October 2008 Archives
I've finally done it, we have gone to Disneyland so many times this year that my boys now have Disney on the brain all the time. Yesterday, James and I went to vote early. Seth was in school, but we had to take Jacob with us. As we entered the building there was about a 20 minute line to get to the voting booths. So we headed to the back of the line. Jacob looks up at James and asks him "Hey, hey, hey dad, what ride are we going on?". It took me a few seconds to figure out that he was referring to standing in lines at Disneyland. LOL
Then this morning Jacob went downstairs and saw our double stroller. We don't use it much when we are home because Seth doesn't really need to be in a stroller any more, but we have taken it to Disneyland every time we have gone this year. So Jacob looks down at the stroller and says, "Look mom, it's the Disneyland stroller." I'm thinking that he might be a little disappointed when the baby comes and we start using it more around town and not just for Disneyland...
Hanging out in the "Disneyland Stroller", waiting to ride Finding Nemo.
The boys both fell asleep like this in the stroller, I thought it was great!
P.S. I've opened up the comments on this blog. I've had some people say they can't leave comments, so try it now if you want to. If it still doesn't work or if I get a lot of spam I'll have to change things, but let's see what happens first.
Then this morning Jacob went downstairs and saw our double stroller. We don't use it much when we are home because Seth doesn't really need to be in a stroller any more, but we have taken it to Disneyland every time we have gone this year. So Jacob looks down at the stroller and says, "Look mom, it's the Disneyland stroller." I'm thinking that he might be a little disappointed when the baby comes and we start using it more around town and not just for Disneyland...
Hanging out in the "Disneyland Stroller", waiting to ride Finding Nemo.
The boys both fell asleep like this in the stroller, I thought it was great!
P.S. I've opened up the comments on this blog. I've had some people say they can't leave comments, so try it now if you want to. If it still doesn't work or if I get a lot of spam I'll have to change things, but let's see what happens first.
I've never been tagged before, but ended up being tagged twice on Thursday of last week... I wasn't home (went Disneyland yet again!! More on that in my family blog soon) so I'm only getting around to it now.
Here's the first one from my good friend Julie...
Fun Tag
1. Go to your pictures
2. Upload 4th picture of 4th folder
3. Post.
4. Tag 4 of your friends.
This is absolutely one of my favorite pictures of my two boys!!! I'm so glad it is the one I get to post for this tag. I actually have this in black and white on my bedroom dresser and it brightens my day every time I see it. I think I'll have to post the one that was taken right after this one too, because Jacob's expression is so hilarious.
This is also a good plug for my sister-in-law, Jenni, who took the pictures. She has a studio in her basement and is currently scheduling appointments for Christmas and other photo shoots! Go here if you want to see some of her work... Portraits by Jenni Email me if you want more info to get in touch with her.
I don't really like tagging other people, so if you like this idea go ahead and post it on your own blog.
So here's the other tag....
In this tag you are supposed to list 7 quirks that you have...
1. I don't like talking on the phone. You might even say I have an unhealthy fear of calling people. It doesn't even matter if I've known you for your whole life. I have this unnatural idea that people aren't going to be happy that I've called them, or that I won't know what to say to them. So heaps of apologies for those of you whom I should be calling much more often, but don't. Email me instead. I'm really good at email.
2. I can't stand mis-matched socks and I can't stand for myself or others to wear socks inside out. It kills me to let Seth put his own socks on and have one or both of them be inside out. I usually have to take them off and put them on again correctly for him.
3. I am horrible at driving backwards. For some reason I cannot drive in a straight line, and turning is always an adventure. I've gotten slightly better as I've gotten older, but it's still something James teases me about. I'm Mater's nemesis from the movie Cars, I'm the world's worst backwards driver.
4. I like to sew, but it makes me a little grumpy and angry. In high school my friend Ariel and I spent the evening at my house doing an extra credit project and my mom was in the other room sewing a bathrobe for my brother. My mom was back there swearing up a storm as she sewed. I am definitely turning into my mother in this respect, although I swear under my breath instead of out loud. I like the challenge of sewing something, but it seems like so many things go wrong when I do it that my alter ego emerges....
5. I am a procrastinator. For example, my Primary lessons often don't get done until Sunday morning right before we head out to church, my bathrooms don't get cleaned nearly as often as they should, and I put off making appointments for myself and for my family until I know that tomorrow will be too late. (Although that last example relates back to my fear of the phone too.)
6. I used to bite my fingernails when I was younger. I don't bite them off anymore, but they are constantly in my mouth still. I'm pretty sure this habit has contributed to the fact that both my boys have started biting their fingernails.
