One more story for tonight. For those of you who have Netflix, you all know what an amazingly wonderful thing it is. My husband HATES TV. He does not watch TV. Now that 24 is off the air, he will likely never watch TV again. Until we started streaming netflix through the TV that is. Now he has all the history shows he could ever watch just beckoning him to stretch out on the couch, which he does now on occasion. Erick has said so many times "I can't believe we wasted so many months without Netflix on our TV." It's true. It is amazing.
The other night Erick was working late and I was flipping through the netflix instant play options. I came upon Season 1 of The X Files. I had to watch an episode. You see, when I was probably around nine years old, my dad and I and I'm sure some of the other kids would watch The X Files on Friday nights. I didn't remember much about the show other than that I would never have admitted to ANYONE at school that I watched such a weird show with my DAD, but I think I remember liking it. So I pressed play and it's amazing what memories can do. As the X Files theme music began to play I could remember my dad whistling along with it as he did every week (over 15 years ago!). He would even do a neat duet where he would do an echo with the music (which also sounds like whistling). I remembered being that young girl spending time with my dad watching The X Files. And it brought me the strangest sense of peace and comfort. Let me say. The show is a lot scarier than I ever remember it being. But it probably wasn't that scary when I was 9 because I was watching it with dad. I can say it's a lot easier to follow those plot lines now that I'm 27 though.
In the last two weeks I've watched about four episodes. It's kind of funny. If I've had a long stressful day, there's nothing like curling up on the couch with a bowl of ice cream and a good episode of the X files. It just feels right. It feels like dad's right there whistling along and I'm a 9 year old without a care in the world! So thanks for watching TV with me dad. It was fun back then, and it means a lot now!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Cora Story
First off let me say, that I would love to post new pictures of the baby and everything that has happened this summer, but I cannot for the life of me get my pics to load to my computer! Something is wrong and I can't get it to work! When I figure it out there will be baby over load! Moving on...
It has been a while since I posted. There are plenty of reasons for this. Namely, I was pregnant and tired, then I had a baby and was tired, and then all of our family visited and we were busy. Now things are settling down and I am a teensy bit less tired. So here is what happened tonight:
I put Bryant and Cash to bed around 7:30. Bryant always has to go to bed early because he always wakes up with the sun no matter what. If he stays up late, he's in a bad mood all the next day so he goes to bed early. Period. Cora is a different story. She is a little night owl. She loves to sleep in, so a lot of times after Bryant goes to bed she'll just play in her room for a couple of hours and just entertain herself. She never really bothers me much, so I don't mind.
Tonight at around 8:30 after playing in her room for about an hour she sauntered down stairs and nonchalantly said that she would be painting a picture. Cora is a mess maker and a half, but for some reason she is the neatest little painter there is so I just let her do her thing. She got out the paint, paper, and cup of water all by herself and got to work while I was cleaning the rest of the kitchen. Something interesting: At around 7:00 at night Cora likes to "hum" when she's concentrating or falling asleep. It sounds like a distant lawn mower. It's kind of a sign that she's a little tired. So while she was painting she hummed and I cleaned. She then said "Mom, you'd better not touch this paper...you'd better not!"
"Okay Cora, I won't touch your picture."
"Oh Mom, I wish I had a dinosaur. I'd give it a pretty crown to wear. I want a dinosaur and a pink crown for my birthday"
"Okay Cora"
"Mom, what did I paint?"
"You tell me what you painted"
"I don't know, what did I paint?"
"It looks like a black bird flying through flowers"
"No, it's not that. It's a dinosaur."
"Oh, it's very pretty"
And then Cora being Cora of course asked for a cookie. Which I gave her.
It has been a while since I posted. There are plenty of reasons for this. Namely, I was pregnant and tired, then I had a baby and was tired, and then all of our family visited and we were busy. Now things are settling down and I am a teensy bit less tired. So here is what happened tonight:
I put Bryant and Cash to bed around 7:30. Bryant always has to go to bed early because he always wakes up with the sun no matter what. If he stays up late, he's in a bad mood all the next day so he goes to bed early. Period. Cora is a different story. She is a little night owl. She loves to sleep in, so a lot of times after Bryant goes to bed she'll just play in her room for a couple of hours and just entertain herself. She never really bothers me much, so I don't mind.
