8 Things Tag...

Who doesn't love lists!
8 TV shows I watch
1. Pushing Daisies
2. Family Guy
3. How I Met Your Mother
4. Grey's Anatomy (I can't stand the show, but I still watch it)
5. Project Runway
6. Dirty Jobs
7. The Soup
8. Myth Busters (the last three are really stretching it)
8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Cafe Express -ahhh black bean soup
2. Rudy's
3. Sonic - Mostly for their Drinks/Ice
4. Bennihanna's
5. Training Table (I miss you...)
6. Does My mom's kitchen count???
7. Taco Bell
8. Island Snow... I know it doesn't really count, but they still have the best shaved Ice EVER.
8 Things that Happened Yesterday
1.Babysat Ethan, Nadia & Madison and took care of my kids too
2. Went to Target- Woohoo!
3. Did my laundry
4. Made shirt for me (I didn't sew it, I printed a design on it)
5. Played Bass
6. Watched How I Met you Mother
7. Unloaded the Dishwasher (I feel like I do that every day)
8. Read Charlotte's Web to Jason
8 Things I’m looking forward to
1. Joe Satriani concert with Matt tonight... date and music = awesome!
2. The New MUSE album and seeing them live (still Months/Years Away)
3. Thanksgiving & Christmas
4. Matt being done with school
5. Seeing Jason and Ian as teenagers - I know, I know, I'm crazy!
6. Taking my Boys to Disney World! (no we're not going anytime soon.. but I still can't wait)
7. Having both kids in school
8. Jason's award Ceremony at school on Friday
8 Things on my Wish List
1. A degree
2. A Grand Piano (not for me, but for Matt)
3. A bigger house / My dream house/ or at least decent carpet!
4. I want to watch movies in HD (so a blu-ray, or PS3)
5. Plane Tickets to visit family all over and so they can visit me.
6. Happy, Healthily and Smart Kids
7. More Pets (sorry Matt)
8. I just want to wake up on my own... No alarm, no, kids & no husband waking me up!
8 Things I Love
1. My Family (hubbie & boys) and Extended & Friends (you know who you are!)
2. Spiders :) That ones for you Chelsea... even though you already knew!
3. MUSE- Okay, any music that moves me... (yes, pun intended)
4. Quilting
5. The Temple
6. Playing Bass
7. Laughing
8. A cold soda with lots and lots of ICE!
8 Things I Can’t Stand
1. Litter Bugs!
2. When people make mistakes and make up really lame excuses to explain away their behavior... Just own up people, we all make mistakes.
3. Whining - ha ha, I know, I'm the biggest one there is... I still can't stand it.
4. Vomit
5. Being Corrected
6. Swearing
7. Being woken up - I'm not nice in groggy form (I'd Probably make a mean drunk)
8 People I’m Tagging
1. Em
2. Mom - because it's been too long since you blogged
3. Sal
4. Heidi
5. Kelli and Kelly (sorry same name same line)
6. Cara - I'm Curious
7. Jana
8. Becky
... don't feel obligated, but it's always fun to hear what you have to say

Halloween!!!

Help Me Obi-One Kanobi... We need Halloween Costumes!



I really wanted to make some fun Halloween costumes this year, but my kids had other ideas. Jason wanted to be a Jedi... like he has been for the past 4 years. I tried to convince him otherwise, but he said if he couldn't be a Jedi (Anikin) he didn't want to dress up at all (ugh). Fine! So I convinced Ian to be R2D2, however... it was soon apparent that he would have nothing to do with the costume, but Jason thought it would be fun to be R2 (Yeah!). So I asked Ian what he wanted to be and he said "a snake" (how do you make a snake costume?) Legs and arms are necessary for a 3 year old kid that falls A LOT. So I made a 12 ft long boa constrictor, and wrapped him in it. He loved it! We even taught him the "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor" song, he was so cute singing it! We soon discovered that 12ft snakes and 3 ft kids don't mix for long, he couldn't wear it for longer then 5 min at a time... not conducive for trick-or-treating! Oh-well, so I put the Jedi robe and tunic on Ian and headed out to trick-or-treat. Jason told me that he needed Princess Leia, and out came the Leia costume from last year, minus a few details. So that's the costume story, long and random, but it all worked out in the end.


My Jedi (Ian) and the Coolest R2D2 EVER!


Here is Ian in his snake costume, and Matt with the Awesome Black widow that he drew for our ward Halloween Party (pin the hourglass on the widow).

Ianosaurus

Isn't he the cutest little paleontologist you've ever seen! In case you're not familiar with the dinosaurs here is their order... Anatosaurs, Coelophysis, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Styracosaurus, and Dimetrodon. He has 3 of these Pop-up Dinosaurs books and he calls them his "Special Books." He knows all the dinosaurs, and believe me, they are not the easiest things to say!

Old MacDonald's Farm

Ian and I went to Old MacDonald's Farm today with our playgroup. I had never really wanted to go because in theory farm animal are nasty, filthily, and poo covered things, but in reality, I am sucker for all types of animals, sure I probably have salmonella now, but hey, we had so much fun. I kept telling all the animals how delicious they were. Ian and I even had meatball sandwiches that I made from ground turkey, and the turkeys still followed us around. Some of the highlights were the very tame deer, the pony rides, and the eieio train depot (it's funny because it rhymes)! We picked out pumpkins, played on the playgrounds and looked at all the animals. Ian was terrified of the rabbits! I guess he has been watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail behind my back. Oh, and I'd like to thank the good people at "Purell" and "Wet Ones" for their continuing effort in germ fighting.

Yummy Deer!My friend Lucy and I with some deer (you can see my black nail polish... cool)!
Ian was a little afraid the first ride. He got over it!
3 Turkeys!


Pumpkin Patch!I touched an Emu!

Sly Smile (he was so excited to ride)

Pony Rides!

Ride-um Cowboy!

Yikes long post... sorry!

Baseball

It's a good thing their cute, because they aren't any good! Here are my funny boys playing baseball. You know you're not very good when you're playing with a ball bigger then your head and you still miss. Jason closed his eyes half the time, and judging by the pictures has the wrong foot up and his body is angled the wrong way. Ian got the stance down, but I think he wanted to kill the ball not just hit it. I was surprised at the rage he had. I probably pitched 100 balls and Jason hit 1 of them, Ian hit none. Oh, well looks like they're not going to be professional ball players. I better get them started on physics homework.

Fireman Hat

Hey Love, This post is for you! Here is the temp. "Man of the House" with his Fireman Hat. He came home with it from school with it today. Apparently the Drug dog game today, a yellow Lab named "Emmy", an officer hid drugs for her to find and she found them under the 5th cone. So don't ask me why he's wearing a fireman hat... I don't know, and I couldn't really get that info out of him. We miss you and the praying mantis below told me he was praying for you to do well today! Have a fun trip.

Praying Mantis

Check out this beauty I found on my car the other night. I have always been fond of praying mantis', I don't know if it's because they look so reverent or if it's because my Mom has always liked them, either way, it was nice to see this guy hanging around. Thanks for visiting Mr. Mantis.