Where have I been?

Well, right here. In my house. But if you ask Bucky, he will tell you that I've been at the movies. I will admit that I have been to a lot of movies lately. More than normal. But, I've seen some good ones.
1. New Moon (this was in November but Buck is making me put it on there because it's been within the last 3 months) It was sweet.
2. Whip It (Grrrl power? Fun though)
3. Invictus (didn't like this one so much, other people did, but I didn't)
4. Sherlock Holmes (Love Guy Richie, director)
5.Up in the Air(Great script and made me think about the choices that I make and have made in my life)
6.The Book of Eli(went out and bought bandages and food storage, the movie is Post-Apocalyptic)

I haven't seen Avatar but people keep saying that it's the best movie in the world. Graphics and what not. I can't get over the blue people, and it's 3 hours.

Movies I've rented:

1. The Cove (amazing, really, it's not just about dorky dolphin lovers)
2. The Hurt Locker ( One of my favorite movies of the year)
3. Extract (interesting?)
4. It Might Get Loud( amazing doc, love Jack White from the White Stripes)
5.Julie and Julia (made me hungry...)

I'll stop there before I put all of the movies that I've seen in the past 3 months. It's a lot.
So that's what I've been doing. Sitting on my can. I need friends up here. I'm feeling lonely because I haven't made any close friends in my new church. But I will, I'm sure. :)

He'll be a Good Teenager...

That's what I have to keep telling myself...Either that or I'm quitting my job as a mother. The other day Ethan decided to let Shelley jump out his window(he's on the first floor don't worry) and I punished him by giving him 2 chores. Not unreasonable I thought. So, I get him started on vacuuming the basement and he's pitching a major fit. I mean, major. So I ignore him and get on the computer in the other room. 

A few minutes later Evie comes in and hands me this note. 

HUh!!! I run upstairs and he's slowly walking down the road, looking back every couple of seconds like a lost puppy. As soon as he sees me he's smiling and I'm laughing. I can't stand it, how can one kid be so cute and so bratty? Riddle me that.

Dinner with a side of spanking...

This last summer I returned to the land of my upbringing(Alaska) for my 10 year(gulp) high school reunion. While I was there I visited one of our oldest family friends, Tom Cooper. He owns Alaska Horn and Antler, he is a true artist and if you're ever on your way down to the Kenai Peninsula you should stop in. SO, this summer I picked up an antler sling shot and dried moose pellets for the kids. I'm from Alaska, these are just some of the strange things people do there. So, it's been sitting on a shelf in the kids' room since then, not seeing much action because it's been cold out. 

Fast forward to last night. We sitting around the table having just enjoyed a nice dinner with our neighbors. We're just laughing and talking and out of the corner of my eye I see something flying. 

It's dark.

It's brown.

And it's just hit Gary(the dad) on his arm and shattered due to the dryness of it. 

Can you guess what it was?

So now there's dried moose poo bits all over my table. I turn around ready to murder and there's sweet little Evie just laughing away. That is until she sees my face. She then runs. Smart girl, because if she had been close I would have spanked her. Hard. Don't judge please. :) 

We bring her back to the table to apologize and clean up. But, seriously! What the crap was she thinking?! When I figure her out then I'll get back to you. Until then I'll just have to keep my eye on that one.

Much Anticipated Close Up...or something.

*Winds are coming in from the east...

Welcome to the family.

Ahhhh, gotcha! I bet you thought that I was talking about something else, like a bambino. But alas, I am not. We purchased a 20 in. G5 IMac with 3 gigs of ram and a phatty hard drive from a buyer on KSL(an online local classified site). To me, that means nothing, to Bucky it's awesome. He was practically bouncing off the walls when he got home.

The other cool thing about this little investment is that he picked it up at an advertising agency in Salt Lake that he applied to a while ago but was rejected. But, they didn't bother to wipe the desktop and he scored about $2000 worth of design programs. So, he is double stoked and I am stoked to have the internet. We lost the power cord to our dinosaur laptop before we left to go on Christmas vacation. I've been bumming computers off my sister and neighbor. I even got desperate enough to try and use the PS3 to connect to the internet today. It was painstaking putting in every letter into a web address with a game controller. I HATE video games, so it was a little ironic.

So, good to see that everyone is still alive and kicking and to let you know, that I am now "Cooking with Crisco" as my mother would say.

There are Reasons...

First off , to the two people who read my blog, I'm sorry I haven't posted in FOREVER. There are reasons.

#1: I cut my hair. Not just a little. A lot. It really freaked me out and first and I felt truely ugly. But, now I'm okay with it. Sort of....

#2: We spent Christmas at an awesome farmhouse on the Key Peninsula in northern Washington and there was NO internet. It was nice and relaxing for the first few days and then I starting wondering what was going on outside my little bubble of awesome-ness....

So enough excuses, lets get to the pictures, right?! Props to my brother Erik for the pictures, he does a great job with kids and making them smile with his fart noises. :) Love it. Evie and Erik's little girl Kali were BFF's on this trip. They are about 4 months apart in age and are so cute together. They would literally hide out in closets tells "secrets" and having girl time. It was cute, but scary at times because sometimes we couldn't find them, one time even involved them getting into some deep mud out in the field and Aunt Angela having to rescue Evie from being stuck out there. BUT good times. They are thick as theives now. :)

Pearls of Wisdom from the Pot

I stumbled into this conversation as I passed the bathroom. Ethan was on the pot and Evie was "washing her hands", aka playing with the water. Ethan was doling out the wisdom. It went something like this.

" Teenage boys say,'Random', 'Awkward', and 'Lamesville'

"Teenage girls say, 'Twilight', 'Edward', 'tea party' and 'Baby' (huh???)

"Mom's say, 'Clean your room!'

"Dad's say, 'You're not getting anything for Christmas!'

Etc. Etc. Etc.

It was really precious. (Insert eye roll here)

It's always nice to see what the kids pick up even when you tell them a million times a day that you love them and shower them with kisses and whatnot, but the things they pick up on are the negative. Its too bad really...