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craft thursday #10

September 12, 2010

inspired by eric carle's beautiful butterfly.

i doubled pieces of construction paper and cut lots and lots of shapes…totally random and free hand.

some pieces were wing shaped or body shapes but the rest were just odd shapes.

and they each had a glue stick.

they got busy.
and stayed busy for almost 45 minutes!

talby….whimiscal and happy.

annie d…..colorful with extra details.

sean's…..identical pattern and perfectly symetrical…sooooo sean.

mine was the yellow one.
i made it before we started as an example for them.

they were planning who they were giving their butterflies to while making them….i love that.

and just for fun…
more butterfly inspiration for you!
(click on the picture if you want more info.)

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Sheila - Don’t know if someone already said this, but this would be fun with a felt board.
sorry if I repeated this idea.

anne c - sean’s looks like an african mask…so cool!

Trina McNeilly - I love all this butterflyness…. I so need to get crafting with my kids.
Just so you know… you so inspire me….. 5 kids, a happy marriage, love for God, a successful & fun blog, your own photography business & I’m sure a number of other things that you juggle. Thanks for sharing you’re life with all of us!
xoxo
Trina

Elizabeth - Thank you for the great project! It inspired me to do it with my little one…and blog about it!
http://www.catchick6creations.com/?p=1444

crystal beutler - You do the funnest things with your kids! Hey were your ears burning this weekend. I was sitting at the table with a group of women at Spark and I heard this Australian woman name Jasmine mention your name. I said “Do you know Meg? I just love reading her blog.” Then Blue Lily, Jasmine and I had a sweet conversation about you!” You definitely have to come next year. You would seriously love it! And I would love meeting you in person!

Christa aka BabbyMama - I love the swirly mouth butterfly! What a fun idea 🙂

Wendy - Love this idea! This makes me think of the amazing Butterfly House in our area. If you are ever in St Louis, you must stop and visit – it’s simply magical.

Biz - Super cute! That was one of my favoite books as a kid. Here is another crafty idea. I assume that you have a large amount of scrap fabric so this might be perfect for the kids. You could get smaller wreath forms so they could hang them on bedroom doors and wouldn’t take as long to make.
http://busybizblogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/boo-tiful-rag-wreath-tutorial.html

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Awesome craft. Butterflies are my favorite!

www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnkCcuN414qEtfLGnNw6EqiJPfBvmQbse0 - How cool is this project!!! You know, I have been following your blog now for alongtime, and I have never left any comments before, but I just have to now… Not a day goes by that I do not fit you in my busy schedule, I mean seriously I am addicted to checking out what you do next with your family, or just you being YOU!!!! You make me laugh all the time, and you also make me think alot too!!! I have always admired you for so many reasons, but that would take a entire email problay to explain, but for no other reason than the fact that you are a Mom as I am with four daughters, and I admire all the things you try to do with your children to keep them busy and enjoying this life in a fun and creative way… I hope you know as I am sure by now you do, how Wonderful you really are!!!! Have a great day!!!!
Michelle Torres
decorater4life@aol.com

Erin @ Cultivating Home - I’m so glad you posted this idea! My three year old loves art projects and this will be perfect for him.

Syaheeda - i recognize the book! it’s the hungry caterpillar! i used to read it to my nephew all the time! anw, what a fun craft idea! thanks for sharing!

Heather - scissors, glue and paper. Life doesn’t get much better. I really liked the outcome!

Christina - What is awesome about this is that it is so totally simple and everyday, but with the direction you gave them, they had such a good time and were sooo busy! Love the simplicity…as usual you are inspiring!

melissa - Love it. I think the girls and I will be making butterflies soon!
Thanks for a wonderful idea!

PinkPeanutButter - How cute! I may have to steal this idea from you! Thank you for posting it!

Tanya @ Life in 3D - I love it so so much!

kat - Those are GORGEOUS! I love all of them, especially Sean’s!

Jess Mead - Love it! Added it to my ‘Stuff I Love’ section!!

candace - Have you ever seen a video of Eric Carle at work? It is fabulousy amazing! He sits in his studio and paints tissue paper with watercolors. Then, he cuts them up to create the actual images you see in the books. I LOVE Eric Carle for the richness of both his books and art!
Your butterflies are great!
Went to his website and found the link below. The video I saw in college was a lot more interesting but you get the idea here.
http://www.eric-carle.com/slideshow_paint.html

julia - will you come and do crafts at my house? I’ll just pick up after you guys (you can do the rest :))

Melanie - I love the butterfly bouquet! Beautiful!

sara's art house - I Love this!!!!! eric Carle is my fave- and the very hungry caterpillar is THE BEST! What a fun project- I have to do this with my kids!!!!

jeanne - I love that you do this with the kids each week!!! You are such a good mommy:-)

Emily E. - I love the butterfly craft and will definitely be borrowing this for my own little ones. What do you usually do with all of the cool projects the kids make? They spend so much time making them, I always feel bad when they end up in the trash… Any ideas?
Emily

Jenni McIntire - I had your blog open in Google reader. My 4 year old son saw the pictures of this craft and begged me to help him make a butterfly, too. He especially liked Talby’s. He said, “I want to make my butterfly just like that.” Thanks for the idea!

Spencer - So sweet….. Several years ago we took my grandson to an Eric Carle exhibit at the art museum…. He loved it.
Warm blessings,
Spencer

jennifer - so cool! such a great idea!

tara pollard pakosta - how fuN!!!!!!!!
I need my girls to do these!!!
We homeschool now and are making an art day
with their best friends every friday!!!
thanks for always inspiring me!!!
tara

heidi @ wonder woman wannabe - SO fun!
L.O.V.E that ‘Free to Fly’ print! 😉

Sarah @ Dream in Domestic - Gorgeous!!!! This is one of my favorites that you have done.
Just a question – can you post the link to the butterfly bouquet? When I click on the picture it takes me to the picture url on your site not more info about the picture.
Thanks for all the inspiration!

Dandy - I love how all the kids have their own style.
I’m dying over that butterfly bouquet!

Beth - Very cool! That first “inspiration” picture, the butterfly wand. WOW!! Check out http://www.jenstark.com (the red line at the top is sculpture, which is my favorite. I think you’ll really like her stuff — not butterflies, but bright colors and cool paper sculptures. I’m trying to figure out a lesson using her work for inspiration, The butterfly wand inspires me too!!

Penny - The shot of Talby cutting is just beautiful. She is deep in thought. Love it. Great idea, too.

Beth - GREAT craft!! So pretty. I’ll be trying this with my kids for sure very soon. THanks!
Beth

simpledaisy - Lovely!!! I love that book too:)

Holly - so pretty Meg!

Michelle - This is a great idea Meg. I love it because it’s easy enough for my 3 year old.

Tam - Oh the butterflies are beautiful. Great idea. Eric Carle books have always been a favorite of mine….

Claire Wood - Love this. We have done a similar craft with the book, ‘Color Zoo.’ I cut out basic shapes in a variety of construction paper colors, and the object is to use the shapes to make different animals. My kids got very creative. Another book/craft/project we’ve done is to have a ‘Pinkalicious’ Party. My girls love Pinkalicious and so we made pink cupcakes with pink icing and had pink lemonade.
Your crafting totally speaks my Love Language.

firefly hill - Beautiful! I love that you used Eric Carle for inspiration…

Kat - Beautiful Meg.
You do the most awesome and inspiring craft with your kids.
One of these days I will do some with mine.

Nikki - I look forward to your craft Thursday posts.
I love the butterfly’s… what a great idea!
Sean reminds me of my son Eli 🙂
Nikki 😀
*mums notebook*

Kristi - Love the imagery you chose at t he end of the post. What a great idea for a craft! I bought the supplies to do the flower watercolor art you did, at the beginning of the summer, but we still haven’t gotten around to it. 🙁
Just just have the best ideas for getting your kids together and getting them to be creative.
~ The Speckled Dog

carla - How timely, my little lady and I were just reading the vhc last night 🙂

Julie - LOVE that idea! Your creations are beautiful. I’m so going to steal this idea and do this with my kiddos. Thanks for the inspiration!

PaisleyJade - Beautiful!!! Such a great idea!!

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Oh, LOVE this idea! glue sticks. that makes mine very happy.

The Mother Lode - What beautiful butterflies!

Lisa - Wow what a great idea meg. This is definitely something I could do with the girlies. I was just thinking of you as i posted about making cornflour paint. I think your kids would love using it.

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dying sunflowers

September 7, 2010

i was here too late.
i may still drag my family out here anyway for some pictures in the dead flowers…if it rains.
it was dry dry dry out here…dust everywhere.
i had a one thought while clicking away with my camera "GOD IS AMAZING!"

such beauty all around me.
these are such a special treat…..like sunshine right in front of me!

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AmyB - So pretty!!!

Beth - Can I use your sunflower pictures for an art class project? They are so much prettier than fake sunflowers. 🙂

~LucyLu ~ - I love the sunflowers where were they? last time we saw you, you could not find them anywhere!
~LucyLu~

meghan - God is amazing. Those flowers are just little reminders…love it.

Laura - I’d like to schedule a photo shoot for the family in dead flowers portrait
LOVE that

candace - AMEN! 🙂
Thank you for sharing the beauty of God’s creation.

katherine - I LOVE sunflowers, they are my favorite….your pics are gorgeous! And yes, God is amazing….love your blog too ~ Blessings, kathy

Courtney Walsh - LOVE sunflowers. they are so happy and fun. Your shots are super awesome! 🙂

Transparent Mama - Amazing photos. You said you don’t use Photoshop. I am just curious what you use to edit them.

Lauren - Wow, these are sorrowfully gorgeous. And the close-ups–what design! I love those little details that He throws in there 🙂

Taylor-Ann - I just love your photo’s. They always look so beautiful and these sunflowers are no exception. They don’t look dead at all.

julia - you could do a representational sort of photo shoot with the flowers. have your kids look sad/neglected, have them roll around in the dirt. call it “late in the season” or maybe “past due” something like that. As Tim Gunn says “Make it work”.

Elizabeth - I always think they look like women’s heads — here, bowing to the universe…

Biz - You are so talented!
http://busybizblogs.blogspot.com/

Gemma - I love sunflowers : )
Gemma x

Sugar Mama - Have you ever seen the dark red sunflowers? So pretty! I like to mix those with the classic sunflower. God IS amazing! How can that be questioned when surrounded by nature?

Privet and Holly - If you hadn’t said
they were half dead,
I never would have
known…..I was too
captivated by the
THOUGHT of a whole
field of these beauties…
Wow!
xx Suzanne

Heather - In the face of beauty, how can we not believe?

Angela - love your sunflower photos. even half dead they are beauties. the flowers, not your photos. love your new mirror by the way. i have one hanging in my garage waiting to be painted. turquoise or yellow. it can’t decide. indecisive mirror!

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - I’ve got your sunshiny sunflower print right in my living room. Makes me happy every time I look at it. They are an amazing reminder of God’s handiwork!

charity palmer - Sunflowers are my favorite flower 🙂 And GOD is AMAZING! I love your blog!

Sheryl - Just wanted to say that you inspired me to run. Not run away, but run “just to that tree”. Thanks, I really want to get in shape and you are my inspiration to try running.
I also wanted to say thanks for giving my “Project Pillowcase” a boost — we ended up with 107 dresses to send with this group going to the Philippines! That is totally, TOTALLY awesome — and so much GOD.

Flower Patch Farmgirl - That last shot is plum-perfect.

Heather - Amazing indeed. Beauty around every corner…and everywhere in between- if we take a moment to look.
Meg- your photography is amazing! I can not get enough of it. What a gift you have been given!
Blessings,
Heather:)

Amanda - Gorgeous! I’ve wanted some neat pics of some sunflowers…but~
Please be careful out in those fields…There is a HUGE sunflower field behind my father’s house and I took my camera and started out there one day with the kids and he stopped and wouldn’t let me. He said they plant those for the (i think?) Doves because it draws them in and the hunters hide in the flowers and dove hunt…just passing that along 😉

Amy - These photos are beautiful!

Kasey - These photos brought a smile to my face and brought back memories. When I was in the Middle East I remember seeing fields and fields of Sunflowers. It was amazing… kind of strange to see such a thing in the middle of Iraq, but it almost gave us a sense of peace. Very beautiful flowers.

shelly - Beautiful!
You’ll have to make a quick trip to il, my best friend has a little field of them that just started blooming late last week! (She gave ma a huge bunch of them…I put the lovelies in my livingroom and then my poor hubby started sneezing like a machine gun! Oh well…they look nice sitting on the porch too ;))

Tara - such beauty from God!!!

