Family Fun with a Frisbee!

Forgive me if this post is full of typos, spelling errors, and random disconnected thoughts! lol. I am tired tonight but I am suddenly in the mood to blog! I don't even have pictures this time! WEIRD!

Amalyssa went to a friends birthday party last Saturday and came home with a frisbee. (ok... apperenly Frisbee is a company.... so it wants me to capitalize it... but this leaves me wondering... what is the name of 'frisbee's' not made by the Frisbee company??? hmmm... like Kleenex and tissues... what is the generic name for Frisbee?) (see... random and disjointed... I warned you!) Anyway... back to the generic brand frisbee! I didn't think much about it when Amalyssa brought it home... but it has quickly become our favorite family past time! Braden is a frisbee addict! I have to hide it or he will throw it around the house! Almost every night this week we have all gone out to the back yard and had a great time playing frisbee! Scott loves teaching Amalyssa how to throw and catch it. The kids get a kick out of dad throwing it as far as he can and then they chase after it. Scott and I have even enjoyed just tossing it back and forth while the kids are distracted. Who knew such a common toy would bring so much family time to our home! Even Braden has learned how to throw it pretty well! He figured out his own way of course (I just know he is going to be our little sports star some day!)

(p.s. The name Frisbee is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company, but is often used generically to describe all flying discs.- so there you have it... the appropriate term for what we have is a flying disk! gotta love Wikipedia!)

Second on my mind for blog ramblings. We went bowling tonight for a family treat. It was a lot of fun! The kids LOVE bowling! Braden can hardly sit still until it is his turn again!! He is so cute, we get the ramp and the bumpers up for he an Amalyssa. Tonight he would roll the ball down the ramp and then watch in anticipated silence as the ball rolled toward the pins. He would get excited no matter what happened but when he would knock down most of the pins he would cover his eyes like he was in dis-believe or something! It was pretty cute. I had a great time watching the kids... but my game did not go so well! I think I got a gutter ball at least every frame. Scott and Braden both broke 100 and Amalyssa was close behind in the 90's.... mom.... I got like 50 or 60... bluck.. lol. My bowling arm had definitely changed into a mopping/toilet scrubbing arm!

It will be a while before I go bowling again though. Not just because of my lovely high score. As we were leaving I took Amalyssa for a potty stop. There were some other girls in there... maybe 12 and 13. As I am waiting for Amalyssa to get finished the girl waiting says "Hurry... its your turn!" the girl in the stall says... "ok I am coming"... She runs out of the stall an through the door without so much as LOOKING at the sink!! Suddenly I looked down at my hands that had been all over several bowling balls in the last hour... and I wanted to SCRUB them with LYSOL!!! EEEEEWWWW!!!! It was a realization that I have never quite had before... now I think I will be steering clear of the bowling alley for a while... and when I do go back... I am taking a gallon of Purell!!!!!

Well, that is all of my randomness for one night I suppose. Oh check out my new blog links in my side bar! I have found some fun crafty blogs that I am now addicted to and wanted to share! LOL. Mel Stampz is my favorite because it has a HUGE link list down the side of crafty blogs! I go there first then randomly click till my crafty head explodes!

New look- new post!

Wow, I have been posting crazy lately! Maybe I could keep it up and become one of those 'everyday' bloggers....... na.... not likely. LOL

My friend got a new blog and I was helping her set it up.... that got me messing with my own! So here is my new look! I am happy with it for now....

Well it finally happened. My daughter finally figured out that scissors are good for more than just paper... they also cut HAIR! Gratefully she didn't use her own head to experiment on! I think daddy would have cried! It happened while I was taking one of my 'mommy naps' (which happen unfortunately often) Amalyssa is usually really good during my naps and Braden is almost always asleep before I take my naps. Well on.... hmm... lets see.... Friday.... Yes it was on Friday. I woke up from my 'mommy nap' and went in to find Amalyssa playing sweetly in the toy room. Nothing seemed amiss. But then I sat down on the floor... I noticed.... hair.... then more hair... then trails of hair leading to MORE HAIR! Amalyssa had decided that her barbies all needed hair cuts.... almost all 16 of them.....



Most of the barbies came out looking ok. Mostly she decided that bangs were not in fashion and chopped off all the bangs. This barbie got the worst (or best?) of her cutting efforts. Hard to see in the pictures... but there are quite a few 'layers' to this style.



