Today's post.....

If you want to read what my insightful mind has to say today please visit The RHOK!! I promise ♥Mrs. Hart♥ is cooking up something good- a memory dish from her childhood and a found again dish as an adult!! Are you intrigued yet? Get on over there and read!!!

Wordless Wednesday: Father's Day 2010

Father's Day we carried on a traditon and spent it in the pool! We put on our prettiest suits, smiles and worked on our best jumps! Even Kaybrie joined in this year without a life jacket!

Thank you my MIL for the wonderful lunch- Daddy Crow's fave Roast, Carrots & Potatoes w/ Texas Sheet Cake!  Yummy!!!

MckLinky Monday: Role Reversal

Let's pretend mommies and daddies switched places for a day or two. How do you think everyone would fare in their new position? Would it go well? Would it be a disaster?

This is the question for today's MckLinky brought to us by the lovely Redneck Diva herself Mrs. Nesbitt.

How would The Crow's Nest fare? Honestly, I think we would do just fine. Daddy Crow on the other hand might have a thing or two to say about this post, so he just might not be privvy to it.

 ME:

Waking up at 6 AM would take some getting used to, but I've done it way earlier than that before.

I tend to be a bit bossy, yeah that comes w/ being the oldest and having the B.S. in Management and the MRS. degrees, so the lazy guy at his work either wouldn't work there any longer, or I might not!

Getting to sit in the DAMN recliner- Score!!!

Not having to decide what is for dinner, nice...

Me bringing home the $, someone else spending it- well that is the American way!

Only getting to see my babies for 2 hours each night and 1 Sunday a week, except one weekend a month- Someone please wake me up from this nightmare of role switching, its not gonna work!!!

HIM:

Getting to take my wife's "crazy" medicine will do me just fine, I can handle anything- BRING IT ON!

My kids fight? Never!

The house will be clean all the time and the laundry put away before 5pm, never a load in the dryer waiting for the dryer fairies!

When I pay the bills there will always be money left over.

The kid's will always be on time to every sporting and extracurricular event!

Can we take that "crazy" medicine away from him now please? Because obviously it has THAT effect on him! LOL!

Now, head on over to The RHOK, read how everyone else fared and make sure you link up!!

Wordless Wednesday: Sun Fun

Two water hoses, a slide, a beach ball sprinkler, lounge chair, a rip stick (?), a pool, a tarp, an umbrella, bathing suits and three kids! Now that is some real Summer Imagination's !! Who said Electronic's were ruining their brains?

MckLinky Monday: How Daddy & Moma Crow Met!

It's MckLinky Monday again, and boy are we Housewives a NOSEY, get in your Business Bunch!  I really like it though, because not only does it help me reminiscence and get those butterflies in my tummy again, it also makes me get it down for the sole purpose of my blog: for my kids and grandkids! This week's question is brought by the lovely Mrs. Albright aka Dawn at Dawn's Diversions who I have known and been reading the longest of all the Housewives.

How Did You Meet Your Spouse?

October 27th, 2004 I turned Thirty.  I had just gone through a divorce and it was finalized in January of that year. That marriage, if you can call it that, lasted seven years.  I was a single Mom of a wonderful three year old little boy. Because of my little boy and my upbringing and church, I knew I had to find a new church for us and get involved. That January we began attending The Church at BattleCreek. From January to October, I dated a little, one guy in particular- which was totally Mr.WRONG from the beginning, but can you say REBOUND.  In September, I started a DivorceCare class at Church and Braden got involved with some kids at church as well.

So the Big 3-0 rolled around, even though I was saying Thirty, Flirty and Thriving, I wasn't exactly feeling it!  I mean come on! Single Working Mom's know where all the cheap eat night's are at McDonald's, Burger King and Mazzios and we are in bed by 9 o'clock, unless an episode of Sex and the City is on TBS that you haven't seen! Because believe me, secretly you live your life through Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda- who wouldn't?

Did I mention that I spent the Big 3-0 at Incredible Pizza with my son, yeah I skipped my DivorceCare Class to hang out and play skiiball! Well, the following week, exactly a week on November 3, 2004, I had half a mind to skip class again. I didn't.  Gayla my friend in the class invited her cousin, don't remember much about him other than when asked why I missed and spent my birthday alone, I then went off on my depression and made the comment that I was going to turn into a hamburger, this guy was asked if I looked like a hamburger and he turned red and said "You look very nice to me!"  I think he was at church the following Sunday and I caught him checking out my legs! Then on Monday the 8th, I got a call from Gayla asking for permission to give my phone number out to her cousin Jason who came to class- he thought I was pretty! I said I guess, he would never call.

 He didn't call, that is until the 22nd of November! He was scared. SCARED? Of what? Rejection. Oh how sweet is that!  Jason had me at HELLO and after 3 1/2 hours on the phone. LOL! Our first date was the Friday after Thanksgiving on November 26, 2004.  We went to Don Pablo's and then saw Christmas with The Crank's. I tried to meet him there after work, but he was having none of that!  He picked me up, opened the door and didn't even try to kiss me, I had to hug him! Such a gentleman. But he did ask me out again, and did call all weekend! Bonus that, on Sunday was Braden's Baby Dedication his entire family was there and I met his Mother and our Mother's met! Wowee...Talk about sweating in Church!

