Shannanigans

Sunday, July 24, 2011

HOUSTON OR BUST!

This is the big week.

The week we take off for our new adventure.

So many emotions...

We will be entering the very depths of heat, so wish us luck!

Cameron gets to spend his weekends at home instead of a hotel room- yay!

Our lives just got a little more crazy...and predictable. Wow- we haven't experience that in a really long time.

We've never felt so settled, so loved, so comfortable. This will be difficult to leave.

We've never felt so hopeful, so elated, and so energetic about our future.

We will miss everyone greatly. I try not to think about not being close to our family. I'm sure this reality will hit me like a freight train in no-time.

Thank goodness for flight benefits and knowing that our family and friends are a short 3 hour trip away.

And thank goodness for blogs and facebook. Yes, facebook. A move to Houston just might be enough to get me to re-join...and to start updating my blog again.

Love you all!

Oh and I got my braces off! To say that I am LOVING it is a gross understatement.

Monday, June 27, 2011

I have a date

with the orthodontist

These babies are coming off in 16 days.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Happy Birthday Kara!

Yesterday, Kara turned 5! Doesn't she look old? Ugh- I don't want to talk about it.

Her day was complete with crepes for breakfast, a trip to Grandpa's to see some kittens, a trip to Yogotogo, sweet and sour meatballs for dinner and a family birthday party.

A fun day for a fun and spunky little girl who is growing up right before my eyes. She is really coming into her own little unique personality. We would be lost everyday without her presence in our family. We love you Kara!

Here are some of her favorites:

Breakfast: Crepes with fruit
Dinner: Meatballs or Turkey Steaks
Color: blue
Movie: Tangled
Toy: Zue Zue pets or her pet bunny
Thing to do: play with friends, ride her bike, play soccer
Treat:

Friday, April 22, 2011

Happy Birthday Colby!

Today, Colby turns 7 years old!

Wow. It's starting to feel like my little kid's not so little any more.

His big day was filled with favorite meals, bowling, a family party and friends over for a late night. Here are some of his favorite things.

Breakfast: Bubble-up pancakes

Dinner: Sweet and Sour Chicken

Dessert: Icecream

Cereal: Life

Color: Red

Book: Dr. Seuss

TV Show: Lego Ninjago

Wii Game: Super Mario Brothers

Thing to do: Build things

Sport: Basketball

Happy Birthday buddy! We love you!

Monday, April 18, 2011

Greetings from Korea!

This place is crazy...and awesome!

The food is...not good. Obviously this is a one-sided perspective

Here's the view from our hotel window

Here's Cameron at the church he spent over 9 months at

eating lunch with Cameron's old bishop and a friend.

I had no idea there were 25 different kinds of Kimche

Not all the food is bad. I discovered these little gems in a subway station.

I've had a cold that has kicked my butt so Cam's done some sight seeing alone while I've stayed in bed, but other than that, we're having a great time. Did I mention this place is crazy? Crazy in a good way.

We just slept nearly 12 hours and now we're off to Etaywon to go shopping!

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Ty is 2!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TY!

Our little man is two!. Here are few things about Ty-

He's pretty into Elmo right now. I usually turn on Sesame Street when I get into the shower and then plop him down on my bed so he'll stay occupied. Almost every time I plop him down, he pats his little hand on the bed next to him because he wants me to sit next to him. I love it.

He is the cutest little talker. Everyday, he is cracking us up and blowing us away with the things that come from his mouth. Today I called out his name and before I knew it, he was right by my side looking up at me saying, "vut mom?" (what mom?)

He is a little songbird like his sister. This started really young when he used to sing like Ariel. Now he tries to sing everything, including his ABCs.

He LOVES to play outside. Lucky for me, he recently figured out how to open our front door making it a lot easier for him to escape.

He is very loving. He loves to give kisses and huggies.

He is definitely your typical 2-year-old. He throws huge fits for no reason, is trying to give up his naps and wants to do everything by himself.

Ty brings us the purest joy into our house, every single day. We love you Ty!

Here are some pics from this last year.

