Leapin' Lizards! {or frogs}

Happy Leap Day!! Try playing this fun game....it's been causing me grief. If you figure it out, do share your secret.

*update- I figured it out!!

A Few Little Diddy's

A Monster From Lincoln

A Note From Kensie {she found some of my stickers!}

A Conversation With Kensie:

Me: Who do you sit by at lunch?

Kensie: Pretty much every girl in my class.

Me: What to you talk about?

Kensie: You know, girl stuff.

Me: What kind of girl stuff??

Kensie: Oh, like makeup and High School Musical and stuff.

Me: Are you in first grade or 10th grade?

Kensie: Huh?

Typical Male

I came home from Gourmet Night tonight to find this! So funny!! I'm sure he'll hate me later in life for posting this, but I couldn't resist!

The Cullen's

They just put these pics on Stephenie Meyer's website. Rosalie looks different {better} with blonde hair & not as much makeup. Esme seems weird. {I just realized that she's the chick from Grey's Anatomy- face reconstruction} The others are pretty good, I think.

Emmett, Rosalie, Esme, Edward, Carlisle, Alice, Jasper

Thumbs Down

Dear hitchhiking ski bums,

Every day you stand by the side of the road with your thumbs held high, and every day I pass you by. Would you like to know WHY? All fears {you being creepy, stinky, attacking me, etc.} aside- the real reason is this: not only do you expect me to pick you up and drive you up the mountain {or as close as I'm going}, BUT you expect me to find some way to load up/strap on your dang skis/snowboard. Pretty presumptuous, don't you think? I'm pretty sure you haven't come equipped with your own supply of bungee cords, so how do expect this to work out? And anyway, if you can afford those skis/snowboard, a ticket to the slopes, and that fancy gear you're wearing, I'm pretty sure you can afford a car, or at least a bus pass. So, next time I pass you by, I'll slow down & throw you out some change for the bus. Quit mooching. Oh, and quit giving me dirty looks when I drive by and wave.

Love,
Natalie

More Twilight Friends

Victoria

Rosalie

James

What do you think?? Rosalie is SO not what I pictured, but then again none of them really are. Hopefully she'll at least have blonde hair in the movie, and Victoria will wipe that smile off her face and look really scary!

My Winter Woes Continue

*A LENGTHY TALE*

All you Utahn's know the craziness of yesterday's storm....

Those who are unaware, let me explain by giving you a run-down of my day {I'll try to leave out expletives!}:


3:00 p.m.- I drove down to Kensie's school {with the 2 boys} to pick her up for dance class.

3:30 p.m.- We walked out to the car and it was a sudden blizzard. Our clothes were completely wet from just walking through the parking lot. I called Matt & decided not to go to dance class, and let him know I was on my way home.

3:31 p.m.- I drove a few hundred feet and had to pull over to the side of the road {or what I thought was the side}. It was a complete white-out. I've never experienced this in my whole life living in Utah. The wind was blowing so hard {70 + miles an hour I found out later} that it was completely impossible to see.

3:32 p.m.- I decided {along with many other cars} to stay where I was until there was better visibility.

5:45 p.m.- After 2 hours the kids just could not "hold it" any longer. I was cursing my windshield wipers, which were completely frozen and were doing me no good. I tried to get out once to clean them off, but it was no use. I finally made the decision that if anyone passed me going toward the school I would turn around and follow them. A car came not too long after. I had to roll down my window and drive with my head out the window to see anything at all {which was not much}.

6:00 p.m.- We made it back to the school {thank heaven} where teachers were waiting to comfort my bawling kids and get us situated. There were many children and parents there also. I learned that kids were stuck on buses and were trying to get back to the school {some were stuck on the buses until after 9:00}. I was SO glad that I picked Kensie up & she wasn't stranded somewhere or at the school by herself.

6:15 p.m.- We set up camp with the rest of the first graders in a teacher's room. The faculty came around with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, apples, crackers, and milk. The teachers were GREAT! AMAZING! How can we ever repay them? Kensie was having a blast playing with her friends and Lincoln was following her everywhere. We watched movies, played games, and had lots of treats. I only had one bottle for Jackson and one diaper, which worried me.

