March Madness In Oregon

I heard about this on the radio and thought it was so funny.

Mapping the world with Ethan

For at least a year now Ethan has had this strange obsession with all things Chinese. He knows where it is on a map of the world, he is constantly recognizing when things are made in China etc. This little masterpiece came home from school the other day. I got a good chuckle, thought you might too.

Ethan also saw Samantha doing a project for social studies where she had to create a map of her Roman city. Ethan was "inspired" I guess and created his own city. I was mighty impressed. Check out all the cool "fun centers" and the "cool place"!

Ethan's St. Patricks Day hat

Ethan and Elise need to leave for school around 8:40. Around 8:30 when I saw that Ethan had neglected to put on a green shirt for St. Patricks day I informed him that it was St. Patricks and that he needed to wear a green shirt to school today. Ethan excitedly ran up the stairs and quickly slipped into a green shirt and started cutting up paper into strips on the kitchen table. I was trying to get the kids' lunch bags and get them squared away with all their necessities for school and repeatedly asked Ethan to stop what he was doing and get ready for school. "Just a minute, just a minute!" Ethan replied as he busily smeared glue stick all over his strips of paper. "Come on Ethan, it's getting late now, you have to get going... Where are your shoes? and what are you doing?" "I'm making a St. Patricks day hat" he explains, then solicites Elise's help to put the top on his hat while he finds his shoes, as I found some tape to stick the top of the hat on. It was very important to him that he have his St. Patricks hat ready to wear to school. He was very proud of it. So, I now present to you my son's "St. Patricks Day Hat"

Doesn't it scream St. Patricks Day to you?
I asked him what the kids at school thought about his cool hat and he told me, "They just all thought it looked like a chef's hat."
Ethan, you're one cool cat.

Poor Puppy

Last Thursday we had our poor puppy spayed. and her teeth cleaned. It was so sad. She came home totally out of it, and she could hardly move. Nothing like our usual bouncy puppy. She was moaning, just laying there breathing.


Elise felt so bad for Star she decided to read her some books to make her feel better. She read to the dog for about 20 minutes! Surprisingly Star seemed to like it. I tried to get a video of her reading, but got caught rather quickly, but here it is.

Star is feeling much better now. Yeah! She's supposed to take it easy for another week though.

Hulu

In case you haven't heard I thought I'd let you in on a new website called Hulu.com.
Hulu is an online video on demand service. They describe themselves as follows:
"... the web's most comprehensive selection from more than 50 content providers including FOX, NBC, MGM, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, and more to deliver premium programming across all genres and formats, television shows, feature films, and clips. Watch full-length episodes of current primetime TV shows such as The Simpsons and The Office the morning after they air, classics like Miami Vice and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and clips from Saturday Night Live, Nip/Tuck, and others. Hulu also offers full-length feature films like The Usual Suspects, Ice Age, Three Amigos!, and The Big Lebowski as well as clips from films such as Napoleon Dynamite, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Devil Wears Prada and many more. Hulu is free and ad-supported — available anytime in the U.S. "

I thought it was fun to see they had full episodes of old favorites like "WKRP", "A Team", "The Pretender" etc., as well as some new programming as well. If you are a Nick Lachey fan you can watch and relive "Clash of the Choirs" clips. Each episode begins with a 30 second commercial. Half way through a 1/2 hour program is a 10 sec. ad and another ad at the end.

The movie pickings are a little slim, but I presume they will be adding more as time goes on and if they find success. Does anyone out there know what there future plans are for this "service"?
For now there are a bunch of B movies, a couple of childrens shows as well as some classic clips from some of your favorite films. This is one I enjoyed seeing again

Warning! This site is rather addictive. Enter with a time limit or you may find yourself watching all 25 episodes of "Mary Tyler Moore"

Flashback Friday- 16 years ago today 1992

THEN & NOW

As I mentioned before it was 16 years ago today that Brad and I went out on our first date and he won me over by playing the intro to "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey, on the piano at the WILK (Wilkinson center) at BYU (although I see that calling it the WILK now even dates me- I guess it's the WSC now (?)).
Honestly the only reason I remember the actual date is because it was the same date as 2 of my friends birthdays and I remember that I wanted to be sure to wish them a happy birthday before I went out that night. I don't know how many people actually have a picture of their first date with their spouse, but I am lucky enough to have one. Granted it's not that best picture as it is a "self-portrait" and before the days of digital cameras (gasp! I'm so old) so you never knew what you were going to get. Who knew what we were starting that day.
We don't look so young and perky in our most recent "self portrait", but I choose to believe we look so much more full of maturity and wisdom now.
I will leave you with video from that intro that won me over, oh so long ago (although the song is really from '81) Becky, do you even remember Brad playing the piano that night?

In particular I am digging the leopard print shirt, the afro, and the oh so cool gym shorts on the drummer. Good thing Brad wasn't wearing those that night!

Don't tell me you wouldn't have fallen for a guy who could play that intro? (unless of course he was wearing those shorts, maybe)

If you don't ________ you don't get dessert!

These are a great incentive to get your kids/husband to eat their dinner, or do anything really. Decide what horrible task needs to be done and then pull these out of the oven. Consider the task done! Got your task in mind? Great... now click on this link to go to "The Pioneer Woman Cooks" blog and get her recipe for cinnamon rolls. OK, I totally LOVE "The Pioneer Woman Cooks" blog. Remember the Marlboro man sandwich and the French Breakfast Puffs? Yesterday I decided to make her cinnamon rolls and they were so easy and soooooo delicious. Big mistake was starting them at 2pm though. By the time we made the dough and let it rise and the kids came home from school etc. it was rather caotic. But... we did get them made. It does make 7 pie pans, so decide ahead of time who you are going to give them to, or consider yourself 10 pounds heavier.

While my presentation is less than perfect, they are perfectly delicious.