Acid Washed Jeans……

Remember that time I bashed them? Well yesterday I bought a pair!  SAY WHAT!!?? As I stood in the dressing room staring at myself wearing the pants in question, I took a little trip down memory lane…..to JUNIOR HIGH.  And then I literally laughed out loud at myself buying a pair again 20+ years later.  But I promise, they are cute.

      

I scored an awesome load at JC Penney.  These pants were marked down to $9.99 and I bought a bunch of shirts for $4.97.  Maybe Kelsey and I will model them for fun and post the pics.  I have crazy mad bargain shopping skills.

An unfortunate fire incident, birthday lunch, spastic crash and burn, choir concert and hot date….just a few highlights from my week.

Let’s review.

SUNDAY & MONDAY-

Home sick. :(

TUESDAY-

Spent the evening with Kylie, homeschooling.  We got most of our books and started on spelling and Idaho history.  I am amazed at how bright my daughter is.  It was nice to sit with her and work together.  I am looking forward to homeschooling her and getting to know her better in a different way.

After a long day, Kenny ran me a bath with rose petal bubble bath and candles.  The water was the perfect temperature.  I closed my eyes, leaned my head back and sighed as I sank into the sudsy water.  As I soaked a thought came into my head. **Huh.  What’s that strange crackling noise?**  About the time it registered, the smell hit me.  I sat up in a rush.  “Kenny, is my hair on fire?!!!”  Kenny looked at me and in a very unconcerned tone said, “Ya .”  You would think he would yell something to the effect of, “HOLY CRAP YOUR HAIR IS ON FIRE!”, but no.  I spastically started flipping water on my hair.  “Is it out?”   My darling husband replied, “nope.”  He then scooped up a huge handful of water and doused me and the fire.   I asked again, “Is it out?”  My husband replied, “Ya.  The flames were like 3 inches high.”  I wasn’t sure how bad my hair was but I had a hair appointment scheduled for Friday.  I just figured I might have to cut it short again.  Luckily when I washed my hair and dried it, the damage was minimal.  It only singed the ends of a small portion of hair.  Note to self: be aware of burning candles.

WEDNESDAY-

February 3rd is my mom’s birthday (see separate post).  I took my mom to lunch at Costa Vida.  The restaurant was packed for the lunch hour.  We set our food down and I headed across the restaurant to get our forks and napkins.  As I took a step forward, I landed on my heel weird and my leg went flying out from under me.  I tried to over correct and catch myself but had too much momentum.  I tried to stop the fall but in my head I knew…. **I am going down and it isn’t going to be pretty!**  This wasn’t a quick fall.  I was about 7 feet away from the window I eventually ran into.  I flailed my arms and legs as I propelled forward trying to stop the inevitable.  As the window loomed closer I went down on one knee and reached out to catch myself.  One hand slammed the wet floor sign into the window.  When the sign collapsed together the loud clap it made echoed through the restaurant.  **Oh crap! Now EVERYONE is going to look at me sprawled out on the floor** My other hand didn’t stop me as I cracked my head against the frame of the window and smashed my face on the glass.  I seriously felt my brain rattle around in my head when I hit.  It hurt.  But all I cared about was the 30+ people I KNEW were  staring at me.  **PLEAE, oh PLEASE, do not let all the employees come rushing over.**  I pulled myself into an upright position, squared my shoulders and slowly looked over my shoulder to the right where the employees were working.  To my surprise they were carrying on as usual. **AWESOME!! They didn’t notice!**  I slowly turned to the left and looked over my shoulder to the entire restaurant.  No one was looking at me…..except two hot men that looked like models.  Of course.  **How in the world did nobody HEAR THAT!?**  The men stared at me with startled expressions, the corner of their mouths twitching as they tried to suppress their smiles.  I walked back to my table and asked my mom to survey the damage.  I hit my head so hard I thought I had cracked it open.  Alas, no worries.  I was fine.   I do think I gave myself a mild concussion though. 

I always think it is hilarious when people fall, so after I figured I would never see the two people that witnessed the embarrassing incident again,(knock on wood) I laughed about it.  In fact I would love to see if Costa Vida has a video of the fall.  That would be entertaining. 

THURSDAY-

Kelsey was one of 11 alto singers chosen from her school to sing in the Honor Choir.   They took kids from each of the Junior High Schools.  The girls did such a good job and sounded so beautiful.

FRIDAY-

The Pocatello Chamber of Commerce holds an annual fundraiser, February Fantasy.  This year the event was held at my hotel and Kenny’s work, Robert Allen Auto Group, sponsored the event. Of course, we both attended.  I had a wonderful evening with my husband and friends.  My husband is SO wonderful about taking pictures with me, as you will see below.

The Robert Allen Auto Group table

Haley, Me, Manny and Susie

And here is our awesome photo shoot…..

Apparently I am married to Gene Simmons from KISS??

 

SATURDAY-

On Saturday Kristi and I had an open house for our First Impressions Businesses.  A big thank you to Kelsey, Kendall and Kylie for helping me clean the house after a LONG week.  Susie the company founder joined us and we had a fun day.

 

Casting the Dennis kids 

Kristi took a hand impression of this 3 day old baby! She is so cute!  We are extending our Open House specials if you make an appointment.

