Rough Day!

I generally adore my children. However, today I have a great need to express my frustration, so this song pretty much sums it up, while making me laugh at the same time. Hope you enjoy!



Some other good songs by this same guy would be: The Toast Song and Eighteen Wheels on a Big Rig. Go to You Tube and look them up if you need a laugh like I do today!

Wednesday nights w/o Kendall...sigh

Sometimes I wish I had someone video taping our crazy life here at home. There are so many funny times. By the time we were done with dinner we had a mandatory bath night for all occupants of the household under the age of 4. Scene: Avri is sitting on the toilet, Talmage is playing with his training potty and Mercedes is in the bathtub with mom bending over her cleaning massive amounts of rice cereal from every nook and cranny.

Avri: Mom, let's sing "Hercules."
Mom: (Singing) "I have often dreamed..."
Avri: No mom, you have to start with the muses.
Mom: You do huh?
Avri: We are the muses, goddess of art, protectors, namafmmn, heroes like HUNKULES!

At this point I burst into laughter, I could hold it in no longer.

Talmage: Mom, bucket head!

I look at Talmage, who loves to put buckets on his head, to see the bowl of his potty upside down on his head. But have no fear, for he has not actually gone to the bathroom in it for weeks.

Mom: Talmage, that is not a bucket. That is gross.

We proceed to get pjs on, brush hair and Talmage is running around yelling "New shoes!! New shoes!!" Here is a picture of the kids wearing their "new shoes." Notice there are no shoes in the picture. He has found a recent fascination with footie pjs and calls them his new shoes. Guess it's time to go buy some slippers.

Side note, the kitten is gone. Avri decided that it was too noisy and said "Mom, we should take Dusty back to those nice people. He is too noisy." Kendall and I jumped on the excuse and promptly returned the kitten to its owner, happy to be rid of the stupidity of our decision. Needless to say, we will not be getting a pet for a while.

Temporary Insanity

Kendall and I had a lapse in judgement on Sunday night as we were driving around and saw a sign that said "free kittens" and we brought one home! It was about the right age, already litter trained and gray, which we both love. It was so cute and the kids were loving it! So we brought it home for a trial. The people said that if it didn't work out that we could bring it back. We are now trying to decide. I sort of forgot how allergic Kendall is to cats, and I don't know that I really need one more mouth to feed at every meal and one more mess to constantly clean up. The kids do love it and he is very cute. So we may take it back and plead temporary insanity, or we may decide to stick with it. We may give it a couple of days.

**Note: I will soon be posting a post on the tour of our house, I promise it is coming Janie, I'm just very slow.

A Blog About Mercedes

Sadie seems to be the one changing the most, and she is at such a fun and lovable age, so here is a post dedicated to her!



She loves to chew on anything but a pacifier, Her hair is weird, she has two cowlicks close to each other which makes her hair all grow into a natural mow-hawk,
she's quite the charmer, yet a trouble maker, and LOVES to snuggle with her Daddy. (He doesn't mind it either!)
I have a cute little video of Mercedes using her eyebrows to charm, however, I can't get it to load. Maybe some of you blogging experts have some advice? Is it too big, is it my computer, or am I just not smart enough to figure it out? Hmmm.

Krispy Kreme!!

I have a weakness for Krispy Kreme donuts, so when I got a coupon for them I decided to take the kids over to watch them make the donuts. Unfortunately they weren't making any, but we had fun anyway. The kids each got to pick a donut. Then we enjoyed!
And Talmage REALLY enjoyed. He was so funny!

Just as a side note, I just got off a Skype call with Kendall's family, and his brother Aaron just opened his mission call to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! Congrats Aaron!! (And if you don't know what Skype is, you should ask me because it is free and very cool for keeping in touch!)

Ask and Ye Shall Receive

So I mentioned something in one of my previous posts about not having much time for Kendall and I to be alone. I don't think my mom really even looks at my blog much since she just has dial up, but a few days later she called and said that her and my dad wanted to take the kids for a night so we could go to dinner and get our free meal. So last Friday night we did just that. We got the kids all ready to go to Grandma's. I fed Sadi right before we left and we drove the hour and a half to Princeton to get our free meal and back. So here's the story of the free meal: We went to this restaurant to meet some family members who were moving and Kendall decided to try their Beefeater's Challenge. You eat a salad, baked potato, piece of Texas toast and a 40 ounce steak (That's 2 1/2 pounds!) in 1 1/4 hours. If you eat it all they give you a medal which you can bring back and cash in for a free steak meal. We weren't sure if he'd make it when they brought out what looked like enough steak to feed an army of missionaries, but he did it. Here's the medal.

So back to the weekend. We got our very quiet meal and drove home without a single interruption. It was lovely!! We had to pick up Mercedes, but Avri and Talmage stayed overnight at Grandma and Grandpa's and so we went home and had a very quiet night as well! In the morning we slept all the way until 8:30!! Hooray! And then we got almost all the rest of the pictures hung. So a post will be soon in coming of the tour of our new house. I sort of forgot, and now I just need to clean up so I can take the pictures. Anyway, it was a fantastic evening. It's amazing how much more you love your children when you get away from them. Four full hours of only Kendall was great. We had a lot of fun just catching up with each other.

A Busy Homemaker

I guess I've been feeling slightly ambitious lately, and so I've been trying quite a few new things that I haven't done before. I feel like I've fallen behind on the normal stuff, but I've been having fun. I've been trying new things with Avri's hair, trying to branch out from my two hairstyles. I made homemade salsa, applesauce, and apple crisp all for the first time. We actually created our own salsa recipe with some help from Janie and the internet, and it was delicious!! The picture doesn't make the food look that good, but it sure tasted good.
I've been trying my hand at costume making. I'm trying to make matching poodle skirts for the girls and I. We are having a ward Sock Hop in January that I want to have skirts for, so I decided to make them. They are turning out a little easier than I thought (imagine that) except for the issue of when to work on them. Nap time goes WAY TOO FAST!! These are obviously not done, but in the process. I'm not planning on having them finished until January, but I'm shooting to have them finished soon. We'll just see. :)
And I have learned to make hair bows. I'm still way new to it and really practicing, but here are some of my newest creations on Sadi and Avri.
These are both on alligator clips so that they are interchangeable and everything and Avri is way excited about new accessories. She is such a girl!! But I guess so am I since I'm the one who wanted to learn. A couple of ladies in my ward here taught me a few things, but I still have lots to learn. All this has been in the last week (hence the absence from blogging). But I'm going to have to slow down a little since the bathrooms need to be cleaned and Avri wants to learn how to read. So, those will be my new projects. I think that bathrooms may be harder than the reading.