Holly - so pretty!

paige - so true! i love a glorious sunflowershoot too!

Tracy - Absolutely gorgeous pictures as always, Meg! You never cease to amaze me in capturing God’s beauty even in dead sunflowers. Awesome! :o) xoxoxo

PaisleyJade - He is! Beautiful photos! While we were in Israel we saw fields and fields of dry, dead sunflowers and I just wished I could have seen them in full bloom.

jaz - What beautiful amazing pictures (and flowers) !
Do you want to do our little photo challenge with us this month? The two topics are “Something Old” and “Beautiful” – those sunflowers would sure fit in the Beautiful category.
Gorgeous!

sarah - love it!
what did you use to round the corners of your photos like that? it’s so in right now…

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craft thursday #9

September 1, 2010

we made rainbow wind catchers.
they are so pretty.

you will need:
paper plates
paint
glue sticks
a stapler
streamers

i cut paper plates in half.
they painted a rainbow on the back sides….both halves.

it doesn’t have to be a perfect rainbow.
or in perfect roy g. biv order.

after they were dry….
we used a glue stick to add the streamers.
i cut my streamers in half because their paint lines were small.
so if your streamer is 2″ inches wide and 15″ in length then i cut the width.
leaving me with two 1″ x 15″ streamers.
i just folded up my streamer and then made one cut through the middle….simple.
in theory you would add the color of stremer under the color of paint.

but it’s art….that means you get to do whatever you want to!

beautiful.

my new favorite craft thursday project.
YAY!!
it’s lovely when the window is open and the breeze blows in!

glue streamers to the inside of both halves of the plates.
then we stapled the two plates together.
i tied a knot in a loop of yarn and then stapled it in when putting the plates together.

i loved this project.
and even sean did it willingly.

it must have been the streamers.

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Sean Carter - very cool! I love to see what the minds of children can come up with even simple things like paint or floral supplies.

Maro's kindergarten - Hi! I wanted to let you know that I loved this craft and I have featured you on my new blog post about Spring weather crafts! You can see it here http://maros-kindergarten.blogspot.gr/2013/03/blog-post_28.html
Have a nice day!

Agnes Rhodes - I love this, going to do it with my girl scout troop tonight!

Melissa@ The Chocolate Muffin Tree - Love this! So simple, but beautiful!

Gina @ Special Happens - I love this! I think I’m going to have to do it with my kiddos! They love rainbows!

GummyLump.com - So beautiful and colorful! Fabulous!! I wanna try it 🙂

Cathy @ NurtureStore - These rainbows would just brighten up any room – I love them. I’ve found you through the Crafty Crow – so pleased you liked our sunflowers.

Jennifer - love, love this fun project…buying the supplies tomorrow!! love your blog too!

kristine - gorgeous!

Jessi - If you’re curious how this craft turns out with a 2 1/2 year old: http://andthatshowyoudoit.blogspot.com/2010/09/rainbow-catcher.html
It was fun 🙂

Laura - B-E-A-UTIFUL!

Amber - I can imagine myself standing oh so nostalgically at the sink and dreaming about how joyous my day is going then the wind comes in and all the streamers go into my mouth and I spit and spew. 😀

Lorie - I knew as soon as I saw the gorgeous bright colors in my Google Reader that this post was yours! I love it! What a fun project!

PinkPeanutButter - So cute! I may have to do this craft with my girls!

Selina - So pretty!

Ellen - I love love this! I teacher first grade, and I think we’ll do this next Friday to conclude our study on color words! Thanks so much for sharing! 😀

Jess - Awesome! I will definetely have to give this one a try. Thanks!!

Shauna - i am TOTALLY doin’ this with my kids!

Katherine @ Grass Stains - Every time you craft I have a new “favorite.” But this is truly my favorite. 🙂

Ruth - these are SO awesome. i want to make one!

melissa@afamiliarpath - i love this. they are so beautiful!

alma - these are awesome! where do get ur ideas from?

elisa - Love the pics with the light behind them 🙂

Gussy - love, love this! off to Tumblr this…

Nicole Q. - Oh happy colors!! I laughed when you mentioned old Roy G. Biv — did we all learn it that way?

Casey - This is by FAR my favorite craft project you have done!! I am going to the store today to get plates and streamers!! We ARE doing this project. Love it!! Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Oh, I love the streamers!! I know my Nate would have a blast with this one!

Taylor-Ann - cute project. I love that every Thursday you and the kids do something crafty. What a great family tradition to have.

Deanna - Love love love this project! Definitely going on my list….along with any other of your crafts that we haven’t done yet! 🙂

SeaminglySarah - beautiful!

a pocket full of posies - L-O-V-E them!!!! so pretty!…now “somewhere over the rainbow” is right where you are!
thanks for sharing!
Blessings!
jill

Dana@Bungalow'56 - Megan,
This will definitely be added to my tumblr favourites for a rainy day. It is sooo cold here in Northern Canada right now, it will be nice to have something fun and colourful to brighten up our day. Your a great mom.
Dana

Lisa - Love it! I miss having windows that open up the way yours do. I am from Wisconsin but live in Arizona, our windows here slide open sideways. Not quite the same 🙂

Sugar Mama - I wonder if this would work for my older daycare kids? Not sure if the 3 year old would paint the rainbow, but she could sure try!

Jacqui - I love it! its very pretty!!

Charlene@Adventures-In-Mommy-Land - Very Cute idea! We made one similiar on the 4th of July. I like the rainbow one best though….might have to steal this idea 🙂

Courtney Walsh - wishing my paints weren’t packed right about now! Love this!

Juli - What is the name of the granite on your kitchen counter top? We just installed “Blue Pearl” in our kitchen and loooooove it.

tami - Your baby is getting big! Where is her pink tutu? Love the crafts!

Amanda Jo - You always have the best ideas!! Can’t wait to try this one out at home!!

Megan - Oh so fun and darling! What a great idea!
Meg

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Of course you did!!!! Those are beautiful. Love all of your creative projects. They always make me smile:)

tara pollard pakosta - how gorgeous!!!
I love your craft thursdays!
we tried to do one every week, but it
just never happened….my girls love it though!
tara

Jaime - Meg… what a cool craft!
I am going to put this in my favorites list, and pull it out again in the spring. I am so excited about the upcoming holidays, I am ready for Halloween crafts!! lol… Got any of those you want to blog about?! I could always use a good idea or two! =)

Corrie - Hi, I found your blog through OhDeeDoh, and I am so excited to see that you love and support Word Made Flesh! I went to Asbury College, where Chris and Phileena also went, and WMF has had such an impact on me over the years. I visited them in Kolkata (Calcutta) years ago, before I had my kids. I also love Amy Butler fabric and simply being crafty!
http://storiesaretrue.blogspot.com/

Amanda - Adorable! We’ll definately try this one!

Anna Marie - Well lookie there, a rainbow craft for Miss Megan the rainbow queen! I love it!!!

Heather R. - pretty 🙂

Liz - roy g.biv
love that

Suzette - those are so pretty!

Kimberlee J. - Now this is a craft I can do! Easy on the budget, easy on the eyes, easy on the nerves. All things to be considered when I am the mom doing the craft.

kat - Super fun! I love how these turned out!

Jessi - Think I could do this with my 2 1/2 yr old? Nah, probably not. So I’ll just make a couple myself 😉

Melanie - It looks just like you Meg! Happy and fun.

Four Flights - so pretty! thanks for sharing this great craft!

Holly - very pretty Meg! We are definately going to try this!

firefly hill - Great idea…love all the colors!

tam - Awesome idea. I love the colorful rainbows! Thanks for sharing.

Tracy - Those are SO neat! I love those and such a great idea! Thanks for sharing, Meg! xoxoxo

widge - wow they are so cool! awesome idea and you are inspiring me to play with my kids…some day 😉

Shelly DeBoer - so i’m up at 3:30 and can’t sleep even though i am sooo tired… and i’m grateful…grateful that in the wee hours of the morning i can entertain myself with your beautiful little blog. LOVE the rainbows!

Gemma - Hi Meg!
I love it…Very pretty : )
Gemma x

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blue lily

August 31, 2010

i had just whispered a line from “it’s complictated”….cracked him up. (can you guess which one?)
i like this shot a lot.

and then this was taken by annie…luring her back into the picture taking.
she had run down the alley saying she was done with pictures.
wendy was awesome and shared the camera with annie.
i love it.

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this one is my favorite.
this one will be BIG in our house.

i love that MY family is captured for a moment in time….and that i am in the pictures with them.

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anne c - I love your family! 🙂 “Yall” are all so beautiful and fun! I thought the pictures where really good and you are right…they are AMAZING once you click on them! I don’t understand why it is so different on typepad…either way…how great to get wonderful pictures of the whole family!!?? love love love them all!

Lauren - Meg, I love the photos. Your family is beautiful. And I love the color choices for the photos… amazing!! I don’t know how you can choose which ones to print! Good luck with that!!

Meli - You have a gorgeous family!!! I love ALL of the snap shots. I really do. Thanks to Becky for hooking me up with you….

mel - Meg! These pictures are gorgeous! What a beautiful family you have! Love, love, love the last one. I really, really want family photos done this year…I just checked out Blue Lily’s site, they will be in San Fran but not until March 2011. I might just have to hold out until then!

Danell Anderson - Wendy and Tyler are my neighbors…sort of. Live down the street. They are pretty awesome and have the knowledge to make everyone look awesome too!

melissa*320 sycamore - gorgeous, meg! you are looking so good! love the color…

Jennifer - What a beautiful family!

theheavensdeclare@yahoo.com - Meg – you look awesome 🙂 I began losing weight right around the same time you started talking about running & stuff, so I’ve been totally noticing your progress! You look FANTASTIC 🙂
These are such great photos of everyone – your kids are precious and I love the one of you and Craig looking at each other smack in the middle of them. That’s what it’s all about, man. “You and me, babe, surrounded by all this nutso chaos!” 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing them.
~Jacci in Ohio

Jamie - Awesome pictures! What a beautiful family you have!

Charla Liedahl - Lovely! I’ve been meaning to tell you that your little Annie is the cutest bug! Her sweet smile melts my heart every time I see her picture! And small world…Tyler of Blue Lily is my friend Lavender’s brother. I remember when he was little and obnoxious…over 20 years ago!

Jill Utecht - LOVE these pics Megan! Can’t wait to see your favorite up in your house. It is BEAUTIFUL – everyone is looking their best – the perfect family picture!

Melanie - Great pictures and your family is beautiful.

cindy mandernach - we are booked for the clarkston michigan session on sept 11….i am so excited i could pee my pants. the pics look great. now to go and get some fun clothes…
ps i emailed you
cindy

angela - EVERYONE looks great! What a great looking family! YOU look SO SKINNY!!!!!!!!!!!

mary elizabeth - the pictures are amazing! i love them so!!!! i must say you look smokin’ hot!!!! that top looks so good on you – the color is perfect!!! make sure you post a picture of the big picture once you get it in the house!

Tracy - Awww… such WONDERFUL family photos, Meg! Thanks for sharing and yes, you did look “fabulous”! I had to LOL about Annie running down the road saying she was “done” with pictures! HA! Too cute! Have a great day! xoxoxo

Beth - BEAUTIFUL pictures!! Love them, all that color is amazing. Your kids are beauts.

Nikki - I love the photo’s…. You must be so happy with how they turned out.
I need some family photo’s, I take so many of the kids and Orsen and I’m hardly ever in any 🙁

PattyL - I NEVER comment on blogs, but just have to say, I’m really happy for you!! You must be in love with these shots! You give alot of joy through this site, I’m glad to see you will receive such joy every time you look at these.

Londen - Were you talking about the feeling groovy part? I love that movie, and I love your family photos! Beautiful family!!!

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Ok ~ first of all, those pics are amazing! You look fabulous!
Secondly, I just lost an hour looking at their website 🙂

Margo - These are amazing! Great pics of your family!

Jess Mead - Awesome pics and everyone coordinates so well! Super Cute!!!

Griswold Fun - You have a beautiful family!

Lora - Great pics… what a lovely family.

Janie Fox - I love color too and these are fab. You are a beautiful family!!

PinkPeanutButter - Beautiful!! I love it!!

j - beautiful, beautiful pictures – and a beautiful family too.

kristine - i have been wondering if you got them back yet! yay!!! your family is gorgeous – you all look awesome and the colors are perfect! nice work and congrats on getting great family pics that you are in! cross it off the list! woohoo!!

