You know you are a nerd when...

You like to write your own song to let your 7 days of spring family know who you are and then you put it at the end of a mix cd you will give them on the last day of the activity. Well go listen to it. Go listen to me make a fool of myself. I know that it sounds like techno but I actually had something a little more country in mind when I started. Somehow the Garage Band synthetic tracks lured me into a slow rapping style, and although the lyrics sound so 'natural' I wrote them all out! Seriously, I thought this one through...can you even believe how cool I am and how great my song is? Our family is so much cooler than yours because we have this blog where we talk about almost nothing, and now we have a song with little or no meaning but really cool rhythm and sweet guitar solos. You might as well listen to it again... for the love of mike go listen to it again and tell me how cool this song is. I really need a boost right now. Actually an honest opinion is always the best even if I don't want to hear it. If you don't like it, I don’t mind, but I hope your foot steps in gum and then in rocks, and it makes you walk funny, cause then you would have some great lyrics for your own song.

Not all bombs are bad!

This week is spring friendship week at our church, and though it sounds very cheesy it is actually a lot of fun.  Each family that wanted to participate is given a family whom they give small thoughtful gifts to a few times during the week, much like the 12 days of Christmas.  The gifts are small but fun.  It is very exciting to give the gifts because you have to be sneaky and figure out ways to hide your identity.  On the last day of the week you let them know who you are.  Our kids have absolutely loved it.

One family in our church went out of their way to make a fun activity for their secret family.  They decided to send them on a scavenger hunt.  They really had the best intentions but it seems that one of the packages was mistaken for a bomb and the Arlington Police had to remove it yesterday!  I am still laughing about it. Perhaps someone will mention it in church this week!  hahaha

I blog now, I am a blogger!

This is my first, ever, blog post. I'm not even sure where someone would go to read this if they wanted.
I'm alone tonight. Tadd had to stay late on campus for a floodsafe meeting. I just got the kids in bed, and tidied sp? up the house. It's strange to be alone, I almost never am. It's nice though. I'm trying to think about what happened to day that I could write about, something exciting that is. The thing is nothing exciting did happen. It was just a regular day. We got up, got dressed and took Zoë to school. The little boys and I came home (Tadd was already gone to school). I cleaned, did laundry, worked a little on relief society stuff. Sammy played, ate and slept. Gus played, colored, watched Popeye, cried (a lot), ate (a little). After school Zoë played in the back yard with Serena & Gus, praticed piano, did homework and did some coloring. So, like I said it was just a regular day, but it was nice. I spent it with my babies doing the things I need to do to take care of them. I'm happy, and blessed and lucky. Tadd will be home soon, he will be so excited that I blogged. He is always encouraging me to be more computery. I blog now, I'm a blogger. I wonder what I'll try next?

Two nights on the town

A couple of weeks ago Julie and I went out for a night on the town. We left the kids in good hands and went to see Les Miserables. I have never been before but I loved it. I loved it because there were people on stage singing about how great and crappy life can be at the top of their lungs. It was fun to be out with Julie and in a fancy building like the opera house. There were chandaliers and tapestries. The ceilings were painted with scenes from what looked like the renaiscence, but of course weren't because the building wasn't that old. It was funny to see the orchestra in front of the stage. We even had to wait ten monutes to use one of the only two bathrooms in the building! Julie was very kind not to mention that she had much better seats when she went with her girlfriends many years ago. She did mention it but not until after the intermission. I feel bad that our seats weren't as good, but we had a great time anyway. I liked it so much that we wanted to see another musical so we went and bought tickets to "The Incredibles Disney on Ice". haha. Actually we did buy tickets to Disney on Ice but it wasn't because of Les Miserables. However, I do hope we go to another play or musical soon. Spamalot is playing now and Wicked begins in a month! This is a photo of the theatre just say I was there.

Disney on ice was at best entertaining. I hate to say it but it was pretty much awful. I did like that we each got to wear an incredibles band, but that was the climax. The skating was fine and the special effects were actually decent. The problem was the storyline. Basically, the incredibles go to Disneyland to have an "American Vacation", but they of course bump into a clone of Syndrome their enemy from the actual movie, mayhem insues, the find Edna to make them new Incredible suits, and they fight with the Syndrome Clone. The storyline is almost identical to the movie despite the small difference in going to Disneyland. This makes it hard to watch, predictable, and boring. Honestly, the kids were bored some of the time. Boy am I glad we paid half price. The other problem emphasises the motivation of Disney. From the moment it begins they won't stop pushing their paraphanelia at your face. Everywhere you look and turn there is some person wearing a disney uniform holding 25 million trinkets, popcorn, cotton candy, or drinks of somesort. It was worse than the circus and I really don't like the circus...or clowns. Anyway, the kids were great despite the constant bickering of the salesmen. They really wanted to get something but they did as well as can be expected and I give them a very comendable effort to resist the "can I have, I really want" phrases. We made a rule before we went in that we wouldn't buy anything, and we didn't. Good thing too. The cotton candy was $8! That is outrageous. Like I said Disneys motivation was obvious. Maybe they should focus on content and innovation on ice rather than selling so many trinkets and maybe they would have more success...then again maybe not, people are suckers, including us, we went didn't we. So now that I feel guilty being a part of such nonsense here is a photograph.

Gus says "I am learning a lot of new things from TV"

This evening Gus said that he was learning a lot of new things from TV.  He was refering to a baby cabbage patch doll for boys that he would like to buy and a product that you can spray on your pennies and it will make them look like new!  

Although I worry about how much TV he watches, I am convinced he is learning something from all that wasted time.  I mean at least he knows what gets persistent penny stains off and where the best dolls are!  

Tonight we took the kids to Costco because they have a new product, Churros.  Yes Churros!  I am happy to say that costco in Boston now has a treat worth buying.  Of course, they have always had pizza and hot dogs for less money than most places but now they have hot sugary churros too!  I also went to Home Depot and got a few things for class tomorrow.  It turns out that Home Depot has all of the things I need to make a watertight seal for an underwater motor!  

I just found out about Churros con chocolate where people dip churros in a thick sort of hot chocolate...guess what is for dessert tomorrow.