A Gentle Reminder I'm not 17

So tonight I had one of those moments that throws you back into the past really fast (makes you feel younger and more reckless then you are) and then yanks you back out pretty hard, only to find you really are about a decade older than you think you are. Here is the story.

At church I work with the 16-18 year old girls and I couldn't ask for a better calling. I love the girls, I love working with them, being with them, everything about them. When I get with them I am magically transformed back into my 17 year old self. (Or so I feel.) Tonight we had an activity and I am telling them how badly I want to see Twilight (yes I am 14) but with a baby and 3 schedules to work around I have no time.. etc. So they tell me.. "We'll just go tonight all of us."(At this point they are now totally excited, and I am pretty stoked as well) I tell them I will probably have to wait and go with Lee, but they continue to beg me to go tonight. So I call Lee and say "would you be heart broken if I went to Twilight with the girls instead of you?" He tells me "Go for it." So I'm like "Ok lets do it."

They then proceed to remind me that they have to call their parents. WHAT?!! Parents, who calls their parents? Oh wait I am in my late 20's, my friends here are 17. There is almost a decades worth of difference here. (I haven't called my parents to ask permission for almost 10 years). That was when I received the whiplash back into reality.

So funny, story ends with all of their parents telling them no, "its a school night." I must have suppressed that line from my mind, because when you're parents say that to you when your 17 don't you just want to spit nails at them. Because lets face it, whatever you want to do is way more important then the school you have the next day. And now here I sit, alone, blogging, Twilightless,left high and dry.

Other side note: So as soon as the girls told me they couldn't go I tried to think of friends that could come with me, then I remembered, all my friends are married, and most of them have kids and its 9pm, no one would just jump into my car in 5 minutes to go see twilight. That is when I missed being 17. Why can't we all be just a little more reckless and crazy? Next time one of you gets a whim to do something, call me and I hope I can be as reckless for you as I wanted someone to be for me tonight.

Its gone

So for like a year now I have wanted to cut my hair but I have always come up with some excuse as to why now is not a good time. Well now is a good time and I finally did it. Janine did a great job and she even cut it off in a long pony tail so I could send it to locks of love. Never really thought about it before she mentioned it. So in cutting my hair hopefully I am able to help someone else. So here I am. Shout out to Talai, I also held out my hand and took one of these pictures. Shame, what's that?

So this is it. Plus I added this next little number. Don't I look like I am trying to take a sexy facebook profile picture or something?

Autumn Craft

So before the weather got too nasty, and before all the leaves finally fell. Kenzie and I took a little walk to find the prettiest leaves. We then dried them and stuck them in some frames we already had. I am actually quite please at how they turned out. A free fall project just for us.

Green Goblin

No Joke, Kenzie thinks that walking around or doing anything for that matter with this green blanket over her head is the best thing in the world. She wants you to go under with her and read her stories, she wants you to change her diaper while she is under the blanket, she wants to watch tv with the blanket over her head. She even wants you to chase her while she is under that thing. Its kind of weird. But what can you do right? If you ever come over and see a green ghost walking around, don't worry its just my daughter.

Bag of Candy

So we still have about half a bag of Halloween candy left. It is disappearing more rapidly then I would like. I couldn't figure out why until the other night.
(Reenactment)
Lee: Why are you carrying that bag of Halloween candy around with you wherever you go?
me: Uh, obviously so I can have a piece whenever I want. (duh, right?)
Lee: (semi confused and slightly weirded out face) ok.

In all reality, the scary part was I hadn't realized I had been carting it all over the house. What grown women carries a bag of candy around with her wherever she goes? In that time I can recall eating almost all the kit kats and crunch bars. Whoops! I am reminded of this experience because look who is sitting right next to me right now.

Yikes! How'd you get there bag of candy?
Bag of candy, I love you.

Blog confessions

Blog Confession number 1. I open people's blogs just to listen to their music. I then leave it on in my house as the soundtrack to my life. So think twice about the music you put on your blog, because someone may actually be listening to it religiously.

