So here we are at preschool graduation... i realize that not everyone gets really excited for the little milestones but the kids worked hard to learn some songs and we generally feel like it's important to dress appropriately. in my book this means that the guy in jeans and a ball cap is underdressed but not bad since it's a 20 minutes program and the kid's graduation hats were made from paper plates (super cute!) when your cut offs are so short that people don't realize you're wearing cut offs until you stand up though, we have a problem!
and no, giant camo shorts with an oversized wrestling shirt and greasy hair is not appropriate dress either. stacy & clinton would shurely have a fit to see the lack of fit in this person's wardrobe. again, i realize that it's only preschool graduation but these parents had their children dressed up for the event so they had some sort of clue how to dress, they chose not to!
this one was taken at the bowling alley and i'm pretty sure this girl is only 16 or so. Her shorts were cute and this top wouldn't have made this post if it weren't for the fact that the tank under the blue puffy/elasticized shirt was bigger and longer which should have been a clue that the blue shirt was a wee bit too small. if you have to wear something under it to keep your belly from hanging out, and it's not a suit jacket or something you're supposed to wear a shirt under, it's the wrong size!
here's one i caught walking down the street. she's so petite that the faded black skinny jeans she's wearing (i'm pretty sure they're from the 1st round of skinny jeans circa 1991 - 1994) paired with the long sleeve harley shirt in a different shade of black worn with bright white canvas shoes make her look incredibly outdated. I'm sure stacy and clinton would say something about her needing a boot cut or straight leg pant here.
that's all for now folks, until next week!
not the guys in the button downs or polo, or that cute pink dress denise is wearing. yes, it is the bright yellow nascar shirt paired with the yellow and black CAT hat. why is this a problem? it wouldn't be if were just hanging out 'cause that's just brian and how he dresses himself without supervision. at least it was clean, matching, tucked in, and it fit. this was a problem because the rest of us had just finished a lovely dinner at a local japanese restaurant where we were fairly dressed up and this is how brian chose to dress up. i know it's not criminal since this is indiana but it's all i had.
this is lumpy linda: ladies, please please please, stop wearing pants that are so light and tight that even in a dark bar your bumps, lumps and lines show up like the lights on a christmas tree
i don't know how much more i can say about this, it really does speak for itself. cut off black pants, black socks, black shoes, all different shades of black with bright white legs and hair paired with pajamas in public and it's not a drugstore or doctors office (which, i give passes to sick people walking up to because sometimes you can't wear anything more than pjs when you're so very sick)
and don't get me started on any of this... what happened to 'dress to impress' people? when did grocery shopping become so menial that we can't get dressed like civilized people...
we also raced in celebration of lisa's friend kelly lindley
that's her, second from the left, with her daughter, our friend tab and my sister lisa
and there's rich, one of the 'race marshals' who helped point us in the right direction
and, i wish those were my calves but we all know i'm not that tan and my calves aren't anywhere close to that nice, but they're getting better 
and, as the title reads we also did some practice for the olympics, well, not exactly for the olympics, none of us are apolo ohno (more like oh...no...oh...ahhhh) and when it was time to try the cha cha slide on skates, forget it, dorcas and i sat out and watched everyone else
but casi, paige & i did the funky chicken
and i did manage to keep from falling until close to the end but it was only once and by then the camera was put away so there's no evidence! we went skating with the brodzinskis and several people from church this afternoon and i realized that it was kind of like riding a bike. not exactly as easy as i remember but still really really fun and i have a feeling that skating, like putt putt and bowling, will become one of those activites that we go out and do more often since we've been re-introduced to it. one of casi's friends had a birthday party at the skating rink a few months ago so she was pretty good and we tried to show paige how since she's never done it before but she has no concept of how to keep her feet together. 
and sara wasn't very confident (can you see the look of terror on her face? it's there, behind her smile!) 
and then paige stopped trying and wanted me to carry her (not easy on solid ground) so i let her crawl back to the edge while i skated and tried to keep my self off the floor
i think she'll be getting skates for her birthday since she did have fun and that way she'll be a pro by the time fiona gets here!