Don't you hate it when...

...you have to take down the fort so the kids can go to bed? These pictures are from Sunday night. They love to build a fort and the weekends are usually when they have enough time to build one and play in it before tearing it down for bedtime.

On a side note:

Hayden made this delicious jelly sandwich for me on Sunday night while I was uploading the videos of the girls singing. She didn't want me to be too hungry. Isn't she sweet?

How about a game of tag

I see these tags on other blogs all the time, so I thought it would be fun to start one. Here are the rules:

1. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
2. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
3. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So here we go:

1. I L-O-V-E the smell of Pine-sol.
2. I eat M&Ms in groups of 4 or 5. Not too few, not too many.
3. I don't trust the new 2x laundry detergent so I always add a little extra for good measure.
4. I like to browse the non-fiction books at the library and check out random books. (Want to know about IRAs, the guy that regained his sight after a lifetime of blindness, or what Ann Coulter thinks about Hillary Clinton?)
5. I think seatbelt laws for adults are dumb. If you don't want to buckle up, you are not hurting anyone but yourself.
6. Water is usually my drink of choice.
7. I am freakishly strong.

I am tagging Lynne, Stacey, Mom, Dianne, Liberty, and Brooke (Hey Brooke, thanks for the comments. I will be e-mailing you soon.) I didn't link your blogs here because that is too complicated for me. I don't think anyone else reads this blog. But, if you do, you are tagged too.

The next American Idols

I was talking to Lynne on the phone this evening and Hayden was walking around singing "Oops... I did it again." How does she know that song, you ask? Here is the link. Who knew that a little harmless fun on Barbie.com would turn my girls into wannabe rockstars. Anyway, I asked her if she would sing it on the phone for Lynne, but she said no. So I asked her if I could put a video of her singing on the blog and she agreed. Hayden immediately got Taylor and Payton involved and they orchestrated this little number. They even picked out their own "costumes." I am glad they decided to put clothes on because two of them were running around in only their panties. What do you expect in a house full of girls?

*Be sure to pause the music at the bottom of the page so you can hear the rockin' vocals on the video*

They decided to also do "What I Like About You." (another favorite from Barbie.com)

Here are also a couple of pictures of how Hayden and I spend our day while the girls are at school. She loves to play games. We spend lots of time playing checkers, Connect 4, Dora dominos, Trouble, Cariboo, Dora Memory, and Webkinz. I hope her Kindergarten teacher will play games all day with her next year or we are going to have a problem.

Hey Hayden, take off you jacket and stay awhile.

I usually can't get her to wear a jacket, but on this day, I couldn't get her to take it off.

I think I might have road rage

Hayden kept calling things retarded. I told her to stop because she doesn't even know what that means. She said that she did. "It means moron." I ask her how does a moron act. She says. "Crazy." So I ask her what a moron does. She said they get in your lane and don't move. So I say, "Retarded means you don't know how to drive?" She says, "pretty much."
I am such a great example! Maybe I should persue a career in teaching parenting classes. Anyone want to sign up?

Freeze Frame

Here is a moment in my life at 2:00pm. These pictures are in response to Lynne's post: Hayden is watching Spongebob in her underwear and eating oranges.

Taylor made her be this morning without being reminded.

Oh so yummy! These cookies are on the counter in the kitchen calling my name.

Here is the picture from the wall over my bed that came off while the girls were "playing" last night. I still haven't gotten the whole story.

We still have Valentine's extravaganza going on at our house. Does it ever end?

And speaking of never ending. It is raining, AGAIN. I know you Utah folks like to call it moisture. But it is just straight up rain.

So that's it.

Another little funny...

Hayden as usually had us laughing tonight. Bryan was sharing some Dove chocolate hearts with her and "reading" her the messages from the inside of the foil. When she asked what they said, he would tell her it said to give daddy all of her chocolate or give daddy lots of kisses. She didn't believe him so she insisted that he tell her what it really said. So he opens another one and tells her it says "Go where your heart takes you" or something like that. She opens another one and "reads" it herself. She said "My heart takes me to Toys R Us everyday, and Chuck E Cheese."

She also gave me a little lesson on the phases of the moon the other day. Taylor asked me if I had seen the day time moon the other day. I told her that Hayden had told me they had seen it while playing outside. Hayden chimes in with "It was a half moon, not a crescent moon." I said, "What do you know about crescent moons?" She said they are shaped like this, and draws a "C" in the air. Then she tells me the front is little and the back is big. I asked her where she learned that. She told me "a book." I asked her what book she had read and she told me "a train book." So, I asked her if she learned about the moon in the train book. Her answer was, "Nooooo, I learned about trains and how they can carry animals." OK

On the way home from church today Hayden out of the blue says "I don't get it." Of course, I ask her what she doesn't get. And she proceeds to tell me that her and Josiah (her friend from church) are they same size, but he is 5 and she doesn't get it. Then she told me it was just like that Ashli is taller than Stacey, but Stacey is still the mom. Do I explain genetics to her now, or wait a few years?

And by the way, when Hayden is a teenager she gets all of Ashli's things. Why you ask? Because, Ashli will be a grown-up and won't need them anymore. What things exactly? Everything, her clothes, her jewelry, all the stuff in her room, everything. Shouldn't she ask Ashli? No, because she won't need it anymore. And how do I know all of this? Because Hayden told me.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Bryan gave the girls their presents this morning. The wooden plaques are something he made for them at work. He cut and painted them then used rub-ons to add a little phrase to each of them. The girls loved them. They also got a heart shaped basket with a couple treats in it. They were really excited about the valentine debit cards they got. They are redeemable for a pizza picnic, sleepover, movie night, and all about me day. I found those at Wal-mart and couldn't pass them up.
Bryan and the girls went out last night to get my present. They came back with flowers and card that they gave me last night. Then this morning they gave me my FAVORITE chocolates and the stuff to make cupcakes (that they are going to make for me.) I told Bryan not to spend too much because tomorrow is when I get my real present. Don't you want to know what it is?

Drumroll please.........

I am getting new tires for the van. Isn't that romantic? Actually we are going out tomorrow night and Aiti is going to watch the girls and let them spend the night.

The girls and I spent last night making these little valentines for their classmates. They are not for a Valentine's "party" though. They don't have those at ER Dickson. They only have a Valentine's "snack." But they are exchanging valentines with their classmates. So I came up with this little idea. It was easy and cheap. The girls signed their names, wrote their classmates' names, and put the heart stickers on. I did the rest after they went to bed. I didn't mind thought because it was fun to see how excited they were after waking up and finding them all done.

I'll have to post more pictures later when our valentines festivities continue. Hopefully it will involve getting a package in the mail!

Isn't he the cutest?

This a layout I did using some random pictures that I had of Gavin from our summer trip. The girls and I all agreed that he is the cutest baby ever.

A couple more layouts

Here are a couple more scrapbook pages I have done. I obviously have no idea how to photograph them well. So this will have to do.

Pics from Extreme Makeover house

Here are the pictures from the Extreme Makeover house. The family was supposed to be coming home today. Notice in the last picture the camera at the end of the black crane thing. They were filming while we were there. I couldn't get very many pictures, because you can only take them when you are standing in the spectator area and there was a lanscaping van there blocking our view.