Monday, January 4, 2010

Adventures in Babysitting

It's very long, and I didn't proof read, I'll do it tomorrow....sorry!

The day started off at 2:00. We promptly began Wii Fit, where I won most of the games, my first time. It was a ton of fun, just a lot of concentration and balancing. We did have an unfortunate accident where we were playing baseball and the 6 year old swung his remote into my remote. OUCH! We decided to take a walk and get some fresh air. When we returned we made some frozen pizza and drank tons of Hawaiian punch. Spongebob made his first appearance as he graced the kitchen table in the game "Sorry" form (and shortly later he appeared in the snack form of cheese crackers). We played but once the little boy got "sorried" he didn't want to play anymore. He told us that he was done and whacked his pieces off the board. Shai and I finished and Shai won....): My moves always seemed to benefit her.
After that we rocked out to some rock band. Unfortunately the yellow drum didnt work, and since the beginner level always had at least 50% of them yellow, we always got booed off the stage. We sent the little boy to bed and kept eating kiss after kiss in a little jar (by the end of the night they were basically gone....whoops!)
As the midnight hour crept closer we wore our "Happy New Year" 'crowns' (cuz Shai and I were princesses and the little boy was a wizard) and got in the festive mood. The 6 year old wanted to pop the poppers and release the streamers but we kindly explained to him that we weren't going to do it until midnight or until he was ready to go to bed. At 7 he exclaimed he was more than ready to get to bed.....but we didn't want him to go to bed yet. So we said "put your pj's on for 15 minutes and if you're still ready then we'll do it." We went to put the baby in his pj's and the 6 year old came out in SPONGEBOB PJ'S! Then the little brother realized he was wearing them, and pointed to his very own spongebob pj's right next to the changing table. He wanted to match!
About 20 minutes later the older brother still wanted to do the minifireworks so he said "okay I'm ready!" We made him pinky promise he'd go to bed, but of course right after we were done he exclaimed "JUST KIDDING!". Luckily Shai and I saved some for us to do at midnight.
After we had finally gotten the kids to bed, about 9 for the baby 10 for the 6 year old, we decided to make cookies, since nothing was good on TV. We whipped up a batch of soft chocolate chip cookies and Shai wanted to run some next door to the boy she wants to marry's best family friends. We quickly digital scrapbooked a tag, wrapped it all cute in tinfoil, and ran over the cookies. Shai thought we wouldn't really did it, but in the morning they were gone from the house and the neighbors front door step, so we must have done it!
While the little boy was in his bed and we were scrapbooking we heard "Shailynn, Shai, Shai, Shai!" We thought he was going to come out, and the house was a mess from making the cookies so we just laid down in the bed and waited for him to come out, and we were going to blame it on the elves. We didn't find out until earlier that morning that he didn't really come out of his room, he just yelled for us.
While we were in the process of making cookies Shailynn was trying to spray Pam on the cookie sheet. She kept it really close and was spraying huge globs on it so I took it away from her to show her how to do it. She wasn't going to give it up without a fight so she kept grabbing for it. I threatened that if she was going to continue doing that I'd spray it in her mouth. She told me "Okay go for it!" and I did. Pam sprayed right into her mouth! We both were basically rolling on the floor in laughter after that point. YUCK! After that she got the nickname kidnapper (cuz she was trying to take poor Pam) and I was called Pam Mam, helping Pam's around the world stay safe.
Later that night we watched the ball drop, although it didnt exactly show the ball drop, it just showed gay people kissing, and we banged pots and pans. Shai broke a wooden spoon and we hit the pans to our hearts content. People were outside yelling happy new years to us and then we went inside to make a midnight snack and pop our fireworks of sorts.
I made my special gourmet Top Ramen, although it didn't taste good because we had to eat it out of Tupperware so it didn't taste as good as it should have. Then we watched some Barney and little kids shows, cuz that's the only thing that is appropriate at 1 o'clock in the morning. We were going to watch a movie but we could get the TV to work, even though we did our awesome ninja rolls from one side of the tv to the other. Finally we went to bed.....
The next morning we had a huge mess to clean up! One silly thing that happened was we we came into the entry way to find a VERY happy baby. He was shaking baking soda all over himself and he was rolling in it like it was snow. He loved it. That was the biggest smile I've ever seen on a baby. We cleaned for about an hour and made some yummy yummy waffles. The only down side is we had to have sugar free syrup on them. At that point we found out that the parents wouldn't be leaving Las Vegas for at least another hour.
We played some more Wii and then ditched the electronics for an old fashion fun game of Hide and Go Seek. It was a lot of fun, and filled with lots of fun spots to hide. We then decided to do some rough housing and the little boy loved attacking us and chasing us around the house. We decided to pick him up and I had the arms and Shai had the kicking legs. I was laughing so hard I could keep him up so I slowly lowered him but due to his kicking or something he fell a little faster than expected so I hurried to catch his head and somehow he got hurt (for the third time poor boy, he must hate me). He complained his elbows were hurt....I think. Then the mom called and said she was just leaving Las Vegas.
I went into the bathroom to wash my hands and realized that there was some toilet paper in the toilet so I went to flush it and it clogged! How embarrassing. What was worse though, is we looked all over for the plunger and we couldn't find it ANYWHERE! Finally after lots of embarrassment and stress we found it in the cabinet of the boys bathroom. That was lucky!
So we turned on some music and had a huge dance party. We switched from rap to 70's, 80's, 90's, swing, tango, and broadway. We rocked out to the rockband accessories and just plain had fun! Then somehow the poor boy got hurt again and ran into his room. Then on the 90's station this really weird rap came on, right as the parents came home. It was pretty embarassing.
Then....I went home.
Phew

Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009

This year has been a great year!
1. January, moved to the clearer side of life, Contacts!
2. May, finished up a long school year
3. June, spent the best month of my life in Idaho
4. August, started high school
5. September, Ande turned two
6. October, Halloween was the funnest time for us all. Ande was so excited
7. November, I turned 15! I should have my permit....grr.
8. December, party month!

Okay, maybe that doesnt give a great overall feel for the year, but hey! I tried. Now I'm off to babysit overnight starting at 1. I'll be back to share my goals!

Happy New Year!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Christmas 2009

What kind of teenager would I be if I didn't post every thing I got for Christmas?! Here it goes......
1. $100 for after Christmas sales
2. Scarf/gloves/hat. They're really cute and red
3. My own copy of Music and Lyrics! YAY!
4. Pink shower radio. So excited for that haha.
5. Hollister body spray with corresponding lotion and body wash. Smells so good, cranberries and vanilla!
6. Odd school supplies like notebooks, locker magnets, and a journal.
7. A build a bear thing haha. Its a sparkly light brown and its so cute! (Kati Bear is my nickname)
8. A sewing calendar with a new pattern for every three days of the year.
9. LOTS of junk food. Sorry Celeste, apparently I'm going to be a fat unhealthy adult (:
10. I'm forgetting something important!............

1. And for our family gift we got an Xbox 360 with lots of games. Only all of the games are too hard! Darn it..


Christmas was great. It started out with none of the kids wanting to get up (in hopes of staying up LATE that night) while my dad jumps up and down wanting us to go. Ande thought it was so magical, she was so excited for the tiniest thing and didnt know what hit her with each new present. She was a spoiled little girl.
Our Christmas tradition is as long as we dont fight or take a nap we can stay up as late as we want. I had to beat last year's record so I stayed up until 6! My first all-nighter. Next year I may not get to go to bed, that's going to be hard!

I wish I had an insanely cute picture of me opening my gifts/with my gifts, but no such picture exists.....sigh....I hate pictures of me in the morning.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Christmas Tag!

