Getting to know you Dealy

My mom sent this to me and said that I was probably the least likely to respond... and she's right. Infact, it's odd that I read it. And since I hate forwarding things to people and feel like doing this anyway here goes...

1.What color are your socks right now?
white

2.What are you listening to right now?


multiple computers and people murmoring

3.

What was the last thing you ate?
candy (so healthy)

4.


Can you drive a stick shift?


Of course, but very badly as I have no practice.

5.


Last person you spoke to on the phone?


Rebecca

6.


Do you like the person who sent this to you?


Usually

7.


How old are you today?


27

8.


What is your favorite sport to watch on TV?


Tennis

9.


What is your favorite drink?


Mr. Pibb

10.


Have you ever dyed your hair?


No

11.


Favorite food?


pizza

12.


What is the last movie you watched?
Princess Protection Program(the what's what edition)

13.


Favorite day of the year?
*gets sentimental* Nov 21.

none

14.


How do you vent?


Play game

15.


What was your favorite toy as a child?


probably our nintendo... after that um... a ball?

16.


What is your favorite season?


Fall

17.


Cherries or Blueberries?


Cherries

18.


Do you want your friends to e-mail you back?


Don't care.

19.


Who is the most likely to respond?


Dunno

20.


Who is least likely to respond?


Me

21.


Living situation?


Married, but currently separated two nights a week.

22.


When was the last time you cried?


Yesterday? I cry all the time. I'm an emotional guy. I almost cried answering number 13... Infact, I'm thinking about doing it again cause I loves me family!

23.


What is on the floor of your closet right now?


Probably clothes and various knick-knacks provided by my Ephraim's child.

24.


Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to


Not bothering to send it.

25.


What did you do last night?


Watched Princess Protection Program

26.


What are you most afraid of?

Losing my family... even temporarily.


27.


Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers?


cheese

28.


Favorite dog breed?

Meh

29.


Favorite day of the week?


Probably Friday

30.


How many countries, states or provinces have you lived in?


I'll go with 6.

31.


DR. Oz or Dr. Phil


Oz

32.


What is your favorite flower?


Dandelion?

No one was harmed in the taking of these photos

Photo Post!

I think I fixed the photo problems.

Thanks to Gar giving us a new camera! And if anyone needs bigger pictures, let me know and I can email you bigger ones. These have been sized for easier display. :)

The only pic with me (I was behind the camera for the rest).

Daddy and the 2 kids. (The best shot we got)

Alice cut her hair! You can't see a nice bald spot under her bangs on one side. Thank goodness for bangs to cover things like that.

Better Picture of Thomas!

Alice checking out the snow. She loves it until she gets cold and wet. Clearly based on her outfit I wasn't letting her out for long. But it did get above 0 before 11am today!

The garden! (most of the snow on top has blown away. For Reference, the box is 8 inches tall.)

Oh no mouse!

Merry Christmas! We have spent a quiet day at home. Except for Alice upchucking all over me and the couch. Ah yes good times. She went back to bed and took a 2 hour nap before noon. This certainly makes us glad we did not travel.

We opened all our presents this morning and so far Daniel has shown the most excitement about his. I think Castlevania for the Wii is a hit. Daniel says he was trying to enjoy his presents. :-)

We are at least attempting a bit of a holiday by having homecooked meals. We had french toast for breakfast (too bad we ran out of syrup), taco salad for lunch, and we bought a pork roast to cook in the crockpot for dinner.

As for the title of this blog post...

Last night we were sitting on the couch watching a movie when Alice yells "Oh no mouse!" I wasn't sure I heard her correctly, so I asked "mouse?" and she replied "Yes. Look." Then grabs at Thomas (who was on the floor in front of the couch.

Eeeek!

Thomas had eaten a chocolate cookie and his face was coated. When you are barely 3, sometimes mouth is pronounced mouse.

Always playing catch up!

Its December!

Daniel has a week left of school. Yay!

Alice goes potty in the toilet...sometimes.

Its getting cold, but still no snow.