1/2 off Baby hands

$20 off Wedding hands

Buy one get one 1/2 off

So here’s to hoping this week won’t be quite so crazy and will be without any clumsy, embarrassing, hair scorching, incidents. ☺

Pasty Raisins anyone?

I laughed so hard when I found these pictures. My mom scanned these papers that she has kept all these years. My sisters and I wrote an entire cookbook with several recipes. All the recipes contained your basic staple ingredients. Water, sugar, raisins and.....toothpaste. Ha ha ha! And the worst part is we really ate them.

I was a very imaginative girl and was always forming some type of club. Here is a list of the rules for one of our clubs. My personal favorites-
#1 No bad laughage (language)
#11 Kara is Master (she was the older,cooler,next door neighbor)
#2 No introders....hee hee

Are you smarter than a 5th Grader?

At Kendall's Parent Teacher conference we were sitting at a table with Kendall's teacher going over some of his work. She was putting him on the spot and asking him to answer questions. The long pause with him trying to remember the correct answer took me back to an old elementary memory.
I am standing in front of my teacher at her desk. She is rapid fire asking me my math facts in front of the class and I am counting on my fingers behind my back. We are not supposed to count on our fingers but I got so nervous that I couldn't come up with the answers without my fingers to count on. That was pressure!

Kendall's teacher looked at me like she was going to ask me to answer and I panicked. I had NO IDEA what the heck she was talking about. Maybe she saw the fear in my eyes and had mercy on me because she moved on without putting me on the spot.
So I ask you....can you answer these 5th grade questions? Put your answers in your comment and no cheating off the internet! I want your answers coming from your brain without help!
These are actual questions from Kendall's parent teacher conference papers.

Which event happened first?
1. Treaty of Paris signed in 1783 or Benedict Arnold becomes a traitor?
2.Winter at Valley Forge or Battle of Bunker Hill?
3.Colonist's Victory at Saratoga or French join Revolution on Colonists' side?
4.Jim bought a package of chicken that had a mass of 1 kilogram 500 grams and a package of sausage that was 950 grams. He barbecued 500 grams of sausage and 750 grams of chicken. How much meat was left in kilograms and grams?
5.Which city is closest to Australia's capital? Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane?
6.What year did Tad Lincoln move into the White House? 1861, 1865, 1901?

Tying a Tie

is NOT one of my talents! My brother Jeff gave a bunch of ties to Kendall. (They are way too big but Kendall love them and is excited to wear them)
I was trying to help him tie it but as you can see, I am not so good.

My first attempt. It does look like a rather nice bow don't you think?


A closer look at my bow.



My second attempt...not pretty.


We finally called in Dad the expert.

Baking

Waiting for the rolls to rise


I asked my sister Jenny to help me make cinnamon rolls. I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I have never made them before. We used my Grandpa Hall's recipe. Jenny and I worked as a team, mostly. She did a lot more than me actually. :) She was a little disturbed that I dont have a rolling pin. I have never needed one before since the most I bake is bread maker bread and already frozen rolls and cookies. I guess I should get one. Thanks Jenny!

HSM3

Kelsey and I went to see High School Musical 3. Kenny and I were taking her out as a reward for getting all A's. She chose HSM3 and when we told Kenny the movie choice, we decided to put him out of his future misery and let him stay home and watch the kids.
I have to say that I LOVED it! I know it's a cheesy high school movie, but i loved it! If you liked the first two, you will love this one. There are several dance/song numbers that are amazing!

On a side note, there were two preteen girls in the theatre that were talking on their cell phones while the movie was playing. SO ANNOYING! There was a group 5 older women in front of me that shushed them and they kept on chatting away. Finally the man sitting behind us yelled in a very loud deep voice, "PUT THE PHONE AWAY!" It scared Kelsey and I and we both jumped. It worked though...complete silence followed.

When we got home, I came dancing in the door doing my best musical song and dance. Kenny said, "Don't ever do that again!" Ha ha

Food Storage Phobia

Okay. I have been breaking a commandment. You know, the one where you are supposed to build your food storage? I think food storage is awesome and I understand and whole heartedly support its purpose, but it scares me. I think my phobia stems from a few things. First would be the horrifying memories of drinking powdered milk and eating spam when I was growing up. Alright....so it wasn't that bad...actually the powdered milk really was that bad. :o) I am also a purger...this means that I do not keep things. I throw things away that have outlived their usefulness. It drives me crazy to store stuff that you really don't need and will never use again. My kids are always afraid to have me "help" clean their room because they know half of their stuff will disappear. I also hate moving stuff. So the pitiful amount of food storage that I have usually gets left behind in a move because we just don't want to bring it. I have wanted to try and build a food storage but it seems so overwhelming and I have no idea where to start. So I don't.
So... the point of this blog is that I attended the enrichment night dinner for my ward this evening. They served a really delicious meal and when we were all done they started an awesome program on food storage and how to cook with it. All the food we ate for dinner was from food storage....and I couldn't even tell! They served taquitos that were made with pvc? wait is that right? hold on...... it was TVP. I am still not sure exactly what that is but I ate some. I learned how to mix powdered milk and make it taste good. We sampled about 10 different things all made with food storage. The committee that put it together did a wonderful job. I am still really overwhelmed with the task and have images of wheat grinders and powdered eggs swirling in my head, but I think that my next new project is going to be food storage. I will start with the $15 a week food storage plan that tells you what to buy each week for 1 year. Any tips would be appreciated.