For John

People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one,

Think I'm gonna have a son (or 2).

And we've only just begun.

He will be like me and he,

as free as a dove,

Conceived in love.

Sun is gonna shine above.

And even though we ain't got money,

I'm so in love with you, honey,

And everything will bring a chain of love.

And in the morning, when I rise,

You bring a tear of joy to my eyes

And tell me everything is gonna be alright.

We've made it through 17 Years... joyous, struggling, happy, winding road years!

I love you Honey!

Twilight Movie Release!

Parker and Heather and I just got back from Dan's with our copies of the Twilight Movie. Parker saw the movie with his friends 2 weeks ago and came home and started reading Twilight immediately! This is his 1st ever novel-sized book. He read the whole thing in 10 days... this is a miracle! Thank you Stephenie Meyer for making my son WANT to read!

When we pulled up to Dan's at 11:00 pm the parking lot wasn't full and the lights were mostly out in the store! We walked in and they had a big movie screen from the ceiling and people were sitting in the aisles watching the movie! There were 3 sets of balloon bags tied to the ceiling. Around 11:30 they let the balloons drop and there was a mad dash to grab a balloon and see if you won something! Woo Hoo! I won a free paperback copy of Twilight and Parker won $1 off the DVD...so it was only $14.99!

We had a blast...as you can tell!


This is what Parker REALLY wanted to win... so we had to do the next best thing, take a picture with Bella. He looks just as nervous as he would if she was REAL!



Heather LOVES her some VAMP!
Mmmmmmm! She wasn't even cold! He just made her HOT HOT HOT!!!

Parker said He'd kill me if I put this picture up on Facebook...so I put it in my blog! hee hee! (Heather was still a little excited over getting to see and touch a cardboard Edward!)
We are such DORKS... especially Heather, I don't think she realized she was showing the BACK of the DVD!
We saw the Brady's and Fairbank's from our neighborhood. What a fun night! After we took the nasty black licorice off our front teeth (I'm not a fan of Black Licorice) Heather was laughing super hard cause our teeth were green! DORK!

Green Mania

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2009!

I was asked to help out at our RS Birthday Dinner on St. Patty's Day evening.... so I came home from work and threw together a lovely GREEN meal for the family!

Green Chicken from the Bar-B

Heather says it looks like I left the lid up on the BBQ and a bird flew over...you get the visual...

Twice Stuffed Green Potatoes

with onions & yellow peppers...mmmmmm good!

Green Gravy

Broccoli (that was easy)

and for dessert....Green Pudding...it was lemon flavored and I topped it with whipping cream and green sprinkles, but I forgot to take a picture!

Here's the finished plate. I had to run out the door, so John put the dinner on a plate and took a picture for me to post.

Here's my little Leprechaun and his GREAT find from the local Deseret Industries! Only John can "pull" this off!

Hope you had a great day and didn't get pinched!

Whatever

Whatever. That's my additude right now and obviously for a while now. I haven't had any motivation to do anything. No bloggin', no nothing. I just want to do my stuff and come home and veg out...at least on Facebook anyway. Geesh! February is almost over and I haven't even blogged since the first of January. I have hardly taken any pictures either. Great Mom I've been.

I did manage to make it to Dexter's Science Fair and learned that regular soap, without sanitizer isn't killing many germs. Are these good or bad germs...do we need this bacteria to help ward off the bad bacteria? It's too much for me to handle right now...and the petri dish pictures are GROSS!

The pics are pretty self-explanatory. The left is Dexter starting his project, just wiping his fingers on the Petri dish, no washing, just Every-day-Dex. The one of the right is playing in the Legos and then wiping on the dish.


The picture on the left is after Dex played with his legos and THEN washed his hands with just Dial Soap. The picture on the right is the same scenario with the legos, Dial, AND Hand Sanitizer.


There are lots of different things to take into consideration. Will something grow on the dish if it isn't touched at all? Yes. After each time of washing, is your hand less dirty when you begin to play in the Legos again? Did you wash as well the last time? What kinds of bacteria are growing on the dish? They are all different colors! The Petri dishes are fun. If you need some for future science fairs let me know and I'll get you the phone number. They are just off of State Street and 7000 South.

In the past Dex and Parker have used the Petri dishes to determine which fast food restaurant has the cleanest bathrooms (testing, toilet handles, stall doors and restroom door handles)If I remember right it was Wendy's. They have an every 15 minute cleaning schedule (Yea! Right! But that's what they said was their cleaning policy) Another Fair included the Petri dishes to determine who's bathroom is cleaner, our home or the school....and the results were appauling!...The School. Dexter's hypothesis was that the school would be dirtier because there are so many kids, but in fact, ours was much grosser. My reasoning is because the school bathroom is cleaned daily with industrial strength cleaners and is lighted all day (it's bright in there) and everything is metal. At home, weekly cleanings are a rarity, we have some plastic fixtures, it's dark in there with the lights off, and it gets warm and steamy everyday with 4 people taking showers! (Sounds good, doesn't it?)

No Words

I have No Words for this...



Description from the website where you can order this "Sweater Onesey" and be a part of fashion history.

"This hot unisuit will keep you warm in the winter and will show off your figure too. Its made out of wool. You can wear tights or shirts under it for added warmth or skirts over it."
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=19140320

Family Pictures are...FUN!

This is THE Beach Family, in our perfect form! The photographer had just told John he didn't need to turn his butt so much toward the camera and John said, You mean like this? and FLASH he took a picture. It was great! I loved the pose so much I paid for one. Yes, I'm crazy, but it was PERFECT! Notice Ashley doting on the baby and Parker is just thinking get me the crap outta here, your jokes are NOT going to get me to smile.

I'm not in love with this pic, but it will do.

Did you happen to see the most beautiful boys in the world? Well, here they are?
I love, love, love this picture of my boys! (JayLynn Studios took the professional pics)

Trying to find some pictures to use for our Christmas card this year was... fun, yes! That's the word for it! We tried to do our own family pic. I set up (balanced) the camera on top of a lamp, hit the timer button and then ran over for the pose. Here are a few of the non-winners. Don't let Brillo know he didn't make it to the finished product, okay?

Merry Christmas from The Beach Family 2008

If you didn't receive one of these, I'm sorry. E-mail me your address so I have it for next year...thanks!

I cried on Christmas Eve

Before we played our annual Christmas Eve "What time do we get to wake up Game", Dexter asked, "Can I write a letter to Santa?" I said sure. He found his own paper, grabbed a pencil and proceeded to write Santa a letter. This is what I found in his stocking:What a sweet, sweet boy. Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas at Temple Square

The Beach's bundled up (well, I did, the boys still think it is warm outside!) and headed down to Temple Square to see the lights and try to encourage Parker & Dexter to have a little Christmas Cheer!As usual it was beautiful and unusually warm! (no snow)

17 Years Ago on Christmas Eve, John took me to Temple Square and proposed! (Try not to gag!) I had no idea and was totally surprised. He asked me at the Seagull Monument, which is currently drained and boarded up. So there really weren't any "photo ops" for that.

I love the hundreds of luminaries that line the COB walkways.

Parker jumped on John in the parking lot and had a little fun!
Then we headed to Chili's for some nurishment. I don't catch Parker off guard (of the camera) but I did tonight, so I had to post it!Dexter is ALWAYS happier with a full tummy!