Funny things Kids say...

Just a few random things...

A few weeks ago, before we had Halloween costumes pinned down, Cole informed me that Alec wanted to be a ghost. So I asked Alec, "Why do you want to be a ghost?"
He replied, "Because it's Cool!" I asked him "What made you think of being a ghost?"
He answered (quite seriously) "My Brain!".

In primary yesterday, one of the most amazing women I know was doing sharing time. She was teaching about keeping the sabbath day holy, and the topic came to music. She asked Senior Primary, "Why do we listen to good music on Sunday's?" and one of Kyle's friends said (also quite seriously) "because you don't want to listen to sucky music on Sunday!" It was all I could do not to bust a gut laughing, I'm still chuckling over it today.

Also in primary (Junior primary this time), this same woman, holding a picture of the sacrament being passed, asked what the most important thing we can do on Sunday is. Alec got to answer, and his answer was "Play the playstation!" Of course, that's because they're rarely allowed the playstation on Sunday, so of course it's the most important thing he wants to do on Sunday....

Things are busy here, I'll be working 4 shifts this week, so I may not get much posting in. As it is, we have 8 babies on ventilators, and we're short staffed most of the week. Crazy times....

Scrapbooking....

So,I went scrapbooking yesterday with some girls from work. We went to a crop clear out at the Bear River Civic Center. The crop was put on by a girl a friend of mine from work knows. It's actually a really nice place to scrapbook. Lots of space, good lighting, and plenty of access to electrical outlets. The girl who does the crop, Andrea, gets Maddox takeout for dinner, so it's a really fun little outing.
I got 16 pages done. Here's my 2 personal faves from the bunch (although they all turned out great, I had a fantastic creative breakthrough going on.)




However, one of the best parts...Look what I found!

We walked over to the country market across the way to get drinks and a treat. They had a small, but ijpressive scrapbook selection, and I found these pieces that are absolutely perfect for my Birthday Countdown Calendar I've been working on.
I had put off finishing it, hoping for a different option than the non-existent page pebbles. I guess my patience paid off.

It's snowing right now...Kyle played soccer today, but I refuse to make Alec play in bad weather. He told me he didn't want to play in the snow. Why should he? My SIL coaches my nephew, and she got an email this week that said that everyone should have played last week unless they had a late afternoon game. WHAT? At Kyle's 10:30 game, it was pouring rain, and he was soaked to the skin and freezing by the time we were done. Today he played in sleet, and it was colder. I don't understand why they make the kids play in weather like this. Professionals don't play in bad weather. I just want my kids to have fun, get exercise, learn a skill and how to play on a team. I don't want them to be miserable. I've pretty much decided we won't be playing next year. I've been unhappy with the way things were run this year. It's been disorganized, and they expect the kids to play in bad weather? Not my kids.

Tag! 5 things about Kyle!

No, I didn't forget. I've just been having a lot of problems with blogger letting my upload pics...as it is, I wasn't able to upload everything I had planned to.
(is anyone else having the same problems, or is it just me? )

1. Kyle is my near Christmas baby. I actually came home from the hospital with him on Christmas, 1998.
2. Out of all my children, I have made the most trips to the Emergency Room with Kyle. Both for illness and accidents. I swear, he's got some kind of magnetic attraction to Cement.
3. He is an oldest child by personality as well as by being born first. He is a bit bossy with his younger siblings, likes to play the parent, and we often have to remind him that he's not the mommy or daddy.
4. He is a good brother to Alec, but he is a great brother to Talia. He's going to be the one who protects her, loves her, and takes care of her. Alec will too, but not the the extent that Kyle will.

5. He loves to swim, he's a fish. We first put him in a pool when he was 4 1/2 months old, and he's loved it ever since.

He's a good boy, and has been since he was a baby. In fact, everyone in my family would tell me, "we can't believe what a good baby he is." It was true, he was so very easy until he was about 2, and then he got into normal toddler mischief.

I tag....

Ammon H.
Gracie S.
Savannah A.
Sarah L.
Cole V.

So much for....

...A relaxing Conference Sunday. I worked Saturday night, and slept in Sunday morning. I woke just before 10, and we were doing a few things, when Cole called me into the bathroom and asked, "Has this been like this?" while pointing at the ceiling.


