Want to know the weather in Dehli?

Sunny and warm. How do I know this? Did I Google it, read it in the newspaper? Negative to all of these. I simply asked the HP Technical Support Girl who happens to live there. We had a lot of time to talk since we were on the phone for FOUR HOURS! I wish, how I wish that I had just mistyped that, but no, I was on the phone with tech support from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. last week. I could almost feel my hair turning white during the process.

I learned a few things during the ordeal, I mean experience. First of all, my cordless phone can go about three hours before the battery dies. Second, the one quasi-Bollywood movie that I love (Bride and Prejudice) is popular in India. Thirdly, if I talk to someone who has an accent for a long period of time, I start to think in an accent in my head. Sidenote: A similar thing used to happen to me when I would talk to my friend Marcella from Chile for eight hours straight at work. Then I would go home, go to bed and in my dreams everyone spoke with Spanish accents. Finally, I still don't know why it took four hours to hook up my new printer. At this point I don't know if I ever will. I do take comfort in the fact that it took a software engineer several hours to figure it out herself. So it couldn't have been just me right?

Sadly, the conversation with new Tech Support friend was the longest I talked to an adult all week. Guess I should have tried to enjoy it. Hope you don't get any computer equipment for Christmas that requires Tech Support. Although if you do, make sure your phone battery is fully charged.

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Number of minutes it takes me to get a child to make their bed....47

Number of seconds it took to actually make the bed...54

Having a child make their bed the first time I ask...PIPE DREAM

Did You Vote?

Although the presidential election is finally over, (it's been a long couple of years of campaigning,) we were still discussing voting at the dinner table. Peep 1 might have been feeling left out of the democratic process because she suddenly, and boldly announced, "Well I voted for President Monson."

2 Years!

Peep #2 just celebrated her second birthday. I think this picture sums up the whole day. Let's just say that one sister's pleasure causes another sister's pain! It is hard to have someone else get the glory.

That being said it was such a fun day, and I just can't believe how big #2 is getting. She always makes us laugh. Some of her favorite things are (in no particular order): eating green peas, pushing dolls in a baby stroller, dressing up, jumping on a trampoline, chap stick, telling us stories, and singing. Happy B-day we love you!

Preston Idaho: How Do They Do it?

Preston is more than just the setting for the movie Napoleon Dynamite. Oh, it is so much more. They have recently accomplished what I thought could not be done. What you ask could that be?

Let me give you a hint. Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun....yep, the citizens on Preston Idaho have put the local McDonald's out of business! In fact they have successfully made every fast food joint close their doors except one...Arctic Circle.

Yes it's true, in Preston, the Arctic Circle reigns supreme. I'm sure that fascinating studies could be done about this town. What is it about this Arctic Circle that makes every other hamburger joint seem like goat meat? I don't know the answers, but a town with this kind of power blows my mind. If they could shut-out the golden arches then just imagine what could be next.

What we've been up too

Okay, I know it's been awhile since I've blogged, but it is summer and I don't want to waste the sunshine. (Plus the Olympics are on.)

If you have wondered what the heck we have been doing, lemme tell you:

A little bit of this:


Some of this:


And a lot of this:

Feeling A Little Crazy

Last night I ironed some polyester blend shirts on the cotton setting. We are talking two numbers higher than the recommended setting. I don't know where this recklessness came from!

Lest we forget

Spandex is a privilege not a right. As a result of summer, there are a few images that I am afraid are permanently burned into my eyes.

We drove down the route of the Cache Valley Cruise-In over the 4th of July weekend. The Cruise-In is a parade of classic cars. After the parade anyone who wants to can cruise up and down Main Street. It tends to attract some very interesting characters with some even more interesting apparel choices. Let's just say this, there are several people who are not aware of the spandex rule. Ah car shows and hot weather, you gotta love it!

Question Asked

Peep 1: Mom we have Mother's Day and Father's Day, when is it Kid's Day?

Me: (Looking at the sandwich I am making for her cut into four exactly equal quarters as per her request, and pouring water into the red cup, with no ice, and the blue straw.) Everyday is Kid's Day.

It's coming...

I noticed that an El Pollo Loco is being built very near my home. I'm not a huge fan. In fact when I saw it fear gripped my heart. Having lived in a crazy chicken market before I know that this means TV commercials involving a long-haired Latin posing over a grill full of chicken calling himself El Caliente. But the worst part is a jingle that can have you singing El Pollo Loco until you want to pull your hair out. Friends and neighbors considered yourself warned. Let's hope the advertising campaign is limited strictly to print in Utah county.

Only in Utah County

Saturday and Home Depot. I have learned that having your own home makes this combination inevitable. Every week it's the same. We load the girls in cart and spend an hour or so looking for someone to help us, eventually abandoning that idea and then next hour desperately trying to figure out what kind of materials we need to buy to install rain gutters.

