Funny things 5 year olds say!

I love the things five year olds say. They are so observant and it amazes me at the words that they retain and repeat (even if they don't know what they mean). Today was the first day I picked Mar up from school since we had the baby (I wasn't cleared to drive because of the c-section until now). She saw me and ran to me yelling "Yea Mom, now everything is back to normal!". I assured her that we were slowly getting there. Then she said "Well, we are back to normal except for the baby, and he has to keep going in for circumcisions". HUH?

More Organization??

With three kids, I have been trying my darndest to think of ways to be more organized. It just seems like everything is out of place. So, everybody.......give me your thoughts, tips and organizing tricks PLEASE! One thing that Aaron and I started doing (that I am LOVING) is
e-meals.com What is it, you say? A 5-7 day meal plan with easy and inexpensive meals to plan. You print out 2 pages per week. One has the meal plan and instructions/recipes. The other has a shopping list with everything organized in to different sections of the grocery stores, so it is fast and super easy!!

He's Here!!!

Our little guy is here! We are thrilled. He was born on Saturday morning via c-section and is doing great. He does have his nights and days mixed up which makes for a very tired Mama. Hope we can work that out soon. More pics to come!

A chip off the old block.....

Tonight while reading books to my kids (yes, I was waiting for Pres. Bush to give his address about the bailout plan...so I DID have the TV on mute in the background) a clip pops up on the screen that catches M's attention. She looks at me wide-eyed and says "Mom, I want Sarah Palin's autograph. I really like her". (My daughter is as hip as this toothless grandma! I am so proud!)
Hmmmm.......I think most of you can guess the theme of most of our dinner conversations over the last couple of months.

While blogging about politically themed anecdotes, I have to mention what Aunt Beth overheard M singing in the bathtub a couple weeks ago while babysitting. While getting little brother toweled off in the next room, Beth let M have a few extra minutes to play in bathtub. (M is a nonstop noise maker and I am sure felt the need to fill the silence). So the girl busts out in one of her favorite jingles (picture Stevie Wonder singing up and down an octave scale) "Barak Obama....Barak Obama......Barak Obama.....". We started singing this jingle around our house when we first heard Stevie singing it. We thought it was hillarious. But now that both kids have been caught singing it in public places..........it's not so funny!

Twoooooo Kidders

We thought this was ultra qute. So cute we couldn't even spell cute correctly. We were just overwhelmed with cuteness. So this Saturday is the big day. We will let everyone know how it goes. I'm actually going to film the surgery again. I'll post it after it's done.

Blogging is a lot of work

Congratulations to all those who regularly update and maintain their blogs. It is a lot of work. So, update on the house, we have rough electrical, sheet rock (both of the taped and sanded variety), rock is ongoing and the stucco will be soon. Here is a photo of the latest. I'm hoping the slide shows showing the progress are working. Just click on them to see the pictures if they are not working. Let us know if you have any specific questions on the house, we are both experts. Like, say if you want to know the per square foot cost of a certain colorbody porcelain daltile, vibe techno brown light polished, I could tell you that it was $5.32 a square foot and that it comes in 12x12, 18x18, 12x24, and 24x24 (sorry, no bullnose). Or the per square foot cost for toast bamboo engineered click and lock flooring. Or, anything else. Have a great day!

Runaway Camera

So, a few weeks ago, our lovely little camera (which Marsh broke the first day we had it) suddenly vanished. We could not figure for the life of us where it went. We looked under the carseats in the car all through the house, but no results. Several days later my mom called asking if we had lost our camera. She had gotten a call from one of the receptionists at my dad's practice saying that she thought she might have our camera. Some lady had called the office saying that she'd found a camera on the side of the road in front of Walgreens in Kaysville. She opened it up and watched some of the little videos that were on the memory card. She saw a guy wearing a Wasatch Peak hat (Aaron) and someone on the video was named Nula. So, she thought she'd call the office to see if anyone would claim it. Well, there are a million receptionists in the office, many of which have no clue who we are, so what are the chances that the one who is familiar with our family happend to be standing there during the call and said, "I think Kim has a grandson named Nula". We got a hold of the lady that picked it up off the side of the road and gratefully picked it up from her home in Layton.
You think that would be the end of the camera story............but it isn't! Not too many days later, Aaron and I stopped out at the house to take some pictures. We had tile and carpet samples to load in the car, and two crazy kids who were ready for bed. We threw everything in and headed home. The freeway exit was closed by our house so we had to go clear to Layton Hills Mall exit and come back south. I'm driving along, minding my own business, when I look over to see some stranger waving her arms and yelling at me to pull over. I roll down my window and hear her scream "You've got a camera sitting on your bumper".
Seriously. Could we be any more brain dead!