Fixing Vandercar - The preface

So one of the Sandy’s famous shticks that never gets old is the “You know we’re related” line.

Several years back, there was a particular shirt tail relative who, well, to use a nicer term than Sandy would use, was in a word: odd.
Whenever he would see Sandy out and about in town, he would insist on talking to her and would always remind her “you know, we’re related, don’t you.”
She was always quick to remind him, that no, SHE was not related.
It was Dave that was related.
She simply married a Vandercar.
So, “no, …no relation.”

Well, as you know Sandy IS related to us Vandercars and has lived with a Vandercar and around the Vandercars for over 30 years now.
And if you spend anytime with her at all, you will know time spent being related to us has given her a huge arsenal of material to use in her stand up comedy act.

Every once in awhile in the middle of a story about Dave or as she’s telling a story about my odd behavior, someone will say…”ah, leave him alone”…or they will try to defend me.

I say don’t worry it’s okay!
My sister-in-law and I have been thru enough highs…(laugh till our sides split) and lows…(I said “dinner”)…that there is very little she can say that will offend me.

Sandy is who Sandy is.
And I am who I am…
And even tho we are two VERY different people,
we are each happy with being ourselves and yes, we are even happy to say
“You know we’re related, don’t you?”

And so I present the first installment of the

“You know we’re related…”
photos series:
Vandercars at the V.F.W.

Things that humor Me....

My Brother Mike has a ongoing feature on his blog called
TTHM
(things that humor me)

Well THIS humored me...
check it out!

Directions to here:
Who's next??
Janet didn't you tell me that you were the FFA sweetheart??

What Resolutions?

Still playing ketchup.

I have learned to make my New Year's Resolutions start date on the first Friday after whatever day January 1st lands on.

Why?
Cause I usually spend New Year's Eve on the farm...eating and drinking while ringing the old year out and the New Year in.

And even tho January 1st is the day for New Resolutions, this is what I wake up to:The breakfast of champions

eating powdered sugared donuts with the girl!

And since it's Farmer Jerry's Birthday...
the feast doesn't stop at breakfast....Sister Susie always out does herself with this kind of spread:After dinner there is usually talk about starting the Biggest Loser and why this year will be different!

This year for some reason, Jeremy ended up in the basement and a came upstairs with and gave us all a laugh and some motivation to get up and burn some calories:Then Matt joined in...
and then Jamie made the reunion complete!

Future Farmers!

And we ended up entering in our stats for the Biggest Loser and working off some calories with the wii fit.

both little kids
(Drew's ready)

and big kids.

Dave was ready to go home and had no desire to play...none whatsoever, at all...
until he tried downhill skiing, once:...and 37 trips down the mountain ("one more time") and 30 minutes later,
he finally gave the controller over to Jerry so he could get weighed, aged and enter in his Biggest Loser stats.
Directions to here:
Were we suppose to do something after it weighed us?
Does the game make us lose the weight or what?
Oh, we have to play it?
Wait, what?

Ketchup/Catsup/Catchup

How do you spell it?

Ketchup? Catsup? Catchup?
(here's the history)

For now, I'm going with Catch Up.

I wanted to write more on this blog in 2010, but have not even got Birthday posts up!!

I've got some catching up to do.

Of course, it doesn't help that Jerry's birthday is the first day of the year...so if you miss that one...you're already behind on resolutions before you start!

Anyway...here's a shot of the birthday boy and his entourage:

Bad Blogger.

Resolutions are made to be broken.

Lots on my mind...but not on the blog.

Got a lot of catching up to do, but in the meantime...keep checking in on the "I wish" post...

I'm updating it a little at a time...it makes me realize how blessed we are.