They say you should never judge a "book" by its cover, but I always do, and I generally never wrong when it comes to a book. They also say that everyone has an obsession. Well, I would have to say mine is definitely BOOKS. I have a stack of books on my nightstand,and in it's drawers just waiting to be read. I even have a bag full of Library books (who ever invented the concept of the Library is a genius, the guy that invented the Library fine, not so much). (A little shout out to my favorite all time Librarians-Anne Hankins, Judy Gillat, Stella Ivy, and Linda Short.)
I've been thinking about what my favorite book would be (besides the Book of Mormon of course), and I can't pick one... I have to categorize them...
So here goes:
Favorite Infant books:
Hand, Hand fingers Thumb
Good Night Moon
Favorite Toddler books:
Theres a Wocket in my Pocket
I wish I had duck feet
Inside Outside Upside Down
Anything by: Eric Carle & Sandra Boynton
Favorite Picture Books/Young Children:
And Rain Makes Applesauce
Click Clack Moo series
Parts!
Polar Bear Express
Bearstein Books
Verede!
Favorite Young Readers:
Flat Stanley
Soup
Favorite Tween Readers:
Hatchet Series
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Bridge to Terabethea
Favorite Teen Books:
Princess Diary series
Twilight (First Book only)
Harry Potter (All of Them)
To Kill A Mockingbird (LOVE this book)
The Chosen
The Great Gatsby
Favorite Adult Books:
Emeralds and Espionage series by Lyn Gardner
Hearts in Hiding Series by Betsy Brannon Green
O'Mally Family series by Dee Henderson
Gables of Legacy series by Anita Stansfield
My Sister's Keeper
Fireproof
Two Trees
The Miracle
Letters for Emily
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Counting Stars
Totto-chan
The Thread That Runs so True
My Favorite Authors:
As a Tween:
Judy Blume
Beverly Cleary
As a Teenager:
Chiam Pottock
Mary Higgins Clark
Caroline B. Conney
As Adult:
Jennie Hanson
Lyn Gardner
Dee Henderson
Betsy Brennan Green
Keri Blair
Books that I think would make great movies:
Jennie Hanson Books
Lyn Gardner Books
Dee Henderson Books
Betsy Brannon Green Books
Ender's Game
Books that are better then their counterpart Movie
All of them!!!
I aspire to be an Authoress some day, and hope that one of my books makes it on to someone else's favorites list.
Hit comments and Post your Favorites!!! Please!!! I want to know what other good books I should read. Feed my addiction!!! Not that I'm getting much reading done these days.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Preparing for Baptism
In preparation for Ash's Baptism, we've been talking to her about why we are baptized and what the different components of being baptized means. This week we talked about why we are baptized by immersion. And this treat was our illustration of what immersion means-to be completely covered. And that by being completely immersed in water, signifies Christ's Burial.
Bye Bye Thursday
So I have some issues....
and abandoning an animal you commit ed to, is one of them (this goes back to the LOBO days).
Well 8 years ago, on the day that I called to get Thursday neutered, he started spraying. We were told that he would get better, but he didn't he got progressively worse. He was only allowed in the house to get from the garage to the backyard.
A teacher brought him to school, after he almost was run over by another car near the duck park. So I brought him home to keep Friday company. He was so cute and loving. He was also a good kitten. When we first got him, he used to lay on Paul's chest and suck on his ear. It was so funny.
And then he turned into a stinky Tomcat. :(
So after fighting about it for 8 years, I relented and allowed Paul to take him to the pound. I'm trying not to think about it.
The kids aren't terribly torn up about it. Had it been Friday... We would still have tears. Friday is allowed in the house, and the kids love to smother him with love.
He is getting so old... and we know he is having some issues.
When Friday dies, the kids want to get a puppy and a kitten at the same time, so that they grow up loving each other. The kitten maybe, the dog-I'm not to sure about.
We'll see.
Good Bye Thursday.
She's Two Months
Addie turned Two Months on Sunday!!! And boy what a change has happened in that two months. In the last week she has gained a personality, and is always smiling and cooing now. She doesn't look like a newborn anymore (face feature wise), but she is still smaller then most of the babies in our ward (who were born after her). We had one sister give birth to a 10+ pound baby-at the birthing center no less, and without drugs!!! Man I could never do it.
Here are some pics...
Addie in her Bronco Blue and Orange. She has blummers to go with it now.
Cooing and smiling @ granilani
Her two month Pic.
Here are some pics...
Addie in her Bronco Blue and Orange. She has blummers to go with it now.