Colby and Kara Quotes

Ty walked into Kara's room as she was getting dressed. Kara told Ty to close his eyes and Ty said, "No! Eyes! Anna!" (Anna is what Ty calls Kara-March 2011)
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Ty's latest: "down-me" (at least 50 times a day. It means he wants up on his chair, down from his chair, help down the stairs, for me to pick him up, for me to put him down...), "apple-now" (means apple. He puts the word "now" at the end of almost everything), "keekoo-now" (means cookie), "donu" (sounds like donut and means candy),"no" (very emphatically and to almost everything I say), "mil" (means milk and any other liquid drink), "nee-nee" (means blankie), "daydoo" (thank-you). These are just the most popular words among his ever-growing vocabulary. He can repeat anything you tell him to repeat and he has just started combining 2 words consistently the last few weeks. (March 2011)
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Kara: "Guess what mom. I'm going to get you a really special present. For your birthday. It's at the dollor store." February 2011
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Kara: "Mom. Would you slide down a waterfall?"
Mom: "Ya, I'd slide down a waterfall. Would you slide down a waterfall?"
Kara: "Yes. Yes I would. If Jesus told me to slide down a waterfall, I would!" (August 2010)
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Kara: As we're watching TV). "Mom. Does this happen? Are people ever watching us on TV?" (July 2010)
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Colby plopped down next to me while I was in my bed reading a novel and said, "Mom, I'm reading something better than you, something that's important. It's called the Book of Mormon." (March 2010)
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Colby uses "giants" to reference anything big or of mass quantity. "Mom. Is the earth as big as a giant?" "I'm so hungry, I could eat a giant!" "If I eat a lot of brocolli, I'll grow as big as a giant." (February 2010)
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Kara: "Guess what I want for dinner when it's my birthday... Rotten noodles!" After a little probing, we figured out she meant ramen noodles. (February 2010)
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A few Colby and Kara-isms as of late:
canora (granola-Kara), bazeum (museum- Colby), bestructions (instructions- Kara), prastic (practice- Colby), cownaforneeuh (California- Kara), my throw-up hurts (my throat hurts- Kara), That possed can't be happened! (That's not supposed to happen- Kara), stellacove (telescope- Kara) July 2009-January 2010
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Kara: "If I got in trouble and a fireman came to our house, would you be sad?" (Janaury 2010)
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Mom: "Tomorrow, I'm going with Dad to a place called Las Vegas."
Colby: "Are things lost in lost Vegas?" (December 2009)
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Kara: "Santa is so funny! His elves builded my underwear too big!" (December 2009)
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Since Halloween, Kara thinks that we should dress up for every holiday. Today she said, "Mom. Do you know what I want to be for next Christmas? Naked!" (December 2009)
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Kara: "I had a dream about exercise monsters. And Jesus helped them into the pool. Exercise monsters like the pool because they have short fingernails and short heads." (October 2009)
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Kara: (During Sacrament Meeting, after she asked me if she could play at Nathan's house after church and I said no). "Ya! Now! Let me!" (October 2009)
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Kara: "If Colby makes me mad again, I'll tell Jesus to cut off his head." (October 2009)
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Kara: (In a 15-year-old valley girl voice) "Oh my gos. That is so freaky cute, mom!" (October 2009)
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Colby: (After hours of waiting outside for the ice cream truck to drive by our house) "Do you think Jesus knows when the ice cream man will come?" (September 2009)
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Kara: "I love chips. They're my favorite vegetable." (August 2009)
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Kara to mom: "You're not my even special friend anymore!"
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After looking into Ty's ear Colby said, "Look mom. There's a hole in Ty's ear."
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Most frequently used quotes in our house:
"That's not even fair!"
"That's going to take forever!"
"You're in awful trouble!" (March 2009)
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Colby: "Mom. Now we need to make you on that thing we play golf (creating the playing characters on the Wii) and we need to make you fat." (March 2009)
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Colby: "Mom. I'm going to make a machine that looks like that white thing in the office (fan) that goes like this (rapidly spinning his finger around) that is so ginormous and I will put it in the backyard and it will blow all of our dog poop into the other backyards." (February 2009)
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When asked why Kara keeps coming into our room in the middle of the night to sleep in our bed, she replied, "because there are witches in my room. And they have guns and they will shoot me." (February 2009)
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Kara: "Mom, why are you feakin out?" (January 2009)
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Kara's prayer tonight: "Heavenly Father. Thank you mom could come home. Thank you finger come home. Bread come home. Cow come home. Dad come home. Amen." (January 2009)
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Kara: "Mommy, hold my horawse (horse). He's so sad."
Mom: "Why is he so sad?"
Kara: "Um...he REALLY don't like my shirt." (December 2008)
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Colby and I were playing the "I'm thinking of something green" game. I said I was thinking of something white and when Colby couldn't guess it, I told him the answer was teeth. He said, "Teeth aren't white, mom." I replied, "They aren't? What color are they (dreading the answer I knew was coming). "They're the color of...um...honey. Yah, yellow. Like the color of honey." (October 2008)
