My Favorite Things - Beans & Wieners

OK, my 6 year old says the funniest things. Today it makes my favorite things list...




OVER BEANS & WIENERS




Dax: Mom, before we clean up, can we do just one more thing together?

Mom: Sure, what's that?

Dax: Can we play Bakugan?

Mom: Uh, I don't know...

Dax: Please? I know I usually kick your butt, but I will go easy on you today.

Before...

After...

My Favorite Things - Diet Cherry Pepsi

To all my followers I must first apologize for the short and unfunny, dull posts this week. We have been very busy during the holidays and I have not had much time to blog. This being said, here is another "dud" of a blog.

I LOVE DIET CHERRY PEPSI! (did the caps and exclamation mark help with your boredom?)

When I am sad, a diet cherry pepsi makes me happy. When I am mad, a diet cherry pepsi make me less angry. When I am feeling fat, a diet cherry pepsi makes me feel like I am at least trying to stay slim. If I am lonely, a diet cherry pepsi keeps me company. When I am embarrassed, I can always hide behind a diet cherry pepsi can. When I am agitated, a diet cherry pepsi calms me down. You get the picture...

Need a favor? Want to bribe me? Just bring me a diet cherry pepsi.

My Favorite Things - Games

I love getting together with family and playing all sorts of games. Card games and board games. I have a pretty competitive nature though so look out!

My favorite card game is pinochle. Hours and hours were spent at my grandparents house playing this game. I have mentioned before that my grandma was my best pinochle partner. I have yet to find another couple willing to take me on.

My favorite board game as a kid was Clue. I always played as Mrs. White and I loved to be the first one to figure out who murdered whom in which room with what weapon!

Card games have always been a favorite at my dad's house. We play Greek rummy, butthole, and lots and lots of poker. I have been trying to learn Texas Hold-em so that I can play with the big kids in Wendover.

My favorite with my kids is Attack Uno. I love getting a new deck and having the machine spit out 10-20 cards at a time. My son gets so frustrated but usually wins. He was so proud one night, he was soooo tired and yet kicked my butt 3 times in a row.

I would love to have a game night once a month and have friends and family over for some fun!

Of course, there are a couple of games that I refuse to play and my family refuses to play with me. I loathe RISK, just ask my brother and I loathe Phase 10, just ask my husband...

My Favorite Things - Christmas Day

I love Christmas Day. I love getting up early and putting the turkey in the oven. I love watching my kids open their gifts. I love relaxing all day and not having to get ready. I love having my family and my in-laws drop by and visit. I love eating leftovers before they have even cooled off...

Merry Christmas everyone!

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My Favorite Things - Christmas Eve (as a kid)

I loved Christmas Eve as a kid. My parents would bake, and bake, and bake. Baklava, snowball cookies, fruit cake (not the yucky kind), spanakopita, oatmeal spanakopita, oh yum!

We would divvy up all the goods and deliver platefuls to friends and neighbors. It was so awesome, I don't think in all the years I lived at home we didn't go out Christmas Eve to deliver treats.

I also remember one in particular. My dad went out and got a tree and my mom dug up all our old Christmas ornaments and decorations. We picked a poor family in our ward and did the knock, drop and run... It was a great memory, my parents did a lot of service, known and unknown, for the people in our ward.

After we had made all our deliveries, Matt and I were allowed to open one present. We always got pj's, we would get changed and then the family would play games. My favorite board game was Clue.

My Favorite Things - Jingle Bells by Barbara Streisand

OK, here is another chance for all you wiseguys out there to make fun of my taste in music...
This would be my favorite Christmas song as a kid. Yes, Barbara Streisand's Jingle Bells. You can ask me to sing it for you or you can just listen to it here and pretend I am singing it (I suggest the latter). It is upbeat and catchy, just ask my family!

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Happy Birthday Logan!

Again, how the time flies... It is hard to believe that 7 years ago today, I became an aunt for the first time!

I remember exactly where I was... I was at Justin's grandma and grandpa Olsen's house enjoying some of grandma's homemade chocolates. My mom called to let me know that Matt and Kristy were at the hospital and then called like an hour later to tell me that Logan, my nephew, had been born. I was so excited. It had been 10 years since we had had a baby in the family and I was so wanting to hold and kiss and love on him!

Matt and Kristy were living in West Jordan and I had to wait until the following day to drive down to see him. My mom and I left as early in the morning as we thought we could get away with. I remember seeing Kristy, she was still groggy and recovering and I had these flashbacks of having Jill. Like there was NO WAY I would ever have any more kids after THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH, it made me chuckle because you get over the whole ordeal within weeks.
Anyway, there he was so tiny and pink. He had blonde hair and I could tell right away he was his mother's boy. The sweetest little face...

2002 - Birth


4 months

2003 - 1 year


2004 - 2 years


2005 - 3 years


2006 - 4 years


2007 - 5 years


2008 - 6 years


2009 - 7 years

Logan has turned into an extraordinary boy. He is wicked smart. He is wicked tall. He has the most beautiful Hershey chocolate colored eyes and the sweetest smile. He likes to give hugs, well even if he doesn't, he gives them anyway.

I love this little boy and I love spending time with him...