4 weeks

I've decided I need to get out of the habit of eating dessert so often. So my plan is to not eat dessert for the next 4 weeks. I'm already planning what kind of ice cream I'm eating on February 28th.

Ward ball

I love playing sports so even though I am not good at basketball, and even more out of shape than usual, I was still excited to go play ward ball. Here are my approximate stats for the game:

  Ball stolen from me: 3
  Rebounds: 2
  Direct passes to the opposite team: 3
(in my defense, no one had jerseys so it was really confusing)
  Points: 4 oh yeah!
  Pathetic lobbed passes that didn't go to anyone: 4
  Injuries: 0

I mention injuries because it was very important to not get hurt. Brandon said he would rather I get into a fight than get injured. Luckily, neither took place.
With how awesome I played you would think we won, but no, we lost 18-36. They were really good. They even had a player with actual basketball shoes on. She must be in the WNBA... or at least played in high school.

Art blog

I know no one checks my art blog because I never put anything on there. But today I did. I don't do much art, but I try to fit in when I can.

Comments from Cal

Calvin saw a BB gun in an ad and told Brandon, " look Dad! A squirt gun! (all guns are "squirt guns") We buy it?? I be REAL real careful!"

Another great comment was when we got to stake conference and since we were late and in the very very back we saw the speaker on the large wall projection. "look Mom! TV!" So initially, stake conference was super cool to Calvin.
Then when we were in the last half an hour, all the fruit snacks were eaten, and he had used up all his drinking fountain breaks, Calvin started repeating over and over "I don't like this church. *sigh* I don't like this church..."

Call Feature

I've recently started using gmail's calling feature. (instead of clicking on someone's name to chat you can call a phone) It's so useful. Now when I can't find my phone I don't have to email Brandon or someone to call it for me, I can call it myself. Over and over if necessary. And just now when I needed to call the library and didn't want to go downstairs to get my phone, I used the computer to call. Thank you gmail. You continue to make my life easier.

All together

When Brandon and I would tell Calvin we love him he used to yell, "NO! Love you!" Then he decided it was okay that we love each other and now when we say "I love you" the response is "No, love you all together." Meaning = we all love each other.
Often he adds a list of who is included: "No, love you all together - Mommy, Daddy, Calvin, Shelby."
And recently the list was expanded to: "No, love you all together - Mommy, Daddy, Calvin, Shelby, TV, Buzz Lightyear."

Worst organization idea ever

We have a large toy box that we used to throw all the toys into. Since we have too many toys for the toy box now, I thought it would be helpful to use small shelves with bins to make it more organized, baby toys in one area, large toys in the toy box, etc. Great idea, right?
Nope. Before we had this shelf it took Calvin a lot of effort to dig toys out of the toy box and the small ones that fell to the bottom never made it out at all.
Leave it to me to put them in easily accessible bins that take no more than 10 seconds to dump out all over the floor.

Time out

I'm not sure what the penguin did, but it was soon joined by a transformer for time out.

Favorite Christmas picture

This is a picture (made into a Christmas ornament) of Brandon's family acting out the nativity when he was a kid. Since he was the youngest, he always played baby Jesus. Even when he was seven.