7. I can't stand messes and yet my house is always cluttered! It's a horrible cyclical thing. Unless the item has a designated place it gets put on whatever open flat surface is available. Then I move piles around, sort them out, maybe throw something away, so that the piles are smaller and/or in a different place, but they never really go away. James gets really frustrated by this, but also often contributes to the piles. Every month or so we'll do a good cleaning where the piles mostly disappear, but the next day we get something new or don't put something away correctly and it all begins again.
All right that last tag took me much longer than it should have and now I've procrastinated making dinner and everyone is getting hungry and cranky so I better get off.
P.S. Hey Jessica, James has that same aversion to cotton balls. Maybe it's a Lance thing! It's fun to tease him about though... :)
Here's the first one from my good friend Julie...
Fun Tag
1. Go to your pictures
2. Upload 4th picture of 4th folder
3. Post.
4. Tag 4 of your friends.
This is absolutely one of my favorite pictures of my two boys!!! I'm so glad it is the one I get to post for this tag. I actually have this in black and white on my bedroom dresser and it brightens my day every time I see it. I think I'll have to post the one that was taken right after this one too, because Jacob's expression is so hilarious.
This is also a good plug for my sister-in-law, Jenni, who took the pictures. She has a studio in her basement and is currently scheduling appointments for Christmas and other photo shoots! Go here if you want to see some of her work... Portraits by Jenni Email me if you want more info to get in touch with her.
I don't really like tagging other people, so if you like this idea go ahead and post it on your own blog.
So here's the other tag....
In this tag you are supposed to list 7 quirks that you have...
1. I don't like talking on the phone. You might even say I have an unhealthy fear of calling people. It doesn't even matter if I've known you for your whole life. I have this unnatural idea that people aren't going to be happy that I've called them, or that I won't know what to say to them. So heaps of apologies for those of you whom I should be calling much more often, but don't. Email me instead. I'm really good at email.
2. I can't stand mis-matched socks and I can't stand for myself or others to wear socks inside out. It kills me to let Seth put his own socks on and have one or both of them be inside out. I usually have to take them off and put them on again correctly for him.
3. I am horrible at driving backwards. For some reason I cannot drive in a straight line, and turning is always an adventure. I've gotten slightly better as I've gotten older, but it's still something James teases me about. I'm Mater's nemesis from the movie Cars, I'm the world's worst backwards driver.
4. I like to sew, but it makes me a little grumpy and angry. In high school my friend Ariel and I spent the evening at my house doing an extra credit project and my mom was in the other room sewing a bathrobe for my brother. My mom was back there swearing up a storm as she sewed. I am definitely turning into my mother in this respect, although I swear under my breath instead of out loud. I like the challenge of sewing something, but it seems like so many things go wrong when I do it that my alter ego emerges....
5. I am a procrastinator. For example, my Primary lessons often don't get done until Sunday morning right before we head out to church, my bathrooms don't get cleaned nearly as often as they should, and I put off making appointments for myself and for my family until I know that tomorrow will be too late. (Although that last example relates back to my fear of the phone too.)
6. I used to bite my fingernails when I was younger. I don't bite them off anymore, but they are constantly in my mouth still. I'm pretty sure this habit has contributed to the fact that both my boys have started biting their fingernails.
7. I can't stand messes and yet my house is always cluttered! It's a horrible cyclical thing. Unless the item has a designated place it gets put on whatever open flat surface is available. Then I move piles around, sort them out, maybe throw something away, so that the piles are smaller and/or in a different place, but they never really go away. James gets really frustrated by this, but also often contributes to the piles. Every month or so we'll do a good cleaning where the piles mostly disappear, but the next day we get something new or don't put something away correctly and it all begins again.
All right that last tag took me much longer than it should have and now I've procrastinated making dinner and everyone is getting hungry and cranky so I better get off.
P.S. Hey Jessica, James has that same aversion to cotton balls. Maybe it's a Lance thing! It's fun to tease him about though... :)
I realized that although I love to read everyone else's blogs, I haven't added anything new to mine for a while. I even caught myself wasting an hour the other day reading a strangers blog that I stumbled onto from a Google search I was doing. It was fun to read, but I felt kind of like an eaves-dropper.
So here's what I've been up to lately....
