Goodbye cold weather, hello not as cold weather!

I volunteered to work at Time Out for Women in Las Vegas this weekend. My motives were not altruistic, I signed up so I could get in for free. Well, with the passing on of the prophet and his funeral being on Saturday, it has been postponed. What to do, what to do. I could cancel my flight and reschedule for later in the year. Or I could still go and enjoy my sisters five children pestering her all day, knowing that I am in no way obligated to do anything but sleep and read. I have chosen the later. The weather will not be great, but it won't be as bad as it is here. I know I will miss my kids, but I'll manage. I might even see a movie. WooHoo!

FHE II

Last night we watched a recent BYU address given by President Hinkley for FHE. Then Chris read President Hinkley's testimony from April 2006. I was really worried that the oak would not understand why the prophet died and we might be up with her all night. Luckily, she was ok. It was nice, but Superturd was pretty sure it was time for desert. When we finally concluded I asked him to give the closing prayer. No way. Just want some desert, thanks. We waited him out, which involved him flailing on the floor crying. Finally, in defeat, he made his huffing boy noise and folded his arms. He started fine, repeatedly blessed the food, then seemed stuck, so I prompted him to close in the name of Jesus Christ. At this point he threw his arms in the air and screamed "Yeah!!! Jesus Christ!!!" It took a few minutes to compose ourselves.

Among the Great Ones

Statement from GW

Statement from President George W. Bush:
Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of our friend, Gordon B. Hinckley. While serving for over seven decades in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gordon demonstrated the heart of a servant and the wisdom of a leader. He was a tireless worker and a talented communicator who was respected in his community and beloved by his congregation. As President of his church, he traveled to more than 60 countries to spread a message of love and optimism to the millions of people around the world who shared his faith.
A Mayflower descendent and the grandson of Mormon pioneers, Gordon was a deeply patriotic man. His leadership and service strengthened the Board of Trustees of Brigham Young University, the Boy Scouts of America, and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. In 2004, I was honored to present him with the Medal of Freedom, our Nation's highest civil award, in recognition of his lifelong public service.
Laura and I will miss Gordon's friendship and wisdom. Our thoughts and prayers are with his five children and the rest of the Hinckley family.

Goodbye, friend :(

President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from cause’s incident to age. Member of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.

My little genius II

24 hours with no accidents. I'm not sure that they're accidental, but you know what I mean.

my little genius

Potty training boys blows big chunks of poo

I have become resigned to the fact that for the next 15 years i will have to set the timer for every 2 hours to remind my dear son to sit on the toilet. and even then he'll say he's done, go to the kitchen table and poop in his pants. does he have no nerve endings in his bum? Why are girls so much easier than boys? It's as if he likes the warm squishy. I wonder how many kids go to kindergarten in diapers...doesn't sound so bad.

3 babies

I love comparing pictures of the babies. Here's the three littles on their 1sts.

Month long birthday

We celebrated MoMo's bday again today at Chuck E Cheese. I hate that place, but not as bad as I hated the idea of facing a friend party. So, I negotiated a family party at the dirty pee ball tunnel instead.

You are my sunshine

We had a rare day of winter sun today and the girls broke some ice off of the creek to "skate" on the deck.

Look at VeeVee go!

Exactly

"The American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy."
That's what I always expect when I have relations in public.

Tagged

A- Attached or Single: Depends on the day, usually pretty detached, i mean attached

B- Best Friends: I have no friends

C- Cake or Pie: Mmmm, cake...or pie, but more cake

D- Day of choice: Monday of a three day weekend

E- Essential Item: mascara

F- Favorite Color: grey

G- Gummi Bears or Worms: bears if I must have any

H- Hometown: Hickboro

I - Indulgence(s): chocolate ice cream

J- January or July: July, it finally stops raining

K- Kids: 5

L- Life is Incomplete Without: books

M- Marriage Date: somewhere around Valentine's day, 13th?