I called my mother up to tell her my daughters new discovery. I knew that mom would particularly enjoy it because I had a fascination with scissors as well... (only I practiced on my sister and cousins.) It happened to be moms birthday and she thought that the story was a great birthday present..... She loves watching Marie and I go through the ills of parenthood.

Happy Birthday Mom!!!!

Today I am doing a special post for a special person in my life

My MOM! Today is my mothers birthday so I thought I would tell you all how much I love her! There is so much I could say about my wonderful mother. As life swirls around me and the waves of trial toss me around I know I can always count on my mother to be there. Like a rock she has been my foundation so many times. I am so lucky that I can count my mother among my best friends.

Thank you mom, Thank you for all those hundreds of nights you sat on my bed talking with me for hours. Thank you for the magazine you left on my pillow just when I needed words of comfort. Thank for putting up with my child hood misadventures such as love day, soft shoe dancing in the laundry soap, playing barber on my cousins, and the cereal mountain in the middle of the room. I always knew that I was loved. Never have I doubted that. Your hugs and kisses every time we parted stay with me still. You took care of me when I was sick, and put up with me when I was annoying. Your love and our friendship stays strong even thought the distance between us is larger than it once was. You gave me your love for the gospel, photography, nature, and so much more. You have guided me into womanhood... and graciously let me grow into a family of my own. My prayer is that I can be half the mother to my children that you always have been, and continue to be, to me. I love you dearly mother and thank my Heavenly Father for sending me to your heart and home on this earth.
Happy Birthday Mom!

I LOVE YOU MOM!

thought I would also tell you all about my lovely daughter whom I love.... and who got the chicken pox this week! Tuesday after I went to the doctor because I had an ear infection we got home and Amalyssa had a little spot that she said was bothering her. Looked like a little bug bite so I didn't think much about it. When we put her into her PJ's later that night I found another suspicious spot on her tummy..... hmmmm..... I asked her to turn around... and this is what I saw....



What was the first thing I did? Called MY mother for advice, of course!!!! After a warm bath we put her to bed to await the dawn and surely more spots. When she woke up... there were no new spots! And the old ones were already getting better!! WHAT???? So I called the doctor and found out that since she is up to date on her vaccines she is getting off pretty easy! I LOVE modern medicine!!! Turns out that with the chicken pox vaccine about 20% of children still get the illness but it is really mild and short lived. Uh.... one day.... 10 pox.... Yeah I GUESS it is mild!!! Me I had them EVERYWHERE..... Just ask my mother who took care of me! Braden is up on his shots to so he hasn't gotten any pox yet. Let's hope it stays that way! The lucky thing is that she just went off track for school... so she didn't miss ANY school! WOOT! Heavenly Father is watching out for me!

One last birthday cheer before I log off for the day. This is the birthday bash week in my family! So........................
Happy birthday MARIE!
Happy birthday RHEA!
Happy birthday ANNA!
Happy birthday ADAM!

HUGS And LOVE to all!!

Bravest day of my LIFE!

Ok... so today was the bravest day of my life!! I am really going crazy with the heebie geebbies now though!

So I wake up this morning... nice day.... lots to do..... getting ready to get the day started..... and THEN I saw THIS!



This sucker was RIGHT outside my window!!!!! AAAACKKKK!!! He was HUGE!! BIGGEST spider I have EVER seen (and I hope I NEVER see another one!) He was just hanging out there about a foot out my window. I was totaly freaking out!!! I couldn't stand to have it there.... just staring in my house, but it was an even WORSE thought that it might MOVE.... then I would not know if it had moved in with us!!! After calling my landlord... who wasn't home... and asking several friends for advice (more like having a panick attack on the phone a few times) I finaly decided that either the spider or I had to go! Scotts advice to me was to burn the house down and hope it burned with it! LOL.... but I don't think the landlord would have liked that too much. Amalyssa could see how freaked out I was over the spider and apperently thought it was FUNNY! She started refering to the spider as 'mommys pet'! She kept saying... thats your new pet mommy! Then she would crack up when I shivered convulsivly and said said "NO IT IS NOT!" She was having a great time.

