Pet Peeve

Definition: A pet peeve is a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to them, to a greater degree than others may find it. Examples may be poor table manners, sloppy kitchen hygiene, smoking, grammatical errors in written passages, inconsiderate driving or lazy co-workers, and loud gum smacking.

I officially have a Pet Peeve.

I've never really had one before.

When people used to ask me I would say: "People who water their lawn when it's rainin" (just to be silly)

Today I can say with absolute confidence that not only do I have a pet peeve, but this will always and forever remain my one and only pet peeve:

People who clip their finger nails during sacrament meeting.

I mean seriously-where are the fingernails going?
And it's usually some old man in the back who has the clippers attached to his key chain.
And he's probably bored (like the rest of us) and figures it's as good a time as any-
And the sound echo's nicely throughout the chapel with those fabulous acoustics
And heaven forbid he take care of it during the week in the privacy of his own home

But really, if a pet peeve is a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to them, to a greater degree than others may find it, - so it's just me then huh?

Zing Zang Zoom!

The circus is on town! So in celebration we (Brown and I) took the kids down to the Gateway for the annual Circus Parade/elephant walk. It was the coolest! Here are a few shots of the event:

Free Rubber Noses for all who attended

The beginning:
Oh how I envied those flashy bedazzled unitards.

I did some research:
you can actually home school your kids should
the family become a part of the troup. Carnie for a year... hmmmm

The elephant walk

The unsung hero's of the event
(yup you see right, wheel barrows and shovels following the elephants)

The end

And that's exactly how long the parade was. In fact it took me longer to down load these photos and BLOG about it than it did to sit/stand through the parade. But totally worth it and a fun tradition. My favorite part: lunch after wards! Thanks Brown for the good times and for exposing me to the "Greatest Show on EARTH!"

wow what a difference 3 days makes!

Oddly resembles a Celeb Mug Shot huh?!
We just posted bail and got her out of the klink!

I went to the ward party. . .

and all I got was this crappy black eye!

what a shiner huh?!

It's so quiet

hmmmmm

We thought they were simply watching a movie

No wonder things were so quiet!

yup- that's marker

Ah the little darlings!
Nothin BUT Evil! :)

Bring your sister to school day

(Guest Blog by Anna)

so lilly came to my school today. I think she had so much fun.

we learned new songs: 5 little monkeys, 5 little ducks, and last of all we sang 5 little frogs (lilly was really good at singing the songs) we also learned Old McDonald had a farm-we had a paper bag hand puppet for old mcdonald had a farm(it had a animal on it) and for the monkeys, frogs, and ducks it was a picture of them on a stick.

Then we played with playdough, and lilly had so much fun -she made blue stars.

On to the sancks (lilly was very happy for that) they had water, goldfish, and some apples.

we then played duck-duck-goose, Lilly had so much fun and so did the other kids that were there they would run around and tag people. Lilly was the funniest, what she would do was go duck -duck so many times and then she would tap somone on the head, say nothing and start to run thinking they would just come after her.(hahahaha) I had so much fun and I think Lilly did too. -anna

bed head

GOOD MORNING!