Friday, March 20, 2009

you say it's your birthday!!

Happy Birthday Kyle!! Today is my FAVORITE brothers birthday. ok, he is my ONLY brother but, still my absolute FAVORITE. and i just have to say...IT IS SO VERY VERY NOT FAIR THAT YOU GET TO SPEND IT IN DISNEYLAND WITHOUT US THERE TOO!! he is in Cali with his girlfriend and two other friends having a grand ol time livin the Cali life. Kylee saw the promotion at DISNEYLAND where you can go on your BIRTHDAY and get in for free and get on all the rides quicker. her birthday is on April 6 and she keeps reminding me of the DISNEYLAND deal...oh, if only...
and now i present to you some pictures from Cali that my bro has been sending to everyone this week.



tickets to see Jay Leno

ky with his cute, sweet, lovely girlfriend Laura


eating breakfast on St Patricks Day


Happy Happy


Birthday Kyle
THE RUF'S LOVE YOU!!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

from awhile ago...

here are some photos i forgot to post a long time ago. they are from Tessa's class at The Little Gym. She loved these classes, especially being able to run around and do whatever you want. After all, she is our supa dupa active child...always on the go!!
Ball Time-she loves to kick the ball
Her Favorite-the balance beamnow let me go dad, i can do this by myself!!
playing with the bubbles

practicing hanging on the bars...or making silly faces, whatever!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

i'm so gettin' IRISH

a little "GREEN" from my day...

the obligatory GREEN in my clothing for the day
i know this isn't "GREEN" but, it is an IRISH dinner. my mother used to make us corned beef and cabbage every ST PATRICKS DAY. i am turning into my mother!!
my favorite GREEN sweater
someone wearing GREEN
my favorite "GREEN" cleaner
too cute for words my childrens GREEN surprise from a leprechaun
my GREEN eyes next to Molly's BLUE. my husband believes i have blue eyes and to all of you who agree with him, you can "KISS ME ARSE". they are GREEN i tell you, they are they are they are!!
for those of you who wanted to see my cute kiddos in their green today, they will be in my wordless post tomorrow

Monday, March 16, 2009

my DREADED chores for Monday

i really dislike these days. i wake up and can recall all of the things i have to do today that i DO NOT want to do. i already know what is waiting for me and i do not want to face it. i am a coward and would like to just go back to sleep and forget about my chores for this dreaded monday. granted, there are only two things that i am dreading. but, these two things suck the happy right out of me.

First, i have to clean the bathroom
from this...
to this...
Tessa makes this so very extremely hard for me. It is a race to see how fast i can get through all the cleaning and scrubbing before she gets into EVERYTHING (i have to put stuff on the floor while i clean the counters, and if i set down my cleaning supplies for a second she is off with them and the toothbrushes too). I DO NOT LIKE CLEANING THE BATHROOM FOR THOSE REASONS!

and my number two, i have my OB appt today. i just don't feel like putting forth the effort of going and then of having to tell him what meds i need and why. it's clear downtown and i wish i could just do this over the phone...but that is impossible, because...ya know.
HERE IS TO HOPING I HAVE EASIER CHORES TOMORROW...



Friday, March 13, 2009

vitamin D is GOOD for ME

Here is my celebration of the sun that has graced us with her gorgeous presence today.Colorful, springy flowers are starting to pop up in our "garden".
Let's just hope our friendly "giant" doesn't decide to squish them back where they came from.

Let's see what damage/help we can do with this...


Oh the joy of being able to play on the grass and not the frozen snow.

A wild dog in complete happiness of sunlight and grass. Check it out, i am even wearing me some flip flops today, hooray!!
So, we decided to take a walk and...

pick up these two stray hoodlums from school. They are pretty cute so i am thinking of keeping them for myself.
HAPPY WEEKEND!!


Thursday, March 12, 2009

when we're HELPING we're HAPPY

Tessa takes it upon herself to make sure she helps me out everyday. She takes these JOBS very seriously and will always make sure they are DONE...ATLEAST THREE TIMES A DAY! Here are her daily chores as follows...

open the baking supply cupboard and empty it out. make sure you leave it open and everything hanging out. maybe even throw the chocolate chips in the garbage for good measure.

drag the can of cookie mix and shortening around the house and remind mom that she should be making cookies. maybe just maybe open up the shortening and stick your hand in there and give it a little taste...hmm let's put some in our hair and see what that does too.

leave the can of shortening and cookie mix right in the middle of where everyone walks so they can get some extra exercise by having to step over it.go find out if someone left the door to the bathroom open. climb up onto the counter and throw as much stuff around as you can before someone catches you and locks you out and away from your BEAUTIFUL mess.

finally go pull down the dvd blockade and rip out as many dvd's as you can. phew, you did it all...and three other times at that.
ALL A DAY'S WORK FOR TESSA THE PESTA

