Watch This

RM and I watched an episode of Nova today that blew my mind. Thought you might enjoy it.

Making Stuff: Smaller

GOOD THINGS:

-Advances in science and medicine.

-Time with my hubby, learning together.

-An amazing Father in Heaven that put everything together, nano particle by nano particle.

PS...I added the Good Things to my previous two posts. Gotta do better at remembering those from the start!

A Cute Christmas Special

If you haven't seen this one, it's worth popping over to Hulu to check it out. :D

Prep & Landing

Just In Case You Forget How Many Reindeer On Santa's Sleigh

If The Shoe Fits...

Just wanted to share a few funny video clips that feel awfully close to home. After all, if you can't laugh at yourself (or your husband)... :D

Ever have one of those days...

that just runs you ragged and wears you out? One that for its much busyness leaves you feeling like you've gotten not a lot done? Today was one of those days for me. I'm really looking forward to going to sleep, if only the 20 month old would first. :P

Here's a couple more Sesame Street Google pictures. I'm sure they are about done, and then I will be too. :D







One of the most fun about this has been sharing the fun video clips with my kids. It's just fun and funny to listen to my kids wandering around the house la-la-ing slightly off key Carmen or offering to sell me an O.


Edited to add: You know what's even funnier? Falling asleep at the keyboard and somehow managing to click the publish post as you drop off. Blogging in my sleep. I impress even myself. :P

All Together Again

Last night PrincessBug had a sleep over at her cousin's house to celebrate her cousin's birthday. I dropped her off about 3pm and we didn't get her back until about 5:30pm today. It's amazing how much you can miss someone, even in a short amount of time. Her brothers all missed her and were eager to have her to boss them around again. I kept looking around for one more. It was also unusually quiet around our house. Hmmm...

Any way, we are all together again and very glad to be so.

While I'm here, I'll share a couple more Sesame Street Google pictures. They are just so cute. I promise, I'm not nearly as Sesame Street obsessed as I appear to be. :D

Happy Birthday Sesame Street!!

It was a very happy thing to pop a Google window and discover this:



Yay for Sesame Street's 40th Birthday!

In celebration, I though I'd link you up to a few (who am I kidding, way too many) of my favorite Sesame Street sketches. Here they are in no particular order. Enjoy!!





































Now I really need to go do something useful!!

Crazy 8's

Well, this is a new one for me. I've been blog tagged! (I've had this happen on Facebook, but not here. I'm just too new to it all.) I guess Mignonne noticed that I've been hanging out at her blog and decided to initiate me. :D

Here's my lists of 8:

Eight things I did yesterday:

1. Went to the doctor for a strep test. Joy.
2. Lots and lots of laundry.
3. Loaded the dishwasher.
4. Rescheduled a date/playdate because of the aforementioned strep. Boo!
5. Added a bunch of blogs to my following list. It's fun to find friends' blogs.
6. Began reading Shannon Hale's River Secrets.
7. Made homemade pizza for dinner.
8. Stayed up WAY too late surfing the net and watching TV streaming from Hulu.

Eight Favorite Shows
Ok...so this is going to be tricky. Confession time. I own a 13" color TV and don't have cable. That HDTV converter box has more than doubled my available stations. On the other hand, I own a 22" flat screen computer monitor. Can you see my priorities here? :P So, the first three are the only shows I watch consistently. The others I watch now and again when I happen to catch them, or are favorites from my childhood, or I've watched on DVD or streaming online.

1. Bones
2. House, M.D.
3. American Idol
4. Dharma & Greg
5. Stargate SG-1
6. Enterprise
7. Star Trek: The Next Generation
8. Um...LDS General Conference? Nova? OH! I really liked ER for awhile...Or New Amsterdam, but they canceled that after the first season...

Eight Favorite Restaurants
Like I actually get to go to these places, right?

1. Bennihana - I think I can count the times I've been there one hand. Definitely special occasion stuff. Great food & fun.
2. Pizza Perfect - A great little restaurant in Centerville, UT. Yummy food and a memory place for RM and me.
3. Magic Wok - A local Chinese restaurant that I have affectionately nicknamed "The Jaundiced Lion" because of the unfortunate way they have painted the stone lion statues out front. Great food though. :D
4. Dee's Family Restaurant -- Wisconsin Cheese Soup & Cobb Salad
5. Leatherby's Family Creamery -- Everything there is great, especially on girls' night out.
6. The Spaghetti Factory -- Mizithra Cheese ala Homer or Lasagna and lots & lots of bread.
7. Sconecutter - Probably my favorite fast food type. My favorite menu item is actually a pita sandwich, not a scone. :)
8. The Roof -- I've only been once and I'm dying to go again.

Eight Things I Look Forward To:

1. RM's graduation.
2. Fall
3. Singing Christmas Hymns in church
4. Being out of debt
5. School starting
6. Hiring a housekeeper
7. Taking an art history tour of the world
8. Becoming a published author

Eight things on my wish list:

1. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
2. A second bathroom in my house.
3. New carpet in the bedrooms.
4. A working TV tuner card in my computer.
5. Guilt free scrapbooking/writing time.
6. Scrap Simple and/or Page Maps
7. A doTerra essential oils diffuser
8. A getaway with RM

Eight People I Tag
Here's the real question...Do 8 people even read my blog? Play along if you feel like it. :D

1. The Mamma Bear
2. Kate
3. Christine W.
4. Trashy
5. Helena
6. Sarah
7. Natalie
8. April