I'm awesome at something

We went over to our friends' house on Saturday and they had a game similar to this one:

Their model is a little smaller maybe. It was on the ground so we had to play on our knees. I will just tell you that I am the master at this game. It is 45 seconds long. My highest score? 91 points. That's right. I'm awesome. Neither Ben or Chris (our friend) could top my score! It was so awesome. They kept trying and trying. I think we played for hours.

Can I just say that it is so satisfying to beat Ben at something? I will rub his face in this score for as long as I can. He is just so talented it's disgusting. I can't beat him at any game--soccer, basketball, football, etc. I can't speak three languages (Spanish, French, and Catalan) and read Portuguese. I can't play the piano very well at all (he's awesome) or the guitar (he's equally awesome). So to beat him at this is so satisfying. I know. It's a silly kid's game. But it's all I have!

Now I need to find a way to acquire this game so I can play it all day long while the kids are at school.

One more thing on an unrelated subject. This is what Audrey says to me before I leave her room tonight: "What if every living thing had boobs?" Oh my goodness. She's gonna be a handful.

Christmas 2009--late

Yeah, yeah, I know. These are late. Really late. Four months late. Deal with it.

A lot of sledding happened. I didn't actually go myself but I did witness it--once. Ben took any and all kids who wanted to go every day and they stayed for hours in the freezing cold! I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to that. I like it to be a normal temperature if I'm going to stay outside for hours.




Grandpa gave the girls the game Sorry so naturally he wanted to play it with them. I think he even won.


Snuggling on the couch with Uncle Andrew while watching a movie.


Ben and Andrew built the best forts and had a great snowball fight.


We also got Twister for Christmas. I learned that I am not very flexible.


Audrey got an MP3 player already loaded up with her favorite music. She absolutely loved this (and still does). She loves to fall asleep listening to her music but I often find her awake an hour later still singing. Now I have to pick slower music for her to fall asleep to. She likes Josh Groban, Laura Pausini, Taylor Swift, all the HSM's, the Beattles, Carrie Underwood, Billy Joel, Colbie Caillet, TLCB (of course!), Michael Jackson, Michael Buble, and Michelle Branch. I'm sure there are more but that's all I can think of for now. Audrey loves music and memorizes lyrics quickly.


Alexis really wanted this My Little Pony doll (I know, it's for little kids!). I kept hoping she would stop talking about it but she didn't. She kept it on her list for six months. Every time I went shopping she would say, "I just know My Little Pony doll is in there!" What else could I do? I couldn't disappoint her! And now it hardly gets played with. Sigh.

Grandpa reads The Polar Express to the kids on Christmas Eve every year. They all really like it despite some of the looks on their faces.

It was a great Christmas as usual. Look, I can even say that four months later. It must have been amazing.

Art pictures

Some of our favorite pictures that we saw.








You see, I appreciate some art. :)

Mostly tripy

This picture is just hilarious for all sorts of reasons. Ben made up a game one night where we drew each other's names and we had to act like person all during dinner. I gave points (chips) every time I thought someone imitated their person perfectly. Since I was the judge I didn't participate. Once Audrey got the hang of the game she really shined. She played Alexis perfectly and ended up getting the most chips. Here is the picture I took. Can you guess who played who? (or whom whatever)


At the end of February the girls had two days off of school and I wanted a break so we went down to Chicago for two and a half days. We swam in the hotel pool, went to the Shedd Acquarium and to the Chicago Art Museum (you see I'm still brave enough to go to an art museum and post about it).

I find the existence of these frog fish a little disturbing but equally fascinating.


Audrey watching the Dolphin show. Way overrated by the way.


This absolutely creeps me out.

Creation

Now that I've figured out how to upload pictures to my blog again (thanks Ellen! You're awesome! Please don't tell anyone how easy of a fix it was!) I'm going to put a bunch of pictures on here with as little explanation as possible. That's my bloggin way.

You'll see below a really cute or interesting creation that Alexis made out of play dough sometime in the last month.

Easter Pictures