lose something?

I was at a wrapping party before Christmas. Some of the wives got together (that sounds polygamist) to wrap all the gifts without being bothered. Everybody brought some kind of snack to share. Somebody brought apples and I think it was caramel dip? I dunno but I had some. I was sitting on the couch munching away waiting for others to show up. (I'm friends with the others from lost. =D) I don't remember how it happened but I think Kaila made a grab for my plate and it went flying! I had three apple slices on it but I could only find two. I looked under the couch, by the end table, all over the floor. It was no where to be seen. I gave up and began to wrap presents.
About an hour later I decided it was time to go home because Kaila was helping me unwrap presents instead of wrap them. I grabbed my shoes to put them on and I sat down and felt a lump by my ankle. I FOUND THE APPLE SLICE! It was in the cuff of my pants. A little background as to why I couldn't find it. The sewing machine and I are not friends. I bought a pair of pants that was slightly too long. So I decided just to have a cuff . . . . that is 4 inches long. So that's why I couldn't find the apple. Moral of the story: hem your pants!

Faceless Pictures. Insert here!

While we were in California we ventured down to Ventura to hang out at the beach. It was sad because it was very very very very cold. Shali wanted to go swimming. So instead we walked around the shops and we stumbled upon some of those headless paintings you can put your face in and be anybody you want to be!




Although now that I actually look at the pictures, its kind of weird and creepy to see Savanna as a mermaid with umm that chest. Maybe I should delete it.

Nastalgia

For Christmas this year my sister surprised me and gave me a photo of me sitting on Santa's lap when I was little. She has been working on scanning slides and she came across this one. She put it in a cute little frame and took the time to hot glue little red jingle bells all around the frame. Only problem was the glue didn't like the surface so I am slowly losing little red balls everywhere. I giver her an A for effort though.

As I look closer at the picture I noticed there was something funny. She scanned the slide in backwards because there is a sign above me that is supposed to say NEW but instead it says WEN.



I pointed this out to her and then she showed me a candy cane growing out of my head. Which is a huge Faux pa in the photography world.





Then she told me she looked closer and saw an arm growing out of the side of me which was holding the candy cane growing out of my head. Ya, it Lisa who gave me the picture sabotaging me.

ITS ALIVE!!!

Kaila was crawling under my desk and she proceeded to hit the printer like she usually does. Then to my surprise I hear the scanner turn on and it appears on the computer. KAILA FIXED IT! I don't know what she did but it works. HOORAY!

Everybody needs to have fun

This past December we were on our way to California for a funeral for Travis's Grandpa. Along the way we stopped at state line and stayed at Whiskey Pete's. I know, what a lovely place to bring your kids! I was hoping we would get there soon enough to go swimming because its always hot in Nevada!!! We get there and the first thing I do is look at the pool and its closed for the season. LAME! oh well. Good thing I didn't tell my kids about it or they would have pesterd me the whole time.
We make it up to our room and we have a while before bed time plus they've been sleeping in the car so there's no way they are going to sleep. With a little encouragement from me we started to jump around the room from bed to bed and to the chairs. It was a blast. Who say's you
can't have fun in the middle of no where!!!

Gross things kids do.

Shali and Savanna recently went to a birthday party. They were very kind to send a thank you note and some gum for the girls. I gave the girls the reminder about chewing gum and making sure it goes in the garbage and not going to sleep with it in your mouth because it gets stuck in your hair and then we have to cut all you hair off. (run on sentence, I know.)
This morning as I was getting the girls ready, I was brushing Shali's hair and found a big wad of gum stuck at the end. I was able to get it out with out shaving her head. Apparently I left it on the counter because this afternoon she comes in chewing gum. I asked her where she got it and she said from Katie. There were only two peices of gum in the envelope and Savanna had the other. Eventually I got her to confess she grabbed it off the counter and started chewing it again. Boy was she mad I made her spit it out.