Bigfoot?

October 20 was the anniversary of when that famous Bigfoot film was supposed to have been taken by Patterson and Gimlin in 1967. I watched the Studio C episode with special guest, Pete Holmes, where in one sketch people kept mistaking him for Bigfoot.

It was also International Sloth Day and I had a hard time getting some kids up for school. First day back from Fall Break. Sigh.  

 

I don't have pictures of celebrating those but I did take 

pictures of Bigfoot who roams the Oregonian trees. I have had many experiences with Bigfoot but the one I most remember was when he saved me. Thousands of years ago when I was younger I was camping with my family. We were going on a hike and I accidentally got lost. As I was trying to find my siblings I noticed that a branch snapped behind me. I looked back and there was a black bear walking across the trail with a cub. It noticed me and roared in anger. It started running at me when a large hairy creature leapt out and tackled the bear. The bear fought ferociously but in the end the creature won. It looked back at me and I noticed that it was humanoid and was about eight feet tall. I knew immediately that it must have been Bigfoot. When you grow up in Oregon, you hear a lot about Bigfoot. Anyway, he slowly walked towards me and then picked me up. He held me close to him and then started running along the trail. After a little while he stopped and set me down motioning for me to keep going. I started walking forward but when I looked back, nothing was there. As I continued along the trail I finally found my family and I told them what had happened. They of course didn't believe me but I know in my heart that Bigfoot saved me that day and that he is very much real.

 

 

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! I love my family. My kids are a hoot. Apparently Lucky got to my blog while I was off doing other things and "helped" with that big section about my Bigfoot encounter, which never actually happened by the way. 

But it reminds me of a book I read this Summer. The book is You Had Me at Bigfoot and was written by Nancy Campbell Allen. It was a fun read. It's a contemporary mystery, the first in a new series of Daphne Drew mysteries. The main character's name is Daphne Drew, obviously. This is because of Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. This is how I described the book while I was reading it:

"It's Nancy Drew meets Scooby Doo meets Sasquatch. What's not to love?"
 

I do in fact have a picture to go along with this. I don't know why I didn't think about it before. 

Have I mentioned I love books? 

Service With a Smile

Since today is Tick Tock Day and Still Need To Do Day, I'll put another family picture up before the end of the year. We went to the Giving Machine again this year. We were so busy before Christmas but made time to do it a couple days ago. It was again a good opportunity to do service and have another family picture taken while we were at it.

We donated two chickens and a game night for a family. When we got home, we watched the Studio C sketch about the Giving Machine... and chickens.

Practice What You Preach

The beginning of August Nichole and Jr. went off to FSY (For the Strength of Youth conference) at BYU. Jeremy went to a county fair in Downey, Idaho, then when he came back he was doing balloons at the Utah County Fair (which meant he could sleep at home both nights of that fair. Yay!).

We were also studying Job that week for scripture study so we got to put into practice what we taught the boys. Continue to turn to the Lord in trials and you'll be better off in the end and recognize blessings in the midst of trials.

We started off strong. Monday, Jeremy was at work, Nichole and Jr. were getting ready for FSY, and Lucky said, "I feel sick," then threw up. Sigh. I'm sure it was from the heat. I mentioned it has been a hot Summer. Someone was going to let the younger boys play at their house while I took the older kids to FSY so I had to cancel that. I was able to find someone to come over and be an older person here while Jr. Jr. took care of Jet and Lucky rested (Lucky helped, too, because it didn't take long for him to feel better since he wasn't actually sick, just a bit dehydrated probably). That was really appreciated since it took longer than I thought to check them in and get them to their housing, say goodbye, etc.

And I forgot to take a picture of Nichole before I left but I got a picture of Jr.

The first night, Jet was calling out, "Goodnight," to his siblings, even the ones who weren't there. That little guy is so cute.

While Jeremy and the older kids were gone, we did some work and play, work and play. Jr. Jr. wrote down things to work on (dishes, cleaning our rooms, etc.) and some fun things to do (video games, eating treats, etc.), made them into strips, and picked them out of a bag. Work and play.

We also celebrated some holidays. 

Wednesday, August 3, was Grab Some Nuts Day. We opened our container of mixed nuts. Yumm. Jeremy said he ate peanuts that day while he was in Idaho.

It was also National Watermelon Day. I didn't eat watermelon but I watched the Studio C sketch, "Cool Guy Can't Eat Fruit Casually." That's what it's called on YouTube.

 

One of the days that week, a friend stopped by to say Hi then she came back a few minutes later and brought us pizza. What a sweetheart. 

Jeremy got to see his friend, Dan, again. They were at the fair convention together back in November and he was at the juggling BBQ in June. Dan was manning a photo booth at the fair in Idaho.