Beth @ Dirty Laundry - Photos are awesome and you look super skinny! I am going to go buy that outfit! (Not that it’s just the outfit, you look terrific all the time!:)

Nicole Q. - You look FABULOUS Meg! Before I even read which one you picked as your fav I had thought, “This one is my favorite.” Love the pose of everyone and the green door sort of thing in the pic. I love the way you are holding onto Craig. Lovely!!

Donna - BEAUTIFUL! What a fun and cute family you all are!

Emily - Um. You look like the kind of people I would like to be friends with. Can we be friends? I have a crush on your beautiful family. Love your blog.

Sophie - Such gorgeous pictures! And I’ve got to say Lauren’s growing into such a stunning young woman!

Sara @ It's Good to be Queen - wow wow wow i love them ALL!! i absolutely LOVE the one of you all spread out against that brick wall with you and craig looking at each other and the kids watching. love.

Staci - Was JUST thinking about your photos yesterday…wondering if you’d gotten them yet 🙂 LOVE them !!! You look so tall and sleek! They are just beautiful!!!

Kelly - Great photos!!! So fun to have for you! kelly

Nichole - Beautiful photos, but Annie’s left arm looks so strange in the jump photo, lol! I love them!

Jodi - G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S!

patti - Absolutely beautiful!!!

Christy - Love em!! I love the wardrobe!! The colors are awesome!!

Aimee - I love them! I love all the color and I love how all your outfits go together but aren’t super matchy-matchy. You look fantastic in these Meg!

crystal b - They turned out so great! I just love the colors. Hey . . . did you get brave and try the pork yet?

Tricia - Meg, they are GORGEOUS!!

Heather - these are fantastic!! what a gift!!
my mom won us a photo shoot from a silent auction and i just cannot wait to get to do it. especially now. your photos are just beautiful.

tam - Amazing Photos. Such a beautiful thing to do, you will cherish these photos forever. 🙂

angela - AH.MAZING! These are absolutely gorgeous pics of your awesome fam!

Vera - These are FABULOUS!! And YOU – you look amazing!! Okay that’s it, I’m going off sugar again. *sigh*

jennifer - Love these pictures and the colors you picked are awesome and I love your hair too.
My favorite is the one of your whole family with you and Craig holding hands and Talby standing there with her hand on her hip looking up at the two of you. SO cute! That’s exactly what my daughter would be doing… Adorable!

Logan - Love them all. I know you are glad you did this and eventually your children will be glad too! 🙂

Stephanie@Geezees - Meg, these are beautiful photos of you and your family. I wouldn’t be able to pick just one favorite.

sarah - They look great!!
I love each and every one of them.

Amanda - They’re all so good! I have always dreamed of having her or Tara Whitney do our family pics…I’m never in any with my kids as well-don’t know what that would feel like! lol. Looks like she was already in Chicago last month…and we are 3 hrs south
🙁 Bummer!

amy jupin - i love the blue and yellow.
i love the way annie is hugging on your leg.
i think lauren looks beautiful.
i’m jealous of your shopping trip with kim(berlee)–and thank you for introducing me to her. 🙂
i think it’s about time i get out from behind my camera and get some family shots too.
but i can’t stop thinking that maybe “you’ve gone native?” (i’m cringing but laughing hysterically!)

Krista - Beautiful pictures, I love the color! Last one is my favorite too!

Jess - These are perfect Megan. The last one is my favorite too. I can’t wait to see them in your house. Can you come to my house and tell me which pictures I should print for my walls?? 🙂

AshleyAnn - So I almost emailed you yesterday asking if you had these yet….they are so great! It did make me think, “wow…that is a big family!” The outfits are perfect, the location, the colors….awesomeness!

Courtney McIlwain - I love your shirt. Where did you get it? The pictures are great!!!

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - That last one is soooo good. I can see true happiness in everyone’s eyes. You and your brood. You must be so proud. And have you lost weight? Lookin’ smokin’ I must add.
I’m going to do a spotlight post on you. Would it be okay if I used a few pics of you and some of your house on my blog?

alamama - you look fabulous! your running has paid off! i love looking at your family! thanks for sharing!

RLG - I cannot thank you enough for this post (which is extraordinary and beautiful). I was able to schedule them! Thank you for the resource, Meg. You’re awesome to share. xoxoxoxo

Talysa - I love them! My fav is the one of all of you on the staircase though. Just love the composition.
And the line…hmmmm….so many to choose from.
“Home Sweet Home” ??

Dana@Bungalow'56 - Megan,
Thanks for mentioning the colour. I did click the last photo and it was sooo much better. Sharper, clearer and bright. The originals must be amazing. You did a great job on the colour coordination with the kids. Not so much that its cliche but fun and unifying.
A beautiful family.
Dana

Kate - You really have such a beautiful family! Everyone looks great! Love!

Elissa - look how gorgeous you all are! i need to be in some pics with my family one of these days 😉

Kelly - Love the playfulness of the pictures….beautiful family!

Sue K. - I cant believe how big the kids are now!!! You have such a beautiful family Meg 🙂 I esp. love the one with you all on the stairs and the one that Annie took (too bad she isnt in it). HUGS!!!

Tara - love these family shots.
we’re getting our family pics taken in October when we go home to visit family.
you look fabulous, Meg.
the jeans..the shirt…the jewelry…the shoes…
fabUlous.

Julie - Really GREAT family pics! Gorgeous family! It takes a great photographer to get great shots of so many ~ we’re a family of seven too and the thought of family pictures overwhelms me! Yours are beautiful 🙂

Annie - These are just fabulous! I love them all, but the one of you all on the steps and the one of you all being silly at the camera… those are perfection! What a fun family!

naomi - you DO look fab! extraordinarily FAB!!!
great family photos …
(reminder to get someone to take OUR photos …with ME in them!)

Missy - Oh my! These are fabulous! Gorgeous family, gorgeous photos!!!

deb meyers - these are great! Glad you trusted your gut with the clothing choices, too.
Say the line… i loved ‘it’s complicated’ (mostly for her home’s interior, and her 50-something wardrobe) but no lines jumped out at me … unless, the laptop scene?!
deb meyers

Lisa - LOVE!!

Kat - Awesome!!
I have been waiting to see your family pics.
The colours look fantastic Meg. You did a really great job of coordinating everyone.
The last one is also my favourite and I really love Annie’s shot.
I like they way everyone is looking down at her.
Can’t wait to see them framed and in your house.

Gemma - They look great!!! I love the scenery and all the colours : )
GOOD STUFF! You all look gorgeos btw.
Gemma x

Viktoria Slutsky - GORGEOUS!!!! I love the reflection of the girls, cool idea! and all your family sitting on the stairs and the brick wall behind you, just awesome pics, great colors!!!!

se7en - How special is this!!! And you have a jump photo – Awesome!!! I would love to know how to actually do that!!! I totally love Annie’s pic!!! Have a happy day!!!

Dianna@DecorMadeSimple - Your right, these are great pictures. I like the brick building as the back drop. My favorites are the kids jumping and the girls reflection in the puddle.

Alisa Lewis - Beautiful Family! Love the pops of color!

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where troubles melt like lemon drops….

August 26, 2010

the wizard of oz had it's 71st anniversary.
that is cause for a celebration.
at least a little one.
i celebrated at target first…..

rainbow is everywhere when you look for it.

when i was a little girl i remember going our neighbors home to watch it
the night it was on tv because he had a COLOR tv.
i thought his house was a mansion.
it was on the corner and his driveway circled from one side, around the back and out to the other side.
heaven for roller skates and bike riding.
and that neighbor used to always say "how are you boys doing?" when he'd see me and my friend.
we'd say "WE'RE NOT BOYS!"
he was funny.

my dad made a cassette tape by putting the tape recorder to the tv (i think?)
and recorded the whole movie.
i listened to it so many times.
still to this day i know all the words….every song…even the background noises like the pigs in the beginning.
i know the EXACT moment when it was time to turn the tape over.
dorothy had just escaped, she screams and the wicked witch busts in and says "GOING SO SOON?"
and you had to quickly turn over the tape.

i have always loved this movie.

i forgot that my kids hadn't seen it.
not the youngest three at least.

i made some rainbow treats….to set the mood.

colored ice cubes and sprite.
this tasted like nothing but they thought it was really cool.
and my kids didn't care that their drinks turned brown.
it was a fun drink….for kids.
adults would be a little grossed out.

fruit arranged in a rainbow.
this is so easy to do!

dessert was rice krispy treats….made with fruity pebbles.
YUM.

we ate on rainbow paper plates.

simple small things that made our evening special.

after dinner we all moved to the couch and watched the dvd.
and i couldn't believe it….

NO ONE left.

all 5 kids watched the whole movie!

it shocked me.

the littler ones had LOTS of questions.
and as soon as the tornado started annie ran to my lap…scared.
she stayed there the rest of the movie.
🙂

even waffle liked it!

this morning annie announced at breakfast "i liked that movie last night!"

victory!

tell me….what is your favorite wizard of oz memory?

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Santa Claus - It’s very exiting to find this megduerksen.typepad.com blog. I’m so surprised by your way of thinking and writing. Have you thought about writing a book?

jennyonthespot - Oh my golly, I love you.

Natalie Anthony - Hearing my mom sing “Over the Rainbow” at the last concert she gave before she died of cancer back when I was 15. We have the recording. I can’t wait to share this movie with my children, we did buy the Veggie Tales “Wizard of Ha’s” version, and my 2 year old was scared of that, so I think we need to wait a bit…

Liz - The Wizard of Oz is awesome…and so are all of these rainbows! I have 2 daughters so we are pretty much surrounded by rainbows 24/7. I love this post & I’m now your newest follower 🙂 p.s. I’m making those rainbow ice cubes asap!

Talysa - I think the fact that I “had” to wait all year for that one special moment to arrive is what made this movie so memorable to me…no DVR’ing it…no running to Blockbuster to rent it…or even finding it on cable…just pure anticipation. Love the rainbow ice cubes. 🙂

Mike S. - when i was a kid, it would play on a local station sometime in March. One year, there was a storm front and while watching the movie, we actually had to run to the cellar because of a tornado warning! I seem to recall thinking this movie must have some powerful mojo.
I love, love, love the photos in this post! Nice job!

Lorie - I love everything in this entire post!!!
Rainbows make me HAPPY!!
I can’t tell you how many times I have had to stop myself from buying those bowls because I do not have room for them!
But that didn’t stop be from buying the colored knives at Target that I know aren’t any good, but are PRETTY!!!!

crystal b - Ok, I am just shocked at that last comment — Ellen!!!! I can’t believe you haven’t seen the entire movie!!! That’s just … just … un-American!!!
Hey Meg, I noticed on your “35 things” button you want to learn how to cook pork. Email me, at crystalbeutler@msn.com. I have some awesome pork recipes for you.

Ellen - I am sad (and a little embarrassed) to say that I’ve never actually seen the whole movie in its entirety. When I was younger, just like Annie, I was unsure of the scary parts, so I never made it to the end. I guess that memory stayed with me because I’ve still never seen it! I should watch it just to say that I have.
However, I was Dorothy for Halloween one year in college. That was fun!

Kari - You are such an awesome mom – seriously fun! You are truly inspiring and oh how I wish you lived near WI … I would love a photo session. 🙂
I’ve loved The Wizard of Oz as long as I can remember (I’m 28). It still makes me smile every time I watch it. Favorite memory you ask … I am a big dork, how about this?
*I too can recite every line with inflection as you said (my husband thinks I’m a nut).
*I commandeered my brother’s bedroom when he moved out and turned it into a Wizard of Oz shrine to accommodate my ridiculous collection … plates, Barbies, snow globes, music boxes, statues, ornaments, etc. All things OZ!
*I’ve met several of the munchkins and have autographs from attending “Wizard of Oz Fest” in Indiana two years in a row when I was in high school. My dad was such a trooper…
*I would totally dominate in a round of Wizard of Oz trivia 🙂 *We adopted a Cairn terrier from the humane society when I was 14, and of course, named him Toto (RIP buddy).
*My cousin and I spent hours learning the “we’re off to see the wizard” skip-dance. I told you … dork.
*I have the ruby slippers tattooed on my left ankle – love it! *Epic fail though … if you can believe it I’ve NEVER been Dorothy for Halloween.
We have two daughters (7 weeks & 23 months). Based on some of the other comments, it might be time to introduce the movie to Mallory! I can only hope she’ll love it HALF as much as I do!
Anyway, love your blog and I visit daily. 🙂

Lisa - I’m crazy for rainbows and Wizard of Oz too….hard to think of just one good memory, I have so many from watching it over the years…my daughter picked out the Target rainbow comforter set for her dorm room, we both fell in love w/ it.

akmichelle.blogspot.com - What an awesome way to celebrate the Wizard of Oz anniversary! You’re such a cool mom. I’m glad the little ones loved it too. It’s nice to know that the classics are still classics!