Cooing and smiling @ granilani
Her two month Pic.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
25th Annual Harvest Classic
Saturday September 19th-
This is the third time Ash has run this 1 mile race. She says it's here goal to win it some day!!!
She ran the race in a little over 8 minutes. They don't keep official time on the kids race, so this is a guesstimate according to the time stamps on my pics.
The boys belong to my friend Christine.
That afternoon, Ash had a birthday party to attend (Jacob-boy on the end in the above picture). It was at Wahooz-formally Boondocks. Ash had a blast. Happy 8th Jacob (Ash and Jacob will be baptized at the same time, well one right after the other).
While Ash was at her party, Brennen and I went on some adventures. We went and got Ash's baptism gift at the book store. We then went to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Brennen loved watching the machine make the doughnuts. After the machine had made all the doughnuts we went to Grandma's on the Hill (Tampas').
When it was time to pick up Ash, Brennen wanted to play every game. I only had enough for one game. He was not happy. So we talked about how he could earn tokens by doing good things for a fun evening at a similar place.
This is the third time Ash has run this 1 mile race. She says it's here goal to win it some day!!!
She ran the race in a little over 8 minutes. They don't keep official time on the kids race, so this is a guesstimate according to the time stamps on my pics.
The boys belong to my friend Christine.
That afternoon, Ash had a birthday party to attend (Jacob-boy on the end in the above picture). It was at Wahooz-formally Boondocks. Ash had a blast. Happy 8th Jacob (Ash and Jacob will be baptized at the same time, well one right after the other).
While Ash was at her party, Brennen and I went on some adventures. We went and got Ash's baptism gift at the book store. We then went to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Brennen loved watching the machine make the doughnuts. After the machine had made all the doughnuts we went to Grandma's on the Hill (Tampas').
When it was time to pick up Ash, Brennen wanted to play every game. I only had enough for one game. He was not happy. So we talked about how he could earn tokens by doing good things for a fun evening at a similar place.
Check out Old Post
I'm trying to update old posts with the pictures they're missing!!! So check the old posts from time to time to see if they got their long awaited pictures.
When it rains it pours.....
Have you ever felt like that????
Thursday Sept. 17th-
Brennen has been regressing in his bathroom habits the last couple of weeks (middle child syndrome?), so we make him clean up his own messes. So last Thursday night, he was doing such a thing, when all of a sudden I hear a flush and an anguished cry and then sobbing. I knew immediately what had happened, the underwear went done the toilet. Not just any underwear, "my favorite Scooby Doo". Addie was also crying because I was in the middle of changing her bum. I had to hurry into the kid's bathroom to shut the tank water off so it wouldn't overflow. While doing this, I told Ash to call papa and tell him we need help with the toilet. She called him and said we have a toilet emergency, but he only heard emergency. I think the parents were here in about 4 minutes!!! They had thought that Brennen had been seriously hurt.
We called Handyman Hank (a.k.a. Jeff Hankins) to come to our rescue...
Jeff was laughing so hard on the phone when I called him... it was so funny.
The underwear (which ended up being Lighting McQueen underwear) were stuck between the tank and the pipe, so the toilet had to be upended.
Also the flush mechanism was breaking and wouldn't work!! Here's to another adventure Brennen Style.
On Friday, our computer fried. Luckily we were able to save the hard drive, and got $80 for the recycled parts.
On Saturday, while Brennen was taking a shower, the water gage broke, and wouldn't turn off all the way. At the same time Addie threw up all over us and my bed (9:45pm) and I stubbed 3 toes on my right foot really bad (bruised them pretty bad, and it was very painful to walk) while trying to take care of everything.
Thursday Sept. 17th-
Brennen has been regressing in his bathroom habits the last couple of weeks (middle child syndrome?), so we make him clean up his own messes. So last Thursday night, he was doing such a thing, when all of a sudden I hear a flush and an anguished cry and then sobbing. I knew immediately what had happened, the underwear went done the toilet. Not just any underwear, "my favorite Scooby Doo". Addie was also crying because I was in the middle of changing her bum. I had to hurry into the kid's bathroom to shut the tank water off so it wouldn't overflow. While doing this, I told Ash to call papa and tell him we need help with the toilet. She called him and said we have a toilet emergency, but he only heard emergency. I think the parents were here in about 4 minutes!!! They had thought that Brennen had been seriously hurt.
We called Handyman Hank (a.k.a. Jeff Hankins) to come to our rescue...
Jeff was laughing so hard on the phone when I called him... it was so funny.