N- Number of Siblings: 4

O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges

P- Phobias or Fears: spiders, heights, bridges, deep water, going off of a bridge into deep water and trying to get my children out of their carseats and get the doors open and get to the surface holding onto all of them before before we drown, cramped spaces, suffocating, infidelity, losing a child, rats (not the pet variety, the uninvited in my house variety), public speaking, being the boss, not doing a good job raising my children, drugs, cancer, my kids using drugs or getting cancer, being wrong, beating my children till I can't stop, really real tornadoes, dinner parties, speaking to anyone not directly related to me, old age, war breaking out on US soil and us living in fear and turmoil .

Q- Quotes: There is nothing to fear but fear itself. These are the words i live by :)

R- Reason To Smile: my husband is funny

S- Season: fall

T- Tag Three: Becky, Leanna, Chris

U- Unknown Fact About Me: There are no unknown, so how about little known. Except, my two readers even know the little known, so this is really dumb. Let me see...I honestly have nothing. I've never smoked. I have my tubes tied.

V- Vegetarian or Meat Eater: Meat is murder, tasty tasty murder

W- Worst Habit: pooping my pants in public

X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: I don't understand this

Y- Your Favorite Food: all of it, but seafood. maybe Mexican best.

Z- Zodiac: Bull

FHE pictionary

Meet "Osama the bad guy". He is the shooting target that the father of my sweet children made for them. Then he taught them to roll around on the floor shooting at him. Remembering to aim for the heart. Any guesses what political party we support? I'm so proud right now.

To my 2 readers, you know who you are

I got my blood drawn today. As usual, I'm hoping for hypothyroid, cause otherwise I'm just mean. Cross those stubby fingers for me. Also, I am working on my potty mouth. I only slipped twice today. Well, twice that I noticed. Since your fingers are already busy, cross those little circus like toes for me on that one.

Thrill of victory, agony of defacation

We woke up to a 6am phone call letting us know that there was the infamous NW black ice and school would be delayed by 2 hrs. Yeehaw, I'll ride that pony all the way back to sleep, thank you very much. Of course, we were woken again at 7:30 by the pit pat of super turd. I'll take 7:30 any day. I'm especially grateful for late start today because today was also State project day. AKA, this is due tomorrow and I need 20 3Dimensional items relating to Alaska plus a box to put it all in that is also decorating to reflect Alaska plus a note card for each item describing the said item and how it is relevant to said project. Before tomorrow. So the late start did give us a chance to finish that lovely job.
More importantly, while we were at the table this morning working, I heard Kiki (who was doing her hair in the bathroom. For the full 2 hours.) ask Superturd if he was going poop. Uh-oh. I hurried to help him clean up the accident that I assumed was waiting. Not only was there not, in fact, an accident, but there was my little man child sitting on the toilet. When questioned, Kiki revealed that not only did he take off his own pants, he also put the potty seat on the toilet and crawled up on the throne announcing that he was going to go poop. Oh, the joy that filled my cold heart. The tears that nearly filled my dry-dry eyes. What a glorious day in our home. My parenting efforts might actually mean something. Maybe not.
We went about our day of errands and endless driving, arriving home at about 12:30. Superturd ran upstairs to play. Superturd ran downstairs, through the house, and across the family room to tell me that he had had an accident. Apparently the apple juice was not sitting too well with little man. He had poop down his leg (thank goodness for elastic ankle sweats, it was just like a little poop bowl in those things) and into his shoes. And across the carpet. And down the stairs. And on his sister's bedroom floor. Poor baby duh-duh. It was awful. Chris couldn't figure out what was possibly strong enough to sterilize the carpet, since you can't pour bleach directly onto the carpet. I assured him that there is already enough gross stuff on our carpet from our shoes, he could just clean it up.
So, that was the low point of the day. That, and our child, while giving her state presentation to the class, announcing that she had just thrown it all together last night. I was so proud to be there at that moment. Why do I try?

My last baby isn't a baby anymore :(

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