Texture & Build

Build - To erect by uniting materials into a composite whole; to fashion or create; to develop or add to.

February 9, 2009

One of Jack's many creations that I am always finding laying around the house. Honestly, I hope that boy grows up to be an engineer. He just loves this stuff!

Texture - The look, surface, or feel of something.

February 8, 2009

This is the brick wall surrounding our wood burning stove. It is very colorful brick, and sentimental because my dad built it.

We are scheduled to go to the Draper Temple open house on Thursday at 3:00. So in light of that, we had a FHE lesson tonight on temples. Grandma Wilson is back from her trip to Florida so we got to hear about her trip. Turns out it was cold in Orlando! She had a great time and enjoyed spending some time with Greg and Tara and their kids at Disney.

Jack and I have been working hard and have almost all of his requirements done for his Webelos badge. The Blue & Gold banquet is next Tues., and he so wants to get it at the banquet. There are only 3 things left, so I think we can pull it off. We got more snow today. It has been snowing on and off all day, and the wind blew a lot, so it didn't stick too much.

Variety

Variety - The state or character of being varied or various; a number of different kinds; an assortment.

February 7, 2009

Just showing off a few of the things I use at work - a variety of paper colors and textures, not to mention an endless variety of ink colors. It make for a very colorful job (or at least it can be when were aren't stuck in a brown & pink rut). As I mentioned in my 25 things, I just love paper. I'm all over any project that can be done with paper. I'm not so much into complicating it with brads and clips and all that, but something that I can do with paper, my printer, my pastels, and maybe some crayons (especially if it's a linen paper), and I'm in heaven. I know the one thing that's all fanned out looks like the samples at the paint store, but that is actually ink colors. So it's always fun when someone says, "I don't know, what colors of ____ do you have?" Then I throw that thing and them it fun to watch their face. As for our pink and brown rut, I am really looking forward to moving on. We don't seem so much to be moving away from the browns yet, but instead of so much pink, we are seeing aqua with the brown, and also shades of orange with the brown. At least it's a change. I didn't think we would ever get out of the hunter green and burgandy, then it moved on to blues and pinks. It's all very cyclical, and someday maybe even peach and teal will make a comeback.

(not too bad for a phone pic, huh?)

Rainy Days and Bacon

Delightful - Extremely pleasing.

February 6, 2009

This one is for Danna, for introducing me to such a delightful treat, and because "everything should taste like bacon." Strange as it may seem, my friend Danna and I can chat endlessly on the virtues of bacon. I had no idea a bacon seasoning existed. But now that I do know, I imagine it will end up on most everything we eat.




Sorry this picture is so dark. This morning was cold and rainy, so we really bundled Addie up for her walk to school. So far so good with her health this winter. Not even so much as a cold. That's a miracle considering the germ factory that is public school. We are keeping our fingers crossed that any illnesses she gets may be minor. I'm pretty sure she is past the RSV age, but just when we think we are in the clear with her, she throws us a curve ball. Speaking of which, we got her check up scheduled for May up at Primary Childrens. She is scheduled for an echo again, which always seems to be where the weird stuff shows up. So hopefully all will go perfectly and we'll have a few hospital-free years. That would be amazing! And I'm sure our insurance company would love us.

Parent Teacher Conference

Sustenance - maintenance of life or health; that which sustains, as food.

February 4, 2009

My dinner. I love baked potatoes with bacon, butter and green onion. It has to be real butter, though. Margarine has no place on a baked potato, nor on homemade bread. It's heavenly. Steamed carrots and some V8 fusion, and I'm happy! I just LOVE baked potatoes - that's real comfort food! I also love funeral potatoes. It's Jack's favorite food in the whole world. I make funeral potatoes when Lane won't be eating dinner with us (he doesn't care for them) and the 4 of us (mostly Jack) can easily polish off a pan of funeral potatoes. YUMMY!

Hot - of a relatively temperature; burning to the taste or touch.

February 5, 2009

There is a chance I over complicate things (SURPRISE!!) since I've been thinking all week long of something to go with our Thursday theme of hot, and coming up empty. So while eating dinner I mentioned to Taylor that I couldn't think of anything, and she said, "What . . . like hot chocolate?" DUH!!! We are passionate about our hot chocolate around our house - my cupboard is full of different flavors and we drink it all the time. I don't know why I didn't think of it myself.

So yesterday was parent teacher conference at the elementary school. Jack got a great reaport, his academics are perfect. If he could just learn to control his talking! He is doing better, though, and his teacher says that she can tell he is really trying. Addie also got a good report. She is reading slightly better than her level, and she really loves school. When Jack was in kindergarten, he would write in his school journal every day about "pla stashn." It cracked us up that he had such a one track mind. Now we find out that Addie writes every day in her school journal about her "baby sister Hannah." So I explained to the teacher that there is no baby sister, and she laughed but said that kindergarteners frequently write about imaginary friends. After we all had a good laugh, Addie still thought she was pretty funny and kept reminding us about her "pretent baby sister Hannah." I bet kindergarten teachers find out a lot of family secrets in those school journals.

Prize

Prize - An award or something given to the winner of a contest; something exceptional or outstanding.

February 3, 2009

I won 2nd prize in the photo contest at Maceys! I would never have known about the contest nor had the courage to enter without the support and inspiration of my girls - Tammy, Danna and Kym. I would also like to thank all the little people . . . and kodak . . . Seriously, I know it isn't a big deal to anyone but me - I'm kinda proud of myself. The photo I entered was the crayons (Januray 27) for the January theme of "New."


I did 20 minutes of yoga today as well as 1 mile power walk. I am so terrible at yoga! My cousin Jennefer would be so ashamed! I have no sense of balance at all. I fall over a lot. But I guess if I can stick with it maybe there is a little hope for me.

Goal

Goal - an object toward which one strives.

February 2, 2009

Jack is working on his Webelos badge, so he is cooking dinner this week. Today he made spaghetti. He did a good job, but overcooked the noodles a little bit. He just loves scouts! I hope he can keep that level of enthusiasm clear through his Eagle. I know, I know, wishful thinking. He has really good scout leaders right now who keep it fun for the boys so they want to do their requirements. I did manage to get my exercising in today, hence the top picture. I just wish I had more will power to be more consistent about it.

Flame

Flame - to burn with a bright light.

February 1, 2009

Since I have to make my own birthday cake, I didn't get to it until today. So during half time of the Super Bowl, we lit the candles and sang happy birthday to me. Whoopee. I'm stinkin' old! I did watch the Super Bowl. I didn't intend to, but I did and it turned out to be a good game. I got in a good nap today, which meant I missed at least one episode of our Mythbusters Marathon (probably more like 2 episodes), but we didn't get through all of our recorded episodes because of the Super Bowl, nor did we watch Friday's Monk or Psych. Maybe I can find a way to justify doing that for FHE tomorrow night. My kids are out of school tomorrow - AGAIN! It seems like they sure get a lot of days off. More days than I got off when I was a kid. What's up with that?