A LOT ISN'T ALLOT IS IT ALOT?

OK so I was informed by my dear friend Sarah F. that I have been spelling the word "A lot" incorrectly for quite a while. This bothered me so I had to google it. You see I always use spell check and I was spelling "A lot" like this.... A-L-L-O-T. Well I found this is also a word and that's why spell check never caught it. Just in case everyone else is having this problem here is what I found. Thanks again Sarah. After all what are friends for? By the way I forgot to tell you that it was time to trim your nose hairs! Just kidding of course, you always look fantabulous!


Dictionary Finds:


A lot (two words) is an informal phrase meaning "many." It can take an adjective, for example, "a sizeable lot."
Example: MIKE needed a lot of time for the job.


Allot means "to distribute between or among." It has the same root as lottery.
Example: Rusty Dan never allotted breaks at work.


Alot does not exist as a word.
Example: previous blog entries

Fantabulous: Marvelously excellent: “a really fantabulous find, just magnificent” (Mel Fisher).
[Blend of FANTASTIC and FABULOUS.] (just in case you were gonna call me on that one, however this word isn't in some dictionary's and spell check doesn't seem to recognize it)

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Wow where do I start? We decided to take a last minute trip to Northern California. We left the Friday before Easter and it only took 13 hours to get there. We left at 11:00 at night on a whim while the kids were asleep. EASY CHEESY! We got to Napa Valley area and had a blast with my Mom and her boyfriend Cliff. My Mom couldn't put Carter down. That's why there isn't very many pics of Carter because my Mom doesn't like to be in them and she was holding him 24/7. Mikey looked for Easter eggs on Sunday and he seemed to like the candy in the plastic eggs. Mike helped Cliff chop wood for the fire and even helped a neighbor for a few hours with his firewood. Towards the end of the week we met up with Steve & Lani (Mike's older bro) We had allot of fun visiting with them. It was good to meet little Summer and was neat to see the relationship between Steve and his little girl. The boys have grown up sooo much. Cory is REALLY tall. Rusty is cool to hang with and I enjoyed having some one on one time with him. Jared is as cute as ever and a little helper. I really miss them already! Since we are giving all of our money to charities this year we decided to do some no cost activities. We hung out by the pool and the kids and the big kids went swimming. We found a sweet living room set up at the mall complete with a coffee table to kick our feet up on. The next day we went hiking at a State Park and saw a cemetery where some of the Donnor party were barried. We then hiked to a mill and then we said our goodbyes! Thanks for driving all that way to see us Steve, Lani & kids. We can't wait to do this again. We spent the rest of the time at my Moms relaxing and even went to the river. We then headed back home and we decided to take a different route. We went through the Redwoods and it was AWESOME! The different route was only a 100 more miles but it took us 4 more hours due to traffic and end of spring break. That's ALLOT of hours when your traveling in the day with kids. We are finally back home and enjoying getting back to normal.