Tonight at around 8:30 after playing in her room for about an hour she sauntered down stairs and nonchalantly said that she would be painting a picture. Cora is a mess maker and a half, but for some reason she is the neatest little painter there is so I just let her do her thing. She got out the paint, paper, and cup of water all by herself and got to work while I was cleaning the rest of the kitchen. Something interesting: At around 7:00 at night Cora likes to "hum" when she's concentrating or falling asleep. It sounds like a distant lawn mower. It's kind of a sign that she's a little tired. So while she was painting she hummed and I cleaned. She then said "Mom, you'd better not touch this paper...you'd better not!"
"Okay Cora, I won't touch your picture."
"Oh Mom, I wish I had a dinosaur. I'd give it a pretty crown to wear. I want a dinosaur and a pink crown for my birthday"
"Okay Cora"
"Mom, what did I paint?"
"You tell me what you painted"
"I don't know, what did I paint?"
"It looks like a black bird flying through flowers"
"No, it's not that. It's a dinosaur."
"Oh, it's very pretty"
And then Cora being Cora of course asked for a cookie. Which I gave her.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Adventures in Walmart
So today, we went to Wal mart to pick up some curtains I ordered through the free site to store shipping. For some reason I am redecorating Cora's room for the third time in her very short life. Oh well. After our trip to Walmart I planned on going to Aldi's to buy pretty much all the canned goods we will need for the next year--big day. In Wal mart we get the curtains with no problems and all of a sudden Bryant wails and screams that his shoe has broken. It was true. His shoes have little bungee cords to tighten them and one of them had snapped, rendering the shoe useless. Bryant said that he couldn't go on, and that he would just have to go home. I have been planning this trip to Aldi for a while, and today was the day, so I told him we could just buy him a pair of croc's or something and he'd be fine. Also, take note that in the last month he has lost TWO pairs of shoes. I'm sure we'll find them, but they have been MIA for a while now, and one pair I just bought in November. Anyways, it's not like he had a lot of shoes to come home to or anything, so when we saw that they had no crocs, I just told him to pick a pair and be done with it.
This was an agonizing decision. Each color required the utmost consideration and thought, he couldn't decide whether he wanted a 10 or an 11. He didn't know if he wanted Disney Car shoes or regular, velcro or tie. Finally, I had to remind him that he hated the movie cars and that he needed to learn to tie his own shoes since he's almost five, and that he should just man up and get some regular shoe-lace shoes. So he did. After I removed the tags and put them on, he instantly changed his mind and needed the other color. I took the tags off the new color and put those on and he said they were too small and didn't feel right. I told him they fit great and he just needed a few minutes. He calmed down.
Pretty sweet for Wal mart right?
So all the while Bryant is meticulously trying to decide on his shoes Cora is tearing apart the shoe isle looking at all pink and white tennis shoes and taking them out of the boxes to get a better look. While looking, she found a pair of pink and white Disney princess shoes that light up when you walk. Frankly, I hate shoes with characters on them, and never wanted to buy any. I didn't come here to buy shoes, I came to buy curtains. But this little girl had fire in her eyes, and there was just no way Bryant was going out of Wal mart with new shoes and she not. I tried feebley to disagree and told her that Bryant needed shoes because his broke. She wouldn't hear a word of it, and started to throw a very nice tantrum. The truth is that I rarely give into tantrums. I think that's why my kids don't have them very often, but I felt for her. I just knew that she had to have them, so I sighed and said "Happy Valentine's day!" They were both so happy. I'm such a stickler for consistency and not giving in to my kids demands and whims, but today, it just felt right. And you bet she put those shoes on right there and has refused to take them off for the rest of the day.
And we still got to go to Aldi where I spent an amazing amount of money and ended up with a cart so heavy that some man had to help me push it out to the car. It was awesome.
