Where's my anticlimax, my lull time, slow start to a new year.........It seemed like it didn't want to show up this year? I've been promising people and myself...."In the new year I'll have time..." Ya right! I think excess time is a thing of the past......sad I know...but I'm actually learning to accept the madness of life and just roll with it. DO WHAT YOU CAN....is my new life motto and I say it to myself at least 25 times a day.
So with that little introduction, I am actually choosing to post on my blog rather than sleeping this afternoon. I'm tired - just got done with two & 1/2 classes at the gym (no I didn't fall out of one, it was 30 min abs) and we are going to the temple tonight. I could really use a quick "pick me up nap" but if Trudi reminds me again that I need to update my blog, I might loose it. So this is my gift to you, Truddles.
I have so many random thoughts in my head lately like the cutest little old man from American Idol and his "Pants on da ground" song....if you dont know what Im talking about, you have to youtube it or better still, I will post it here for your enjoyment! The darn song wont get out of my head!!! "Lookin like a foo wit yo pants on da ground...." haha
What about this? I saw Dinosaur Train (a show on PBS kids) the other day all about how dinosaurs have to poo and it's ok because "every dinosaur poo's" ??? WHAT? Like I get the message it was teaching to preschoolers but come on.....there are no dinosaurs living anymore? It just seems wrong to have various dinosaurs riding a train singing about pooping and letting it out etc....or maybe Ive just lost touch with PBS as my kids are getting older???
Other January news - we had a glow in the dark crab soccer activity with the youth in our ward. Hilarious and fun!! Some of the beehives made posters, then myself and one of my girls went at 5:30 in the morning (YES five thirty a.m.) and hung them up on some of the boys houses along with some plastic forks in their grass.....arent we nice!!! The rivalry was ON....those boys were going DOWN!!!!
Well......we got slaughtered. Really badly slaughtered. The boys scored 7 goals right off the bat - even though we had jock jams playing and all our "gear" on! We played leaders vs. youth and leaders also go slaughtered. I think it was whatever team I was on that was loosing...lol! Baili wormed her way into coming to the activity even though she's only 10. She's convinced because of my calling working with the girls, that she's entitled to go to whatever fun things she wants. Well it doesn't help when my younger girls (age 12-14) are encouraging her to ask me if she can come. It was a super fun activity though and hilariously funny!
We also had our New Years Eve tradition (minus Lucas) to ring in 2010. Trudi and Tyler were here which was super fun. We played CATCHPHRASE and had an Asian eating feast! We took an updated picture from last year so here it is.....
I've also SLURPED (i like to say that with a LISHP) my blog into BLURP.com and am editing it for print. This is so super easy if you've never heard of it or tried it. It does require a bit of editing on the picture side it seems but I'm excited to get back a bound copy of the happenings of our year from mid 2008 to end of 2009. Plus is pretty inexpensive, especially verses scrapbooking which has long gone by the wayside in my life. I also love that fact that it's like a family journal, recording all the good (and BAD) times throughout the year. Yay for technology!!!
Ok, well on that note - my computer has frozen three times while blogging, I've taken a quick shower and kids should be home from school any minute! That would be my hint that it's time to back away from the computer.
Hope January was as good to you as it has been to us.
EH YA - found this scene the morning after we lost
CRAB SOCCER, THANKS BOYS!
