Mushroom anyone?

Ok sorry I didn't post this earlier, but I haven't really been feeling well in the energy department and have been extremely lazy lately.

Two nights ago I made an awesome meal which consisted of steak, beef flavored rice, and stuffed baked mushrooms. (For all you mushroom lovers I bought fresh mushrooms, removed the stalks, chopped the stalks up with a little bit of onion and garlic, sauted them stuffed the mushrooms with it, and then sauted the mushrooms and then breaded the mushrooms, baked them for 3o minutes and at about seven or six minutes I dumped a whole lot of cheese on them and returned them to the oven) Well as we all know, children aren't too fond of food that tastes good so they opted for a can of ravoli and since one can couldn't possibly feed all three of my children we decided that Ben would eat the real meal since he eats EVERYTHING. I know he doesn't like meat very much so I gave him just the rice and two mushrooms.

After dinner, Saria tells us that Ben has placed one of the mushrooms in the kitchen cabinet that holds the plastics and so since she was lucky enough to find it, she eats it of course. (hey she wanted it) so then later that night, Brad gets ready for work and starts to put his boots on, and he glances over and INSIDE the Tonka truck...is the other mushroom. I thought it was so hilarious...He just casually placed them in different places to "hide" them. (At first as you can imagine, we thought it was another turd) So ya, Ben is quite a youngster.

Saria's Spring Concert!!

Yesterday evening we had the privledge of going to Saria's school and seeing her participate in the Spring Concert called George Washington and the General's Dog. She did a wonderful job singing and she even did a LOT of sign language!!! It was a neat experience! Good luck finding which one is her.. Her face is hidden mostly in a lot of them... sorry haha

Ugh, I hate being sick

So yea, for the past three or four days I've had a horrible head cold! My nose, throat, and cough don't even bother me much (though they are annoying), it's the darn feeling I have in my ears!! I feel like my ears have been chewing on gum and they blew a bubble and it won't pop. I feel like they're going to allow me to "fly" at any moment! I think I have an ear infection, more then likely do, as I have been a little more dizzy then usual ;)
I know this is totally off topic but I found the neatest thing yesterday. An owl pellet!! I hope the owl sticks around until our mole problem is taken care of. I wanted to get rid of them humanely after all. I consider this method necessary for the life cycle, and it's really not like it's MY pellet so I'm OK with an owl eating them. I DID take two sticks and open up the pellet and I showed Saria who was just in awe too. I hope i didn't damage her for life, but I really think she enjoyed it.
Back on topic, I sound like a frog today, and I have to scream to get Brad to understand me, ISN'T THAT JUST THE WORST THING EVER!?!? My throat is already in peril, I have no energy whatsoever to even say it once, and I gotta yell and repeat myself over and over and over. ANNNNNDDDD the bad thing about THAT is half the time he thinks I'm mad because I'm yelling at him. HAHA.
I can do some memory lane randomness too Hila so watch out!!! One night while Brad and I were dating (I was pregnant with Saria) we were in bed (now this is when I have really really bad morning sickness which lasts all day so I'm thank for for a few hours of sleep) Well I wake up because (once again) Brad has either stolen my blanket or shoved it to the bottom of the bed where it does me no good, so I very groggily say "give that thing to me" as I point to the afghan and Brad looks up at me and says "What the persian?" I thought that was the most hilarious thing ever...because a few days ago (this was the time they had the pokemon 3d cards in the Kraft singles cheese packages)we got a "persian" character out of the cheese we opened. Another funny thing about this story is that MOM always called an afghan an African so I think the awesomeness runs in the family!!
Have a good day, I'm sick and have frosted flakes in front of me that are calling my name. :) Love frosted flakes!!

Benna Booter leaves me a present

OK so yesterday I was playing on the computer, and Ben goes upstairs and starts "playing"
Samuel goes upstairs a little while later and tells me that the cat threw up a hairball. So i went upstairs, (napkin in hand) and I get up there and Bens' obviously got a stinky diaper on, so I go over to him..and hes' naked...I found the"hairball" on top of the toybox....ya...it was a turd. I checked the whole room for more presents and I couldn't find any, but I did find a few zigzag trails of pee. I think the kid is trying to tell me he wants to use a big potty...Fun stuff..

We Had The Most Perfectly Wonderful Day!!

Well since yesterday was a LONG one, I waited a whole night to post about it, sorry I made you wait Hila but since you were HERE I don't really consider it "waiting."

