Happy 100th Day of School!
January 28, 2014
The perfect addition to morning face/hair? A grape juice mustache and cereal in the teeth.
January 27, 2014
Oh my goodness!!
January 26, 2014
Whenever I open my photo files to put a picture on this blog, these are the pictures that oddly load first. These are from a random day when we were messing around with Photo Booth on my computer.
January 25, 2014
I had really good intentions to take pictures of Jeff helping the boys learn to ride their bikes today. But that didn't happen (the picture-taking, not the riding lesson). The day was so nice we spent a little extra time at the school, getting basketball shooting tips and mastering the hopscotch.
January 24, 2014
The Cha Cha turns three!
Three things I don't want to forget about Bailey at this age:
1. If you call her anything besides her name ("Cha Cha," a "good girl," "Goofball") she'll say, "I not ____, I just Bailey!"
2. She can't say her Rs. If the R is at the beginning of the word, it sounds like a Y (Yian for Ryan); if the R is in the middle of the word, she skips the R sound altogether (imagine how uncomfortable it gets when she talks about her shirt in public).
3. She has made up a game with me where she'll sing a question in an imaginary microphone, then hand me the microphone and expect me to sing the answer back.
Despite being utterly spoiled and adored by all in this family, she is very sweet and good-natured.
January 22, 2014
Yep, my memory card's still in the computer.
On our drive back to New Jersey from Utah the summer before Jeff's second year of medical school, we stayed with my sister Jill's family in Michigan. We decided to drive a little out of the way to see "The Big House," the stadium at the University of Michigan. When would we ever be that close again??
January 21, 2014
Okay, I know I took a picture today, but my memory card was in my computer, not my camera. Oh well. Here's another oldie, but goodie.
We were living in Provo when the Olympics came to Salt Lake City. Provo held a celebration when the Olympic torch came through town. We went with my mom and dad. The three things that stick out in my memory of that night are 1) seeing the torch being run down the road was pretty ant-climatic, 2) it was freezing, and Shelbi's shoes/socks kept falling off her little feet, and 3) because of Shelbi's poor frozen toes, we left early, but could still see the fireworks from our apartment window.
January 20, 2014
I sat downstairs this evening listening to the kids play "office" upstairs. It must have been some sort of government agency, as there were lines forming to the left and permits being granted, along with all kinds of office politics. Here are the kids at their various work stations:
January 19, 2014
This little girl has a miserable cold, with a runny nose and watery eyes. But you wouldn't know it by her attitude. The only time she got upset today was when she found out she couldn't go to church.
On the other hand, when Erik heard that Bailey got to stay home from church, he promptly invented a stomachache. And as a testament to Erik's mind power, his stomachache turned into him throwing up in the chapel before church began. I'm sure I didn't look like the most sympathetic mom. But if Erik was going to pretend to be sick, I was going to go right along with it. Only dry crackers and water all day, even if he was "starving!"
January 18, 2014
If Jeff is going to be in Oklahoma City and have lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, he might as well bring home some Godiva chocolate cheesecake.
January 17, 2014
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January 10, 2014
Tonight, I'm glad I'm me. Put the kids to bed, grabbed my current favorite snack, popcorn and peanut M&Ms, and watched Netflix in bed.
January 8, 2014
Erik, January 2007
January 7, 2014
Most mornings we have two extra guests at the breakfast table.
January 6, 2014
I got a package tonight that was insulated with these bubble-things. The kids promptly popped them. All except Bailey. She tried standing on it, jumping on it, smacking it between her hands, sitting on it.
Nothing worked until I offered some extra muscle to squeeze it.
January 5, 2014
Also from 2000. You might be seeing a lot of these early photos on days I forget to take a picture. Some of these I forgot even existed.
January 4, 2014
January 3, 2014
Tonight Jeff and I did something that we probably haven't done in five or six years.
We browsed through a video rental store, looking for a movie to watch. Honestly, I'm surprised these places still exist. I guess when there's nothing in the theater, at Redbox, or on Netflix that you want to watch, this is what you're left with.
January 2, 2014
I had to go to an appointment at dinnertime tonight, leaving the kids to finish dinner on their own. When I came home, I saw this:
I was confused at first about all theses random dishes on the countertop. Until I realized that these are the clean dishes that were in the dishwasher. Ryan, whose dish night it was, unloaded the dishwasher and loaded the dirty dinner dishes. What a guy.
January 1, 2014
Here is proof that I wasn't always such a dud when it came to NYE:
Jeff and I went to an actual party with some friends. Granted, this was 2000, probably the last time we did anything fun for the holiday.
And here's my nephew Pepper, also enjoying the new year.
December 31, 2013
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