Hide and seek tips

1. Put the dog out so that he doesn't growl at you when you are hunkered downlike a theif in the corner.
2. Put the teenager in time out for scaring the little kids out of their minds when they are found.
3. Don't expect to stay hidden very long when you are hiding with your 3 year old.
4. Hiding under the desk is a great time to practice those advanced yoga moves.
5. Pretending to be a statue, against the wall, doesn't work.
6. Ringing cell phones are a dead give away to your hiding spot.
7. Don't come out of your spot when the children are fighting...it's the only legal time to hide.

Alexa has been saying some funny things lately. We were outside in the front yard the other day, and a policeman drove by our house and when she saw him coming, she said, "I'd better sit down". And she did. I'll bet you can guess what she hears in the car around town. :)
Alexa doesn't understand the concept of the sound "ffff". Flip Flops are Thip Thops. Flower is Thower. Floor is Thor. I don't correct her much. It's just one of those cute childish oddities that will soon slip away.
Lastly, Alexa knows that she isn't allowed to eat hard candy. She's pretty good about complying. The other day she came outside to find me and said her throat hurt. I asked her why it hurt and she said "I swallowed a choking hazard". A couple of days ago, she grabbed a Jolly Rancher as we were headed out the door and said, "I am going to give a choking hazard to Tameran". I thought that was pretty funny.

Ok, so here is one of the highlights of my year....The annual Halloween party with our friends. This year it was held at the Mathews Bed and Breakfast. Tyler's costume was great, he was a whoopie cushion. We played a hilarious game! Everyone received a number and then two numbers were called and they had to sit next to each other and think of a pick up line geared toward that person's costume. Sometimes it was a man and man or vice verse. I think at one point it was heather and Paul who are brother and sister. My number was called with Paul who is our bishop! Holy Hell! Talk about awkward. But as you can imagine that only made me want to be more naughty! LOL. Paul was laughing so hard, he was actually crying. It was a fun night. My face always hurts after these parties from laughing so much.

Little Off Broadway links

Here are a few links to the songs I get to do this year in our show(for those who don't get to see the show).
Show off is my solo and I'll do it almost the same as seen here. Woo! Cartwheels in a dress. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLDq-2e2JC0

Pooh corner is a guitar duet...Yea! I finally get to play my guitar on stage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inUKxeeHSM4

And this is a dance I get to do w/Marty while one our our women sing "sway". I love to dance!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfP2zk7LZhQ&feature=related

Halloween

Can I just tell you how excited I am for Halloween?!! Ken and I are going to be pirates this year. (I have had a fixation this last year with pirates...Did you know that you can learn to talk pirate on you tube?! It's freeking awesome! Wait, let me rephrase that...Arg, me loves to talk like a saucy wench, you scurvy sea dog! ....Pretty good, huh?) Our annual Halloween party is a the 23 (we'll miss you Hafen's). I'll be sure to post pictures. AND, I think we are planning a trip to Idaho, which is where we will be for the acutal day of Halloween. Cool, I can't wait to scare kids that I don't know! Be sure to check our my link (on the right side) for some Halloween fun. Let me know what you think. :)

Autumn or Winter?

I am soooo not ready for winter! We had our first snow storm of the season last night/today. Yuk! I have about four layers of clothes on and I'm still cold! Isn't there some cosmic rule that says the the fall colors have to dissapear before the snow falls?

Cat-sicle (similar to popsicle)

Several times during the summer, I have come across Alexa standing with her back against the freezer in the garage. She, of course, has a sheepish grin on her face and when I ask her what she is doing, she tells me "Nothing". So I open the freezer to find our cat once again inside. He meow's sadly and slowly steps out. Who knows how long the poor thing has been in there. One day, we noticed that our dog, Mojo, was missing. So Alexa and I hopped on the scooter and went down the street looking for him. Alexa suddenly pipes up, "Oh mom! I put him in the freezer!" I whipped the scooter around and headed home. I jumped off before it was off and ran for the garage. Open one freezer...no Mojo. Open the other one...no Mojo. I go in the house and call for Alexa. She says "Mom, in my room." I go in there and in Alexa's Dorra fridge, here is poor Mojo, crammed onto one of the shelves with hardly any room to move. At least he hadn't been turned into a Dog-sicle. Our poor animals!

Little Rascals

A couple of weeks ago, Alexa had a friend over. They had been outside and all around. Ken came home from school and came right in to the kitchen where I was. He says in a voice of panic, "what happened to the tree?!!" I went to the window out front and there lay our new pear tree broken in two! I went outside and as I got near, I could see a box of bandaides sitting at the base of the broken tree. There were wrappers strung all over the grass and bandaides on the irreparable trunk. I asked Alexa and her friend what had happened and they said they had pulled it over and tried to sit on it. I have the picture in my mind of a cartoon when you bend something and then it flings you. What ever! I don't know what they were thinking! Little Rascals!

Alexa the future hairstylist

Alexa has had a terrific time lately cutting hair! Wednesday, she cut her hair, her pretty pony's hair, her doll Dorthy's hair and the dog's hair! Thursday, she cut her bangs with "childproof" sissors. She did a pretty good job too. No joke! Like she knew what she was doing. Little Rascal!

Guitar

Tyler is learning to play the bass guitar. He loves it!

The spring

"Mom, look at this shell!" A day of swimming at the spring.

Accidents

Wow! What a rough couple of days! Alexa was riding her scooter and crashed. The end of handlebar caught her right on the bone under her eye. Poor girl.
The next morning, Mason was spinning around and got dizzy and fell, hitting his head on the piano bench. It split his eyebrow right in half. It was a nasty cut! Headed right to the Dr. for stiches. You can imagine the thoughts going through the heads of the staff there. Especially since it was the same clinic where I was treated for my broken hand from hitting Ken, 2 years earlier! LOL

Little Off Broadway

For those of you who don't know what Little off Broadway is...It is a group of adults who get together to sing and dance to mostly broadway songs. It is kind of like high school show choir but with adults. I have been preforming with Little off Broadway since 2000 and have been the assistant director for 2 years. This year I will be singing a song called "show off" from The Drowsey Chaperone. And I get to play my guitar in a duet. A few of my jobs as assistant director are: recruting, choreography, song selection & assigning parts. I also take the head shots for our group, including my own!