Our day started off at about, oh lets say...6:00A.M. (At least for me) I had butterflies in my tummy and couldn't go back to sleep...so I sat there until about seven thirty when I actually got out of the bed. (Its so warm under those mink blankets from Korea.) Anyway I think the kids were super excited because they were totally talkative and would not let Brad and I converse at all!!! They enjoyed getting their new clothes on (well Saria and Samuel got new outfits) I had braided Saria's hair the night before and so her hair was a little crimped (I personally think she looked a little too much like Hermione so I put it up in a pony tail in hopes that by the time we got to the temple that it would be a little less poofy.) So we all get our church type clothes on and call Mom to tell her we're going to meet her somewhere to make it easier to get on the ferry together so that we could follow her once we were in Seattle (because we've never been to the temple and have no clue where it is.)

Surprise #1 happens here!!! We get to the bank parking lot and are waiting for Mom to get there so I start applying my lipgloss and Brad's like "Here they are," so I look up and start waving because everyone in the car is waving at me, and I see it's full of people so I just assume it's the people that are coming with us from Mom's ward and I just wave at them, and look back down into my container of lipgloss to apply some to my upper lip when it hit me, that gosh that girl in the backseat looked a lot like Hila, so I look up again and I can only imagine what my face looked like (it musta been epic because everyone in the car was in stitches) when I realized that it WAS Hila!! She hopped out of the car and Brad was kind enough to roll down my window (why I didn't open the door I dunno) and we hugged and I cried into her pretty shirt haha and I thanked her for tricking me and for coming and it just made the day soooo much more special to have her there!

So we start standing in line for the ferry and the kids are totally engrossed in this set of fountains off to our right, and everytime one of them blew (like a whale,kinda I guess) they'd shout "OoOOoOO" or something to that affect, so the 10 or so minutes we waited in line was full of "OoO's" and other excited kidisms and it really helped the time go by a little faster (Brad and I both loved watching them too, we were making kid noises with them I will admit.) SOOO we finally get on board the ferry and the kids absolutely loved that experience, I think Ben had his head out the window the whole trip! They attempted to eat their lunch at this time (Bologna and cheese sandwiches and Capri Sun with fruit snacks and graham crackers) but really they ate the fruit snacks and graham crackers and left their sandwiches for later.

So we get to the temple and get our things that we need from the distribution center and head into the temple, and (I know I'm skipping here, but I am not sure what I CAN say and what I'm not supposed to so I hope I'm being safe heh) my intial reaction to entering the doors to the temple and seeing all the people in white and just sooo happy, it really really made me KNOW that what we were doing was the right thing to do. I really, really wish that everyone could have been there to see and share the day with us! Surprise #2 The kids coming into the room to be sealed with us....dressed in white, sooo beautiful and handsome...It was just absolutely wonderful. I have never felt so at peace and happy as I did when we were sealed together. Anyone that knows my kids knows that they are hyper and very talkative and active and LOUD, but for those few moments, they were absolutely perfect. They were reverent, and quiet, and obedient and it was wonderful!

Surprise #3 The kids were very busy in the youth center having their handprints drawn on paper that says "My hands are this big and today I was sealed to my parents for time and all eternity" and they also colored, and played with the assortment of toys they had there. When I opened up their folders and saw their handprints, the waterworks were once again activated (of course I'm a mom right) And I decided I'm going to frame all three of their handprint papers along with a family shot and a picture of the temple and our certificate (lots of frames needed here) and arrange it on the wall in the house. I am just so proud that after all this time, all these years of waiting and trying to become worthy, we finally did it!! I am so proud of my "little" family and I couldn't be more blessed then to be sealed to the most wonderful man I've ever met!

Ok so later that night we all went out to eat at Shari's. Christina and Desiree met us there. We had a blast! I love getting together with Brad and his family, the memories always are refreshed and we all have about a million chuckles over them. It's soo fun ;)

They all wanted pie right away of course! (The oreo one was especially liked by Saria)

Yesterday's outdoor excursion

Ben playing in the dirt from the mole hill. :)

Saria swinging

What a cutie!!

So dirty!!

Got up there all by herself!

Stick was bigger then him...

Yes, the sun peeked out at us yesterday, and really was totally awesome so I took the kids outside and they played in the mole hills (haha)and on the swing, and with sticks and rocks and other outdoorsy kinda things. They totally had a ton of fun and I hope that we get to do it again soon!!

Birthday Party

We had a little party for Desiree/Ben today.

We woke up and finished cleaning the house a bit and then went to Toys R Us and bought the bday presents for the kids and then went to Walmart for lunch at the McDonalds and then Safeway to get the cake (we surprisingly saw BIG Ben at both these places) and then went home and wrapped the presents. Christina, Nick and Desiree came over about three thirty and Mom came over just a few minutes before that, and we let the kids play for a little bit and then sang happy birthday and let them open their presents and then ate cake and icecream...gonna put some pictures up I hope;)

needless to say, they had a blast!