My Crazy Family

{Tagged x3}

What are the last 3 things you purchased?

1. Rental Car
2. Tickets to Disneyland & Sea World
3. Diet Coke

What are the last 3 songs you downloaded on your Ipod?

1. Listen, Listen -- LDS Primary Song Book
2. I Know that my Redeemer Lives -- LDS Hymn Book
3. I Know my Father Lives -- LDS Hymn Book

What are your 3 favorite movies?

1. Pretty Woman
2. When Harry Met Sally
3. The Man from Snowy River

What are 3 things you have not done yet?

1. Studied
2. Cleaned the bathroom
3. Packed for our trip tomorrow!

What are your 3 favorite TV shows?

1. Gray's Anatomy
2. Jon & Kate Plus 8
3. Frasier (it has actually taken the place of Friends--gasp!)

What are 3 things you cannot live without?

1. Air
2. Food
3. Diet Coke

What are your 3 favorite dishes?

1. Homemade noodles
2. Sunday Pork chops
3. Soup & Sandwiches--any combo of the 2--with a Diet Coke of course!

What are your 3 favorite deserts?

1. Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies & Diet Coke
2. Gandolfo's Chocolate Cake & Diet Coke
3. Dunford Chocolate Doughnuts & Diet Coke

What 3 things would you buy if $ were not an issue?

1. A brand spanking new suburban with all the fixins' for one of my best friends who has a large family and has never owned a new car.
2. A new house for my parents and in-laws.
3. A majority share holder in Coca-cola, Inc.

If I could have 3 wishes what would they be?

1. A cure for diabetes.
2. A cure for ADHD.
3. Healthy, happy kids.

The 3 people I tag are:

1. Brooke Kynaston
2. Carolyn Hardy
3. Natalee Hardy

{I'm Doing the Happy Dance}

I got the call from IHC today--I'm in their nursing program!  I start January 12.  I can hardly wait!

{Playing with Nature}

Addie and Easton both like to play with the leaves off of the Bashore's irises.  Easton pretends they are dinosaurs or alligators and this is what Addie does with them.

 

         

I love how she decided to roll the leaf up and roll it down Haylee's driveway.  What a clever toy she discovered.  See what can happen when she isn't glued to her DS or the TV?  I actually wished I had a video camera to film it rolling down the driveway.  It had the greatest spiral effect as it unraveled and rolled. 

{Gary is a Girl}

Or more accurately a hemaphrodite!  Gary has been reproducing asexually.  I am so glad that I remembered this little tidbit from college AFTER the eggs had hatched.   That's right, we have snail babies at our house.  GROSS!  Remember my post about Gary digging and hiding in the dirt and needing a bath?  He/She/It was burying eggs to be hatched in 3-4 weeks.   Addie saw what she thought was a snail booger on the lid of Gary's tank.  Ryan took a closer look and this is what he discovered....

 

Once we realized what it was and googled about snail reproduction, we discovered that snails can lay as many as 85 eggs at once.  We immediately started counting.  This little guy had crawled up through the air hole provided in Gary's tank.  If he made it, how many others had escaped?  I am ready to pour Morton Salt all over my kitchen counters and sink!  We counted 10 originially, but one fell to an early death.  Ryan dropped it off of a popsicle stick and accidentally stepped on it.  EEW!  Hope you aren't eating lunch while you read this post--he he!  Addie is attached to the little critters and loves her pet's little offspring.  Unfortunately, I think they are not going to survive our vacation to Disneyland next week.  Wink! Wink! 

{Returning with Honor}

 

Here he is!  Our missionary uncle.  Landon is home after serving an LDS Mission for 2 years in San Bernadino, California.  We are all so happy to have him home.  Addie and Saylor are particularly happy and have been begging to spend every waking hour at Grammy Donna's house so they can hang out with him.  I think Addie is secretly waiting for him to break out the X-box.  She also thinks she has a new air hockey competitor.  Saylor still remembers the feeling she had at the "empty seats" (MTC) and is excited to go on a mission some day.  It is fun to see him again after 2 whole years--he is skinnier--a lot skinnier--everyone keeps trying to feed him pizza and hamburgers to fatten him up a little--but he is still our same Landon.  I am going to miss getting his weekly emails from the mission field.  They were a fun little tidbit to look forward to on Wednesdays.  They were a good mid-week reminder of what is really important--our family!  Welcome home Landon.  We love you and admire you for your hard work and devotion to serving our Heavenly Father. 

{Moral of the Story: Don't Buy Carpet from R.C. Willey}

Everyone keeps asking if the carpet issue in our basement has been solved.  I am happy to report the answer is YES!  Turns out that R.C. Willey intentionally sent out the wrong color initially with instructions for the installer to put it on the stairs and in Saylor's room.  There was a note in their computer system from the manager stating to do so.   Thankfully the installer had more integrity than that and talked to us before he even started to install it. 

Ryan called first thing in the morning with the problem and their response was, "It will take a month to special order the exact match and get the carpet finished."  WHATEVER!  Ryan told them this was completely unacceptable and he wanted a solution before the end of the day.  Someone called him back around noon and said they had found 2 remnants that were a match and they were sending someone out.  So, my question is, why didn't they just do this in the first place instead of sending the wrong carpet?  Turns out, it saved us $500!  Hmmm...you think this was a sales commission issue? 

Anyway, I am glad to report that the girls have been sleeping in their own rooms for the past couple of weeks and are loving it.  I will post some pictures when we get them all fancied up--but don't be expecting that anytime in the near future.  

{Deth......by Edgar Addison Poe}

In honor of October, the month of ghosts and goblins, I thought I would share a book from Addie's dark period (The trial of Vyvance--Ages 7-8.  Thank goodness for Concerta).  She wrote this on a particularly bad day.  The original illustrations were done in black and white on notebook paper with a color pencil medium.  Ironically, the red you will see is spilled Cherry Limeade water flavoring, a tasteful afterthought added by her mother.  It is an inspiring tale of the rise and fall of a skeleton's soul.  Enjoy your haunted reading....

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