Jeremy also built a large sasquatch scene out of balloons. He managed to get a bald eagle and mountain bluebird in there. Love those birds.

 

Friday, August 5, was Work Like a Dog Day. I thought that meant we'd get a lot done at home. Nope. Here's where we got to look at our blessings again amidst trials. Jeremy was headed down to Spanish Fork when the car engine light went on and the car made sputtering sounds. He was only a few minutes from home so I took Jet away from eating his breakfast (luckily we had snacks in the van), woke Jr. Jr. up, and packed the boys in the van to go pick Jeremy up and get him to the fair on time. Then we came back to get the car to the mechanic who couldn't look at it until Monday. At least it didn't happen in Idaho.

Fast forward a few hours and I was taking one child to the ER while the other two went to a football game and a parade with friends. I cannot thank them enough for taking the boys last minute and entertaining them for 5 hours.

Recognizing blessings again, it wasn't as bad as it could be and only needed a few stitches and he was such a trooper at the hospital. He was totally fine. After the initial hurt, he was running around like normal and in a good mood (including in the waiting room of the ER. Sigh). He got to play with cars and one of the people there drew a track for him on paper for him to race the cars on. She later drew a dinosaur for him when she found out he likes dinosaurs.

My wonderful husband was so patient about getting picked up an hour late from the fair because we picked up the boys first before going to get him.

 

Saturday morning, August 6, I picked up Nichole and Jr. from FSY and made sure to get a picture of Nichole. They both had a good time. Jr. said it was like a spiritual UVU Prep.

I was able to take Jeremy down to his fair and pick him up no problem. We even wiggled our toes in the van on the way to celebrate Wiggle Your Toes Day (the kids wiggled their toes later).

That night we celebrated National Root Beer Float Day as things calmed down a bit after the long week.

We really did have the opportunity to look on the bright side of things that week. There were definite challenges but blessings as well.

By the way, the car is fine, and Jet is healing nicely.

Productivity

June 20 was World Productivity Day.

The kids and I had "dishes and laundry boot camp," where I taught them about efficiency in doing those chores. Jr. Jr. got into it and would ask questions or make comments, "with all due respect, ma'am." Awesome.

Lucky and Jr. also got into it by having to do pushups and things like that for insubordination. Heh heh.

During dinner we watched the Studio C sketch, "The Best Book for 24 hours of Productivity." All 18 minutes of the YouTube video of it (the sketch on the TV episode is much shorter). Funny.

Beware the Ides of March 2021

The Ides of March came up again on March 15. There was a lot of joking about stabbing people in the back. Jr. put on a shield to protect himself. Ha Ha Ha. The shield enjoyed himself.

We managed Caesar Salad but didn't do Orange Juliuses. Oh, well.

Some of us watched the episode of Studio C with the sketch, "Caesar is a cool boss."

That day Jr. and I had some bonding time (Jet joined us). Jr.'s idea was to celebrate Everything You Think Is Wrong Day (also the 15th) by eating junk food and playing video games. We made ourselves sick with all the candy we ate. Sigh.

But we did have fun.

Catch of the Day

Jr. has a Studio C shirt that says on the back, "Shoulder Angel goes here," with an arrow pointing to the shoulder. 

Jr.'s Explanation of Our Menu Plan

So, yesterday for dinner, we had hoagies and donuts.  The kids picked those because of Studio C.  The two sketches they modeled them after are Objection Your Honor, and the Sam Sloane Tongue Twister. (I linked to the sketches for you) Watch Stacey and Whitney very closely.

 It was False Confessions Day.







 (P.S. Jr. is awesome!)

International Polar Bear Day 2017

February 27 is International Polar Bear Day.  We ate fish sticks (even though polar bears don't usually eat fish). 

We also ate caramel crunch bars because the brand had a polar bear on its logo.  Tee Hee.

Jeremy put on a sort of nature show that had polar bears in it.

We spent some time realizing we don't have any movies with polar bears in them, but Nichole mentioned that Studio C has a sketch with a polar bear in it, so we watched some Studio C.
That's how we celebrated this year.

Shoulder Angel

We like Studio C.  It's fun, it's clean, it's great for the whole family.  They also have fun characters.  One is a full grown man wearing an angel costume who climbs on others' shoulders to advise them not to make bad choices- Shoulder Angel.
Lucky and Nichole came up to me one day and told me Lucky was Shoulder Angel.  Adorable.

I took several pictures and the last one I took made us all laugh so much.

Jr. Jr. decided to sneak into the picture.  The reason it made us laugh so much was because Studio C also has a sketch called "Photobombing 101."  So we ended up with two Studio C references in that one picture.  Tee Hee.