1. Miracle Whip. Why was this stuff even ever created? I’m doing research to figure out what genius thought mixing mayonnaise and bird poop and selling it to the masses was a good idea.
More like Miracle Crap.
2. Boys. Nuff said.
3. The layout of Jacksonville. I think they dropped buildings randomnly from the sky and then were like “Well dang, where we gonna put the roads? Well, I guess we’ll just weave ‘em in between and over and let the locals figure it out.” I swear there are actually roads that just end. Like, bridges. Just end.
4. The “Buddies” movies. Who is buying these and helping fund the creation of more horror?
5. Spanish. I’ve tried a few times. I still don’t understand it. It’s really sad. BUT I do know that llueve is rain and probably will remember that along with hola. And I remember hermano. And sol. And castigar. And if I thought about it long enough I could probably remember the words to “I’ve Got The Joy” because we kinda have an inside joke about that from Spanish class at co-op and- I GOT IT! Yo tengo gozo, gozo, gozo, gozo en mi corazon. Well, maybe I’m not as clueless as I thought.
6. Verizon commercials. Seriously, they annoy me. They don’t make sense and/or they are completely stupid. And cheesy. They are ALWAYS cheesy. Verizon’s commercials make me want to switch to Sprint because Sprint commercials are awesome. Yes commercials TOTALLY dictate what companies I like. It’s pretty sad.
But anyway. Verizon commercials. What the heck?
7. Women on Pinterest that have boards dedicated to “hot” men. What the heck? I’m pretty sure women would be mightily offended(and probably fuming) if their husbands/boyfriends/any man on the planet had a board dedicated to good looking women. Jordan has a nice way of putting it.
Yesterday we went to the beach and the kids played and I took pictures. Also, I made a cake.
May 2, 2012We went to the beach yesterday. The older boys played in the waves and Lucy and Jess played in the tidal pools.
Lucy is so cute.
Also there were surfers so they got their pictures taken and they probably don’t even know it.
In order to get some of the pictures I had to stand in knee deep water. With my camera.
I am so adventurous.
The surfers are pretty funny to watch. Sometimes when they fall off their boards fly 20 feet into the air.
It’s pretty awesome.
Then we came home and I spent two hours in the kitchen making dinner. It was worth it though because the jalapeno and cheese stuffed chicken breasts were amazing.
And I also made a cake. Why? Because I wanted cake. Because cake is good.
And it was yummy.
My awesome shirt that I designed and should make you totally jealous finally came in.
April 30, 2012
Front.
The awesome shirt I designed in honor of the best TV show ever made that I have been raving about to the unfortunate everybody who knows me finally came in! I did a jig on the front porch and mom laughed and made fun of me but whatever because I have been waiting for this shirt for like 2 weeks and it FINALLY got here.
If you don’t understand it’s because you haven’t watched season 2.
I’m sorry for you.
Back. In case you couldn't tell for some weird reason.
Pretty much it’s the most awesome shirt ever and you should be totally jealous.
This is my You Should Be Totally Jealous face.
Y is for YouTube because sometimes you just see stuff like this and remember that life is awesome.
April 28, 2012
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Or this song written and played by a family, the Shmidts, and their friend/most amazing cello player ever, Steven Sharp Nelson. The Piano Guys are so awesome.
Also I made a Bucket List. Click the button on my sidebar or just click here to check it out.
I like weird names.
And not weird names like Xavier or Frances or Archibald.
Weird names like Storm, Baelfire, Benedict, Zeus, Canyon, Kayin, Frederick, Zane…the list goes on. And that’s just boys. For girls I like Jezebel, Saphira, and Delilah. No kidding, there are very few other Biblical girl names that I like. Why do the bad girl names have to be so awesome? I mean, Jezzie and Lilah would be SUCH adorable nicknames. Sadly none of the names mentioned are socially acceptable for dubbing your kids with. Except in England I could name my kid Benedict and probably be okay. Because England is AWESOME.
Anyway.
