Another Funny...

Yesterday while in my pajamas, of pink bottoms with silver cheetah print and a pink t-shirt,

 Maddy said " Mama your legs look like cheetahs, and your top looks like a balloon."

................You can imagine how I felt and what I was thinking. So in effort to make myself feel better I inquired further.
"Does it make you think of a balloon b/c it's one solid color or... b/c of the shape?" Her reply..."b/c of the color."

Good girl, and thank goodness!

Christmas Humor

While in Sacrament Lana was looking at a picture book, of Jesus's stories, belonging to our friends. She would occasionally make a comment here or there about what she recognized. Then she came to the picture of the Angle appearing to the shepherds in the field to tell of the baby Jesus coming. She turns to me  and says "Mama, are these the wise guys?"

                                                I love children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ward Christmas Party

Can you believe it Christmas is next week!!! 

This year our ward did a Mexican Fiesta. It was fun but more than anything it was yummy.

 They had pinatas for all ages. Not going to lie if Brother Mattson had not moved the pinata Emma would have been the one to break it open. Which really was for the better that she didn't because she was the second person to go, Maddy was the first. Lana was so sad though. She had looked forward to this part the whole night and didn't get to hit it. It broke from a little boy younger than Lana. He was sooo cute. When he hit it and it broke the bottom off he was so worried that it was broken with no care that candy was spilling out and kids where going in like wolfs. He went with worried eyes to the closest person to tell them he broke it.

 I have the girls hitting it on video! I was cheering Maddy on then it was Emma's turn and I began to holler at the kids to move or they would be impaled. The whole night was pretty good. I was expecting the worst since Randall had a final and I had to do it "solo". That was the second Christmas Party this month that Randall missed because of a final. The nice part is that we had something to do while he was gone.

Thanksgivchristmas

That's what it seems like now adays eh? We have a little Thanksgiving and shoot right into Christmas, that is if we even stop for thanksgiving...we did, but not for the whole day. I even went out at midnight to shop. Usually I am a stickler about tradition and it being done on the "right day". This year I learned from last year! I had to decorate alone with the kids and it was fun...but lets face it it was hard. Then add on top of that to have a mobile baby around, yeah no thanks. Randall had a deck to build so we did it sooner rather than later.

So here we have finished our thanksgiving feast had desert at the neighbors and on to decorating! I held the baby and Randall had "help" from the girls.  :)   It wasn't to bad...

Foretelling?

I was doing laundry and noticed a squeaky sound. Lo and behold Lana had left her "cell phone" in her pocket and it got washed. Lets be grateful this time it had no batteries!

Huskies vs. Buffaloes

This is the front of Folsom Field, where the University of Colorado Buffaloes play their home football games. We had to park off-campus since any parking at the University was a flat $20 ... besides, CU is a green campus, so walking is better for the planet, right?

That trailer is for Ralphie, the school mascot. She's a 1,300 pound buffalo who runs around the stadium before the games start, and also before the second half starts. You can see her running with her "runners" if you look really close.

This is the football field just as the Huskies were coming into the stadium pregame. The seats eventually filled up, though the CU student section stayed pretty bare.

Here's the Husky football team just before the second half started, waiting to get on the field.

This is a section of Husky football fans. There was a lot of purple in the stadium at this game.

This is towards the end of the game, when the Huskies were up 31 - 3, and the majority of the CU fans had been filtering out of the stadium. Even when the CU fans were gone, there were still a bunch of Husky fans left.

Here's a kickoff late in the fourth quarter after the Huskies scored another touchdown.

This is a picture of the barren CU student section. The stands looked like this the entire game.

Here, the Huskies are driving for their final touchdown to go up 38 - 3, which ended up being the final score.

Dinner conversations

The older our kids get the more I'm convinced that the Prophet told us to have family dinner/time so we could hear things like this from our kids:
 Conversation #1- Maddy-- "Mommy can I have that?" (That being the Parmesan cheese I was using.)              
                             Daddy--" Maddy use the P word :)"
                              Maddy--" (looking clueless yet in deep thought) Cream Cheese?"
      We know what our words start with I promise. When hunger gets in the way its hard to think clearly!

Conversation #2- Daddy--"If your happy and you know it chew on a toy flag"(singing to our foster baby in    his lap)
                            Emma--(realist voice of all seriousness, and the dry facial expression to go with it.)"Well I'm happy and I'm not going to chew on a flag because that's yucky."


I love times like these. They offer a great laugh and remind you why you do it all.