A Package!

We received one of the most exciting things you can get during the dog days of summer: A package full of presents on our doorstep! It's from Grandma Vickie, who just came home from a three-week trip to Scotland, a cruise in the Baltic, touring all the major cities in the countries there. You know. Just neighborhood stuff.



Needless to say, we were so excited to get a package!


There were some things inside for future gifts, that we are not allowed to open yet, so no disclosure yet on those items. But what we did get to open were. . . (cue the bagpipes. . .)

Ahhh! It's a wee little "Stewart Clan" handbook, yeh see! We have our very own Plaid, we do. I always felt deep in my bones like we were a clannish sort of family, and now it's all coming together.

And if there's any chance someone in my family can look like this dude someday, I'm excited. Check out those calves!

Looks good on Lizzie - she must be a genuine-blooded Stewart.

Eli took this very seriously, as well he should. He will be carrying on the Stewart name in this family, being the only male grandchild! Give that boy a plate of haggis already, quick!

All this Scottish stuff makes me think of one of my favorite movie quotes of all time:

Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as the Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.

Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?

Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tets-up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee beady eyes! And that smug look on his face, "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"

Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate the Colonel?

Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smart ----!

Charlie Mackenzie: Coo-coo.

Name that movie! - oh it's too easy. But we'll play anyway. Erin, you're disqualified since you used this for your monologue for a very serious audition in New York. And you get ten bonus points for being cheeky.

Anyway, back to our presents...

Look!! A plastic bag all the way from Scotland! COOL! I feel foreign-er already! On the bag was a note that read: "For Everyone! Open now!" So we did.

HUH?! We're confusified and perfuddled.

Ach!! It's the Loch Ness, laddie! Wait a second... I think he's swimming through our kitchen counter!! Argh!

Cool present, Grandma Vickie and Grandpa Alan!!

It's so cool, we want to make our own Loch Ness Monster.

Thank you!! We can't wait to open the rest, but we will! :)