Why oh why?

I am seriously considering quitting this blog thing because it seems that very strange things have been happening to me so that I have something interesting to write about. I have been trying to think up a funny "why did the chicken cross the road" joke since yesterday and it hasn't come, so this story will just have to do without it. This last Wednesday, I pulled out a whole chicken to cook in my crock pot but when I opened the packaging, it smelled awful! Something like rotten eggs and skunk! That alone should have been enough for me to throw it out, but I needed a second opinion since it hadn't hit the "sell by" date yet. I called my sister Jen who is the expert at stuff like this and she informed me that the chicken probably wasn't kept at the right temperature somewhere along the line and yes, i should throw it away. She was smart enough to also tell me to keep it in my fridge until garbage day so I didn't cook in my garbage can all week. GENIUS! I carefully put it in a Ziploc and then in a grocery bag and tied it tight. Six days later, yesterday, was garbage day and finally my chance to get rid of the thing. I ran it out to the garbage and bid it a fond farewell. Not 10 minutes had passed when I heard the garbage truck drive by. I went out to bring my can back in from the road and this is what I found...! Are you kidding me! It had somehow jumped out of the garbage can and had been run over by the garbage man! It came completely out of both bags and the insides, like the neck and gizzards, were shot 10 feet down the road in front of my house. It was totally disgusting and I immediately called Jake and Jen to tell them of my misfortune. They both thought it was really funny and Jake even offered to let me leave it there so he could clean it up when he got home from work. It was a very kind offer, but I didn't want it to cook in the road all day and attract who-knows-what! I ended up shoveling that nasty thing out of the road and bagging it again and throwing it in my neighbor's garbage can across the street since their trash hadn't been picked up yet, at least I didn't think it had....

Calling all Pranksters!

Okay, I promise this is my last one for the day, but I really need your help! I am going to camp as a cabin mom in a couple of weeks and I need some really good pranks that I can do to get the girls back that already have them planned for me, particularly Nicole, the one who has been getting my house lately. She has already told me that I better not sleep, but seriously ladies, I NEED my sleep. Any ideas?

Our old bathroom adventure...

I must warn those of you who may not enjoy the word "weenie" because it is used multiple times in this adventure. I used to tell this to people thinking that it was a funny story but their facial expressions and lack of laughter told me that it was not. So, with that said, if you do not wish to continue, please don't. It was back in the day when Raegan was potty training but still wearing a pull-up in public for accident purposes only. So I had taken all three kids to Target which was a joke in and of itself but I thought "you do what you gotta' do!" Anyway, as we are walking around browsing the aisles, Raegan starts saying, "I hafta go potty!" I quietly try to convince her that she can just go pee in her pull-up and she just won't oblige. I continued to try to coax her to do it because the bathroom was on the other side of the store and who wants to take THREE kids, one of them an infant WITHOUT a baby seat into the PUBLIC bathroom? Needless to say, her demands just got louder and LOUDER until I found myself sprinting to the bathroom, pushing the cart one-handed while holding baby Sarah, just to get her to stop yelling, "I HAFTA PEE AND IT"S GOING TO COME OUT IN MY PANTIES!" We got to the bathroom which happened to be a "family" bathroom right next to the pharmacy. As I push the cart in, (lucky for me it was empty!) Blake, who at his young age realized the predicament I was in, proceeded to do his best to help Raegan while I tried to figure out what to do with Sarah. This is the conversation that followed: Blake (while tugging on Rae's shorts): "Just pull your weenie out, Rae! C'mon you can do it! Just pull it out! Oh, No! MOM!!! She has NO weenie! Okay Rae, turn around, maybe yours is in the back! MOM!!! It's REALLY not here!" Me: "Blake, let's just sit her down on the seat and see what happens..." **(she pees)** Blake: "Hmmm...that's weird! Yours just got stuck inside." *So, by the time we get all cleaned up and exit the bathroom, of course the line for the pharmacy is about ten people long and they're ALL laughing. All I could say to them was, "He JUST figured it out!" The moral of the story is don't take an infant in a store without a car seat or snugli...

One day at a time...

Okay, while I was outside cleaning up the Post-Its from the previous post, Sarah was able to pull this mess off! Seriously, I was literally outside for 15 minutes! Notice the cereal dumped and the very innocent face... This was also done while I was cleaning - how ironic! I think her intention was to water the flowers outside and somehow she ended up bringing the soil INSIDE! This one really isn't a mess (to me at least) but I thought it was really cute to see her working so hard to move all of the chairs and I never did figure out what she was trying to accomplish!

Feelin' the love...

So this is just one example of the love I get from the young women in the ward now that I'm serving in Beehives... On this particular day, the girls (Nicole Angel and Kirsi Griner) used 1000 Post-It notes to cover just about everything... this one was WAY easier to clean than last week when they put 100 pounds of dog food in my driveway and painted my car windows...

As you can see, they tried to fill each note by writing completely RANDOM things on them. I think the funniest part is that they just graduated this year from WESTWOOD and it totally reminds me of something I would have done back in the day!

More happenings...