A few weeks ago I was able to overhear a conversation that was just too good not to share. I was standing in the roofing aisle waiting for B-Rad. Their was a couple whom I would guess to be in their mid-sixties was talking to a worker in an orange apron. (Unbelievable, someone was actually getting service.) They were going into every detail about what supplies they needed to get in order to put a new roof on their home. The sales associate talked about the shingles, the nails, the tools, on and on. Then the kicker. As we walked past the group we heard him tell the couple, "Ultimately it depends on how exactly your hometeacher wants to do it."

I haven't stopped laughing.

Easters Foto Flop

Well, I have finally got the nerve up to post the pictures from the Easter Photo Shoot. In the fifteen minutes that we had before we walked into church late, (again) we spent the whole time trying to get Peep 2 to sit down for .5 seconds. As you can see it just didn't happen. Oh well, maybe I will draw a picture of what they looked like and put THAT in their scrapbooks.

say it like you mean it....

I really like words phrases, and expressions, and yes I am a nerd. (The mere fact that I am blogging about them would make me even a bigger nerd.) Here are some of my favs:

cleanup on aisle five- I get to use this one a lot. We don't have any aisles in our house, but lots of spills, so it still applies.

Oo-de-lally- It's from Disney's animated Robin Hood. It can be used in place of amazing or gee whiz.

anywho- I use it in place of anyhow and anyway. It doesn't really make sense, which is one of the reasons that I like it.

frick n' frack- when I hear this used it always makes me laugh.

these pretzels are making me thirsty- Of course it's from Seinfeld, and is a classic. Just say it when you don't know what else to say.

And now for my least favorite phrase........"outside the box" it is so overused. I think that someone should "think outside the box, and come up with a new expression.

20 months after starting the project......

We have curtains! Can I get a woot woot?! I know these pictures are dark, but it was the best I could do. I am almost done with my peeps bedroom. It makes me so happy to have something done. One window down, just 10 more to go. At this rate I will be done in about 5 years.

Missing you Dallas Raines

Although it has been 20 months since we lived in Southern California we still really miss our favorite weather forecaster Dallas Raines.

Dallas Raines. Doesn't that just sound like a weather forecaster name? This man was born to report the weather in LA.

Every night we would watch him glide across the room to his map and explain what was happening on MEGA Live Doppler 7000+ wearing a double-breasted pinstripe suit, and perfectly coiffed full head of silver hair. He always had the perfect tan, and those teeth. I bet they turn off a few lights in the news studio when he flashes those brilliant white lights.

Once B-Rad saw him in front of his house getting the newspaper. I walked by his house almost daily hoping that I too, could catch a glimpse of the super-star weatherman. No Luck.

Dallas is the perfect Hollywood news forecaster. If he ever got the weather wrong we really didn't care. How could you when a man who acts like a movie star is giving you the report?!

Besides what was there to get wrong? Oh, it rained a little today. Oh, the sun is going to shine. Not much going on in SoCal.

Unlike here. Where all of you, Kevin, Grant, Jill, and all the rest of you, got it wrong, very very wrong. A little snow on Wednesday huh? That's what you said, but you did not tell us that there would be 75 mile and hour winds, without power for 2 hours, and one of the craziest storms to ever hit Utah!

This morning as I was hefting snow out of the driveway, and chipping ice off the front steps I shed a tear for Mr Hollywood himself, Dallas Raines.

Farewell Geo Prism

A few weeks ago B-Rad was side-swiped on the freeway, which pushed him into a semi-truck, which caused him to have a head-on with a cement barrier. Of course the biggest blessing is that B-Rad did not have a scratch on him. And for that I am very grateful. With that being said, I must say a proper good-bye to the Geo.

Oh Geo Prism, you have been such a great car. You were my college car, taking me across the state and never causing me a moment of worry!

Yes in your later years your air-conditioning was less then stellar, but I understand. You are 18 years old, it is okay.

You chugged me across the Mojave Desert when we moved to California, holding your own with the big bad semi trucks. (Although I did complain about your AC then, I was under a lot of stress and for that I'm sorry.)

Even after that fateful evening when you were battered across the freeway, B-Rad drove you home! You gave your all to the very end. Thanks for the seven years of incredible service, you are truly missed

Yadda yadda yadda

In the last three days I have:

Searched for 45 minutes for my daughters jeans, only to find that I had put them in the laundry basket. (I was considering the possibility of extra-terrestrial life for about a half hour of the search.)

Mistakenly used conditioner instead of shampoo. (I could not get a good lather at all!)

Lost and found my wallet twice. (Unfortunetely this is a pretty regular occurance.)

Found a load of laundry in dryer that had been there for four days! (What a pleasant surprise clean, wrinkled clothes.)

Couldn't find my name on our class role in Relief Society because I was looking under my maiden name. (Change is hard for me.)

Aaaahh gee, I need some sunshine!!