What I Got Out of Conference....

This weekend was pretty nice. Saturday we spent ignoring the fact that conference was actually going... (I know! Apostate!) and ran around and actually got things done that we needed to.. aka getting food etc for Sunday dinner.

Sunday rolled around and we were invited to my in-laws house to watch conference and hang out (besides the fact that it was our turn to cook Sunday Dinner)

Anywho I got some pictures and whatnot... here is a few of the family playing Settlers of Catan in between conference sessions (I was konked out in the other room)

Most of the day the kids played on the floor in front of the TV (BTW the TV is above the fireplace...nice for keeping little hands at bay!)

The Energizer Bunny was into EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN. You name it... he was into it.

Goober enjoyed doing dot-to-dots...

And while I wasn't wrestling kids during the day or trying to keep the Energizer out of things I tried to get as much out of conference as possible. Though I have to admit... it wasn't much. Thank goodness it comes out in print in the Ensign.

You want to know the best thing I got out of conference this time??? Really?

This is something incredibly rare....

A mostly clean kitchen! (cause we weren't here to mess it up!)

So a while ago... as in six days ago FluffyChicky gave my blog an award :)

this particular award means:

"This blog invests and believes, the proximity. [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' -being close through proxy]. They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate? Then let’s try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text."

ooo should I nominate more people and hope I don't annoy them? I think I shall, cause even if I do annoy them (and really, who's annoyed by someone thinking their blog is cool?)... That's ok, because sometimes I'm just like that (meaning annoying!).

So this award goes to.....

*Mary* , Christy , and Amy cause even though I don't know them IRL they still are nice enough to a) leave comments every once in a while or b) blog stalk me :) Then I will award... Angie, and Holli cause their camera skillz are sweeeeeet and they prove that pictures really are worth a thousand words. The award also goes to .... Pete, Nat, Kar, and Arin .. cause I'm a snot like that :P

Do you SEE that?

Missy My is a cute girl. I love her to death. She is my cuddly child. The one who can't live without oodles of hugs and kisses. Always wants to be on my lap or clobbering me with a giant hug. She is definitely a mamma's girl. (which is nice most of the time).

She pulls the funniest faces and is getting better with her language skills everyday.

There is one thing (ok maybe more... I admit it!) that I can't get past. See this itty bitty picture down here?

Wanna know why it's so small when usually my pictures are so huge? Her hair is cute and everything (which is the reason I took the picture... to document that hairstyle).

So why is it small? Have you not noticed? .... wow, you are oblivious.

Check out where her finger is. And while you are at it, notice where her thumb is. She does this absentmindedly a lot. HOW she does this ABSENTMINDEDLY... I must admit, I do not know. I would think either her nostril or her thumb would hurt because of the angle at which she has to keep them to have them stuck in holes that are so close in proximity.

I didn't want to make this picture huge and totally shove that image up your nose :)

She has done this since she was a baby. Seriously, she sucked her thumb in utero. The finger didn't take long after she was born to find it's "cozy little place" either.

We are currently working on the thumb sucking (it's making her slightly bucktoothed...) by telling her it's "yucky" and that it hurts her teeth and her thumb. This works ok for the most part... she stops sucking on it when it's brought to her attention most of the time.

I'm hoping and praying the finger up the nose business just sort of follows along.

Anyone else know of any kids that do this???

Attention: Toothfairy!

So today at lunch Goober lost his very first tooth! So tonight while he sleeps the tooth fairy gets to come and take his tooth from under his pillow as he sleeps and leave some moola! (I'm so glad he didn't swallow it... how does the tooth fairy get it and give the cashola then?)

When I was little the tooth fairy came to our house when I lost teeth. It was fun to get money for pretty much nothing :)

At one point my family moved from one state to another... I was FREAKED out that the tooth fairy wouldn't be able to find me. You would have thought I would be concerned about Santa, too right? Apparently not. Apparently he was magical enough to find me no matter what. But the tooth fairy? Nope. She must not have seemed very capable... maybe it was her size... I dunno, I don't remember much about it... except the fact that my mom got inventive and showed me where the tooth fairy lived.

