I laughed.

I didn't see any of the Super Bowl. Too busy visiting with my friends. But I've gone back and watched a bunch of the commercials (a marvel of modern technology!) and this one is definitely my favorite. It so perfectly illustrates the absurdity of the entire 'green' movement. (Unfortunately, living in Oregon, the nanny state, the 'green police' is not too far from reality here.)

Weekend festivities

Aside from Saturday's meet, it was a very full and fun weekend here... Our really great friends Peter & Angela were in town & so was my sister Katie! We packed in as much time as we could with all of them...a Friday night out at the Rock Creek Tavern, Katie joined us at the meet Saturday morning, a Saturday luncheon & Sunday dinner.

Me & cute Katie

Katie & Scott...I don't want to jinx anything so I'll leave it at that. : )

Everyone was here at our house both because Peter & Angela were here but also because it was Superbowl Sunday... This makes me laugh...we have a bigger TV but thanks to the fact that we use an antennae, we couldn't tune in CBS on the bigger TV and everyone was forced to watch the game on our tiny little TV. I didn't see any of the game myself but I laughed each time I peeked in here and all the guys were trying to watch that little screen!

Peter & Angela...who used to live right around the corner from us but now live clear across the other side of the country...we miss them so much!!!

Me & my girls Angela, Shelley & Wendy...love these great friends!

Fun, fun weekend...

John Lanz Invitational 2010

It is meet season... And Saturday was meet #2 for the boys.

Sorry if the videos bore you since it's the same routine as before...I love to see them though. I just wish we'd caught Anthony's Pommel Horse on video this time as he came away with an almost impossibly perfect score of 15.8! (15.0 is as high as you can get without bonuses--with bonuses, the highest possible is 16.0!)

Aaron is improving...he makes me laugh. He's just a little unrefined and still is forgetting parts of the routine, but he's new to it and doing great anyway!

The boys finished with Anthony #1 and Aaron #11 in the All-Around! And their teammates took 2nd & 3rd places too...so no surprise then that the team took 1st!

Way to go boys! (And so happy this time there were awards!)

Could you spare a prayer???

Hey friends & family...

This is the nephew of a friend of mine--he's clinging to life after drowning in the tub a week ago and they could use all the prayers they could get, so if you've got a moment, would you say one for this sweet boy & his family? See more about him here.

7 weeks old

Here we are at 7 weeks...and I see a chunky monkey!

This boy is putting on weight like a champ...I stepped on the scale with him and he's a good 12 pounds already!!! (He started at 7 lb 11 oz!)

He's already beginning to outgrow his 0-3 month clothes,...cry!

Poor guy has really sensitive skin...I notice it flares up if someone holds him who has any kind of perfume-y smell, whether it's perfume or the fabric softener on their clothes...

The other notable thing about this week is that he got his first haircut! The long hair over his ears and down his neck was bothering me so I trimmed it up a little...but don't look too closely as he was a wiggle worm and the jagged cut reflects that!

And I played with this photo a bit to try to get his eyes to appear the right color. They really are blue and I'm praying they'll stay blue since all the other boys have chocolate-y-brown eyes. This is close but still not quite his eye color...I'm not able to capture it with my camera.

Valentine-y FHE

This week for Family Home Evening, we made Valentines mailboxes...with the idea that we'll be putting little notes/cards/treats in them each day until Valentine's Day.

I love the way each of the boxes reflects the style of the child who created it:

Anthony: clean cut & straight forward

Aaron: crazy conglomeration yet thoughtfully compiled and applied

Christopher: piously placed his "CTR" (means "Choose The Right") before adding anything else

Benno: it's all about the shapes

Zachary: well, I did his, but I'm sure he agrees that it perfectly suits him

I'm a PUBLISHED children's book illustrator!!!

I found out a couple nights ago that my book is now IN the store on the shelves for sale!!! I had been told it wouldn't be out until March so this comes as a very happy surprise!!!

The little boys and I drove out to our local Deseret Book store to see for ourselves:

What a thrill to see it sitting there! So much work went into this book! Truly it's a dream come true!

If you would like to buy it, you can find it here. And I'll be happy to autograph it for you (but please pay for the postage to mail it back to you...a SASE would be helpful!)