Soooo.... I gathered up EVERY BIT of courage that I have in my physical being. I put on LONG pants... THICK socks and the BIGGEST smashiest shoes I could find! (I would have given anything for a full bee keepers suit!) and I went outside to face my foe! The picture was taken through the window.... I couldnt bring my self to take a picture out side... I just wanted it OVER with!!!

I went outside and got the longest stick I could find...but 3 feet wasnt longenough. I found a pole!!!!! A large metal pole about 5 feet long and figured that would have to do. (to say I didn't want to touch it with a 10 ft pole would have been NO exaguration.... but I did with what I had) After taking a DEEP breath and a little mental pep talk.... I used the pole to swipe the sucker from his high post. Once on the ground he started to run! I had no time left to be scared... I JUMPED on him!!!! Like 5 times!!!! Guts EVERYWHERE!!!! I smashed that sucker untill he was good and DEAD!!! I then had to come inside and spend a good half hour recovering from the overload of adrenaline!!!

I was panting harder than I EVER have in my life!!! I was shaking like no bodys bussiness. I almost passed out! Seriously.... I am not sure I wasnt in better physical condition after 14 hours of labor! I would do labor and the 9 months in a heart beat before I ever had to do that again!

After taking a while to get my nerves back under control I went out and took a smashed picture of my 'pet'. I took another wave of courage to put the quarter next to his remains.... I couldn't make myself put it any closer!!!! LOL



I think I deserve something special don't you!???? I am going with the Artic Circle theme I think. "Face your biggest fear today? REWARD YOURSELF!" I am thinking skipping house work and going to the craft store sounds pretty good!

Now... for something a little less creapy to look at.... I got another pair of shoes!!! They were CUTE, COMFORTABLE... and only..... (drumroll please....) $3!!!!! WOOT! Who WOULDN'T buy them!



And just to clarify for Kieran... I do have a much larger variety... LOL. These are just my sandals.... I am fairly new to the shoe addiction so my collection isn't vast yet... but it is getting there! LOL

Leave me comments and tell me how brave I was today! I am seriously still freaking out! Even the fly's are making me jump today!!!

Shoe addiction?

There was once a time in my life when things were so much simpler in my shoe closet. Many years ago I cared little for the fashion of my shoes. I didn't need many shoes and I didn't care what they looked like. If they were comfortable and they fit.. then I was good! I had one pair of tennis shoes, one pair of sandals, and one pair of church shoes... that was it! Well...... then I got married. My dear sweet mother in law just didn't know what to do with me when she found out I hated to go shoe shopping! lol. The first 2 or 3 times we moved she would help move the stuff in the closet and she could hardly believe that I only had 3 pairs!!! She has been so patient with me. Finaly.... I admit defeat..... I now have a shoe fetish!!

I can openly admit that I now desire to have cute shoes... that match my outfit! Becky has been buying me shoes now and then (I think because she couldn't take how bare my closet was of shoes). Slowly I have come to appreciate the beauty of the shoe. Today I openly admit defeat.... I am a shoe lover! My favorite pair of sandals that I wear EVERYDAY...broke! Being me... I didn't have another pair. In desparation I went searching for a new pair of sandals. I found a pair at Walmart for 5$.... I figured "hey, cheep! These will be great". I get them home and start wearing them and realize... these don't really go with just any outfit.... in fact... they are kindof ugly!! That just wouldnt do. I tried to stop myself... I really did.... but this morning I found myself at the checkout counter of Ross with 2 more pairs of sandals!!! EEK! Yep... that is right... It took me not one.... not two... but THREE pairs of shoes to replace my fallen favorites. So you want to see my new CUTE shoes! WOO HOO! I have worn all three pairs today! LOL (now that I have cuter shoes I appreciate the comfort of my 5$ walmart buy)

from left to right- my black comfy and cute pair - my brown SUPER cute, but not so comfortable shoes- and my tan not very cute but REALLY comfy shoes! I am set! I have a 'sandal' for every occasion........ to bad it is September.....

And of course Amalyssa is thrilled with all my new shoes. She has been a shoe lover since she was 1 year old. (really... I would bribe her to be good in the store by saying we could go look at the shoes if she behaved!.... her favorite present for her 1 year b-day was a pair of shoes!) She wanted to pose with my shoes while I was taking pictures of them! HAHA..... oh it is great to be a blogger!!