Have you ever noticed?

Have you ever noticed that the more important the envelope tells you the information inside is -- the less likely it really is to be anything important?

The Hannah Montana 3-D Concert Movie

The girls and I spent a Saturday afternoon going to see the Hannah Montana 3-D Concert Movie. It was just your normal 3-D movie in a regular movie theater that was mostly Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus singing with a few little behind the scenes vignettes. BUT, it cost 15 buck a ticket. OUCH!!!! My kids loved it! They sang along to each song and were so cute!!!!!

The 100th Day of School

Kindergartner's celebrate the 100th day of school pretty seriously! Adam, Madelyn and I volunteered in her classroom for the festivities. They made necklaces with 100 fruit loops, caterpillar hats with 100 body segments, trail mix with 100 ingredients, and wrote what they will be doing when they are 100 years old. (Catherine said she will be playing with her Old cousins).

Adam and Madelyn tried to blend right in.

The haircut

Adam loves to do whatever Trent does and one of his favorite things to do is shave. Trent has an old electric razor that still holds a charge and so Trent removed the blades from the spinning head and would let Adam pretend to shave with it. That has worked great for a while until one day when Adam figured out how to open the trimmer portion of the razor and gave himself a quick trim right in the back of his head. It looked pretty bad! We gave him a haircut to try to lessen the "noticeability" but as you can see even with the new haircut the knick is pretty visible!

11 and 9 years later . . .

I graduated from BYU with a bachelor's in Zoology in August 1997. I recieved a masters degree in April 1999 in Zoology: Biological Science Education. Trent recieved his bachelor's and master's in Accounting from BYU in April 1999. Since then, our diplomas have gathered dust in a box in a closet. BUT NOT ANYMORE!!!! I hung them in our office and think they look great there!

Random things

• I did get all the laundry done. I even took pictures of the empty dryer, washer and laundry baskets, but I figured no one (not even me) wants to look at those boring pictures.
• It is a crazy cycle . . . work all day on the laundry and then the whole house is a wreck (notice -- no pictures to show), and the next few days do the house and then the laundry is a wreck again.
• Adam is getting mishcevious . . . very, very mischevious. He pushes the kitchen chairs wherever he needs to go, empties all the drawers, opens all the doors, grabbed 2 pair of kitchen shears, walked to the garage and banged on the brand new Odyssey leaving a bunch of paint chips, has learned how to get on the countertops and my new favorite . . . Trent set out 2 "classic" car models on his shelf in the office. I walked past to see Adam standing on the desk driving the cars along the shelf. I assume he got on the office chair and then used that to get on the desk.
• Madelyn is starting to understand that not everyone can understand her when she talks. So she is wanting to practice her words each night. She is pretty cute. We have been doing this homemade alphabet book. In just a week I have actually noticed an improvement. I say "Freddy Frog frightens flies" At first she said, "Reddy raw righ'en lie" but we have really been working on the "f" and "s" sound, so now it is more like "Freddy Frod frighten ssssssssss flie sssssssss"
• Catherine is as angelic as ever. She still sleeps through every night. She loves school. She loves friends. And the other day she surprised me by turning down an afterschool playdate (Madelyn went to a friends, Julianne went to another friends) and came home with me and just played all by herself. She seemed so happy to be alone. This girls is just happy all the time.
• Julianne is busy. There can never be enough going on. As soon as one activity ends, she is ready for the next to start.

Denial . . . it's a powerful thing

I have been busy this week and oh yeah I have kept up on everything else . . . well . . . except maybe a few things . . . like LAUNDRY . . . so in case you are wondering what I will be doing tomorrow, here is the current load count.

Load 1 and 2 : These are from well . . . quite a few days ago. Most of the load has been folded and put away, but here lingering are the items requiring ironing. Load 3 : Freshly removed from the dryer. Awaiting folding, ironing, and putting away.Load 4 : In the dryer, awaiting drying . . . kinda packed in there too. Load 5 :In the washer, filling as we speak.
Load 6: Awaiting the washer.

Load 7 : The "car towels" from Trent washing the cars on Saturday. My favorite load of the week, easy to fold easy, they all go in the same place and NO IRONING!!!!!

WISH ME LUCK!