Building the new fort!

Everyone worked hard on the new fort at the cabin. It looks great. Checked it just the other day and all is still perfect.

Vacation Starts

well, thanks to the core of engineers and suv owners, our first day of travel to near mount rushmore was across roads untravelled by us and due to I29 being closed in several places along our route we did it pioneer style. our first day of travel proved that you dont need a freeway to get places in america. we are staying at a koa outside interior south dakota for our first night anx plan on visiting mt rushmore, andd wall drug tomorrow.

At the zoo

My house is almost put back together. Thanks to dad for the bedroom set and Joe and Chris for being my moving men. I'm excited for Joe and Steph's sealing on the 24th and excited to see everyone. Meg and Chris were here last week and we went to the zoo on Saturday. Can you find the real monkies?

A New addition to the Family!!!

Here it is the new ASUS Transformer.... Based on the Android Honeycomb OS which totally kicks but over the iAnything.

I did not purchase the keyboard docking station... I'm in a wait and see mode on that one.

Here is a picture comparing the ASUS and the iWhatever. The biggest difference in form factor for the Android tablets is they are truly in a 16:9 aspect ratio for viewing movies, where the iThing must still use something that isn't 16:9 (this is widescreen vs tv stuff) - but it means that it isn't as cool.

The iTablets are a bit better in my opinion from a pure e-reader perspective, the are more like a real page where the Androids feel a bit skinny in that area.

Anyway... I'm still trying to ignore Carries eyes as they roll, and roll, and roll.

Put your heads together?

Me and Hannah and Lexi were all putting Lexi's big girl bed together last night. I was getting a little frustrated because those things are not the easiest to figure out without the instructions! Hannah kept asking me "You okay mommy?" I would say "No, I need your daddy so he can do this or we need to put our heads together and figure this out." Hannah would just blink and say "okay mommy, I'll be right back." Then she would zoom off to one thing or another. Until the time she decided to jump really high, right into my head. We both immediately broke into tears, followed by Lexi who had no idea why we were crying, she just does everything Hannah does even if it is crying. I got the bed together in the end, even though I was a little dizzy the rest of the night. I can imagine how Hannah must have felt. Poor thing.

What not to do

I have a little desk-office thing in my kitchen. The cupboard above the desk starts about my chin-level and goes up to just a foot below the ceiling. This is where we store tape and scissors and pens, pencils, paper, phone books, etc. On the bottom shelf I have a little wooden bowl into which I drop paper clips or safety pins when Ezra brings them home from school. I needed a paper clip the other day so instead of pulling the bowl out of the cupboard (which I normally do), I stuck my head inside the cupboard, I guess it made sense at the time to look for the clip before I put my hand in to get it out. Anyway, just as i stuck my head over the bowl, I sneezed.

It has been about a week and the mark on the bridge of my nose where it hit the razor-sharp edge of the cupboard is still an red-open wound and I am still getting questions about it from many small children.

Easter sickness

I hope everyone and a great Easter. Ours was actually quite fun, however, little Mags got really sick. She threw up early in the morning, but we thought maybe it was because she was coughing, so we put her in her little Easter dress and went to church. She ate a couple of goldfish, then laid on chris's shoulder like raggedy-Ann. I looked over at her, then up at the clock, there were still 20 minutes left of sacrament meeting, then I looked over at her again and stood straight up and walked out. I got home, laid her down on a blanket and out jumped the goldfish. It was very well timed, luckily. Poor little thing. I held her pretty much all the rest of the day and all day Monday. She had a high temperature and wouldn't eat or move. She just looked miserable. Today she is much improved with no fever and she even ate dinner. We'll see how tonight goes, hopefully her tummy will let her sleep through the night. I hope nobody else was sick over a holiday.