Oldies but goodies, short and sweet

Sorry, slow blogging week. Been busy taking care of our new frog and dealing with the death of our old one.

These are some videos with my youngest. She is 7 now, this is when she was 1 1/2.

Tell me they're not cute... I dare ya!

She loved this song, but we'd sing it "I love apple juice, so put another straw in the juice box baby." I loved the way she said bab-a."



My smart little cookie, singing her ABC's her way.



Twinkle Twinkle Little Star- she knew the words pretty good, but last minute changed them to like a diamond in the hand just to be silly. Hee hee hee.



We lived in San Diego at the time, and we made a little message for my dad and step mom.



Silly Curler Girls... I'm in this one too!   :)P

Good morning from Las Vegas... elevator story

Attention Please: Guest Post By One Cluttered Brain

This is my 1st guest poster. Take it away OCB-



It is FRIDAY! YAY! And do you know what that means? I better start writing for Mormon Surrogate. *cough,cough* She asked me to guest post like 2 weeks ago is it now? *sigh* I hope this post makes up for my procrastination and crazy busy LIFE I've been leading lately! :)




I'm sitting here eating a ice-cream sandwich pop-tart and browsing Facebook and Twitter when I learned a very important fact. I need to start WRITING. I kinda had a deadline to guest post on this FABULOUS blog that you are reading right now. And when am I getting it done? Just now, as we speak. I have a few tips for you on blogging and twittering, and what NOT to do, what to do...and so forth.



Are you following me thus far?



Good. We can begin. *AHEM*



* Blogging. Blog only when you feel like it. Because if blogging becomes a chore that you are not gonna want to do it very often. (So what does that say about me and my blogging habits? I just posted 24 blog posts in 24 hours for #Blogapalooza event Aug 17th and Aug 18th.) I got part of my blog turn into a book. Cool? I think it is.





* Twitter. Mention your blog posts when you update. Mention the cool peeps that you follow. Strike up conversation with the ultra COOL peeps on Twitter. Tweet out your cool giveaways that you are hosting on your blog. Log on at least once or twice a day on Twitter to see what is going on. NEVER, EVER just update Twitter with what you just ate all the time. That gets old real fast.



That sums up about what I do know. LOL.

But wait, Cluttered Brain you might say, That's it. This is all you are gonna post on this fabulous blog?



You WANT more?

I just can't please everybody now can I?

Perhaps I should share a video I just made?

I mean, videos are THE BEST WAY in my opinion, to get people's attention. And I happen to think I make some awesome videos.

So here is goes. :)

Enjoy!





Once you get really good with blogging you might want to try vlogging! It is wonderful and FUN and allows you to make so many wonderful connections!

This is all i have for you. :)

If you want to read MORE about me, head on over One Cluttered Brain. (http://oneclutteredbrain.blogspot.com)

Twas the night before hubby's birthday: a funny story

I turned on the sprinklers. I worked on my book and I played on the internet. About 40 minutes later, hubby says "You forgot to turn off the sprinklers" Oh ok, oops. I come upstairs, assuming he's turned them off.

No.

He asks me, "Are you going to turn them off?" My reply "Oh, I thought you did."

He replies, "I can't, I'm in my underwear." I say, "Well I got soaked turning them on, I don't want to get wet again."  He suggests going over the railing. I say, "But my legs are short, I can't do that as well as you can."

It's now after 11 PM. I walk out the front door and it's pitch black outside. I tell hubby, "It's dark, I can't see what I'm doing." We only have motion lights out front so he tells me to flip the switch and jump up and down in front of the sensor. I follow his instructions.

I proceed to fling one leg over the railing. I'm stuck. I can't touch ground without grabbing on to something and in previous experiences, the railing isn't very sturdy to CLIMB on or hold on to in that manner. So I am stuck in hover mode and I'm contemplating my next move.

That's when a car drives by. (please, please don't see me) It slows down. Nooooo, don't stop in front of our house. I'm thinking it either looks like I'm trying to sneak out or sneak in.

 I hear my name: "Jill, what are you doing?"
 Pure embarassment. (it's our new bishop and his cute family)  "Um, I'm trying to turn off the sprinklers, but my legs are too short." They kindly offer up their son to help me. He runs through the sprinklers and I try my best to explain how to turn them on.

