dinner conversation

For all those Nacho fans out there:

Ashley: Food is "the best."

Emma: I eat it "every day."

Camille: And you're a "crazy lady!"

This post contains no editing for content. It really happened like this, one after the other quoting movie lines. If you haven't seen Nacho Libre, please disregard this post.

Let's hear it for the cheeto car...

Yes, Jake participated in the Pinewood Derby too. Is that even how you spell Derby? I don't know. Whatever. The award he won was "Most like a a cheeto..." Hmmm....I don't know how I should feel about that. Rick was just hoping he wouldn't be completely humiliated. Turns out, it was pretty ugly, but it won a few times. The pinewood derby, itself was pretty fun...for the first 45 minutes or so, but after 2.5 hours, we were so done. The kids loved it. They could sit right by the track and cheer for their cars. Anyway, just goes to show...so Jake's wasn't the prettiest, but it was pretty fast!

Elections...

I'm just curious about everybody's take on the primary elections that are going on...I have been following it fairly closely and it's very interesting to me. Maybe all of you aren't in to politics, but I've been watching the debates and I just finished a political science class, so it peaked my interest...that and I had to do a paper on Mitt Romney. It was very educational. We had a very interesting discussion in relief society on Sunday. Somehow it ended up a very political discussion. Do you think the world is ready for a Mormon President? Can you believe Mitt Romney has made it this far? Do you think he has a shot of winning the nomination? Just curious...

Today's Highlights

Here are the highlights from today's game. Jake really knows how to get a fast break going.

The Piece de Resistance

Here it is, the project that I've been working on for the past year, my magnum opus. It's a six drawer dresser made of African Mohogany. I made it 100% from scratch. The drawer faces are all from the same 16-foot long board, and the grain pattern is incredible. The pictures really don't do it justice, but here are a few.

I added some Walnut inlays on the top, as pictured below, and on the legs.




Here are a couple more shots showing a little more of the grain pattern, which has touches of gold in it.

Plus, the drawers extend 100% on fully hidden sliders.

Isn't this lovely?

This is our carpet upstairs (it looks a lot worse in person)... this morning, I had to rush the girls to the doctors office because I went upstairs after hearing Brooke screaming, "owee in the eyes!" Evidently, they had gotten into the chemicals used for Brandon's fish aquarium. They were COVERED in the blue stuff and Brooke had rubbed her eyes and gotten it in them. Brittany was sitting there happy as ever chomping on a candy cane covered in the blue stuff. I flushed Brooke's eyes out best I could and tried to wash the stuff off, then rushed them to the doctors office. Thankfully they're fine. The doctors office called Poison Control and all I had to do was have them stand in a shower for 15 minutes - which was a whole other experience... two screaming toddlers, terrified of taking a shower, both screaming their heads off while I'm trying to keep them both standing under the water. Not fun! I'm just glad they're fine now. What a crazy morning though, that's for sure. They will be permanently stained on some parts of their body for a long while probably and we're in need of new carpet now, but all is good. I NEVER had to deal with stuff like this with Brandon, he was always so cautious... the girls though, that's another story!

the baby

Here Michelle, I hope you're happy now! If you were here I'd bring him to you every day, baby hog. As if I had a choice!





Do you love the lizard belly or what?