My bad

Sorry about the lack of posts. I have just been too busy giving my family hugs... This girl decided to read 59 books for the year 2011 and finished 57. She didn't meet her goal but I know when I was 14 I didn't have any sort of ambition to read a book a week (at least) and I love to read. In this picture she has already started on her new goal of 65 books. She likes the "kindle", I prefer old fashion paper pages, but alas I am from the old generation.

I bought everyone their own personal bottle of sparkling cider for New Years. I enjoyed my big girl sippie cup. And I'm pretty sure everyone but me and Pops were pretending to be drunk. (Pops always looks that way)

Pops is teaching himself how to play the guitar, he does pretty good but I have to admit I love it when he wears the head phones, ONLY because he turns the distortion on the AMP up so high it "ruins"? it.

Pops also had his "Mormon Horn" removed. The Dr. said he had tough skin, literally :)

It accidentally erased a couple of pictures of Jett with his guitar and Enola with her cello. Since my keyboard is broken and the pictures are on my computer it takes me twice as long to fix things. But I promise I will have a post of the kids and their musical talents within the week. PROMISE!

Mwah ha ha

Jack Skellington himself

It was like the good old days when mom would slave away over a costume.

The Nurse who couldn't take it anymore.

You can't tell but her wrists are slit as well as the head wound and gunshot to the right temple to go along with the bloody tears and slit throat.

Until next year.....

Soccer Star

I have been patiently waiting for mom to do a post....

I only have so much of this so called patience.

Jett started soccer and had his last game this past Sat. Pops has taken a ton of pictures, I tried to use those for a post but I spent a lot of time trying to find any pictures among the other 4,000 photos but they are all out of order. Once I did find them I couldn't post them in "Tiff" form and being computer illiterate had no chance of figuring out how to put them in "jpeg" form. Anyhow so I went last week to take some pictures with my camera got one and the battery died. I went again yesterday and got some more. I think Jett had the largest fan base. The parentals, Chris and I as well as DJ and Chelsea were there to cheer him on. They don't really keep score because they don't want anyone to fell bad. Blah blah so what. If you suck you loose practice at it and don't wine about it when you don't win. It could also be that they are still pretty young and are really just learning the rules of the game and what not so in that case I guess I'm fine with them not keeping score.

I digress.

Jett is a good little soccer player, the 3 games I've seen he's always been pretty aggressive after the ball, I've seen him do a couple of good head butts and steal the ball from other players as well as throwing a shoulder here and there.

Enough of my rambling. Enjoy the pictures.

He's a stud. (even with his chicken legs)

So I may have slacked a bit

This summer was crazy busy and it seemed as though no one was home for the majority of it and therefore I did not do a family post.

Sorry

But here are some new pics.

Mom and the kids were out of town for Pops birthday. I worked all morning and Pops had to go into work that night. So he only got a cupcake.

He was so excited about the awesome twisty candle.

Jett and his two best buddies Alex (the medic) and Ian, on their last day together because they moved to Ephraim.

He has nightmares about "Nam" now.

Any chance Jett has to take his shirt off and show off his abs.

Enola has to make a meal a day for two weeks at least for a Personal Progress goal. She has made some pretty tastey meals. This was Chicken with potatoes, pea, and coconut-curry sauce and last night was a delicious rosemary chicken with sweet-and-sour orange dipping sauce.

So yesterday was the last day of summer for Jett and the last day Chris and I were watching them so we went on a tour of a candy factory. It was fun enough but I wish they would have been making more things but the free samples were a bonus and we walked out with a lot of fresh off the line goodies.

Tastey

I was a nice sister and bought Jett a treat.

Just a bit sour is all.

Sorry there isn't more. Mom keeps saying she is going to post such and such.

I think I need to teach her and then maybe she will

It didn't end on April 1st

I came home a few days later after closing crawled into bed and felt something in the bed. My first thought was, "What did Chris eat/leave in the bed now?"

But I made the bed before leaving for work and I don't remember anything so I threw the covers back and....

Then I went to get something out of my drawers....

I would also find the small ones stuck inside my shirts throughout the next couple of days.

I am a very patient woman. I held on to all those beautiful post it notes and shredded them up. Carefully bagged them and hiked up to their room.

I just want to tell you...It was magical!

Up next week,

Jett and the pinewood derby.

Post Its

More than just for handy little notes.

I had to get up early on my day off to accomplish this.

Poor mom got all the "fools". I was hoping the rubber-band around the sprayer on the sink would have gotten Jett just because he would have been the perfect height.

Mom and I put wax paper in the kids peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Which Enola informed us as soon as she got home that it pulled all the jelly out. And she ended up with just a pudding and drink for lunch.

The parentals got me back with my own stunt though while I was watching a documentary. Of course they had to steal my cleverness and team up.

So after I was done gathering the post its off of my car, I gave them back.

I was planning on putting Easter Egg dye in the shower head because we all know Pops would have been in the shower first. Unfortunately the shower head has been fused on with hard water. I even had the blue ones crushed up and ready to go.

There are a few more surprises awaiting them later today....

Hope your day was filled with laughter too!