Yep! Too Soon for Summer Tires!

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Have you watched this Show?

I just watched the latest episode, Wassup on HULU, it is the fourth episode of the fabulous new series Parenthood.  Not only does it have my favorite Gilmore Girl as one of the lead characters but this show makes me cry each time I watch it.  I know there is a whole lot of hoopla about reality tv shows but I really appreciate a television show that has really good writers and really great actors being paid to do a job.  I can only stand so much train wreck tv. 

If you haven't been watching you should. 

If you start now you can catch all four episodes on HULU. 

It is so good!!!

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Latest School Picture

She brought these home today and they were pretty crinkled up... 

How many times are they going to photograph this beauty???

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No More Snow Tires?

Thursday we had an appointment with the Mazda Dealership to swap our snow tires for our summer tires.  I'm sure it just me but I kind of laughed at Dan when he asked me if I can hear the difference between the two sets of tires.  Does he mean over my Glee soundtrack pumping from the speakers or does he me over the kids tickling and poking each other with a range between laughter and tears of complaint?  I consider myself lucky to hear an emergency vehichles blaring siren on a good day, but nope I can't tell the difference, sound wise, between winter and summer tires!

It took about an hour waiting for four tires to be located, balanced and aligned.  Seth was kicking back, drinking his capri sun and watching word world on my ipod, then he found the toys and could have stayed even longer.  I was happy to be sitting still, I am half way through the new Fablehaven book, Keys to the Demon Prison.  This is the fifth and last book that Brandon Mull will write in this series.  I absolutely love the characters Kendra and Seth.  They are a brother and sister team to rival Charlie and Lola!  Not to spoil the plot but this book was so funny, Newel and Doren the satyrs decide to help save the world for a flat screen tv, generator and 200 gallons of gas ~ of course.  Because they were involved more, there was more humor.  I really think, for a kid {P.S. this is a childrens novel}, that with all of the doom and gloom of the world is going to be taken over by all of the deamons and every other evil thing, a little humor adds that perfect touch!  My favorite line is when they are all charging into battle and one of the goat men shouts out, "for Frito Lay!"

After the dealership we stopped at two body shops to get quotes to fix my sad car.  Although it looked like scratches that could be buffed out, the bumper is trashed and will have to be replaced.  This picture is of Seth at the first place we stopped, he really like the fire place!

I was surprized at how much both of the estimates were.  They ranged from $850 - $1,000.  And here I didn't call the police because it didn't look like that much damage.  The guy that hit me is being really nice and responsible about the whole situation, but I think from this point foward, if I were ever involved in another accident, I would call the police ~ no matter what! 

I was watching the news and the weather was reporting more snow.  Maybe I switched them too soon ~ sad!

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Rear End

It didn't seem like that big of a deal when Seth and I were rear ended this morning. This nice gentleman got out of his Lexus, apologized profusely and asked me if he could repair my car. His brothers do body work on automobiles and would I please work with him on repairing the damage and not go through the insurance. I tried calling Dan to get his advice. It doesn't seem like this could be that much damage. I couldn't get through to Dan and I exchanged information with the man, taking his insurance info and license plate. As we drove off we passed another car accident were the passengers were being wheeled away on stretchers. I will be getting two estimates tomorrow from body shops and hopefully making arrangements with the man who couldn't see my rear end tonight! I am grateful that we are all safe and feel blessed that this will just be a slight nuisance…

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Fun Weekend!

Erin celebrated Maggie's first birthday on Friday night.  It was so fun to see this little girl in the spot light!

Then on Saturday, while some of the brother-in-laws went riding the rest of us got together to celebrate the first day of spring.  We each brought a project and worked on it while we giggled.  The kids enjoyed the fabulous weather and grandma's sand pile!  Remember this Shower curtain I bought?  And I picked up some bright red, orange, green and blue towells and rugs for the kids' bathroom at Ikea.  This weekend I painted these to hand up on the walls.   

Laura had me all excited because she said she would help me and I thought she would end up doing it all.  I was so surprised when she just walked me through it.  I actually did it all.  I started by tracing the pattern onto the canvas after I painted it blue.  I traced the spots and the eyes and mouth.  Laura just laughed at me as I painted the red monster, delicately painting around the spots and such.  Paint each layer and then trace some more.  It was so easy, anyone could do it!

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The funny things she says:

This is the sheet of paper she was using while we were playing card games. I was keeping score but she was copying me. Grandpa Davis decided he wanted to join so I added him to the right side of my score sheet. So did Chloe, but there wasn't room for her to spell out grandpa so she just wrote Old!


During the same weekend Dan was teasing {aka lie to} her and She announced that she can always tell if daddies teasing because his eyes go big!

I need to do better at writing down what my kids say. The first time Chloe was sick and had diarrhea she shouted out to me that her bum threw up! Classic Chloe!!!

I was telling Dan about the "Old" Grandpa score card and she got all upset and embarrassed. I guess we have moved on to being a teenager and now we have to watch what we say around her!

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Can you Guess?

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More Green

Chloe came running in from school to tell me that while

she was at recess a Leprechaun came and delivered cookies

to her class! I was making her macaroni and cheese for

lunch and tried to tell her that a leprechaun must have dyed

her lunch green too. She said, "nu uh, mom. that was you!"

