This last week of January I took a few pictures of things going on around here. Thanks to my friend, Anna, I had to steal her idea and take pictures of our creations also. I had all the ingredients, so we had fun making these.
Chocolate chips make good buttons & eyes and marshmallows make great mittens.
Kimmie was laughing at hers falling apart before she could eat it.
Mine was a long banana...and yummie!
Obviously yummy for him also.
I had fun and made a martian out of a zinger....& Jacob had fun eating it.
Lane had a birthday, so I made him his favorite kind of cake --same kind his Grandpa Revis likes, yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Kimmie was so proud of it (she cracks the eggs for me every time we make stuff) she wanted a picture of her with it. She also wanted to blow out the candles. I let her do the magic candle, she blew it out several times and it finally left so much wax on the frosting I had to dig it out and put new frosting. Lane's 35 now...and feeling his age!
For Lane's birthday he got the movies he asked for. It was a Wed. so I was in Bountiful and his work let him off at 3pm. So he picked me up and we headed North to shop a little, then used a Chili's gift card his parents gave us to eat out. We always end up having strange dates. We're both very indecisive when it comes to knowing where we want to eat, so before we went with Chili's we drove around looking at different places while we drove to the store's we'd shop at....Lane said, "Oh, I heard Sego Lily is a good place"...as we got closer we saw it was a hair salon. :0) He was thinking of something else...ha ha. Or other things that happen to us are when Lane wants me to try a great restaurant he found and it's always "closed for repairs" "gas leak" it's 7pm and it's only "open 10am-4pm" or it's 5pm and they're "open 6pm-10pm". We just have the strangest luck, but the one we hit more often then not is "CLOSED--moved/out of business". So we laugh when we go out to eat at which places Lane has been to, will most likely be out of business the next time he goes there...bad ohman? Who knows. It keeps a smile on our faces. Anything is better than McDonald's, especially if the kids aren't with us--we're NOT going to eat at a fast food place. ahhh, peace and quiet and no food "flinging" all over the place. Plus when we're on dates (which we need to do more often) I find myself laughing a lot more. We have a great time learning how to date all over again. Kids take it out of us. But we still end up just thinking about the kids while we're gone and miss them....so we buy them things. he he
A view I see everyday through our kitchen window. All winter birds like eating the berries off this tree.
Lane found this OLD poster, kind of neat how much technology has changed.
Here's a close-up of the picture (note: 1983--GREAT GRAPHICS, right?)
Tuesday night my brother called and said look out the window at the moon and the planet next to it. Pretty brite! So I took a picture, and you can see it. The moon, and the planet to the top left of it. You can see the neighbor's houses below.
A close-up of the planet and moon...
I came downstairs one afternoon to find Kimmie quiet and made her own bed in our toy bin.
Upcoming events:Jacob turns 2 in three weeks. Kimmie turns 4 in about 4.5 weeks. Our stake conference is Valentine's weekend, the 5-year anniversary day of us moving into this house...and I was asked by the Stake President to speak at the adult session, we'll see how that goes. And the topic Kimmie talks about constantly now is Disneyland!!! She can't wait to go in July (me especially) the last time I was there was 15 years ago.
Kimmie's funny sayings this month:
--Can you wash my cracker? (it dropped in raw egg on the counter)
--Yum, my nice and fresh cooked pear!
--Ha ha, that mirror likes me!
--Kimmie drew a picture and said, "Ha ha ha, I see my dad's little belly button when I drew that!" as she pointed to the picture.
One day I cooked a chicken in the crock pot. I was taking the meat off the bones and showed Kimmie the wish bone and told her what I'd do as a kid and said it had to dry before we could make a wish. Then we got ready for bed and when I put Kimmie to bed I found that Jacob had gotten sick and fell asleep with stuff all over him. I woke him up and gave him a bath, changed the bedding and Lane checked him through the night. In the morning Kimmie yelled under my door in an urgent, "Momma, I have something to tell Yoou!!" I was thinking--is Jacob sick, did she wet the bed, is everyone okay? I said, "What." Then she said what I wasn't expecting, "The wish bone is already dry!" It put a smile on my face.
--Jacob's funny thing this month: A cartoon was playing and a character said, "Today is my birthday!" I said to Kimmie, "That's neat, daddy's birthday is today too". Then Kimmie continued to talk and the character said, "Do you like birthday parties?" and Jacob imediately said in a dull, boring tone, "No." He's so funny when he jabbers and decides to say something. No or Don't are common words....same with "Oh NO!"--like when Lane plays a car game and crashes.
We hope you all have a great February 2009.
Time Flies like arrow. Fruit Flies like banana. :0)
