Christmas is coming the goose is....run goose run

I don't have anything to write about this picture except for she is so cute. I love that little Ru.

Tonight is my Daddy Daughter Date for the Activity Girls (age 8 - 11) in our ward. I'm sure I will post about it tomorrow, if I survive. It is a fall themed night and I am tearing down all my decor in my house to use for our party. I'm not really sure it is going back up when I get home. I think I'll just have bare shelves and naked walls until the Christmas stuff gets put up. I feel really good about this idea. Don't you?

I feel good abut my decision because I went to Target the other day and bought these...

They weren't on sale or anything. Can you believe me? I just bought them full price and all. Aren't they delightful.

I bought 2 of the birds nest snow globes because both the girls "needed" one for their ornament this year and I bought the other one for Mads because 2 years ago Rubs broke Mads snow globe/socking ornament and she wanted to say sorry to Mads. I'm sure Mads will be sore about it for the rest of her days. That is what siblings do right?

That's all loveyoubye.h

shoe thiefs...the nerve!

So, I can't wear my cutest shoes anymore. Not that my bum toe hurts to bad (which it does, but I was suffering for beauty) I just have a shoe thief....


"Can you blame me" she says...


At least she takes after her mother and wears high hills with pajamas.


I can't wear my flip flops either...

"my sister made me do it" she says...

Maybe I should put my shoes away when I'm not wearing them. Nahhhh that would make Mighty M. WAY to suspicious. He would wonder who I was and what I had done with his wife.

Veterans Day Celabration

On Sunday night Mighty M and I went with his parents to a Veterans Day Fireside held at the Brigham City Tabernacle in Brigham City, Utah. (Thanks Megs for watching the girls for us) It was in honor of all Veterans but for us it was in honor of one great and wonderful Man, Mighty M's Grandfather, Max Weaver. Here he is with his cute new bride Gwen.


The Fireside started out with patriotic songs from the Brigham City choir. Then remarks by a Major General and if I would have known about the printed programs I would have written his real actual name. More singing songs then, the most important part of the evening, the passing out of medals awarded to the Veterans. These men fought for our country but never had a ceremony to receive their awards. There were about 15 or 20 men standing tall and proud. Here are some of them. That's Grandfahr with the bunches of white hair second from the left. He was by far the cutest one up on the stage. Sorry about the dark pictures.




They also had the men stand as the choir sang their "theme song" I don't think it's a theme song but Heidi called it that so it must be good. Anyway, you get the idea.



Here is a close up of him on stage with my mediocre camera. (the picture taker isn't that great either) Sorry about the head chop. You couldn't tell this night but Grandfahr has a not so great back and has a hard time standing, let alone completely straight up for long periods of time. Not that night. He was regal, strong and handsome as the dickens.

The medals he received that night were the Bronze Star, The Korean War Service Medal and the Combat Infantry Badge. He fought in WWII and the Korean War.

Here is a picture of him and his girls. Jackie (far left) Grandfahr, Debbie next to him and lastly (and my favorite girl) Mighty M's mom Heidi.

It was a great night, and I'm so glad we got to share Grandfahr's important night with him. I am so grateful to be part of his wonderful family. And I couldn't love him more if he were my real actual Grandpa. Plus I know he loves me just the same.

TA DAH!

And here is the finished product. Cleaned by 11:30am. You'll notice I now have a puny pile in my small and attractive basket. It is stuff like "emergency checklist" papers and the booklets you get from the church about taking care of your finances, the old cell phones are still there and receipts for our wall paint so I can go to the store and get some to touch up with.....The touch up paint is our little secret.

Now when Max got home from work he put his stuff right on my clean counter. Can you believe him? There is just something about a horizontal surface that makes you want to fill it up. In my parents house growing up it meant you were suppose to sit on that surface. And we did.

To tell you the truth, I didn't notice Max had set his business there and at dinner I asked him if he noticed anything different. He immediately looked at my hair, which was not done by the way, to see if I got a haircut. I looked over at the counter and "GASPED" I think I said a "how dare you" in there too. I RAN to get my camera (for the evidence) and it clicked in his brain and we raced to the counter. It was pretty silly, looking back now. He got to there first and grabbed his stuff. I made him put it back so I could take the picture. HOW DARE HE.

Now you may want to side with him. "where is he suppose to put his stuff" you may say. Well don't! He has this...

...the right side of the cupboard above the counter. It's disastrous. And he asks me where stuff in that pile is too. Maybe I'll do that today. Or perhaps maybe I'll poke him in the eye.

UPDATE and WHAT I'M DOING TODAY...

UPDATE ON THE SNOW...

Here's Rubs on her way out to play in the snow Wednesday morning. She played for about 10 minutes, then her mitten came off and her hand got snowy and cold. She did go out later with her friend and they played for 10 more minutes then it was lunch and nap time. Poor Rubs, when she got up the snow had melted. She asks when it is coming back. Soon child much to soon.

UPDATE ON THE BUM TOE...

Her are my shoes on my very feet. I can walk and there is only a little pain when I first put them on and a bit more when I take them off. Maybe my feet are numb while they are in the shoes, I don't know. But Oh happy day that I can wear them. I went for a checkup with Dr Cranky on Monday, He said to keep wearing my heels and come back in a month, "maybe we'll do it (crank my poor toe) again" OH REALLY! The good thing is he didn't say more surgery. That is "oh happy day"

My bum foot. I'm still wearing my pajamas, by the way.

