Don't Try This at Home

This really sweet girl in our ward decided that she wanted to remove her nose ring because now felt that it wasn't appropriate. Nobody told her to do this she just wanted to do it. She felt like it was the right thing to do. Anywho.... we were at a ward activity when she was saying that she was having trouble removing it and my husband suggested wire cutters. Well, after talking about it for a while he convinced her to let him go get ours from home (we live really close to the church) and then the sister missionaries, Robin, and I went to the bathroom to do 'surgery'! She seemed a little nervous at first when she was trying to do it herself. But then Sister Cason stepped in and did the deed! Congrats, Robin!! You are now nose ring free!!

Uh. Weird. - Update

Roxie got it right!! It's a picture of one of Sonic's famous foot-long cheese coneys! What threw me off was that the sticker was attached to my ICE CREAM. I kept thinking; "Why would I want to put my ice cream in the trunk?!" Roxie, since you live in my home town and you got it right I will treat you to a foot-long cheese coney from Sonic! Congrats!

Email to Family Fun

I thought I would share with you the email that I sent to Family Fun Magazine in reference to the advertisement that I shared with you in a previous post:

My family has subscribed to your magazine for many years and we absolutely love it. But I was extremely disappointed when I came across an advertisement for Capri Sun that showed a picture of a gentleman with his butt hanging out of his hospital gown. I'm all for a good laugh but, this is a FAMILY magazine! What were you thinking?! For the love of everything chocolate, please, don't do this again. I will probably continue to subscribe (only because I suffer from Creative Piracy Syndrome) but I REALLY do not want my 7 & 8 yr old girls to have THAT image stuck in their heads!!

Steph Gibson - Oklahoma

I sent this email 12 days ago and haven't heard anything back from them, yet. Maybe they didn't take it seriously.

Uh. Weird.

I took Ainsley, my friend Jen, and her son to Sonic for ice cream the other night and when they brought out our order this was stuck to my cup. I would love to hear your thoughts on what the heck you think this is a picture of. It took me a while before I figured it out! If I was making a ton of cash on my little Google AdSense I would offer a great giveaway! But alas.... I don't!

HOLY CROW!

I just looked at my calendar and the kids have exactly 14 school days left till summer! Oh, man. I'm not ready for this.

Happy Blogiversary

I'm not sure if I should say "Happy 1st Birthday" or "Happy 1st Anniversary". Technically, my blog was "born" a year ago today. But I also, technically, started my new life with Blogger a year ago! Either way - it's been a whole stinkin' year!! A total of 276 posts! I'm looking for ways to print my blog into a book format and have had a hard time finding what I'm looking for exactly but I'm just gonna go with the best out there for now. I wish I was SUPER smart and could write software and then I could develop my own program to do it.... and then I'd be rich!! I know my way around a little bit of html but not enough to create my own software. Maybe someday! Anywho, Happy Blogversary to me!! I hope you all have a great day!

The Great Outdoors - Part 4

The grand finale!! These are 3 videos that I took of the same day! Andyn had gone down the slide numerous times when I decided to step back and take a short clip of her doing it... of course, that's when she decided to do something crazy like try to jump or walk down the slide! It's all captured right here! The second video clip is of her sliding the way she was suppose to in the first place! And the last video clip is just an effort to make you really motion sick!

The Great Outdoors - Part 3

Sooo stinkin' cute!!! If I do say so myself!

The Great Outdoors - Part 2

A few more fun shots! Stay with me, the best is yet to come!

The Great Outdoors

I'm still in Jersey but I have a ton of posts in draft so I could post some while I was here!

This is from a day when I took Asher and Andyn to the park while their sisters went to piano lessons. I took a ton of pictures! It was a beautiful day and I got some really good shots!

My Old Wife

Hello. This is Geoff (husband of Steph) with an interesting letter we received a few days ago congratulating Steph on the celebration of her 65th birthday. As you know, we are not getting any younger. We are more creaky, more tired, more cantankerous, and more set in our ways with every passing year. Like many other aging people, we really don't appreciate references to our aging process which remind us how old we are getting. So thanks, AARP, for officially welcoming my wife into the ranks of the elderly! Please send us Centrum Silver for Christmas.

Jersey Girl

I'm so totally in New Jersey!! Spending a week with my best friend Shelley!! I will be updating my blog while I'm here!

25% less coverage. Bad.

I got my new issue of Family Fun yesterday and took a few minutes to thumb through it today. I just love Family Fun! I'm able to take my creative piracy to new heights after reading this magazine! So, like I was saying, I was looking through it today and saw this ad for Capri Sun: Nice. Cheery. Yellow. Fruity. Fun. In. The. Sun. Innocent enough... don't you think? What caught me off guard was the next page which is a continuation of the ad: I'm so totally writing to the editor!! I have an 8 yr old daughter who loves to look through this magazine. Bad.

Parish

Aspen received this card in the mail a couple of months ago. A few of the primary kids were asked to write their testimonies and they would be highlighted in that week's church program. We weren't there that Sunday so I don't have a copy of what Aspen wrote but I have this card. These kind of things make the world a better place! Thank you, Pat, for loving my daughter!

More Trampoline Fun

Please forgive me for all of these outdated posts. I had uploaded a bunch of pictures through Picasa to my blog and just saved them as drafts until I had more time to actually write. Well, it was starting to get out of hand so I knew it was time to start putting words to those pics!

A while back I posted about some trampoline fun we had. Well... here's some more. It's just fun to see what the kids do when they don't really know they're being watched!

I just have to say that I LOVE my camera! It surprises me how good it is! And it has lots of fun features. If you're in the market for a new one this is a really good one to have. You can get them on ebay now for less than $100 dollars. It has an excellent battery life and it takes excellent pictures. My favorite part is that I just set it on a cradle to charge it and with the push of a button on the cradle it uploads all of my pictures to my computer. It's super nice!

This last photo is me just playing around with my camera. I really like how the water almost looks like liquid silver or mercury or something!

Asher's First School Pics

These are Asher's first school pictures. Honestly, I did not like them but I had to have them because they were his first! I guess he's going to be my only red head! The bottom one is more like how he is (in the face) but I really didn't like the crayons in the background! Oh well!

Happy Belated Birthday!

I bet you thought the Easter post was late! This post is an add-on to my birthday post and birthday was in January!! It's just that I was looking through a bunch of my photos and realized that I hadn't posted some that were really important!! I actually already wrote about the experience in this post but I didn't post the pictures! So here ya go! Pictures of my sweet surprise party at the Beishlines - smushed cake and all! One of their daughters stepped on the cake when it was in their car! The last picture is of the cake that Terra made for me. It actually turned out really good despite the goof-up of ingredients (read in previous post)! Man, I love you guys! You know how to make a lady feel special!