8:30 p.m.- After talking to many of the other SunCrest parents I learned that the road up to our house was open {it had been closed since the storm began} and I just knew I had to try and make it home. I bundled up the kids and got them in the car with some help from Brian Smart {fellow BHS alum...yeah, we're tight now. I see him often at the school driving his pliggy van & toting his 7 kids!}. The kids were bawling again & I had them saying prayers to calm us all down & help us get home. The weather was not any better. As I got out on the main road all the cars in front of me were turning around before they got to the intersection that leads up to SunCrest. I almost turned around but decided to keep going.

9:00 p.m.- I made it home. It was a total miracle. I was alternately praying and cursing the entire way. No cars were in front of me so I had no way of knowing if I was going the right way. But I made it. I got a call from one of the SunCrest parents who left when I did & he told me that they closed the road again before he could get there. I barely made it. Students and teachers had to sleep over at the school. Kensie was disappointed this morning to learn that she'd missed out on a fun night, but I was SO GRATEFUL that I wasn't stuck there with the kids. Total Miracle.

I didn't really sleep much...I kept thinking of those poor kids on the buses.



Go Here to see what we missed out on. {watch the video}

B MINE

just a few random pictures

Leave your 3 year old alone with a camera for 2 minutes and....

...you get these:

While the cat's away {or sleeping}....

Some things I've been up to lately while hubby's working overnights-

MAKING THIS,



AND THIS,



AND THIS.



WATCHING THIS,



AND THIS,



AND THIS,



AND THIS.



READING THIS,


AND THIS.



VISITING THIS,


AND THIS.

PLAYING THIS,

AND THIS,

AND THIS!

Snow Plows are for Wimps

We bring out the BIG DOGS around here!

{our roads have been nearly impassable for the last week- barely enough room for one car to fit through. FINALLY today they came by & widened the roads}

There's no business like SNOW business

I feel like I have far too many posts about the snow, but it really is my life lately.....so here come's another. Every day I look out our back windows at the lovely snow drifts that cover our backyard. It really is a beautiful sight. I could stare at them forever, especially in the sunlight. Today we had a{nother} huge storm. Church was cancelled. We got a ton of snow. I'm not kidding. Matt started working overnights tonight {he's in charge of inventory}. I got an email from the bishop tonight telling everyone to make sure that their outside heat vents were cleared of snow so we didn't all die from the toxic fumes that would infiltrate our homes {okay, he didn't quite put it that way, but it freaked me out enough to go check ours}. The kids were all in bed, so I put on my boots {NOT snow boots; no snow pants, either}, got a shovel & headed for the backyard. Of course I couldn't just walk out the back french doors into the yard because there is snow half way up the doors {I kid you not}.

SO, I marched out the front door and around the side of the house. My first step off the porch landed me waist-deep in the snow.

I was NOT smiling {this friend obviously had snow boots & pants}. I soldiered on, feeling like a pioneer, nearly falling in a window well {which wouldn't have really mattered since it was full of snow}. A few times I wondered what would happen if I got stuck. Luckily I didn't {permanently, anyway}. Well, I finally reached the vent & it was indeed covered....which was good because if it hadn't been covered I would have been cursing my paranoia all night while I waited for my hips to thaw out.


SO, I saved our family from imminent danger tonight....but now my beautiful snow drifts are tainted with waist-deep footprints.

BLAST!

It's Groundhog Day!

Phil's official forecast as read 2/2/08 at sunrise at Gobbler's Knob:

Here Ye! Here Ye! Here Ye!
On Gobbler's Knob on this fabolous Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2008 Punxsutawney Phil, the Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators, Rose to the call of President Bill Cooper and greeted his handlers, Ben Hughes and John Griffiths.
After casting a weathered eye toward thousands of his faithful followers,Phil consulted with President Cooper and directed him to the appropriate scroll, which proclaimed:

"As I look around me, a bright sky I see, and a shadow beside me. Six more weeks of winter it will be!"

{BOO}

Blogging remorse?

Feeling guilty about your blogging habits? read this; you'll feel better!

Good Reads

I'm all for a great way to keep track of books I've read, liked, disliked, and want to read. GoodReads is a really cool way to figure out all of the books you have read. I find more every day. This is way easier than keeping a written list somewhere, plus all of your friends can take a look and see how you rate them. And, I am always looking for another good book to read, and I prefer to take recommendations from people I know and love-like you!!! Checkout my reading list on Goodreads here & sign up so I can see what you're reading!!