Like mother, like daughter!

Thank you KRIS, for spending some time with my offspring! And my NIECE! I love these pictures you took!

IT was so hard to pick out my "favorites" because even the ones that were snapped with dried boogers on her nose were cute! haa!

So here's a few...

Amy & Coby - both just cracking up.

Amy being cute, and Coby taking after her mom...in the process of putting her foot in her mouth...

and yep, from these views, as you can tell, plenty of room for even BOTH feet if she needed.


And some other non-narrative necessary pictures of the sweet baby & her ruby red lips!

I'm on a political kick, maybe...

A guy from our ward came by tonight...while I was home...and dropped off a sign on my front porch then called me to tell me he put a proposition sign there and if we wanted, we could put it in our yard. Uh. okay. Coulda knocked & told me w/out calling? Weird. But okay? Whatever floats your boat.

Then Ross went out immediately and hammered it up in the front lawn. He is excited to say how proud he is to have this sign up front. Fine. Whatever floats his boat.

But then I got to thinking...what kind of person actually pays heed to that kind of political advertisement.

I mean - This proposition is pretty popular. Kind of like the presidential options. Everyone knows and has pretty much already made a decision on who they will be voting for. So my question is...ya think my sign's gonna sway the vote?

Really?

Like this....I saw a 1977 Chevy Nova - it was beat UP, the paint clearly got frightened away along with the hubcaps and rear view mirrors and ONE of the windows ran away with a lug nut...but it had nice spinners on the tires...and it had an "Obama" bumper sticker duct taped on it. So here's what I'm thinking. "Dang, nice spinners, I think I'll vote for Obama." But then, I saw the same sticker on a Hummer. And thought again to myself - "People who drive hummers are dumb" so clearly I cannot vote for Obama. I'm so torn, what ever will I do?

Know why? Know why? Cause campaign bumper stickers and poster signs are STUPID. Why even waste campaign money on that sort of nonsense? The poster in my front yard is NOT going to convince anyone to vote my way...what it WILL do - is make some fella driving down the main road or freeway - that can see my house from there - get REALLY passive-aggressive toward me and throw lime green pompoms on my roof - just out of my reach. And there they will sit long after my campaign poster has been taken down.

I guess to the ill-informed, if they see more "yes" proposition signs than "no" signs, they'll vote yes? I know there's a psychological name for that sort of nonsense...I just can't remember it.

I think putting posters up in my neighborhood is against my HOA rules anyway. Guess we'll find out when we're fined?

Magically Delicious? And another thought....

Brynn told me my meatloaf was magically delicious tonight. She loves me, she really really loves me!

I'm also wondering about the upcoming election, I truly think both sides settled for their candidates. And I wonder, do we want an old man whose been in Washington too long to run the country with a new kid whose never been to Washington and doesn't even know the ropes to back him up, or do we want a new kid whose never been to Washington and doesn't know the ropes to run the country with an old man whose been there too long backing him up? I mean - really - it's times like these that I think we need Jack Palance back here on earth - just to take a stab at the white house...that would be magically delicious.

A few weeks ago

My friend came up to me with a pretty cute idea she wanted to make tutus for her nieces for Christmas. She wanted to measure them against my girls to see how they fit. As you know - you can't put a tutu on a 3 year old and NOT let her keep it...Well, one thing led to another and we sort of became addicted to making them! And decided, in order to support our habit, we needed to sell a few!



In buying the material, we also decided it would be pretty fun to make a bunch of headbands.


SOOOO - yah - went crazy there, too. So if you want a tutu or a headband - you know - sort of help me support my creative habit, PU-LEASE let me know!
The tutus will be $10-$15 depending on the amount of extras added, each one is "standard" with a matching flower on the waistline - you can order any color - these are just examples...Just tell me the colors you want!

The headbands range from $1.50 to $3 - again, depending on the size of the flower/elastic! The headbands fit from newborn up through your typical 3 year old - just to help pull the hair away from her face!

October Conference Packets

in case you haven't already found something to keep the kids interested in conference this upcoming weekend (you know - adequate chains & locks to keep them in a chair in front of the TV?) here's a site with printable conference packets! Thanks, Amie!

Enjoy!

Why do you do it?

Take the music off your blogs. I've posted about it before. I haven't started the overwhelming exodus of music from blogs yet, but I'm on a mission - and I'm quite the salesman...

I don't like your music in my speakers. I'm not going to be on your blog long enough to hear all 40 songs you have on your list, just the first 10 seconds of whatever song you have playing on there - or even 2 seconds, enough to have the blaring speakers (that my children turned all the way up to listen to their music or play their games) that will THEN wake my sleeping-by-the-speakers baby UP.

If I want to hear music, I want to hear music that I pick...I want to hear music when *I* want to hear it - and not the same song every time I visit your blog.

I don't want to have three blogs open at once competing for my attention while playing punk songs, church songs, rap songs, country songs or songs I haven't even heard before - Just take the songs off your blog, it's not popular any more. Its SOOOO "last month"

I love to blog stalk my friends and family, but at the expense of clashing down-beats and poor choice in faves combined with the fact that my children have to listen to everything at full sound volume - it's just easier to change the world than it is to get my kids to keep the volume on the speakers down.

so please. help in an effort to maintain my sanity and delete your music thingy's from your blogs.

