Thank you!

Dear Becky, Nathan and Marley Parley Pants,

Thank you for the stylish birthday hat, the DVD of my favorite Disney Movie, for the Lip Tint (don't my lips look HOT?!) and for the yummy white treats. We like to lick them and put them on my face. It's fun but then I forget they are there and go about my business with food on my face. They sure are tasty.

Yes, my birthday isn't until Monday but I had to bust those gifts open as soon as I saw them. Thanks and I love you all.

Dear Reader: If you think I'm crazy and you don't

know why this picture is funny, go here and here.

Conversations with Sam

In the car on the way to school -

Sam: Mom, I thought of someone who could kill Link.

Me: Who?

Sam: Guess.




Me: Uuummmmm, the PowerPuff Girls.

Sam: TSS! NO!




Me: Uuummmmm, King Koopa

Sam: Who's that?

Me: The bad guy on Mario Brothers.

Sam: No way. If Mario can kill him just by jumping on him a few times then Link could totally kill him. Link has a sword, boomerang and a bow and arrows.

Me: Oh. Then who, tell me.

Sam: BEN TEN! (said in a DUHHH voice.)

Me: What? No way. If Link can kill that big boss who looks like a dinosaur by hitting him in the belly with a bomb and then while he lays down to recover Link aims a bomb in his mouth to blow him up from the inside, then Ben Ten could never kill Link.

Sam: YES! If Ben Ten used his Omnitrex to become Grey Matter or Diamond Head he could kill Link because......


Luckily the drive to school only takes about three minutes, other wise he would have gone on all day. OK, maybe I did egg him on a little, but he doesn't have any siblings. If I don't do it, who will?

Cooking for one.... Sooo funny!

I found this video last night and Matt and I laughed and laughed... If you get the option to watch the out takes after you watch this then do it.... Hilarious? SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!

Boise, Idaho

We went on a quick weekend trip to celebrate March Madness with Matt's brother and sister and their families. It was fun. Get ready for a load of pictures. First we'll play Where's Sammy (Where's Waldo style). You may need to click the photo and enlarge it to find him.



Did you see him? How about now? Matt's brother's house it right in front of an empty field. There are some dirt hills in the field and a few discarded building supplies. Sam and his cousin's had a blast out there. He called me over to see the fort he built.

This is Sam climbing into his fort.

Still working on getting in there....

"Ahh, this is the life. I have a wonderful view of the sky... I just hope that a bird doesn't fly by..."

"Such a nice a spacious piece of property."

"Uh oh, gotta go bathroom!"

Aunt Jill took us down to see their creek which I thought was more like a river. This is Sam and his cousin Chase. Chase was worried about "Creekodiles" while we were down there.

This is Jill and Mitchell.

Cousin Dallin taught Sam how to skip rocks.

And Sammy skipped his first rock and I just happened to catch both splashes on "Film".

And back at the house the March Madness was intense. Look at them all leaning forward.

Oh, they are munching on their wings.... Have I ever mentioned how much I love game day food? Well the wings did not disappoint.

WHAAA?

The weather was beautiful on Friday. We went to the park and everyone else in town had the same great idea. It was pretty busy.

Sam and Dallin had a great time monkeying around.

If that's not a white monkey I don't know what is.

On Saturday the weather turned rainy. We went to the Boise Discovery Center. It was a fun and different thing to do. We learned a lot about natural forces. Matt controlled a robot hand.

Sam pulled himself up... up...up.

There was a curtained off room where you could pose. Then there was a beeping noise to alert you to stop moving and then a bright flash. Then when you stepped back it was like your shadow stayed there. I'm not sure why Matt is making such a lovely face.... It didn't show up on his shadow.

Here is veterinarian Sam at his practice. he spent more time with the X-rays than he did with the animals... We're hoping he becomes a radiologist instead since we hate animals and we're trying to instill the same feelings in Sam.

On our way home we saw a double rainbow. I"m not sure why the higher one didn't show up. So you'll just have to believe me when I tell you it was beautiful.

It was a fun trip and THANK YOU to our wonderful family for spending time with us and letting us come to your homes.

I confess....

I hid a whole box of Girl Scout Cookies (Do-si-dos) behind the microwave popcorn in the pantry, just so I could eat them all... by myself... without sharing... while Sam was at school.

Now, I'm hiding behind my computer with with a glass of milk and a whole sleeve of peanut buttery goodness. Every time the wrapper makes a noise the little girl I tend stops what she's doing and looks over here. So I stop moving my mouth and play it cool. I know she is on to me.

Wacky Wednesday

Last Wednesday, Sam's class had a Wacky Wednesday based on the book by Dr. Seuss. They have been talking a lot about him because his birthday was the week before and they got to bring their favorite Dr. Seuss books to school along with a pillow, blanket or stuffed animal (Sam took one of each) to get cozy with while they celebrated by reading the books. I had this book as a child and it was one of my favorites..... OK, they were all my favorites and I get nostalgic when hear about them or when Sam brings one home from the Library. MOM! What happened to all those wonderful books?!
Back to Sam's Wacky day. He decided that he was going to wear pants.... On the top of his body... I said, "Everyone will call you butt head." He didn't care. So I grabbed a pair of old church pants that were in the pile of stuff for
our next trip to the good old DI (which is directly across from our house but for some reason it takes me months and months to drop of my crap - I mean, gently used items). I made a cut along the crotch seam which Sam could barely get his big head through, and viola! What a Wacky boy! He was mainly concerned that it looked like he had boobs all day, especially when he put his hands in the pockets. I thought it looked like he was wearing a little jacket, and so did a friend of mine who asked me whose jacket he was wearing.
Yesterday he had the thought that he should have worn a long sleeve shirt as pants that day. Sorry dude, too late.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Last night Sam got a bee in his bonnet. He was bound and determined to catch a leprechaun. I really wasn't feeling it. But he wouldn't be dissuaded. So for our FHE activity we made a trap. As you can see we used the lid of a box that just happened to have Christmas wrap on it. We propped it up with a hanger that had a string attached to it.

On the other end of the string there was a quarter attached by tape. We all know leprechauns can't resist money that's just laying around. So we were hoping that he would pick up the quarter, which would make the string pull on the hanger, which would fall causing the lid to come down on the little guy, trapping him until morning when we could come and have a look at him. We weren't going to keep him, just have a look at him. Well, this morning Sam found the lid down. So he got on the floor with his eyes really close to the box lid and he slowly lifted the lid. He found a note and a little Lego set.

We are a little creeped out to know that a little creature/person was wandering around our house last night while we slept.
Sam doesn't feel too bad about losing his quarter considering the leprechaun left him a new toy.