Shame on you Sesame Street

*Preface* This might be a lame post to you all, but it's been bugging me since I saw it, so here goes. Also, I've been wanting to do more post on how I think and stuff....

So the other day Bennett, the other littles and I were watching Sesame Street. Okay, yes I know Bennett is only one, but he loves Elmo and it gives us a little down/together time...deal with it. SO, if you watch Sesame Street you know that they have a "word of the day". Well the word of the day was "brilliant"...for those that don't know, they have a little blurb at the beginning beginning (before the opening song) that has this red monster (I don't remember his name) asking all these regular people what the word of the day means. I usually like it, people express their "opinions" on what it means and usually they are pretty right on. They then use the word throughout the show and at some point in the show they have a "popular" person that comes on and does a little spill on the word. WELL, this day, they did "brilliant" and they said it means someone is smart!!! I was seriously bugged the whole day about it. Okay not bugged enough to grab the dictionary and write a letter to Sesame Street "bugged" but, in my mind couldn't get it out of my head bugged. I was really disappointed that they used THAT and only THAT definition!!!!! It means something is BRIGHT not SMART!!!! Seriously, how SMART is a STAR!!!! Come on Sesame Street, get it right!!! I even told my kids that it means something bright (through out the whole show...since we were talking about it...) So, Ady goes, "No it doesn't Mom it says it means someone is smart!" UGH!!! Since I know better than to argue with a 4 year old about something she watched on T.V. (we all know that T.V. is much more BRILLIANT than Mom!) So, that is my soap box, I will get down now and hopefully stop thinking about it. LOL!!!!!

PS. My eyes are getting better, but not perfect yet. They dry out fast and I get headaches if I "strain" much, so I haven't been able to read (totally bugs me) and t.v. is half eyes open half eyes closed. I still can't drive comfortably, so I don't....which means I am stuck home and a bit bored at times. My doctor said everything healed great so far and that each week will get better and better and I should be 20/20 by the end of February. Crossing my fingers.

PRK

No pictures just a quick post. Yesterday I had PRK done. It's basically LASIK but much more old school. My eyes are too bad for LASIK and this was the next step before implantable contacts. So it is done, it was a crazy weird experience...I am glaad it's over. Too bad recovery has been a bit of a bear. I didn't sleep well the night before surgery. They told me to go home and sleep after surgery...no good, I layed there in and out of sleep and it was not restful. Finally at 12:30 the next morning after no sleep, I took some medicine to help me sleep. It didn't work but luckily at 9:30 am after my follow-up appointment, I finally slept. This Loritab is kicking my butt. I tbrew up the whole way home and I'm not in a blur of ickyness. I do have to say there have been good things. Davis has been a great help. He's been staying up until the wee hours of the morning trying to get work done so he can chauffer me and watch the kiddos. My Mother in Law came and watched the kids during my surgery and stayed for hours past, since it took that long for Davis to get my prescriptions filled, since the store only had one and didn't tell him until he'd waited over an hour. She also made dinner for us! YAY!!! My neighbor took my kids this morning and got the two oldest to school while I had my follow up appointment. She then worked all day and brought dinner over tonight...she truly is a Saint!!!

So, if there are mistakes in this...too bad, I can't see the screen well enough yet. LOL I am grateful to have this done and look forward to the results. THought I do see MUCH better now then I did before, just not clear yet. My kids have also been great and helpful Ady is my super duper helper and wants to put my eye drops in...no thanks sweet! So that is it for now. I will update at a later date.

Date Night

So Davis and I decided to do "date nights" with the kids this year. January he gets Tanner and Matthew, I get Adylin and Bennett. Wehave a $10 month budget per child, so they have to learn to spend it wisely. We made a list of things that were free and other fun ideas. The $10 is total (they have to pay for Mom or Dad.) So this month, Davis got free tickets to a Jazz game. They were AWESOME tickets (thanks Randy, you are the BOMB!) Davis and Tanner went on Monday to the Heats game where the Jazz KILLED!!!! Tanner loved it. Unfortunately,Davis didn't take the camera (are you surprised?!?!!?)

