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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Go Kiss Your Dad Instead...

Tom and I heard Sam choking upstairs, so we ran up to save her life. Only to find her dipping the little plastic tea pot in the toilet and drinking the water... You'd think it couldn't get worse. Until I tell you that the toilet wasn't flushed.
This child will have a great immune system one day....

Thursday, November 19, 2009

True or False

True or False? Concealer will cover marks on your face.
Answer: False. Not if they are made from blue food coloring...

With that in mind, my blue face and I are off to Stake Auxiliary Training...
(At least it's only a spot...)

Sunday, November 08, 2009

(yet another) Quote of the Day


Today as the sacrament got passed into our row... In a not-so quiet voice...

Alix - "Hey mom, I have a good idea for the sacrament."
me - "Shhhhhhhh..."
Alix - "You get a piece of bread on the way in, and another on the way out!"

Note to self - Pack more snacks...

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Quote of the Day

The twins and I were having "one of those" conversations. It eventually led to this...
Alix - "So you're going to die, mom?"
me - "Oh sweetie, not until I'm old"
Alix - "But mom, you're almost to old now!"
me - "Not really. I promise, I'm young and fun!"
Erin - "Well daddy really is almost to old."
me - "Oh yeah?"
Erin - "Yeah. The man has no hair!"

Well. Point taken. We'll miss you Tom.
This is Tom - Halloween 2007. Back when he still had an abundance of hair... (hey, it's all relative...)

Monday, November 02, 2009

Adults Only...

Costumes mandatory! Here is documentation of the fourth (possibly fifth) annual Bishop's Adults Only Halloween Party... (After three years, you get to capitalize your party's name...) It was a blast as always. My stomach hurt the next day from laughing so hard.

Aren't we all stunning?
The lovely ladies
and excluding Corwin, the handsome gentlemen...
The finals in the "mummy game" (The Hills took home the gold!)
Tom and I rockin' a new look. I forgot how handsome he is with hair...
Keep on reading (mostly looking at pictures) as I had to post a bunch of stuff today. It's stressful having the swine flu for two weeks before vacation, a week gone, then Halloween six days later. I was woefully unprepared, but it looks like we fit it all in. I won't admit to finishing sewing Alix's costume Halloween morning, or baking the cupcakes for the cake walk around six that morning, or never actually finishing Brooke's wizard wand. That would just be foolish.

Happy Haunting...

Because I know you all are waiting in suspense... Here are some pictures of my people...

Alix at a very spooky house. She's a"pink princess"
Erin, the "green witch"

Brooke was a magical "wizard"
After eating a powdered doughnut off a string
Alix and Sam - not a skunk, a cat... people were confused all day...
Somehow this year, I didn't take pictures of the girls in their costumes very well. So I had to crop most of these out of a group pictures. What can I say? I'm the best mom in the world...

Pumpkin Carving

Few things are better than carving pumpkins as a family. Here are the finished masterpieces...

Mine is the one full of holes. My mother asked, "What is it?" Pure fun. That's what. Everyone should go after a pumpkin with a power drill. It was the most fun I've ever had carving a pumpkin... Tom's is next, then Erin, Alix and Brooke's on the bottom.

Annual pilgrimage to the Pumpkin Palace. (Sam is helping me take the picture...)
Erin - had help drawing the face, but carved it all herself.
Alix did her own face and carving with absolutely no help from anyone. Period. No discussion. No input. On her own. Don't even think of helping her. End of story.
Brooke was less adamant about it, but did hers all by herself as well.
Ta-Da!







Bliss is...

Bliss is...
Watching the sunset from the deck of a catamaran
Seeing two huge pods of dolphins swimming beside you.A little zip-lining adventure.
Relaxing in the sun.
Sharing it all with a great friend!
We had the greatest time! We got to do a ton of stuff. A helicopter tour all around Maui, the zip-line, the dolphin excursion, SURFING LESSONS (awesome, by the way. I'll post pictures of that when I get them from my friend's camera...), a sunset cruise, a luau and all the relaxing in the sun you could wish for. It was amazing! Thanks to such a great hubby and mom and dad that made it all possible! Maybe one of these days, Tom and I will make it on a vacation together...