Weird Hair

No longer weird!
I went to bed last night with my hair still wet from my bath and when I woke up this morning it was crazy! My bangs had curled into springs poking up from the top of my head and the rest of my hair was crazy kinky. I am sure you are trying to picture it but not even the best of you can do that hairdo justice. I didn't have time before waking the kids up to flatiron my hair so it was looking funky. Kenedy had a third grade field trip to the philharmonics and needed to dress up fancy. She decided to wear her sparkly Christmas dress which comes down to her knees and her black leggings underneath. I worried about the bottom half of her legs getting cold so I told her to put on my black knee highs. She looked adorable! But she confessed to me that she felt like she looked kinda dumb. I told her "Kenedy you look sooo cute, and trust me I know cute". She looked up at me and said "Mom if you know cute then how come your hair looks so weird?" ! Sooo funny! I then explained to her the reason why and she accepted that and off she went to school. Don't you love how honest kids are. She was right, my hair looked really weird but it looks better now that it met my flatiron!

Feeling Wicked!

I have really been slacking with my Australia postings and I would like to take the time right now to clear the air. For the past week and a half I have been working on getting my pictures and vacation logs organized into a book which once I have completed will be published into a really cool book that I can have displayed for everyone to see. So with working on this book I have become really burnt out because although it is fun to be doing it, it is time consuming and I am not in the mood to rehash everything again for the sake of my blog. Hopefully I will get it done soon and I will come to the point where it will be great for me to start posting again but for now it will have to wait.
Having said that, on the day that we flew back into LA I had a really fun night out with my sister that desperately needs to be shared!
So this is my little sister Heather. She is 18 months younger then me and we grew up really close. Many of my fondest childhood memories are with her. She was my co-conspirator in crime but because I was the loud one she never seemed to get caught, I always got blamed for everything! Anyway we were really close and remain so to this day. So when she found out that I was going to be in California for two days visiting she bought tickets for my birthday to take me to see this..
(Top Model really needs to discover this modeling talent!!) the Broadway Musical "Wicked"! The only things I have heard about the musical was that it was about the witches from Oz, that it is based on a book but do not read the book because it is very naughty (don't worry I never have) , and that people are OBSESSED with it. I thought well it must be OK for that many people to see it over and over again but really how great could it be. So while I was looking forward to this night out with my sister and while I was pretty excited to see the musical my expectations were not too high.
After waiting for Heather to get home for work we started getting ready. I had Ashleigh do my eye make-up because she is talented like that and I got dressed in my fancy clothes. I had to borrow a jacket from Heather because it being summer and all in Australia I did not have one. I thought I would be OK without but as Heather put it."it's freakin' LA, you need a jacket", so I took hers and I am glad I did because it was pretty cold. We finally got out the door and me being famished as usual I had her go through a drive through to get some food. I paid for our meal because I didn't want her to think she could take advantage of me on our date because now she is not paying for everything. Ha Ha Ha, I know I am sooo funny!
We arrived at the theater and settled into our seats to watch the show.

You guys, the show was unbelievable! I LOVED it and am now recommending it to all of you. If you ever have the opportunity to see this show, even if you have to drive a few hours, then do it! You will not be sorry. It was so different then what I had expected and then ending was such a surprise. You think you might know all there is to know about "The Wizard of Oz" but trust me this will have you rooting for the ones you never thought to root for. I loved the music and have since bought a CD of the soundtrack plus I bought a book all about the making of the musical. It is filled with insiders knowledge and behind the scenes trickery. My one disappointment is that since the show has now left LA I will probably never have the chance to see it again. Wouldn't it be cool if it came to Boise? I would take Kefford, Kenedy and Ryker to see it, cause they too would love it!

Thanks Heather for a fun girls night out, let's do it again sometime!

my list of 8...

Random picture of me and my brother Joshua at my Dad's art show. I am sixteen and he is ten.

Lana tagged me and since I never did the tag she tagged me with before I thought I would go ahead and give this one a try. Plus Megan kind of guilted me into it so here you go. My list of things...

8 TV shows I love to watch...

(oh you are really putting your precious time in jeopardy when you ask me this question. I LOVE TV and even more I LOVE reality TV. So here goes with this and always remember..don't judge me...you probably watch the same things!)

1 The Office (by far the best show on TV. why "Two and a half men" win more awards I will never know.

2 Kath and Kim

3 24

4 The Biggest Loser

5 True Beauty

6 America's Next Top Model

7 Survivor

8 The Amazing Race



8 Favorite Restaurants



I am going to skip this one. Kefford and I do not eat out enough for me to have 8 favorite restaurants. So sorry and so sad!



8 things that happened yesterday



1 we got our Direct TV hooked up and I am loving it! Plus we got DVR for upstairs and downstairs. That means I can record 4 shows at one time! Oh life is good!

2 Talked to Lana for 45 minutes on the phone about how we spent 2 1/2 hours visiting teaching one of our girls sunday night. Kefford was not pleased when I got home, I didn't even tell him it was only one girl we went to. To be fair he did not hear me say I was going to the church to enter numbers and THEN going visiting teaching, so he was pretty worried...and upset...but mostly worried (:

3 Blogged about my amazing kids

4 watched some celebrity documentary thing on Angelina Jolie while folding laundry. Sigh and gag if you want to but I got all of my laundry folded and put away all while being entertained by someone elses life. So there!

