.: November 2009

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

Wes dislocated his finger this afternoon and came home from urgent care with this cool xray.

Monday night we went to a Ducks hockey game for EA Family Day. Even though it took us forever to get there, we had a great time. Only 1 good brawl, but a tie in the last 30 seconds, overtime and Ducks scored in the shootout!

Disneyland

Saturday, we used the tickets we bought at the ward auction to head to Disneyland. What a fun day...it was not too crowded, the weather was beautiful, the parade was awesome, and we all enjoyed one another's company!

Friday, November 6, 2009

(Pretend to) Sing it!

We had our annual youth lip sync at church this week. What a blast! The young women leaders song was All the Single Ladies. Can you guess which hands are mine?

My beehives did awesome. Their song was a remix--Halo/Walking on Sunshine. They have so much energy!

Lip sync continued

Chelsie helped the Young Men leaders with their rendition of Once there was a snowman.

Scott played the part of a Jamaican. Snowmon, Snowmon!

The priests song is always action packed. Their song was Pool Party by the Aquabats. Here we caught Wes doing the worm.

Near the end Wes jumped over Jordan and off the stage. It was exciting! :)

Quotable Quips and Laughable Life

I decided that I wanted to add a small section with little things that my kids have said or done over the years that I never want to forget and I think are worth sharing. Unfortunately I was much better at writing these things down a bit late in the game....Chelsie steals the show here a bit. If only I could remember all those things I thought I'd never forget. I hope you take my challenge to write down all those things you hope to pass on one day.

When Chelsie was about 2 she had been jumping on my brand new couch, so I promptly told her to stop jumping on the nice furniture. Her response was very logical. "Then where's the mean furniture?"

While camping in the Sequoias, the entrance sign read, "1 bear incident this week...." Kelly mispronounced it as 1 bear accident....later in the bathroom, Chelsie noticed wet spots on the floor, and announced, "This must be where the bear had the accident."

We had a family home evening on choosing the right, and we thought Chelsie understood but when we asked her she said, "Yes, don't choose the left!"

When Kelly was in the 5th grade, she needed to use the classroom phone to call me. She dialed 9 to get an outside line, then she had to dial 1 because I have a long distance cell phone number, but she accidently hit the 1 twice. When the 911 dispatcher answered she was scared and just hung up. 5 minutes later the front office called the classroom stating that 3 sheriffs had arrived ready to take action and were wanting to know who called and why. Now it was by sheer coincidence that this was a morning that there was a prison breakout, so officers were on high alert. Kelly was embarrassed then, but can laugh about it now!

When Wes was about 4, he used to tell everyone that he was going to marry his friend Elizabeth, and that they were going to have 16 kids, and maybe a car.

When Chelsie was 3 1/2 we told her she needed to learn to spell her name. She responded, "I already know....A L I Z A."
(That was her best friend who taught her)

I was talking with my girls about the weather, and Kelly said, that stupid beaver was wrong, spring is not around the corner. Chelsie then chimed in, it's not a beaver, it's a warthog. Clearly I have failed them.