SNL's Debbie Downer

Debbie Downer @ Yahoo! Video

Ok.. I LOVE Debbie Downer! She cracks me up! I think I saw this on Kevin from tx's blog and we have been joking that Scott is very much like her. Then Scott sent this link from listoftheday.blogspot.com and this was on it. So I am putting it on our blog!

I think my favorite is that they can't keep a straight face! I am sitting here watching it again and just crying because I am laughing so hard! Do you think they knew what she was going to say before she said it? I think the "It's official..." comment that the guy sitting next to her looks as though he had no clue what she was going to say!!!!

Dallin's First Primary Program

We had our ward primary program today. That is when the young kids get up in front of everyone and strut their stuff! They sing songs and give the parts that they have learned. Dallin is a Sunbeam now and so he was able to participate in the program this year. Doesn't he look so handsome in his new suit and tie??? He didn't have a speaking part but did know some of the songs that were sung. Mostly he just hung on the stage thing up front and swung around. Oh - and he signed I love you to me several times. That was adorable!

There's just nothing like hearing 70 kids singing their hearts out for their parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles! It was really sweet.

I just don't like that my snuggling baby boy is growing up!

My Monkey

So I really need to start this post off with letting you know that I have 2 scrapbooks full of pictures of Dallin's growing up first 3 or 4 years. But Maggie only has less than 1 book. Why you might ask? Because I have given up scrapbook for blogging. I realize that A LOT of my posts are about my daughter - BUT Dallin will have 2 scrapbooks to take with him if he chooses when he leaves home.

Having clarified that... I also want to tell you how incredibly strong Maggie is! She really has incredible upper body and abdominal strength! Dallin, Sam and Thomas (the new 3 musketeers - or the 3 stooges - it's still up in the air) were in the basement playing and Maggie was outside being the loner she tends to be... I looked out in the yard to make sure she was ok and this is what I see.

So I ran to get the camera. It's a little hard to see because I was taking pictures through the screen so I wouldn't let her know I was photographing her. Otherwise she would want to see the pictures on the camera and stop doing whatever it is that she is doing.

But here she heard the camera and looked at me.

So I went outside and told her to do it again. So she climbed up on the stroller... (Now why these pictures are fuzzy I don't know... Operator error I guess)

Pulled her legs up...
Gets her legs up there....
Tried to get her bum up there but just missed it....
Then she got mad and screamed and wouldn't try again. Typical.

Do you think she is going to be in the circus when she grows up???

Fall and Friends

This is going to be a post about multiple things. I can't believe that fall is here. Of course today doesn't FEEL like fall. It's 85 degrees out here. BUT... lots of fall things are going on.

Dallin started pre-school again. This is his last year before I have to let him go to kindergarten. I don't know if I am ready for that. But he has been playing with his little friends a lot more. Beautiful fall-ish days tend to lead to that. They trade houses a couple of times a day. This week one day they were in our back yard...


Here is Maggie and her friend Gracie.
Maggie has been a loner today as Dallin is over at a friends. I really ought to be using this time to clean my nasty floor after all this canning... But NO... I am editing pictures and blogging!!!

She must have gotten a sour bite.
We have an apple tree in our back yard that didn't produce very much last year, but this year is producing a TON! We picked 4 buckets yesterday and there is at least 2 probably 3 more buckets on the tree left. The kids keep wanting apples. They are kind of sour. So there are a few bites taken out and then they are left to rot in my yard... This is a typical sight..
I was picking apples and found this baby lady bug! It was so cute!
Here are the kids in the back helping me pick apples...

Here is some of what I have canned this year. It's not all as I have shared or given away some of it...

Apple Pie Filling, apple slices and apple butter:

Pears

Salsa - This does not include the 1st or 2nd batch. This is just the 3rd.
It's nothing compared to what my sister in law has done. But I am also a one woman show! And I don't have 7 apple trees.

I am a little sad to see summer leave us. But I do LOVE fall. And not just because it's my BIRTHDAY!!!! (hint hint) I just love the changing colors, the cool nights and the cooler days.

Another couple of funnies that my kids say... They are really polite kids most of the time!

Dallin: Mom, May I have these lookers to find veHICles that I can blow up? (Lookers are binoculars)

I love the May I to go along with the blow up at the end... and the annunciation of the word ve-HIC-les.....
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Maggie: Sowwy Sowwy Sowwy Sowwy....

Anytime someone says Ow or gets sad she says it. It's so cute!

And last but not least... Do you have a preference on your bacon? I have a preference of crispy bacon. I don't like the fatty stuff on it. So on the rare occasion that I actually cook bacon... I usually make it crisp. The other night we had pancakes and bacon for dinner. Dallin was eating it and said, "Why is it so crispy?" I said, "Because I like it crispy." He said, "I like it soft. Like Connie makes it." SO - I guess my son likes soft bacon... I never even thought to ask him his opinion on bacon!

