Happy Feet

Today I took the kids to the science center to see Happy Feet at the IMAX theater. A friend of mine had warmed me that her daughter had thrown up a couple of times while seeing it because of the motion sickness and the huge screen, etc. So I brought a gallon sized ziploc bag in my purse for Emma, just in case. Kyle and I had been to movies there a few times before, so I wasn't worried about us...just Emma. So repeatedly I told her "if you feel yucky, close your eyes" Then when we got in there, we overheard an employee telling someone about how when they had Superman there, they had people puking left and right. Great.
So the movie started....which was a really cute movie BTW, and it was full of music. Emma then became Happy Feet. I was no longer worried about her throwing up, but she didn't sit still through the entire thing. She was a dancing fool. Bopping up and down on her seat, trying to tap dance in the aisle, twirling, you name it. It was damn adorable and now I'm guaranteed to buy it when it comes out on DVD.

He was delicious

I heard that Gerald Ford died yesterday and here's what it made me think of:
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=23031&where=

Post Christmas

Whew! That was quite a week. Christmases, here, there and everywhere. We made out like bandits too. My mom, Emma and I went shopping today, came home with bags of stuff and I still have 3 gift cards I haven't even touched yet. Gift cards are the greatest gift. I get to shop with someone else's money. What could be better? ;)
Here are some random pictures of us during our holiday festivities:

Busy Day

I was running around like a crazy woman today. Emma had her Christmas party at preschool, plus I had to go to the post office, library, and Target. Then back to her school for her music program. Then I realized I had forgotten my camera. Every other moment of her life is recorded on film, so I figured it was high time she actually had to use her memory for something. ;) Then I brought her home and had to got to Kyle's school for his "family tradition" presentation. I remembered my camera for that one.




Then after school Kyle had a doctor's appt. in Ames, so we had to get there in 20 minutes. We were only 2 minutes late, so we made some good time.

Dick in a Box

So when I heard Justin Timberlake was going to on SNL again, I was excited because his last time hosting was a good one. I was right, it was a funny ass show. My favorite was the SNL short "Dick in a Box", which was totally "Color Me Badd" circa 1991.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKyn1tHpqs

They even had Jimmy Fallon back on to do another episode of the Barry Gibb talk show. It wasn't as funny as the first time around, but still humorous.
"Talkin' 'bout chest hair, talkin' 'bout crazy cool medallions."

Quick little book

We had our scrapbook group Christmas party on Sunday night and I got some stuff to do some football layouts. Kyle had requested that I make him a little book, as he's seen me make many of them for other people. ;) So I took that opportunity to use some of my new football themed items to make his book. It's just a simple spiral bound chipboard book, but I think he'll like it.

Santa and Jolly holiday lights

We took the kids to see Santa at Dahl's yesterday and then Jolly Holiday lights. It was holiday merriment galore! ;)

Years

I can't even remember the last time I was drunk enough to puke. It was years....maybe even before I was pregnant with Emma. But last night was apparently my night. We went to Rob's work Christmas party. They had it at the banquet room at the Comfort suites and had some really yummy food...plus free alcohol. So Rob kept bringing me more and I kept drinking it. Ugh. I'm a light weight anyway because I don't drink that often, and it was bad. Room spinning, puking, waking up at 4 am wondering how the hell I got in bed. The works. So I laid around all morning because my inlaws had the kids and now I'm feeling much better. Rob even went out and got me some ice cream because that was the only thing that sounded good this morning.
So the party was fun, but get this.....I was commenting on how much I liked the table centerpieces and while we were eating dinner they announced that the oldest person at the table could take the centerpiece home. Guess who that was? So cool that I got to keep it, but not cool that I only got it for being a hag.

ABC Family

I love this 25 days of Christmas that ABC Family does. I swear I get more excited about these shows than my children do. Last night was "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". You know, the one with the Burgermeister Miesterburger.



And the other night was "The year without Santa Claus", the one with Snow Miser and Heat Miser. I still knew all the words!
"I'm mister snow miser, I'm mister snow. I'm mister white Christmas, I'm mister 10 below"....you know you were singing along! ;)

Funny things my son has said

Out of context of course, because that makes them even funnier:

1. I've got a beaver and I'm not afraid to use it!

2. Spaghetti (in an Italian accent)

3. Oooo, baby....she is hot for me to kiss.

4. She's pretty like someone who isn't a mom(and I replied "actually she is a mom") Well, she's prettier than my mom, then.

5. That must be how Grandpa got his mustache, by drinking too much beer.

6. I don't want to be hit by lightening because then everyone will see my skeleton.

7. Ewwwww, you're going to poop her out?!

8. Tasfer!

9. (While driving past the local strip club) That's the place that Grandpa took me to get some coffee and talk.

10. That must be how they make soap, by melting down poisonous snakes.

Holiday stuff

Last night we had our Mom's group Christmas party. Rob was disappointed that I didn't come home more drunk and frisky...but too bad for him. ;) It was a good time. We got all gussied up, ate some awesome food, drank a little and played that game Catch Phrase for hours. It's fun when you have that many people. Plus my team won.....again!
Today we took advantage of the cold weather.....like 10 degrees....and just stayed home. Rob got us some movies. The kids watched Ice Age, the Meltdown and we watched the DaVinci Code. And I did some crafting. I decided, just today that I wanted to make an altered clip board to use as a countdown until Christmas. So I went through all my stuff and here is what I came up with:




I was pleased. Especially because it was just stuff I had on hand and nothing I bought just to use for this purpose. I get satisfaction from that. The idea is that you make cards with 24 numbers and each day the kids pull off a number so they know how many days until Santa comes. Emma couldn't have cared less, but Kyle thought it was cool.

Get this!

So when we got back from MN after Thanksgiving we had a ton of messages on our answering machine from people wanting to get estimates on roofing. We had no idea what the hell wsa up with that, but then the calls kept coming. Finally I found out from some guy that this roofing company in town had our number on their yellow pages ad. The new phone books came out last week and sure enough in bold type is our number in the ad. I looked them up under the business section and their real number is only one digit off from ours. I called them to let them know what had happened and the lady was like "you've got to be kidding?!....do you know how much we had to pay for that ad?". I didn't know what the phone company could do, but I figured these people should still call and bitch. I was not very excited about the prospect of answering all of this company's calls for the next year. So today a guy called from some law office representing "Dex"...aka, the phone book". I was thinking that the roofing company must have really given them hell if it had already been sent to litigation. Anyway, so the guy said that the phone company "is prepared to offer us $300 to change our number". Holy shit! He gave us the weekend to "think it over" so I'm going to act really put out by it and see if they'll give us more. ;)