You know you're a birder if...

Your 2-year old sees a video you're watching and asks, "What's that?"
You say, "A bird."
He replies, "Is that a house finch?"
You excitedly affirm that it is indeed a house finch.

Space Sandwiches

So... astronauts on the space station don't use bread because of too many crumbs that don't just fall on the floor like on Earth but float around, so when they want to make a peanut butter and honey sandwich, they use a tortilla.
So for Sandwich Day on November 3, we ate "space sandwiches."  Peanut butter on tortillas folded over.  We didn't have honey on them this time.

That night I went to Girls' Night, but I forgot to take a camera.  Sigh.  We had chocolate.  Lots of chocolate.  And lots of socializing.  And we watched a movie.  And it was great.
O.K.  Since I didn't take a camera, you'll just have to visualize it.  Brownies, cookies, chocolate cream pie, a spicy chocolate bar which our friend taught us how to smell and feel and really taste (she's been to chocolate tastings before), sugar cookies, crackers and cheese (thank goodness for something not sweet and chocolate to temper the sweets), and water to drink.  That's all I can think of.  I'm sorry if I forgot anything.  It was great and again well needed.  I love Girls' Night.  But I stayed up way too late and I'm exhausted today.  Ugh.
On another note about yesterday, Jr. Jr. and I took Nichole to dance class.  I let them each take a reasonable amount of Halloween candy in the van.  Jr. Jr. couldn't figure out what a reasonable amount was, but we were in a hurry to get out the door, so he took too much.  Sigh.  At one point after we got there, I saw him with a sucker in one hand and a package of Whoppers in the other.  Yeah, they were both open and he was eating them both. 

Sigh. 
Oh well, I ate a lot of chocolate last night at Girls' Night so I can't complain.

Plan Your Epitaph Day 2016

Just a few we came up with for Plan Your Epitaph Day, November 2:

Here lies Kristin.

She tried to decide which chicken to save

and died of old age.

Here lies Jeremy.

He made one too many jokes 

about his wife's cooking.

The kids would not go to bed.

Now they are dead.

Here lies Kristin.

She almost survived the day.

 

Here lie the kids

Because it is late at night

and they're asleep. 

Let's Go Hiking!

One day last week, I wanted to get some fresh air after Jr. Jr. went to school.  I wanted to go someplace close but where I might do some birding.  Jeremy suggested a few places including Battle Creek Falls area since someone had mentioned there was an American Dipper that had been hanging out at a certain body of water along the trail.  I wasn't sure if I wanted to go up there or one of the trails lower down, but Lucky came up to me and said, "Let's go hiking!"  He was so cute about it, I couldn't say no.

It was wonderful bonding time with that little guy.  We enjoyed hiking in the Fall colors.

Aah, too much sun.

That's better.

Lucky had fun being silly.

 And cute.

We did get to see the American Dipper and Lucky was very careful not to throw rocks in the water until it flew away.

He was very happy to have permission to throw rocks in the water, though.

It was a good Fall hike.

National Knock Knock Joke Day

October 31 is National Knock Knock Joke Day.  I woke the kids up with Knock Knock Jokes.  Jeremy helped figure some out though I can't remember all of them.  

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Itsa.
Itsa Who?
Itsa Halloween.  Wake up.

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Lettuce.
Lettuce Who?
Lettuce get up and get ready for Halloween.

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Halloween.
Halloween Who?
Hallo!  Ween are you going to get up and get ready?

We also celebrated Halloween.  Back and forth to and from school all day with dropping kids off, looking for lost wands (and finding them with grateful prayers), watching Halloween parades (twice), going home a long round about way because the remaining child wanted to, and picking kids up from school.

Then came spaghetti monsters for dinner and drinking milk from jars we decorated a couple years ago but I never got around to blogging about.

Then off to the ward Halloween party and trunk-or-treat... without the trunks.  Lawn chairs instead.  The kids got to run around and I got to socialize.  Win win.
Jeremy suggested I dress as a gardener for the pumpkin patches since I hadn't picked a costume for myself yet.  Thanks, Jeremy.

Steven Kellogg's Birthday

To celebrate Steven Kellogg's birthday on October 26, we read Jimmy's Boa Constrictor books (illustrated by Steven Kellogg) while eating Kellogg's Frosted Flakes (no relation).

Is It Art?

October 25 is Pablo Picasso's Birthday.  To celebrate, I am sharing with you a blurry picture of an egg that had 2 yolks in it.  Jr. was very happy to eat it for breakfast.

Is it art?