heading South

we are off for the weekend, a little early because the kids don't have school on Friday. so, we are taking advantage of that and going to St George until Sunday. i know it is supposed to rain on Saturday but, we have an indoor and outdoor pool, and hopefully it will be warmer there than it is here. maybe on the rainy day we will go to Vegas and play around for awhile. HI MY NAME IS MARCI AND I TAKE MY KIDS TO VEGAS! i have even snuck into NUMEROUS MOVIES, snuck into NUMEROUS CLUBS AND DANCES, and have recently stolen a can of coke (no one was tending the bar and i paid ten bucks to get in, i figured they owed me). enough silliness, i really must finish the laundry and pack since i spent the night playing mario bros with my hubby. that castle on world 8 is sooo flippin hard, i don't know how Brenton did it. yes, my 8 year old is better than i because i am so strict on how long he can play.

PS Brenton and Kylee have actually really enjoyed watching the Olympics with me. It has been kind of funny trying to explain it to them. Kylee is still trying to understand that it is Countries competing, not the States. no post tomorrow...i am on VACATION!

my 2 FAVORITE figure skating dances

(both of them performed by the same couple, got the Silver, and were Americans...GO TEAM USA.)

before i forget to tell you about this...

i know this happened awhile ago but, i just remembered that i hadn't written about it. Kylee made this for her grandpa for Christmas. Do you think they would allow him to receive it?? NO! ABSOLUTELY NO JOY IN THE FPC! i guess what makes me so angry is i knew that he couldn't receive ANYTHING with STAPLES in it. so, i went and took out all the staples and replaced it with double stick tape. which now brings us to the question of, WHY WOULDN'T THEY LET A GRANDFATHER RECEIVE A CHRISTMAS GIFT MADE OF PLASTIC AND TIN FOIL?

the answer they gave me was because IT IS A HOBBYCRAFT ITEM! thank you FPC, my family and i can't wait until we no longer have to deal with you anymore. although, you have taught me other things that i am grateful for and not so grateful for.

it's MILLER time

a. you have to admit the guy is a cutie
b. holy balls can this guy ski!

c. where do i get that beanie? i really really need it!

on a side note, my kids were calling all the American skaters Apollo! and then Kylee asked what Canadians were (cause they lost to the Americans in Hockey BAM!) and Brenton said, "they are short people.". Who told my son that Canadians means SHORT PEOPLE! i didn't. don't worry, we corrected him, after laughing for awhile.

one last question...Molly, how do you feel about the Americans beating the Canadians? inquiring minds want to know.

all i have to say is

SWEET MOTHER OF AWESOMENESS!

i had Tessa chanting with me U S A (although i am not a fan of the U. S. OF A. JUDICIAL SYSTEM...)

click below to watch it over and over, it's OK...i did.

http://http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=d924411a-bea6-4fd8-b485-f58dc5238dfe.html?chrcontext=goldenmoments#mens+halfpipe+white+wins+gold

the longest shortest month of the year

it always starts creeping up on me in February. i tend to barely make it through January but, then February comes along and i just can't take it anymore. i hate this nasty cold weather. i hate having to bundle up my kids along with myself ANYTIME i have to go ANYWHERE out the door. i hate that it gets dark at 5:30. i start craving sunlight and warmth and the smell of grass. oh that sweet smell of grass that drafts through my open window around 5:30 when Walt is outside with Brenton mowing the lawn. February and March if you could please speed up and move along out of here, i would be ever so grateful. all of this yuckiness is starting to give me an itch to chop off my hair again. hmm. it is also around this time every year that i start making threats to my husband that i am getting in the car and driving down south (out of Utah into Cali) cause i can't live here anymore. i think it is now time to put up pictures of Florida to remind me i just have to make it until April, then we are outta here (for a week at least).

had me jumping up and down ON MY BED

hours and hours of obsession

i am sorry but, i have been to busy to come up with a witty post today because of what has been on my tivo as of lately.

watching this and the moguls made my knees scream out in the thought of pain.
watching this made me think i need to go and get my snowboard spruced up and ready to go down the mountain. well, when i really think about it, I REALLY NEED/WANT A NEW SNOWBOARD!

(i know hunny, i am going to use my pass as soon as i get that new snowboard)
i can't help thinking about this.
i think Apollo is cute...hehehehe.

and the dancer in me enjoys watching this! so until the Olympics are over i am not sure what i will be writing about. i mean it takes up all my time, in fact i am wasting time right now sitting at the computer when i have 4 hours on my tivo i need to get to watching!

