Really? The Toliet?

 I am not sure why Everett finds the toilet so amusing but this is what I think goes threw his head. It also drives me insane! I think I lost a bra down there this week.

"WOW! flushing the toilet is so interesting. I wonder how it works?"

 

"Hmmm, to figure this out, I need to get a closer look."

"Oh Yes! That was so fun. I bet Mom doesn't know how many things I have flushed down the toilet."

I Am My Own Person!

Today's process of getting dressed:

• Cozy picks out the purple tank top. (That's all she wanted to wear)
• Mom tries to convince her to put a dress with sleeves over top.
• We ended up with a no-sleeve dress.
• Mom tries to convince her to put leg warmers on. (baby legs)
• Cozy has a melt down about the color and how high they should sit on her leg. 
• We end up with all colors of the baby legs on the floor and nothing on her legs.
• Mom comes back after 10 minutes and convinces her to put the purple ones on.
• Finished getting dressed half hour later. . .which doesn't include a hair due.
• Don't worry Cozy has a solution. . . her summer hat.
• Mom now has to take a picture.

We usually have some sort of disagreement when it's time to get dressed in the morning. On this paticular day the disagreement wasn't resolving itself. With no clean pants and a two year old that is emotional stubborn and independent, this is the outfit we came up with. Yes, it's the middles of January and thank goodness I wasn't planning on going anywhere that day. 

My Joy in Preparing a Thanksgiving Feast

Here I am hosting and preparing an American Thanksgiving dinner! If it's not odd that a Canadian is the reason all the O'Neal's (Americans) are getting together, to celebrate this holiday, then you will find it odd that my excitement and complete joy is making the center piece on the table.

 
Aaaawwwww. . . take a deep breath and enjoy! I love it!!! This is so relaxing to me. I used an old glass dish, bought some popori to fill it with. Then I took two small white bowls to hold the candle. (Two to give it height.) I arranged the popori around the candle to my liking. Then placed it on top of these two adorable leaf place mats (I bought) and WA LA! Life is good when you have something beautiful to look at.

Autumn

crisp air-leaves fall-colors change-cool breeze

 

These picture are taken from my kitchen window and bedroom window. It is just perfect to sit here with a hot drink and day dream while I stare at Autumn's beautiful colors just outside my window. 

Took a Turn for the Worst

We had been looking forward to vacation for a long time. Sean-Paul and I decided we would get up early on Saturday morning (4:00am) for a good start on our way to California. Here are the serious of events:

1. 4:30am van overheats. Put antifreeze in the van. Continue on.
2. 5:30am van starts shaking. Stop and check air in tires. Continue on.
3. 5:45am van is still shaking. Getting worse. Pull over to search for a tire shop.
4. 7:00am arrive at Big O Tires in Spanish Fork.
5. Verdict is bubbled tires.
6. 7:30am and $700.00 later, off to California with brand new tires.
7. 9:00am van looses power up a hill, overheats, and we coast off to the nearest exit.
8. 10:00am towed back to Fillmore, UT.
9. Verdict is van has a blown head gasket.
10. Verdict is to leave van and take a rental car back home to get our Elantra.
11. 12:00pm changed our verdict and took the rental car on vacation. 

We left on our vacation with plenty of money and a happy family on the way to California:

We came back from a great vacation! But. . .with $4000.00 towards a new motor in our van and $700.00 for new tires. Our van was towed back to Spanish Fork to be fixed while we were on vacation and wasn't ready yet. When we returned back to Utah the rental car needed to be back in Filmore so this is how we get home?

This is what Big O Tires gave us to drive. Awesome, Yes, but great customer service.

Kiss Me Dirty

A four mile dirty obstacle course run for the ladies!

As you can see we finished good and dirty.


We ran, jumped, and army crawled through muddy water. It was a fun run with dirt throwing fights all the way through.

Ready for mud fights!


We were all ready for a kiss at the end. I am happy to say I received two from Cozy and Sean-Paul.


I hope the mud is good for your skin. That is what they use in facials, right?


YEAH!!!
It was a great girls time.

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Game Night

What do married people do on the weekend?


We get together and play games. One of our favorites is Carcassonne. This night we choose to play with four expansions.

(Above picture from left to right: Eric Price, Kasidy Olsen, Me, and Sean-Paul O'Neal) (Lauren Price was the one who capture our memory that night.)



The picture above is our finished board at the end of the game. To the left of the board you can see a massive city that we all helped build. This city made the game competitive and exciting. We all had ownership of the city at one point and were also kicked out of it as well. Kasidy finally closed the city and redeemed 89 points from it. (eeerrr) The game went down hill after that because of that city. All in all it was a fun game night that ended at 3:00 in the morning. (Yes, I know we are crazy.)

In addition to our fun filled evening Kasidy and his girls stayed over. :) Brittany was out of town for the weekend. (We missed you Brittany!) To top off the night poor Lesil woke up sick and was up the rest of the night. Our sleep that night ended up being about an hour. No hard feelings to Kasidy except a little the next day when we were dead tired. It was worth it though we had a blast. Thank goodness Lesil is better now and her virus was nothing serious.

These are the nights you remember!