I Used To Have A Brain: June 2011

Kids Say The Darndest Things!

Kids are hilarious and I'm lucky enough to have them cracking me up every single day, so how can I not share them with you! These are just some of the funny things they say.

Izzy, referring to her doll who was apparently very fashionable. "She's very stashinal."

Connor had drooled on Izzy's doctor kit, daycare boy told her, "you should put your dr. kit in your room." Izzy replies very casually, "That's ok, I don't care if he throws up on it."

Izzy told me today, "I'm 4 now." me: "Oh really, when did you turn 4?" Izzy: "I don't know, I just learned my ABC's."

While cleaning up the Elefun game after deciding she didn't want to play anymore, and while Connor was starting to get into the butterflies, Izzy tells him, "Consadurations Connor but you can't play this anymore. I can teach you how to play baseball though!"

Conversation between Izzy and daycare boy. Izzy, "Your froggy umbrella has big eyes!" daycare boy, "I know that Izzy, that's because I love him!"

While visiting my sister-in-law's new house, Mikayla started screaming bloody murder. Nana asked, "Do you have a sliver?" Mikayla while still screaming and sobbing, "No, I have a stick under my skin!!"

We had wild rice casserole for dinner, and Izzy decided to play with it for some reason, making a huge mess and getting it all over her hands. This was her prayer at the end of dinner, "Dear God, thank you for my food, thank you for my family, thank you for my friends, and thank you for being messy! Amen"

Mikayla was writing a story on the computer, and we had just talked about semicolons, when she announced to me that, "I think if I have a boy when I grow up I'll name him Colon, that sounds like a good name." Upon further discussion she decided that perhaps Collin was a better name for a little boy.

Izzy, while playing with little Beauty and the Beast figures: "I can show you the ways of being a normal person. Pick berries, read, wash your hands a lot... " all said with a British accent.

I asked the kids what they like to dream about, Izzy answered, "Princesses.... Meat.... My family....."

Last night we were at my cousins' house and they had a very large family picture framed and hung on the wall. Mikayla looked at it and casually said, "They must have taken that picture with a really big camera."

Daycare Boy after ghost hunting: "I wish I had a pet dinosaur made out of mud!" Because clearly only mud dinosaurs would protect him.

Connor trying to say the word "helicopter": "Bobbicocker"

Izzy randomly asks, "Why did God give us a head?"

Connor heard the outer door getting blown open by the wind and, startled, asks "Who's coming?". Like the good mom I am I say very surprised like, "Monsters are coming" and continues to stare. So I say, "Robots are coming!" Very seriously Connor tells me, "How about Care bears are coming!"

On the way to gymnastics we played a game, here's an excerpt:

Me - "Something I want you to do, it starts with an F, ends with an S, and has a C in the middle"

Mikayla - "Frapaccinos!!!" (intended word was Focus)

Me - "Something I want you to have... I want you to have__"

Izzy - "Babies!!!!" (intended word was FUN!)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

He Told Them to Go!

I haven't been blogging lately (clearly). I just haven't really felt like it. Hopefully I'll pull myself out of this soon and get back to it. I've had some things I could blog about, but are too personal to broadcast, or are just plain boring.

I just haven't been feeling it.

However I wanted to point you in the direction of some friends of ours. They are a fabulous family who are about to embark on a missions trip to New Zealand and are trying to raise the money they need to get there. They are leaving pretty soon here and still have a ways to go, but their incredible faith that God will get them there is inspiring.

So go check out their story by clicking on this link to their blog. Consider donating, praying for them, and/or cheering them on!

Sunday, June 12, 2011

A link I HAD to share with you

I recently blogged about Facebook. In that post I ranted about how it drives me nuts when people refuse to use punctuation, or halfway decent spelling and grammar. This is also the post in which I spelled "grammar" wrong each and every time.

I am not the grammar/spelling police, and make PLENTY of mistakes myself, but sometimes people can be a little ridiculous.

One of my fellow bridesmaids recently posted a link containing the best obnoxious responses to misspellings on Facebook, and I nearly died laughing at some of the responses. It was so great I had to share it with you!

Click here, but prepare to be horrified.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Wishful.... Thursday?

A day late and a dollar short, but here goes!

I wish I could make steak as well as my in-laws do... yummy!

I wish I could snuggle with my kids all day!

I wish DQ Blizzards were good for me.

I wish Caribou (coffee) would deliver!

I wish I had a teleportation device... that would be awsome.

I wish all interviews were as much fun as the one I just had. It's nice when you just "click" with people.

I wish I had more wine... oh wait, I do! Time to sit back and relax!

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Random Things

Monday evening I couldn't find my purse.

Tuesday morning I found it in the dishwasher.

It drives me crazy when I'm reading a good book that involves multiple story lines in different places, and just when something huge is happening... they jump to another story line. Keeps me going though and I suppose that's the point of suspense.

Pictures from the wedding are turning up on facebook. Some of them are flattering, some of them are weird, some of them are horrifying.

The wedding was fun, I think they should get married again this weekend.

It's hot out. But that's ok because I prefer the 90's over below zero temps.

I hate being cold. I love that I don't have to be cold anymore!

My new favorite popcorn is "Pop Secret homestyle". It tastes the most like homemade and has the best ratio of salt and butter that I've found in a bag.

Babies are adorable and cuddly and wonderful. But not when they barf 6 ounces of formula/breastmilk all over you. Not complaining really though, it's part of the job, and I know the baby didn't like it one bit either.

I'd rather have baby barf on me than grown-up barf.

I love summer, and I think this is going to be a pretty great one!

Also, today is mine and Spencer's 8 year wedding anniversary! Happy Anniversary Spence!

Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Big Day

Spencer's sister married an amazing man on Friday. We all love him, he's been like a brother for a LONG time now, so we were pretty excited for them to tie the knot!

I charged up my camera battery so I could take lots of pictures on the big day. Turns out though that when your whole family of 5 is in the wedding, it's really hard to remember to take pictures or take them when you get the chance. Once the reception got going I could have carried my camera around and snapped some photos but I was having much too much fun running around talking to people and dancing to stop and take pictures.

I did however want to show you the shots that I did get. Mostly because my kids are so adorable that I just die when I look at them, then I come back to life so I can look at them some more.