And now to the WHAT I'M DOING TODAY...


THIS...

AND more importantly THIS...

These are my piles. The one is not so bad. Just grocery ads and food magazines. That one is cake. The next one is the PAIN of my very existence. It is ALWAYS a mess. It is THE mess by the phone. Can you even see the phone? Can you see that basket? I got that to house my phone mess. It didn't work. I was just going to have that much stuff to deal with all wrapped up in a neat and attractive basket. The basket now has old cell phones and chargers and batteries and instruction booklets and old broken toys (Rubs is a devastator) and perhaps some spider webs-although I hope not.

I always need stuff from that pile. Mighty M always asked me if I have some paper or check stub or receipt. I say "yes" and point. He is an eye roller. He just looks at the mess and says "it's OK I don't need it now" I'm sure that means "clean it up and find my receipt" but I don't. I am not one to follow orders, even if they are only spoken with the roll of an eye. He really is kind and sweet to me about my phone pile (maybe it's because he knows, I know, about HIS nightstand).

Now speaking of Mighty M. He is so swamped with work that I fear he's going to crack. We talk about how we should be grateful, and we are, ( it is nice to pay bills) it is just hard on us all when he is so frazzled at the end of the day (he leaves home at 6:45 am and gets back at about 6:30ish) and has to commit to work the next two Saturdays just so they don't loose a really big job. He doesn't feel he can say NO to any job when the market is so shady so he says YES and is frazzled. The girls miss their dad and I miss my fella.

Mads is going to her best friend Bailey's house after school today. They are so cute and both such nice little girls. They have so much fun together. Last time they were playing over here, I let them decorate the house for Halloween. They found the Halloween make-up and spent the rest of the afternoon painting each others (and Rubs) faces. They were pretty scary. I took pictures with my phone but I'm not skilled enough to download them. So you'll have to settle for a normal one.

This post is really long. enjoy.

Obama for President and now this...

Last night we elected a new President of the United States. Barack Obama. I don't know anything about politics or what the 2 candidate really believe in so I can't complain or celebrate but I do wish him the best and his family in their new job. I do hope for a better future for our country. I hope the new President keeps God in his decisions and remains strong and grounded in his plan for our great country.

I was watching Good Morning America this morning and they interviewed about 10 2nd through 5th graders in an elementary school back east (I can't remember where-I'm sure it was significant) and they asked if we made the right decision for President, Their comments were interesting. Some said yes because now we finally have and African-American President and some said no because he is going to raise taxes (Do little children know what taxes are?) One little boy said, when asked about Obama's daughters living in the White House, "They are gonna ROCK that HOUSE!" And I hope they do. Good luck Mr. President.

And now this... snow. HMPhhhh. We woke up to this scene out our front door...


and this one...That long skinny thing is not a boa constrictor it is our pipe for the rain gutter. Pretty huh?

And I know I said the Halloween decorations were down but I just loved the Jack-o-lanterns the girls carved this year that I thought I'd leave them up a bit longer. The truth is, they need to be put in our compost pile and it is just too cold outside. wahh.

It is too early for snow, I am not excited to shovel our driveway. I'm sure I will have many a post this winter about shoveling the driveway and you can see it then. It is very steepish. A steep driveway does make for a fabulous front yard landscape. You will see it in the spring I promise. In the spring it is delightful in the winter, not so much.

Halloweenville 2008

HALLOWEEN 2008

Rubs I mean, Minnie Mouse

Mads aka The Greek Goddess

Rubs with her loot on Halloween night. She was one tired mouse. That little white pot is Play Doh. What a great idea. She has already played with it.

A close up of Mads. She chose to be a Goddess because of her Goddess like haircut. We gave her a trim on Halloween morning so she would be extra Goddessy. Mads had shimmer on her face and sparkle jewels and make up on her eyes. Even gold glitter hair spray. She was very glamorous.

I wasn't going to post this picture but it shows her shimmer and eye make up so well. (Why do children insist on making strange faces for the camera?) Let's be honest I still do it too.

Here's the loot picture taken this afternoon. She has it all sorted by yumminess. Left=yummiest (the candy bars) Right = least yummy ( gum and jaw breakers)

Hmmmm which one should I eat now?

Rubs sorting her candy. She sorted it different than Mads, I think she just put it all in piles. She probably has very specific reasons but to me it is just in 3 random piles.

The hard work is done. I think I'll watch Curious George now.

This was in Mads bag. It is a sucker wrapped in Halloween printed plastic with twisted pipe cleaner spider legs tied on by curling ribbon (that is even curled!) and a black pom pom body with googlie eyes glued on. Some people have WAY too much time on their hands. Why don't they come over and clean my shower or something.

Halloween was a big success. It was surprisingly warm for the last day in October and while it did sprinkle a bit of rain here and there it wasn't a bother. I took the girls out while Mighty M maned the door. We met up with a few of her friends and all walked together for a while. Then one set of parents took the older kids and we took the younger ones home for bed. Mads was very happy she didn't have to go home with Rubs and me. And equally happy she got more loot. When they were done I went to get Mads and we hit a few more houses on the way home. Am I the best Mom ever or what? Happy Halloween people. My decorations are already put away. Yippy!