Documenting life...: Wishing...and hoping...

Monday, April 21, 2008

Wishing...and hoping...

I am so sick of the cold. I really really wish I were here right now....
bEautiful Kauai-
I think the beach is by far my favorite place on earth...
who needs botox when you have a scuba mask?

on a heli would also be nice....
or here...on a zipline that makes you look like you have the fattest g-string ever. That's fine. It's hot. :)

15 comments:

Bethany said...: i want to come too. i cannot handle the cold and wind anymore!!; April 21, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Lindsay said...: Sigh...some of my good friends are there right now...I pretty much hate them.; April 21, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Steve & Angie said...: Ahhhh, 87 degrees here today. The pool and the sun are great!! Can't wait to see you here in a few weeks, bring your suit, you can start your summer tan! :-); April 22, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Meredith said...: I'd love to be there right now, too.; April 22, 2008 at 7:10 AM
Rachel Clare said...: OOOooohhhhh YES.; April 22, 2008 at 8:09 AM
Jackie said...: I would love to be there anytime! I am totally ready for summer also- and I'm so sick of the wind! I feel like I'm back in Wyoming again.; April 22, 2008 at 8:50 AM
Brian and Kim said...: I would love that too!! I totally agree with Jackie, enough already with the wind. :); April 22, 2008 at 9:08 AM
Sarah Welsh said...: It's FINALLY starting to warm up in St. Louis & everything is starting to turn green, horray for spring, I thought it would NEVER come!; April 22, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Emily said...: Let's leave this afternoon. The kids can fend for themselves for a week (or 2)!; April 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Sandy said...: It's hot here in the Az, but I'd take Hawaii any day!!; April 22, 2008 at 11:30 AM
tiffunny said...: Sometime we talk about moving back to Utah. But then I hear everyone complain about the weather 9 months out of the year cause of freak cold spells and stuff and I appreciate that I live in Vegas. Hawaii would be nice though. My husband was just presented a job offer there - how cool would that be. But i bet it would cost a fortune to live there.; April 24, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Anonymous said...: I wish I were there now too. It is snowing here today, what the heck?; April 24, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Tanya said...: I'd take Hawaii any day!! a friend has just returned from there.... so jealous! Love the googles Jen!!; April 24, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Tanya said...: You've been tagged go to my blog for details.; April 25, 2008 at 3:43 AM
Leesa said...: You crack me up! Love the pictures; May 6, 2008 at 6:40 PM

Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.