Did I mention that it is illegal to date in DivorceCare? I finished the class, he never came back! We still attend and love TCABC!

Anyway we were Engaged in February of 2005 and Married in May of 2005 and have now been married Five Years!!!

Today's Post is at The RHOK

Today my alter ego ♥Mrs. Hart♥ is posting at The RHOK! It's a great post about friends inspired  my cousin Rhonda, one of my Uncle Monk's twins! Hop on over now and enjoy! Just click the link!

Wordless Wednesday- The Pink House Porch Swing

Oh My Grape Jelly, Kaybrie, Jadyn & Faith Can Do It!!!

Sit still, not talk, and keep their hands to themselves. If that swing comes up missing at The Pink House in Claremore, please do not come looking for it at

The Crow's Nest!!

For other Wordless Wednesday's Link up at The RHOK!

MckLinky Monday: Who Was I in High School?

Mrs. Priss is asking today at The RHOK the question Who Were You in High School?

Hmmm...Now that is a loaded question. At least for me, anyway.

My Wilson High School 1992 Senior Yearbook boasts:  

FHA 4yrs, FHA recreational Chairperson, FHA Reporter, FHA President, SADD 3yrs, SADD Treasurer 2yrs, Oklahoma Honor Society 4yrs, National Honor Society 3yrs, Blue Ribbon Scholar 4yrs, Top 10%, Newspaper Staff 2yrs, Newspaper Assistant Co-Editor 1991, Newspaper Co-Editor 1992, Student Council Treasurer, Annual Staff 2yrs, Academic Team 2yrs, Beta Club 4yrs, 1991 Beta Reporter, Who's Who 4yrs, Basketball 1yr, Drama Club, Co-Salutatorian and voted

 Miss Wilson High School and Most Dependable in the Senior Hall of Fame.

Looking back, I was INSECURE and MOTIVATED and was involved in anything and everything just to give me an idea of what I wanted to do beyond my hometown. I didn't party, I didn't date, geesh my senior class only had 35 and half of them I was related too! I wasn't a nerd, some people thought I was a little reserved, okay a lot reserved. I only had a few "close" friends, but then again we were all close in different ways. Yeah, we had our cliques, the jocks, the wild ones, the not so popular ones, the thugs- but my entire high school freshman through seniors might have held 120 students. Yeah, I was a teachers pet, I respected my elders. If I didn't they pretty much could flag my Daddy down on the road, oilfield or the hay pasture and tell him anything and everything about me, or so I believed. Too bad my little brother and sister didn't have the fear of my Daddy placed in them at an early age! Shoot, I still believed Daddy had spies in

Weatherford, OK when I went off to college, that is up until my sophomore year!

MOTIVATED, INSECURE, NAIVE and GULLIBLE me! Always wanting to excel in and at Everything!

That's who I was!

And at times, still am today!!!

Wordless Wednesday: It's Hot Outside!

What else is a girl to do if she doesn't have a swimming pool at her house?

Today's Post is at The RHOK

Today I am blogging at The RHOK.........

......sooo come see what ♥Mrs. Hart♥ has to say about "Why This Housewife Blogs"!!!!  Great Post if I say so myself!

Happy One Year Salvation Day!

Happy One Year Salvation Day Baby Boy! In the past year since you have asked Jesus Christ into your heart, I have watched you grow in Christ in many ways. I have caught you reading your Bible in private. You have taught your three year old sister to pray and you have prayed for others. Your compassion to others is incredible. I am proud of you Son and I look forward to seeing your next years journey in Christ as your grow even stronger! I thank God each day for you and I pray that you continue in your daily walk with Christ as your Lord in Savior. I love you, Braden Chase!

MckLinky Monday: Where the Crow's Go For the Summer

Today at The RHOK, the Housewives are asking about Summer plans.

What are YOU doing for summer vacation? Where are you going? What are your plans?

Are you loading up the car and heading somewhere or does this year bring a "stay-cation" for you and yours?

Well, where and what are The 4-Crow's doing for the Summer?

Lots of backyard playdates!

...and did I mention that my MIL has a swimming pool?

And of course Braden is leaving next week to go on his annual fishing trip with my Daddy at Lake Texoma to catch plenty of water moccasins and mosquito bites. I am going to leave him down there for a full two weeks. I must be insane, at least only a week of it will be at the lake, the other with my Moma. I will then travel back to Wilson on the 12th for my nephew Rowdy's b-day and to see my cousin Jill who is flying in from Iowa with her husband Matt. They married last 4th of July and are now expecting their first child in October. I will also get to see several of my other cousins that I haven't got to see in awhile. Kind of a mini Williams Family reunion.  There will also be the annual Tomlinson Family reunion sometimes this summer, just no date yet. Hopefully, I can help plan a big fish fry for the 4th of July- and of course if you are reading this you are invited!

So, no great big plans here! Just a great stay-cation, full of friends and family! I wouldn't have it any other way!