Perks are nice.

This being the month of giving thanks I thought I would tell you about something I am thankful for.

Perks.

You know the extra things you get for nothing (well nothing is ever actually free but you know what I mean)

Of course I am thankful for MANY other things...just not in this post.

One of the perks my main man gets from work is FANTASTIC seats to the Utah Jazz. 

And by fantastic I mean there are only a few others in the entire arena with a better view.

Yup that would be center court and only 2 rows in front of us. (One of those being the announcers and such) 

(And please try to ignore the Jazz dancers, I mean really all they do is shake their boobs and gyrate their hips and call it dancing?)

(But then again I am not a man so...)

Oh yea...I am cool.

This is Andrei Kirilenko.  The man with the longest freaking arms on the planet.  He blocks like a hundred million shots a game.  Also has a wife that is a famous singer in Europe and has a cute little chubby baby she had a the game last night.  Oh and she also dresses VERY European... if you get what I mean. YIKES!!

My favorite Jazz player.  The man is like 7 feet tall and can shoot the lights out.  And his shot is so dang pretty too :)

My favorite picture of the night.  It's like I meant to make the background all blurry and Mr. Deron Williams all in focus.

My new BFF

So last night I meet the coolest lady. I was hanging out at this little bookshop (think Shop around the corner from You've Got Mail) when I happen to run into this lady. We got to talking and it turns out she has a blog and 4 kids she is trying to raise and a husband. We found we have much in common. So we are now BFF's.

I happened to have my camera with me so I got some pictures of us together.

Arn't we just too cute? Here name is Ree Drummond but she said all her close frends call her The Pioneer Woman.
She happen to also have a cook book for sale so I thought "What the heck! I will buy one and maybe even have her sign it." Cuz we are friends like that.
Did I mention that like 400 of her other new BFF's showed up too?

Here we are just shooting the breeze. Mostly we talked about wearing Spanx and what food to make for dinner to have you husband be "putty in your hands". She suggested the Chicken Fried Steak on page 45 of her cookbook.

My friend Michele and I both meet her and now love her more now than we did before.


Here I am with my new cookbook. I already know what I am making for dinner tonight.

Here she is signing my book. What a good friend :)
(Okay it is actually the book of the lady in front of me, but that is not important!!)

Here is a shot of the other 400 hundred of her new BFFs.

It was a long night and my husband now thinks I am a nerd for waiting like 3 hours to meet her but it was worth it. She is very nice and down to earth.
Thanks for going with me Michele!!

The Holiday Season is Approaching

Total Awesomeness.

That is the only way I can describe how I feel about the people who live in the house on the right.

Church entertainment...

We have what my kids refer to as the "Church Bag".  It is the bag that sits in the back of my car only to make an appearance each Sunday with the sole purpose of entertaining my children during church.

It contains a few coloring books, crayons, a nice book with a church theme or two, a few Polly Pockets, you get the idea.  Quiet stuff.

Well this last week the "church bag" was forgotten in the car. 

Call the authorities! 

You would have thought the world was ending.  When I refused to leave in the middle of church to retrieve it Tiffany had to find other ways to entertain herself.  She promptly stole asked nicely to borrow my notebook out of my purse and a pen so she could draw pictures. 

A few minutes later she shows me her masterpiece.

 

"That is you in the shower Mommy!!"  She says very proud of herself.

(We are currently having discussions about NOT coming in the bathroom while mom and/or dad are in the shower) 

(Yes, you read that and/or correctly!!)

I then just had to open my mouth and ask what that circle in the middle of the picture was...I know, rookie mistake.

"That is your tummy mommy"

Yea, Nathan just about had to excuse himself from church as to not distract others with his hysterical laughing.

 

 

While is was getting the picture out of my purse to scan it, I found several other lovely drawings from my children.

For your viewing pleasure, how my kids entertain themselves during church.

One of my kids is quite the budding Picasso.  The mouth part reminds me of the Twilight Zone movie.  You know the part when the whole family has to make sure the little brother stays happy so he won't do things with his mind. His sister does something he doesn't like and he makes her have no mouth.  Anyone know what I am talking about?  I had serious nightmares about that as a kid.  Maybe if I hadn't seen that movie at the ripe age of 8 things would have turned out differently and this drawing by my daughter wouldn't give me the heebe jeebies.

WOW I really got off track there...back to the regularly scheduled blog post.

Here you have the standard sibling insult.  I am sure this was drawn and then passed to poor Stephanie in the hopes of making her mad.  Are you feeling the love between my kids?

And last but possible my favorite (because we know the shower picture is not my fav.)  I am not sure what this King did or where he is the King of, but he really must have ticked some people off!!!  I would say that his days are numbered wouldn't you?

There you have it.  Now don't you wish you could sit by us during church?