11.27.2008

Please welcome little Ira to the world...



My newest little nephew was born this morning @ 2:30am in St. George, Utah. (Courtesy of my sister Stina and her hubby Shawn) Little Ira is an 8 pounder turkey and is something my whole family is thankful for today!

Gobble Gobble-- happy thanksgiving all :)

11.25.2008

A Cup of Tea


Courtesy of Ali...


One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me.

I was maybe 2 1/2 years old and had just recovered from an accident. Someone had given me a little tea set as a get-well gift and it was one of my favorite toys.

Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when I brought him a little cup of “tea”, which was in fact just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such “yummy tea”, my Mom came home.

My Dad made her wait in the living room to watch me bring him a cup of tea, because he thought it was ”just the cutest thing ever!' My mom waited, and sure enough, I came down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy-- she watched him drink it up.

She waited for a moment, smiling. Then she says, as only a mother would know... “Did it ever occur to you that the only place your daughter can reach to get water is the toilet?”

11.20.2008

One last photo for Stina...



We miss you and wish you were home....here is a little adventure from July @ Becca's Bachelorette party!

Okay....okay...this was my real costume...




Happy Halloween
The orbit girl...and crystal the bunny

A picture for Stina...


I hope you will see this a laugh and your baby will pop out

11.03.2008

My new Holiday Diet...


Holiday Stress Diet

The following diet is designed to help you cope with the stress that builds up during the holidays.

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit
1 slice whole wheat toast
8 oz. skim milk

Lunch:
4 oz. lean broiled chicken breast
1 cup steamed spinach
1 cup herb tea
1 Oreo cookie

Mid-Afternoon Snack:
The rest of Oreos in the package
2 pints Rocky Road ice cream nuts
cherries and whipped cream
1 jar hot fudge sauce

Dinner:
2 loaves garlic bread
4 cans or 1 large pitcher Coke
1 large sausage, mushroom and cheese pizza
3 Snickers bars

Midnight Snack:
Entire frozen Sara Lee cheesecake (eaten directly from freezer)


Rules for This Diet

1. If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.

2. If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are cancelled out by the diet soda.

3. When you eat with someone else, calories don't count if you do not eat more than they do.

4. Food used for medicinal purposes NEVER counts, such as hot chocolate, brandy, toast and Sara Lee Cheesecake.

5. If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.

6. Movie related foods do not have additional calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel. Examples: Milk Duds, buttered popcorn, Junior Mints, Red Hots and Tootsie Rolls.

7. Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breaking causes calorie leakage.

8. Things licked off knives and spoons have no calories if you are in the process of preparing something.

9. Foods that have the same color have the same number of calories. Examples are: spinach and pistachio ice cream; mushrooms and mashed potatoes.

10. Chocolate is a universal color and may be substituted for any other food color.

11. Anything consumed while standing has no calories. This due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.

12. Anything consumed from someone else's plate has no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to his/her plate. (We ALL know how calories like to cling!)

REMEMBER: STRESSED SPELLED BACKWARDS IS DESSERTS!