The underwear (which ended up being Lighting McQueen underwear) were stuck between the tank and the pipe, so the toilet had to be upended.
Also the flush mechanism was breaking and wouldn't work!! Here's to another adventure Brennen Style.
On Friday, our computer fried. Luckily we were able to save the hard drive, and got $80 for the recycled parts.
On Saturday, while Brennen was taking a shower, the water gage broke, and wouldn't turn off all the way. At the same time Addie threw up all over us and my bed (9:45pm) and I stubbed 3 toes on my right foot really bad (bruised them pretty bad, and it was very painful to walk) while trying to take care of everything.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
If the Odds of Winning the Lottery were the same, I would buy a ticket!!:)
Here we go again!
Since Ash was two months old, we have known that each of our children would have a 33% chance of having the genetic defect she did that caused her bilateral urine reflux. Well, we hit the genetic gene pool just right, and Addie also has it. We were truly blessed when Ashlynn was diagnosed from an early age, because a lot of times children are misdiagnosed for years with just bladder infections and by the time they are finally diagnosed, they are in Kidney failure. (And most everyone knows what a nightmare Ash's first few months were.) Because of our family history, the kids are tested at six weeks of age. Well, yesterday it was Addie's turn...and she has it. She's only a 3 (not as bad as Ash with a 5, which is the highest the scale goes). Today, she'll start her maintenance meds, to help discourage infections, and in the next few days have a Kidney scan to make sure they are working properly. So in the last two weeks she has had an ultrasound and a barium swallow to see if she had Pilloricstanouses or Gastro reflux (she doesn't), A VCUG-the test that checks for the urine reflux, and a hip ultrasound to make sure there wasn't any damage from being breech (and initial peek looked good). I need to hit the lottery just to pay for all these medical bills (If only I ever played).
On Saturday, we had Ash's birthday party. Because it was her golden birthday (becoming the age of the day you were born), we allowed her to have a "friend" birthday party. All the others have just been family. Originally the party was going to be at the Rec. Center and then go to the park and have pizza, but we found out that it was closed for maintenance that weekend... so we were going to postpone it. But LeAnne found out, and insisted that we use her pool. So, at the last minute we changed plans again (its a good thing, I don't think I could have listened to Ash go on about her party for another two weeks!!!!!!!) The kids had a blast. They went through the pizza faster than I thought we would. :( And a good time was had by all.
The only casualty, is that I didn't catch that Brennen wasn't wearing his T-shirt until it was to late, and he is burnt pretty badly across his shoulders and back.
We also went to Art in the Park. Man what a lot of walking. I payed for it... My incision still hurts.
Happy Birthday MOM!!! Love You!
Since Ash was two months old, we have known that each of our children would have a 33% chance of having the genetic defect she did that caused her bilateral urine reflux. Well, we hit the genetic gene pool just right, and Addie also has it. We were truly blessed when Ashlynn was diagnosed from an early age, because a lot of times children are misdiagnosed for years with just bladder infections and by the time they are finally diagnosed, they are in Kidney failure. (And most everyone knows what a nightmare Ash's first few months were.) Because of our family history, the kids are tested at six weeks of age. Well, yesterday it was Addie's turn...and she has it. She's only a 3 (not as bad as Ash with a 5, which is the highest the scale goes). Today, she'll start her maintenance meds, to help discourage infections, and in the next few days have a Kidney scan to make sure they are working properly. So in the last two weeks she has had an ultrasound and a barium swallow to see if she had Pilloricstanouses or Gastro reflux (she doesn't), A VCUG-the test that checks for the urine reflux, and a hip ultrasound to make sure there wasn't any damage from being breech (and initial peek looked good). I need to hit the lottery just to pay for all these medical bills (If only I ever played).
On Saturday, we had Ash's birthday party. Because it was her golden birthday (becoming the age of the day you were born), we allowed her to have a "friend" birthday party. All the others have just been family. Originally the party was going to be at the Rec. Center and then go to the park and have pizza, but we found out that it was closed for maintenance that weekend... so we were going to postpone it. But LeAnne found out, and insisted that we use her pool. So, at the last minute we changed plans again (its a good thing, I don't think I could have listened to Ash go on about her party for another two weeks!!!!!!!) The kids had a blast. They went through the pizza faster than I thought we would. :( And a good time was had by all.
The only casualty, is that I didn't catch that Brennen wasn't wearing his T-shirt until it was to late, and he is burnt pretty badly across his shoulders and back.
We also went to Art in the Park. Man what a lot of walking. I payed for it... My incision still hurts.
Happy Birthday MOM!!! Love You!
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