Food Glorious food.......

Sunday Dinner was glorious yesterday.

Our frimilie's the Folwers are in the area for some training with the State Department so we make occasions to get together and eat good food and play games. Yesterday was one of those occasions with a Chinese dinner and a fun Chinese tile like game.

Our menu consisted of Kung po Chicken, Szechuan green beans, pork gyoza(potstickers), Spicy Beef something or another, Sweet N Sour Chicken, bok choy and of course streamed rice. Did I forget any thing? It was one of those dinners that you wanted to keep eating because the food is so good but your body insisted that you stop.

It was so fun. Thanks Folwers for the good food and fun games last night. (the girls will win and when it happens it will be goood). We love your family and we are grateful for friends that feel like family(frimilies). It makes us happy that you will be returning after Christmas for a few days before shipping off to your new home, again, on the other side of the world.

The other day I said "If I didn't have to eat, I wouldn't miss it". I have to take that back now. Some foods I really do love and would miss and Chinese food is one of them. Eating and everything that goes in to eating all day long is kind time consuming, but so is blogging. So life is time comsuming, is what I am getting out of this or everything that goes into life takes time. My advise for "self" today is "Take time to live life and you will have the time of your life." I think I have heard that some where, but oh well, do it "self".

23 years ago today I was run over by a mack Truck.....

well that is how it felt! So was it really that long ago?
I gave birth to a 9.3 lb fat little lover Baby-aka Cherub. He was so sweet but from day one he was like "You know what world, this body needs to work better than this because I have things too do, people to out smart and places to go". He continues to try and do all those things but he grew into his body.

Logan was born on Pearl Harbor Day and waited as long as he could to grace us with his presences, he was 17 days over due. He was worth the wait and after all these years I can still say that. My body was more beat up in that birth than all the other 5 combined, I like to get the worse over with first.

23 Facts about Logan

1. He started out big but at 12 months he was only in the 5% of his weight and height.
   
2. rolled over at 3 months
3. Pulled himself up to furniture at 5 months - I had just read that you should make sure that a baby crawls before they walk because that is needed to learn to read, yikes he would never learn to read. I called a experienced mother of 6 children and expressed my concern. She very calmly told me that I should kick his feet out from under him, not funny to a new mother. Then she explained, that was a theory that the crawling motion was the same learned pattern that you use to read, something like that. She reassured that I should not worry and he would be fine. He reads very well!
4. Crawled at 6 months - rejoice! he will learn to read
   
5. Walked at 9 months
6. He thinks he can go to the School for the Blind because he is blond. Another story for another day
7. He had a lot of problems with his baby teeth decaying, the dentist asked me if I drank a lot of coke while I was pregnant, nope not me.
8. Played in Central Park when he was 15 months old
9. Flew on a airplane at 3 month old
10. talked at 2 years old, some concern there but I had not read anything about not learning to read if you didn't talk, so not real worried.
    
11. Age 7 he knew more about Dinosaurs than his Paleontologist Great Uncle, so he thought.
12. Went to 6 different schoolsl before graduating as a Jack Rabbit in Mesa AZ, "BAM"
13. Honor Student
14. Eagle Scout
15. Won a National Competition in some skill thinking thing - hard for me to explain
16. Wants to be a Millionaire
    
17. Age 14 broke his arm and I think this is the only bone he has broken
    
18. Sold Pokemon Card on the black market in Middle school
19. Ultimate Frisbee is his favorite sport
20. loves Shrimp
21. Never had braces
    
22. Return Missionary
23. Husband to a cute wife

love this kid! He is a great young man and continues to amaze me. Love you son and I hope you had a great Day.


Just a few hours before he was released as a missionary!

I have a disorder!

I am a bi-polar blogger!

I went through my depressed stage and now I am in my maniac. Which do you prefer? LOl I wish that I would become a Maniac about cleaning my house.
JOY
HOPE
PEACE
BELIEVE

MAcY DAy ParaDe!!!

It started at 12:30 am with a 4 hour drive to the Big Apple. Arriving at the parade route at about 5:15 am. It was hard to choose where to sit since the choices were wide open. Front row curb on Central Park West and 64th st was our chosen spot. The girls went in search for a bathroom and found one at Starbucks in Columbus Circle. Then it was the boys turn and they found one right behind us in the park, note to self that they have ok restroom in CP. The weather was perfect, 50 degrees and no wind. We dressed in lays and had plenty of warm stuff with us but it was not needed.

Waiting game - some slept curled up in blankets, others walked up the parade route to see if they could find the beginning. People started crowding in more and more tightly. You had to stand your ground and be a little bit pushy to let people know that I was not here at 5:30 in the morning to be pushed off my front row curb for those arriving much later.

