over from a Wolf to a Bear from our Cub Scout Den leader. I thought this was as good a time as any to start catching up.





At the end of the school year the cub scouts have ceremony where they boys take off their Wolf neckercheif and get their new neckercheif for the coming year. Bennett is now going to be working on his Bear badge for cub scouts. We have heard it is a lot more work then the Wolf badge! Cub Scouts definitely takes the whole

family into account now so Mark and I will be busy whiddling or something crazy next year

This weekend I am going to updating the blog so here is what is COMING TO A BLOG NEAR YOU (in the very near future)

• Last day of School


• End of School Party


• Broken Wheel on Jessica's Car


• Replace door in the Lanier house


• Saga of tree falling on fence


• Queenie's trip to Tally


• Neighborhood block party


• Trip to the lake


• 10th office in 10 years at Cox Enterprises

and much more....

until then....