Duck Dynasty and More News

I just have to take a second to promote Phil's and my new favorite show, Duck Dynasty on A&E.  It is seriously the best!  I don't know if I'm just missing the South or what but I seriously have withdrawals when this show is not on.  

It features the Robertson family in Louisiana who became millionaires selling these apparently amazing duck calls that the patriarch, Phil, invented.  Willie and Jase are two of the four Robertson brothers who run the company, Duck Commander, that their dad (Phil) started like 40 years ago or something.

For a while now my Phil and I had been hearing people talking about how great this show was and then one night when there was nothing else on TV we saw that DD was on and decided to check it out.  When we turned it on we saw a bunch of grandkids clearing land for their grandpa (Phil) so that they could make a football field for the family.  I thought, "Oh, here we go... let's hear the disrespect and whiny complaining from these kids like you hear on every other "family" reality TV show" but NO!  There was just "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" and all kinds of respectful kid talk!  I couldn't believe it.

And yes, some of the things that they do seem a little staged, and they do poke fun at each other and play tricks on each other, and they do like to kill animals and eat them, but it is so refreshing to watch a show about a family who loves each other and loves being together and loves God and has good, old-fashioned values and morals and is teaching them to their children.  And I'll take some funny, family-oriented, animal-killing Christian rednecks any day over the nasty Kardashian family.  Oh, and every single DD episode ends with the family sitting around a big table saying grace and eating dinner together.  Totally my dream.  :)

But the best part of the show are the one-liners.  Everyone on there says funny things, but Uncle Si is our favorite.  He's Phil's brother and is a Vietnam vet and he always carries around a tall, skinny plastic Tupperware cup filled with sweet tea.  He said in one episode that he still has the same cup that his Mama sent him in a care package when he was in Vietnam (*tear*).  He says the funniest things!  Here's one of our favorites (said when Jase was buying fancy new tires and rims for his truck):

"Pretty tires is for sissy rednecks.  First it's pretty tires, then it's pretty guns... next thing you know you're shaving your beard and wearing capri pants."

And another one when some of the guys had gone back to a country club after dark to catch some amazingly huge frogs that they had seen in a pond there:

"There ain't nothin' finer than rich frog legs taken off a fine golf course."  

And here's another good quote from Phil:

"The more makeup a woman wears the more she's tryin' to hide.  Makeup can hide a lot of evil."


Another thing that I like about this show is watching the matriarch, Miss Kay.  She just loves her family and loves cooking for them, and it makes me happy to see how much they love her.  They all do... even her daughters-in-law!  She has four sons and said in one episode how she always wanted a little girl and now she has a bunch of granddaughters and she just loves being around them.  That made me want to cry!  :)

Especially when we found out a few weeks ago that we are expecting another baby (due in February) and we all know it will most likely be another boy!  :)  So I'm imagining myself as a future Miss Kay.  But hopefully a little skinnier.  And I will never, ever cook and/or eat squirrels.

Say a little prayer for this baby because I have a blood clot in my uterus and have had to stop working out and take it easy until it (hopefully) goes away.  I'm praying that it will and that baby will hang on in there!