Sister Snuggles

watching cartoons early in the morning

Pinky Promise

I was lying on the grass trying to watch the clouds go by and I had a few visitors . . . . .

Conversation between Olivia and I-

"Mom, pinky promise that we're going to the store."

"I pinky promise we are not going to the store."

"Mo-o-om!"

 "Mom, pinky promise that we are going to get ice cream."

"I pinky promise we are not going to get ice cream."

"Mo-o-om!"

"Mom, pinky promise that we are going to the store and getting some ice cream."

"I pinky promise that I love you!"

"Mom!"

"And we aren't going to store or getting ice cream."

"Mo-o-om!!"

At least she laughed and gave me a hug.

What have we been up to?

Decorating the fridge-

Read-a-thon for Dr. Seuss' birthday

Playing with magnets

Establishing individual style :)

finding the perfect snacking spot

showing little sister the ropes

blowing bubbles in the snow (I can't convince my girls it's cold out)

doing whatever the big girls are doing

waiting for a best friend to come home from school

I used to do the same thing with these books!

Saturday Morning

Scenes from our Weekend

Olivia & Jolie playing wedding dresses with some of our scarves.

 Sophie "helping" Kurt do dishes.

Nyah excited to be going wedding dress shopping for Keshia's wedding. She wasn't so excited later when we were going to another store so Keshia could try on more dresses.

In addition to dishes, we always have toys that need to dry out.

Hanging out with Kurt this morning while he worked on his Sunday school lesson.

Jolie likes laying in front of the heating vent in the kitchen.  Just like Dade.

Natural History Museum of Utah

A few days ago I took the kids to the new Rio Tinto Center for the Natural History Museum of Utah. It is an amazing building and an amazing museum and I would love to say we all had a wonderful time.  But the reality is I felt like a chicken running around with its head cut off. This is one of those "field trips" where I frequently found myself asking, "What was I thinking?"

Austin and Nyah are at a stage where they like to wander and take their time and read exhibits and talk with the museum volunteers and explore all the hands on sections. And then there's Olivia and Jolie who want to run from one thing to the next as fast as they can. Sophie is at the stage where she does not want to be locked up in a stroller- yelling baby gibberish and "NO", crying, red face, trying to alligator roll while strapped down- all that *lovely* drama of an 18 month old.

Seriously, what was I thinking? Maybe if I could stand in the middle of a room with my 5 eyes watching everyone?

Fortunately, for them, my kids aren't worried about my sanity and they had a fabulous time.

There are some sections of floor that are glass with items on display a couple feet below-- and they totally freaked out Olivia, Jolie, and Sophie -- I confess it was amusing to watch. 

Making a craft

Dressing up

Jammin'

Maybe I'll get Kurt to take me back sometime so I can have a fabulous time too :)

Hmmm.

Notice anything peculiar about this picture?

Yep, that's our Sophie climbing the walls. Oy.

(I am still trying to figure out what's up with the pictures not loading the correct direction.  I've changed it on my computer. I've tried to change it on the PicasaWeb file and upload that one. Errr.)

She likes to push buttons.

And this is how she feels about getting down.

I've moved the table, but she is not happy about it. Not. One. Bit.

Surprise!

We were having a nice, quiet morning of school when I glimpsed this sitting on top of the aquarium:

It looks remarkably like this:

Have I ever mentioned the best thing I like about our tarantula is that it NEVER needs to come out of the aquarium? Just a little bit of freaking out.  Just a little. You know, until I realized what a dork I was being.

Austin is always trying to sneak up on me and scare me, and it never works because he's so noisy.  He's quite pleased with himself this morning.

In other tarantula related news (wasn't that smooth?), our laundry folding movie today is Home Alone - click through to youtube to watch the tarantula scene. My kids haven't watched thsi movie before - I wonder how they'll react :)

Also, I don't think I've posted this before, but FYI (cause I know your dying to find out), our tarantula's name is Galvantula.

Halloween

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween.

(Nightmare Before Christmas - This is Halloween)

I really am trying to figure out why Blogger isn't uploading my pictures the right direction.  The picture files are taken and saved upright, but when they upload they are sideways. For now, here are some sideways shots.

All ready for our neighborhood Trunk-or-Treat

Austin is the Witch-King, Lord of the Nazgul from Lord of the Rings. I'm quite pleased with how the mask turned out.

Miss Butterfly

Handing out candy with Dad

I was going to include some pictures of our pumpkin carving, but a couple little girls were in their underewear so I won't be posting them here :)

Halloween Night - Olivia & Jolie were so worried about the trick-or-treaters coming that they couldn't possibly look at the camera.  Not that they would have been looking anyways.

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

(Nightmare Before Christmas - This is Halloween)

Silliness

Up House

My kids have been begging me for months to go to the Up house and I finally took them.  It was just a quick stop, but they had so much fun and wanted to stay longer to play.

I don't know why my pictures won't upload in the right direction.  Any ideas?