I've been sewing up a storm. Seth decided to be Optimus Prime for Halloween and Jacob was going to be Darth "Mader" aka Darth Vader, but we tried on the costumes a few weeks ago and Jacob was too afraid of his costume to look in the mirror. He decided that he definitely did not want to be Darth Mader. Instead he is going to be the Transformer Bumblebee to go along with Seth's Optimus Prime. Unfortunately, they don't sell that particular costume in Jacob's size. I went into Halloween Costume making mode, which seems to take hold of me every September, and started making Jakes a costume. It turned out pretty cute, it's not as detailed as I wanted it to be but I sort of ran out of steam when my sewing machine started acting up. It was skipping stitches all over the place and the tension knob doesn't seem to be working. I've asked James to get it fixed for me for Christmas, because if I'm in charge of getting it repaired it will probably never happen.
The other thing I've been sewing is a Christmas present for Jacob. He is really into dress-ups right now, he wears his cowboy boots almost every day. So when my mom asked what she should get for him I told her that he wanted a Firefighter jacket. We looked around and could only find totally crappy, cheap Halloween type costumes, or ultra-expensive, super-nice dress-up outfits. I found a pattern for a jacket for 2 bucks and decided I could make something that would be durable enough for dress-up play for less than the cheap Halloween stuff. I borrowed my sister Amy's sewing machine, found some inexpensive fabric a Walmart, harvested some notions from bags I bought at the D.I. and got to work. The finished product is adorable!!! He's going to love it so much. It's too bad I have to wait 'til Christmas to see it on him.
I've got two more small sewing projects on the table for Christmas and I probably ought to get a few girly receiving blankets and burp cloths ready for the new baby. All I need is to find some super-cute flannel.
James has been in San Antonio for the last two days visiting his brother Joseph who just graduated from Air Force Basic Training. I haven't cooked at home since he left, unless you count Macaroni and Cheese. Our food choices have definitely been kid friendly, mac n cheese, hotdogs, pizza, and McDonalds. It's a good thing James is coming home tonight. I need motivation to cook something more nutritious for myself.
I'm going Christmas shopping this afternoon with my mom. It seems really wierd to be doing it this early, but I think I better get it done now, since my life is going to get slightly more complicated as the year goes on. Everyone says going from two to three kids is the hardest transition and I don't need to complicate it by having to drag all three of them around various stores at Christmastime.
I had some pictures to go along with this blog, but James took the camera, so I'll post the photos when he gets back.
So here's what I've been up to lately....
I've been sewing up a storm. Seth decided to be Optimus Prime for Halloween and Jacob was going to be Darth "Mader" aka Darth Vader, but we tried on the costumes a few weeks ago and Jacob was too afraid of his costume to look in the mirror. He decided that he definitely did not want to be Darth Mader. Instead he is going to be the Transformer Bumblebee to go along with Seth's Optimus Prime. Unfortunately, they don't sell that particular costume in Jacob's size. I went into Halloween Costume making mode, which seems to take hold of me every September, and started making Jakes a costume. It turned out pretty cute, it's not as detailed as I wanted it to be but I sort of ran out of steam when my sewing machine started acting up. It was skipping stitches all over the place and the tension knob doesn't seem to be working. I've asked James to get it fixed for me for Christmas, because if I'm in charge of getting it repaired it will probably never happen.
The other thing I've been sewing is a Christmas present for Jacob. He is really into dress-ups right now, he wears his cowboy boots almost every day. So when my mom asked what she should get for him I told her that he wanted a Firefighter jacket. We looked around and could only find totally crappy, cheap Halloween type costumes, or ultra-expensive, super-nice dress-up outfits. I found a pattern for a jacket for 2 bucks and decided I could make something that would be durable enough for dress-up play for less than the cheap Halloween stuff. I borrowed my sister Amy's sewing machine, found some inexpensive fabric a Walmart, harvested some notions from bags I bought at the D.I. and got to work. The finished product is adorable!!! He's going to love it so much. It's too bad I have to wait 'til Christmas to see it on him.
I've got two more small sewing projects on the table for Christmas and I probably ought to get a few girly receiving blankets and burp cloths ready for the new baby. All I need is to find some super-cute flannel.
James has been in San Antonio for the last two days visiting his brother Joseph who just graduated from Air Force Basic Training. I haven't cooked at home since he left, unless you count Macaroni and Cheese. Our food choices have definitely been kid friendly, mac n cheese, hotdogs, pizza, and McDonalds. It's a good thing James is coming home tonight. I need motivation to cook something more nutritious for myself.
I'm going Christmas shopping this afternoon with my mom. It seems really wierd to be doing it this early, but I think I better get it done now, since my life is going to get slightly more complicated as the year goes on. Everyone says going from two to three kids is the hardest transition and I don't need to complicate it by having to drag all three of them around various stores at Christmastime.
I had some pictures to go along with this blog, but James took the camera, so I'll post the photos when he gets back.