Here's the can pyramid that Bryant built at lunch time
This was an agonizing decision. Each color required the utmost consideration and thought, he couldn't decide whether he wanted a 10 or an 11. He didn't know if he wanted Disney Car shoes or regular, velcro or tie. Finally, I had to remind him that he hated the movie cars and that he needed to learn to tie his own shoes since he's almost five, and that he should just man up and get some regular shoe-lace shoes. So he did. After I removed the tags and put them on, he instantly changed his mind and needed the other color. I took the tags off the new color and put those on and he said they were too small and didn't feel right. I told him they fit great and he just needed a few minutes. He calmed down.
Pretty sweet for Wal mart right?So all the while Bryant is meticulously trying to decide on his shoes Cora is tearing apart the shoe isle looking at all pink and white tennis shoes and taking them out of the boxes to get a better look. While looking, she found a pair of pink and white Disney princess shoes that light up when you walk. Frankly, I hate shoes with characters on them, and never wanted to buy any. I didn't come here to buy shoes, I came to buy curtains. But this little girl had fire in her eyes, and there was just no way Bryant was going out of Wal mart with new shoes and she not. I tried feebley to disagree and told her that Bryant needed shoes because his broke. She wouldn't hear a word of it, and started to throw a very nice tantrum. The truth is that I rarely give into tantrums. I think that's why my kids don't have them very often, but I felt for her. I just knew that she had to have them, so I sighed and said "Happy Valentine's day!" They were both so happy. I'm such a stickler for consistency and not giving in to my kids demands and whims, but today, it just felt right. And you bet she put those shoes on right there and has refused to take them off for the rest of the day.
And we still got to go to Aldi where I spent an amazing amount of money and ended up with a cart so heavy that some man had to help me push it out to the car. It was awesome. Here's the can pyramid that Bryant built at lunch time
Christmas in Coloroado
We went to Colorado for Christmas to spend our holidays with Erick's family. His mom, dad, two sisters and their husbands and their cousin Rylan. It was a lot of fun. We did so many things and the kids of course did not want to leave! Let's face it, no one can spoil kids like grand parents. There was candy, presents galore, Nick Jr., unlimited attention, toys, and much much more. They also liked sharing a room with Erick and I, and Cora liked it so much she decided that she could never possibly take a nap or go to bed without me laying down with her. That stopped as soon as we got home! But it really was great, and oh my gosh, I have never been so well fed in my life! And when I got home I was able to clean out a closet and completely fill it with all the toys they got for Christmas! We were very spoiled and very taken care of! Here are some of the high lights!
Christmas morning (our kids were up at 5:30 easily with the two hour time difference!):
Bowling: Bryant and Grandma Janette always bowl on skype together so they had to go bowling for real! Bryant loved it!
And even Cora played
We also took the kids to Chuckie Cheese's for the first time. Bryant was in over load with all of the tokens. We pretty much just let the kids do whatever they wanted, so we ended up using a lot of tokens, but it was worth it
Cora liked the food best of course
A lot of there time was just spent playing with their cousin Rylan and having fun...I think Rylan had about had enough of Bryant and Cora by the end of it all; they can be pretty overwhelming!
Merry Christmas!
Just want to make you jealous
Yeah, I make these for breakfast...a lot. Aren't I lucky? Well, at least I'll be a lot more lucky when Erick fixes my blender. I burned the motor from making too many delicious healthy smoothies. Bummer. But, soon, I will be at it again! And there's always the food processor for when I get really desperate!
Christmas in the Carolinas
So this Christmas we were in Colorado, but before we left we spent some time with my side of the family. It was cold, rainy, and snowy, but we still had a lot of fun. Andrea and Emma came and stayed with us for a few days and we shopped despite the weather. They especially liked Edward Mckay's bookstore where Andrea found lots of very lovely cook books. Then we discovered that Cora really liked to look at those cook books. Andrea probably read cook books to Cora for three or four hours and each time she turned a page Cora would pretend to eat whatever was in the picture. Very cute.
