Monday, February 23, 2009

Weekend Lessons

Lesson number 1 - Cleaning House
a. No matter how many times you vacuum the floors will never be clean.
b. It does not do any good to wash the inside of the window unless you are planning on washing them on the outside as well.
c. When people are coming over it is ok to grab a box and put everything that you find on the table, counters, and floor into the box. You then must hide the box where no one will find it but hopefully you will remember where you put the box when you are looking for the things that you put in the box.

Lesson number 2 - Parties
On Saturday Olivia and I hosted a baby shower for our friend Kim who is having a baby boy in April. This was my first time hosting a party for someone.
My favorite thing about the picture is the look on Kim's face as she tries to figure out the toy!
a. When hosting a party you will make enough food to feed twice the number of guest. You will then be eating leftover quiche for days.

b. When your five year old puts the blue sprinkles on the top of the cupcakes expect to find blue sprinkles everywhere and expect to find them for days.

Lesson number 3 - The Children's Museum at Factoria
a. This is a very noisy place.

B. The kids will love it.


c. It will even make the 5 year olds tired!!!

Lesson number 4 - Parenting

a. I would not make a good single parent

b. It is ok to put yourself in timeout.

HURRY HOME ROBERT!!

Robert left Friday morning for a trip to Colorado. I am counting down the days, hours and minutes until he returns from his fun trip. I think that it should be my turn next for a fun trip!!

Monday, February 9, 2009

Happy Half Birthday Olivia

Today was Olivia's half birthday celebration at school. If you have a summer birthday then you get to celebrate your half birthday at school.

When it is your birthday you get to bring treats for the whole class. Before treats your classmates give you birthday wishes. Here are a few of my favorite wishes that the kids had for Olivia today.

* I wish you lots of friends.
* I wish that you become a princess.
* I wish that you are happy.
* I wish that you become a queen.
* I wish that you have 10 kids and lots of orphans.
* I wish that you are rich.
* I wish that you are a good mom.
* I wish that you get a water bed.
* I wish that you get a water bed with a slide.
The only disappointment for the day was that you do not get presents for your half birthday!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Top Phlight

On Saturday we spent the day and Steven's Pass skiing.

While we were there all 3 of us went through some very intense training to become Top Phlight certified. Once you become certified you are free to ride the terrain park anytime you want (OK well we really only had to watch a 5 minute movie and then sign the waver form but it was a very intense movie!).

Olivia loves skiing over the jumps. She did surprise herself when she caught air over one the jumps. If only she had landed - it could have been so cool. The only problem that I have with the terrain park besides the jumps is the lift that you have to ride. It is so slow and I get so cold on the ride up.


I have given up trying to keep up with Olivia. She has already passed my abilities in skiing.