1st Day of Disney

So, the last movie on the list is The Little Mermaid, one of my favorites (don't mock me). This movie was released in 1989, really, I had no idea. Anyway, I am putting it on here today, because we are leaving tomorrow ( a day ealier that was planed) to visit some of Jason's family. This movie will be watched in the car while eating Goldfish (did you know the come in all sorts of flavors now, love them) and Swedish fish. Lame I know, but you can only do what you can with what you have to work with. Wish us luck at Disneyland. Please keep us in your prays that there will be no trips to the emergency room!

2nd Day of Disney

Tonight was National Treasure 2, Book of Secrets, night. We had yet another treasure hunt, at Dillon's request because this was his movie night. This one differed from the other one because all the clues were in code. Dillon and Truman had to decode all the messages before they could search for the next clue. I found this great girl scout web site that allowed you to print off a code, and then write whatever, and it would encode it for you, and then all you have to do is print it off too. I love the internet! Notice Truman has not yet gotten out of his PJ's I am best mom, hey he's sick right.

3rd Day of Disney

Yesterday was 3 days until we leave for Disney. We watched The Nightmare Before Christmas. The night went something like this: Went to friends house to paint pumpkins well Dillon did, Truman said "it takes too long" and Elleree seemed to think the object was to paint the plate that had the paint on it. We then watched the movie, halfway through Truman came down with a fever, came home, Truman threw up. Then Elleree came in, smelled and saw vomit and decided to vomit herself. That is when I jump out a window. Okay..... that last part isn't true, but all the rest is. In my house hold the flu, sick season has begun. Yet another thing I am not ready for.

Found Hat

I found this hat that my way cool auntie made for my niece, but does not fit her any more. Guess who it does fit? Okay, you don't have to guess because it may be too hard. Look how cute it looks on her! I know, you are thinking it is cold enough for hats already, and the answer is yes (with a sigh). Anyway I wanted said auntie to see how cute it is still the second time around. Plus I can't forget to tell her other auntie thank you for passing it on!

4th Day of Disney

Yesterday was quite the day. We had a treasure hunt with the kids. I was really proud of them they found most of the clues all by themselves. The treasure at the end was Ring Pops. I will tell you, I love strawberry Ring Pops! My friends little girl does too because she kept using it as a Binky, it was hilarious! We had a little Wendy's for dinner, the school was having a fundraiser. Then we finished off the evening by watching the Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End. I never realized how long that movie is. Everything seems longer when you want to put your kids to bed though!

5th Day of Disney

Tonight's movie of choice, the Jungle Book. We went over to our friends' house, the people who we are going to Disneyland with. Jamie, the Dad, is the one who came up with the 12 days of Disney. They go to Disneyland like once a year, they love it. Any way we watched the movie and ate banana splits. Elleree, as you can see was more interested in their cat than doing either. Oh well, what can you do.

6th Day of Disney

Today I think I watched the stupidest Disney movie ever, The Apple Dumpling Gang. Seriously any plot that involves giving three kids to some man, (that nobody, including the kids knows) and expecting that everything will end up just hunky dory is just wrong. Tie that up with some good old fashioned slapstick comedy, that is in no way funny and you have the makings of this film. The only good part of this movie is that Bill Bixby is not to bad to look at. For our activity Jason cooked us an apple pie which was not too bad, especially compared to the movie. Top that off with some ice cream, and I just sat back and tried to enjoy the movie. (:

First Snow

And so it begins. This is my back yard when I woke up this morning. Like every year I am not sure if I am ready for the long winter ahead! Be that as it my, it is here whether I am ready or not!

Turkeys Welcome

Yesterday, my mom and I started a project while listening to conference. We made these cute turkeys. They are going to be mounted on a big stick so they can sit outside our house. They say Turkeys Welcome on them. Did we do awesome or what? The real question is, can you tell which one is mine and which one is my mom's? Give up? Mine is the one on the right, the one with the abnormally big eyes.

7th Day of Disney

Today was a great day. We watched Chicken Little, ate chicken nuggets and boiled eggs (a bit morbid I know), and made bag puppets of the characters in the movie. Dillon made the little baby alien, and Truman made fish out of water. "It's not the winning that counts, it's the nah, nah, nah, nah taunting that goes with the winning that matters."