JUMP JUMP JUMP

These are the words of my little girl everyday during naptime. She rarely naps, which is really difficult for me after my little boy was SUCH a great napper!! Although she does get to spend about 2 hours in her crib daily. She is just usually tearing off her clothes and diaper and jumping in her crib. I will be surprised if this crib makes it through her. She will jump on it for hours. I just hear the squeaking of the mattress giving under her tiny 24 pounds...

So I went in to get her a few days ago and just HAD to get some pictures!!!

I LOVE THE HAIR!!!!!!!

And I love how she says in her cute little voice, "Jump jump jump jump jump" as she is jumping...

Also - Another Dallin-ism from yesterday:

D: Mom, when am I going to turn 5?

Me: In a couple of months.

D: How many?

Me: In 5 months.

D: 5 is NOT a couple mom!

Me: What do you mean?

D: A couple is 2 or 3!!!

When did he get so smart??!!!??!!!

Ripped

My son is cracking me up lately with the things that he is saying!

I started running yesterday with a friend of mine. I am getting ready to leave again and D asks me why I am going running. I said that I wanted to be healthy.

He said, "When I go outside I am going to pump and pump and pump so hard that I will rip in half!"

I said, "I don't want you to rip in half!"

Dallin says, "I saw on TV that if you exercise that you will be RIPPED!"

What a crack up!

2 Year Pictures

Maggie had a really hard day getting her pictures taken. She was either grumpy or having a really shy day.


I was watching Mary this day and the lady kept saying, "Don't let your sister get in the chair." It wasn't worth it for me to correct her... and then she started taking pictures with "sis". I thought they turned out cute!


So these are her 2 year pictures... Not the greatest. But we did get 2 that turned out ok. I will be sending them out to family soon.

Out of the Mouth of Babes

We are eating dinner. Scott asks me to think about where I want to go to dinner for my birthday. Dallin says, "Will you be taller than him when you grow?" I say, "Taller than who?" Dallin says, "Daddy." I say, "No I am done growing." Dallin says, "You're not done growing older."

UGH! I love my boy!

State Fair

We went to the state fair last night. It was so much fun! Of course I was SO excited to eat a corn dog that I totally forgot to take a picture of it AGAIN!!! Oh well.

I love this Elvis version of Old Mac Donald. Listen to what happens to the animals!

We went to see the pigs. Aren't these babies just adorable???
And we went to see the sheep. Or were these the goats? I can't remember.... We did see both... and I am a city girl....Here is where I was SO excited! Look at all this food!!! I totally want to develop this talent!! My garden did OK this year. I actually got cantaloupe and watermelon to grow. But I want to be a great farmer!

There was a table full of vegetables that people made things out of... This was a cute elephant!

BEEF~~ Yes - I thought of my FORMER roomie last night. We were leaving the Dairy building full of the milkin' cows and heading to the Beef building full of the eatin' cows! My roomie's nickname is Beef. I love her!

This was in the milkin' cows building... All I can say after having been a lactating cow is OUCH~ It was definitely milkin' time! Yowch!
Dallin really liked the cows...
Maggie thought she did. She started to pet her? him? it? Then it moved it's head and she was NOT stickin' around!
There was a 6 foot tall cow. Crazy! It made me nervous when it moved too.
See those people in the background? They were in our old church congregation when we first got married! I didn't even notice they were there until I was editing the picture! Funny! Nate and Lisa would be the only ones to recognize them (of those who read the blog) We had seen them earlier in another exhibit... I just didn't realize they were in the cows with us!

And we saw bunnies. They were so darn cute!!
This isn't the best picture of my kids petting the bunny - but I just can't get over something in the picture... Do you see it? them? milkin' time???
HOLY TOLEDO!

Sorry - that was rude....

I thought this was a cute picture! Steff calls our kids the step-children because we are over there so often. So I thought this was appropriate!

What an exhausting day at the fair! We loved it!!!
Anyone for pork 'n beans or hamburger medium rare??!!!?? I love Elvis!!

Devil Woman

So my sweet little thing that I wrote about last week on her birthday. My sweet sweet child. She is SO lucky she is darling! It saves her life every single day!

I had anticipated today being a study day for me. I just need to get through another chapter of my schooling. So this morning, Dallin has joy school so I thought, Cool - 2 hours.... I can bang through a lot in 2 hours.

Do you want to see what I have been banging through today?

She found another permanent marker while I was showering.

Yesterday or the day before she found the blue nail polish and actually got it open and spilled it on the tile and wood floor.

She is a little scrounge now that she is off the bottle. She will find food anywhere....
She is a little Houdini. We duct tape her diaper and she still gets it off at night. Luckily I check on her before I go to bed and can put it back on her.

I have been chasing after her all morning and don't feel like I can even keep up with her. Every time I clean up one mess I turn around and there is another one! She tried to feed the cat this morning.
But she seriously is the cutest bug in the world. She has been getting her winter coat when we leave to get in the van lately. It's adorable!

Just loves getting a purse, hat and sunglasses and saying Bye Bye. Sometimes she will go into the garage, sometime the basement, sometimes a bedroom...
So I just can't be mad... But here it is, 1:50 pm and I haven't even cracked open my Terminology book. Oh well - I guess it's just a day in the life of our home!