Dinner Time Conversation

Emma: Damn it! I can't get in behind the bench

Mom: What did you say Emma?

Emma: Damn it......

Tanner.....(snickers)
Brigham....(eyes wide)
Tate...(lowers his eyes to his plate)

Dad: Emma, that is a bad word

Emma: What is....Damn it?

Mom: Yes Emma, it's a bad word and you can't say it.

Emma: Only Mom's and Dad's can?.....................

Dan: Only very angry Mom's and Dad's can.

Mom: (flash Dad a dirty look) SIGH..............

My weekend in Numbers

2~ Sick Babies




Dan spent 1.5~ hours working on the pool and fishing a total of 10~ oranges, (1 of which was sucked in and stuck in the return) 3~ pool toys and 1~ pair of goggles. (all thanks to the above mentioned sick babies, aka my daily double dose of "Don't do that!")

1~ Crazy Son who doesn't know its Winter

He successfully retrieved 5~ Rocks and 1~ bottle cap (also thanks to the "wonder twins")

2~ future missionaries, reminding their mother why it was all worth it.

1~ Finally pink toting sister moving to Utah with her 6~ sons and 1~ baby girl.

Countless tears falling by all the Oakes clan that will miss them terribly.

1st~ family get together at Mama and Daddies house (Now Lynnie's House) in 5~ years. 47~ family members

Hundreds upon Hundreds of Meals made in this kitchen.

4~ Siblings, 4~ in-laws, 34~ Nieces and Nephews 3~ Great nephews

1~ Favorite Sis-in-law (that's right I said it)

And 1~ Super awesome (most sexy and wonderful, down officially ~107~ lbs) Sweetheart.

RAWR baby! Nuf said

Picture of the Day

I was walking down the hall today and spotted this on the end of Briar's bed. I don't really know what to tell you about it. I never asked who did it, or what it was exactly. Perhaps she is on life support, or she's rigged to blow. Either way, it doesn't look good for Bri's baby doll.

What's in a Text Message......

Here, is a small glimpse of life in the crazy wonderful. Its one of those moments that stops me and makes me say....I love my life!!

The following is a text message between Tanner and Daniel.

Tanner: I seek they advice oh master, for I am a padawan. Art thou going to be home soon, making it unwise to play thy x box? and, thy other son wishes for a pill....Thy permission is required.

Daniel: Pill granted my student. It is unwise to play more than 20 minutes under pain of death

Tanner: Pain of death?! 20 Minutes?! Curse thee!! I meant to say that thy decisions are wise above all others

Daniel: Thy forked tongue will cost thee lashings. Best to hold thy tongue than suffer

Tanner: Thou art hysterical oh lord, but not as I......

=o) That's all. It made me laugh. I love my family.

Merry Christmas

Confession

So I have this friend, who has a blog, and on her blog she does these "confessions" I love them, not because they are funny (which they are) but because they are real. So much out there is appearances and keeping up with the Jones. Well, I decided to try to free myself, and I'm doing my first confession. Its horrible and I can't believe I'm putting it out there but here goes

Confessions of a bad mom

I'll do 5 today, because that's all I can handle without feeling like I need to give my children to social services because I'm too inadequate to raise them

1. I hung up on my son when he called me on our date
2. It took me three days to drive half a mile to pick up Kobe's prescription from Walgreen's.
3. Emma came crying to me that Corwin hurt her, to which my reply was...Should we go beat him up?
4. I called my 2 year old a "fart knocker" because she took the lids off of my contact case and emptied the contents.
5. .#2 aka Tate, came home from school singing this song....."don't you wish your girlfriend was a FREAK like me.... to which...I laughed. Did I explain kindly that its an inappropriate song? no...I LAUGHED

Rachel Needs

So I was reading Rhonda's blog and she was talking about googling your name (Rachel) with the word (needs) after it, interesting right? So I decided to do it, never heard of it before but when I did the search it made me laugh so here goes...

Rachel Needs

Rachel Needs to get over herself......

OK I'll try, but we all know how fabulous I am....

Rachel Needs netflix friends.....

what is that exactly? Any of my peeps out there have netflix cuz apparently I need ya.....

Rachel Needs guidance and normal supervision.....

as opposed to what, abnormal supervision?

Rachel needs bearded dudes.....

OK...I'm leaving that one alone

Rachel Needs bikinis.....

I don't hate anyone that much

Thats a good place to stop.... its fun try it.

Yummy Gingerbread

Tis the season for gingerbread houses! We had a lot of fun with the kids. Miss Em didn't participate, she was in bed sick =o( and Tanner was out doing fast offerings with Dan but made it back just in time to start the second house.

As soon as the last piece of candy went on the houses, they asked if they could eat them. The houses were demolished within 15 seconds.

Go ahead! Tell me the sugar didn't affect the crazy wonderful kidlets.

Psycho kids high on sweets.

.....good times