to stimulate the economy. Have you? You may remember a few weeks ago we mourned the loss of our million pound 27″sony trinitron 12 + year old tv? Well as of today, we are the owners of a 37″ visio hd lcd tv. we picked up the hd cable box this afternoon and have been enjoying the bigger tv. 
BUT wait, that’s not all. we decided to stop off at Best Buy on the way home from Sam’s Club, and check out the monitors and to see if they had any wiis in stock. No Wii at Best Buy, but they did have a sleek pretty 22″ monitor that came home with us. This is the first new monitor I have had since our very first computer probably 11 years or so ago. I just checked the old old one, manufactured in May 1997. Yep, I have upgraded computers but always seemed to find the ones not sold with a monitor. a few years ago, Troy rescued a monitor that was being discarded and brought it home to me. I was happy to have it, but the color never was quite right. Some of the darker colors had a greenish tinge to them. BUT no more. YAY!
And finally doing our part for the country, on our way to pick Jalen up from School this afternoon, we figured we had just enough time to stop off at Game Stop on a Wii check… and they had one just for us!!! after getting all the parts and pieces that we needed, we picked Jalen up from school about 15 minutes early so we could go home and open everything up and play!
You may remember we have been wanting to get wii for a while now: http://www.cutchens.com/2008/02/another-good-day.html
http://www.cutchens.com/2008/03/happy-birthday-to-jordan-imaka.html
http://www.cutchens.com/2008/04/procrastination-through-blogging.html
Possibly the most fun was creating all of our Miis. these are the “players” that you create to represent you, in your likeness or however you like. OH my goodness, I could do it all day long, it was so fun! I don’t know how to capture our miis to upload here just yet, but I will be working on that. We played bowling and even jordan played a little bit. then the boys took their turns playing baseball.
My picture of the day is also my Ispy something expensive. although any of the goodies we brought home today fits the same bill! This is a shot of the Navy Gas Station. the same one that was 3.50 a gallon last week. 
My picture of the day for today is the thing wii’ve been waiting for! :)
On the CKMB Recap, erin mentioned flat Joscie’s picture with the Jugg sisters in Nashville… :)
and lastly, my latest layout to share, for the OLW Challenge: GROW
the journaling comes straight from my blog entry on Aug 16, 2007 after we had been in this house for 16 days :)
I am not quite sure why I am obsessed with taking pictures of the grass. I have been taking pictures since they seeded… I guess I was thinking I would do a layout of something marking the progress… but it’s something a bit more than that. I think I am really excited about something that is making progress all on it’s own. I don’t have to feed it, unwrap it, unpack it, move it to the ‘right’ spot in the house (where ever that is)… I just have to go outside and look at it.
Papers, calendar (flower and hearts) stamps by Stampin’ Up! chipboard letters Scenic Route, buttons favorite findings, jolees green stems, helix pigment journaler, Making Memories flowers.
and really the last thing is this, my camera rolled over again. now over 20,000 pictures! Hope you are all having a great long weekend, and THANKS so much for visiting my blog! blog you later peeps! :)
try 4.09 for unleaded gas! icouldn’t believe it! it was just 3.99 like yesterday!!! grrr. anyways, enjoy the new tv and Wii! :) So cute how you added the extra i’s :P
So happy you guys found a Wii! My boys love ours! Ugh! Gas prices are outrageous!
Our gas just down the corner is at $3.59/gallon, too…I expected the price in Hawaii to be higher.
You crack me up with all the “ii” names!
LOL! I love you you’ve helped the econom – ii! (Also, awesome grow design!)
Hey Joscie,
OOOOH, you got alot of nice goodies…. Don’t ya just love the big screen monitors…. I was sooo glad to get one with my iMac…..
Our gass prices are hitting towards the $4 too…
Love your OLW LO… I finished mine the other day….Good luck…
BTW, the kis and DH look extremely happy with the Wii…….Have fun..
PattiM
(Pattie’s passion)
I Scrap So All Moments Are Remembered!!!!
good stuff.
what a fun day at your house.
your grow lo is awesome!
happy spying!
Woo-hoo on the Wii. Wii love ours which rquired me sitting infront of the Target at 4am one February morning.
isn’t the wii super-fun?? do let us know when you figure out how to upload your miis…i would love to know how :)
Love what you did with the OLW word for this time!
Lynn
OLW
Love your wii names!
(how weird that there is a different “Lynn” right before me!)
Congrats on the new goodies! With the TV be careful with the video games that you don’t get screen burn..I don’t know if it is the same with LCD’s as with Plasma but just a warning don’t want your new tv to get ruined!
Ha, Bravo…good for you. Everything looks super cool. I also am wanting the Wii…perhaps real soon. The kids looks so happy.
What a fun day! I am sure your boys will LOVE the Wii – my DS just got one a few weeks ago and is so in love – it was very hard to find one in my area (as I am sure it is anywhere!). Congrats on the new monitor and TV too! WOW – look how big CKMB will be now!!! I’m jealous!
Hey friend!!! I SO love that unbelievable TV…ours is about 10years old now & must weigh a 100kg’s but it still does the job. We have been eye-ing our the WII…friends of our have one & it looks like amazing fun! Maybe one day on another one of our overseas trips we can get one. Your boys look as if they have totally gotten the hang of it already :o)
Your grow L.O is GREAT! I love the clever touches….:o)
20,000 WOW! I thought i was the only crazy ‘photo-taker’ around…..nope you are the winner LOL!
Chat soon
XXX
great page joscie. love your take on grow.
thanks for doing your part for the economy! the stock market thanks you!
wow great stuff at your house that day!!
(great spy for the day too :)
also love the grow layout!!
Hi there!
My husband “bought a Wii for my daughter” for her birthday . . . it was really more for him, although she loves it too, and I’m about to buy Wii Fit when it comes out. I enjoy playing the sports games!
Our Miis are Momwii, Dadwii, Baiwii (my daughter is Bailey), and Jacob Henwii for our son, Jacob Henry, when he’s old enough to play. We had a blast putting our Miis together.