That's right! The tooth fairy lived in the very town that we just moved to! Amazing! She had kind of a cool house too... right next to a low bridge downtown, in a little castle like building (that is actually a pump house for making sure aforementioned bridge doesn't flood). Very fairytale like! Alright, well apparently she could find me cause she lived so close!

So this makes me curious... how did your family do the tooth fairy growing up?

Hey Family!

I started another blog. It's for family only and I want it to be a group blog so that all of us can let each other know what is going on in our lives without too much hassle! After a bit I will set it to private so that only family can view it.

It is just a thought, and if it doesn't work out no biggy :) Just thought it might be worth a try where all of us are so spread out acrossed the country.

The blog is here and you will need a blogger account to be able to join in!

This would be for my side of the family, if Jer's side want's one too I would be happy to start one as well...just email me (my email addy is on the sidbar!)

This One's for You!

And by the way if your not single and do not find yourself in Cordy's position... this one's NOT for YOU! :) I (like Sue) would TOTALLY adopt her if possible! But you can read anyways if you want to... then back me up with LOADS of POSITIVE COMMENTS for Cordy!!! Cause those feel really good to receive, and besides, they're fun to hand out too.

Here is my Glorified comment for Cordy:

Back in the day when I was still single I remember having huge crushes on guys and NEVER telling them. Never. Because of the fear that I would be devastated by their reaction.

I look back now and wish I would have told some of them. Why is it the guy needs to be the one to make that move? .... anywho.....There were only ever two times I let a guy know I liked them in all my single years. Though if any of them had half a brain they would have seen it bright as day. Both of the times I let the guy know (either through major flirting, or just telling them ... talk about scary and putting yourself out there emotionally!) Good things ensued. One of the boys ended up a boyfriend, the other ended up my husband.

Can I say I'm SO GLAD I didn't let fear keep me away from my hubby. I can't imagine the world without him. I would have been devastated to have watched him, fallen in love with him, and then watched someone else walk away with him in the end.

Believe me, I understand the fear of putting yourself out there emotionally. It's a major fear I still have. In fact, I don't have many truly close friends because of my fear of letting people be really close to me. But the good friends I do have, I know they would drop just about anything if I needed help, and I would do the same for them.

I know what it's like to hurt so bad you just want to lay in bed all day and cry.

So, in summation......PLEEEEEASE tell him!, or at least his mom. If you want any chance in heck at least do that! .... She knows anyways, even if you did give her the "I'm seeing someone" line. it probably confused her.... but give the lady some credit :) She knows her son better than anyone in the world... she has literally known him his whole life. She wouldn't hurt you by telling him (besides, she would have to admit she was meddling in his love life... ), though she may drop hints to get him to WAKE UP. She likes you more than the alternative.

Please, save his poor mom from his current girlfriend. She likes YOU better. And save yourself from forever regretting not saying anything. At least by telling him you wouldn't be wondering for the rest of your life "What if...." or "If only I'd ....". In my opinion (and that is all this is) regret for inaction is worse than anything that could happen (cause lets face it, he's a decent guy and would never intentionally hurt you).

P.S. Being single is so hard. My heart aches for you, if you need to pray about it, then do. But I think you already know what you need to do, whether it be starting a fantastic new life or finally being able to move on. Good luck sweety.

GAH! CORDY YOU'RE KILLING ME!

I want to comment SO BADLY I'm almost considering putting a whole POST on my blog to do just that!

If you turned off comments cause you are afraid of what people here would say... We all support you and love the snot out of you.

PLEASE open up comments. PLEEEEEEEASE.

PS. If you don't know who Cordy is you are TOTALLY missing out.

PPS Actually I already wrote a whole post... but I really don't want to make you mad by "commenting" without at least begging you first!