This is what we saw...bubbling of the paint on the ceiling, which he then ripped some of the paint off to see if the wood underneath was wet. It was. Now, we are well aware that we are going to need a new roof in the next couple of years. However, we were counting on one more winter. Well, Cole climbed up in the attic, and we discovered where the leak is. It's (thankfully) around the exhaust fans...so all we need to do is waterproof around the outside again. And, since I've wanted to paint the bathroom for some time, this gives me the perfect excuse. :)

M&M's and a cheesy grin...M&M's make everyone feel better!

Bedhead...plus, these pj's, hand me downs from my great friend Michele, are sooooooo CUTE!!!!

Update on my Advent Calendars...

NO Page Pebbles anywhere to be found. I did, however decide that Hobby Lobby is my new favorite craft store. Their Christmas decorations alone were making me lust....I only spent about 20 minutes in there, Talia was getting cranky because it was nap time. I really wanted to explore...some other time.

I was really impressed with their scrapbook section....but since there were no page pebbles(not even a place they were supposed to be)...I decided to try something different. I bought Mod Podge, and put 2 coats on the front of my Christmas days pieces, one coat on the back, and then put a coat of spray acrylic over that. I like the results...so we'll see. On my Halloween pieces, I decided to try just the spray acrylic. Those are still drying, so we'll see how well they turn out.

I found some Calendar Rub ons, to put numbers on my pieces. It was kind of a pain, because the pieces were already attached to the magnets...but it ended up being a decent solution. Next time, I would make sure the pieces are numbered before I attached them to the magnets. Live and Learn.....

Crafter----ALL DAY!

So,we all did our Advent Calendars Yesterday at Mindy's all day craft spectacular....Thanks Again, Mindy, for letting me and my darling stinkerbum invade your house, use your supplies, and create such cute things!!!

My Christmas Advent Calendar....

I'm all done, although I might try to find a bit more ribbon for the top, and I need to either find page pebbles for the day pieces, or I thought that maybe I could spray them with Acrylic to make them harder and protect the numbers. I've said it before, but I'm so glad I have my Cricut...it makes projects like this so much easier!

So here's my Halloween one...



It's not quite done, as you can see....I need to find some way of numbering the pieces, and then again, either page pebbles or acrylic to make them more durable. A bit more varied colors of ribbon to add to the top. The best part of it all though, was that Cole was both impressed with my work, and Liked both of the calendars. For a guy who likes the creepy(NOT cutesy) Halloween stuff, and tolerates Christmas because I love it so much (after all, I deal with his Halloween Obsession), that was saying a lot. I was completely wiped out last night, but pleased with what I accomplished yesterday. Again, thanks Min, I couldn't have done it without you! I find that I have trouble coming up with a basic crafty idea on my own, but once the idea is there, I have no problem using my own creativity to personalize it.

I also started a birthday countdown Advent....but it's only about 1/2 done, so I'm not going to post it until it's finished. I'm pleased with how it's coming along though.

I haven't forgotton the Kyle tag...I'll get to it soon!

18 Months...

So, my last baby turned 18 months old yesterday. I had planned to post this last night, on her exact half birthday, but my day didn't go very well yesterday, and I just didn't get to it.
I worked Tuesday night, and I hadn't been sleeping well, so I was already tired. I didn't get much sleep yesterday, either. Kyle had choir, so we were up early, and at nap time, Talia slept, but someone in the neighborhood was doing some kind of work...because every time I started to drift off, I would hear the lovely(NOT) sound of large equipment and workers. Then, to add insult to injury, I drove all over town looking for Page Pebbles and rickrack for our Crafterday today....only to find out that there are no page pebbles in my local sphere. So, I don't quite know how I'm going to finish the project today, which is frustrating.

Then, Talia didn't want to cooperate with the little 18 month "Photo Shoot" I wanted to do...but as you can see from her slideshow, I managed to get some darling pictures anyway.

I did end up relaxing last night, and finally was able to sleep last night as well, so I'm feeling much better today.

Kyle was tagged by Lisa and Boston, so I'll hunt up some pictures of him and post about that later tonight or tomorrow morning.