My parents make fun of me all the time, saying stuff like “Someday we’re going to get Dirt a bunch of loud toys.” And I’ll be like “Dirt what the heck?” And they’re like “Yeah isn’t that one of the names you had for your kids? Dirt or Asphalt or something?” And then I just roll my eyes. I used to argue it but now it’s just like “whatevs”.
My parent’s don’t understand me. WOW never heard that one from a teenager before HAVE YOU?
No they’re right. The names I like are really weird.
Like Xena. Xena is such a cool name.
And Athena. GOSH why do all the Greek gods have to have such cool names? Poseidon, Apollo, Zeus? COOL.
I know I’m sorry. I should probably stick to names like Michael and Sara and Matthew. You know, normal names. But I can’t help it — being abnormal myself, I just like abnormal names. My poor future children.
And just so I don’t get yelled at for not writing enough about X, here’s a Xylophone for good measure.
I was playing four square today with three of the boys around the neighborhood, Connor, Donald, and Chris. My brudders were inside eating dinner. Out of nowhere this kid who I’ve never seen before comes up, about 13 or 14 is my guess, and asks to play with us. Donald obviously knew him and was like “Sure.”. I was in the King’s spot so the kid, who’s name I later learned was Roman, picked it up and handed it to me with a “Here ma’am”.
I was thinking “Well that was nice.”
We continued and later Donald threw it to me hard so I said “Ow” and Roman was like “Are you okay?” And I was like “Yeaaaah…”
And then later he did something, I don’t remember what, and Donald was like “Yeah Kaity, he’s a lady’s man.” And I was like “Uhh…” and Roman was like “WELL I have a girlfriend.”
And I was all like “Good for you man.” But in my head I was like “What the heck…”
And that’s just how my evening went.
So…yeah we’ve kinda become four-square addicts. It happened about two days ago. And now it’s all we do. Come 2:30, the neighborhoodians one-by-one make their way to our house and join the group of children in our driveway. See, the driveways have these perfect squares in them so it’s perfect.
It’s pretty awesome.
Here’s a video I had Skylar take yesterday of us playing. Usually we have more kids than that but it was around dinner time so a lot of them had left.
Oh well.
- Hold a baby cheetah.
- Get engaged. Get married. Have a marriage more beautiful than the wedding.
- Travel to another country.
- Tour the U.K. Or at least go to England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Oh wait…
- Go to the Galapagos Islands.
- Own a Mini Cooper. This IS going to happen people.
- Build a tree house.
- Go to a drive-in movie.
- Visit all 50 of the United States.
- Go parasailing.
- See a narwhal.
- Visit the Sherlock Holmes museum.
- Catch a jar of lightning bugs.
- See the Northern Lights. I thought this was something good to do in Alaska while fulfilling #9.
Be in two places at once.- Swim with a dolphin.
- Put a message in a bottle and put it in the ocean.
- Learn to juggle.
Catch a bride’s bouquet.- Own a grand piano.
- Write a book.
- Visit the Hershey’s factory in PA.
Take a road trip to Disney.- Watch every single episode of Doctor Who.
- Be an aunt.
- Take a picture every day for a year straight.
- Finish a whole tube of toothpaste.
See a capybara.- Ride a horse on the beach.
Throw someone a surprise party.- Visit the Library of Congress.
- Own a Pillow Pet.
- Run a 5K.
- Make my own crayon art.
- Eat a whole roll of hubba bubba gum at one time.
- Receive blue roses.
- Create a secret family recipe.
See the Statue of Liberty.- Have my favorite author sign my book.
- Raise a horse.
- Read every C.S Lewis novel.
Learn how to knit.Steal a street sign.- Have the courage to put one of my songs on YouTube.
Build a blanket fort.Dig a snow fort.- Get my license.
- …coming soon to be sure. Until then we’ll just say travel to England. Again. Because I super badly want to do that.
Curious as to why something is on my bucket list or want to know the story behind one I’ve completed? Leave a comment below or shoot me an email. Unless it’s really really embarrassing, I’ll tell you.