Last night Ady adn I had our date. She's been begging to go iceskating, so after dinner we were off to the Olympic speed skate oval. Unfortunately it didn't open until 7 and it was 6:10. I figured we would just go home, but Ady wasn't thrilled (or understanding) she thought we weren't going on her date and she'd been excited for a week. So we went to Arctic Circle for icecream.

Next we were off to skate. Despite the weird pictures and faces she is making, she LOVED it. This is just after we got our skates on. Gotta love the walker.

She spent the first 20 minutes like this...

and this.....

and this......

Pretty soon she got the hang of it and was off.

At one point she found a cute little 4 yr old boy to "skate" with. Let's just say the girl came out in her and she fell down a lot at first, and giggled. Then the competative part came out and she went ahead of him at lightning speed, where he was left to call after her. It was pretty funny. By the end she was going around with only falling about once and having a great time. It was hard to get her off the track, but when I did she realized "her feet were killing her." amd she had a nice scrap on her leg. Oh well, she wants to go back.

For Bennett, the kids have a primary thing on Saturday, so I will get to spend the morning with Bennett. I am sure we will play and then go get an icecream and fries, his two favorite things right now. Matthew is asking to go bowling. We'll see what he and Davis decide on.

Un Guard!!!

So the other day Bennett found this VERY LARGE knife in a drawer. (didn't even know I had it....isn't it just like kids to find something you didn't know you had.) Well, I was a bit concerned about it but decided to grab my camera anyway.

So anyone that knows these two, it is a constant "fight". I really hope one day they will be friends, so it was only appropriate taht the second Bennett got this knife, he went after Matthew. All in fun (in Matt's eyes) he got two small knives to fight back.

Pick up your weapon, this is a dual to the finish...un guard!!!!

Do you think you are man enough for this fight?!?!?!
First try to kill...not a success!

There it is, the kill shot!!! Victorious!!! Bennett lives for another match.

Okay, I know most of you all are thinking why in the world I would let them fight. For one that huge knife is basically a glorified butter knife. It wasn't "sharp" for the most part. But it did have a little seration at the end. I put the knives away and to answer the second inquiry I am sure you are all wondering...did he get cut. Well, not this round. He did go and find the knife again and cut his finger. So needless to say the knife has a new home in a bag in the gargage. The drawer that held such knife is now converted into Bennett's toy drawer.

Sledding

We've done some sledding and I keep forgetting to get the pictures off the camera. They aren't great, but oh well. Davis took the kids with the Sweet's so I still need to get some pictures from that. I hear Sam took some great ones of Ady going off a jump. We also went with Aunt Alyssa and Aunt Darcee. I think Alyssa and Darcee had more fun than the kids. Matt LOVES sledding. He will even bring up his own sled. Ady is a bit more lazy and either has someone else carry it up or they would pull her up in it. It was a bit icey and she is clutsy. I tried to get her to bring it up once and it didn't work too well. I'm hoping for a new batch of snow so we can go again.

Warning Movers!!!

So, you might noctice that I have different lists on the side of my blog. One being my ward. This is because there are so many people in my ward that have blogs, I can't keep up. I don't even have most of them on there, ugh!!!! So today I was checking out a blog of a person that has moved out and thought, "Man, I need to update that!" Well, as you all know with lists you have to "remove" not copy paste the link to another one. Well, in my excitement I removed all the move outs and then remembered I needed to add them to my "friends". Needless to say they didn't all make it. I basically went to another blog and grabbed the one name I really wanted (can't miss out on Toni's cute fam and creativity.) Well, the rest got dumped. So there you have it, if you move out you might get dumped. You might find yourself on the friend list, but don't count on it, I'm pretty lazy. LOL Luck has it the friend list is pretty set and family is too, so you guys don't need to fret.

