Thursday, January 29, 2009

What Color Crayon Are You?-->
You Are a Yellow Crayon
Your world is colored with happy, warm, fun colors. You have a thoughtful and wise way about you. Some people might even consider you a genius. Charming and eloquent, you are able to get people to do things your way.While you seem spontaneous and free wheeling, you are calculating to the extreme. Your color wheel opposite is purple. You both are charismatic leaders, but purple people act like you have no depth. (Mike was purple, how funny is that.)



What Movie Is Your Love Life Like?
What Movie Is Your Love Life Like?-->
Your Love Life is Like Pretty Woman
"I want the fairy tale" You believe that love is truly blind, unpredictable, and surprising. Two very different people can easily find true love. At least, that is how it will happen when you marry a gorgeous billionaire someday ;-)
Your love style: Sensual and flirty (I'm not so sure about this.)
Your Hollywood Ending Will Be: Surprisingly happy

I couldn't get the pictures to upload. These quizzes were fun.

Box Child

Before Christmas, we received quite a few packages in the mail. Amazon was Santa's friend. Anyway, one day Kenna was so excited about this box. She took it in her room and played in it, put her dolls in it, etc. Later in the afternoon, she came and told me to come look at it. She had it all set up on her bed with her pillow and blanket inside. She has slept in it ever since. The sides only held up a day or two before collapsing (it was a shallow box.) I keep asking her if she's done with it. Absolutely not. The other night, she woke up crying. When I went in to see what was wrong, she started yelling at me for throwing her box away. I hadn't, but she had slid down off of it while sleeping and couldn't feel it anymore. Are there long term effects to this? Will it go to college with her? Does it bod well for her life's ambitions? I'm just not sure. Speaking of her life's ambitions, I'm pretty sure one of them is to be a diva princess. She put this show on for us the other day. She couldn't figure out how to hold her guitar and microphone at the same time.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

We Love to Ski!

At least I do. When we moved here about 5 years ago, Mike's Dad started taking us skiing. Connor learned when he was 8 and Chase was 5. Since then, our family has gone 3-4 times a year, except me. I was usually home taking care of a little one, although I did go a couple times a year, thanks to my terrific family. This is the year I have been waiting for! We can all go. In the past, we have gone south to ski with Kim at Snow Basin, Brighton, or Alta. This year we decided to try buying season passes to our local resort, Beaver Mountain. While Snow Basin it is not, it has a few things going for it. It's definitely small, but much less expensive and close. Terrific actually because we have already gone 6 times. And we are all skiing, YAY. We started Kenna this year. She went twice with us and then all of the kids started group lessons on Jan. 10. Kenna took to it really well. We thought she might be wimpy, honestly, but she hasn't. Last time when it was so cold, she wanted to go longer than the older one. They go every Saturday morning for four weeks. This is awesome for two reasons. Mike and I have two hours to ski by ourselves and the kids are learning so much. I can't believe how much my boys have improved in two weeks. Then we ski as a family in the afternoon. So I know I need to do a Smilebox or something, but didn't feel like it, so there are just lots of pictures on this post. Mike has my poles so I could take pictures. That's also the reason there aren't any pictures of me. Sad to because I look pretty hot in my ski clothes. :)