Go Cougs!

Oh! the possibilities!

Nothing is more fun than a big box!
And two boxes are even better!!

Elle is still trying to decide WHAT to do with these awesome boxes!
It's more fun to decide with friends, so we might have to have an emergency play-date!

Where did we get such big boxes? you ask.

Well, you'd think I'd learned my lesson with the TV. . .

Chris blew out one of our speakers while he was watching Inception (the bass was really low), and he's been trying to decide if he should replace them not.

"You should TOTALLY get new speakers!" I told him "It's been years since you've bought some, and we really could use some better ones!"

So, while I was at the Dr. getting butchered, Chris somehow crammed two of these babies in the Mini:

They do sound awfully nice, and I'm sure Kung Fu Panda will sound even better now ;)

Happy Birthday Chris!

 

Getting old is a tiring thing

But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t celebrate!

The birthday gift highlights: a wheel and new racing game:

 

 

 

And a homemade cellphone holder from Elle

We had the traditional Jell-o Cake, then Chris and Elle enjoyed peeling out in the races!

 

Happy Birthday to my favorite guy!

 

And just in case you thought I forgot:

 

Sunday Dress

          And hair

p.s. Elle and I are still waiting for good stories from the last post—we want to know your versions of why there was a piece of partially cooked, seasoned meat on the sidewalk!

What is that?!

So, I was walking to pick up Elle from school today, when I saw something questionable on the sidewalk.
I don't usually walk on that side of the street, but it was in the sun, so I had to take advantage of every drop of Vit. D I could get.
"I'm not going to look, I'm not going to look, I'm not going to look" I told myself.
And I didn't.
Then, since it was such a beautiful sunny day, Elle and I walked home on that side too.
I had forgotten all about the "whatever-it-was" on the sidewalk.
We had to look.




This is what we saw:








No, it's not roadkill. It's meat. With the bone in.
Luckily, I had Chris' hand-me-down phone, so I could take a picture.

While we were staring and taking pictures, some people stopped to check it out too.
"What is that?!"
"I think it's chicken" I said.
Then one man said authoritatively , "No, it's meat. And it's been browned"
"And seasoned" another lady observed."
(you can see the little peppercorns if you look closely)
"The bears are going to love that tonight" someone else said.
We all just left it there and walked away.

All the way home, Elle and I came up with a story behind the meat on the sidewalk.

Here's what we came up with:

A woman was having a very bad day.
She was cooking the meat and had just browned and seasoned it when something tipped her over the edge.
She snapped.
She grabbed the piece of meat right off the pan mid-sizzle and started stomping around the house.
The door was wide open since it was so nice out, but she didn't even think about the weather as she hurled the meat outside and
*SPLAT*
it landed right on the sidewalk.
And there it lay.



Now, what's your story?

ps Elle is holding a "microphone" that she made herself.  I don't think she meant it too look like a chicken leg, but it's kind of funny that it does ;)
pps Here's Chris's two cents-- Don't worry, Elle didn't touch it, so she doesn't have "the meat touch." But Nanette did, so you'd better watch out when she comes near you.

Sunday Dress and hair

Since it was Fast Sunday, I decided we'd have time to do Sunday dress and hair!
Because it was Fast Sunday, Elle was super cooperative and very happy.

                                                        She was much better after church.

(which is kind of ironic since she'd been fasting since last night and we hadn't broken our fast yet!)




The back:

And because I always have her stand here in the hall, I thought I'd do a close up of the picture she stands under. My brother is amazing at calligraphy, and he did this "Families are Forever"

Sunday Dress and Coat

This cute little outfit is also what Elle wore to her choir concert back in December.
She hasn't worn it since, so I thought it was high time she did!

Here's Elle in her Mink Stole






Actually, she thought she looked like a ghost in this coat, (you can't see her feet--she's floating! Wooo-ooo) and wanted me to take pictures accordingly.
We spent a good half hour trying to capture her mid-jump so she'd look like she was floating. That's how she got the mink stole in the picture above. :)

This is her "ghost face" Very creepy.
It's too bad I don't know anything about my camera, because Elle wanted me to take a spooky dark picture of her.
They just all turned out fuzzy instead. :(
Someday I'll have to read the manual.

We finally got our ghost shot though!

Winter Highlights

It’s been a long time!

Here are some highlights of winter:

I had my EE birthday! (It was supposed to be 33, but someone got confused with the sprinkles.  We turned the cake upside down and it worked out)

Elle’s dream come true—both sets of Grandparents in one month!

This is the highlight of Christmas—Elle (with help from G-ma and G-pa) sewed a nativity set for my sister!  All of Elle’s gifts were so thoughtful!  Another of my favorite was  for my dad.  He retired last year, so Elle  made a paper chain with ideas of things he can fill his day with! “read a book, write in your journal”etc.)

 

Matching PJ’s with my sister

 

SNOW!

a few days later

We somehow convinced Elle to wear this adorable outfit!

Unfortunately, this is the best shot.

 

We convinced her to wear this too!

She loves it when we make her wear cute things!

And a new dress!  Now that we have 9:00 church, we don’t really have time for the “hair” part of “Sunday dress and hair”

I’m sure I missed more highlights, but that’s all I can think of for now!

 

And since this is such a long post anyway, I’ll add on one more thing--

Yesterday, we took pictures of all the primary kids.  Since we’re a new presidency, we want to memorize all the kids.  I’m doing pretty well considering we have almost 100 kids in primary and 25 in nursery!  I feel so bad when I’m doing sharing time and I want to call on someone, but I don’t remember their name!

(BTW- I’m second counselor now—I miss Activity Days!*sniff*)

Here are some choice pictures:

And that’s all for now!