They start chatting with me about my husband's birthday the next day. I think it was his wife Stace that asks how old he's going to be. Well hubby and I are the same age within months of each other so I'm thinking, well I'm 33 so he must be turning 34. I say "He'll be 34." They reply, "Oh wow he's getting old." Ha ha, funny because I know they are a few years older than us.

In the meantime my husband throws on some clothes and peeks his head out. They say, "I hear you're going to be 34." He says, "No I'm going to be 33." I say, "Did ya skip a year sweetie?" He says, "No, I was born in 77, it's 2010, I'm going to be 33."

I say, "You mean I'm only 32?" I laugh a little uncomfortably because I already felt like an idiot.

The next day in the shower, (where I do my best thinking) I think I should have said...... "Yeah my husband isn't supposed to let me out at night without my medication."

Cleaning attire

What do you wear when you clean? Do you wear ratty old clothes? Regular clothes? An apron?
Nice clothes? High Heels? A pretty little maid's outfit?  Absolutely nothing? Your pj's?

I clean in my pajamas. I mean most of my cleaning. I feel I do my best that way? Not really, I guess it's in case I get dirty while cleaning, I can just toss my pj's in the hamper and hop in the shower and I'm good to go.

What does this all mean? That I shower later in the day...yeah... that I'm a weirdo? Well maybe.                   I don't know, just food for thought. Just a reason to blog.

Ok, ok... I admit it. Sometimes my jammies consist of my "special underwear". So the other day, I was doing the laundry, etc. and I ducked downstairs to my office to put some stuff away and check my e-mail. All of a sudden I see these lights coming down through the window. I guess the neighbors were looking for something with flashlights.... H.O.L.Y. E.M.B.A.R.R.A.S.S.I.N.G.  I sure hope they didn't find ME. I hid behind my office chair for a few minutes and then ran upstairs...

Garbage Bags: Getting your child to listen to you and not the laptop

Maybe you can relate.

Do your kids listen to you when you ask them to do something?

Do they listen the first time?

Do you sometimes sing embarrassing songs to your kids?

Do they ignore you and keep playing on the laptop?

Do you have to threaten them with naked baby pics?

Here's a re-enactment of what happened a few weeks ago... I had to pay my son to be in the video with me. I told him, "Trust me, I'll be more humiliated than you..." He chose to not say much in the video... but that's pretty much how it happened, although when it really happened, he said... "Mom, I should put this on youtube and embarass you." He was absolutely mortified because of what I said about putting the pic on facebook... but then you see what happens.

Enjoy.....

Happy Birthday Hammer Lincoln!

When Jeremy was little, about 2 or so, he was very interested in money.  John and I taught him who was on the dollar bill, quarter, etc.  Whenever it came to Abraham Lincoln.. he would pronounce it Hammer Lincoln. It was so freaking cute!!! He could tell you who was on everything from the penny to the ten dollar bill.

We recently got a new set of books for a great deal. They teach about values through telling the stories of historical people. Today we will be learning about respect which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln.

Important announcement from Jessica (my 5 year old daughter)

I was telling her that I was going to look up if Tristan had swine flu. She said "Who would go to Trsitan.com?" Tristan is her sister.. I said, "probably someone silly like you." She then said, "Who would go to www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com?" She answers her own question: "Probably someone who wanted to know the alphabet." She adds in a silly voice,"Um if you don't know the alphabet, then you can just go to: www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com".... LMBO!!!

Funny little girl

Uh-oh Mobile blog post didn't work. So where did it get sent???

I used to walk my daughter to school everyday, but as the weather gets colder, and her legs haven't gotten longer, I've been driving her. I pull up to the curb, she unbuckles herself, leans up to the front seat and gives me a hug and a kiss goodbye. Well one day out of nowhere she says Hoo-sen in this giggly voice as she leaves. She said it over and over and thought it was so funny. I have no idea why she said it, if she heard it somewhere or if it even means anything. She says it now 90% of the time when I drop her off. It's usually the last thing she says as she gets out the door.

So I drop her off today, I get the usual hug and kiss and the Hoo-sen on her way out. She then says "Isn't that a funny word?" I say, "yes". I've asked her before what it meant and she has not yet had an answer for me.
So then today she asks if she can take a bottled water with her. I say "ok but leave it in your back pack." She says, "Well I took one before and didn't get in trouble and it wasn't in my backpack and so and so brings one and doesn't get in trouble."
I said, "Ok, well just listen to your teacher and follow the rules."
She then takes a sip and very grown up like says, "Ah, nice healthy water." It just made me smile and laugh.