Duck and Cougar Mascot Beatdown

I saw this awhile ago and it inspired me, once again, to make my picks based on which mascot would win in a fight.

Wedding Pictures, etc.

Justin and Kimi gave me a copy of their wedding pictures because I thought I could "fix" some of them.  Some of them turned out pretty good and some of them I couldn't help at all.  Click HERE to see my favorites.  

Here's a before and after picture to wet your appetite:

Oh yeah, and I still want everyone to post their pictures of our fun family weekend HERE  so we can all share them.  If you can't figure out how to get your pictures on there just call me.

Property Laws of a Toddler

My MFHD professor shared a little poem with the class today that reminded me of my niece and nephews.

The Property Laws of a Toddler

If I like it, it's mine
If I want it, it's mine
If it's in my hand, it's mine
If I can take it away from you, it's mine
If I had it a little while ago, it's mine
If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way
If I am doing or building something, all the pieces are mine
If it looks just like mine, it's mine
If I saw it first, it's mine
If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine
If it's broken, it's yours.

The many grumpy faces of Ella Jane

Let's Share

It was such a fun weekend and now that we're home I realize how many pictures I didn't take!  So let's share, here's a link to our Web Gallery.   Look at the buttons at the top, you can download any of the pictures in the gallery and upload your own so we can see them too.

MY POD

So I have another exam coming up in May. To help me study for this exam I bought a seminar on DVD that covers a lot of the material that they're testing on. Rather than pull out my computer every time I get on the train, I decided that an iPOD nano would be much more effective. I even got it engraved to read "Stolen From Michael Clark 303 945 0198" a la car lot air tank.

Imaginary Friend

Thomas has an imaginary friend named Russ.  I don't really know how to handle this, nobody in my family has ever had imaginary friends.  Michael and I just kind of played along when he started doing this and thought it was funny but Thomas talks about Russ and to Russ more and more.  Finally, the other day Thomas started talking about him again.  I said, "Thomas, you know that Russ isn't real, right?"  He said, "oh yes, yes, Russ isn't real Mom."  Then he turns to the wall and says, "Russ, you not real, you not real Russ, ok?"  

Terrible Twos

Every once in awhile this whole sleep deprivation thing really catches up to me, like this morning.  Breakfast was all cleaned up, everyone was dressed and we were ready to go hit Costco when all of a sudden I felt like I was going to pass out from fatigue (that's what consecutive interrupted sleep will do to me).  I put Emerson down for a nap and told Thomas that I needed a nap too and to be good and play in his room.  I swear I was only out for 30 minutes and this is what I woke up to.  Thomas had moved the rugs in the kitchen, scooted a chair to the fridge and taken down my dinner calender dry-erase board... and dry-erase marker.  By the way, yes, it is "dry-erase" but no, it doesn't come off as easily as you'd think.

So, this is what my fridge looked like

Here are some close-ups

Here is my table

Here is my wood floor

Here is the cloth on my kitchen chairs.  Oh yes, try getting that out!

Here's Thomas' sock

Here's Thomas' foot

and more of the foot

 So how was your day?

Hint Hint

So Amy e-mailed me today. She said at the very end of the e-mail, "How is Ella? You should hint to Spencer and Kim and Justin and Kimi to send me pictures. I have lots of pictures of Thomas and Emerson and their family but none of anyone else." I wasn't sure exactly how to hint that to you guys so I decided to just tell you.

The Missionaries

Last week the ward missionaries asked Kim and I if we would mind feeding the full time missionaries. We accepted and this past Thursday we had them over. We have never had this opportunity before so we were very excited. I picked up Elders' Aisen and Tuia at their apartment and brought them over to the house. Elder Aisen was from New York and didn't seem to care for Utah very much, he was critical of Utah and especially of Utah Mormons and how they go inactive. Elder Tuia is from Samoa and only had a couple months left before he goes home. Kim made chicken roll-ups for them, they had chicken and cream cheese in the middle, we found out that Elder Tuia is lactose intolerent but like a seasoned Elder he ate more than everybody else. Dinnner went well and it was very nice to have their spirit in our home. The highlight of the night was when we were all eating and Kim asked them where they were from. Elder Tuia replied that he is from Samoa. Kim proceded to say "your from Samoa, thats cool, so do you speak Tongan?"