Also, Andrea noted after looking at the kids' scrap books that Emma was on far more pages than she, so I made sure to take plenty of pics with the kids and Andrea and made sure to...well...leave Emma out of them. Sorry Emma! Hurray Andrea!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Maura's Wedding
Just wanted to say that even though I have no pictures to show for it, Erick and I had an unforgettable experience in Utah with the family and at Maura's wedding. Unfortunately, I lost my camera and turned the house upside-down, until midnight the night before we left, and couldn't find it ANYWHERE. I felt horrible, but there was nothing I could do. We had to go to the airport with or without the camera, so we did. But luckily, there were plenty of cameras there, and Maura's wedding was very well documented. But I did want to say that Erick and I loved every moment we spent with his and my family. Some high-lights included:
1. Getting to go without the kids!!! Thanks mom!
2. The bridal shower, where we met Devan, finding out he's an amateur archeologist (if you google the correct spelling of his name), seeing all the Allen fam, and knowing that Maura was marring just the right person!
3. Meeting Rex for the first time. When I saw him, it took my breath away because a) he was SOOO CUTE, and b) he looked so much like baby Bryant did.
4. Getting to chat and have lunch with my brother and sisters and in-laws. I treasure each time I get to see them.
5. Getting to stay with Jordan and Erica. They are the best! They are wonderful hosts, and they would be the best neighbors in the world if we ever got to live near them! I love it when someone your husband loves marries someone equally as loveable! That is the case with Jordan and Erica--I get along with her like I've known her my whole life!
6. The hike--one of the benefits of going to UT sans children was that we got to go on a hike with Jordan, Erica, Niel, and Erick's uncle Mike. It was great hearing Erick's dad and brother tell awesome stories of growing up in the Cashe Valley. It was probably a once-in-a-lifetime thing. We both cherished it.
7. The wedding. Awesome. Beautiful bride, handsome groom--wish we could have spent a little more time with both of them, but weddings are always so busy, so we'll wait till Christmas. Maura was a gorgeous bride, and the wedding was wonderful.
8. The reception. Got to see and spend time with Grandma and Grandpa Allen, Grandma and Grandpa Erickson, and tons of Allens. They are such a great family and I love being a part of it. It was hard to leave everyone! I wish we could live there sometimes! And we're looking forward to Christmas in Colorado! There were so many more great moments, and I could type all night! But I have to stop somewhere!
1. Getting to go without the kids!!! Thanks mom!
2. The bridal shower, where we met Devan, finding out he's an amateur archeologist (if you google the correct spelling of his name), seeing all the Allen fam, and knowing that Maura was marring just the right person!
3. Meeting Rex for the first time. When I saw him, it took my breath away because a) he was SOOO CUTE, and b) he looked so much like baby Bryant did.
4. Getting to chat and have lunch with my brother and sisters and in-laws. I treasure each time I get to see them.
5. Getting to stay with Jordan and Erica. They are the best! They are wonderful hosts, and they would be the best neighbors in the world if we ever got to live near them! I love it when someone your husband loves marries someone equally as loveable! That is the case with Jordan and Erica--I get along with her like I've known her my whole life!
6. The hike--one of the benefits of going to UT sans children was that we got to go on a hike with Jordan, Erica, Niel, and Erick's uncle Mike. It was great hearing Erick's dad and brother tell awesome stories of growing up in the Cashe Valley. It was probably a once-in-a-lifetime thing. We both cherished it.
7. The wedding. Awesome. Beautiful bride, handsome groom--wish we could have spent a little more time with both of them, but weddings are always so busy, so we'll wait till Christmas. Maura was a gorgeous bride, and the wedding was wonderful.
8. The reception. Got to see and spend time with Grandma and Grandpa Allen, Grandma and Grandpa Erickson, and tons of Allens. They are such a great family and I love being a part of it. It was hard to leave everyone! I wish we could live there sometimes! And we're looking forward to Christmas in Colorado! There were so many more great moments, and I could type all night! But I have to stop somewhere!
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