Bath Convo Tonight

A strange smell lurks in the bathroom.

Mama~ "Who tooted?"

Owen~ "Me!"

Nifae~ "No it wasn't.... it was me."

Owen, "OH! Not Me!"

Wham, Bam, No thank you, Ma'am!

Lillsy Bills is getting all busted up!

The other night she and O went in for the same toy and their foreheads collided. Wanna guess who took the bigger hit??
Poor GIRL!
She has been sporting a blue goose egg ever since.

Today has been a pretty harsh one for some strange reason.
Today she was sitting on my bed. She can climb on and off my bed but today she did something totally unexpected.
She was reading (playing) with a book and dropped it off the bed on purpose. Then she just leaned over to look at it and tumbled right off. Head first. It was so sad. She was rubbing her head and whimpering. SAD!!!

A few hours later we were playing outside. Nifae was giving O and Lills a ride in the wagon. I was on the phone with my mom because her house just got broken into. I saw Nifae going too fast and yelled for him to slow down. Just then he turned them onto the grass and the wagon tipped over. Lills fully hit the grass hard. All the while Owen lets out a "woohoo" as he flew through the air.
Lilia was shocked and then super sad. Crying, screaming, sad face, cry. It was heartbreaking. Nifae was crying cause he was so sad that he was responsible.

After lunch I got her ready for her nap. I laid her down in the crib like I do twice a day. She usually never cries and today was no different.
About 15 min later I heard a blood curdling scream....

I run in and see her HANGING BY A THREAD... literally.

Next to her bed is a dresser that has a carousel thingy that hold all of her head bands. It looked like she had leaned over her crib to grab the headbands and she got one but ended up slipping over the edge. Her foot was holding her onto the crib and the headband she managed to get had stayed attached to the carousel and was totally stretched out as she clung on for dear life.
OH MY!!!!
She was so scared. I got her calmed down and she is now sleeping. I need to take a nap so I can gear up for whatever else she has planned today.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I got the tree up a little early this year. It's a funny story. I usually don't put it up till AFTER Thanksgiving but....
I gave into peer pressure!
My sister an law has been decking the halls all month long. Then I started to notice that all of my friends that are from Hawaii already had their trees up....
So I started to think that my Hawaii born husband might want his tree up, also. I thought I would surprise him when he got into town with the tedious task done. I carried the big old box up from storage, put it together, put on all the stupid lights on it (which included 2 trips to Targets for more lights), then I started to decorate it.
I found that I had bought the freaking cutest stuff last year during the After Christmas sales. Surprise... that was awesome!
I got it all decorated and had all the kids sworn to secrecy. Since we talk to Tommy like 80 times a day, it was pretty hard to make sure they zipped it, locked it and put the info in their pockets until he got home.
Well, he called Thursday and told me that he was getting home early and would be able to pick up Nifae from school (this has happened 2 times in a year and a half). AWESOME & THANK YOU!

When he walked in the door he kissed me hello and went about his business. Hello... notice anything different???????????

He informed me that Nifae had gotten in the car and said, "We have our Christmas Tree up!" I told the boys they couldn't say anything till he got home and technically... he was home. Grrrrrr!

I think when Tommy saw the tree he was less excited about my choice of colors (these pictures are from my phone so they stink) Pink, White and Silver. And white feathers to boot.

Here birdie, birdie!

Oh well, I have been enjoying it and the kids love it too~! I am really excited for Thanksgiving to be over with so Christmas can take over!!!!

This is a really boring/lameish story. Sorry!

I wanna dedicate this song to....

My Honey Bunch- Sugar Plumb- Pumpkin- Sweetie Pie....Cuppy Cake- Gum Drop- Snookum.... Apple of my Eye!

....and the second song, too!

Sugar High

I gave the kids Kool-Aid to drink with lunch today.

We normally drink Crystal Light in this house but I was out and happened to have some Cherry Kool-Aid lurking in the cupboard.

It's been a long time since my kids had tasted the straight up sugary water. This was the first thing Nifae said after his first sip.

"Why does my drink taste like a sucker?"

hahahha,!

Well because basically it is!!!!

Owen was knocking it back and he said, "Does this have sugar in it?"
It reminded me of my FAVORITE movie EVER~ Elf!

Morning Prayer

Owen's prayer this morning:

"Heavenly Father thanks for days. Thanks brother be a good man. Bless me.... I'm Owen. "

Nifae chimes in, "But your Awesomest-Prime (Optimus Prime from Transformers)"

O, "No I'm not! I like to be a bad guy."

N, "We'll then why does your shirt have Awesomest-Prime on it?"

O, "I'm him now. I'm a good guy now. Heavenly Father bless our cereal and our fatty girl, she gots ouchie teeth and thanks for our Christmas tree. For Halloween I want to be a leaf and....... (on and on and on!)

He eventually muttered an Amen.
He's prayers crack me up!

The Early Bird gets the Ax

Well, at least this turkey bird did.

We had Thanksgiving a few weeks early this year since Tommy's mom was in town. Maile and Tommy cooked up all the fix'ens and we sat down for a real deal Thanksgiving Dinner.

It was so good that I feel like the real Thanksgiving already happened. I keep forgetting that it's next week.
Ashley sitting at the dessert table. Smart girl.
Maile and her beautiful fall tree.
Scrabble was played.

After dinner we took a walk to the temple. (See earlier post titled "Within Walking Distance".

The Temple grounds are so beautiful. We are soo sooo lucky to live so close.
The kids loved every second of it .
I was shocked at how well behaved they were.
I can't think of a better thing to do on Thanksgiving.

This might have been one of my best Thanksgiving ever. What a great place to end a thankful night!

Shake it like a Polaroid Picture.

shake it...shake shake... sha shake it!