A Fond Farewell & A Warm Welcome

Or, out with the old, in with the new. Either way, Josh threatened to buy me salt & pepper shakers for mother's day and my birthday (one for each since they are two days apart (for those marking your calendar, that would be the 9th and 11th of May)) if I hadn't purchased any before then. Since I work best when given a deadline (if you will remember this) or threatened with a crappy gift, so I picked some up while perusing Target today. So with a pat on the back for a job well done even with a crack in one of them, we say goodbye to these salt and pepper shakers. My grandmother gave them to me and they perfectly match my Corelle Dinnerware Set (view HERE).And please give a warm welcome to the new S&P set that will grace our stove top and table.
Your welcome Babe!

Why were the kids out of school today???

In an effort to get a bargain and my kids out of the house, we ventured to Target. Torture, I know! On our way home, we noticed that Spirit Halloween (located in the old Sears/Kmart building) is NOW OPEN. I bet we could have wondered around for an hour or more, but someone had to go to the bathroom before the pee got scared out of him.
If you go, please note: no public bathroom.
My favorite thing there: Bubble Fogger Machine. It's SPOOKTACULAR!!!

How do I know my Baby loves me?

He brings me home a sack full of these:

CHEETOS Chile Limon flavor.

6 packages all to myself.

Mmmm Mmmmm good.

Thanks babe!

I still have yet to figure out why the packaging is different and mostly en Español, but some things are better left unknown.

Quotes of the Day

Molly: "What the crack?"
Pretty sure she meant what the crap, we say that a lot around here.

After picking up all three of my kids from a sleepover at their grandparents last night, we had this conversation.
Gavin: "Molly had a bath."
Me: Why, was she dirty?"
Owen: "We all had a bath."
Gavin: "Grandpa said our feet were as black as Tony's butt."

Owen: "Ahhhhhh, this is the worst day EVER!"
Said as he found out a certain girl was in his school class AGAIN this year.

Gavin: "Owen, I declare myself the Spice Master. I've eaten the most drops of Chalula in my soup."

The family that reads together.......

knows the words to the same stories. (Put that in vinyl on your wall!) I am very glad that my children inherited my love of books, even if one of them sometimes complains about actually reading them. The other night, just before bed, Molly brought me a book to read. Since I was "working" on the computer, I asked Gavin to read it to her. They climbed into his bed and eventually Owen joined them. I love these moments when my kids can be this close to each other and no yelling or fighting goes on! It totally makes up for all the other times when I want to beat them soundly and send them to bed.

The List

Oh the list. I love to make you, but rarely do I really complete you. Not even in a Jerry Maguire kind of way, either. I always have a magnetic list stuck on the fridge, usually from the dollar spot and sporting a theme of the most recent holiday season. The one that is currently on the fridge has the Easter Bunny and some lovely pastel polka dots to accompany him. Maybe I need to write on my list to buy a current list or at least a neutral one. But I'm not going to. Instead I'm going to print off these beauties I found today while clicking around on my friend Adrienne's blog. They are off the site Vale Design.They are functional, funny and really cute too! I can't wait to leave the home when I go to the store.
Here's the links friends:
Freakin' Never Ending To Do List
Dreamy Blog Topics To Post List
The Pain In The Groceries To Buy List

Dear Josh,

Today I was going to write a great post all about the most fantastic dance festival and field day we have experienced thus far in our grade school lives. Since this was the first year both of your sons were involved, it was guaranteed to be spectacular. It makes my heart break you were not able to participate due to previous obligations (i.e. work), but thanks for bringing home the bacon. However, due to reasons unforeseen (you going to Price to bike ride) by myself (just kidding I totally knew), all I did today was take the kids to Burger King and read a book. There's always next week.
Love, Kellie
P.S. Thanks for your great comments that never fail to prove to me that your interested in what I have to say!

My Big Behind

Oh wait, I think I meant "I Am Behind Big Time".

This is going to be a super long post, and I know on some people's blogs that if they do a super long catchy up post, they say "I won't feel bad, you don't have to read the whole thing". Well this is not some people's blog. You do have to read the whole thing (and you will like it), because I will feel bad and there will be a test on it later.

Enjoy the following, in no particular order.

Mother's Day was fantastic! I received many handmade gifts with sweet hand written notes from my wonderful children. I love how excited they get about these presents! They also gave me some flowers that did get planted and look so nice. Josh gave me a wonderful new set of pans! How'd he know that's what I wanted? Maybe because I bought them and set them on the floor on his side of the bed. Maybe. I really needed them I promise. We have had the same pans since we got married and the teflon has almost all come off. I think this is why food slides right out of some of us.