Thomas is walking quickly now. Not quite at running, but he is getting there.

I am knitting. Currently in progress, a red and blue KU inspired hat. If only I could find a button in the shape of a jayhawk. Also in progress. A crown for ALice. Its greens and browns so its totally a Wood Faerie crown. I only have 2 inches of it, so we will see if I get sick of it before I get the 18" or so done.

The spiffy fridge we got in a trade is almost clean of mold. I bought a hand steam cleaner thing to help finish it up. I still need to call and harass some ladies who are having babies this month to see if they want/need help from the ward. Pregnant ladies are hard to get hold of. Especially when the computer won't attach to a monitor...so calling back missed calls is hard to do. BUT! We got the replacement joiner thing, and its FIXED! Daniel doesn't know it already came because he is at work, and they had a team lunch so he spent his time cooking eggs on the griddle and talking instead of calling.

Oh and I have gotten ALice to expand her horizons in the world of food via a trick I read about. She gets her lunch in a mini muffin tin. Each hole gets something (a carrot stick, part of a sandwich, a slice of aple, etc). Today she ate everything except 2 pieces of cheese. That is a SHOCKER. The girl usually would choose cheese over most foods. I think peanut butter and honey was a much bigger hit than pb&blueberry butter or tuna sandwiches though. She actually ate ALL of the sandwich. I am glad about this because she has been begging less for treats (and eating less of them. Plus the fact that she is eating veggies without bribery is awesome! Carrot sticks or carrot coins are a hit. Celery isn't as popular, but she will eat it. And broccoli is always popular.

Daniel has a new-ish calling at church. He is the secretary of the Elder's Quorum. And he has officially been released from cub scouts. He pretty much rejoiced learning that.

Oops, catch up again

Everyone is sick! With varying degrees of illness. Nothing completely debilitating, but lots of fatigue, runny noses, etc. Daniel went in to work for a few yours yesterday and came back home. He has today apprived off, but he might go in for a little bot. He hasn't specified.

Thomas is starting to climb everything. He lept off the arm of the couch yesterday, unfortunately he can't fly. Head injuries bleed a lot. When We got him up we were sure if it was a bloody nose and smeared up, or a scraped eyebrow and smeared down. He is currently sporting a pirate look.

Relief Society did a service project making scarves and hats for the homeless shelter. I took home a LOT of fleece from that. I ended up with almost 3 dozen scarves at the end. And there were over a dozen made the night we met together, plus several other people took partly finished ones home to complete. It makes me feel good that we made so many.

In conjunction with the scarf project, I finally bought new bobbins. I kept having issues with crazy thread jams. And surprise! I was using the shorter (semi)universal bobbin and needed the taller one. Sewing with the proper equipment makes sewing so much nicer! The last dozen scarves went SUPER fast and ZERO jam ups.

We also got Netflix about a week ago. Netflix on demand is crazy. It has made borrowing movies from the library obsolete for us. Speaking of the library, the bill passed in the last election. We knew it would happen even though we voted against it. Whoever gets that construction contract is gonna be sitting pretty. $18 million dollars to add another floor to the library, make it more energy efficient and build a parking garage. Yes it will only be an addition of 2mills on the property taxes, but the loan they are taking for this is more than 10 times the state mandated limit (hence the vote). But, yeah our town really likes to vote in additional taxes for new/better public services.

Time to catch up...

- Thomas stands on his own for about 30 seconds to a minute at a time. ^-^

- Alice loves dresses. She hates pants. We need to get some knee high sock or something since its getting cooler. That and some more fall style dresses.

- I have been crazy busy with church stuff. Calling here, calling there, throw in some visiting teaching, etc.

- Daniel is going to be on call this weekend. O.O They are buying him minutes for his phone and he will get paid for an additional hour of work. He will get a call and have to be there within the hour. They are doing software testing or something.

- We are going to have the siding on the back of the house replaced. Siding and the gutters. We haven't got the price total yet, but I am expecting in the $2000 range. Maybe more if I decide we should replace the windows at the same time. Which would be nice. Just more $ for materials and labor.