Andrea from O-H-I-O - You made it so fun. Will have to do this for a different movie. Am glad to see that I was not the only one scared of the flying monkeys. I would try to watch the movie and never make it through because of the monkeys. Soooooo, I have never seen the whole movie! And my kids have never watched it at all! It is kind of crazy what we pass on to our kids.

Lori - My parents always made me go to bed before it was over–because they were strict with bedtime. But if I laid just right at the bottom of my bed I could peak into the livingroom and watch it until the end. If I heard my mom or dad coming I would hurry up and flip back to the other end of the bed and fake sleeping. AH memories!!!

Lindsey@ Piecefully Home - I don’t think I have a memory as great as the one you just gave your kids! 🙂 how fun and now I’m thinking about how I can turn our movie nights into more special times.

chrsiti - you are one of the most creative ladies out there. thanks for the constant inspiration.

Emily - I saw Wizard of Oz for the first time when I was four years old (1985). My parents rented it from the local library: reel-to-reel film in big plastic cases. Waiting for them to set up the projector was excrutiating. We hung a sheet over the picture window in our living room and had our own theater. I remember the opening credits: black and white Kansas prairie land, and asking my Mom “where’s the lion?!” It’s a family classic for sure. Love your rainbow photos. Love love love.

TrishNotChris - My youngest was scared to death of the monkeys so we hadn’t watched the movie. In the meantime, my oldest read the book at school. As you probably know, the book is VERY different than the movie…more violent and well, more detailed. Last year, we finally watched the movie and my oldest kept saying “Where are the….what about the….they left out…” and in the end, he said “I’m glad I read the book first…it’s more exciting.” Having read the book, I have to agree, but the annual t.v. showing was such an event and a wonderful childhood memory.

Joanne Kozlowski - There really is no place like home.

Trina McNeilly - you always bring the best rainbowy goodness! sigh!
xo T

robin - I want to thank you for the yummy fruity pepples rice krispie idea! Last night I had between 5pm and 6pm (picking up my 2 kids) to prepapre a dessert to take to see a friend’s new baby. Obviously I didn’t have time to bake or refridgerate, so when I saw the fruity pepples idea I knew I had a winner. Not only did all of the kids love them, but it turns out the new mom’s favorite cereal is fruity pepples. WIN! So, thanks….perfect timing. 🙂

Sandy - Wow, I feel like I missed out on so much (and again I say YOU are the COOLEST mom ever!). Year after year I laid down in front of the tv to watch it and fell asleep (I still do that today). I never watched the whole movie until I was well into my 30s. My family likes to make fun of me for not knowing it was in color since I ALWAYS fell asleep during the black and white part.

Sugar Mama - I don’t know if it played on local channels everywhere else for Halloween, but in Oklahoma growing up we watched in every Halloween. And I loved it. But the scene that especially creeped me out was in the Wicked Witch’s castle. I just knew I never wanted to be in a place like that. EVER.

Elissa - their drinks turned brown. that’s just awesome. we did the WoO about a year ago and they all sat through the whole deal too, my youngest at only 2. Something about that movie.
and rice krispie treats are WAY better with fruity pebbles.

Courtney - I love reading your blog but this is the first time I have commented. I just absolutely had to show you this clip from a live remake of The Wizard Of Oz that has been touring Australia. It is not ‘traditional’ but when I saw it, it was definitely awesome! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlLluGhRlyI

Cheryl @ a pretty cool life. - My sister and I used to wear our Halloween witch hats and watch when it would come on tv. SUCH a big deal to us!

Melissa Mae - It was my favorite movie as a kid too! I was Dorothy for Halloween twice in a row. My mom is an amazing seamstress and she made the coolest costume ever, complete with a little dog popping his head out of a basket and custom glitter shoes. (now you see them everywhere, but those were unheard of back then 🙂

Chicago Jen - I feel the need to respond- I watched it every year on CBS and was scared and left the room when the witch arrived. I probably never saw it through until my teens. Recently, I loved watching it with the kids, they were much braver then I was. We got it from the library and they watched it every day we had it.
Awsome job- your so creative.
Chicago Dave

Aljolynn - What a sweet night. My favorite part of the movie was when they got their makeovers. They look so happy afterwards, getting ready to meet the Wizard.

Nancy - Even though I have watched this TOO MANY TIMES TO COUNT, last time I noticed a quote that I never paid attention to before: Scarecrow to Dorothy: “some people without brains do an awful lot of talking… don’t they?” LOVE IT! And, ooh soo true! 🙂

Dorothy Walker - How neat the kids watched the entire thing! People forget what a fabulous movie The Wizard of Oz truly is. I love what you did with the rainbow colors, you are hecka fun!
Oz has brought much happiness into my life. Because of friends I’ve made through an on-line club (Everything Oz Club) I made the trip from CA to attend the 2007 (Chesterton) Indiana WOZ Festival where I met many of them. I also met a few of the Munchkins who were actually in the movie, as well as other Oz celebrities such as author John Fricke, a voice heard in many Oz commentaries. I attended the Hollywood, CA, ceremony and other happenings where the 7 of the Munchkins were presented their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a trip my husband and I will never forget.
I collect anything Oz and have tons of it, but the memories made each year sitting in front of the TV and then watching it at the Graum’s Chinese Theatre sitting behind the Great-grandson of L.Frank Baum is better than any collectible I could ever add to my collection!

Lora - You are the coolest mom ever! That colorful drink looked de-lish! I love all the bright rainbow colors! I didn’t get to watch the WHOLE movie until I think I was an adult. Every time they showed it on tv it was always on a Sunday night and we were ALWAYS at church. I wanted to be sick so bad just ONCE so I could stay home from church and watch the entire movie!

tasha roe - LOVE IT!
my mom grew up in Wichita so we were inindated with the Wizard of Oz from a very young age. My fondest memory has to be of being at my mimi & papa’s house (mom’s parents in KS) sitting on the green shag carpet watching the Wizzard of Oz eating Spumoni out of our sundae dishes. ca 1982. 🙂

crystal b - Meg! How funny is that, we both referenced the Wizard on the same day!!!! Even funnier . . . my best friend and I made a cassette recording of the Wizard of Oz when we were in middle school! We tried to memorize the whole movie — it didn’t work but we got close. But, boy could we sing all the songs. We used to do a skit in high school singing like munchkins.
I had no idea it was celebrating it’s 71st anniversary until you left a comment on my blog! The Wizard must have been sending me messages in my sleep.
Awesome photos! Love all the colors. I’m jealous you live in Kansas.

Debby Graber - Megan, I remember the first time I saw it. I was married and we were at KU. They showed it on campus. They never showed this film in Japan where I grew up. Did you know there is an actual scene where there is a guy who commited suicide and he is hanging from the rafters in the background?? It wasn’t erased out.

Kirsten J - Omigosh, what a cute memory you made for your kids. Me? I so remember being dreadfully fascinated by those monkeys. And loving seeing it once a year 🙂

debbie - My memory is the same as yours. We would go to my gramps and grandnana’s house to watch when it came on TV, as they were the only people we knew who had a color TV. Like Annie, I was petrified of the tornado AND the flying monkeys. 🙂
My parents took a trip out west a few years ago, and stopped in Kansas on their way back, and visited the Frank Baum museum. They bought me a beautiful hard cover edition of Oz. I think this is one of the rare cases where I thought the movie was better than the book.

Suzanne D - Every year on January 29 (Kansas’ birthday), our entire grade school would have a school assembly to eat a Kansas-shaped sheet cake and watch “The Wizard of Oz.” Now that I am older, I am surprised that kids weren’t scared…but I guess that is what happens when you watch it every year. My girls have never seen the movie, and I this was great inspiration to have a rainbow night!

Vera - You are so cool.

Tanya H - I love the music. Especially Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
I seriously love your creativity and how fun you are! I am so making those fruity pebble krispy treats for my kids next week when my daughter starts Kindergarten! THANKS!

Jennifer - Who rang that bell! 🙂

Tracy - How Cute, Meg! Such a great idea! I wish when my kids were small like yours that I would have thought about these kinds of ideas. This is so cute and so neat! I love all of the pictures of the rainbow and love the movie the Wizard of Oz. However, I can’t remember which part is my favorite as I liked it all – maybe it was Dorothy’s Red shoes! HA! xoxoxo

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - You are soooo cool. I love your rainbow themed party:) Those ice cubes would have been a hit in our house. Can I tell ya somethin’?? The Wizard of OZ scares the crap out of me. Those flying monkeys and the mean wicked witch….oh the nightmares I used to have. Seriously you’re brave to love that movie!

Kat - I love the Wizard of Oz! That and Grease are my top 2 favourite movies! When I was in primary school my sister and I sat and watched it and wrote down every song so we could memorise them. We had to stop and rwind a million times. In Australia we don’t really do Halloween but my friend had a Halloween party last year and I went as Dorothy.

Carrie - Loved the rainbow pics – made me smile!

shelby - my favorite wizard of oz memory is watching it with my 3 year old daughter 🙂

Jennifer - When I was in kindergarten, I saw it for the first time. It was 1978 and I remember my aunt asking me the next morning something about the witch’s green face. I was confused. We had B&W TV! I was terrified of the flying monkeys and the scene with the hour glass when the tinman is chopping the door down to get to Dorothy would always play in my head when I had a fever. Weird. I was pretty afraid of the movie—> WUSS????

Julie - My boys just watched this not too long ago when it was on tv. They too watched the whole thing. Shocking! I’m not sure what my favorite part is, but the first scene I think of is when the witch gets squashed. I can see her legs poking out right now.
So… those paper plates!! I commented probably two months ago that I saw plates at Target that made me think of you. Those are them. You probably didn’t read my comment or even think to look for them if you did, but I still feel happy that you found them! 🙂 So silly, I know!

Brandy-Rena - I got a “There’s no place like home…” and The Ruby Slippers tattoo when I moved out of my parents house. It makes me happy when I see it.

Nina @ Mama Roux - What a fun and colorful blog post this was, I loved it! You are so creative. When I was younger I could never stay awake for the whole movie, it seemed so long and I thought the flying monkeys were so scary!

Deputy's Wife - I love the little people. “We represent the Lolipop Guild, the Lolipop Guild.” I can even do the voices. heh.

Tracey Garcia - I remember when I was little (pre-cable) it came on every year on CBS in the spring–usually right around Easter. My Granny and I would always watch it together.
My kids both love it too. I was shocked last year when only one of the kids in my class knew what the movie was and/or had seen it! My kids love it so much, I couldnt’ imagine other kids not having seen it too!

Renae - This is less a “favorite” memory and more of a “memorable” memory but my dad would always pull my teeth by trying to distract me by watching something on TV (shows, an eclips on the news, etc.). Yes of course the Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite movies growing up and I was always so excited when it would be on. So my dad pulled one of my teeth while I was watching it. The worst part was that his big arm got in the way and I remember being mad that I missed the movie (wow, I was a drama queen back then). Nevermind that my mouth was gushing blood, I was ticked about missing 10 seconds of the movie! 🙂 Good times!

Cathy - Thank you for such amazing ideas! We plan on watching the Wizard this weekend…because we saw “Wicked” (so incredibly great!) and realized we should have plunked the kids down BEFORE to watch the Wizard of Oz.

se7en - That is so totally fun!!! Love it!!!

Elizabeth - In fourth grade, I tried out and won the part of Dorothy in the school play. I’ll never forget it, actually — and still haven’t forgotten all the words to all the songs I sang…

www.Kellyloves.wordpress.com - You’re such a cool mom!
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heidi @ wonder woman wannabe - One of the most memorable times I watched it was when in college.
Someone had heard that you should watch the movie muted while listening to Pink Floyds “Dark Side of the Moon” – (starting the cd on the lions 3rd roar if I remember correctly)
So, one night when we had nothing in-particular to do and one of us had the movie, and another had the CD – we decided to test the theory.
It’s un-canny and a bit eerie how the different scenes in the movie seemed to go with whatever track was playing!!
Love the target shots – I was just there recently looking for some new hand towels and I just couldn’t help but smile with all those bright cheery rainbow colors!