L is for the way you

my handsome boy all ready for his Valentine's day school party, he loved his shirt!

my sweet girl all ready for her VDAY party. and yes,her lips look awful, she licks them all the time and they are very dry. they are actually looking better today, we just have to keep yelling at her to "STOP LICKING YOUR LIPS AND GO PUT ON SOME MORE AQUAPHOR (i love that stuff)"

and what my VALENTINE gave me. does he KNOW ME OR DOES HE KNOW ME!? it is right between my bed and computer desk and fits in just perfectly! it think it is my most favorite valentine gift EVER!

...and then they had ME!

technically speaking they were married on FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (you have to say that in a doomed voice cause it's funner that way). HEY ANNIE that's you!

i can't remember what year they were married but, i am 32 so add a couple years to that. do i look like my mom? i can still remember that coat my mommy is wearing.

or do i look like my dad? look at that skinny guy with the long brown wavy hair...my dad THE HIPPIE! now he takes pure joy in taking HIS GRAND KIDS TO THE ZOO.

or do i look like one of my own babies?? HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOMMY AND DADDY and thanks for babysitting your grand kids on your ANNIVERSARY. you know they love you the most (Tessa tells me so everday "we go to gwamma's, i lub gwamma!"

PS Walter proposed to me 10 years ago today too!! (there's a story for the books)

could have cared less.

i went and bought a ton of junk to decorate a valentines box for my son's party. i finally located a box that would work ( a box that Nordstrom sent me some shoes in...nice and big). so, i bring out the box along with some TRANSFORMER WRAPPING PAPER, STICKER HEARTS, AND SOME GLITTERY GLUE. i then show Brenton that he can decorate his valentines box. AND WHAT DOES HE SAY TO ME?? as a sidebar, he says this to me wile playing his precious Mario Brothers. i think it has become his "PRECIOUS" (totally said in the Gollum voice). i don't really need to decorate it. i then looked at him and said, "pause that bloody game and look at me. you are saying that you would rather take this brown box that has an address label from Nordstoms to Your Mother on top, and pass this off as your valentines box. REALLY?! after all the shopping i have done to come up with decorations for this box? REALLY?!"
needless to say, he made his valentines box AND begrudgingly wrote out his valentines to send out, and is now as i am typing "PLAYING HIS PRECIOUS".

what an EVIL MOTHER i am to force my son to do these activities that take time away from his PRECIOUS...

PS extra special bonus Saturday post tomorrow. who's excited?

why i don't watch the NEWS

within 5 minutes this is what i heard about...

1. there is a serial killer that strikes on February 9 in the Taylorsville area so there are extra police out tonight patrolling

2. another radioactive waste plant is trying to open up in Utah near Tooele

3. a car ran into a restaurant

...and how was your night tonight? COMPLETELY RUINED BY THE NEWS!

PS. watching 3 episodes of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER in a row, right before going to sleep, will only lead to kooky, eeky dreamland!

my three FAVORITE FNL characters

it finally happened

Brenton and Kylee came home with notes today about valentines day, their valentines day parties, and the rules of the valentines cards and when they need to be at the school. so, Kylee has to have all her valentine cards to school by Thursday and Brenton CAN'T bring his to school until Friday. Brenton also gets to make his own Valentine Container this year. this is where i am going to feel like a failure as a mother. my mom would always make our containers look perfect. and when i say perfect i mean PERFECT! our containers were the envy of everyone else in the school. so here is what i have planned for Brenton's Valentine Container...
1. a shoe box (there has to be one somewhere in this wreck of a house)
2. some cameo wrapping paper
3. GI Joe stickers
4. some MANLY colored glitter pens to write his name on the box
5. let him go wild

i sure hope it works out.

you think i am as a pretty as her??

so i am sure that everyone who is anyone has heard on facebook that it has been doppelganger time. you were or maybe still are supposed to change your picture to a celebrity that you have been told that you look like. i never actually did this, but it did get me thinking as to who i have been told that i look like...at different times in my life. here are my top three that i have been told.
for those of you as old as i am must remember the carolyn bessette obsession. especially when she was dating/marrying John Jr and then when they tragically died. i had really long really blond hair and got told alot at the Dr.'s office i worked at that i looked just like her.

then i was told by a ton of boys, while i was out on the town doing what 20 year old's do, that i looked just like Jewel. without the snaggletooth.
and last BUT NOT LEAST, good old Kate Hudson. i love my neighbor's for telling me i look like her cause i think she is so very pretty. actually i think all three are beautiful and i wouldn't know who to pick for my doppelganger?

only an eight year old's mind

this is from a paper that i pulled from Brenton's backpack the other day, so i assume he wrote this at school. i am now going to share with the internet a STORY WRITTEN BY BRENTON...

