Sleep in Heavenly Peace

Cool Cat

Check out this fashionable celebrity--

complete with her accessory dog!

Yes. Those are Big Girl Pannies she's wearing.

Can you see my legs?

Now for a story....

The other day I was doing something in the kitchen when I hear Sophie complaining to her brother Orion in the other room. Sophie came stomping into the kitchen a bit upset saying something about "the kitty get the glasses."  So I follow her to my room where our awesome cat, Orion, is sitting casually with my sunglasses around his neck. I have no idea what was going on between the two before I arrived, but when Soph tried to take the glasses from Orion, he wouldn't have it!

Please feel free to ignore the piles of laundry behind Orion. Our washer went out lastweek but lucky for me, I have a handsome handy husband!

Another story...

Duck-Duck-Goose. We play it every Monday night for Family Home Evening. We have a prayer, a really short lesson, and then finally it's time for Duck-Duck-Goose. It has gotten to the point that now whenever we play Duck-Duck-Goose on an impulse, Sophie makes sure we have a prayer first. I think she believes we need the extra protection. :)

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And this pic just makes me happy. :)

My First Crafting Project (in a long time)

Check out these baby dividers I made!

Not all the dividers are shown. I made a total of 6.

These are baby clothes dividers that I made for my SIL baby shower. I got the idea at the Life with the Ellwoods blog.

I was pretty darn proud of myself since I don't consider myself a crafy person. Hooray!

And just for fun.... I have to say this is a beautiful song! Enjoy!



Commentary: Adele reminds me of Barbra Streisand (at least in this song) in that she makes you believe every word she's singing. We all know Barbra is the most amazing singer ever. Period. It's good to see some more goodness.

Let's give it up to Barbra and Adele for being awesome. Word.

Summer Daze

What do you do when it's 115°F without a trace of a cloud in sight?

Why, you strip down to your birthday suit, splash in some hose water, and blow bubbles of course!.... Which is exactly what we did (and by we I actually mean Sophie)!

I don't know what it is, but when you get a garden hose out and start spraying people instead of things, I get very reminiscent of my happy childhood.
Ah, let us all reflect now on running through the sprinklers, and jumping on the trampoline with the sprinklers underneath, and covering every visable inch of skin with mud.... Time to make new summer memories with my girl!

You can see the nicely deaded grass we killed.

Epitome of Summer Above. Drinking from the hose.

Yes, I know. She's beautiful.

And here is the sequence in which Sophie pops bubbles:

PS- About the whole naked thing...
Sophie had an accident so therefore we are justified in stripping her down.

Tonight at Dinner....

Lindsey: Sophie, what should we get Daddy for Christmas?
Sophie: DI!
(Our favorite Thrift Store. We go there a lot, and it's Sophie's favorite store.)
Lindsey: What does Sophie want for Christmas?
Sophie: DI!
Lindsey: What should you get Mommy for Christmas?
Sophie: Poo! Poop!

There's..... A......

Story on this song...

Once upon a time in High School at the Lunch Table someone (probably Brityn) begins singing a song starting with "There's a..." Lecia thought she was singing "There's a land that I heard of..." (from "Somewhere Over The Rainbow") and I thought she was singing "There's a place for us" (from the song "Somewhere"), but she was in fact singing Josh Groban's "Let Me Fall!" They all have a "There's a" part with the exact same interval! Hence, this Trio was born. And we've been singing it ever since.

Dave's post

So, every-so-often I actually do make a post to our blog. This time, it's simply because I haven't in a while, and we have some unchronicled Sophie fun:

This last Monday we were having a Family night, and we were trying to teach Sophie about patience. So Lindsey and I were role-playing to show her how to be patient, such as when Sophie wants milk. When Lindsey asked me for some milk, and I told her she would have to wait until we actually got some, Sophie jumped up and ran to get the milk for Mommy.

Several days earlier, Sophie's grandparents were visiting from Tucson, and we wanted to show them how Sophie can count to 10 (sort of - usually involves skipping several numbers, like 1, and going in the wrong order), so we started counting, and she runs to hide so we can play hide-and-seek.

Hopefully Lindsey will edit the stories and make them sound as entertaining as they actually were!

I would catch a grenade for you*. Ya-ya-ya!

Okay, the above song is super annoying and (guess what!) very catchy!!! Dave and I like to make fun of it a lot. Por ejemplo...

Me (very romantically): "I would catch a grenade for you."
Dave: "Would you give me a back rub?"
Me: "Heck No!"

*If you don't know the song you're very lucky! Click here right now. You will regret it.

So peeps keep asking us

Q: How do you like it here, compared to Tucson?

Here is my answer.

A: I like it here a lot. I like our house, I like the people, I like our neighborhood, I like being close to stuff, I like that I'm still in Arizona... I'm happy here.
HOWEVER, there are two things that really bother me.

1. CLOUDS. There are no clouds here. Dave warned me but I didn't believe it till now. It's true. There are no clouds... I mean cumulus clouds. The only things that show up here are the whispy thin stuff. Now, granted, today is actually a pretty cloudy day. Very overcast. (Yay!) But I hardly ever see those big fluffy ones that are always floating over Tucson. You wanna know why Tucson has such awesome sunsets? It's because there's dust AND clouds. We have the dust here, but no clouds to catch the light. :'(
This is hands-down the number one thing that disappoints me here. I'm secretly hoping that we will move someday somewhere that has some nice cloudage.

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2. LEFT-TURN ARROWS. I have nothing against Left-Turn Arrows (which I will now refer to as LTA), but I have a problem when they are used to excess! Particularly in our area of town LTA are used EVERYWHERE! Even the minor intersections with hardly any traffic make you wait for a green arrow until you can turn. Arg! It's annoying. But I can deal with it. I CANNOT deal with whispy clouds.

I will now share with you my series of work called "Sophie Brushes her Teeth:"

Easter

Easter was fun (as usual) this year! We spent sometime on Saturday with my side of the family and Sunday with Dave's side.

In Sophie's Easter basket, we gave the Sophers this awesome book:


The kids played "baseball" (without balls and bats).
Here's my little runner...


I just loved this picture of our little cousin.
It sums up our Easter experience pretty well.


And this one is just fun.
Sophie really looks up to her big girl cousins.


Here's Sophie in her Easter dress getting tickled by Daddy and his tickler.

Happy Easter to all! And to all Good Day!

How We Do Conference

This is how we listened to General Conference last weekend...

Sorry that this picture is blurry. And I'm also embarrassed of the binky (we're having binky issues in our home), but I thought this was real cute.

If you're wondering about the box, here's an explanation: We're in a babysitting co-op (LOVE IT!) and one of the babysitters had all the kids watch a movie in a "Drive-In" with card board boxes. Sophie loved it so much that she keeps insisting in hanging out in this cardboard box.