Kelly - seeing one of my students as Dorothy in a stage production!
I have those washcloths! The food is all really fun. Good idea on the ice cubes. Kelly

ashley - I remember always being so scared of the flying monkeys. I would hide and get poked fun of by my best friend, but then we tried to make our own costumes and it was all good. I still want a pair of those ruby slippers!

katy - I just thought that place was so magical, except the monkeys were quite terrifying (and the wicked witch).

tara pollard pakosta - P.s. I LOVE what you did for your kids with this celebratioN! how memorable!
tara

tara pollard pakosta - I remember watching it on my parents bed with my sister and we would run out when the monkeys came, we would be screaming cause we were scared of the monkeys!
later on when I was a nanny for a little boy, named pete, who was an artist. he would draw over and over the chandelier falling down on the witch–I don’t remember that part in the movie ( I am sure you do) but he would draw that over and over . Was it when she melted? I just know he drew over and over the parts that scared him! OH and when Peter met my parents he was about 8 or 9 and I took him with me to MI to meet them and when they asked him “how are you?” he said, “not doing very well with this hole in my back, thank you very much” AND my parents were like “WHAT?” cause he was repeating the scarecrows words, I believe. He was a very peculiar child!
And most recently, seeing my neighbors daughter in the play was so fuN!

Tonya - Meg, have you been to the Wizard of Oz museum in Wamego? It’s a fun little stop, certainly no too big or grand, but cool nonetheless!
There’s so much I love about this movie….the munchkins, Glenda the good witch, the freaky monkey’s, those fabulous ruby slippers! But the thing I love the most are the songs! It just takes hearing a few words to any of the songs and I’m singing it all day!

www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkSvHxNhASTbfMKlKIaW-AkZHNzxLSguzY - This was also my favorite movie! I remember my dad recording it for me on our old Beta (not VHS!) machine back in the days when the remote control was hooked to the tv/tape player by a cord that was not quite long enough to reach the couch or recliner. He clicked pause during the commercials so that they’d be edited out for when I watched the movie later. Had to make a new take every year because I’d watch it so often!

Emmylou Hart - One time we were visting my grandpa in Manhattan, KS. For some reason all the hotels were full so we found a room in Wamego where the Wizard of Oz museum is. It happened to be the OZtoberfest & some of the munchkins from the movie were staying in our hotel. We met a few at breakfast. My boys were to afraid to say “hi”. They loved the parade & the museum though. Wamego is a very cute Kansas town!

Jessica @ One Shiny Star - That is my favorite movie!
My tenth birthday was wizard of oz themed. My mom put so much time and effort into it, but it snowed, so only one girl came. She even made a rainbow cake!

Courtney - I didn’t read all your comments, so I’m sure this has been mentioned, but anyone who loves the Wizard of Oz this much will LOVE LOVE LOVE the musical WICKED. It is so beautiful, the music will melt you! A good thing to do while the kids are all at school. Then, buy “The Grimmerie” that documents the making of the musical, it’s visually the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. BUT don’t read the book– not at ALL like the musical– very dirty and depressing. The musical is happy 🙂

Jeanelle - Hiding behind the faux fur chaise lounge in our living room when the monkeys came on. Oh how they scared me! But the movie? Pure bliss. So glad the family loved it!

Andrea - I have so many memories of watching the Wizard of Oz! I’d have to say my favorite is my earliest memory of it. My family always watched it together when it came on TV. I was about 2 or 3, and I remember my sister and I had our sleeping bags on the livingroom floor while my parents snuggled on the couch. It was late, but we had bowls of popcorn. I fell asleep pretty early in the movie, but I still remember it so fondly.
We now have a new family tradition that we watch the Wizard of Oz as a family the night before thanksgiving!

Elise - I think I tried to be Dorothy for Halloween 7 years in a row. And to this day, I still feel awesome when I’m wearing red shoes. (Especially sparkly ones).
Have you ever watched it with the sound off and with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon playing? You have to start the CD right when you see the lion roar before the movie. It’s eerie how well the two match up. And, since you can quote the whole movie, I think you’d enjoy it even more!

beth - I love that show and so does my kids….you would never believe this but one of the munchkins lives in our town.

rachel p - speaking of rainbows (not a wizard of oz memory, but) …
I wanted to *THANK YOU!!!* for the rainbow cake recipe! I made it for my son’s 2-year birthday party (decorated the top with baseball, football, and soccer bouncy balls), and all the kids AND grown ups were so excited when i cut into it and really loved it! I gladly gave you all the credit, so I think you have a few new readers from my family 🙂
And most importantly, my son LOVED his birthday cake 🙂 YUM!!
THANK YOU for the inspiration!!!

Christa aka BabbyMama - My fave WoO memory is probably watching it every year when they’d show it on TV as a special… do they still do that? We never had such an awesome spread, though. Maybe I’ll do this when my daughter gets a bit older!

CK - My older sister would turn off my bedroom light and cackle, “I’ll get you my pretty… and your little dog too! Aaah ha ha ha!” Even though I knew every time that it was my sister, it still scared me:)
My best friend and I would watch it together every year when it came on TV. We don’t have movies like that anymore. The kind that you only get to see once year and that bring your whole family together.

Sarah - I could never ever get over the monkeys. They scared the crap out of me and still do.

Cris - This post brings back so many good memories. It was a big deal, we watched it as a family and had popcorn and homemade grape juice. I was glad to have my siblings to snuggle with when the flying monkey’s made their appearance. The wicked witch was super scary too (both of them). You should see the musical “Wicked” ((awesome)).

Nicole Q. - Those colors make me want to RUN to Target. . . . and the drink idea is a great fun idea! You are so creative! Glad you enjoyed a good family night.

Amy Harle - Excellent idea!!! My favorite Wizard of Oz memory is watching it at my grandparent’s house. It felt like it was hours long…I guess because there was always so much to take in at a young age. Now I love that my kids LOVE the movie, too, and are just as exciting as I am to watch it. PS. We’ve been making your mom’s margarita recipe A LOT this summer. They come out perfect every time and I always get asked for the recipe…I give her credit each time 🙂

lori lucas - I wrote about the Wizard of Oz today too, and my own five children!! http://abigstory.blogspot.com/2010/08/were-off-to-see.html
Your post is much more colorful than mine tho.
If you look at my post, THAT is my favorite memory!
Loved your post. Lori L

Dee Stephens - what a GREAT idea! I’ll have to bookmark this post for when I have kids 🙂

Mary Osborne - My mom always made us watch when we were little and it was on TV that one time a year.
I would be so excited but soooo scared, those flying monkeys were scary!!!! I thought Dorothy was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.
My two girls loved it when we watched it together and we just saw Wicked for the 1st time this summer. The references to TWoO in that crack me up.
Thanks for bringing back some great memories.

Kathi - Sorry, have to go against the flow. I hated this movie as a kid, scared me to death! I had nightmares for months after seeing it. I couldn’t go into the bathroom when it was dark out without closing the blind on the window, because I thought I could see flying monkeys! My oldest son just saw the movie last year, he’s 22! LOL.
On the flip side, Megan I love your ideas and your blog! I read it everyday. You are so creative and talented, I wish I could get some of it to rub off on me!

Bec - I have so many memories of watching this movie with my mom. It got to the point that everyone knew we loved it so we’d get several phone calls from family members to tell us it was on and what channel. It was almost ALWAYS on when we’d be decorating the Christmas tree. Neither of us love the flying monkeys. My high school performed this a couple of years ago and my mom and I were right on the aisle and they had the monkeys come in from the back and they were right by us and we both turned to each other and were freaked out. I’ve seen Wicked a few times and it is a great addition to the story!!! Your girls would LOVE it if they like the original. Don’t read the book though…it’s weird.

Trasie - I grew up in Southwest Kansas in a small town called Moscow and we use to drive to Liberal a 35 minute drive for us to Dorthy’s House all the time. We loved skipping on the yellow brick road and we felt like we were part of the movie. Every year Liberal celebrated Oztober and they have a Dorthy sing a like contest and when I was a freshman in high school I won the contest and got to eat breakfast with some of the original munchkins and they autographed my winning certificate. I have always loved the Wizard of Oz. I have a movie themed basement and one of the movie posters is of course the Wizard of Oz.

Amanda - When I was little I always loved the part where the house lands on the witch and her feet curled up-thought that was a cool special effect-LOL.

Amy - My girls LOVE Wizard of Oz. They watch it at least once a day.
My favorite memory is a recording actually. It is of my oldest singing “somewhere over the rainbow”. It’s the ringer whenever my husband calls.

LC - I love the Wizard of Oz!
It was a favorite when I was a kid. One of the only movies my Brother and I wouldn’t fight over wanting to watch. We both loved it!
Then when I had my Daughter, around the age of 3 SHE fell in love with it. We watched it every single day for more than 2 years.
Good times.

`Kelly - 71 years and still a family favorite! I love that movie & the memories of watching it every year!
My favorite Wizard of Oz memory is Halloween 2 years ago.
(http://kellymonkeybusiness.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-halloween.html)We’ve done a “theme” for Halloween for several years but this one was my favorite by far! I still have the picture at the bottom of this post
http://kellymonkeybusiness.blogspot.com/2008/10/lets-get-this-party-started.html) framed in my living room. I love it!

Laura - Oh, it was such a treat to watch it once a year, and when the black and white turned to color, it was magical. There’s so much more sophistication today that I fear kids won’t understand how special that movie is and was…it was groundbreaking for its time. What a fun party you had. Love it.

deb meyers - and … the Lion’s song: “King of the Forest” when he is preparing to go see the Great and Powerful Oz.
now i’m stopping.

deb meyers - We used to wait for Wizard, annually, too.
But the one that I literally lived and breathed for (1964)? was Rodger and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” with Leslie Ann Warren; and Walter Pidgeon as the king. I actually found it on Ebay (vhs). Such an unsophisticated version … actors did not have capped teeth, sets so plain. But the music…oh, the music!

mandy friend - I was going to try and talk my 4 kids into the Wizard of Oz costumes this year for Halloween! I have 1 girl and 3 boys-perfect! HAve you ever watched the Return to Oz??? Creepy but I loved it! If you haven’t you should, total departure from the original but worth seeing…but I don’t suggest letting Annie watch it!

Angie C - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Wizard of Oz. One of my favorite memories is from high school when my friends from chorus and I dressed like the tin man, lion, scarecrow, and Dorothy for Halloween. I am now a Wicked fan as well. Maybe the wicked witch isn’t actually wicked…

deb meyers - Favorite parts of the movie:
When Dorothy looks out the window inside the Twister, and sees the mean neighbor pedaling who turns into the witch (still creepy)
And the end, when she wakes up, and points to the ‘farmhands’ and says “And YOU were there! And, oh YOU were there! And YOU, TOO!” and of course … then … “There’s NO PLACE like home”.
deb meyers

Chris - It was one of the few nights my dad gave up rights to the big console TV in the living room and let the kids watch what we wanted. Every year we got dibs on the TV for the Wizard of Oz, The Macy’s Thanksgiving day Parade and the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, the rest of the time the TV blared HeeHaw and The Dukes of Hazard.
And upon reading your post, I realized my youngest kids haven’t seen it either. What kind of parent am I,lol?
Love the rainbows, love your post!

Lisa K - This post made me cry. A cross between your nostalgic happy memories, rainbows, your good mommy efforts to make a simply special night, and the thought of your kids having this memory for their lifetime. You are spectacular, Megan. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. xo

Stephanie - I LOVE The Wizard of Oz. I remember before VCR’s and DVD players I would be so excited when it was going to be on TV. I loved when it changed from Black and White to Color.

MommaH - You are such a cool mom. I think my kids were kind of deprived, since I never thought of those very neat things to do. One summer I did take them all around our area to see all the historical stuff, the Mennonite Museum in Goessel, Cowtown in Wichita, the Bethel Museum in No. Newton, I think we even went to Council Grove. It was a neat summer.