With that said I have a funny short story. Yesterday my Mom was over and Matt was snuggling with her. He finally turned his head to look at her and said, "Grandma, will you buy me a pizza?" My Mom can never say no. She tried to figure out if we coudl get it at Papa Murphy's, but he wanted the cooked pizza. Even Mom's yummy homemade pizza wouldn't work. So my Mom put him in the car and he proudly pointed to Little Caesars (gag spew yuck) and said, "That pizza store Grandma." My mom then tells the rest. He gets out goes up to the lady at the counter and says, "Cheese pizza please." He then turns to my Mom and says, "You got the money Grandma?" He paid for his pizza and proudly carried it into the house. We heard about it ALL nigtht. Especially when we drove over to the church for tithing settlement. He had to point out the store and tell us HE bought pizza. Also, Tanner, Ady and Matt ate the WHOLE THING. Nothing but crust was left for Davis, Bennett and I. SWEET!!! I told Davis we can buy the yuck for them and get good stuff for us from now on.

Merry Christmas

Wild and crazy Christmas. We had a crazy fun Christmas this year. Wednesday was the last day of school for Tanner and an early day. I've been watching my neighbors kids after school for a while now and with it being an early day I was a bit nervous knowing I had them for a good 4-5 hours. I had this wood gingerbread house as a youth (got it in young womens nearly 20 yrs ago) Well, I've been wanting to make some for my kids, but never got around to it. This year I was determined but couldn't find mine....ugh! So I called my old young woman leader and asked her if she had a template. She should do much better than a template and gave me 4, one for each kid...SCORE!!!! So I had the kids (neighbors too) help make gingerbread houses. These are wood, so they just go together like a 3d puzzle and you decorate....very nice. Here are Ady's and Matt's. I let the neighbors take one home and figure we'll just make some next year. I wanted to give these to my nieces and nephews this year, but didn't...oh well.

Christmas Eve we had my parents and the Warner's over. It was good food, fun and lots of laughs. My parents gave the kids a Wii for Christmas so we got to play. The kids really enjoy it (when Mom and Dad will let them have a turn. LOL)

Ady was especially excited this year. She begged me to decorate everything, we even put lights up outside and she made sure she turned them on the second it was dark enough. Sorry no pictures, I am taking them down today (hopefully, if not I'll try to take a picture tonight.)

Christmas morning Ady and Matt ran downstairs and then upstairs to tell us Santa had come. We tried to get them to watch tv in the toyroom and not wake Bennett and Tanner, but they must've heard, "Wake Tanner and Bennett," because that's what they did. Oh well, it was a rough night, we finally got to bed before midnight to have Bennett wake up. Then again at 2 (he hasn't been feeling well.) Then Matt was up at 4 not feeling well...sigh. Ady and Matt were up at 6:30 to begin the day (merry christmas to US!) They got the stockings (ohh, I need to take pictures of the stockings my mother in law made. She makes them for all the kids, but I got her to do one for me and Davis...lucky!!!!)

Matt was happy to get his bakugan.

My Christmas girl. Man this girl got into it this year.

Ah, Bennett. I gave him a toy out of his stocking and somehow a kit kat was on it....He threw the toy and stuffed the kit kat in his mouth, wrapper and all. I finally fished it out and upwrapped it, amungst many screams and tears. He then went to his stocking and found more chocolate and peanut butter crackers, FOOD, his favorite things. He refused to open any toys, just wanted to eat.

Hmmm, no pictures of Tanner, oh well. After presents Mom went to make donuts (with Ady's "help" of-course) This is a new thing I've wanted to try to make a tradition....hmm, probably not going to happen, they were very time conuming and hard. But YUMMY!!!! Davis made egg/cheese/ham muffins.

After breakfast we got dressed, played and then we were off to the surprise present. We dropped Bennett at my Mom's and took the kids to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. They really liked it and we were surprised how well they did. Maybe a new tradition. After that we went home and spent the rest of the day there. I even got a nap!!!!

No pictures, just a report. The day after Christmas we went to Davis' sister's for dinner, presents and fun. It was awesome. We played the Wii and had some really good laughs.

Sunday was Scott's farewell, and we heard that Trevor flew out this morning to Texas. WOW!!!

