A New Addition

I bet you all thought I was going to say I was pregnant...Ha Ha Ha Ha...NO! We just got this beautiful number. I could not be more excited about it.

Funny Text

This is a text message Peter stumbled upon. It is between a mother and daughter. The age gap is obviously clear.

Daughter: GOT AN "A" IN CHEM

Mom: WTF, Well done.

Daughter: What do you think WTF means?

Mom: Wow that's fantastic

I laughed for like ten minutes, but only because I could see my self or Peter needing to explain that abbreviation to either of our Mom's. Sorry Mom and Julie if you do know what that means.

We're doing fine

December 20, 2010
Today was a pretty hard day. Some fun parts, but mostly bad to worse. I took Alex to the Doctor at 2:10 which was good news. Everything is fine and we just have to give him a steroid once a day for a week and then it is just if he needs it. Anyway on my way down to the appointment it was snowing so I decided to turn on my headlights. The moment I did this I thought "You're going to forget to turn those off and sure enough when I left the doctor my battery was dead. I called my Mom and she came right over and gave me a jump. On our way to pick Peter up from work to go to my family Christmas party I ran over some pretty scary potholes and thought that my tire was going to blow. After picking up Peter and driving to the party Melynn told her dad "Grammy came and fixed our car at Dr. Juchau's (Jew-shaw). She's a good fixer.". On our way home right before the center street exit in Provo we hit a pothole and you guessed it...blew our tire and totally killed our rim and probably the tire. We were able to pull off the freeway in time change our tire next to a man that had blown the same tire and rim on his car from the same pothole. And when we called incident management for help they wouldn't come even though we thought we had the wrong size jack and we had two little kids in the car. JERKS!

After that was all said and done and as we were pulling into our driveway we noticed something big on our porch. We both knew what it was immediately. Our ward freakin' Sub for Santa'd us. We looked at each other and our minds began to reel what the heck we had done to make them think that. Anyway we would like it to be known that we are doing just fine...yes even after a day like today. So what we would like to know is if any of you know of anyone who could really use some help. We would like to donate it to someone who is really in need of it. We have enough food for a Christmas dinner and breakfast. Merry Christmas!

Comments

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Makes You Wanna Dance

Julie, you know you can't resist.
Melynn loves it. She is sitting next to me singing "Shake your bonny". So cute.
Gloria Estefan - Conga by marie solomon

Funniest Insurance Commercial

Julie this one is for you. Mostly because I feel you will appreciate it the most.

The Swagger Wagon

I have really thought about when the time comes that we HAVE TO get a mini van we will be purchasing the Toyota Sienna. It has a lot of really cool features that we really like and my friend has one and when I rode in it, it felt great. Well when Peter showed me this video it made me more sure that this is the minivan for us. Enjoy!

Sorry Matt and Everyone Else

I was going to do blogging last Sunday but I was unable to because I drove off with my mini laptop on top of my car in Santaquin and haven't been able to pick it up from my mom's. Thank you, Mom for getting up at 11:30 to drive around looking only to find it in the middle of Main street. Anyway the SD card with all the pictures and videos is in the broken laptop 31 miles from here. Unfortunately you all have to wait another week and a half to see anything that we have done in the last month.

Pretty much I feel really stupid about the laptop thing and I guess if you want to know that whole story you can ask me in person, but that is all I'm going to say on the blog. Sorry again for the long wait...Peace Out.

Who Will Win?

I found this on the internet, thought it was funny.

Minor Mistake

I was making cookies tonight for a family thing. I borrowed a couple ingredients from my AWESOME neighbors. I was thinking of giving some to them, well because they loan me stuff. We were also going to take some to my Mom when we went to visit tomorrow, so I decided to double the recipe...BIG MISTAKE! It made 90 cookies. Thankfully it didn't take to long to bake. I guess for the benefit of the other neighbors they get cookies.

I do love my new found love of baking.

Old Spice Commercial

It's one of those commercials that you watch all the way through and when it's over you can't help but say "WHAT?" and then you laugh because it was just random enough to be funny. Click HERE and see what I mean.

My Creative Side

We bought a cute head band for myself last weekend. It looked easy enough to make on my own. Melly has been driving me crazy daily to play with mine. So I made her one. I love it. It turned out really cute.

The Beautiful Salt Lake Temple

The photographer at my Sister-in-law's wedding took this pictures of the Salt Lake Temple. It's my favorite and it's the temple that we were sealed in. These pictures are absolutely breath-taking.

Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball

I saw a fun recipe on foodgawker.com that I want to try sometime. They have lots of yummy looking recipes that I am excited about trying. I think I might make it for one of our family Christmas parties.

Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball

1 pkg. 8oz. cream cheese
1/2 cup butter not margarine
1/4 tsp. vanilla
2 Tbs. brown sugar
3/4 cup confectioners sugar
3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
3/4 cup finely chopped pecans (optional)
graham crackers, chocolate graham crackers, vanilla wafers or animal crackers.

