Thursday, May 28, 2009

I think.. Maybe...I'm a little addicted.

k so, anyone else addicted to the DVR? TIVO? Whatever your's may be called, are you as bad as me? For those of you on planet X and don't know how a DVR works, it's just like a VCR only you don't have to push anything to record the current channel that you are watching. You can press record for shows that you'd like to watch later, but if you're watching the news and miss something, because your kids were screaming in the background, DON'T PANIC! You can just hit the back button and it automatically rewinds for you. After you take care of your screaming kids, of course. Of course.
It's soooo wonderful! I use it ALL the time. ALL.the time. So much so that I've been in my car listening to my radio on more than one or twenty occasions and I'll think, what? What was that? I just missed it. How do you rewind...wait, that's the tv that you can rewind. Then I think to myself if someone wants to make a million bucks, they should really invent some sort of real time DVR for the radio. Shucks. Why hasn't that person invented that yet? Doesn't someone want to make a million bucks?

So last night I was sucked into watching, 'So you think you can dance.' I know. I know. Take it easy people, I know it's a reality show and all but c'mon doing laundry is just so boring without something to watch on the tube. Anyway, E and A were 'dancing' to the music on the show whilst I was so trying to catch glimpses of the dancers routines through their little bodies moving to and fro; and I ended up missing something. So da da da da, DVR to the rescue! All I had to do was push the back button and the DVR so beautifully showed me what I missed.
Soon after that, E noticed her blanket all spread out nice and neat on the floor and asked me how it had got like that. I didn't know, I'd missed it. And HONESTLY, I automatically was like I dunno let me rewind LIFE to see who spread out your blanket. Blink. Blink, blink. Seriously. Was I looking for a DVR for life? At that moment the truth became known to me that I am officially addicted.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

what the what?

Ellyse - Mom, what glasses are you wearing?
Me- Sunglasses.
E- Why don't you have your scripture glasses on?
Us- Confused
Jason - Yeah Honey, why don't you have your scripture glasses on?
Me- What?!
Ellyse- The glasses you wear at night to read your scriptures?
Us - Laughter

Friday, May 15, 2009

Amazon's offer..too good to refuse

I get these emails from Pinching your Pennies every once in a while with good deals listed on them and today, this one caught my eye.

Free MP3 downloads from Amazon. Hurry! 825 songs to choose from - All kinds of great music!

They were right. Check out the titles of some of the songs that I just had to write down to share with you. These are actual song titles btw.

Ride the Nuclear Wave!
Ear, Nose, Throat.
Motel Blues.
Gauze.
Taking the farm.
I'm sorry, baby, but you can't stand in my light anymore. - a fav. title-
Your Big hands.
Eating Toothpaste.
My night with the prostitute from Marseille. -yet another great one-
and finally,
Sorry for freaking out on the phone last night. - A great way to apologize. -

Hope at least one of them made you smile.

A name for today..

Any of you who have older siblings might relate.
You know that time when you don't have any kids of your own yet and you're hanging out with your soo cool nieces and nephews and they finally utter your name and it feels like a million bucks? Yep. I remember begging my nephews to say Ju-Ju and when they finally associated me with Ju-Ju, it was awesome.

Today was the first day that I can ever remember hearing Allie call me Juwee. Close enough right?! At first it took a second to register that yes, she's calling me by my first name. And then flooded the memories of the aforementioned nephew name calling. It was cute but then.... it wasn't cute at all. I was her mom, I earned that position and I'll not be having her call me by my first name. After a minute of it she gave up but as she's in the tub playing this morning she's all, "Help me Juwee, help me....Juwee? " - she needed some toys - And I was all "Oh no you din't, I'm your mom, you'll address me as mom!"

Okay, Juwee.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Overmedicating?


So, this is a regular feature on the blog that I read, Dooce.com After listening to this momversation, I thought about a few things. Our daughter E, seems to find a lot of excuses to "need" medicine. Mom, I have a stomache ache, I think I need a tum. But mom, Allie gets to have some medicine.
Isn't it scary that today's medicines taste so good that our kids actually want to take it whenever possible? What ever happened to the medicine that almost made you feel better because you had to puke just to get the taste out of your mouth? Am I saying that I'm not glad that my kids don't give me crap when they actually need it? No. I'm just saying that this momversation brought up a scary situation where a teenager gets her heart broken and immediately seeks medication for it. Really?
Can I get one of those pills that makes things all better when I don't go to work and the mortgage is due?

I'm interested...What are your thoughts?

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Allie's 2nd birthday party.

Before...
After!
Can you tell she's two? She climbed up onto a stool in the kitchen and gave herself a little taste of the frosting. This kid doesn't mess around when it comes to food man. Give her an obstacle to get to the food and see her rise to the challenge. Smart little chica!
We had a nice little party on Friday night and everyone came and we all had a good time. Especially Allie. Here she is with Grandma D. Down below she's blowing out her candles, opening her gifts, and then with her balloons. Since she's the second girl, buying gifts for the occasion was not as easy as one might think. She does love trucks though. So we got her a tonka truck garage and a little people bus.

She loves to point out all the trucks as we pass them by in the car. She yells Twuck mommeee! right dere momee! Yes, I meant to add the exclamation points. Usually she calls them all bwue twucks (blue trucks). She LOVED the piwwow she got from gma C and gpa B. She pulled it straight from the package and began to lay on it. We're soo happy she's in our life and that she had a wonderful 2nd birhtday!

Grandpa Dean's Funeral

Early on April 22, 2009 Grandpa William Dean Wood passed away. He will be missed and was one amazing person!Grandpa Dean apparently found the things in the center of the photo, all in his backyard. He thought he lived on ground that the Chinese railroad workers lived on. He always hoped to find something that wasn't broken. Something funny mentioned about Dean during the funeral was that recently, he'd had some trouble with some big dogs in the area and someone got cornered by these dogs and only had a shovel or rake to defend themselves with at the time. Grandpa Dean was a master at manicuring his lawn so as he was mowing the lawn, he strapped on his big ol' gun and mowed away. No way those dogs were going to take him down!

Grandpa Dean was in the military and he was given full military honors at the gravesite. That's a really neat thing to witness if you ever get the chance to see it. A fitting farewell for a truely fine gentleman.