I scream, You scream, we all scream...

For Ice Cream! Yummy. It's from 5pm to 10 pm nationwide! Enjoy

Gray skies are gonna clear up, put on a happy face!

Some inspirational and funny quotes I found:

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." --Richard Bach

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." --Will Rogers

"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened." --Montaigne

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing." --George Bernard Shaw

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. " --Maureen Dowd

"Think like a (wo)man of action, and act like a (wo)man of thought." --Henri L. Bergson

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." --Noelie Alito

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." --Mark Twain

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." --Abraham Lincoln

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." --M. K. Gandhi

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Douglas Adams

"Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back." --Unknown

Charity never faileth... or does it?

I found this a bit disturbing ... I saw a guy named Steven Fales on facebook from a friend of a friend and thought maybe he was the guy married to my friend at BYU named Charity. ---Yes so her married name was Charity Fales. (Her maiden name was just as funny though, Charity Ball.)--- but come to find out this Steven Fales is far from being the married type...well to a girl anyway...lol

White Tie Affair

Wish I would have known about this before Easter. Chad has tons and tons of UGGGGGLY ties we could have used for it. Here are some Easter Sunday dress photos...

There was a free easter egg hunt at our local park. They had different areas for different age groups (2-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12). Jeremy (wasn't quite 2 yet but most think he looks 3) and Drew (just barely made it) were in the same group - The moms nearby were kinda looking at me and my boys like, uh you are in the wrong age group. I was thinking, "Yes! My kids are going to dominate this hunt"... and they did. I was surprized at how much little Jeremy picked up. We took some video of the event:

The hunt was over in twenty seconds. (I'm sure it didn't help that parents were helping their kids):

You are beautiful in every single way

I got Photoshop Elements 7 from my sister Emily for Christmas and I finally really got to play with it and create something. I found this adorable digital scrapbooking kit called "Bloomin' Beautiful" over at Mel's Lightbulb Moments and decided to make a blog layout out of it. Chad says it turned out "too busy" but it's my first try at making one so I thought it was pretty cute. I love the colors in the kit. What do you guys think?

A hunting we will go...

I just found out about this: (I guess I am probably the last to find out about it...typical)
There is a free global treasure hunt called Geocaching that's being played worldwide. Geocaches are hidden containers that are found using coordinates and a GPS unit. There are literally thousands to be found in the Salt Lake City area alone. In fact, Utah has more geocaches hidden per capita than any other state in the country!

The hidden caches always contain a log book and a pen/pencil. People who find the cache are asked to record the date and time they were there, and most people also record some thoughts. The cache usually also contains some "treasures" - wooden nickels, coins, bubbles, whistles, stickers, pens, misc little toys, postcards, etc. People are welcome to remove an item from the cache, but it's considered bad form not to replace the item with something else. Hit the dollar store before heading out on geocaching adventures to stock up on things to leave in the caches. You can make notes in the log book about any items traded, or you can record the trades on the . geocaching website.

Is that not the coolest global thing you have ever heard of? I thought so. (But maybe you heard it already years ago.... I am 30 now so give this old person a break.)

For the band on the run

I found a cool site that shows all the Bands in Town playing and upcoming tours in whatever city you input. It also has all the links where you can buy tickets from different places and their prices. Pretty easy way to find a show to go see from anywhere throughout the country at any time.

Like poetry, you're hiding behind the words you speak.

(Emily, this post is in honor of your post and I do read your blog.)

April is National Poetry Month and I found this cute children's book at Alli's school Book Fair the other day: Dogku by Andrew Clements. I love it cause it's all written in Haiku. Here are some that I wrote today for each of my kids and one for me (I know they aren't that good but they're poems):

Tyler

I'm a smiley guy.
An angel sent from above
Laugh, always so good.

Jeremy (couldn't decide which one was better... probably both bad.)

Because I can't talk
I cry, mumble and point lots.
Also love to eat.

Eat Cry Play Eat Cry,
Point Eat Grunt Eat Mumble Eat
Eat Eat Eat Eat Eat.

Drew

I am so happy,
I am not happy but mad,
Happy again smile.

Allison

Love to dance, draw, dogs.
Big sister, good example,
Kind, pretty, Sweetheart.

My Life

Feed Baby, Diapers,
Food, Clothes, Feed Baby, Clean, Baths
Feed Baby, Bedtime.

He's a tramp, but I love him. Breaks a new heart, everyday.

I read a post on my sister Emily's blog that brought the Delta: Fly-In Movies to my attention. They were made for a competion celebrating the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. "Gerald's Last Day" is sad but cute. "Eight Percent" is awkward but funny. They are worth watching. Check them out.

Return to sender, address unknown. No such number, no such zone.

So back in September of 2008, I ordered this princess costume (that lights up!) for Alli online from Costume Express. Then about 2 weeks later, I still didn't have the costume and I was getting a little worried about not having anything for Alli to wear to all the Halloween festivities coming up. So I looked up the tracking number on UPS for the package and I noticed that the last time it was updated on it's current location was over a week ago. Now a little more worried, called up Costume Express and asked them where my package was. They said it was lost. I told them they had to send me a new one then cause I wanted the costume before Halloween otherwise cancel my order. So they sent me a new one. They told me that if I ever received the other package, that I should be so kind as to send it back to them. "Sure thing." A week or so later I got the costume. Halloween came and went and I completely forgot about the "lost package" that still hadn't shown up.

Today I answered the rude, loud pounding on my door (Do any of your UPS guys do that?) to find a package from Costume Express. I was confused and thought, "I didn't order anything from there. Did Chad? Maybe someone sent us a gift for no apparent reason. Yeah. That happens." So I opened it to find I have received a second lovely princess halloween costume. Then it all came back to me. I was annoyed that I had opened it and potentially had to put some money into sending it back. I am fascinated as to where this package was for 7 months and I am touched the person that "found" it went ahead and sent it to me after all this time. Now what do I do with it?

P.S. Happy Birthday, Kathryn! Do you want a princess costume?

I found your picture today.

Rachel's All About Me Mosaic

1. Perfume - Rachel Hurd-Wood in bed, 2. Chicken Fetticini Alfredo, 3. The Tallest Thing in Prairie Village, 4. Periwinkle, 5. Josh Hartnett, 6. Berries Smoothie, 7. Tahiti Paul Gauguin Cruise, 8. Reese's, 9. mtv-hats-wallpaper, 10. i love my family, 11. Dear Mother Earth, 12. roach motel

Want to make one of your own?

step 1: go to flickr.com
setp 2: in another window open http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
step 3: choose 4 columns, 3 rows
step 4: answer the following questions in the search bar of flicker. pick your favorite one on the first page and paste it into your mosaic
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your nickname.

What do you look like?