Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Catching Up

A post-St. Patrick's Day limerick for you to enjoy...

There once was a mommy named Kate
Whose blog was neglected of late
So some pictures she'll post
Of her kiddos she'll boast
And bring this darn thing up to date


January:
Jarad usually grows his beard during the winter holidays, then shaves some ugly 'stache before he goes totally clean shaven. This year his "hideous moustache" (as the kids dubbed it) stuck around a little too long. So the kids wanted to show him how hideous he looked, donning hideous moustaches of their own...



February:
Tess took a Little Princess Ballet class last month. It was too cute. I have a cute video of the recital they did to "A Spoon Full of Sugar" where Tess gets stuck on one dance move and one poor little girl unwittingly becomes the whip in an unintentional game of crack the whip...



March:
Earlier this month we did our "Give a Day Get a Disney Day" service project. For Family Home Evening we put together boxes full of teacher supplies for Treasures for Teachers. Each box had a handwritten thank-you note from our kids. My only regret is telling Case that we're going to Disneyland. Every day he wakes up and asks if this is the day we're going to Disneyland. Ugh, only three more months of that question!



Crazy Hair Day came around again and this time I was prepared. No more black cream face makeup left over from Halloween. Nope, we went NEON this time.





And of course the twins had to be just like "The Guys" (what we call the older kids).





Spring Break!
Last week we took a little day trip down to Catalina State Park near Tucson to do a little hiking.

Here are the happy kiddos at the beginning of the hike



We soon came to a creek we had to cross. After a few tries, Fisher was the first to get across. Thankfully Jarad had waterproof hiking boots on!



Tess was our mapster... she kept stopping and drawing in the dirt with a stick, saying she had to figure out where we were, and that she was drawing us a map. She'll make a great navigator when she grows up!



We finally gave in and let the kids just play in the water. Everyone had fun, the car was covered in wet sand and all the kids fell asleep on the drive home. That's a successful day in my book.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Some random President's Day happenings

I woke this morning to my six year old singing, over and over again

"You give love.. a BAD NAME."

Later...

Case to me: Mom when are you and Dad not going to be married anymore?

Me: Well, Mommy and Daddy were married in the temple which means Heavenly Father will let us be married forever, even after we die and go to Heaven!

I say this thinking this will ease his little mind. Wrong. His face contorted into pre-cry mode and he threw himself at me in a huge hug and said "But I don't want you to die!"

Me: I won't die for a long long long long long long time. OK?

Case: Like when you're really old like Grandma? Not our Grandma in Arizona, but our Grandma in Utah. She's realllllllly old. Our Arizona Grandma is old too, I guess.

End of conversation. Off he runs.

Later...

I was sweeping the garage. Barefoot. I dropped one of the kids' scooters and the handle landed right on top of my big toe. OUCH!! It's all black and blue and swollen. And I can't bend it. Broken? Lesson: Wear shoes ya eejit!

And it's only 2 p.m. on this lovely President's Day. I'm sure more excitement awaits...

Thursday, January 28, 2010

My little Princess and SuperGirl

Fisher had a buddy over last week and of ALL the boy stuff we have in the playroom, of all the cars, guns, games, dinosaurs, light sabres... this is what they choose to play with.



If Fish Could Fly...

Last week we had a great storm, complete with rain, thunder, lightning... and WIND. There was even a tornado warning/watch (whatever - did it ever actually touch down?) on Thursday night. During dinner that night Fisher got the fantastic idea to get out in that wind and FLY. His scientific brain got to working, and this was his solution.



Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Born in the wrong era

I want to live in Cranford.

I just finished watching two BBC movies this week (Cranford and Tess of the D'Urbervilles - one happy and lovely, the other wretchedly depressing and now I want to read both books again), both set in Victorian-ish England, and I've come to the conclusion that I was born in the wrong era. I think I would have been just fine having to wear dresses and hats all the time. And women were JUST beginning to have some independence and a voice, so I may have been OK. And they wrote! Letters!

Jarad says that if a movie doesn't have English accents, isn't based on a book by a dead English author or is not about some sort of royalty I won't watch it. I think he's probably pretty spot on. Hey, even American Idol has a Brit :).

Thursday, January 14, 2010

First-grade Perspective of Civil Rights

Overheard Monday afternoon

Emma: Fisher, what's your bonus word this week?

Fisher: Segregation

Me (from the other room): Do you know what that means Fish?

F: It's a celebration of King Martin. I'm not sure who he was.


Of course an educational discussion explaining segregation, Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement ensued. But the beginning of the conversation was just priceless.

My new favorite bag



My awesome crafty and talented sister made these cute bags for all us girls for Christmas. Aren't they the cutest? She knits them a little on the bigger side, then washes them a few times to felt the yarn and shrink the bag. I'm in love and in awe!

The green one is mine and the pink is Teslin's. I couldn't wade through the piles in Emma's hovel to find her cute purple one when it was time for the photo shoot. :)

Thanks Karin! If only we lived closer, I'd have you give me a tutorial. Maybe you should video a lesson for me and put it on YouTube!! Ooh or do you have Skype? Maybe I'm on to something here...