Christmas-Tanner 3rd grade

Tanner has had a million projects this year. I forgot to take pictures of his teepee, indian mask and I'm sure there are more I forgot...oh well. Tanner also joined the choir this year. He loves to sing and has been singing these songs around the house for months. It was fun to go see him sing and to have all his grandparents there.

The whole Choir

Some pictures of his good friends Decatur and Carson.

The Warner's Alyssa go to come but Grandpa had to work. And I hear Darcee was bummed Mom wouldn't get her out of school. Sorry sista!

The Rasmussen's

Strong's

Tanner also made a Christmas tree for the 3rd grade festival of trees. He also did a Christmas around the world project on Denmark, no picture sorry.

Merry Christmas!!! I am so excited to go off track!!!! 3rd grade has sooooo much WORK!!!!!

Christmas Project

So I got a great idea to make some fun things for Christmas. Thank goodness my mom was a good sport. She helped me make these cute balck apple dolls.

We also made this pillowcase dress for Ady. It's not out of a pillowcase I bought I just made one because I loved this material and I wanted it to match the doll. I told her it was for her cousin and she was so bummed. My Mom said we would make her one after Christmas.

And of-course Matt needed one. But he told me it had to be a boy one. UGH!!! So here he is without a face....

Diego, rescue pack and all. Now Tanner said last night he wants an animal. Hmmm, nope. LOL I told him to talk to me after Christmas. I have another HUGE project I am working on and it won't be done by Christmas, but I hope it'll be close.

Lights at Temple Square

Okay I uploaded the pictures wrong, so deal with it.

Last week Davis went to Temple Square with the youth on Tuesday and I had scheduled with some friends to go on Thursday....he wasn't thrilled. Especially since he missed his ward basketball game. Most of these pictures aren't great, but we aren't going again this year. Hahaha

US

Huntsmans

The kids were super excited to ride traxs.

Here's Ady and her friend "M".

Erica and Matthew

Bennett was there and nearly froze to death. This boy is awful he refuses to wear socks, gloves hats, blankets. UGH!!!!

The Cute girls

Sibling love, can you tell this was forced...LOL, they were cute and hugged but of course I didn't get it and made them do it again.

Random Pictures

I am finally getting to the pictures on my camera. Oh boy!! There are only a few random ones and the rest I'll put in a real post. So one day I gave Bennett a pudding cup. He loved it!!! I am usually not one for messes, but I thought it owuld be fun. I stripped him to a diaper and gave him a bath after. He truly was in heaven.

Last randomness...in 3rd grade Tanner's class made these really cute Haunted Houses. He had lots of fun, but was disappointed because they displayed them for the school too see and the kids stole most of his stuff. He had skeletons, rats, bats, spiders and such on it. Man, what a lame thing that something like this can happen in an elementary school. He also had his scooter stolen at school so he doesn't get a new one. If we get him one he can't take it to school. LAME!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving...gobble gobble

I won't go into a lot of info on Thanksgiving, but we went to my Aunt's in the morning. SO MUCH FUN!!!!! and then to Davis' Grandparents in the evening. It was a fun long day and I am glad it is over. Well, in the joy of the season, here is Bennett in the traditional turkey costume Davis' mom made. I have pictures of Tanner in it and Ady in it and now Bennet. For some reason Matthew failed to get in it or have pictures done. Oh well.

Warner Girls

I just love how these turned out. I still need to get prints, but I wanted to share my cute sisters with my kiddos. As most of you know I have an "adopted" family. Basically this family couldn't have kids and I was a troubled teenager. So they let me watch their brand new baby girl and then the next cute girl and then they "adopted" me as an honorary member of the family. I love them very much and they have helped me in more ways then they will ever know. So here is Ady, our adopted angel.Being silly with Alyssa and Darcee. Alyssa is the oldest and she is holding Ady. Darcee is only about 18 months younger holding Matt.
The girls. Ady loves her Aunts VERY MUCH!!!!

The boys with the Aunts. Look at the cute smile on Bennett.

Group picture. Alyssa is in college and Darcee is a senior. We have had fun going to Darcee's choir performances and she was recently in the school play. She did awesome, she sure is talented.