Amanda - Oh my goodness, this movie has always been a part of my childhood. I really don’t even remember it being not a part of my childhood in fact. I was absolutely terrified of the flying monkeys when I was little, so much so that I wouldn’t go anywhere near monkey exibits at zoos until I was like 9 because I was always afraid they’d start flying at try to snatch me.
Love your rainbow celebration! I think we’ll be adopting a few of those ideas in our house to celebrate the Wizards anniversary as well 🙂

Heather R. - My Mom was in Ringling Brothers circus…she knew some of the actual munchkins. I always thought that was so cool. I love when she melts the wicked witch. The flying monkeys still freak me out a little. We saw it last year at the Crown Center outside movie. Our girls 9 and 10 loved it :)! We live in Kansas and I have a pair of ruby slippers with plants in them by our front door. 🙂

Christy - So cute!! I love anything rainbow. My favorite part is the lollipop kids and the song they sing. We represent the lollipop kids, the lollipop kids…. now I’ll be singing that all day long..

Natalie - I just made rainbow cake! And I love me some Dorothy. 🙂 http://ovenlove.blogspot.com/2010/08/rainbow-cake.html

Lori H - Like commenter Stephanie, I waited all year for the one showing of the movie, and I had to be really good as the time came so that I would be allowed to stay up and watch it. The same way with the Grinch every year. So much more special than just watching it on DVD whenever they want to! Glad your kids liked the movie. My two kids were probably Talby’s age when I introduced them to it…they made fun of the “lame special effects” and the slow pace. Oh well, I still love it!

mary - finally realizing, after all these years, that glinda was right
i’ve always had the power.
it’s hands down one of the best movies ever.

Jaime - Love all the rainbow stuff! 😀
The Wizard of Oz is a favorite of mine a well. We haven’t seen it in a while; I should prolly put it on our movie night list!

Stephanie - I remember when I was a kid the movie only came on once per year (I think around Easter time). It was always on the same TV channel and we would be so excited when we saw the commercials announcing the date. We would mark the calendar and count down the days. When the big night came we would get into our PJ’s and pop popcorn and the whole family would sit together and watch. We also did the same for The Sound of Music which also was shown once per year.
Our kids are so spoiled now with DVD’s, videos, cable TV, etc. They don’t get to have that anticipation and excitement for those “once a year” events. Sad:(

Courtney Walsh - The moment where it turns from Black and white to color… and seeing the witch’s feet shrivel up and retreat underneath the house. Those are my favorites! lol
My kids found our DVD and watched it not too long ago. I was really surprised they liked it so much (not sure why) and really worried about the monkeys and the witch because they are a little freaky!
What a FUN party you had!! Love it. 🙂

krystall - when I grow up I want to come live at your house, you have the best ideas!! I’m going to “steal” the ice cube thing and rice treats. My kids are gonna love you and your blog:)

Shannon - I love that you celebrated the anniversary of the Wizard of Oz!! We might have to have a “belated” celebration at our house! 😉 I have several fun memories of the Wizard of Oz. 1) For my oldest child’s first Halloween, we dressed her up as Toto (it was the first costume I had ever made)…my husband was the Scarecrow and I was Dorothy. We lived in MN at the time and thought it would be fun since we were still “Kansans” at heart!
2) This year my daughter tried out for her first community theatre production…The Wizard of Oz!!! She got the parts of a munchkin and flying monkey. She was so excited, but then said, “What is a flying monkey?” I then realized she had never watched the movie!! HA!! Needless to say, all 3 of my kids can now recite every line and sing every song! Here’s a post I did about the local production, http://maplememoriescrafthouse.blogspot.com/2010/06/follow-yellow-brick-road.html
Rumor has it that the show next Summer will be Beauty and the Beast!

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Meg, I love how you make family events special. Thank you so much for reminding me that just the little touches add up to make an amazing memory!

Jeanne C - Did you know the author(Frank Baum) of Wizard of Oz was a newspaper editor in South Dakota in the 1800’s? He advocated and pressed for the annihilation of all native Americans. He actually called for the extermination. My dad is a Native American and I cannot fathom watching the Wizard of Oz, or promoting it in any way.

laura - how sweet!!!!

shannon - So adorable, you come up with some of the best ideas!

Maria in CT - Back when I was a kid – it was only on once a year. We would find out when it would be on and we all (four of us kids at the time) would sit and watch it, no matter what day it was on or what time, we wouldn’t move from the couch! My favorite part…the music when the Wicked witch (AKA the neighbor) is riding her bike…duntaduntadunta, duntaduntadunta (I know I’m not doing the music right, but you know what I mean)…..

dori - not an old memory…a brand new one. my dad recently introduced the movie to my daughter (who is only 22 months) and she LOVED it. the puppy, the lion, the (flying) monkeys, the colors…the wicked witch didnt phase her one bit.

Deanna - What a lovely party! I wish I could show the movie to my kids, but all 4 are pretty sensitive and would be scared. To be honest, even as a grown up the monkeys still creep me out. 🙂

Danielle H. - I absolutely LOVED this movie growing up and watched it every year. I was so fasinated with the black and white at the beginning and then the brilliant color! I need to show my daughter this movie – I guess I haven’t yet because she’s 4 and I don’t want the wicked witch to scar her! Have you seen Wicked the Musical? You MUST. It is wonderful and I love how it gives history between Glinda and the Wicked Witch (Elphaba) before they ended up in Oz.

Michelle - tree: “are you hinting my apples are not what the ought to be”
scarecrow: “no, it’s jut that she doesn’t like little green woooormss”
that’s my fav quote of all time!!!

Juli - What clever ideas you have! When I was a child in Kansas in the ’60s, only one family in the neighborhood had a color TV. In those days, “The Wizard of Oz” was shown only once a year. The family invited all the kids from the neighborhood to watch it on their set. When the movie goes to color, a crowded roomful of children all chorused, “Oooooh!”

Jodi - My favorite memory is watching it once a year when it came on TV in the family room of the house I grew up in.

Jami - My best memory of Wizard of oz has to be when at Halloween our principal in elemantary wanted to borrow our dog chip (who we rescued from a golf coarse and was oh so mangy) to be her Toto (she of course was Dorothy) I love this cause Chip had to have felt famous. 🙂 He loved all the attention 🙂 I do really also love the WHOLE movie especially when the little munchkin rolls out the scroll and starts singing “As coroner I must advert…….” For some reason it always makes me laugh……
PS I am a nanny and a mom and I adore your blog. We do a lot of your crafts. I did a craft day where I blogged about it too 🙂

mom - The fact that your dad made us watch it every year after that. You were always scared of that tornado!
Poppies! Beautiful poppies!

Trish - loved that it used to be on tv every year… wish they still did that!

Fat Cowboy - Meg, Didn’t you have a dog back when you first watched the movie? What was his name?

annalea @ our hartbeat - oh and this is such a fun and simple family night. great job!

annalea @ our hartbeat - we watched it early this summer with our kiddos. my daughte (3yo) still runs around the house saying “i’ll get you my pretty” and “there’s no place like home.” she also wants a rainbow birthday party this winter because, “the rainbow made eberything so boo-tiful for dorfy.” 🙂

Michelle - When I was a kid. . .7 or 8 . . . my parents told us we were moving to Kansas. The only time I had ever heard of Kansas was in the Wizard of Oz and I was still little enough to be terrified of the tornado and in turn Kansas. We moved in March and I spent that whole spring and summer on the lookout.

Amanda - I, like you, have loved Wizard of Oz my entire life. I don’t even remember the first time I saw it…I just feel like it’s always been there, ya know?
But, my absolute favorite Wizard of Oz memory, is showing it to my kids for the first time. It was on TV one night when my son was 5 and we watched it together. He loved it so much that he asked to sleep on the couch so he could watch it again (it was showing back to back). The first time my daughter watched it, she was about to turn 3. She quickly became obsessed with all things Wizard of Oz and had a Wizard of Oz 3rd birthday party, has been Dorothy for halloween for the past 2 years, and owns 3 pairs of ruby slippers!

FeFe - Well, I don’t love the movie but it does bring me good memories. It used to come on TV once a year and my dad insisted that we watch it. I would snuggle with my dad on the couch. I remember every year that dumb witch would come on and scare me to death. I would bury my head into my daddy’s chest…every single year. Hate the movie but love the memory! 🙂

Amanda Fuentes - I remember only getting to see it once a year too and the year it came out IN COLOR!
My favorite scene is the baby munchkins hatching from their eggs. I wanted to reach through the screen and keep them!
I just bought those rainbow washcloths at Target!

Staci - I’m soooo duplicating everything you did this weekend!!!! We rented the movie a while back and it was scratched….big bummer ;( Soooo, perfect reason to just buy it right 🙂 Hmmmm, I have so many favorites in this movie…but I do love it when Dorothy clicks her heels in those gorgeous slippers and gets to go home….and I do LOVE it when the house falls on the witch and her striped legs roll up under the house 🙂 And of course when the witch melts 🙂 Oh man! Now I can’t wait for my boys to watch this!!!! My puppy dog likes to watch tv too 🙂 I bet Waffle liked Toto 🙂 Thanks Megan!!! you are a rockstar!

Irene - The munchkins. Always. I went to Wicked last year in London and it was amazing!
Please adopt me Meg?! You are the best mum!

Vicki - I just have to say you are too cute!! 🙂 LOVE all the stuff you did!!
I don’t have any specific memories of watching the movie, but my favorite memory OF the movie is when the Lion says “I’ll fight ya with one hand behind my back….Grrrrufff…” 🙂

Dana D@BoysMyJoys - I think I love the songs the most, though I can remember my mom getting us out of the pool at a hotel on vacation so that we could come in and watch it the night it was on tv!
It was such a big deal that it was on!
Love, love, love ‘Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead’.
“The house began to pitch, the kitchen took a slitch…”
It always made me think of ‘Very Merry Un-Birthday’ from Alice in Wonderland.
I guess it was the High School Musical of our generation.

Sophie - Well, in England, The Wizard Of Oz gets played at least once on TV every holiday season. My family and I used to watch it whenever we could. The first time I can remember watching it, I was really small, probably about 3 or 4. I can remember getting scared at the tornado part and running to my dad on the couch to protect me. I also always got scared at the part when they first see the ‘Wizard’.
And when I went to see ‘Wicked’ in London’s West End, it brought back all those memories of Christmases when I was tiny (:
I’m so glad that your kids like it. I think this movie is one of those that is timeless. My parents loved it as children, and so did I. I daresay that one day my children will love it too!

Kimberlee J. - Confession: I have never seen the Wizard of Oz all the way through.

Kimberly - This post made me happy 🙂
We watch The Wizard of Oz a lot – it really is the best movie!

katie - i can’t believe your kids had never seen it!!! mine love it!! so do i, still a favorite of mine!!

Anna Marie - I LOVE the munchkin scene! I often break out into song “We represent the Lullaby League, the Lullaby League…”

heather - I love this!! Especially the colored ice (did it get super gross brown though?)! How can you not love that movie, but especially with that awesome lead in!!

Katie M. - I went to San Francisco about 5 or 6 years ago and we went to a movie theater that had a special sing-a-long production of the wizard of oz! All of the words to the songs were on the screen. Also, when Glenda would come into the scene, everyone in the audience would blow bubbles! It was amazing!!!! This would actually be fun to re-create for a gathering!

Annie - I absolutely love that you made such a celebration out of such a simple thing… And everything looked so fun! And, kid or not, I want colored ice cubes in my drink!
We all need a little more celebration in our lives, don’t we?

Laura - just as you said…the excitement of it coming on..because it only came on once a year. It was special.
DVDs have ruined that for me…everything today is immediate..at your finger tips..see anything anytime…no more waiting…takes the special out of
I wish I were more like you (in so many ways!)…I love that you held this one back for your kids
and that you created the “special” for them
( I too have seen this movie countless times…have you noticed how Dorothy’s braids go from short to long back to short while the scarecrow sings??? check it out…)

sarah - Used to watch this ALL the time.
What a great little celebration you had!!
I wish I could have been a kid at your house yesterday 🙂

Niki - My favorite memory was being in the Manhattan (KS) City Theater production of The Wizard of Oz when I was 7ish. It was performed outside in the city park! I was a munchkin! Sooo fun!
I always wanted a pair of red ruby slippers. Maybe that is why I have a slight obsession with sassy red shoes!

julia - you rock.

lorel - she’s not really melting, she’s just going into the floor. 🙂

amy - I didn’t even realize it was the anniversary. We borrowed the VHS from our babysitter and laid in our bed and watched it last night with some pop corn. How crazy that it’s the anniversary. My daughter LOVES it (she’s 4). She kept telling me everything that was going to happen. Looks like you had a good time!

Holly - I remember growing up and waiting for that one time a year that it would come on tv! I need to make my kids watch it again….not sure my little one has seen it!

