Scholarship

I applied for a scholarship to study in China and I found out today that I have passed through the first round of the application process. Now I have to apply directly to the Chinese embassy. They want letters of recommendation, transcripts, a copy of my BYU diploma etc. so I have been scrambling today to get everything put together. I have to get a physical for it too. It is going to be a big pain.

Heaven help me

Last night at 2 am after trying to get Gideon to sleep for about 4 hours I finally put him to bed for the night in his carseat where he slept for 6 hours. If I don't get a nap today my children will have a VERY grumpy mom all day.

First post in a long time

I thought it was best time to get back on the sibling blog. Let the sibling Blog Resurrection project begin......

Death To Evidence

But in 24 hours I will be done with it.

Christmas

It has been so much fun to have Cat (otherwise know as "duck" by Ezra) and Andrew here to visit. Can't wait until Christmas when we can all be together!!

Cog

Cool commercial.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Enough said.

I'm pretty sure about half of the words coming out of my mouth lately have been "no" or some other form of "don't do that". Hopefully Ezra won't remember this part of his life too much because it would result in serious insecurities regarding trying new things ☹

Synthpop!!!!

Puppies

PUPPIES!!!!

2 a.m.

So, this is the kind of thing you see when you are watching TV at 2 am. I know you want one.

Andrew's Done!

I got to talk to Andrew today. It was nice to have a conversation with him. I can't believe he is done with his mission. I bet Diana and Catherine are excited to see him come home on Monday. I can't wait until we come home for Christmas, it will be awesome!

Smooth Jazz

So I created a pandora account which is supposed to pick music for you based on what they think you will like. I was listening to it today when I heard a song that I remember hearing on the breeze 97.9 fm.

Scary.

Nostalgia

So I have been unproductive and looking at old blog entries for a while now. We were pretty witty at one point and then it kind of petered out. Maybe it was because Andrew left, he was always good for a laugh.

On a related note, he is done with his mission in two days! That is so crazy! I am excited to see everybody for Christmas, it should be super fun. We can eat breakfast for dinner and watch the Muppet Christmas Carol etc. Maybe we can get Ezra to jump off of the sign since everybody else is too mature to do that now.

Also, I will be home in time for the Tab Choir Christmas concert which will be awesome.

Revive It!

come on

The Blog is Dead

True Story

Marco

What you can get for 4 bucks...

Yesterday we went to Ross to find some shirts for Joe. We came across this video and thought we would get it for Ezra since he loves trucks so much (and since I love laying down so much).....pretty great theme song if you ask me : )

80's music rocks

Especially this

Bust My Buffers

For all of you toddler TV pro's out there you know that is from "Thomas and Friends" which is one of Ezra's new favorite shows. I am having old memories of me with the Turner boys come to me every time I watch it with Ezra. This show has brought out quite a sensitive side that I didn't know Ezra has. There are a few episodes where some trains crash or get torn apart and every time that Ezra sees those parts he comes to me whimpering until the trains get better. Who knew? I hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend!

Going Home

We are going to be making a trek out to Utah next week thanks to the generosity of Karen's parents. Karen will fly out next week, and I will follow her the next week. Unless of course I get a job. (I really hope I get a job, although I do want to see every one too).

Sleep

So Sophie has developed this unpleasant habit of sleeping until about three in the morning and then waking up every half an hour. She has done this the past few nights, and it was starting to get old. She goes down at seven o'clock with little problems, but lately she has been getting up in the middle of the night. Yesterday we decided she might be getting hungry so we fed her rice cereal before she went down, and she slept from seven until six thirty. It was very nice. Of course, we ruined it by watching the season finale of Lost until eleven. Which, I don't know if any of you watch lost, but if you do, what do you think?

Sophie

So we don't really have a life anymore apart from Sophie, so here are some pictures of her.

PETV

Meat is murder....tasty, tasty murder

You know you live in Arizona when....

1. Your 2 year old son has sandal tan lines in April
2. You take your kids to the "park" at the mall because it's too hot to go to a real park
3. You are panicking because all toddlers take swimming lessons here and you are going to be looking like a whale in no time (okay that one is just for me)
4. You enjoy (usually) being up at 6 am to enjoy the 60 degree weather before the 97 degree afternoon comes
5. You brag in the winter and beg for mercy in the summer!

Type A

So we were looking at Liz's question if she is type A or not, and Karen thinks that she is type A. Maybe it is just an oldest sibling thing. Liz and Karen definitely share some similar personality traits.

Easter Present

Hello All,

The easter bunny visited Ezra this year and brought him a basketball hoop for the bathtub.  Here is a sample of how he reacted....I think he liked it!  (Warning:  this video contains cute little boy nudity)

Sibling Poll

Today at the doctor's office one of the resident's said to me "yeah, we've noticed you are a little 'type A'. So siblings, what do you think?

The first Ezra I've seen in the news....

Too bad this is the story : (

And if that isn't enough bacon for you...

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Because Everything Should Taste Like Bacon...

Buy this product today!!!

Help!

HELP... it's March 20th and I'm hot

Choking Hazard

BYU has not won an NCAA tournament game since 1993. They are continuing their proud tradition of tanking at the big dance today.

some stuff for you guys...james the first one is for you

Wiretap

Hey Cat or Dia,

How did you subscribe to wiretap? I have looked for it on i tunes and can't find it. Also, if you have the Radiohead episode could you send it to me, I wanted to listen to it again.

Ezra has a crush....

on Suze Orman. You know that lady who gives financial advice? I was reading an article about her in a magazine and there was a big picture of her on one of the pages. Ezra came up to it and started waving and tilting his head. Then he grabbed the magazine and started kissing the picture. Not the girl I would pick for him, but it was very funny!

Yep and here it is

Catherine Got a Haircut

Looks good!

Weird, but funny

Okay, instead of you guessing how I came upon this website here goes my web search explanation (which are always funny when I look back on them).

1- I am watching TV with Joe and see a commercial for Red Lobster
2- I think "mmmm I want some of their cheesy buscuits"
3- I search for a copycat recipe
4- One of the recipes I find is on the "Red Lobster Blog"
5- I think "what in the world would a 'Red Lobster Blog' contain"
6- And here we arrive at "God Hates Shrimp"

What an exciting Friday night! Love you all.

Blast from the Past

make sure your volume is up

Funny

Important Things with Demetri MartinWed 10:30pm / 9:30c

Timing - Best Time/Worst Time

Joke of the Day
Stand-Up Comedy

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I'm Going For It

So, Since no one has made any crazy objections to the blog going public, I am making it public. If we have problems with it later we can address them.

Your Thoughts

So in an effort to get people to write on this dang blog a little bit more (I am guilty as anybody of blog neglect) I am trying to hook up an RSS feed so that we can be updated when there are new posts. I think that the only way to do this is to make the blog public. What do you think about this? Is that something everybody would be interested in? Or should we just keep it the way it is.

On a related note, I have given in and updated my facebook account.

Test

this is a test

Funny

Go to google and type in the phrase "I am extremely" and wait to see what appears at the bottom to finish your sentence.

Goo

So grades come out on Monday, and I am not very excited about it. I don't think that I did very well because of the baby craziness. I am nervous to check to see what they are. Grrr. Oh well, life goes on.

Where is everyone? I'm bored, tell me a story!

hmmm

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