5 Watched The Bachelor and laughed

6 Watched True Beauty and laughed harder. some people are sooo funny.

7 played ring around the rosie with my family during family home evening.

8 put the kids to bed and finally relaxed!



(obviously these are not in a morning to night type of order. They are in a first things that pop into my head type of order. )



8 things I love about winter



1 Christmas

2 my birthday and rykers birthday

3 snow (sometimes)

4 snuggling up nice and warm in a blanket

5 Hot Chocolate and Hot apple cider

6 getting to see my family

7 Kenedy and Avynleas birthdays

8 being with my Hottie Husband



8 things I am looking forward to



1 Kefford and my next big vacation getaway

2 going to spend time with my family

3 summer

4 heat

5 sunshine

6 vacation at the beach

7 valentines day

8 Kefford coming home



8 people I tag



No names if you want to then do it if not then don't, no pressure, except for you Meggo you better do it, you will feel better about your blogging, for real!

fun happenings!

Rylee came out the other day wearing her Daddies shoes and hat. I think she looks adorable and I always love it when the kids decide to play dress up with their daddies shoes!
Kenedy was assigned to give a talk in church yesterday. So yesterday morning I told her to get a pencil and some paper and I told her that she was going to write her talk. I have always done it before but I think that she is old enough and smart enough and she needs to start learning how to do it herself. She was nervous with the whole idea and quited frankly a little peeved but I asked her some leading questions and gave her a little guidance and she did it! I was so proud of her, i went in at the end of the third hour to listen to her give it but I had already missed it. In Senior primary they do the talks in the beginning. I was really bummed about missing it so when we came home from church we had her give her talk to us! She was great and said that when she was giving her talk in church she said some extra things! This girl is awesome! Here is the talk she wrote (the topic was "we are all spirit children of God"...
I am a spirit child of God which means when I was a spirit I was a child of God and I still am. SO is everyone else in the world even those who do not believe in Christ and if we are all children of God we are Heavenly brothers and sisters and we should treat others nicely even if they don't look the same as us we still need to treat others nicely. Being children of God also means we need to help each other and be good examples so that we can all live together in Heaven with Heavenly Father. And also follow the golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated. For example, if there is someone who is mean to you at school and you are walking home from school one day and you see that same person that was bothering you and he falls off his bike and you think hey that's the person that hurt my feelings. should I help him? Yes cause we are both children of God and if I do that he might be nice to me because I help him. Them you help him and he is nice to you. and again treat others the way you want to be treated and you will be treated as you treat others"
She said that she forgot to say "in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen" at the end and was a little worried about that but I told her that's OK! Isn't she great? Love that kid and how she is growing up!
Yesterday morning I was browning a roast beef in hot oil so that I could put it in the crock pot to cook while we were at church. I let the oil get a little to hot since when I put the beef in, hot oil splattered up my arm. Oh man was I in pain. Kefford had me put some anti-bacterial medicine on it and this is how it looked when the huge red splotches had faded.
The pictures are a bit blurry because I was taking a left handed picture of my right arm, not an easy thing to do. My arm feels and is looking better today so no worries everyone! I will survive! Though I have to admit I was very pleased with Keffords caring reaction. He was a sweetheart, love that man!

Look who came to lunch

I had a lunch date with Batman yesterday. He was very pleasant company and only showed signs of annoyance when I wanted to take his picture. He kept taking off his mask and so I saw the boy underneath, but don't worry, his secret is safe with me!

Happy New Year 2009!

For our New Years Eve I wanted to start a new tradition as a family and that was to ring in the new year together. I wanted the kids to have fun and be excited so I planned a fun new years party. For the food I made a bunch of finger foods which were..Boneless buffalo wings, meatballs, teenie wienies wrapped with bacon, 7-layer dip and chips. We spread a blanket out on the floor and let the kids do something that is normally forbidden in our house..eat on the carpet! We put in the movie Crocodile Dundee and ate while we watched it. (for anybody who cares the movie was rated PG but, oh my goodness, was I shocked by the contents. we had to cover eyes and loudly cough out foul language. I am not sure if that is one the kids will be able to see again!) While everyone else got to eat on the carpet Rylee was banished to her highchair in the kitchen. She is not quite old enough to understand the concept of being careful with food.

After the movie we pulled out the candy and the board game Sorry and had fun trying to make the best moves to win. I think Kefford ended up winning...no surprise there, between you and me I think he cheats (: Ryker did not want to play Sorry with us he wanted to play Smash Brothers on the Wii. So that's what Ryker did.
We let the kids stay up until 9:00 and then we put them to bed. Because we are nice we let the older 3 camp out on the floor in Ryker's bedroom where they talked and messed around until about 10:00.
Poor Rylee had to sleep all alone in her room
After we put the kids to bed Kefford and I put in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight. We saw the movie when it came out in IMAX and were excited to watch it again and to see if it was as good as we remembered. It totally was! That movie is amazing and Heath Ledgers performance was brilliant. These new Batman movies totally make up for the disgrace that the other ones were left in. Plus Christian Bale as Batman! Are you kidding me?! Fabulous!!!

Kefford later made the comment about how fun our new years party was and that we needed to make this a tradition so that when the kids are older they will want to stay home and party with us rather then going out with their friends. That is a nice thought!

Happy New Year everyone!

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