My birthday was the day after Mother's Day (the 11th for those of you who want to write that down, since Mother's Day changes ever year) and I was seriously concerned about what Josh was giving me. All week he was asking me if I wanted to know what it was, but he didn't care if I liked it I was getting it anyway, but it all depended upon someone else supplying him with it first. You would be worried too, right? Well he COMPLETELY surprised me with a QuicKutz Silhouette! I am so excited, but I have to get it out of the box before he gets home today or he has threatened to take it back. I do know that his "supplier" is out of the country for a few days, so good luck!

The entire third grade participated in doing a Time Machine. They chose someone and do a written report and poster and then they dress up as that person and come out of the Time Machine and do an oral presentation. Owen's person was Meriwether Lewis. If you just asked yourself who in the "H" is that, you're not alone. Meriwether Lewis was co-commander on the expedition known as the Corps of Discovery. Still don't know? One half of Lewis and Clark. Remember them? How in the world Owen got stuck with this guy is still a mystery. However, I (I mean he) did a great job on his report and poster, and he did memorize and deliver his presentation out of the time machine with excellence!

On Monday (my birthday) Gavin decided he was ready to take the training wheels off of his bike. Last night he was cruising around the church parking lot. Josh was so proud, if you don't believe me, just check his current facebook status.

Now for the really fun stuff! If you've read this long, you will be rewarded.

Here is a list of my favorite stuff right now and links to some free stuff! Yeah, free stuff!

*FREE chocolate Fridays! Mars Real Chocolate Relief Act. Sign up for a free coupon for any of your favorite Mars candy bar. 1 coupon per email address, 4 coupons per household. Offer available until 9-25-09.

*FREE bag of popcorn! Yahoo! is giving you a chance to cuddle up to your old TV before the digital switch. Offer is on the right hand side at the bottom, it's really small.

*FREE sample of Hawaiian Tropic! from Walmart.com. You can receive Hawaiian Tropic Sun Care After Sun Body Butter OR Sheer Touch Lotion SPF15.

These offers were found on She Shops Smart and Thrifty Northwest Mom.

My Favorite new show is Cook Yourself Thin. It is on Lifetime at 3 and 3:30 p.m. They give out the recipes on the website and claim you can loose a dress size in 6 weeks. Obviously I am just enjoying watching it with a nice bag of Cheetos by my side. People in my ward, the brown haired lady is Maryann Jones sister, I swear it. Now you will have to watch just to see!

My Favorite new mascara is Covergirl LashBlast. Try it, you'll like it!

My Favorite band right now is Band of Skulls. This is their MySpace page, you can listen to some songs. My favorite song is not on there, it's called Fires, you'll have to go to iTunes to hear more. Heather, go now to iTunes, or maybe you'll get the CD for you birthday!

Well Molly wants to go outside, so that's all folks! Oh wait, who watched Grey's Anatomy last night? Did you have a box of tissues by you? Holy Cow! I loved it soooo much, but don't want to wait all summer to find out what is going to happen. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! Check out Grey Matter, it's the writer's blog. BYE!!!

Sushi Anyone???

I was reading Seriously, So Blessed! and clicked on an ad on the side of the blog. That took me to the Krazy Coupon Lady, and as I was reading through her recent posts I found THIS ONE. I went to Restaurants.com, entered my zip code and it brought up a few restaurants, one of them being Yapona Japanese Cuisine and Sushi Bar. Josh really like this place, so I added one $25 dollar gift certificate to my cart, entered the secret code (MOM), and it only cost me FIVE DOLLARS! Whose up for sushi?

That's a deal!

Smith's has 1 dozen eggs for 50 cents (why is there not a cent sign??) and at Target you can find packs of gum for 48-52 cents. There is Trident, Orbit, Stride, Dentyne in various flavors, they are at the end of a snack aisle on clearance! Now, what can I fix for dinner with my eggs and gum?

Happy Earth Day!!!

From: Molly

Spring Break Recap

I know, you've been DYING to know what we did for Spring Break. Rest assured it was super fun and exciting. Here is a detailed day-to-day account of all the fun and excitement.

MONDAY

Thanksgiving Point Gardens.

We had never been to the BIG gardens before, so this was exciting. It was great to just let the kids run around since it wasn't crowded at all. Not all the flowers were in bloom, but it was still beautiful. Plus, we were accompanied by some FUN people!

