November Quotes

We got kind of busy this month, and I didn't keep track of their cute quotes very well.  But here are a few, mostly from Hayden . . . 

Hayden:  When I fell down, it broke all my love feelings, so now I don't love anyone anymore.

Daphne:  (day after the election)  I can't believe our country wants him to be in charge again!  

(amen, girl.)

When taking out our garden at the end of this season, Hayden and I found a couple of giant, gross tomato worms.  They were so big, the thought of stepping on them really grossed me out.  So Hayden said, "Want me to frying pan them?"

Hayden:  So Mom, whose tummy were you in?

Me:  Nona's.  She's my mom--did you know that?

Hayden:  hmm.  So how was it in Nona's tummy?

Dallin & Daphne participated in a little weekend show choir camp with the El Dorado High School Show Choir this month.  As part of the performance, a few of the girls from the Show Choir did a number from the recent musical they'd put on.  They were wearing cute little red flapper dresses, and Hayden watched with rapt attention as they performed.  When they finished, he burst into enthusiastic applause. I knew they made a big impression on him when the next morning, he said, "Remember those girls last night Mom?  They did a really good job!"

Daphne saw an Christmas Tree ad that said something like "Shop your tree!"  

She said, "We don't shop--We CHOP!"

One Sunday in primary a little boy raised his hand to announce that his mom just had a baby boy.  Hayden raised his hand and said, "Well my mom is growing a baby RIGHT NOW!"

Hayden's birthday is on November 30th.  The very LAST day of the 11th month of the year.  Everyone else in the family has birthdays before him, and he feels very unjustly served.  One day he said to me, "Mom!  Why did God make me born in NOVEMBER?!?"  And about a week before his birthday, he called me from the cell phone and left this message on our home phone:  

"Hello, this is Hayden Gariety.  I'm just wondering, WHEN is my birthday?  

I'm tired of waiting."

Christmas Trees

Friday, November 23
Annual Tree Hunt
Jemez Mountains, NM

Instead of getting pepper-sprayed at Walmart on Black Friday, we sleep in and then drive up to the mountains to get our Christmas Tree.  This year we had Melanie, Jade, Emma and Mike and Amber come out for Thanksgiving, so we had a fun group here for our Black Friday Tree Hunting tradition.

Here are pictures from our excursion this year.  We missed Julianne who stayed home with her brand-new baby, but Eric made up for it by bringing her back the most ginormous tree.  You could only see a pair of legs as he walked down the mountain with his Rockerfeller-worthy specimen.

Enjoying some lunch

Sydney hitching a ride on Aunt Emma, while we searched for our tree

Mel & Jade

Emma found a perfect little tree for her apartment

And Mike and Amber brought one home too.  

And here's ours.

Hurray for Christmas Trees!

This picture doesn't do Eric's tree justice.  You'll have to look on Julianne's blog to see how big it is. 

(hint, hint, Julianne, you might want to post a picture of your lovely tree on your blog.)

And no tree hunting excursion would be complete without bringing out the shotguns.  Eric even brought his bow.  I stayed in the car with Sydney and Caleb who would gasp each time they heard a shot and "hide" in the car and say, "ooh, scary!"  

Emma is quite the shot. She should be a super spy or something.

And Dallin getting some practice on his BB gun.

background issue solved

Okay, I ended up just starting from scratch and getting rid of my old template.  Now I don't have any background, but I like it better than that annoying background I had before.  so whatever.  I don't have time to mess with it anymore.

HELP! issues with blogger template/layout

Okay, this has been bugging me for awhile.  It's the background for my blog.  I have tried changing it, disabling it, but it even though it let's me "change" it and apply to my blog and save all my changes, when I open my blog, the background is still that stupid road background.  I never even chose that background, so I don't know how it defaulted to that anyway.  If anyone knows how I can get rid of it, PLEASE tell me!

By the way, I can't believe it's December 1st.

Family Pictures 2012

It always feels so good to get these done!  Since we missed last year, it feels like it's been a long time, although Arthur would beg to differ.  But Sydney was just a few months old in our last family pictures! So it was definitely time.  My friend Erin took these for us, and we love her and her photography skills!

So clearly, I had trouble eliminating Sydney pictures.  She's just at such a fun age to take pictures of . . .

 

 Hooray for being done with another year's family pictures!

Long Day

So, I try to keep my blog positive for the most part, because that's what I want to remember.  But for the sake of keeping things real, and so I remember that some days are just long, here's how my day went.

It started with me accidentally oversleeping, throwing up before breakfast and taking my kids to school because they missed the bus.  As Sean got out of the car he realized he'd left his backpack at home.  And I glanced in my rear view mirror to see that Hayden also forgot to get a jacket to wear to preschool.  I guess it was a tender mercy that I noticed that so I only had to make one extra trip back home to retrieve forgotten items.

The middle of my day was fine--after getting Hayden to preschool and Sean his backpack, I got to meet Julianne's new little baby girl Kylee, so that was delightful.  And later, I even put my feet up to read for awhile  (even though I should have been picking up my house because it looks like someone gave it a good shake and it's hard to see the floor in some spots.)

The end of my day was a little nuts-- I got to take all the kids by myself to Hayden's preschool for their annual "Sharing Feast."   I was assigned to help set up, but since Arthur is out of town, I got out of it because I'd be bringing all my kids with me and would be the opposite of helpful.  It was good that I didn't have to do that because I had double booked and signed up to feed the missionaries, so I ended up bringing them a pizza on my way over to the preschool, and was running late, so I'd have missed the set up anyway.

The Sharing Feast went fairly well, (in terms of the behavior of my children) and was only mildly embarrassing when Sydney threw a couple of tantrums where she was crying on the floor and I couldn't figure out what she was even upset about.  And I just had to leave her on the floor as we were moving through the buffet line because  I had a plate full of food for her.  Surprisingly, I was so focused, (or maybe just too tired to be observant) that I didn't even notice the looks I was surely getting --the "oh my word, that lady has five kids and is expecting another, and wow she has her hands full" looks.

As soon as we had finished at the preschool, we headed over to the church because I'd been asked to help in the nursery for the Relief Society Meeting that evening.  Yes, I  should have just said I'd love to help another time, but this time won't work for me, but instead, I said, "Well, my husband will be out of town so I'll have to bring all my kids . . . And I'll be coming from another obligation so I'll also be late . . . " To which this sweet-but-oblivious sister responded, "Oh, no problem--I can cover for you until you get there."

So I brought all my kids down to the church, only to find out that nobody had brought any children to tend, so I didn't need to come down after all.  At least we all got some delicious dessert out of the deal, before I loaded everyone back into the car to head home.  

But my day wasn't over yet--I still got to clean up a potty training accident, send Sydney upstairs to get pajamas and a diaper, realize that I needed to return a redbox movie (that was three days late, and not even worth the $1.20 from the FIRST day we rented it) so I rushed out to return it before 9 o'clock, and when I got home, Sydney who had never gotten a diaper on, had pooped on the floor in her bedroom.  

 So to sum up, I started the day puking and finished it by scraping poop off the floor.

Lovely.

Some days are just long.