The Weather

You would never believe, even with pictures, how changing the weather is at our house. I don't know weather to get out an umbrella, snow suit or a strait jacket. Yeah the strait jacket would probably be the best to prevent everything else. This morning it was hailing in our hallway, bath salts. The cause of the hail, my lovely adorable boy!! So I sent him to his room so I could vacuum it up. When I came back with the vacuum I saw snow flying all over his room. This time baby powder from the same lovely adorable cause. That won him a first class ticket to the tub. While the tub was filling I went back to vacuum the hall and hose down his room when Lorin starts yelling "mom come look what Christian did in the tub" . The boy (that's what he gets called when he's in deep deep dodo, which this time he literally was) pooped in my tub!!
Now the hall needs to be vacuumed, his room needs to be hosed down and my tub needs to be cleaned. Add that to the fact Mike's mom comes into town tonight so I'm frantically trying to clean the whole house and do the laundry.
Christian chooses the most opportune time, don't ya think.

This would be his "uh-oh, I just got caught face"

And this would be his, "mom's taking a picture of me, that must mean I'm cute" face.

On the good side, my hall now smells like lavender, and his room is clean and smells like fresh baby powder. And my tub is sparkling. Two rooms down, the rest of the house to go.

Twilight the movie (no spoilers)

I just got back not to long ago from watching the midnight showing of Twilight.(Yes that would mean it's real early in the morning) Unfortunately it got me worked up I have to find a way to get tired again.

At first we I decided to go I felt like a giddy 16 year old. It has been a lot of years since the last time I went to a midnight showing, but this one has been worked up so much I thought it was worth it. I went with a friend and we ate some food did some girlie things and then went over to the theater. And when I sat down in my seat, there was a giddy 16 year old sitting on one side of me intensely reading her Twilight book with her Twilight shirt on. And on the other side of me was an older mid 40's woman. So I was a good median.

I'm only going to say one thing about the movie

"It wasn't long enough."

In a week or so when just about every one's seen it then I'll go into it more. But for now that's it. Hope you enjoy it.

Neverland

A little while ago our friend, Lia, told us about a play her daughter was going to be in called Peter Pan. Well we know a little about that movie in our house. I think we have 4 different versions of it, and the new Tinkerbell movie. Lorin LOVES it. We knew we had to go. So we bought 4 tickets for closing night(usually the best night) and hoped for the best. The show was at 7pm and that's usually bed time for Kaki and almost bed time for Lorin and Christian. We packed a backpack full of snacks, because that's the best way to keep 2 year olds occupied and off we went.
I thought it was going to be a cast full of grade schoolers but when we got the program it ranged from preschoolers to high school drama teachers. And it was sooo good! It was longer than we thought, but the kids did really good. The snacks worked great, and after the snacks were over, Christian was still really interested in it. That is the best comment, when we're talking about a 2 year old. Kaki fared pretty well, I had to stand up in the back for about 10 mins till she fell asleep and then she slept for the rest of the show. Lorin absolutely LOVED IT. She was completely plugged in, she laughed her heart out, and cheered for Fairies as loud as she possible could to get Tinkerbell better.
The kids in the show did so good. They were so cute, Tinkerbell had to have been in 1st grade and she was so stinkin cute. Lia, Kowhai did so good too, she was a great Indian. And she looked like she had so much fun. Christian's favorite, was Nana the dog. He wanted to go pet the guy that played him after the show.
At the end Lorin asked me if we could go touch them, meaning the cast, and if they were real like us. She was completely dazzeled. She loved to see Peter Pan fly.
My only issue, Peter Pan was played by a woman. I know that on broadway and in an old movie that we have a woman plays him also. But why, peter pan is suppose to be a young boy, why do they have women play him? I just think thats wierd. Maybe it has to do with the voice. Who knows.
Anyway, it was such a great show and it was a great family activity. Thanks so much for telling us about it Lia. The theatre that put it on is called The South Jordan Community Theatre and they are getting ready to do Aristocats next. I'll have to talk to Lorin to see if she would be interested in being apart of it. If not at least going to watch it.

My new FAVORITE music video.

Paramore - New Music - More Music Videos

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We have decided to open up our own family TAT shop. So we've been practicing on each other our tatting skills. Kaki, by far, has the best tallent out of all of us but Lorin comes a close second. Here is some of Kakis work, she practiced on Lorin and Lorin did such a great job holding still while Kaki did her work.

Kaki's penmanship is amazing considering she's only 12 months and can only say a few words.

We had to sneak up on Mike and tag team him. But you know he love's them. He said he was going to show everyone at work because he's so proud of them.

If the tattoo's look a little familiar that could be because they came from my New Moon book in the Twilight series. Lorin found these tattoo's last night and we had to tattoo everyone. We tried to put Edward on Mike's other calf but it didn't come out. So he's just team Jacob. He wanted me to make a special note that in no way does this lessen his manhood. JK

Never ending Halloween

This year Halloween seemed like it was weeks long instead of just one night. It started with Lorin's class Halloween party two weeks ago. And barely ended on Saturday, after we had recuperated. It didn't help that on Wednesday night Mike came home early from school not feeling good. And when he woke up Thursday his throat hurt so bad he went to the Dr's and came home with Tonsillitis. It was perfect timing because Thursday night was our wards Halloween party and the young men were in charge of a booth. Mike could barely talk to he asked me to delegate it to anyone. Luckily I was able to find someone who was willing to do it. He spent all day Thursday and Friday in bed, once when I was taking the kids in the office to get stuff Mike had gotten out of bed for something and Lorin said "look mom, Daddy moved". It was classic Lorin!!

So I took the kids to the Halloween party and they had so much fun. Around 8:30 pm when Lorin was eating her second iced cookie after two cupcakes, and so much candy I can't mention I was feeling sick. Lorin has the cutest little girl friends, they all looked so cute in their costumes. And Christian, well let's just say, boy's will be boys.





Halloween went the same, get the kids dressed up, try and feed them some healthy food before we load up on all the sweets you can possibly get. This year was the first year I can think of since we moved to Utah that the weather wasn't horribly cold. I was OK wearing a short sleeve shirt when we went trick or treating. Usually it's a game of how many layers can you put on under your costume, and then another layer or two on top. We met up with some friends and just went around the neighborhood. Then came home asap so we could pass out the candy. Mike was completely out upstairs so we turned out all the lights while we were gone. And then Lorin passed out all the candy till it was gone.



Kaki even got in on the action and dressed up. Our little cow was more than happy to just sit in her stroller and suck on a sucker while Lorin and Christian ran from house to house. But it didn't take her long to figure out what it was they were collecting in their buckets. So when we got home she moseyed on over to their stash and invaded when they weren't looking.


Even with Mike being incognito through some of the activities, this was the best year so far. Christian gets it, Lorin loves it, and Kaki lived through it. Christian constantly asks me "Can we go trick or treating again". But now that it's over, it's time to put it all away and really count down for Twilight!! That's the next adventure. CANT WAIT, I'm reading the book one more time before the movie.(maybe two) :)