Blog-worthy

Peter's been saying that it's been a long time since I've blogged. Today he decided to take matters into his own hands and make it a blog-worthy day.

Peter came home early. He came home early so that I could have the car to pick up my visiting teachee's kids from elementary school. Holy cow there are a lot of kids at schools. And lots of cars picking kids up from schools. It's crazy there.

After I got back from there and Peter worked on our condemned yard for a while we went to Jamba Juice and got smoothies. I love smoothies. Brita got a kids one and she was the last one done by a long ways. Benton kept puckering every time I gave him some pomegranate, but kept wanting more. He was a big fan of the straws. Brita kept biting her straw to the point where nothing could come up it. Probably why she finished last.

Since we were down at Jordan's Landing and we'd been wanting to see Toy Story 3 we decided to go to a movie. We questioned whether or not it would be wise to take both kids to a movie and ended up convincing ourselves that it'd be fine. We were wrong. Brita kind of made it to the monkey and then she was definitely done. Benton made it until he biffed it on the floor. So we left. We'll never know if Mr. Potato Head made it back together again or if he's still a tortilla.

On the way home there was a rainbow that had all the colors and was totally full. And then there were two. The colors were mirror images of each other. Are all double rainbows like that? I don't know.

Then we went to Smith's to get something for dinner. We ended up having fish. Not the meat kind--the cracker kind.

Yeah for us, we did something blog-worthy. And yes, I consider all this blog-worthy, so you can thank me for sparing you from all the other way boring stuff between now and my last post. And you didn't really expect me to blog about the important stuff that happened between now and my last post so now we're good. Yep.

La la la

Holy cow I'm a slacker blogger. And I still don't have anything to say.

Benton started talking last night. No words, but a nice conversational tone that he kept up for a couple of hours. You know, instead of going to sleep. It was really cute though. He started up talking again this morning as soon as he woke up. He's walking a lot more these days, too--not all the time, but quite often. And he's adorable. Very, very cute kid.

I use GNU/Linux now. I only call it GNU slash Linux because Peter made us watch some awful documentary about the evolution of Linux. The only really annoying thing about it is that the fonts are so stinking ugly. And my scanner doesn't work any more. That's sad too. Peter's spent a lot of time getting it pretty for me which is nice. But my new computer is much quieter than my last one. That's nice.

Brita has a friend that is six years older than her. She came over yesterday and played with Brita for a couple of hours. It was really nice. Especially since I spent seven hours yesterday reading a book. Opal gives me hope that I was useful when I started out doing Cinderella Class. It's so nice to have someone come over and play with Brita and Benton.

For FHE on Monday we had a couple from our ward come over and teach us about new.familysearch.org. It was fun. We'd both been on the site before so it was nice to have some of our questions answered.

Notes from today

My day started out with me falling down an entire flight of stairs. Luckily I just slid down on my bum and didn't hurt anything. Unluckily Brita was leaning up the stairs at the bottom of the stairs so I bowled her over and scared her.

Brita was eating breakfast at the table and I went into the computer room to do something. Brita said, "Mom, wait! Come back. You are my friend." Who can resist that? So I went back and hung out with her for a while.

While I was there she told me that I was a great friend. And Benton was her friend, too. And Monica was my great, great grandma. Hehe.

Backwards

In case you were wondering why Benton's shirt was on backwards in the last post and were just too shy to ask, I'll tell you. We needed a brown shirt for a family picture and they're surprisingly hard to come by in baby sized.

This is our individual family shot from the whole family photoshoot. You know, from the Collett reunion that I didn't mention on my blog? Well a few weeks ago was my parents' family reunion. And my grandparents' family reunion. And this week we head off for Peter's [insert some ridiculous number of greats] grandparents' reunion.
And now you know.