So, I wanted to post a few of the things that we did this week because I got busy and didn't get a chance to do it earlier. This isn't all of it, but it's everything I got pictures of... This is Raegan at ballet. It was her second week and it is so hard for her to participate because she is so painfully shy. For almost all of the 45 minutes we were there, she stood silently and watched the other girls with tears rolling down her cheeks. It broke my heart because I know how much she loves to dance at home. It was a little easier for her if I stood next to her and took the class also. I only felt a LITTLE SILLY in front of all the other moms. Hopefully, with a little work, she'll be able to break out of her shell. It was so fun this week to get to go out with the three of my girl cousins that are my same age. We have a tradition of going to Olive Garden every year for each of our birthdays and celebrating. We've done it since we were 12 and this year is the big 26! This time it was Sarah's birthday and it was especially sweet since we haven't all been able to make it the last couple of times we've gone. It was a really fun time and I value the friendship and love from each of them. We've seen each other through a lot and love each other more because of it! Karen, Julie, and Sarah, you're the greatest cousins ever! Happy Birthday and congratulations on your engagement, Sarah! Love you!

This is Raegan and Sarah helping out with Father's Day breakfast. Raegan came in and said, "Mom, look at our bacon tongues!" Crazy girls!

What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man!

Happy Father's Day

to the man of my dreams,

my hero,

my other half,

my Mr. Fix-it,

my sanity,

my children's daddy,

my dish washer,

the kid tickler,

the girls' prince charming,

blake's lego builder,

their righteous example,

and my bug. I love you, we love you.

What a Man!

You're one in a million!

Who does this?

So this is how my morning started. "What is that?", you ask. Well, after careful analysis, I have come to one conclusion...POOP! Human? Not sure. But let me tell you, as a mother of three, I know my poop and this is definately it. As I was backing out to take Blake to piano, I noticed this in my rear view. That's right, it is adorning the back window of my beautiful new Aspen that I just got washed on Saturday. So back to the question, who does this? I am hoping that it is just a random act of "kindness" and that I wasn't a targeted enemy. I have been racking my brain all morning trying to think of someone I may have offended. I keep getting stuck on the fact that somebody had to hold this in their hand! And that means that they were really that mad at me that it didn't phase them, or that this offender really is that disgusting! I choose to believe the latter. If it happens again, I will do some re-evaluating, but until then, carry on little poop monster, carry on!

Blake-isms

So as I was reading Karyn's latest updates I was inspired to write a few of the funny things that we hear around our house. I figured it was appropriate to start with Blake since June is his birthday month and he'll be turning five! Can you believe it? My sweet little boy will be off to kindergarten this fall and he even chose to go the full day! His reasoning was that he'll get more recesses and lunch at school...smart you ask? I think so! I as a mother am torn at this new road ahead of us. I distinctly remember the day we brought him home from the hospital and just crying about all of the things this innocent child will experience. At the same time, three kids each day is a challenge and I look forward to the time I will get with my girls. So, back to the funny stuff... We were driving home from the new Bass Pro Shop on Friday and from the back seat Blake says, "Guppy is a spanish word" (Jake and I) "Oh really? What does it mean?" To which he replies without skipping a beat, "eyeball." (?) While he was playing with legos one day..."Mom, I'm building a communicator" This next one happened at our recent Father-Son outing and I heard about it from our Bishop at church the following Sunday because Jake hadn't even heard it either. Our Bishop was waiting in line at the port-a-jon when Blake came stepping out. (If you know Blake, he's VERY small for his age). He said, "BISHOP! Don't go in there! There's a HUGE hole and if you fall in, you'll NEVER get out!" "We learned in primary today (CTR5) that if you make bad choices, it makes Jewzarus happy" (?) My brother's friend once told Blake that he was really good at kicking, to which he replied, "I know, I'm half ninja!" So, where he gets all this, I'll never know, I only hope that it never quits coming. He constantly makes me smile and I love his innocence.

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a week of firsts...

a lot of new things have started happening in our lives lately and it seems like my days are just filling up. for starters, this is my FIRST real blog post because we were able to buy a new computer on saturday and my wonderful husband got it all set up for me. yesterday, blake had his FIRST piano lesson and it was so cute! i had never before seen him be so serious. i was really proud of him. when we were eating breakfast yesterday, he said, "i should eat potatoes because they help you to remember things and i want to know everything for piano!" i have no idea where they pick up on that kind of stuff, but if anyone is going to say it, it will be blake. he is notorious for the funny comments. today, raegan had her FIRST swim lesson and was really stressing over it. she's very nervous about drowning but blake assured her that miss amy would make sure to not let her die (again, i don't know). although she cried the ENTIRE lesson, she was the only student to stay where miss amy put her and not try to runto her mom. at least she was still a great rule follower. raegan also has her FIRST ballet class on thursday and is also very concerned about it. couldn't tell you why, she's just always been a worrier. we'll keep our fingers crossed that all goes well for that one. yesterday i bought 4 plane tickets for my FIRST trip to indianna to visit my sister, emily. it will be my FIRST time to travel on a plane with all 3 kids...alone! what could possibly go wrong? nothing new for sarah this time around, she's just the cutest girl around...enjoy the pictures!