Introducing - MY BAND

Seen for the very first time:

D.D.A.C. & the Terrible Twos

While the parents were away... this aunt got to play... Rock Band! The boys wanted to play, so since their aunts (my sister, Amber, and I) were in charge, we played.

Ty wanted to play the drums and D wanted to rock out on his guitar...

The boys in my band (could they get any cuter?)

Our drummer - Take it away Ty

D on guitar - check out his rocking moves

Then, because they are only two, we had a change in instruments...

D - decided to play bass

Ty took his turn on guitar (I love the rock-star hair)

Parents BEWARE! This is fair warning, if you leave your two year olds in the care of their aunts, they may join a band. At least we aren't taking them on the road, yet!

We had a ton of fun while Misty went to a baby shower (for a friend), and Phil went to chaperone a stake dance.

I Arrived

Today, after spending a wonderful day with Brett at a "Live Dynamite" seminar, we went to lunch and then looked at diamond earrings. After that, he took me to the airport where I boarded a plane and took off west. I flew to Seattle to see my sister. She has recently had a baby, and I am fortunate enough to be able to come and help her out.

I arrived at the airport and my dad picked me up. We went to the car, and I drove to my sister's house. I got to go in and see these two (picture taken from my sister, I will pull the camera out and take some pictures while I am here, tough).

I am very excited to be spending a week with them and having fun giving them loves.

Unintentionally Funny - Laughing out Loud

Yesterday I heard some things said that just made me laugh out loud. The first one was while I was at preschool. The letter of the week is "F" and the teacher was saying the sound and then asking the children if they knew, "any 'F' words." I was at the other side of the room and started laughing out loud. Fortunately for the other teacher, the students are still innocent enough that it was not a bad situation.

Then last night before prayers we went around and said nice things about the person to our left. Brett said things about Eli, then Eli said things about Emily (nice, fun, cute). We told him they were generic and he had to come up with something specific - he did. We continued until we got to Claire. She had to say something nice about Brett. She said he was handsome and smart. Emily blurted out, "Genetic." Claire continued to say nice things about Brett, and I again laughed out loud. I pointed out what was said to Brett, and he laughed out loud. We had to explain to the children the difference between "generic" and "genetic" (besides the one letter difference), and they laughed out loud, too.

Brett then said, "That's something to go on your blog." So, here it is.

Sweet Sabbath

Today Eli and I decided to make cinnamon rolls. We had to fill up the wheat container, the flour container, the brown sugar container, and while we were at it, we filled the white sugar container and the oatmeal container.

Here are our rolls right after we put them on the pan.

We let them rise.

The finished product - before the frosting.

What could be better than spending Sunday at home being edified by the prophet, snacking on sweet rolls, serving others by sharing our sweet rolls, and seeing a brand new baby?

It definitely has been a sweet sabbath.

King-sized Closeness

Yesterday we started our eight hour quest to hear the words of our inspired leaders. Our television downstairs is not working (the bulb is out), so I brought our little television and our cable box up to my bedroom, plugged them in, and we were off.

Here is our 9" television on which we watched conference.

Here is the set-up.

The talks were truly inspiring, and I know that I need to go back and study several of the talks. I am also developing a list of things that I need to focus on for the next six months (many of which I had already started).

We normally make a run to A&W between sessions, and during the first session I received a call that asked if we would push our run back to after the second session. We did and met our friends there for a fun-filled time.

After dinner we stopped to rent a movie, and then we went home, got pajamas on, climbed in my bed (yet again), and watched a movie together.

When the movie was over, I decided I would let the children watch a little television in my bed. We also turned it off while we read scriptures and said family prayers. Then I let them all sleep in my bed.

Claire and Emily.

Eli across the foot of my bed.

Needless to say, I didn't sleep very well. No worries though, I can take a nap between sessions, so I will be happy.

Our Politician

Eli decided that he wanted to enter school government. As a fourth grader he can run for treasurer/secretary. We are not sure if that is two positions or one position. We made up posters for him to hang up, and "nickels" for him to pass out. His message is:

Vote for CHANGE!

Eli Asay for Treasurer.

After we were done with the posters we thought of another tag line (which is better). It is...

"Vote for Eli Asay for Treasurer... it makes CENT$."

Elections are this week, so we are on pins and needles here.

Perspective

Tomorrow Emily gets to eat lunch with her teacher. In her class they earn reward coins, and for ten coins a student can have lunch with the teacher. She is pretty excited about it.

On the other hand, Caleb heard her talking about having lunch with her teacher and said to Brett and me (after Emily had left the room), "I thought eating lunch with a teacher is a punishment."

I guess it depends on the perspective.

Cave People

The weather today has been a little chilly. We woke up to outside temperatures in the forties. I decided to open all of the windows in the house and get some fresh air all through our house. The wind outside was powerful, so it didn't take long for the temperature inside to drop.

Here is evidence of the lowest it got inside the house.

55 degrees - inside.

Brett came home for lunch and shut several windows and doors. He was very cold, so he bundled up. He also told me that I needed to shut all the windows and start warming the house so that when the children came home they would not be freezing. I started to close things up slowly.

Brett keeping warm. Notice his hands tucked inside his sweatshirt.

While I was getting dinner ready the temperature inside was up to 61 degrees. Caleb decided to inform me that caves were this temperature all year round. He continued to tell me that we must be cave people.

The children were a little cold when they came to dinner, so they dressed appropriately.

Caleb and Eli ready to eat.

Emily & Claire keeping warm.

We made sure the children got tucked in and that they all had an extra blanket tonight in case they get cold.

I love a good chill, so I am really enjoying this weather. I went out and hung two loads of laundry, had the windows and doors open all morning, and just relaxed as I listened to the wind blow (and blow it did).

Running from the Law

has a different meaning when you are on the cross country team.

On Caleb first day of practice, these four were running together. Two seventh grade boys, a sixth grade boy and and sixth grade girl. Only one of them had run with the team before, and he was the leader. This group stayed together on their run, and followed the directions they were given to a fault.

They were told to take the first right, and they did. That led them up the ramp to the interstate. They ran on the interstate for a little while and a state trooper pulled over, waved them to him, put them in his car, and delivered them to the cross country coach. It is the first time in CC history that a state trooper delivered runners to the coach (Caleb is afraid that he will never hear the end of it - and I am pretty sure he won't).

Fortunately no one was hurt.

I wonder if they thought running cross country literally meant they were going to run across the country?

Sidewalks and Slickers

I am very fortunate that the school bus stops at the end of my driveway to pick the children up every morning. A couple of years ago, I designated the spot in my driveway where they could start the line (I didn't want them too close to the road).

This is the spot where they line up.

It was a little wet this morning, so the children got dressed for the weather.

Claire sporting her slicker and boots (and yes, she does have clothes on under there).

Emily posing for a picture.

Eli cheesing it up.

I hope their day is as bright as their smiles.