The Big Reveal

Since it is such a beautiful spring day outside, I thought I'd finally post a picture of my post-op face. I think I look pretty good! The Dr. assures me I'll continue to improve, and you won't even notice the two giant jagged scars across my nose and cheek!

 

But today is April 1st, of course, and I really shine on this day :)

 

So far, I've turned Elle's toilet water purple, and hidden a dollar bill in the TP she used this morning. She, in turn, left TP messages in all the toilets. Two of them had pictures of Winnie- the pooh (so she tells me) and notes that said, "looking for poo?" Gross. I know. She takes after her father. In her own toilet, she put this:

I also used safety pins to string together 4 pairs of Elle's underwear. When she took a pair to wear today, she pulled three more pairs out of the drawer along with it! She, in turn, used those same safety pins to do the same thing to my socks :) She kept asking, "Don't you need to put some socks on, Mom?"

Also, she put a raisin in our toothpaste to look like a little bug (which she does every year) It was too far down to come out when I used the toothpaste, so Chris got it (also like he does every year).

He pretended not to notice while we listened to Elle asking us over and over if we had brushed our teeth yet, and did we see anything in the toothpaste. Chris never does April Fool's Day tricks, so while Elle was on the verge of having a melt-down over her trick-gone-wrong, Chris said, "April Fool's! I did see it, but I fooled you into thinking I didn't!" Then all was well. Disaster averted.

 

Another trick of mine was to put a dab of blue food coloring in the bottom of Chris' cereal bowl. I was so sweet to fill it with cereal for him 'casue I'm a nice wife like that. Always so helpful!

When he poured his milk in, the milk started to turn green :) (Every year he tells me not to color ALL of the milk a crazy color because that's just gross for the rest of the week)

We all thought it was so strange that the blue food coloring turned green, so we decided to experiment with mine and Elle's cereal. My blue dye turned blue-green and Elle's green food coloring was a light green. We figured Great Grains is more yellow that Frosted mini-wheats Anyway. . .

More tricks:

I opened two bags of chips for Chris' lunch and exchanged the Doritos for Fritos! I used double sided tape to close it up again. Chris sent me an email titled, "And I was like 'WHAT?!'" and the picture he took:

AND For Elle's snack at school (I couldn't do her whole lunch since they're having a pizza party), I used a marker cap to make holes in her apple slices, then stuck gummy worms through them.

(I did this for Chris too. I guess he wasn't as impressed because he didn't send an email let alone a picture)

AND I just made some clear jell-o to pose as Sprite-zero (love it!) for dinner tonight. I'm not sure who will get that yet.

Oh ya-- I also covered a book for Chris to read on the bus with another book's cover :) I think that's all I did. Not bad for one day >:)

Elle and I went grocery shopping yesterday so she could pick up ingredients for a secret April Fool's day cupcake she got out of her cupcake book. I can hardly wait! (like Mother like daughter) :)

Our rule is we can only do silly and nice tricks on April Fool's day. No Kool-aid in the shower head or plastic wrap on the toilet seat ( as my brother would do to my Mom)

I hope you have a happy Day too!

PS It's not really a nice sunny spring day (although I wish it was true!) April Fool's!

Sunday Dress and Hair 3-20-11

Happy spring!!!

Elle and I both wore springy dresses today!

Elle actually fixed her hair this way yesterday all by herself!  (She had me do it today, though)

Today was ward conference.  The Stake primary presidency came in to visit.
We were so pleased that everyone was amazingly quiet and obedient!!  I think we made a good impression.

Although--while our primary president was doing sharing time in Jr. primary, one of the Sunbeams on the front row threw up on another Sunbeam girl--who happened to be the primary president's daughter!  She just kept going while someone else rushed her daughter out to the hall.  Luckily, the sick Sunbeam's mom teaches CTR 6 a couple rows back, so she grabbed her daughter and went to the bathroom to clean her up.  (more good news- she's a team teacher and the other teacher was in charge of the lesson)
That particular Sunbeam class (we have 3) had substitute teachers that day!--a couple.  The husband rushed out to get paper towels, and the wife said, "Don't worry, we're used to this!"  because last week, their own child had thrown up during Sacrament meeting!


