Deal or No Deal Auditions

I had a great time today standing in line with my friend Jamie who wanted to audition for the awesome game show Deal or No Deal. I too wanted to audition, but after completing the 11 page application form, the final question disqualified me because a member of my household works for an NBC affiliate. It's okay I still love Brett.
Originally Jamie and I went down to RC Willey Friday night because we were going to camp out all night with the other crazies to be in the front of the line. However we are big wimps about the cold and didn't want to have bad hair and bad breath for the audition. Instead we arrived at 9am the next morning and got into line. We stood in line for over three hours and just barely made it through all the switchbacks in the parking lot when we reached the building. Our hopes disintegrated quickly once we got inside. The line continued to switch back with just as many people inside as there were outside. So we were in for another three hours. Needless to say we backed out of our plan and left to go have lunch with our other friends. At least we can say we stood, we saw, we got the heck out of there.
Oh yea, I didn't get a picture with the Howie look-a-like, but I did get a picture of a crazy pink haired lady. I wonder if she made it?

In Memory of our Beloved Roudy

Samantha's ever loved and forever patient friend has returned to the Heavens today for reasons of natural causes. He will be greatly missed and I the mother am truly grateful he slipped into a silent slumber in Samantha's arms instead of a gruesome crunching of bones and bloodshed. He was buried in our backyard today next to one of Daddy's Mimosas trees. Which one? we're not telling... Just kidding we had to bury him three feet down and put big rocks on top of the coffin as well as the burial ground so Abby & Jager (our black labs) won't be tempted to dig him back up.

This precious hamster of Samantha's brought such joy and laughter to our family. He had a canny knack of escaping out of his penthouse capsule to scurry downstairs during the day only to be found again at night when he came out of hiding looking for food. He was also a very tricky hamster in the fact that he could perform paw stands, with the aid of Samantha holding him upside down.

These pictures were taken one week before his passing.