The Christmas Edition of getting to know your friends.Okay, here's what you're supposed to do:Just copy this entire post and paste into a new post that you can put up on your blog. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then tag...

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper, it's fun to open things and be surprised.
2. Real tree or Artificial? I've never had an real tree. I've heard that they are a mess though.
3. When do you put it up? Whenever, we feel like it. We still dont have ours up yet.
4. Favorite Christmas theme? Define theme, red, green and silver?
5. Do you like eggnog? BIG NO!
6. Favorite gift received? contacts, or what I'm getting this year, a plane ticket!
7. Hardest person to buy for? It's generally easy for me to buy gifts for people
8. Easiest person to buy for? Everyone is pretty easy.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, it's fun to hold a card.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Can't say.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? I'm not quite sure.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Whenever I have money!
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Sure!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Pumpkin pie, even though its Thanksgiving. I also love mashed potatoes.
16. Lights on the tree? Of course, that's what makes it festive!
17. Favorite Christmas song? Oh Holy Night, any sort of lullaby Mary sings to Jesus
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? you know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, then Rudolph and "Olive".
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Whatever we use that year.
21. Open the presents? One on Christmas Eve (pj's) and then the rest on Christmas. And you cant open ones you get in the mail until Christmas day!
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Not having enough money, the cold, or not getting things done in time.
23. Favorite ornament or color? Silvers and deep reds.
24. Favorite for Christmas Dinner? Whatever we have to eat haha.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Well, materialistic wise I'm getting a plane ticket for this summer
26. Tag. Shailynn and Madie

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Today

Can I just say today is unbelievably the best? Today I'm just happy. I want to climb the Red Mountain and shout it to the world!
TODAY IS A WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL DAY!
It must have been me listening to 80's music and christain rock all day. Plus eating Del-Taco red sauce bean burritos and playing carpet. (Don't ask me to explain, I don't think I could, you just play it with cards). AND, I didn't epically fail my scripture mastery test. Some of the best in the class got 5-10/100. I got a 93 (: (: (: (: (I don't like putting smiley faces on here, but I'm happy, so why not).
I don't even care that I have maybe 9 readers of this blog, because today is beautiful.
I got to see the SUN!
It was WARM! 50 degrees, eat that potato lovers.
I got to talk to some amazing people.
I met the most amazingly poliet guy EVER, seriously, you'd all love him. No worries, I'm not 16.
I cleared up my future, I can see it now.
I don't have a care in the world, just shrugged it off my shoulders.
Christmas break, here I come!!!!!!!
I'm being a dork and I dont even care.

Christmas is coming, hope you all are wonderful and have an amazing holiday season.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Have you missed me?

I haven't been on the computer, except for an occasional homework session here and there, I've been busy and working!
On Friday morning I woke up and ALL the leaves fell, overnight. Pretty amazing. So on Saturday I raked up 6 bags worth of leaves, it took me three hours (I hate bagging them) and there is still three big piles to rake up. Fun, but very time consuming.
This week I have 3 essays due, 1,000 reading pages (done), and a review for a book, more on that later when I have time. Let's just say DO NOT READ IT! Plus, I have a 3-5 page report rough draft due, so I'll be busy. Oh, and a 4 minute Spanish skit to do on Thursday. I'm a tequilla drinking taxi driver who always hits happy hour, you can see me doing that right?
On Thursday I went to Dicken's Festival and got a pretty bow and headband, for $5. The singing was alright, but the trip was a blast. I listened to my iPod and sang on the bus, I didn't care who was listening. Plus I got to carry around my new cute purse! Plus a really great scone for $4, with honey butter, it was very tasty.
Wednesday I read the entire driver's manual in hopes that I could get my permit on Thursday, but no such luck. I also did a fun service project for mutual, but I can't go into detail about that.
On that note I need your help. I'm in charge of the combined activity in January. I want it to be really spiritual and introduce the theme really well. Any fun ideas?

I'll post as soon as I get a second! Don't lose faith!