Blog Crazy

Tonight is my night off and I went blog crazy. Have fun!

Blue and Gold

Tonight was the Blue and Gold banquet for the scouts in our ward. This years theme was "Chinese New Year." The dinner was all chinese food (for not so obvious reasons) and each boy was to bring a desert. My boys will not eat chinese food, (crazy, I know. Brandon and I keep telling them they are missing out on some great stuff!) so I had made them dinner at home. Eric had fun time trying all of great deserts that other familys brought. Brandon and Eric "made" a variety of chocolate cheesecakes (from Walmart). Here is a sampling (well, of what was left).

And here is someone who didn't get any cheesecake scraping the plate for crumbs. Sorry!

After the food they have skits and awards. Eric was awarded his Bobcat. This was fun for all of us. I guess this is a cub scout tradition.

I had to pin this on him upside down, or right side up when he is dangling like this. When either Brandon or I catch him doing a good deed we can turn it right side up. He kept turning it around all night though, stinker. He is always doing good deeds for his sister. So I guess that we are will leave it. He had a lot of fun.

Funny face

It started as a game. I would make a face similar to this at Katie and she would smile and laugh. Then she started to imitate me! I love this! She scrunches her little nose and breathes heavy. What a face!

Clean mouth

Last week our sweet little boy said a bad word. Where he heard it, we are not sure. He says that he heard from a guy outside smoking a cigarette. At least his excuse was creative. I don't doubt that he heard it from some child safe television show/movie. Not exactly sure how they rate tv/movies, but I am shocked at what the consider PG. I am sure that I am not alone with this thought, but we are getting into a completely different topic. Joshua's punishment: sit with a bar of soap in his mouth for 15 minutes. The kids was a trooper with it (I myself had this punishment as a kid and would not be so calm).

I tried to get a picture of the bar of soap with his teeth marks, but no such luck. He says that he had learned his lesson. Let's hope.

Bye bye mullet

Katie was sporting what was become an obvious mullet. This morning I found my courage to tackle the curls and cut it away. Success! No more mullet, but her hair seems so much shorter and it looks like it has more curls then before. I guess that I went on a hair cutting rampage, because I got the boys this weekend too.

Busy

Things have been busy lately. It seems like I cannot catch up with everything that I must do. Laundry is a big one. The house is never picked up, and not even close to clean. It feels like meeting the needs of the kids is consuming more time than usual too. Josh has lately become interested in crafts, but I am horribly unprepared for him and have very little fun stuff for him to do. His fall back is cutting paper into shapes. Eric is going though an anti-homwork phase and since I am not here in the evening this all falls on Brandon. I know that he tries, but Eric will simply neglect to inform him of his homework. So each morning before school we are dealing with Eric, his homework, and his awful attitide about it all. Katie is crawling into everything, the trash can, dog food, behind the toilet (yeww). And she is not the best teether I have ever had. Did I mention that all three of them are fighting a bit of a cold? Nothing that keeps them home, just enough to make them a tad bit cranky. This week I will spend my day off cooking for the blue and gold banquet. Do you know what I want to do on my day off? I want to go to Hobby Lobby and Kohl's. I want to finishing sewing the curtains for each of the boys rooms. I want to sleep. I want ME time! But, I have to work almost everyday. Well, I guess that I have whined enough. I know that this is the life of a Mom. I love it most of the time, but then there are times...

Love Quiz

Thank you Windy for this fun quiz! I had a good time answering these questions.

1.Who do you love? Robert Brandon
2. How long have you been together? We have been married for 11 years, 5 months, 3 weeks.
3. Who eats more? It's a toss up.
4. Who said I love you first? He did.
5. Who is taller? He is the perfect height to complement me.
6. Who sings better? I think that I try harder.
7. Who is smarter? I plead the 5th. But even he will say that I am more "into" school.
8. Who does the laundry? I do. Occasionally he will fold it. But I almost always put it away.
9. Who does the dishes? Me 80% Him 20%
10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? He does. We have switched on occasion, but it never feels right.
11. Who pays the bills? He does. Money stresses me out way to much to do that to myself each month.
12. Who mows the lawn? What lawn?! We live in New Mexico! The anti-green state.
13. Who cooks dinner? Hard to say. When I am not at work I do, when I am gone, he figures something out for the kids to eat. It that cooking?
14. Who drives when you are together? Brandon. I think that he hates the way that I drive, although he has never said this.
15. Who is more stubborn? Brandon commented that he thought this should be an easy one for me. I think that he is telling me that I am more stubborn. But he can be stubborn when he wants to.
16. Who is the first to admit when they're wrong? One question that I don't really know the answer to. I think that I do, he thinks that he does.
17. Whose parents do you see the most? His, they live in Rio Rancho.
18. Who kissed whom first? He kissed me, but he asked first. A good sidenote: he was named "man of the week" at his dorm for kissing me!
19. Who proposed? Brandon did at Temple Square. He worked my ring up the stem of a rose and got down on one knee. It was perfect!
20. Who is more sensitive? Me. But he does have a sensitive side.
21. Who has more friends? I do. But if you consider yourself Brandons' friend only, and you are reading this blog, let me know!
22. Who has more siblings? I do, one brother, one sister.
23. Who wears the pants in the family? We do this together! But I often refer to him on things, so maybe he does a little bit more.