Parade began at 9:00 am sharp, none of this mormon standard time stuff. One annoying thing was about 8:00 the NYPD put up another barrier around the lamp post we were seated by so that pushing the family next to us closer, it didn't make sense, anyway our nieghbors were nice and friendly from MD. The clowns started the fun and it just gets more joyous with each passing float and balloon. The first Balloon was Spiderman and they are really as big and huge as they look on TV. Confetti and newspaper shreads litter the streets when the parade is long gone. It was great fun and we all were so happy that we did this adventure this year.

Spiderman, Spiderman if he can't do it no one can!


We are here! We are here! We are here!


Yes Virginia there is a Santa Cluase!


Thanksgiving Dinner in Central Park
Yum Yum
(I cooked a turkey on Friday and the Fowlers joined us)

This was our spot!!!
All tuckered out and ready to go home.
Oh yeah, so was everyone else.
It took us an hour to get on the other side of the Lincoln Tunnel (with out traffic less than 10 mins)
but it was all part of the adventure.
What is our next adventure? hum
We have not been to Chicago or Boston

Things to do different next time:
Bring chairs, Stay a night before or after in NJ or NY.
But we would definitely do it again, but not every year.

Last but not least NYC in the Nov

4 crazy Women and a highway in front of them.
What do they do?
Go to NYC, where else can you see a naked cowboy
(we did not see him this trip and he does wear white briefs)
and Mary Poppins on the same block.

4 Crazy Women - JA, ME, MC, LL


Anne Curry visiting with the audience at the Today Show.



Our Cozy Carriage ride through Central Park.
It actually was a movie tour - this is where..... and this is the building for.....
and this is were so and so lives. Very Cool!


Warner Building at Columbus Circle


Lady Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry.
A very wet day but we managed to stay somewhat dry.


Frozen Hot Chocolate, Fancy Decorations, Very popular place




Need I say more!!!!

I thought I would share. As of late I have caught myself on more than one occasion reading a text while driving and hurrying to the next red light so I could get my message out, most are not so important that they can not wait. I lecture my children about cell phone usage while driving all the time, what a hypocrite I have become. Repent ye Repent ye!!!!! I am not ready to meet Jesus or cause someone else to meet him.

The Baltimore National Aquarium

Heidi's birthday falls on Veteran's Day and it seems like we always do something adventures on that day. Last year we went to Gettysburg and this year we ventured up to the Inner Harbor of Baltimore and partook of an under the sea experience that an aquarium has to offer. It is a very nice facility and a lot to do in one day, but we made it through all the exhibits.
It was a rainy day, imagine that.



Shark bate!!!!

The dolphin show - Mariah wants to be a dolphin trainer now, you go girl.



Oh! To be a Jelly Fish

Birthdays

Turning 12 is the best because you get all
kinds of new privileges

1. babysit for other people
2. sit in front seat of the car, but don't make a fuss
3. Graduate from Primary and Go to YW
4. Bonus-getting out of the Primary Sacrament Meeting Program
   

John turns 50!!
It doesn't get much better than 2 cheesecakes for your birthday

Aaaw they made me a Texas Sheet Cake, my favorite.
I am one year older and wiser too,
and I will leave it at that.

Hpapy Bridthay to Abby!

Nine is very fine!
Money and Lego's is what keeps this kid motivated
to live another day.

Heidi in all her 21 years of wisdom!

North Carolina in SuUummerTime!

Our playground for the week!

Dropping Carson off at the Wilmington NC Airport to head out to UT, Sc sc sc aaarrrryyy! He left and never looked back!!!! My babies are growing up and saving ........ no spending my money? We miss and love this kid.

Kate lost her head!!!!!

Feel that ocean breeze?

We do a lot of this in the middle of the day when it is to hot to be in the sun.

Surprise!

So yeah, I guess you can call me blog depressed, lack of a better title, not any more. I am not really depressed just my blog ideas were. lol

I have much to record and much to share since I am 3 months behind.

Highlights of the last 3 months or so.....

• Great times in North Carolina at our Annual Beach Trip to finish the summer off.
• Sent Carson out to BYU - He is doing well!!!
  
• John turned the big 50
• Abby and I shared a birthday! We will every year. hehe
  
• Cutting Vinyl like crazy and lovin it!
• Celebrated 2 kids birthdays in November
• Went to the National Aquarium in Baltimore
  
• Went to NYC with some great friends, had a lot of fun and saw "Mary Poppins" and took a buggy ride through Central Park.
• Went to NYC with the Family to watch the Macy's Day Parade on Thanksgiving - a BLAST!!! Miracle - sat by the Glass Posse (Minus Kage), not planned, a blog friend.
  

Over the next few days or weeks I will add picture of these events and more detail.

Here is a photo that the Glass Posse took of us after the Parade.