Another funny Jr. Primary story--
For sharing time, the Primary president was having the kids role play, and she had two boys walking together, knocking on doors.  No one in primary could guess who they were, then a CTR 4 girl called out  "It's the tooth fairy!"  Her dad was subbing for CTR 5 (we had a lot of subs today!),  I asked, "So, the tooth fairy is like two Mormon missionaries at your house?"  He just laughed and said,  "Was she the one who said that?!

Sr. primary went off without a hitch.  Even Elle's problem class was particularly mild!  (The girls outnumber the boys, but the boys are so crazy, they more than make up for the girls!)





In other news. . .

Elle got a new Beta fish and named him "Slim"  :)

The Many Faces of Nanette

This is me a couple months ago. Not too bad, right?
Well, all except the two cancer spots on my face--one on my nose and one on my cheek.
Oh--and the big scar on my forehead.
But other than that, pretty good as faces go.





Well, being the spunky girl I am, I decided to try on a few other faces.
Here are some of my favorites:

I'll have to wait a little while longer to post my current face. (Sorry, Mom)

I'll tell you this much though--you hardly even notice the scar on my forehead now! :D

X-Ray

Here lies X-Ray
December 2009-March 8, 2011


X-Ray was Elle's first pet. She got him for Christmas 2009.
He was a good fish, and loved by all.
Many people had a chance to know and love him as they saw him and fish-sat him.


He will be greatly missed.

Sunday Dress and Hair 3-6-11

I was all excited to do Elle's hair since it was fast Sunday, and I told her so on Saturday. But she said
"I'm going to be really grumpy tomorrow, Mom"
Since this was true last fast Sunday, I decided to take her word for it.
So, I took an extra long shower, and took my time getting ready.
When I was nearly done, I went to check on Elle. She was all ready, except for her hair.
I knew we were out of time, so I told her to put her hair in a head band or something.
"Didn't you want to fix my hair, though?"
ghaa!
It was too late, so I quickly took a picture and we went to Church.
No exciting hair this week.
But that's OK! She's still cute!
:)

Our Awesome Ward

Did you get your March Ensign yet? 

 If you did, turn to page 35.

There, you will see what an awesome ward we belong to!

Or, you can just click here and read it:

http://lds.org/ensign/2011/03/when-broken-hearts-become-one?lang=eng

We weren't around when all this happened, but we know all the people it mentions.  They are so great.  We're so lucky to belong to such a strong ward.

And with all my health problems, we fit in really well. :)

Enjoy!

Sunday Dress and Hair and Talk

The other day, Elle said she wished her hair looked like it does after we take her braids out.
So today, I used the triple barrel curling iron to make her wish come true!
It was cold and snowy out today, but Elle chose this outfit.
You probably can't see them, but she's wearing her cute little bumble bee earrings that her friend gave her, to complete the ensemble.

It took about a half an hour to do her thick hair!

Amazingly, we made it to church just before the opening hymn :)

And, Now I have to brag because Elle gave a talk in Primary today. I told her since the theme of this month is "The Scriptures Teach of Heavenly Father's Plan," she could give it on that.
We found an article in the friend all about the theme:

http://lds.org/friend/2011/02/the-scriptures-teach-of-heavenly-fathers-plan?lang=eng

I told her to do the activity, then write her talk from what she learned.
On her own, she came up with this! The only thing I did was type it up. When Chris came in to hear her talk, he leaned over and asked me, " Did she write this herself?!"

Yep. She's that amazing!

Elle's talk:

Our theme this month is: The scriptures teach of Heavenly Father’s plan. And that is true because in Moses 5:4 it says, “And Adam and Eve, his wife, called upon the name of the Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord from the way toward the garden of Eden, speaking unto them, and they saw him not; for they were shut out from his presence.” That means they were on earth without being face to face with the Lord. But that was part of the plan.

They had children, their children had children, and so forth. But they all had to be taught the works of the Gospel, in other words, to be righteous. Like it says in 3rd Ne 22:13—parents should teach the Gospel to their children.

Since we need to get back to Heaven, Christ died, and was resurrected, and loosed the bands of death like it says in Alma 11:42.
I have a testimony that the church is true and that Christ made it possible for all of us to be an eternal family.
I hope you understand how helpful the scriptures are to us.
I say these things, in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.