Beat softened cream cheese, butter, & vanilla until creamy. Slowly add sugars until blended. Stir in chocolate chips. Place mixture in a Tupperware of plastic container. Refrigerate for 1 -2 hours form into a ball and roll ball in pecans (optional) you can also roll the cheese ball into graham cracker crumbs or more mini chocolate chips. My kiddos do not like nuts so those are the optional choices. Serve with graham crackers, vanilla wafers or animal crackers.

With whom will you side?

Wendi and I are having an debate and as we often do we turn to the internet for an answer. I say that Zooey Deschenel and Katy Perry look very much alike. So much so that I boldly stated that they are the same person trying to pull something. Wendi doesn't think they look alike at all. What do you all think?


Wendi's Opinion: I think that Peter only picked pictures that work for his point of view. Yes they look alike to an extent. What you need to do is do a google image search of both Zooey Deschanel and Katy Perry. Zooey is the one that has the unique look all the time. Katy is only that way when she is dressed like a pin up doll. Suck it, Peter. I'm right and you know it.







While we're at it here are some more celebrity look-a-likes that I stole from some other blog that they stole from someone else:

Redbox Scammers

I am a frequent customer of Redbox (rent a movie for a dollar a day from a vending machine) since the first one popped up in Utah county some 4 or 5 years ago.

The last two or three months I've been getting emails from "Redbox" asking me to confirm my subscription. I keep deleting these messages, because there are too many people out there trying to scam people out of their personal information. Tonight I got yet another email from them and it was the last straw. So I clicked on the Unsubscribe button. The address on my browser said this: surv.cheetahmail.com, which isn't www.redbox.com...suspicious, right?

They didn't ask for my email address, just my reason for leaving. I read through a bunch of options, but none of them applied, until I got to the last one...OTHER. There was a space to leave my reason for unsubscribing. This was my reason: "Because this is NOT the real Redbox. You just hacked into Redbox and stole my email address for I don't know what reason. Leave me alone or I'll turn you into the Police."

Maybe that will get them to leave me alone.

Dear...

Dear Everyone,
I know that I've been slacking on the blogging front and I'm sorry. I have lots of pictures on my camera and funny stories to go along with them, but...well...you know. I'm lazy. I will try and do a little better about it.
Blogging Slacker

Dear Snow,
I don't mind that you are here, but I would really appreciate it if you could keep from landing on the the roads, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks and my cars. You can fall on everyone elses cars just not the two that belong to my family. I don't think that is too much to ask.
Frustrated with Snow Lady

Dear Santaquin,
I got stuck about six times while driving on your city streets. It took me 20 minutes to get from my Mom's house to the freeway. That's normally a 1 1/2 minute drive. It took me 40 minutes to pick up my grandma from her house. I understand that it's sometimes hard to keep up with the snow fall, but at least you could try.
Frustrated Driver

Dear Mr. Plow,
Thank you for doing such a great job at plowing the streets of Spanish Fork and the freeway. Will you occasionally (everytime it snows) plow my parking lot.
Greatful Plow Friend

Dear Melly,
I love you so much. I am so thankful that you are in our lives. Sometime you really try my patience. You are so independently minded and stubborn to a T. You get that from me and a little from Daddy, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Those qualities make you the sweet little girl that I love so much. I love that you are so protective of Ax. No one can torment him but you. You have to kiss him goodnight every night. You are so into princesses and all things related lately. It's kind of a refreshing change. You amaze me everyday at the way you communicate your desires and that you are so concerned if I'm okay every time I sneeze. I love that you love the snow. I enjoy watching you dig and "bouncin'" in the snow. I think if I let you then you'd probably never come in. I love you, baby girl!
Your "Princess Mommy"

Dear Grubbies,
You are so curious about everything. It kind of makes me a little scared to put up the Christmas tree. You always have to be moving. You love animals, but you get very concerned when you think they might be getting to rough with each other. I am so glad that you finally got your first tooth. I love your new facial expression. Makes me laugh every time (pictures to come). I love you, Grubby! And no, I don't know why I call you Grubby/ies.
Your Ever Improving Mommy

Dear Peter,
I am so glad that I only have to deal with your crappy schedule for only 1 more week. YEA! You are such a good Dad. The kids absolutely love you. You always help out with the kids. You always keep me laughing. After a emotionally exhausting day just the sight of you makes it all wash away. I love you for that. I love that you talk in your sleep. I laugh every time. I love you, Peter!
Your Completely Devoted Wife.

The BUFFALO!

On our way home from Salt Lake today after making yet another offer on a house (this one is a HUD home) we saw a buffalo...yeah that's right...a BUFFALO; running down the University Parkway freeway on-ramp going northbound. I thought it was a bull but sure enough it was a buffalo. Several cops were trying to keep cars away by slowing them down.

I hurried and called my Mom who was headed north. She said that by the time she passed it had crossed from the on-ramp to the HOV lane still heading North.

Where did he come from. Why is he there? How did he get there? I guess we'll never know. We don't know what the future held for Mr. Buffalo, but we hope that it was good.

Of all the weird things that you would ever think of coming across on the freeway it happened to be a BUFFALO!

We still can't stop laughing.

Star Wars Summerization

Star Wars Episode IV summerized by a 3 year old.

Male Prima Donna

This is from a new series of webisodes of The Office. I got it off of my sisters blog. I loved it. If you like the show you have to watch this webisode.