how did i miss these? i was sorting recent photos into their proper folders and found these beauties! i can't believe i missed them, they cracked me up so hard when i first took them i remember being excited to get them posted. i guess i got distracted, which you know, happens frequently in my world, and i'm now getting them up. so these are obviously back when patsy broke her ankle. we took a ride out to our favorite store - archivers, to get her out of the house. ethan thought it was so awesome pushing her around the store, it was totally his job and he would get a little touchy if i tried to help steer, which in a store with that many shelves of little things, sometimes got kind of interesting. but patsy didn't mind, she kept him totally busy having him help push her, she is one of his favorite people because she's always so fun.
the only thing he liked better than pushing her was riding in it himself.
funny kid.
then in just the right light i caught a glimpse of a foot print on the counter - what the?!
then i noticed oreo crumbs in his milk.
then i found the smoking gun. he was hiding in the pantry quietly licking the frosting from the middle of his peppermint oreo cookie. can't really blame him, they're really yummy.
how does he know to eat the frosting only? is this knowledge something that little kids are born with?
i discovered a new favorite thing - cherry limeade, yum-o, thanks for the recommendation ashliegh! now i'm off to paint some kitchen cupboards...busy busy busy.
so i will say this, the movie was better than i thought it would be, maybe because my expectations of it were so low. i liked how they cut through the crap and got to the story, stefanie meyer tends to ramble. but, i missed hearing edwards thoughts and i wanted to see the cullen family more. i hated "book" bella but liked the "movie" bella fine, maybe because i couldn't hear her inner whining dialogue. there were plenty of parts that i laughed out loud because it was so sappy and wondered how the actors kept straight faces for some of those scenes. and really, what's up with jasper? did someone forget to tell that actor that he had been cast as a vampire and not a zombie? he looks like a stoner with bad hair for the entire movie. however, the cheese, the lack of cullens, the stoner, emmitt's crushed velvet purple track suit, all of it was worth watching to see this hottie on the big screen. (i'm not talking about the girl either)
i never really knew that i liked robert pattinson so much, but man he really melted my butter in this movie. he's definitely not what i pictured in my head as edward but he did a good job i thought. i saw him on the today show this morning, someone asked him "what was the hardest part about playing edward". he answered in his cute little british accent, 
ethan didn't mind waiting for a table because it gave him time to check out the giant aquarium - he was especially excited to see dory in there.
we have been celebrating a lot of birthdays lately and he loves singing the birthday song. he totally got that it was his special day and even sang along with us "hap birday to ME!" when the ice cream came - always a good after breakfast snack!
he loved getting balloons from the hotel staff and wearing a pin with his name on it.
ya, disneyland is a pretty good way to spend a birthday - especially when you're "three old years", which is what he tells you when you ask him how old he is. love this little guy.
rich and i really couldn't be more different from each other in many ways, one big way is roller coasters. i am an adrenaline junkie, there isn't anything that i wouldn't ride, ok with the exception to non-regulated carny rides - now that's crazy! in fact, a dream vacation for me would be to travel all over the US riding all of the big record breaking coasters, the idea of it makes me a little giddy even though it will probably never happen. until recently it sounded like a lonely vacation, then we went to disneyland and i realized all four kids are thrill-seekers just like me! ethan's favorite part of disneyland hands-down was riding as many rides as possible. he kept asking "pirates ride?" and loved the water fall at the beginning. he loved everything we went on but requested pirates most often.
the older kids were off doing their own teenager thing a lot so i don't have as many photographs of them, but they rode the thrill rides over and over and are officially hooked YAY!
luckily the kids were really great about also riding a lot of kiddie rides for ethan, one of them, his favorite, the merry go round. which, funny enough, is the one ride i CAN'T do, oh man, it makes me so sick!
ethan also got a kick out of standing next to the "you have to be this tall" signs to see how he measured up. he knew it determined whether or not he could ride something and was always disappointed when he wasn't tall enough.
so a family of thrill seeks - well minus dad - but he's a good sport anyway.
GO TAYLOR you honor roll STUD! just for the record, allie also brought home a fabulous looking report card, a 3.9! not bad at all for her first term of jr. high! i fully recognize what a BIG deal this is and i'm so proud of them both!
she's right, it was pretty yummy. ethan loves the movie "little rascals" and was singing "i gotta pi-ttle, i got a pi-ttle, i got a pi-ttle, hey! hey! hey!" the whole time he ate it, pretty cute. 
if it weren't for the squishy juice factor i would've brought one home for you kristy!
you don't have to deal with a ton of candy for the next year, it never snows in california (which is does every year in utah) so you don't spend the night bargaining with your children over how many more houses they can visit before your toes freeze off, no one wears anything bloody at disneyland and $5 disney charcter t-shirts are all the older kids need for a costume. hooray!
of course, there's also the awesome decorations
and if you're lucky, you just might spot a tiny buzz light year roaming around the park. and just incase you get confused by all the other buzz's there, you'll know that this particular buzz belongs to me because he's the one that refuses to wear the purple sock helmet thing on his head, fyi.
"don't worry, i've set my laser from stun to KILL!"
"to infinity and beyond!"
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it sort of makes me laugh because it says a lot about me. i'm very forgetful, it's true that if i don't act on a thought immediately as i think of it, then i run the risk of it being lost forever. at the very least i have to write it down. in this photo i am actually on a field trip to snowbird with my kids and parents and out of town family when i remembered i needed to re-schedule my hair appointment. it didn't matter that i was at 11,000 feet elevation and surrounded by incredible beauty, if i didn't make the phone call right then, it never would have gotten done. thanks april for grabbing a shot of me in my element. as a side note, it makes me feel sad to see my hair so long and pretty. it's crazy to think that it grew for an additional year after that before 
then they told ethan to "act dead" (does your tongue hang out like that after you die?), and then proceded to sob dramatically over their patient who didn't make it. 
what the hey? i swear there are times that no matter how hard i try, i just don't understand boy humor. but trust me, in "boy" world, this was hillarity at it's best and was talked about for weeks afterwards. 