Sandra K - Last summer I took my kids to see a wonderful live production at a local theatre and they loved it. Much to my delight, my daughter was DOROTHY for Halloween last year…oh, it will be hard to ever top that costume….LOVED it.

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random.

August 24, 2010

so i was feeling way tired this morning.
it was pouring and hard to get out of bed.

i dropped annie at school.
ran to the store.
went for a walk/run. (wow…i was breathing like i was near death)

i started to clean out my cabinet of cookbooks.
in my cookbooks i found my jr. high year book.
and this:

i am megan ranney.
if only we had that poster.
i am sure it was amazing…..because i knew so much about matches and hay barns.
i was 9.

the other treasure tucked into in my yearbook….

i am not sure who the one on the left is….rob roy jr?
but the one one the right…
Kiefer Sutherland.
for real.
the year of the Lost Boys.
and Stand by Me.
it was big time.
my dad's friend worked on a movie with them.
coooool.

then i found all these random pics today that made me stop and smile.

my favorite pictures of my kids ever.

i had posted this drawing here.

how do they change so quick?!

did you know that tomorrow is the 71st anniversary of the Wizard of Oz?
well….it IS.
i am having a little celebration here.
because it's ….it's….Dorothy!

we had a dog named Toto.

the end.

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eds - Audrey Hett was a counselor of mine at some camp! (can’t remember if it was church camp or Tabor camp)

Heather - I loved your picture of the Kansas Safety Poster Contest winners. Believe it or not, I won the Kansas Statewide Safety Poster Contest when I was 11! I think it was 1986. I shook hands with the governor and Bob Dole was the Senator. He gave me part of the tour of the State Capitol in Topeka. Wish I’d kept my poster, too. I remember the title was “Make ’em Click”, talking about seatbelts. Fun memories for a little small town Kansas girl!

Christina - I don’t know what it was exactly, so many things, but I LOVE this post. And the picture of you and Craig is awesome.
Annie with the cat? I laughed out loud.
And your Wizard of Oz celebration?! I wish I were half the mom you are. 🙂

Kristin S - Look what you made me do!
http://kristinwithani.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/safety-first/

pve - I just hate it when I neglect to visit. You tug at my heart, all these emotions, flashbacks and photos.
Wowie woman, you are awesome.
pve

Laura - the picture of you and craig…the black and white..it made me cry
I dont know why
oh that is a lie
yes I know why
LOVE
I can see it so clearly
then
and now
I am such a crier

Holly - how cool is that postcard?! And the poster contest cracked me up….dont light matches around haybarns!

cindy - What a walk down memory lane you had today. We all need those every now and then,
This is my first time to your blog, I enjoy it. Will be back.
Cindy

Gemma @ Musings of a gem - Love the photos!! Especially the one of you and Craig – Lovely!
Gemma x

Mindy Harris - I’m pretty much convinced you are the cutest family in Kansas! I have been thinking the same thing about my wee ones, who are 2 years old, and 3 months. My baby girl, Story, already looks so different from her newborn self. She’s got some mad buddha rolls now! Hehe.

Karen Lehmann - DUDE(ette) – SERIOUSLY – I don’t know which is funnier, the giant Margarita picture or the kitten strangling one – I’m still laughing…
xoxo your retarded photography friend in VA – K

traci in virginia - I’m with everyone above! I think it’s Iron Man!!! Haha! How cool!

Kelly - The piglet your husband is holding is SMILING!!!!!!
And then comes the strangled kitty…

jessica kiehn - holy cow that yearbook picture of you is TOTALLY Talby! it looks just like her!

the domestic fringe - My kids are watching The Wizard of Oz right now! Amazing pictures. You have a beautiful family.
-FringeGirl

Jennifer - OMG your son looks so incredibly pissed in the family photo! It’s still a good one, and yes, the one when they were all so little. Wow. I love pictures.

deborah - ahhh…and my dear sweet grandma–was a dorothy. i’m livin’ random. it’s either that or the self-diagnoses adult-onset ADHD. Oh look…a strangled kitty. poor sweet kitty. lovin’ your photography.

jaz - oh my gosh, the kittie getting strangled – perfect! priceless! gorgeous!

Michelle Rotner - margarita picture=awesome. you rock.

Eileen - I think it’s Robert Downey Jr. Makes sense as he was friends with Keifer Sutherland…

amy jupin - i’m giggling at these. especially annie choking the kitten and you and that margarita. let’s just say, i can relate to every single one. in a weird, almost eerie, way. thanks for the laugh today!

Jodi - LOVE the picture of you and Craig! Simply gorgeous!

beth - Oh I love that picture of all the kids too! Boy do they grow up so fast….you were a cutie also.
Thanks for always sharing a part of your family…I look forward to reading it everyday…

Sandy - Belated Congratulations on the poster contest! Not surprising since you are still such a talented and creative artist. I still say Talby looks like you (as a child) more than any of your other kids. They are all adorable though. Amazing how much Annie now looks like Talby in the old family photo.
You and Craig are so blessed. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

tara pollard pakosta - cute pictures!!!
look what a few years did to your kids, grew them all up way too fast!!!! Esp. your youngest and oldest, wow!!!! LOVE the one of them on the beach!
tara

emily - oh, meg, your posts are the best. thanks for sharing.

Heather - Loved these random photos. Annie and the kitten is so great. The expression on both their faces!!

Michele - I think it’s Robert Downey, jr’s autography with Keifer’s. They were in the movie “1969” and it came out around that time. How could you forget RDJ?? lol
I remember the summer of 1989…my cousin and I snuck in the movies to see “Lost Boys”. *sigh* I still love that movie!

Taryn - So my oldest daughter, Tyah is pretty artistic……do you know how many times i have thought of you when i look at her drawings!?!?!? I was always so amazed at your artistic abilities and always remember you winning the poster contests!!!! I DO NOT remember being a part of this little contest and have always wondered where Tyah gets her artistic gifts. There are many days that i think shipping her to your house for a couple of weeks would do her creative spirit a WORLD of good! It seems like we could use a few boys around this house of girls….wanna swap a few for awhile!?!?!:) Love ya!:)
ps — the parted bangs are killing me!

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - I feel the same. Sometimes I just want time to stop…so I can stay in my perfect little bubble forever. Looks like you had fun going down memory lane.

Dawn Eshnaur - I know what you mean about them growing up so fast. I just finished bawling my eyes out after taking my son back to college. Where did the time go???? It’s a sad day for this mama 🙁

Rebekah Brummel - THIS IS THE TRUTH my brother burned down our neighbors horse barn because he was playing with matches in the hay with their daughter. BARELY ESCAPED ALIVE (no horses died either) . To bad we didn’t have a copy of that prize winning poster!

Jessie - Annie + Cat = hi·lar·i·ous!!!

Shannon - Oh toto! Sweet little 3 legged doggie. Good night I look like a total cheeseball!!!!

Tiffany - Robert Downey Jr!!! Sweet!

Kimberlee J. - You and Taryn made the paper…poster girls. 🙂

Michele - Great photos! The last photo in the background–your daughter has great shooting form!

Jaime - Death Grip on Kitty…
that’s what I would have titled this post.
I abt pee’d my pants when I saw that pic! Annie is sooo precious!
Love the randomness…

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - The black and white one of you and Craig… so stunning. Have a great day!

Dawn - I bet they were filming 1969 together – it came out in 1988 and parts were filmed in Savannah. That’s cool. I love RDJr. Seriously love.

Julie Weaver - I’m a HUGE Wizard of Oz fan, so I must correct you. The anniversary was August 12…eeek. I’m sorry to be such a know it all. I’ll celebrate again tomorrow so you are not alone.

Kristy - Megan–I remember that autograph hanging in your room! And that’s hilarious if that’s Robert Downey Jr and you had no idea–Nice surprise!!!

Elizabeth - I have 3 sons and 1 daughter and I think this is the year that I can talk them into the Wizard of Oz for Halloween!

Krista - Love the B&W one of you & Craig. Also love the one of your kids at the beach. Scott has a mohawk and Annie is so tiny! Awesome pics!

a pocket full of posies - Lovin’ your random…we think alike! 🙂 and the Wizard of Oz…one of our all-time favorites!!! (even more so after we lived in Kansas!)
Blessings!
Jill

susan - you are the best Meg:)
ps…love your hair short:)

Amanda - The margarita pic and the kitty pic had me grinning. Boy, that would be cool if it were Robt Downey Jr, huh?

Kendra - Haha, don’t light matches near chicken coops either! My dad who grew up in SW Kansas burned down the chicken coop (population 5,000…survivors = 2) when he was a kid because he was burning weeds nearby, and a spark blew and ignited that fine dust in the air and burnt the place to a crisp REALLY quickly.

Marie Tere - Robert Downey Jr. That’s my guess.
As you know, Talby looks just like you, so evident in your old school picture. And obviously, whether you are making posters about hay or sewing, you have always been gifted artistically. It makes me smile thinking how your kids will have that too.
Annie and Sean look most alike, there was a pic a while back, I think she was pulling off her shirt during a craft project, I thought it was him!

Rebecca - Robert Downey Jr.!!!!!!!!

Amber - that baby pig is so cute! and lauren always looks so composed! 😉

Lori - That’s Robert Downey Jr.’s autograph!!!

Ali - Oh, the cat killer one just slays me!!

Melissa - why is it that kids always hold kittens by the throat?
Cute pic’s.

melissa @ the inspired room - So much cuteness. 🙂

Jennifer - I LOVE the photo of you and Craig. LOVE it. Love, LOve, LOVE IT!!!

Staci - Do you miss your long hair???? Just wondering…was tempted to cut mine off today….but I can’t part with my ponytail 🙁

Staci - Oh man 😉 I LOVE LOVE LOVE WIZARD OF OZ!!!!!! SO much so, that I named my Aga, Ruby, after the ruby slippers 😉 I can’t wait to see how you are celebrating!!!!!!! We had rain today too…and it was soooo nice after these 107 temps ;( Oh yea, and my Dad got a Tom Cruise autograph when he was filming some movie here in OK….my friends all thought it was super cool….I however, was weird, and have never been a huge Tom Cruise fan 🙂 Have nooooooo idea where that thing is now;) Loved looking at your old pics though 🙂

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my demo derby love affair.

August 23, 2010

many times i have thought about the derby and thought "what is the matter with me?"

"why do i love this stuff?"

it is the opposite of anything i like.
normally.

it's loud.
it's dirty.
it's crowded.
it's really hot.

but it's also….
a community.
a group of people that i grew up around….a tradition…of a small town kind.
the town where i grew up.
you know people and they know you.  (or knew you when)

at the derby you stand in line to by your tickets and your high school bestie walks up and gives you a hug.
even though you haven't seen her in a few years.
and another one spots you in the crowd and waves and says "there's seats by us if you need some!"

it's like a big (redneck) reunion at the derby.

at demo derbies you get to experience porta potties and purses falling in the dirt.
or mud flying into your hair.

but there are also funnel cakes.

and you can share them with new friends in the row in front of you….

you can sit behind a class mate you haven't seen in years and meet his son.
and talk about the good ol' days.
and how old you feel now.

the sun goes down.
the heat is gone.

it is a fun place to be.
do you believe me yet?

at the derby you can climb under the bleachers…not too gracefully…to go buy a demo derby t-shirt.
i really did.

sean and talby were catching grasshoppers and naming them all steve.

and just before the final round there is a big fireworks show.
the music comes through through the crackly speakers and everyone turns to watch.
i kept saying "really? there is MORE?!"
it went on forever.

i love the derby.
i love taking my kids.

it's old fashioned small town fun.

(here is our time a year ago….with video.)

have you ever been to a demolition derby?

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juicy couture bags - They looked so ridiculous with helmet heads walking around Wally World like Mad Max rejects. Another prime example of why there’s a website called People of Walmart =D!
So tell us Mechgogo, is it customary to shop around a store with your motorcycle helmet perched on your head? Or using it as a shopping basket to carry the BBQ sauce?

Valerie - Oh, I have to laugh. Reminds me of the “one-and-a-half winters” I survived living up in Minne-SNOW-tah as newlyweds seven years ago. I’m a Tulsa girl, born and bred, but we lived up there for a job transfer for my husband. That is a story in itself. But while up there we were introduced to demo derbies. Ha! We were so naive. We both were dressed in Ralph Lauren type summer wear, my husband had on LINEN even, haha, and there we were, surrounded by the best redneck folk EVER, and the mud was a-flyin’ into the stands and raining on our heads. And you know what? We LOVED it. And it is one of my alltime FAVORITE memories of our time in Minnesota ever. And now we are safely back in Tulsa. Ha. The End. 😉

Kristy - So bummed we missed the Demo Derby this year–Good times. Who is the classmate you were sitting by? Don’t recognize the head:)!