For dinner we had these green irish specialties:

Horse Shoe Pizza with green dough {sadly it was less appetizing green...}

Golden Potato Chips

Green Kool Aid with four leaf clovers made with ice cubes

& a Rainbow of fresh fruit

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Dad's & Doughnuts

The PTA at her school is sponsoring 'Dad's & Doughnuts' this morning.  I missed Mom's and Muffins so there was little I could tell Dan, in preparation.  She was so excited for him to come, I am so glad I told him about this a month ago and then reminded him about it weekly!

She's all glammed up in her green:

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So Sad...

Here is Seth dressed in all of his green glory.  He was up and dressed first this morning.

He thought he was going to school with Daddy...  I found this storm trooper costume at target for $4

and it has been gathering dust on top of the fridge waiting for this moment:

All better!  He has been watching the Clone Wars movies we borrowed from Kyle!!!

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Bevis and/or Butthead

What is the dumbest thing your husband has ever taught his children? 

Please comment and help me feel better about myself!!!

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Taste a Rainbow

I try to have enough patience so that she can help me in the kitchen.  Some days it is just too much to ask.  Not today.  I have been so excited for St. Patricks Day to come.  This is the first year that I have thought about it in advance and actually bought groceries accordingly ~ and I am already planning different holiday themed meals!!!  I had Chloe get the eggs out of the fridge and asked her to crack all six of them in the bosch mixing bowl.  I was in the hallway and I heard her gasp and I'm pretty sure I could hear her little heart just a racing away.  She dropped an egg!!!  We clean it up and laughed, I told her it's a good thing I bought extras!  She was covered in egg white and I had to fish out a few shells but she did an awesome job!

After mixing up two boxes of cake batter we divided it into six paper bowls.  I added the food coloring paste and Chloe mixed them in.  She would try to guess the color from the paste and kept surprising herself when she was wrong!

They made such beautiful colors:

It was kind of messy spooning each color into the cupcake liners but we each did 12 and after my third color, I rumaged through my drawer and got out my pampered chef scoops, which made the whole process go much faster!  We started with purple and worked our way backwards to red.  She kept wondering what in the world we were doing.  I kept teasing her to be patient.  Once we got them in the oven she was so excited because we were going to surprise Dan and Seth {who was napping}.  I told her we would hurry and frost them and they would never know what was inside the cupcakes!!!

We read the story of Noah and talked about rainbows and the promises Heavenly Father makes!

They didn't turn out exactly like the picture in the family fun magazine, but we had a good time making them.  If you thought the cupcakes in the stone muffin pan were too full you would have been right.  Those were the twelve that I made and they didn't turn out...  which made Chloe even prouder!

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Super Star

Chloe brought home her poster to fill out over the weekend.  She was very particular about the glitter, the flowers and the stickers.  She was very excited to share and she gets to be the Super Star of the Week in her class. 

She has been super sweet to her brother lately, too.  She wanted to make sure he was not scared at school.  She held his hand throughout the halls.  {I'm pretty sure he's never been scared...}

I'm a super star as well!!!  I made these flowers to match this shirt.  The sleaves had a bit of the fabric, like the colar, and it was too itchy.  I have had this shirt for a long time and never wore it, till now!  I even used some of the removed fabric to make a flower!  I also have been in the baking mood.  Since we got back from kindergarten, I mixed up the cookie dough for some shamrock cookies ~ they are chilling right now.  I whipped up some pizza dough for our dinner tonight.  The oven is baking with a cinnamon bunt cake for breakfast this week.  And as soon as that's done we will start making some rainbow cupcakes to go with our FHE lesson tonight.  I thought we would cover Noah!  Now just cross your arms, stick your fingertips in your armpits and then do the stanze, "Super Star!!!"

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Y. U. M.

Can you see what we made? I love having a bit of cheesecake with a mouthful of strawberries and blueberries!!! It is the perfect combination. I can't wait to make strawberry jam ~ we are all out...

This is the best cheesecake recipie out there and fortunately for everyone out there it is on each and every box of Philadelphia cream cheese!!! 

Philadelphia 3-Step Cheesecake
2 packages cream cheese, softened
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 ready to use graham cracker crust (6 ounce or 9 inch)

Mix cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add Eggs, blend well.  Pour into crust and bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight. Makes 8 servings.

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Celebration

It was such a beautiful day today.

We visited Dayna's grave and

sent her birthday wishes by balloon!

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts!

Thanks to Brittany and Laura for helping get

the balloons, for the flowers, and for your post!

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Happy Birthday Angel!

Dayna Hannah Davis

March 12, 2002

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Such a Long Day

When I told Seth we were running errands today he was so, so excited!!!

He thought we were going to Erin's...

This is Chloe saving her gum {can you find it?}

Here we are at the local Smith's waiting for a prescription

to be filled. We all need our blood presure checked

and each and every pair of sunglasses must be tried on!

Do you like Seth's hair? He wanted gel and spritz in

his hair today and he wanted it combed back like Kyle's.

{Does Kyle's hair look like this???}

This was just one of the many stops we had today. AND they weren't able to fill my prescription while we were waiting... We got all of our returns and errands done. Why is it so much more taxing with my kids in tow?

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