call me crazy...gobble gobble.

A couple of weeks ago, I woke up thinking about piñatas. I have no idea why. I used to make them when I was little for the holidays but I haven't made any since. I take that back I made a cardboard one for one of boo's birthday....which by the way, do not break. So I decided, what the heck, why not. I took the idea the idea and ran with it. Here is what I ended up with:

 Notice the picture  above has the red thing ( I don't  even know the name) but the one below does not. in the morning when boo the turkey she told me that it was missing the red thing by its beak. She said without it its just a chicken. I'm pretty  sure there are more  differences  between  a turkey and a chicken than that but I obeyed and gave my turkey the finishing touch.

I enjoyed making it. Something about the floury  goop all over your hands. :)  and u decorated him in the time it took GG to go play basketball , cool down and shower  (so really I am saying it took me an entire evening). It's  a fun, cheap creative outlet. I have snowmen running  around my head now. :)

the weekend

Friday night after I put the crazy kids to bed I waited for GG to come home. I was excited because I was determined to move our living room furniture around. I was just itching for a change and to keep the kids from constantly standing on the couch to look out the window.

The wonderful husband didn't complain hardly at all about my plans for the evening, even though he knows we will have to rearrange it in two week so we will have room for our Christmas tree. He knows what will help my sanity and improve me mood. Nothing like rearranging after being bombared by crazy kids all day. :) 

Unfortunately, my luck for the day hadn't changed. I forgot I had specifically asked Boo to move my laptop under the couch earlier in the day so it wouldn't get stepped on or played with by  Little Miss. Having forgot about it during our rearranging of furniture, it inevitably got stepped on while we moved the couch. I now have to hook my computer up to the TV to use it.  Plus side, I can still use it and access all my files. Down side, at some point I will have to give in and get a new computer. .. it was totally not on my list of wants for Christmas. .....unless I have a techy friend who happens to know how to change a computer screen on a laptop????

Yesterday it snowed. I dreaded it. I got everything taken care of Friday so I could just stay home. For whatever reason, I felt like I should make seeing the movie "meet the Mormons" happen. So we went. And it was fun walking downtown with the hubby in the snow. Then later on we played in the snow with the girls and went sledding. Little Miss did not enjoy her snow clothes, she cried and wailed  the entire time as I was putting them on her. Once we got outside she calmed down a bit but she still wasn't sold on it. I don't know that she ever enjoyed being all bundled up but once she saw we were there to have fun she relaxed more.

And this Little Miss started nursery today. From what I heard she did great and when I peeked in during lesson time she was sitting on her chair. The only squawk I heard while I sat outside the nursery, playing hall monitor,  was when she wanted her snack. I'm so glad. I've been worried about this day for 6-9 months because she is a bit more attached than Boo ever was. Yay for a good first day. :)

Had a rough start to the weekend but it turned out well. 

flower birthday

Boo had a birthday. She is a whole stinkin' five years old. I cannot believe that time has flown by so fast. She is acts like such a big girl before I know it she'll be 12. AHHH.

Since the day after her birthday last year, she has requested a flower party.  Since her birthday was on a Sunday and the day before was pretty busy I got her to be okay with not a party but a flower birthday.  I made 9 balloon flowers and I can't believe I didn't get a single picture with them in it. darn.  I wanted to make her birthday more special than normal Sunday dinner with grandma and grandpa and her cousin, so I told her she could invite 2 friends over for cake and ice cream...which ended up being 3 friends. So it totally ended up feeling a party but oh well. She was ecstatic. She loves birthdays.

I'm so glad she is a part of our family. So much love.

parenting fail

A week ago or so Boo had fire safety week at school. I would say she loved seeing the fire men and learning about stop, drop and roll. That same week I saw a clip on the Today show about how families don't have a fire safety plan. So I thought why not. I added it to my lesson about being prepared with the 72hour back packs.  Apparently, she is not ready. I should her how to touch the door to see if it's hot and crawl on the floor and how to open a window to get out if needed. GG also tested the fire alarms. She did not like that sound. At the end of the lesson she said, "I didn't like that lesson".

And now last night she woke up being afraid of a fire and that fire fighters would make it in time . She had a rough night, so we had a rough night, and so did little miss because they now share a room. Ugh.