8th Day of Disney

I know what you are thinking, what happened to the 9th day of Disney? Well my husband didn't want to play. He was home for the day and decided he wanted to take the boys to a football game instead. I hate football, (I know it's blasphemy) and hate being cold so Elleree and I went shopping instead. We got some cute cloths, but no 9th day of Disney. :[

For the 8th day of Disney we went out to dinner and ate Chinese food. These are our fortunes. Which I think are very fitting. Then we came home and watched Mulan. My mom was here for the weekend, so she came with us. I was singing along with my favorate song ("I make a man out of you") and she was makeing fun of me. All and all it was good times.

Yoga

So, I said before that I have been doing Yoga right. Well yesterday the kids decided to do some with me. I think Elleree is especially good and downward facing dog. She is so going to be a future Yoga instructor if the disappearing down the shirt gig does not work out!

10th Day of Disney

Yesterday's movie was Mary Poppins. This is one of my favorites, I sing along with all the songs (Don't judge me). The kids had never seen it before, and technically still haven't because they fell asleep during the bird lady song (feed the birds Tupins a bag, you know, you know the song). Anyway our activity was going outside and drawing with sidewalk chalk. We had a lot of fun! No scences that you could actually jump into, but the kids are true sidewalk artists. I know that fying a kite would have been fun, but it is cold, and not very windy this time of year. Let's go fly a kite, up to the hightest hight........

11th Day of Disney

Okay today was
the 11th day of Disney
we watched Dinosaur,
and decorated bone cookies. I know what you are thinking, those looks more like dog bones than dinosaur bones (or you are thinking no they don't look like anything). You would be right, but who cares the kids loved it. Plus, I got to eat the cookie dough and the cookies (which ended up making me sick but whatever). They made a huge mess, that still needs cleaned up as we speak. I know you are waiting in anticipation for what we will be doing tomorrow. Tune in next time, same bat channel, same bat place.

Cute Bow?

The kids are going to have their picture taken on Saturday. This is what Elleree is wearing. Really I am posting this to see if Allison thinks the bow that I made will work with the dress. I am not sure it matches that well. I am planing on curling her hair and, just putting it off to the side, kind of what Rachelle does. What do you think? I'm not doing the pigtails, because I did that for her last pictures.

12 Days of Disney

Today is the first day of our "12 days to Disney". What we have to do is pick 12 Disney movies that we want to watch and then come up with an activity that goes along with that movie. The point is to get the kids more pumped up for our trip, and more familiar with the Disney characters. So, tonight we are watching Cars, and then playing Cars on the Wii. Hopefully it will get less stressful as the days go by, because it was kind of hard tonight. To do Scouts, homework, dinner, movie and activity done tonight was a little difficult. But hey it's all fun right!

Finaly done, almost

My basement has carpet now! I am really happy. The bonus is that each time we end up having to have work done on the house we end up with nicer carpet than what we had originally. All the restoration people have left to do is clean all the carpets in the rest of the rooms in the basement, to make sure all the contamination "poop" has been removed. Then my basement will be back in business!! Woot Woot!

Good Rubdown

I have started this new exercise routine, it's called P90X. It is really intense and each day I do a new workout, so I have been sore nonstop. I have to say though the program has a Yoga portion to it, and I have really started to enjoy Yoga. Call me crazy. Anyway, Jason was giving me a back rub and Elleree decided that she wanted to help too. Jason took some cute pictures of her working on my back. She does good work.

Good Visit

Yesterday I went through a session at the Idaho Falls Temple, and who should I see there? Why, my grandma Vaden, we ended up in the same session together. I didn't see her until the very end. We ended up getting to talk to each other for about an hour. I was so nice to see her there, I almost started to cry. I miss talking to her all the time. Sometimes I wish life wasn't so hectic. But alas, as a good friend of mine always says "it is, what it is". Thanks grandma, and I love you!!

First Pedicure

So last night I went and got my first Pedicure with my friend Jamie. She just got her degree in Accouting, after going to school with three kids (twins and a little girl), a full time job, and everything else that goes with life. We decided we needed to go and celebrate by having a girls night out. We had the deluxe pedicure done, and then went out to dinner. It was a good time. I am super proud of her! I know I would not have been able to do it, if our situations where reversed, she is amazing!