Gemma - Hi Meg!
Nope I haven’t been but would LOVE to one day!! It sounds like quite a night : )
Gemma x

Genn - That does look like tons of fun Meg!!
I’ve never been to anything like that before.
Sometimes I wish I lived in a small town that had cool community events like that.
And now I want a funnel cake. 🙂

Sara @ It's Good to be Queen - that just looks like a barrel of fun to me. i can almost taste that funnel cake. yum.
by the by, i made your meatballs tonight. holy stinkin cow. they are so good! woo to the hoo for church cook books. and everyone liked it. which is a minor miracle at our table. seriously, i had to make myself stop eating. your recipes are the best. that is all.

Chaos-Jamie - I wondered how you got such a good seat! I saw what time you went in and NO ONE gets a seat over there without camping out for hours.

Vera - No! But now I want to!! Maybe I’ll wait till my one boy is older than six months old, because he might have more fun that way.

Erica - Oh my goodness… I have been in Manhattan all summer and I miss Newton so bad!! Especially this and the bull blowout!!! =( thanks for the great pictures!! I know what you mean about loving the small town things though!! =)
Erica

Kelly - i haven’t been to a demo derby but when my husband and I were dating I went with him to a tractor pull in Missouri. Kind of the same I think. We had kettle corn instead of funnel cake but that is oh so yummy too. 🙂 I do think that all the wonderful colors at the demo derby are very “you”. Kelly

debbie - I haven’t been to a demo derby in years. You brought back a fun memory!

Margo - I love the demo derby! I have been going to them as long as I can remember – you described it perfectly!!

Lorie - I LOVE the derby at our county fair. It IS a small town kinda thing…but more than that….I’ve always secretly, even as far back as high school, been tempted to be in one. Just to let out my aggression. You all know what I mean! It would be a blast!

shelby - my dad raced locally (in Southern California)when I was a kid and every month or so at the end of the night when he raced there would be a demolition derby. I always got so excited when they would start wetting down the track with the water truck and my friends and I would bet which car would be the last one running. I loved it!

Juli - Oh yes, indeedy. Another closet redneck, here. I depserately tried to lose my Southern accent in college but it didn’t work.

Aimee - Hahaha, my husband and I name everything Steve. Steve or Jose. Seriously! I had this one burp he named Steve. He had this one rogue hair on his forehead I named Jose. Hahaha!

LibraryGirl62 - i LOVE the Demolition Derby! We go in the winter here cause the mosquitoes are HUGE on the edge of the Everglades in the summer!

Susan - Meg,
This has nothing to do with the demo derby, but I keep getting pop-up ads whenever I come to your blog. My other bookmarked blogs don’t do this. Is this an advertisement thingy that you’ve placed on here on purpose, or is there something wrong with my computer. It’s just starting to bother me, because I can’t always read through an entire post without one getting in the way. 🙁
Sorry to be a debbie downer, but I wasn’t sure if you knew about this or not, or if it was happening to anyone else.

Courtney Walsh - I have been to one ONCE! But I’m much more interested in the funnel cakes. lol
Looks like fun. And I love a small town! 🙂

Cheri - Oh my goodness…i have read your blog almost daily for two years, baked your food, copied your crafts…and never written, but just saw the demo derby photos and saw a Hillsboro sign in a picture….my daughter met a boy from Hillsboro while working at a camp in MO…… they are very much in love and you probably know his family…….hmmmmmmmm…any chance we could visit????

Tami - Wish we had something like this around here. My boys and tom boy girl would love, love, love this. Great family fun.

Taylor-Ann - Happy Monday!
Looks like a fun family outting. Here in So Cal we don’t get much of mud truck racing. I wish they would come a little more often so my inner country self could come out for a while.
Whats up with kids nameing every animal they have the same name. My son had a fish named “fil” when fil died we had “fil 2”. My sister as a kid named every fish she had Carla. I don’t get it. Did you ask why they named them all Steve? :o)

seb - I love the demolition derby too! We took our girls for the first time and they couldn’t stop laughing at the cars smashing into each other! We grew up in a small town with a demo derby and it brought back so many memories! Just wondering if you bought a “derby chick” t-shirt…my husband had to draw the line! 🙂

Janine - Love that the kids were naming Grasshoppers “Steve” I wonder if they know the old joke.
A Grasshopper walks into a bar. He sits in front of the bartender and asks for a drink. The bartender says “do you know they have a drink named after you?” And the grasshopper replies in great wonder “You have a drink called Steve?”
hahaha okay so it’s a lame joke but one I have always liked.
We have a demo derby not too far from me. I should check it out sometime. It looks like fun.

Dina - AHHHHH!!!! I just posted about my very first dd experience last week! EXACTLY! I don’t normally get into stuff like this either but I LOVED it! SO cool! I didn’t crawl under the bleachers for a t-shirt (I SO would have if they sold them) but for my kid’s sippy cup:-) What a blast!
http://dinarross.blogspot.com/2010/08/county-fair-ends-with-parade-and-crazy.html

Shannon - Did you grow up in Hillsboro!!?? My parents just bought a house there!

DogsMom - Saw the title and had to come visit. Around here they will demo anything – usually the end of summer is a big school bus demo derby.

melissa - i went to a demolition derby about 5 years ago with my best friend in michigan. it was at a small town fair. i loved it. everything about it. the noise. the people (there’s some good people watchin’ to be had at a small town fair!!). the food. i loved every minute!!!

julia - we don’t have crazy fun stuff like this in south Florida. We did go to a rodeo this year. It was mostly old people, which was a surprise.

Bec - my hometown has one at their 4th of july fair. I never actually watched, but you could sure hear it all over town!

Elise - Never been! But if they have funnel cakes, I’m sold.

Lee Ann - my hubby talked me into a truck/mud race thing at the fair this year. (not a derby, but a lot of destroyed vehichles.) I didn’t think I’d like it, but I ended up loving it. I did think of you several times because I know how much you love your derby!!!

Elissa - We used to do Saturday night at the races (small nascar track) a couple towns over from us. The used to run crazy 8s. and yes, I love it. And yes, the total opposite of most of what I NORMALLY love! Too fun! You’re making me want to take my kids…. I haven’t been in YEARS.

Katie H - Funny you ask….My husband is from a small town in KS also, I on the other hand am from a city. I had never even heard of these things until I met him. We now live in Tulsa, BUT still manage to go to KS every year to attend the County Fair so he can “drive” in the derby. I thought he would out grow it once we had kids, but that hasn’t happened. YET!!

Angela - I love it but then again I do love the small town things that make our town home.
I have a question for you, I’m a ding bat and can’t figure out how to follow your blog. I favorited it but I can’t figure out how to add it to the blogs I follow. HELP!

thewatergirl - The first time I met my (now) husband’s family it was at a demo derby in his home town. I grew up in a suburb of a big city up north and was OVERWHELMED and thinking “what have I gotten myself into with this guy? Where AM I?”

jaz - Fireworks at your demolition derby!?!?! HOW AWESOME!!!
The feeling of community you mentioned sounds like why I love the rodeo! I love that feeling 🙂

Sugar Mama - I haven’t been to a derby, but I grew up going to rodeos. Not the big fancy rodeos, but the small town ones… with funnel cakes! They were dirty, loud, hot, and smelly. But I loved them just the same.

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - I just posted on this. See…we live parallel lives:) I love the derby…good old fashioned red necked fun!

Amanda Jo - There’s a dirt track about 20 minutes away. I’m not a big fan of the dirt track races but I LOVE going when there’s a demo derby at the end!!!

Krista - Bumper cars for grown-ups! Don’t think I could deal with the mud flying through the air, though. Your kids will have awesome memories of these adventures!

Dana Banana - I’m a lifer. Love the derby of course, but really had fun watching the figure 8 races too. (I guess I am a little biased since my big bro raced and won 3rd) In the fig 8, four little cars lined up and 2 huge tires are placed one on each end of the arena. At the start, they all race in a figure 8, often bumping into eachother in the middle! They have several heats with the winners all competing at the end…..a HOOT to watch!!

Kim Campbell - Love it – that’s my sweet cousin Colby sneaking the funnel cake! 🙂 Great memories!

Anna Marie - I went to my first one last month. My brother-in-law drove a minivan in it…haha! I LOVED it and want to go back next year for sure. This one car, the SAME car, rolled 3 or 4 different times!!! We also had several fires! At the end of the show the guy who kept rolling “donated” his car to be smashed by two giant dozers. So fun!

amy - I love Demo Derby’s! That’s the one and only thing I miss about our County Fair (we’ve moved). Looks like you had a great time!

Laura - so long as your purse doesn’t fall in the porta pottie, it sounds good.
Anywhere where you feel welcome, and loved…where faces are familiar, and smiles are warm…where you feel you a apart of a community…is a fabulous place to be.
Then, throw in a funnel cake, a grasshopper named Steve, and fireworks, and well..how can you go wrong?
Not to mention…GREAT COLORS at the derby! Anything alive and colorful works for me!
glad you had fun
You are a COOL, small town HOT chick!

Sonya - I’ve been to one at our county fair (Michigan) and *loved* it 🙂 And I grew up in a big city in southern California! Demolition Derbies are just plain fun!

brooke - I grew up in southwest Kansas (Liberal) and was a frequent derby-ite. Live in Wichita now, but would love to reconnect with my redneck roots. Need to see if there are any derbys close by.
Thanks for the fun post!!

Jill - I went with some girlfriends in college and we LOVED it! (same for us, you totally wouldn’t expect to have found us there!) We got tickets right near the front and had mud splattered all over us, it was so fun to just be rowdy and not care!

Lori - I have never been to a demo derby but this post makes me want to! I think if Richmond, Va has a demo derby it wouldn’t have the same feel since we are not a small town. Thanks for sharing..its like I was there…without the heat, the dirt and the noise…but also no funnel cakes! 🙁

Julie - Never been, but when we lived in Fayetteville, NC my husband took my son (age 3 or 4?) to a big monster truck rally with friends. They enjoyed it. The guys kinda went on the premiss of ,”when in Rome”…. 🙂
Nothing wrong with “old fashion small town fun”. Rather quaint and does make one feel “connected”!

Tam - I Love this post! It’s just as you describe it! We live in a small town with an annual derby. My husband comes from a “derby family”, they’ve been participating for generations. This year there were four generations on the track (officiating and driving). I love the atmosphere of our county fair, we run into people we’ve not seen in years, eat our annual allowance of “fair food” (funnel cakes, cheese fries with “carnival cheese”, and cotton candy) and cheer on various family members in each heat.

firefly hill - I have never been but totally want to go! I know my kids would love this…

Michelle - Australia - Funnel cake? Never heard of it. Please explain for us very confused Australians. p.s. Yes, we have demo derbies but it is just the funnel cake bit I don’t understand 🙂

Sophie - We don’t have them in England at all! But boy, I wish we did! Looks like so much fun (:

Linda - Can say this is particularly appealing to me but I do like action!! Thinking we may have to take in “The Buck” (at least I think it is a car something) when we get back; we’re looking forward to being back in the good old USA where quirky things are fun! My idea of action is auctions!

edie - I went for the first time a few years ago with my husbands’ family in a town near where he grew up and it was so much fun! And we didn’t even have funnel cakes. Add that to the mix and who could resist? This must be a midwestern thing but it’s hard for me to believe this wasn’t the brain child of a southerner!!
And the fact that you love it—makes me heart you even more.

Tracy - I have never been to a demolition derby but I love the small hometown feel of things so I’m sure I would like it to! I grew up in the country (in Arkansas) and so this is right up our alley – LOL Love the pictures and the fireworks and that funnel cake looks delicious! Have a great day, Meg and thanks for sharing! Big hugs! ;o)

Kat - The annual show at where my fiances parents live has a demo derby every night. We have been the past 2 years and it is so much fun! It is exactly as you mentioned. Corey sees so many people there that he hasn’t seen since school and it is always nice to catch up with them. But demo derby rocks!

Ali - Never been, but I so wasnt to now (my boys would be in car heaven).

Mary Beth - Never been, but I think my old 1977 AMC Spirit car is in one of your pictures!!!!! Love the midwest. No Place Better.

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - I’ve never been… but you make it look amazing! If I ever have the chance, I am in!

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