For the Curious

Here are the two originals.

Can you find the other change I made besides the face?


p.s. My family was rather horrified by the altered photo. Gwen, for example, told me yesterday that she hoped that she didn't have nightmares...

Last night...

...I gave Stan a haircut. As I was shaving his head, I started thinking about how easy he has it when he gets ready. He just uses shampoo - no conditioner, no hairdryers, no round brushing, no hairspray, no flat ironing, no combs!!

I got a little jealous. Life is so busy and I feel like I have better things to spend time on. I lose my patience with all the grooming there is to do!

So, I took the plunge and shaved my own head. What do you think?

Yesterday's post...

...was an April Fool's Day joke. Could you tell?

We also had April Fool's Day food last night.


"Cupcakes" that were really meatloaf with mashed potato frosting

"Meatloaf" made from knock off Cocoa Krispies and fruit leather

My Brilliant Idea

A while ago, I bought this nifty sprinkles container. It has 6 sections, each with a different color of jimmies.

Each section has it's own lid so that you can use one at a time without mixing the colors.

It was kind of pricey for colored sugar, but when you have little kids around, sometimes it is fun to have stuff like this in the kitchen AND I used my Michael's 40% off coupon.

Anyway, we have had fun with them while they lasted, but each color was only enough for one small batch of cookies or cupcakes, so they went fast. As you can see, we only have blue and orange left.

I didn't really want to keep buying sprinkles at that price, so when I saw this big container for much less money, I snatched it up.


I told Kelly and Michael that we could eat lunch after they were done sorting all the sprinkles into individual colors and putting them into my six section container.

I think they might try to get Mo to help.

While they are busy, I am going to go start dinner. We are having the missionaries over.

Ha Ha

Yesterday, Summer masterminded an April Fool's Day Joke on us. I guess the apple doesn't fall very far from the tree (see the post just below) and she's always had a sense of humor, that girl. Here she is sitting on Uncle Matt's lap 15 years ago.


Last night was a busy evening, as Wednesdays usually are. The older girl's have piano lessons ending at 5. We ran some errands after their lessons...

Wait, let me interrupt myself. I was telling the younger kids where we were going to shop in the car on the way to pick the piano students up. I mentioned Michael's (craft store) and Naomi got jealous. She started whining, "Momo's store? Momo's store?" so I had to rename the school supply place "Momo's Store" for the afternoon to keep the peace.

Anyway, after lessons and errands, we didn't get home until six. I had dinner ready by 6:30, which is on the late side for us. After dinner, there was cleaning up, getting kids ready for bed, talking to Grandma, playing catch, two dirty diapers - the night just flew by!

Stan and I couldn't believe it when it was already nine when we all sat down for scripture reading, but we had dinner late and hadn't been watching the clock (or the teenagers). After scriptures, a lull settled over the room. Rachel asked what time we usually read scriptures, which I thought was insensitive on a night we were having it so late (we shoot for 7:15 ish), so I grumbled, "I don't know." Summer couldn't hold it in any longer, "Rachel and I played an April Fool's Day trick on you! Haven't you noticed?!?"

Stan and I had no idea. Rachel wanted to spill the beans, but Summer wouldn't let her. I asked for a clue - what room was it in? I was informed it was everywhere! Every room in the house! I hazarded an impossible guess, "You dusted?"

Finally, it dawned on me. They put all the clocks ahead an hour. I was both impressed (it was a great joke - we really were fooled) and grateful (we had an entire extra hour more than we thought!).

Big News Times Two, April Fool

Well, we haven't told anyone about this because we didn't know how it would all turn out, but I have been interviewing for jobs lately. We've decided that we could really use another paycheck to help with all those shoes and all that oatmeal we go through. I was just hired as a jewelry designer at a small but growing company in Key West.

I've pulled all the kids out of school to help with the packing because we will be moving this weekend. We'll be having a goodbye party at midnight on Friday and are hoping that after the pizza and cake, everyone who comes will stay to load the truck through the night so that we can be ready to hit the road at 4 am!

Also, while I am spilling my guts of surprises, we have decided to send Rachel to Australia in the fall for high school.


We will miss her terribly, but a great opportunity to be a long term exchange student came up and we wouldn't want our selfish desires to have her around to stand in the way of her chance to experience living in another country. We love you, Rachel!