Wednesday, August 27, 2008

It's Real Life- How I Roll



It's time for It's Real Life over at Farm Fresh. This weeks theme is How I Roll.


The rule is to not prep for these photos. You know REAL life. Well my car is a disaster because my husband has been driving it. I can't even get him to pick up his dirty clothes from the bathroom floor. What would make me think I could get him to get his trash out of my car. Therefore my car is a mess but I didn't clean it for these photos. So this is HOW I ROLL.




The front view. It rained today or it would look way worse.
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Side view. We live on river rock gravel. This is the cleanest I have seen my car in a while.
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Back view. Most of the time you can't see the Chrysler or 300 for all the dirt.
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Yes I am hoping to see this turn over 200,000. I am cheap and cars are expensive!
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Gum, a dollar and a Hy-Vee receipt. You never know when you are going to need a dollar. The gum is so that my husband will never know when I sneak a cig.
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I just liked this little flip flop. I wasn't crazy about the smell so I let it hang from the BBQ grill outside until all the smell was gone.


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My cute little plaid purse that carries one diaper, a Ziploc baggie with wipes, a folder with my MOPS publicity papers, a notebook, one lighter, and a pack of cigs, for those days when my husband nuts. Occasionally it will also carry my check book.

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My radar detector. Never leave home without it. It truly has saved me hundreds times.
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Mason's car seat. We don't leave the drive without Alo the buffalo being on his lap. The little yellow fish he got from the Farm Progress Show. I need to get him turned back to rear facing it was just soooo hooootttt. The sun would beat right on him and no air conditioning would reach him. Every time I would take him out he would be dripping wet.
We are going to keep him rear facing hopefully for the whole winter because it is so much safer.
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Another of Mason's toys. This sits right behind my seat. Makes it easy to reach.

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Mason's stroller. Papers from the Farm Progress Show. 3 gallons of water that needed taken inside. (I did go ahead and take them in after taking photos) The license plate and the crazy colored book are my sisters that I keep forgetting to drop off at her house when I see her.

To the very right is a red object. It is my ice scrapper. I know it is August in Iowa but realistically we could be using this in 6 weeks. Scary thought for all the Iowans out there.

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Again it rained today. Otherwise this is how my whole car would look.
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Mason's cowboy hat from the Rodeo.

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This is what I drive when Austin drives my car and I have MOPS.

Now don't anybody get jealous.

Yes it is John Deere green.
We paid $650 for it 3 years ago. It gets me from point A to point B.
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I wouldn't mind driving it if it didn't have this stack. Yes ladies a stack. With a tractor flapper. For crying out loud a tractor flapper. Not to mention the 75 gallon fuel tank in the bed.

It truly is an embarrassment and Mason loves it. Good thing because it is probably going to be his first vehicle.
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She sure is a beauty!! Especially all the dog pee on the tires. Really who wouldn't want to own this truck.

9 comments:

tiarastantrums said...

Oh, I LOVE the green truck. I used to drive soemthing like that around on the farm when I was a teenager! (I grew up in IA).

Mandy said...

I think I'm kinda partial to the green truck. After living in the real country for a while I have to say that I found out that I'm a country girl deep down in!

Unknown said...

That is one stylin' truck. All the other MOPS mommies are green with envy ;-)

Seriously, I love the 300!

And MOPS!

gina said...

lol. Your commentary cracked me up! Funny, I still have my ice scraper in my van too- I swear it was sonowing and winter one day and BOOM- summer. Or something like it. I have no storage left in my place so I left it in the minivan. I am not missing the days of lugging around a stroller (excpet on the days all four are heading in a different direction at the mall.)

Amy Bennett said...

I had a 300M before my van. I LOVED that car.

Cheryl Lage said...

Love that you "descented" the flip flop! And that green truck is splendid...my dream color for a vehicle!

TheAustinEmpire said...

Nothing wrong with John Deere green (my aunt and uncle own 2 dealerships). We are a John Deere family.

Funny how your car can look better after a rain, huh. I grew up a gravel road, not much fun.

Laura Paxton said...

I MISS the trucks!! enjoy it for me!!

dmarie1975 said...

Hello from another Iowa girl! I still have not 1 but 2 ice scrappers in my car. Wasn't it winter like just last week? I have NO idea where summer went.