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

does that make me crazy

i have HAD IT with my dr's office. they can't get anything right and then they decide that they are not in the office today so they can't fix the problem. i get rx's for my menstrual cramps and i am due for a check up on monday but, i am starting this week so i asked for enough meds to get me through this week. i didn't even ask for both of the meds...just ONE!!! yesterday the nurse called me and said she called in my rx. i go pick it up, they charge me 10 dollars ( i figured i had like 8-10 pills in there). i get home, open it and find...2 pills. 2 BLOODY PILLS!!! WHAT THE FLIP AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH 2 PILLS??!! AND I LOST 10 DOLLARS OVER THIS!!! 2 pills will get me through 6 hours of the 3 days of extreme pain. so this morning i call and the receptionist informs me that my DR is not in today and there is nothing she can do for me. i soooo want to scream and yell and scream some more at her (after all i am PMSing real bad right now...REAL BAD). this is not a complicated case, i have been getting these meds for YEARS!! oh and i am also mad at the pharmacist who didn't say to me "are you aware that you are only getting 2 pills and you have to pay 10 dollars for them even though you normally get 30 pills for 20 dollars?". how hard is it for the pharmicist to tell me THIS?! needless to say i have a LOT of issues today and i feel like ripping out my hair.

what kind of a dinky nurse (who should see my chart and know how many pills i normally get) would call in a rx for 2 BLINKIN PILLS?

i think i just need for this week to be done and over already.
i am done ranting and raving...goodbye and wish me luck...the dr's office is supposed to call me tomorrow, if they can figure out how to work the phone (uuuugh i am SO SARCASTICALLY ANGRY)

Monday, March 9, 2009

monday...deja vu!!!


i was going to do a post today about how happy i am that the time has changed. more sunlight later in the day, which means i am happier. but...i am not going to talk about it. why???? because there is no sunlight to celebrate today. it is cold. it is gray and cloudy. there are a few random snowflakes falling. i am not happy. maybe tomorrow i can talk about the sunshine...then again, maybe not (this is UTAH, spring doesn't really exist...yep, the first day of spring is supposed to be on March 20).

Friday, March 6, 2009

smile, because...

here is video of my cute baby girl dancing to coldplay. she takes a couple of rests to eat her cracker and at one point wants to go on her hands to lift her leg in the air (she loves to do that) but then realizes she has to let go of the cracker if she wants to do it. this is cute and sure to put a smile on your face for a cold yucky blahhhhh day in Utah. (uploading this stinking video onto blogger took me WAY TOO LONG to figure out...total frustration).



and congrats to Molly. she won the dvd guessing contest. i counted about 500 dvd's. i know, i would have thought i had more than that too. so mo let me know what wonderful deliciousness from the ruf kitchen you would enjoy most. have a happy dancing weekend.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

breakfast for dinner

i got the idea for this dinner here. i have actually cooked up a bunch of her ideas for my family. we had the cranberry pull aparts for sunday breakfast...so yummy. i have always LOVED breakfast for dinner and it is just sooo easy to whip up. here is what happened on this night of pancakes and how my family felt about this idea...
the pancake on the left is the size of pancakes i was pouring. the pancake on the right is the size my husband wanted. the pancake in the middle is what happens when your anxious husband tries to shake some of the mix out of the blender and the lid pops off. amazingly enough he was able to flip it without breaking it (now that takes talent).this one would scream at you if you weren't constantly putting pancake into her open mouth.
brenton declared this to be his favorite dinner...ever. hmmm, i wonder if that has anything to do with the raspberry sauce and whip cream atop the pancakes.
kylee is showing me how much she loved the dinner (and she is just a goof ball in front of the camera). that coke in the picture is not hers...it's mine (don't worry we don't feed our children coke at dinner, we have told them when they are adults they can drink as much as they want...since walt and i are such wonderful examples in that area...hahahahaha).

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

lesson learned

do NOT leave opened bag of chocolate chips where a one year old chocoholic can find it. especially while you are downstairs running on the treadmill and have no idea what is happening upstairs...while your almost 6 year old daughter justs sits there and laughs at the baby instead of telling you what is happening. REPEAT...DO NOT LEAVE CHOCOLATE OUT!!!

ps. i will be counting my dvds by the end of this week, sooooo if you haven't entered the contest yet i suggest you do so before it is toooooo late!!



Monday, March 2, 2009

monday...dark and dreary

i have a hard time dealing with life on mondays...then, you have to add dark clouds to it. I AM TOAST. i don't know why i have to have these feelings when there is no sunlight? i think i have bad chemicals in my brain (name that movie molly). but really i kinda feel that way a little. today i woke up and looked out my front door and saw this...
when i see this, for some reason i just sense doom and gloom. there is no rhyme or reason to it...i just feel it. this then leads to anxiety issues...i start to think about what bad things are going to happen today because it looks so very sad outside (this is why i need to see my dr about getting my anxiety meds refilled). so all day today i have felt this way and i just can't think or rationalize my way out of it. i NEED THE SUNLIGHT.

last night over at my parents house i was up in the kitchen with my sister molly. someone changed to the channel of the tv downstairs and all molly had to hear was a millisecond of the movie and she yells "who's watching LORD OF THE RINGS?". i looked at her and said "how do you know that?". she then said "if i got that right...then that is really sad". i looked at the tv and sure enough she was right...which can only mean, molly is really sad (you should do a post about your obsession mo).
this got me thinking about light and dark. the evil is always surrounded by the dark ominous clouds and when the good comes to fight there is always light with it. I LOVE THE LIGHT AND THE FEELING IT GIVES YOU. i love that light can ALWAYS overcome the darkness. i love these movies and how happy they make you when the good overcomes the evil.
on another note my kylee and brenton kept trying to watch this on the tv. i think it is still a little too scary for them. they keep trying to convince me otherwise...just like THE DARK KNIGHT battle i have with brenton.

wishing on the moon