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If Kara really wants to be persuasive, she will follow a request or command with, "my daddy be so mad." For example, if she is trying to tell me to not touch her sleeping baby, she'll say, "Don't touch my baby, she sleeping. My daddy be so mad. Don't touch my baby." The wrath of Cameron is pretty scary so I usually obey when I hear that threat.
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Kara's latest phrase of choice is "booby head." She calls Colby a booby head at least 10 times a day and "I want my daddy" was once quickly followed by, "daddy booby head." I am proud to say she has not yet labeled me a booby head.
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(At the check-out stand in Albertsons. I lifted Colby out of the cart...)
Colby: "I thought you were going to put me up there so she could buy me!" (June 2008)
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(While looking at the bird's nest outside our window...)
Dad: "Where did the mommy robin go?"
Colby: "Probably to the store to buy more eggs." (June 2008)*****
(After the kids got into the hot car and part of the hot seat belt touched Kara's leg, resulting in her crying...)
Colby: "I was brave. Kara, you forgot to be brave. Do you know what brave means? It means you are so so good and brave." (June 2008)
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Kara: "Mom yook (look)! A bug. It kill me!" (June 2008)
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A few Karaisms: Holdee=hold me or hold anything in my hands, bi bu=big jump (June 2008)
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For lunch we were having hamburgers with sesame seed buns. I looked over and saw Colby picking off all the sesame seeds and putting them in a pile. When I asked what he was doing he said, "I'm saving the seeds so I can plant them so that we'll have hamburger trees." (May 2008)
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"Mom, I was a really really freakin' good boy at the store. Can I have my treat now?" (April 2008)
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"I don't want to put pumpkins in my bed. That would bug me up." (April 2008)
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A few Colbyisms: last night=anything in the past, a little long time=forever, hot pie=pot pie, man guy=bad guy, nomiss=imaginary name, smashmallows=marshmallows (April 2008)
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Kara is really into tatlling lately. When I found her in the kitchen with 2 decks of cards scattered across the floor, she pointed to the mess while jabbering something that ended in "Grandpa." Poor Grandpa is getting blamed for messes now.
I heard Kara calling/whining for me and when I went to get her she said, "Colby. I mad!" with the angriest look ever. It was so hilarious to hear that come out of her mouth. (April 2008)
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In Colby's prayer last night, he said, "thank you for President Monson," (much to my pleasure since I had been drilling him all day long) and then surprisingly threw in another thank you for "President Uchtdorf." (April 2008)
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"If my peepee broke off I couldn't go pee and I would have to hold it forever." (March 2008)
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This is during my attempt to discipline Colby after I watched him kick Kara in the stomach at the library- hence another reason I am loving age 3 so much...)
Mom: "Colby, when we get home, you have to go to time-out for kicking your sister. I don't like it when you kick your sister."
Colby: "Then I'll just kick you."
Mom: "What did you say? You don't talk to me that way."
Colby: "I'll just kick you a lot and a lot."
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"Mom, do you know what zero means? It means that mom and dad doesn't give you nofing." (March 2008)
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"Mom, let's get out of the cold or else my hair will fly away. And then I'll have no hair!" (January 2008)
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"Mom, you're getting big." (January 2008- Let's just hope he was referring to my getting big by eating my vegetables rather than all those holiday treats...)
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(At Walmart as Colby was picking out Kara's Christmas present. He was deciding between a Snow White doll or a Snow White dress-up...)Colby: "Maybe we should get the doll for Kara and the dress-up for me." (December 2007)
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During lunch after I burped...)Colby: (between giggles) "Ew mom, that's 'gusting!" (October 2007)
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(While riding in the car at night...)Colby: "Dad, turn on the light."Dad: "I can't."Colby: "Yes you can. Just reach one arm and turn it on. That's a good idea."Dad: (jokingly) "No, that's a bad idea."Colby: "Then do the bad idea."(October 2007)
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Colby was tearing up bits of toilet paper and leaving trails of it on my floor. I was very irritated after telling him several times to stop and throw the bits of paper away.ME: (in a very stern and kinda mean voice) "Colby- Throw the the toilet paper away now!"COLBY: "I will! You be patient! (August 2007)
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At Snowbird Ski Resort, we were looking at the mountains around us and Colby was wondering why they didn't have snow on them. He said, "Mom, I want to go up in the sky and get the snow down." (July 2007)
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Colby's lyrics for "I'll prepare myself when I am young" (I Love to See the Temple) are, "I'll prepare myself and num num num." (July 2007)
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As we were having a FHE on tithing, Colby was asked what we should give Heavenly Father when we have some money. His response: "Watermelon." (July 2007)
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SETTING: A nice, polite family dinner.COLBY: "Belch."MOM: "Colby, please say excuse me."COLBY: "I can't."MOM: "Why can't you say excuse me?"COLBY: "I don't have time." (July 2007)
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Candy, I've been missin you." as he gazed at a candybar he pulled out at the checkout line in Albertsons. (June 2007)