Brenton's Trip with his family to California
By: Brenton Ruf

Once upon a time me and my family and
Grandma and grandpa went to California for a week.

We had to take separate cars. But we had walkie talkies
To talk to each other when we were driving in the car.

When we got there we are going to have lots of fun
Together. We're also going swimming together.

We are also going to get a hotel room so we can sleep
Somewhere.

It took us a day to get there. We actually took the airplane
Because it took us a day.

So when we got there we started unpacking our stuff.
It was dinner time. We all went back to the hotel room to eat dinner.

Then we went to bed. The next morning we got ready to go to
Disneyland. When we got there I got tickets and then I found
My cousin.

Then we went on the bumper cars. When we played darts
I won a prize. It was cool.

Grammy 2010 fashion review...by ME

FIRST OFF...THE GRAMMY'S WERE A TOTAL SNORE! there was only one performance worth mentioning and that was...LADY GAGA AND ELTON JOHN. LOVED IT! in fact i loved it so much i got the live performance on my ipod now...Tessa and i have danced to it already. and now for my fashion HITS AND MISSES...

i thought the JOE BROS looked darling...especially that middle one. he sure has spruced up his look, and i like it.
it's PLASTIC FACE...again. she still isn't looking good. for those of you who think i don't like Nicole Kidman, i do. i love her movies, i just feel like the older she gets, the more plasticy she looks. and i don't like her outfit.

i thought Miley looked a smokin!

Rhianna i love you but that outfit...not so much.

Imogen Heap is like one of my favorite singers and she looks like a total WACKADOO.

Katy Perry...NO, just no...

i give you Lady Gaga in all her gaganess. my favorite quote to this day is still, "HEY LADY WE CAN ALMOST SEE YOUR GAGA"

Pink...love her...love the dress...love that she is a tough girl in a girlie dress.

Taylor Swift looked B E A utiful!

a new COLORFUL project

all i can say is...it never came out of my mouth

on Sunday i was bored so i played the wii with Brenton. OK, i wasn't bored. i like playing mario brothers. i sometimes do it ALL BY MYSELF! anyways, back to Sunday afternoon, Brenton and i were playing a game of mario brothers together. so we are playing along...do dodo do, then all of the sudden Brenton gets attacked by a bad guy and he yells..."BASTARD!" at the TV. (oh dear, i am still laughing about it. WHAT KIND OF A MOTHER AM I?). i am a mother who laughs at her son yelling BASTARD at mario brothers. on the other hand his father overheard him and was there to let him know that "we do not use that kind of language. Bastard is not an appropriate word to use." and then. THEN. he looks sternly at me, to which i reply, "HE HAS NEVER HEARD THAT WORD OUT OF MY MOUTH, I SWEAR, REALLY!" and i am being honest, i never ever use that word. i will take blame for other words but, that one i won't. so, we continue playing along and i kid you not, five minutes later Brenton yells at the TV..."BASTARD!". i then lose control and start laughing and saying to Brenton, "Buddy you have got to ease up on the Bastard yelling...you are going to give your father a heart attack." the only question i have left lingering in my mind is this...why is it that the first time he has ever yelled this word at the TV, was right after going to church? hmmmmm. for those of you who think i am blaming church for my childs potty mouth and are now offended, i am not. i just find it hysterically ironic is all. i blame myself for my childs potty mouth (except for Bastard).

confusing the anning's

so my husband i went to the movies this weekend to see When In Rome (because we NEVER EVER GO TO THE MOVIES) and he saw the poster for DEAR JOHN.while we were walking i told him that i got two free passes to that movie from buying some DVDs at Costco. here is how the convo went...
me: i got free passes to that Dear John movie

he then looks at the poster
me: i didn't even want to see it but with free passes, how do you pass that up?
him: i can't believe you are going to see that movie
me: why?
him: because Channing Tatum is in it.
me: what is wrong with Channing Tatum?
him: i thought you hated her
me: (loud laughter) Channing Tatum is the BOY IN THAT MOVIE
him: well then who am i thinking of?
me: Dakota Fanning...I HATE HER!
him: Fanning and Channing...it is very confusing