Random v.11.4

Some randoms for you today, just because I love you.

• I will be posting a picture heavy post this week of our weekend up on the North Shore - it was amazing and, as happy as I am to be home, I would have loved another few days up there!
• For those of you out of the lovely state of MN - it's been WICKED hot here this week - temps in the upper 90's and today we're supposed to hit 100°.  Fine and dandy until you add the dew point, making our days as humid as the Amazon  Rain Forrest  - literally.  Heat indexes up near 120°.  WTF?
• Yesterday it rained something fierce - it got dark as night up at work, then windy as hell, then the rain started to fall in sheets!  Our pit (where the truck back in for delivery) was FULL of water and one of the tops of our trees at home broke off (yet to fall, it's just chillin' in the other branches up top):
  

  

  This pit is DEEP, that plant (weed) sticking up out of the water is taller than I am

  

  You can kind of see it up there (click to enlarge), the top of our tree
• My niece turns 4 tomorrow, I babysat her on Monday night and left with a few photos as well as a video of her to share, for info, she LOVES Steve, so we were making videos for him as he wasn't there.
  

  

  We were taking these pictures because she wanted Steve to see that it was really her in the videos.

  
  

  

  Not sure if she is wanting to fight here or not, but she was excited about it afterwards

  
  

  

  One with daddy's hat for good measure

  
  

  

  Newest niece, Cayden, though she's over a year old now!

So this is Jordan's final take on a message to Steve.

Here are 2 more videos - this first one is just me recording her mid story so that she could see what making a video was like (hopefully you can understand her - as the video starts she is talking about her misplaced Bible, then she starts talking about a dream she had with a marching parade, a duck, and a squirrel with an acorn)

this second one is a take that got distracted by a funny question:

That's it for today!

Lost Generation

Dana posted this today and I thought it was worth sharing.

The message reads forward and backward... take a moment to watch and listen, really pay attention.  It's pretty neat (and short).

Super Bowl Ads - 2009

I'd like to begin by saying that I am extremely satisfied that the Steelers were able to pull out the win; I could care less for football reasons because I have no loyalty to either team... but I am a huge fan of Mike Tomlin ever since he spent some time as a defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings.  The saddest part for me while writing this is that football is really over now (the Pro Bowl doesn't count).... roughly 203 days until football starts again!  SKOL VIKINGS!

So I was pretty disappointed by the commercials; who's with me?  I wanted to post a few of my faveorites here, just in case anyone missed them:

First, I think it's pretty exciting that we can be looking forward to another Transformers movie:


Next, I'd hand Doritos the Gold Medal for ads; here are the 2 that rank at the top for me in way of overall humor during the Super Bowl:




This one literally made me LMAO; I'm going to see the doctor today:


I'm a big fan of Conan, so I enjoyed this simply for that reason:


Beverage producers generally throw some good ones in and, while I was completely disappointed with Budweiser this year, Pepsi Max hit the nail on the head with this guy (pun intended):



In closing, there were two commercials that stood out to me for reasons other than humor or product advertisement (and I'd have no idea what they were for if it were for www.hulu.com).

Anything that relates to The Wizard of Oz does it for me, so you can imagine how excited I was to sing along to this one:


I thought the vibrant color and beauty in this commercial were amazing, so it makes it into the post simply based on that... the commercial itself was just ok:



A special thanks to Hulu for posting all the ads.

Which was your favorite?

Knock Knock, Who's There?

Call me inappropriate if you must, but there is a reason this blog is posting at midnight hours...  it's for those of you who have a sense of humor, a naughty mind, and a little bit of a child left in you.  Oh hell, who am I kidding?  I'm hoping you are wasted when watching this, I'm hoping this is as funny to you as it was to me the first time I watched it.  I've been wanting to post these videos for a LONG time now...
I highly recommend taking a shot and letting it kick in before you watch ... and make sure the kiddos are in bed or far far away and have your volume up.

First, give it some time... it's hilarious and if you hate it, try the second video... it's my favorite:



Second:




I hope you enjoyed them....  Pretty sure they are amazing and amazingly funny :)  If all else fails, come back when you're drunk.

I LOVE MY NIECE!!

I had to stop by my brothers house Friday afternoon to go over some wedding stuff with him (my cousin, Jeff, got married and much of the family helped out to help the couple save some $$, my brother agreed to emcee).

Jordan was awake and running around like the cute little bug she is... it blows my mind how smart that kid is!!  We were looking through some books and she can point out a ball, a tree, a kitty, a doggie; she can point out and say 'duck'.  It's fricken hilarious!  She loves to say 'Hi' and her smile is enough to melt my soul!

If you say to her "Jordan, what sound does a kitty make?" she replies with the cutest open mouth meow... or at least what she thinks is meow.  My brother was telling me that when he was teaching her to say 'meow' he would start with his head kind of down and as he opened his mouth to make the meow sound he would also lift his head... Jordan does the same thing... in all honesty she looks and sounds like a Lion roaring, only in a whisper.  adorable!
I tried to get a video of her doing it... but as kids will be kids, when she was being taped she didn't preform!

I was able to capture this video; it's pretty self explanatory:



How cute is she? ...seriously!

As we were looking through this book of animals, she pointed out the frog for me... I said to her "Jordan, what sound does a frog make?"  She looked at me, confused, and didn't say a word.  I filled in the blank for her and said "Ribbit, ribbit"  she looked at me and you could just see the gears turning in her little brain... she started to laugh at the sound I was making.  As the day went on I continued to ask the sound of a frog... and when she didn't answer, I would tell her.
She almost blew my socks off as we are sitting on the couch again looking through the animal book (she LOVES animals... and books!) - after getting the cow sound and the cat sound, I ask for the sound a frog makes, she says "ribit" almost clear as day!  My brother and I could not believe it... each time I asked her thereafter, it didn't sound quite as good, but she clearly knew!  How fast she learns!!!

The other thing that I noticed and it fascinated me was how she would dance everytime music came on.  Kids are just born with rhythm... isn't that just a flat out crazy thing?  They just know to move when music is on... I can't wrap my mind around that.

Anyhow... I love my niece, to death!  She is getting so big; here is a picture of her from Friday: