You know your kids have been watching too much Mamma Mia when:
Ruby was sitting on the couch with an open Book of Mormon "reading" it to Katy.
Quoting the movie, Ruby said, "They laughed on the beach, they talked on the beach, and dot dot dot."
Katy pipes right in and says, "Dot dot dot?"
Ruby then replied, looking back at the book, "You know, that's what they did back in the olden days."
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Has it Been 9 Years Already??
Happy Anniversary to Steve and Alicia. We were in Alabama with SNOW! It has been a good year and things are looking great for the next. I love you Steven! Thanks for our date night last night with NO kids! Your Mom is awesome for taking them all afternoon and most of the night.
On our wedding day after the reception in Jacksonville no less.
Here we are this year 2009...
On our wedding day after the reception in Jacksonville no less.
Here we are this year 2009...
Friday, December 11, 2009
Super Lips and An Offer
Monday was a HUGE laundry day for us! When I say HUGE it was really HUGE. I took up 5 of the FIVE load washers at the laundromat and when I dried them I used the 2 huge dryers and 5 of the larger ones all at the same time. That is the very easy part with getting clothes washed and dried. The hard part is getting home and taking the time to sort through all of them my who they belong too and then for the little girls getting things sorted into outfits (ie. shirt, pants, sweater or dress, sweater, and tights). This makes it much easier for us in the morning and I am not running around the house saying 'where is that (you fill in the blank)! I know that I have seen it around here.' You know what a mean.
Well I was going on about hour 11 of folding clothes. YES this is always an all day event with the girls at home. It's not a full 12 hours but the piles are always looking at you, so even if I took a small break the clothes were always begging to get folded and put away. Sorry....back to the story. So it was getting late in the evening and I was getting the piles smaller and then Katy walked back into the living room. Something was way wrong with her lips and mouth. She kept trying to say something like lip gloss. I take a good look and she has all this stuff all over her mouth and she isn't moving her mouth very well. Of course I ask what that stuff is. I honestly thought she had gotten into Steve's lip stuff, but it wasn't that. She goes and brings me back................SUPER GLUE!!! My baby had super glued her lips and teeth!!! Now this being my baby and third child I didn't get into much of a panic. I mean she was breathing okay and was very awake and oriented. Who wouldn't be?? Your lips are hurting since there is glue on them right?? Steve had just gotten back from taking Hannah to swimming, so I sent him downstairs to find out what we use to get it off. Isn't that bad that it didn't even cross my mind to call the doctor, but go check the computer instead? Well the super glue people said to use soapy water or nail polish remover. Well I didn't think that either of those would work, so in the end we broke down and called poison control. I mean parents who are not meaning to poison their kids call right?? and if you are harming your kid on purpose probably are not calling poison control right???
We get the advice to use butter to get it off and have her drink some Kool-aid to help her mouth feel better. Guess we are not the first people to have this problem. Granted the butter really did help and we got some lips unstuck! The stuff on her teeth I just got off with my finger the next day. Katy started picking stuff off of her lips after that and all is well.
Last night brought a super great e-mail! We have an offer on our house and it is exactly what we needed to have it clear on the short sale. That means we won't owe anything out of pocket and the house is sold for less than what we bought it at. It really is a HUGE blessing for us. Just for it to be sold will be great. It should close right after the New Year.
I was thinking this morning that I know it was the right choice to move in August. There is so much snow out in Utah right now and it wouldn't be very fun to drive that drive this time of year. I don't even want to think about what it could have been like right now if we were still in Utah and it being Christmas time and getting ready to move now!! **Snap** back to reality. I am here in Alabama and there is no snow. I like that idea much better.
It's time to get the kids up for school! It's should be a fun day with a lunch date with Steve (and half pint in tow), Christmas shopping, and picking up Christmas cards! Today is that fun stuff. If I don't have your address, please e-mail it too me so I can get you a card.
Well I was going on about hour 11 of folding clothes. YES this is always an all day event with the girls at home. It's not a full 12 hours but the piles are always looking at you, so even if I took a small break the clothes were always begging to get folded and put away. Sorry....back to the story. So it was getting late in the evening and I was getting the piles smaller and then Katy walked back into the living room. Something was way wrong with her lips and mouth. She kept trying to say something like lip gloss. I take a good look and she has all this stuff all over her mouth and she isn't moving her mouth very well. Of course I ask what that stuff is. I honestly thought she had gotten into Steve's lip stuff, but it wasn't that. She goes and brings me back................SUPER GLUE!!! My baby had super glued her lips and teeth!!! Now this being my baby and third child I didn't get into much of a panic. I mean she was breathing okay and was very awake and oriented. Who wouldn't be?? Your lips are hurting since there is glue on them right?? Steve had just gotten back from taking Hannah to swimming, so I sent him downstairs to find out what we use to get it off. Isn't that bad that it didn't even cross my mind to call the doctor, but go check the computer instead? Well the super glue people said to use soapy water or nail polish remover. Well I didn't think that either of those would work, so in the end we broke down and called poison control. I mean parents who are not meaning to poison their kids call right?? and if you are harming your kid on purpose probably are not calling poison control right???
We get the advice to use butter to get it off and have her drink some Kool-aid to help her mouth feel better. Guess we are not the first people to have this problem. Granted the butter really did help and we got some lips unstuck! The stuff on her teeth I just got off with my finger the next day. Katy started picking stuff off of her lips after that and all is well.
Last night brought a super great e-mail! We have an offer on our house and it is exactly what we needed to have it clear on the short sale. That means we won't owe anything out of pocket and the house is sold for less than what we bought it at. It really is a HUGE blessing for us. Just for it to be sold will be great. It should close right after the New Year.
I was thinking this morning that I know it was the right choice to move in August. There is so much snow out in Utah right now and it wouldn't be very fun to drive that drive this time of year. I don't even want to think about what it could have been like right now if we were still in Utah and it being Christmas time and getting ready to move now!! **Snap** back to reality. I am here in Alabama and there is no snow. I like that idea much better.
It's time to get the kids up for school! It's should be a fun day with a lunch date with Steve (and half pint in tow), Christmas shopping, and picking up Christmas cards! Today is that fun stuff. If I don't have your address, please e-mail it too me so I can get you a card.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
December is Here
December just brings tons of stuff to do every week in our house. I think that it is the same for most families too. Seems like every night there is some activity or party that we need to go too and I am not complaining at all. Being busy is fun!
This week brought an afternoon at Wal-Mart to scope out the girls' presents for Christmas. Their outfits have all been bought except for a few pairs of jeans for Hannah, so at least part of shopping is done. I think that Steve and I are going for less than $50 for ALL of the girls this year. It's a budget year, but they have most everything and I am very grateful for grandparents who love Christmas too! Simple things is just fine with me. I just have to figure a way to sneak some money out of the budget for Steve's Birthday/Anniversary/Christmas present! Then hold him off until Christmas. That is the problem with having all three big days in a short span of only 12 days from start to finish. Steve's only request for the B/A/C is socks and white ones at that. Man we are getting old. Asking for socks for his birthday.
Each of the girls have requested an iTouch for Christmas. They have each explained to me that they need to do 3 things with them. 1. Homework 2. Watch movies and 3. Listen to their music. Who would have thought that from a 6, 3, and 2 year old, but ever since I got my iTouch I really haven't been able to use it. My kids always wanna play their games or do homework. I can't take it to church and let them see that I have it since it causes World War Three.
My Christmas wish list this year consists of a Bread Knife. It's not fun cutting up hot bread with a dull butter knife. Not so good. And now that I am putting that out on my blog I will probably end up with 50 bread knifes from all you readers!! Don't worry....I will take them all and probably send you back the knife with some home made bread. :-)
My other big project for the week was getting the DVD Christmas card done for the grandparents. It did start off with me just editing my pictures and then of course that leads into movie stuff. You can play around with stuff like that on your Mac!!! Well an hour lead to two and after midnight I was burning my 15 minute movie all choreographed with music and pictures. It even included some snazzy menus and video clips from this year. I sure am excited for all the grandparents to see the girls this year. Who else would want to sit though 15 minutes of just pictures of my kids?!?!? Hannah commented when she watched it...."Mom where are you and Dad in all of these pictures?" My only answer was "Well someone has to take them and usually it is Mom." Guess I will work on that next year to be in more pictures. Too bad I can't afford a whole camera crew to hang around and shoot video or snap pictures every couple of weeks.
Well that sums up the first week of December. Two more weeks of school and then it is Christmas break for all. The calendar is getting full. I am sure before I can blink that it will be Christmas morning with the girls. Hopefully it will be after 7 am!!
This week brought an afternoon at Wal-Mart to scope out the girls' presents for Christmas. Their outfits have all been bought except for a few pairs of jeans for Hannah, so at least part of shopping is done. I think that Steve and I are going for less than $50 for ALL of the girls this year. It's a budget year, but they have most everything and I am very grateful for grandparents who love Christmas too! Simple things is just fine with me. I just have to figure a way to sneak some money out of the budget for Steve's Birthday/Anniversary/Christmas present! Then hold him off until Christmas. That is the problem with having all three big days in a short span of only 12 days from start to finish. Steve's only request for the B/A/C is socks and white ones at that. Man we are getting old. Asking for socks for his birthday.
Each of the girls have requested an iTouch for Christmas. They have each explained to me that they need to do 3 things with them. 1. Homework 2. Watch movies and 3. Listen to their music. Who would have thought that from a 6, 3, and 2 year old, but ever since I got my iTouch I really haven't been able to use it. My kids always wanna play their games or do homework. I can't take it to church and let them see that I have it since it causes World War Three.
My Christmas wish list this year consists of a Bread Knife. It's not fun cutting up hot bread with a dull butter knife. Not so good. And now that I am putting that out on my blog I will probably end up with 50 bread knifes from all you readers!! Don't worry....I will take them all and probably send you back the knife with some home made bread. :-)
My other big project for the week was getting the DVD Christmas card done for the grandparents. It did start off with me just editing my pictures and then of course that leads into movie stuff. You can play around with stuff like that on your Mac!!! Well an hour lead to two and after midnight I was burning my 15 minute movie all choreographed with music and pictures. It even included some snazzy menus and video clips from this year. I sure am excited for all the grandparents to see the girls this year. Who else would want to sit though 15 minutes of just pictures of my kids?!?!? Hannah commented when she watched it...."Mom where are you and Dad in all of these pictures?" My only answer was "Well someone has to take them and usually it is Mom." Guess I will work on that next year to be in more pictures. Too bad I can't afford a whole camera crew to hang around and shoot video or snap pictures every couple of weeks.
Well that sums up the first week of December. Two more weeks of school and then it is Christmas break for all. The calendar is getting full. I am sure before I can blink that it will be Christmas morning with the girls. Hopefully it will be after 7 am!!
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