AW and the Idol

As some of you may not know...AW really likes to watch American Idol...we Tivo it and such...which is not all that unsual, considering many people do, but I reached a new understanding of his IDOL thoughts just the other night...

We were driving and suddenly he asked, "If you had to choose a song to sing from Motown on American Idol, what would it be?"

Me: "What?"
AW: "What song would you sing from Motown?"
Me: "I have no idea. The thought has never crossed my mind..."
AW: "REally? I ask myself what I would sing every week..."

AW has his songs all picked out?

W
O
W

REally?
So, he's a closet American Idol contestant. Too bad he's a little over the age limit because I know he'd be there waiting in line.

Personally, I think he should try out for Survivor...he'd win. I'm sure of it. :)

The Week After: Post-Hawaii...

Monday was beautiful...in fact, I felt a little "spring" in my step and finished a few projects. Like:

I got this idea for sillouettes from a great blog The Nie Nie Dialogues. She's an amazing woman!

Planting the flowers just made me so happy...I am so itching for a non-snowy spring...but THEN Tuesday came. And if you live in Utah we all know what happened!! 10 inches of snow! ARGH. My beautiful flowers spent the rest of the week in the garage...and the yellow petunias turned out to be hardy...so they survived.But today is glorious and I'm ready for spring again. Yippee. Over Spring Break we went swimming at the Rec Center and Lucy enjoyed her first swimming experience...and I think that's because the pool felt like bath water, hiding from the storm under a huge "bubble." Can hardly wait until we can go for reals with true sunshine kissing our skin. Sophie was very confused why we didn't have to put on our sunscreen in the bubble. We've trained her well. :)

Hope everyone else is in love with spring finally rearing its lovely head.

We Did Hawaii!!

And Pearl Harbor...
Dinner with the Dawwwwgs...

A REAL LIVE LUAU...

The Polynesian Cultural Center...

And Grandma's Favorite "Shave" Ice....Blue Hawaii

Whew!! And this is only a sampling of the things we did.... And, we're tired. And our sleep rhythms are off. And we've had WAY too many chocolate macadamia nuts...ohhhh baby.

My Blogging Hiatus...

Oh MY....
I think someday I may post again! :)
I have been sooo busy lately. I've been working on a project that has taken every spare minute of my time. But I promise. I'll be back again.
Soon.
I think.

And I do have things to post. Such as:
1. Grace's dance competition. (won first place! :))
2. Lucy's walking!!! And into everything.
3. Spencer's off to Hawaii with us in one week and have numerous pics of him in his snorkle gear.

I promise. I will get myself together!
And soon.

A Ticket to Ride...

The very zesty and adventurous book, "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen.
I had book club at my house and we read, "Water for Elephants," about the circus during 1920's depression. I thought SO very interesting, and a great read.

Although, I must forewarn...there are a few "spicey" parts, which I guess shocked a few BC members. They were like, "YOU picked this book, Jen?" "YOU?" "Are you sure? Did you read it?" To which I state, YES. I picked the book, I liked the book, and I still like it. Just skip the offending spiciness, if you wish. Which I'm sure some attendees did. So. It's all good.Don't even ask what we're doing in some of these pics...it was late..we overdosed on candy apples and diet coke...and were actually making a little fun of some of the attendees teenage daughters. We just have to live and LAUGH a lot!

A Visit from our California Loves

Tree and her family came up for a short, yet very sweet visit.The cousins had so much fun...getting used to one another, playing tea party, and giving one another a stiff right arm when they wanted the bike the other one had...(the babies ARE trying to learn how to share).
Sophie and Claire enjoyed the first day it actually felt like Spring...perhaps it really is around the corner...we hope!
Lucy and Maria had to fight over these chairs, even though they are IDENTICAL. One must feel a little softer than the other.

A Little Chocolate Chip Molten LOVE

Saturday Spence said his head hurt from too much thinking...He had been testing from 8am-12pm...and had a headache....so off we went to Chili's for lunch...only he, Lucy, AW and me (the girls were at Grandma's).


I think we were a little punch drunk on warm, chocolately, creamy, goodness...And actually, his headache went right away, just like magic!



Choco-Coma...