TUESDAY

I like to call Tuesday the start of the bad weather, because it not only started bad, but it got worse from there. The kids played with cousins and I was left alone with Molly, so I read!

WEDNESDAY

Tax Day! Our taxes were done, so we went bowling with some neighbors. (Super fun neighbors!)I had read on She Shops Smart AND Fun, Frugal and Free (you should add both of these to your Google Reader!) that Maggie Moo's was giving a free scoop of ice cream to each customer on Tax Day. So guess where we headed after our fun game of bowling? If you said "Home to take a nap.", you're wrong. We went for FREE ice cream.They even gave Molly one, so technically I had a free scoop and a half! YUMMY!

THURSDAY

Thursday ROCKED. With our many inches of wet, wet snow, we camped out inside, mourning the loss of one of our tree branches. This picture does not even do justice to the amount of snow we had. I was way to lazy and cold to go out any earlier to get a good picture, I stayed wrapped up in my SNUGGIE!Josh did save the day by coming home with the rest of our band for Guitar Hero and the new Guitar Hero Metallica game.

If you ever need a place to rock, our living room is available.

FRIDAY

On Friday we (me & the kids) drove to Coalville where my parents were camping with old people. It was a bit chilly, but that didn't keep the kids from chasing the bunnies and throwing one million rocks into the river. All the pictures are on my dad's camera, so currently I have no proof that it was fun or exciting. But it was.

Hope your Spring Break was just as fun and/or exciting! Let's hear a cheer for back to school Monday!!!

Happy Blogiversary!

We were going to have a big party to celebrate the 1st year anniversary of the wonderfully fantastic blog you are reading right now. However, the first post occurred on February 29, 2008.
That's a leap year folks, so we'll see ya back here in 2012 for the big celebration.

What Happened to You Man, You Used to be Cool

Seriously, What Happened? I love Joaquin. Who doesn't? Kelly Ripa named her child after him. Gladiator is one of the best movies ever. He can sing. Like Johnny Cash.

I hope you feel as uncomfortable watching this as I did!

The Dollar Store

I am not a huge fan of the dollar store, give me the Target Dollar Spot anyday! That being said, we headed to the dollar store today (the one by Old Navy, I think it's a Dollar Tree) in search of treasures. Boy did we hit it big! Treasures galore! We got light up St. Patricks Day necklaces, 680 princess stickers, a Kung-Fu Panda egg dying kit and some cute new easter eggs. But we hit the motherload (in my opinion) by the check stand. They had boxes of Chex Mix Bars in Chocolate Chunk and Turtle flavors AND 100 calorie packs of granola bars (oreo, chips ahoy, and nutter butter variety). The Chex Mix bars have 6 in a box and the granola bars have 12 in a box, for those of you doing the math, that's a good deal for only one dollar. For those of you not doing the math, I recommend a calculator. And for those of you with $5 dollars to burn, I recommend you haul butt down to the Old Navy and get your St. Patrick's Day shirt. That was the other point of our excursion in which we succeeded. But let me tell you that they don't have much of a selection this year, due to the economy. Or the lack of interest in St. Patty's, not really sure. So for those of you who are counting, ONLY 26 DAYS UNTIL ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!

From Freddy & Me

Happy FRIDAY THE 13th!!!!

6 Things Tag

I was tagged by my most fabulous friend Adrienne, (whom I want to come visit me the next time she is in Utah, I don't care how short the trip is or any of her other excuses!), so I am completing this tag and saying nice things about her. Adrienne is nice.

Write down six things that make you happy.
Tag six others and let them know you did it.
Tell the person when your entry is complete.

6 THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY
1. Rainy or cloudy days. I love the shade and darkness when the sun goes behind the clouds. I could totally live in Seattle and not be depressed.
2. Reading a book.
3. My kids playing nicely. In the same room. With each other.
4. Molly saying funny things in her gruff smoker voice.
5. No dishes in the sink.
6. Hanging out on the computer while listening to music and surfing the interweb.

I did not put my family on the list because they are not "things". Love you family!

I tag Anne, Alice, Kenzie, Hillary, Janet, and Michelle!

Who new Barack had a blog?

That's Mr. President to you.
You should check it out.
www.whitehouse.gov/blog/

It's a Great Day for Americans and the Irish too!!!

To view it in color with cartoons for the kids, and the lyrics so you can sing along, click HERE!!!

So Long, Farewell