>>>^^~~~insert cricket sound effect here~~~^^<<<

Emo is hard.

Brushing shoulders

Just a quick update. We were in Tucson this morning and into the afternoon at Nike's high school invitational swim meet. Ross was entered in 2 events. Of course, being a freshman, he's not as experienced as a lot of the swimmers, he swam 74th of 129 (and others who registered no time, so they were DQ'd or no-shows) in the 100 yard breast stroke with a time of 1:23.10 - the first place guy came in under a minute. And he also chose to be in the 200 individual medley race. His time was not his best, it was 2:45.32 (best is 2:42) but he ranked 64th (also several DQs - sadly a teammate of his was DQ'd with a time of 2:35.

It was really very fun to be at, but the best part of it, Ross was smitten by Olympic Silver medalist, Lacey Nymeyer who he got her to sign his invitational t-shirt and swim cap, and went back again for her to sign his swim bag! He wanted her to sign his bare chest for good luck in the IM but I told him NO WAY! Stinker! But I did get this photo without the help of my camera who is currently suffering from stupid camera-card syndrome. (it's my cell phone camera that came through with the picture! So sorry about the quality!)

Lacey is just a cute girl with a neat personality - poor thing sat & signed autographs for 4 hours and posed for pictures, and the whole time keeping up friendly conversation with everyone - I'm sure the same "stupid" questions over and over again "did you bring the medal?" (Yah, I asked that, and while I was still standing waiting for her to sign all Ross' paraphernalia, two other people asked it...she answered politely - at this point I was ready to make a sign that said "No, she didn't bring the medal, DUH!" but didn't.)

More fun at the dinner table.

Kali: What's for dinner?
Mom: Meatloaf w/ potatoes and carrots.
Howie: Yum, that's my favorite, except the carrots.
Rossi: Carrots are good for you, they give you good eye sight.
Mom: Good poop food (yes, I have to unclog their toilets daily, I just want them to get along w/ the sewage pipes, ya know?)
Rossi: So make sure you eat a lot of carrots, you NEED them.
Dad: But if you eat too much carrots, your skin will turn orange.
Kiersten: That's what happened to the oompa loompa's.
Howie: But carrots taste like vomit. And if you eat vomit, you die.
Rossi: Don't eat too much vomit, or you'll turn orange.
Kali: The meatloaf looks like mokey brains.

What a BLAST!

I had a girls weekend away this last weekend. First, let me set your minds at ease by telling you, if you were wondering, I AM alive. I get so stressed out to leave my family, I'm sure I'm going to die. But I made it back.

I also found (for your reading enjoyment) the quick capsulation of our escape last year! Kind of fun to relive the party from last year!

It was SUCH a great retreat! I flew alone, but landed at the same time as Crysty & Lisa. Crysty brought Amy, I brought Coby, Lisa brought a burp rag. We met in the terminal and went down to baggage claim. We were first met at the airport by Vic & Shayla. Oh my GOSH, was that the funniest sight to see...

MOST of our friends were able to make it, they came from Utah, Texas, California and Idaho. We got a big group photo of the majority of us - there were still 5 or so that were coming and going and didn't happen to be there when we shot the pictures. That's Ana & Me in the back picking the long-horn nose...empty...go figure.

I learned how to make jewelry, play human scrabble, and the funnest game in the world, Curses! It was a great get-away, it needed to have more sleep scheduled into it, because here it is Tuesday and I still feel like I'm at least 12 hours behind on my sleep!

OH - and look! We did a photo-shoot with Amy & Coby, Kris took the pictures! I saw them and needed to squeeze those babies again! Great job, Kris!


I actually took pictures of the jewelry I made, but for whatever reason, my camera card has decided to crash - so I anticipate spending the next several hours trying to recover the other pictures I took! DRATS! Anyone else have that problem with xD cards?

Okay MOTHER:

You were digging through pictures, and while I know I should be packing today for my doomed September 11th flight tomorrow - I had to spend some time reminiscing over my kids - particularly my girls - two of them look IDENTICAL and the other two look IDENTICAL! I sure had fun digging through all the pictures. Howie & Kiersten had WAY more hair than the others! But all their pictures are so cute - they grew up WAY too fast and aren't even GROWN yet, it really was fun looking through them.

So here's everyone about 6 months old:
Kali (left) & Kiersten are the two on the top
Brynn & Coby (right) are the two on the bottom


How cute is this? They're both wearing the same outfit!



So yes, I wasted my day looking at old pictures and remembering how cute and non-sassy they were...and yes I have tons to do before my impending doom - and yes, I'll be back on Monday to post again - because I'll still be alive, but quite honestly, I get so wound up and anxious when I leave my family!

So anyway - here are the pictures - have fun trying to figure out who looks alike and which picture belongs to which - yep, there's one of me in there, too - I'm SURE you'll be able to tell, I'm the angelic one.
Here are the girls at about 3 years old! (A little easier to tell them apart, I guess)