lame

I spoke too soon. We showed the house again today. Too bad our realtor told us the wrong time. For the second time this month. If she wasn't such a good realtor, I would be pretty mad. Mostly because I hate rushing around and having to be gone, and then coming home and having to be kicked out again. It looks bad and makes the people looking at your house feel awkward. Sigh. Ah well. At least my house is clean again I guess.

Did I mention that selling a house is lame. It is.

I Blame the Groundhog

I really enjoyed that last post. I think I should let John post more often. Especially if it gives me such huge belly laughs as his line about the canary of carbon monoxide poisoning. Classic I tell ya.

Anyway, there's not much to report. It's business as usual in these parts, except that I'm disgusted that it's snowing today. And not just a dusting, it's a full on six inches at least out there. I curse you Punxatawney Phil. I curse you and your groundhog ways.

Still no word on the other people's house. According to our realtor they are still showing it quite a bit, so that's good. We haven't shown it since though, even though the house is still on the market. I'm a little surprised as we were getting lots of traffic, but since we have a contract, I'm not too worried (especially since that means that my house gets to be dirty occasionally).

What else? Well Maddy and I went to Target yesterday and stocked up on Tim Tams and paint with water books (remember those? Love them.) So thankfully we are stocked up for a snowy day like today.
I need to go get a Tim Tam right now. I'm easily influenced. Yum.

Easter and Dinosaurs

Jenn's letting me write this one while she watches "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane."

Here are some of her artistic flower shots. Pretty, no? She did this with our "normal" camera because the "fancy" camera battery died.

Maddy demonstrates the "Ee-aa egg" (we're still working on the "st" consonant cluster).We had all these eggs filled with jelly beans for our Sunday School class, but then none of our kids showed up. So we went to the grown-up class instead. It was a nice change of pace.

Maddy had this adorable Easter dress for $4 at D.I. - in perfect condition, totally amazing. Great find!

She was "helping" me fill the eggs for our class. By "helping" I mean "not eating the jelly beans faster than I could put them in the eggs".
I tried to get some outdoor shots of her in her Easter dress, but she wasn't thrilled with the idea. She just wanted to go play in the dirt.


She thought the little flower buds were pretty cool, though.
And the shoes. She loves shoes. I think her first word was "shooz".





There's a very tempting dirt patch at the bottom of those stairs... don't do it, Maddy!
Here's Maddy & I at the "erosion table" at the Thanksgiving Point Museum of Ancient Life. Basically it's an excuse for kids young & old to play in the sand and water. We both had a blast.
Every civil engineer has to begin somewhere.


We built a dam together. I was worried Maddy might start saying the word "dam" out of context, but she didn't. Dodged a bullet on that one.




We tried explaining that this was a rock that used to be a tree. Not sure if that really clicked.
Family shot in the dinosaur section. Maddy was "little bit scared" of the T-Rex; who can blame her?
Maddy & I next to a brontosaurus leg bone for size comparison.

Maddy admires some trilobites or something.
We had lunch at Sparks, this super-trendy Provo restaurant. Maddy had a Shirley Temple that came with cotton candy. She wasn't really a fan - I think the texture threw her off. Oh well, more for us.

I had a "kiwitini" (all the drinks are non-alcoholic, don't worry Moms.) That's sugar on the rim.
Jenn had a Mango Mojito.
Jenn's good-luck omen: the Robin Red-Breast Bird of Luck. (Not to be confused with the Bluebird of Happiness, or the Yellow Canary Bird of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.)

Rockin' Robin (tweet, tweet tweet!)
Jenn got new sunglasses. Between that and the scarf, she looks like Alice driving the Ferrari at the end of New Moon.

We made the mistake of telling Maddy the night before that we were going to see the dinosaurs - all we heard about for the entire day was "Go see dinosaurs!" Over and over and over.
She actually fell asleep right before we eventually got to the dinosaur museum, but she perked right up when she realized where we were.
Also, Jenn's mom was here for a few days. She helped Jenn put together an entire new blanket-and-pillow-case set for Maddy's room. All umbrella-themed in honor of Jenn's favorite movie, Mary Poppins.
I think these are raindrops? The wavy yellow part is called "rick-rack". Learn something new every day.

The finished pillowcase - very nice. The room turned out spectacular - thanks, Carrie!