NEVER USE RESIDENTIAL APPLIANCE

I think I am giving myself an ulcer with my anger and stress level the past 2 weeks. As many of you know our fridge died a few weeks ago, someone from Residential Appliance came out to fix it, a week later it was broken again (same problem). So they came out again, said they would bring the part the next day and then they never came again. Both Lee and I have called them everyday since. We keep getting the run around, they have canceled two of their appointments to come back and a week later we still have no fridge. Last night when they called to "reschedule" I had it. The devil in me came out and I gave them a piece of my mind. I told them their service was ridiculous, they had cost us more than we had paid in lost food and that I wanted a refund so I could call someone who would actually get the job done. They refused to give me a refund because "we'll do the job." So now I wait for the 5th time for Residential Appliance to come. They were supposed to come this morning between 8-11, its now 10:09. I'm actually not expecting them to come, I'm thinking more likely I will receive a phone call saying "our van broke down." RIIIIGHT!!! Its gotten to a point where I just need my fridge fixed I am so sick of the run around. But I want this company to suffer. What can I do? We paid for a service that they didn't perform and they won't give us a refund. I already put in a complaint to the Better Business Bureau. Shame on me for not checking that in the first place, but now I will check their website before I call anyone to come fix anything. So to everyone out there DON'T USE RESIDENTIAL APPLIANCE. They are evil, tell your friends. Thanks to all my friends for letting me whine and moan the last few weeks. I am seriously livid. Thanks to Kara for letting me take up space in her freezer. I'll feel better when my food is cold again.

Family Photo, or lack thereof...

So I received an email today from a ward member who is in charge of the directory saying that they need our photo etc. We've actually had it taken before, blah blah.. so I thought just in case maybe I should submit my own photo. So I searched, and I searched and I searched and then it dawned on me, the whole time Kenzie has been alive, we have maybe had one good photo (note our Blog Title) yep thats the only one. So here are our picts. Let me know which one you think I should submit, or if I just shouldn't. Sigh.

What message does this send: Our family likes the woods, and our sweatpants. Well we do but is that the message we want to send?


Message: We all have long tongues and are proud of it, appropriate for a ward directory? I think it depends on the ward.


Message: I tried really hard to set our timer on this camera so we could take a nice picture of our family. Evidence shows that that never works.


Message: We are just regular people, outside, taking a dumb photo.


Message: We are insane about BYU, we just eat drink and sleep BYU. If I were bleeding all over the place right now, it would be blue. (That is not how I feel about BYU, it was a nice place to get my education, and I have a t-shirt)

Any thoughts? I think we should get a real family photo.

Speaking of Lollipops

So I consider myself a pretty laid back parent. I think it is just in my nature to be laid back. But I am paranoid and scared to death of kids and lollipops. Am I alone in this one. One of the worst combos I can think of is a little kid and a round piece of candy on a stick. I just picture Makenzie, lollipop in hand, running away from me, boom smacks face on ground, lollipop down throat. Graffic enough for you. Gross and so horrible. And everytime we go to the bank at the drive through they offer me a lollipop for her (very nice gesture I will not deny) but are you kidding me. Watch we'll go over some bump, blam sucker down the throat again. It just scares me and I don't know where this all stems from. The only thing I can think of. Once upon a time, back when I was about 10 I was riding back from McDonalds with my sister and her boyfriend. I was casually resting my straw on the upper inner portion of my lip when all of a sudden out of nowhere we go over a bump. Well the straw then jumped up my nose with enough force to make it start bleeding all over the place. So we had to pull over the car, fix my nose, and my sisters BF asks "what did you do, stick the straw up your nose?" My response "NOOOO!" Not technically at least. Do those two things have any correlation. Could my fear of lollipops stem from my unfortunate straw incident of 1992? Also, does anyone remember Caramel Apple pops?

Dang those things were good. Can you still buy those without having to special order them on Amazon?

Halloween

We had a lot of fun on Halloween. People came over for our chili feast and then we hit the town. We had a pretty good time trick or treating and Kenzie had a good time getting candy. But I wish the people giving out candy didn't let her pick her treat because everytime in a bowl full of tootsie pops and reeses she went for the tootsie pops. Suckers every time man. There were snickers, twix, reeses to be eaten and we came home with a pumpkin full of lollipops. Who's gonna eat those? Not Kenzie, thats for sure.


Behold BYU's Future Generation. We tried to get a picture of the star player Theo, and the hottest cheerleader Makenzie, but at this age they weren't as cooperative. Maybe in College.


Just a picture of some of the cutest girls I have ever seen.


Kenzie waiting at the door for some Candy. Whenever she got skeptical about the whole trick or treating thing we would say "Kenzie do you want to get more candy" and she would then regain excitement and yell "candy, candy." I guess we know what motivates her.