Piano is here!

I'm a week too late, but our piano did come. Let's celebrate for a moment!
Woohoo!!! Yipee!!! Excellent!!!

It's been a joy playing it. It's been more of a joy hearing Tom, Benjamin, or Isaac playing it. Tom even brought his violin from his mother's house to play. I'm hopeful he'll want to play it more. My piano fingers are slowly coming back. I get frustrated at times because my fingers aren't as agile or as fast or as strong as they once were. But nothing a TON of practice can't fix. :)

Again a moment of celebration please:
"Celebrate good times, come on! It's a celebration!"

Alyssa Look-alike?

The question is this: Does Alyssa look like me or do I look like Alyssa?

Standing on our Heads

The title says it all. :) It was only Tom and Anna who attempted to do head stands.
However, the boys loved watching Tom and Anna make their faces turn bright red. (I got a kick out of it as well.)

Music in our home soon...

I'm so very excited for Tuesday!! ...hehe... Why you ask?

My piano is coming....... dum da dum dum DUM!!!!

Woohoo! We got it yesterday. Alisa (who was so kind to help me look... thanks again!!) and I looked at pianos Saturday morning. It was so much fun. I'm glad Alisa was there to help. Without her expertise and ear, I'm sure I would've picked out a dud. It's a 48" Brodmann. Black. Sleek. The sound---to my liking very much. Loud. Deep. Soft when needed. Oooh, just thinking about it makes me want to play.

Isn't it purty?!?

I can't wait for Benjamin and Isaac to play it. They'll have so much fun. Tinkling of the ivories in our home.... I can't wait for that sound!

Twilight Series

Okay, I know I'm four years too late, but here I go anyways. I cannot get enough of the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer. The books are one of a kind. Seriously. The series is geared toward young adults, but frankly, I feel anyone any age would enjoy the books. Her writing is refreshing, simple, yet very intense and descriptive. The intrigue is drawing and persuasive, the action scenes are intense, and well Edward is well Edward. *sigh*


Don't laugh, but it reminded me how I felt while dating Tom. I'm hoping while I'm writing this that I'll get over this silly obsession and move on to another book. It's been about 3 weeks since I've bought the series at Costco, and I still can't put it down. :( Help me. When first told about Twilight in the summer, I thought to myself: "Why would I want to read about vegetarian vampires?? It's certainly not my kind of book." As I realized that more and more of my friends read it AND enjoyed it, I finally gave in. I needed something to distract me from my nausea anyways. A good book sounded like the right remedy. It did it's job, and now look where I am.

Here I am, posting a blog about a trilogy--no, soon to be quadropology (is that even a word???)--that really shouldn't have this affect on me. After all, it is about vampires. So if you haven't read them--what till you have the time to start, cause you won't be able to put them down--and go read them! After your done, check out her website: www.stepheniemeyer.com. She has more yummy tidbits on the characters. It gives you a deeper understanding of the interactions of each character.

There. . . my rant is done. Perhaps I can find the strength to go read Les Mis or some Anne of Green Gables. Did I tell you I'm thinking about naming our next son Edward. :)

Halloween!!! Boo!

I hope everyone had a grrreat Halloween. Halloween snuck up on us fast this year. Where did the summer go? Let alone September???? AND can I say how much we love our neighborhood. Our neighbors are so friendly and nice. We got 'spooked' with some nice chocolate truffles. YUMMY! The chocolate was great, but the best part was the warm fuzzy feeling we had--how welcome we felt in our neighborhood. But back to Halloween.

Each week for 4 weeks prior to Halloween I asked Benjamin what he wanted to be. Consistently he would reply, "I want to be ghost. Daddy will be monster. Isaac will be a baby ghost. And you, Mama, will be a princess monster." I wasn't able to make him a new ghost costume. (He was a ghost last year as well.) I resurrected the ghost costume from last year that could have doubled as a KKK ceremonially robe. (The hood was too pointy.) Luckily, it didn't need altering, and Ben's head grew enough to fill in the hood--which in turn didn't make a point. I was unable to get a picture of Ben, but I am awaiting some pics from Jimdy with some of Ben as a ghost.

Isaac was a tiger. A very cute adorable tiger. When asked, he would go, "RAWR!" He loves the candy. I can't wait till they finish the candy.

I was a pregnant lady. Benjamin got a huge kick out that. I couldn't fool him though. He knew it was a pillow and not my real belly.

Tom was a Jedi Knight--so fitting for Tom. Can I also say what a sexy and handsome Jedi he was!

Tom took both boys out trick-or-treating around our street. Isaac didn't do much, just lounged in the stroller while Ben did all the work. Ben did a good job knocking on doors and reciting, "trick-o-treat". He also asked for some candy for Isaac. He's such a great big brother.

We went to Jim and Cindy's (aka Jimdy) home for Halloween Dinner. Cindy made the yummiest sloppy joes. It was great just spending time with family. Lora Beth was a baby. Cindy was CindyLou the Dr. Suess character. Jim surprised us all with this:


Again, sorry for the lack of pictures of Ben and us. I'll post them as soon as I can get them.

A Trip to the BYU Widtsoe Building

For FHE a few weeks ago, we decided to go feed the ducks at the BYU botany pond and look at the fish in the mini aquariums on campus. You'd think the ducks would have flown south by now, but to my surprise the ducks and geese were still there being all nice and fat. Benjamin and Isaac had a fun time throwing chunks of bread. These birdies were very aggressive. If I didn't toss the bread fast enough, some would snap at my shoes. Thank goodness I wasn't wearing my sandals. (Side Note: I LOVE my sandals. I look forward to the snow, but am disappointed I only have a few more weeks--if that--to enjoy my comfy, soft as butter sandals.)






After we finished tossing the stale--not quite moldy, but close--bread to the ungrateful fowl, we went to the basement of the Widtsoe Building. Ben loved the fish. There wasn't anything exotic. They mainly had species found locally here in the Utah (ie carp, trout). There were some lobster and snails and a few sea anemones. It was a definite pleasure to see the smiles on Ben's and Ike's faces.