Yes I am a worried but I felt like I did it matter of factly and shared this isn't likely but we need to be prepared. ....right now I wish I waited another year.  I remember waking up and talking to my mom because I was scared of a fire....I had several dreams growing up where our family got separated. Now I went and made my daughter go through the same thing. Fail.

1 year

Happy Home Ownership Anniversary to US!
one year! It has gone by so fast. We love our home. We are still learning of it's "special-ness" but it is still a great house and in a great neighborhood. So we are happy.

We decided since our home warranty was about up we'd get a few things fixed that we were just kinda waiting until they really broke. Want to hear about some stupid fixes?

For a whole year our garage door remote opener hasn't worked.....the answer after two repairmen and a couple of hours of fiddling around? The security switch was turned out which turns off the remotes. Ha! that was a waste of $60. ...well, not really because now it works. How many times have I gotten out of my car to open and close the garage?!

The other stupid fix. The top heating element in our oven hasn't worked for the whole year. I have baked numerous cakes and batches of cookies. I have learned to be very attentive to what is cooking, turning it around, turning the heat up or down. The guy walks in and looks at and in in one second says the element isn't plugged into the back. That was it! It wasn't plugged in! oh good grief!

Ahh well. We live and learn!

falling for fall

It is beautiful around here! I love that there are so many trees in my neighborhood and I love even more that I don't actually have any deciduous trees in my own yard. :) no leaves to clean up...unless they blow in our yard.  However, I'm thinking we will need to volunteer to help someone clean up their leaves because Boo has learned about jumping in leaves. However, she thinks that just jumping in leaves laying around someone's yard or sidewalk is like jumping into a PILE of leaves. I think it is time for her to have the real experience.

A few weeks ago we got to go and pick a few apples from an orchard and have some fantastic donuts...really these are the best.

For fall break we were going to go to the pumpkin patch but it rained. My smart hubby had the thought to go to the Roller Skating Museum. It's been on our list for awhile so we went and did. It was probably the most fascinating museum I have ever been to. :) Usually my eye gloss over, I yawn and mossy on through, just antsy for it to be over but I LOVE ROLLER SKATING. So I was totally interested. hehe.

Then we went to the pumpkin patch a couple of days later. I am so glad we went in the afternoon while school was still in AND that we had free passes. Super expensive. And it was C-RAZY busy when we left. If I even had to wait in a line that long I would have said, "FORGET IT!" Seriously, I hate crowds. I hate that everyone else is doing it. Anyway, it was fun. And sadly, it is the closest thing our state has to an amusement park and it is a fall novelty. I can't even imagine how much dough they are raking in. Anyway, it was fun and GG and the girls loved it. 

Happy Fall Ya' All

B. E. Prepared!

B.E. Prepared! B.E. Prepared! ( like a little cheer) :)

It's that time of year again. 72 hour kit rotation time! Every 6 months around general conference I go through the kits and take out the expiring food and buy some more.  I kinda get excited about it but at the same time it is a lot of work. Here are some of my thoughts about 72 hour kits and getting them together:
- buy food you want to eat and it makes it fun to rotate because you get to eat it.
-buy what you can from the dollar store. This was the first time I did that and it happened by accident and I found some good buys there. (i bought chicken salad/ crackers (before I bought tuna and crackers for one of the meals...this chicken salad things was, obviously, only a dollar. However, I have no idea how it tastes.)
-as much as i want to have complete meals, it's an emergency and we'll be happy for something small that will give us enough energy to get through.
-keep it so you can carry it
-think about little kids being able to open the food if you weren't there (I hate thinking that we might not be together but at least they could eat despite all my other worries)
-small steps. that is the only thing that makes emergency preparedness possible for me. I'm still not completely prepared for 72 hours away from home with no access to all comforts but little by little I hope we will.  I try to collect things here and there.

my plan is that on Monday night we'll have a family home evening where we talk with Boo about emergencies and what to do. And show each family member their back pack and where everything is.
Last time when I was shopping for supplies a cashier asked why I was buying something (I don't remember what but I mentioned 72 hour kits and he had no idea what that was.  For some people it doesn't even cross their mind to be prepared for an emergency. I don't know how people live like that. Since I am a worry-wart, "the idea" of being prepared is comforting and something I hope for but I'm a long way from being prepared enough that I have peace and comfort knowing that we have what we need.

Anyway, B.E. prepared! :)