The Daniels Family

And yes under that bird in that nest are eggs.  Sadie doesn't want me to dump it because she wants it for a pet!  I told ben I'm not touching it...I've see Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds...I don't mess around with that it'll attack me.

Zach went to the zoo with school the other day and he came home telling me all about it.  First he did his parrot impression, then moved on to telling me about the wieners.  He says They are King Wieners.  Many people think there are Queen Wieners but there aren't...just Kings.  I said "Zach what is a King Wiener"  he said "Oh you know he's King of all the Wieners".  I had him describe one and found out he meant Lemur.  King Lemur's I died laughing.

I have debated on if I should write this post or not.  Everytime I think about it I break out in cold sweats.  Here is a warning: if you are a doctor, nurse, or some other crazy person that enjoys giving shots you should probably stop reading now.  I imagine I will annoy you.

Man it's been a long time.  I go in blogging cycles.  It's time to catch up.  Yesterday we had a fun day.  It was absolutely gorgeous here.  After my normal morning errands we lived outside the rest of the day.  After Zach got home we hit up home depot for some flowers.  I spent the rest of the afternoon planting and wedding my gardens.  One of my favorite days of the year!  After the kids got home we hit a park till dinner and then I realized i hadn't eaten since breakfast (shows how much I love planting :) so we went to my favorite  place...McD's for dinner.  It never tasted so good ....the kids played and we had a great time.  After getting home ...after letting the kids stay up a little later kyle came up to me and said "mom?  tell me the truth.  Before you had us did you want kids?  Because I mean....sometimes it doesn't seem like you do. "  On a day that I had been screaming my head off I could see...but today?!  I was so well behaved.  That was a low moment for me.

Thanks to cable my children want every toy they see on tv.  Every cereal.  Every product they say "mom's will love" that tell me I HAVE to buy.  Maddie's obsession for the last 6 months has been "dream lites" have you seen these?  It is a pillow pet with lights that shine onto the ceiling.  She knows the "theme song" people.  She has one picked out that she has to have.  She tells people she is getting it for her birthday.  It's very cute.  And definitely hooked ben.  She had to have it so I had to order it he said.  This says a lot coming from "Mr. Save Money All the TIme".  So i ordered it 2 weeks ago.  Maddie picked it out off the computer.  I tried really hard to convince to stay away from the rainbow unicorn.  but I failed.  Rainbow Unicorn Dream lite it is.  But i'm now told it's on back order.  Little 2 year olds do not understand backorder.  First she thought it was coming from a store.  I had to tell her after several sad trips without a dreamlite the mail man is bringing it.  Everytime I get the mail she thinks it will be there.  How to explain backorder to little Mads.

I was walking into my room last week and kyle threw a plastic easter egg into my hood.  It said "open"  Inside was a folded piece of paper asking me to come and talk to him.  In case I don't know how to get from my room to his he drew a map complete with labels so i don't get lost
I have lots more to catch up on but it has to wait another day I have a chick flick waiting to be watched :)

I bought a new tea kettle last week. My old one broke (ben failed to mention that until I was complaining that it was strangely missing from my stove). Anyway my new kettle whistles when the water is ready. I decided I wanted to try it out so I was heating water yesterday morning for Kyles oatmeal. Ben is in his office, the kids are all eating except kyle who is doing his homework. I'm packing lunches. The kettle starts whistling and sadie looks up wide eyed and starts freaking out. "what is that? what is that noise? where is it coming from?" I told her it's the kettle saying the water is done. She starts screaming. Literally at the top of her lungs shrieking. Yelling for me to turn it off. I was in the middle of making a sandwich so she can wait a second right?! ok she's still shrieking. Maddie starts crying, Zach starts yelling for me to turn it off. I say no just a minute. sadie is now getting up to leave the room Zach picks up his full bowl of cereal and throws it. I start yelling at him, ben comes in thinks it's pretty funny and said something like "Ahhh we're gonna blow" kyle is staring at us like we're crazy. Wow that was eventful. Now i know my new favorite consequence. They have to listen to the kettle whistle :)

came across this picture and thought it was funny...do you know what that glowing poofy mass in the middle of the picture is? Yep Maddie's head. you can't snuggle her without having to blow hair out of face because it's so big :)

Ok Sadie's class had the kindergarten snow show a couple of weeks ago. I ALWAYS cry at anything that involves my children on stage singing. It's kind of embarrassing. the kindergarteners sang fun songs, made LOTS of snow man art, and picture books, even a little snowman sculpture. At the end Sadie served us cookies and hot chocolate. Maddie spilled hot coco on the floor (it's our tradition zach spilled at kyles...i guess maddie will do it again next year when it's zachs turn....will I then have to spill at Maddies....yes I dream of her being in school :) ) It was a fun day.

it is seriously a limb...no a dagger. ben saw it and after looking up for awhile he says (this is no joke) "is that going to be a problem?" i think he's in denial he has to get up on that crazy steep roof with a rock wall below :) this is one thing me and my purple tool kit from Christmas ISN'T fixing. (yes my parents actually got a me a tool kit and yes I was really excited about it :) i can never find the correct tools in bens mess :)

I thought this was really funny. Tonight Kyle saw in my email that a book he is excited to read (the second in the Indian in the cupboard series...) came on the hold shelf. Here is our conversation:

Ben informed me last night that he could totally DJ a dance. We were talking about the ward V-Day dance this weekend and saying that he could probably dj for it if he had the time to put together a playlist. He even sampled his stuff "yo yo yo this is Dizzy D coming at you from the valentines dance" or...."Let's kick it next with a Ladies Choice" As you can imagine i was rolling on the floor. Dizzy D? weird deep voice? where do these things come from? Who thinks about what they would say if they were dj'ing a dance? I told him to stick with classic songs like "take my breath away" and lose dizzy d. He should just stick with Big B. D. anyway

We went to a friends party on new years eve...we made fun party hats, ate yummy food, and played fun games. Ben and i were supposed to be posing for a picture at midnight but he decided to crack a joke about a "legendary" new years eve back when we were dating in high school .... 16 years ago . He made it sound very risque . It wasn't. That's all I'm going to say on that. but here is the picture. I love it. Thanks Jenni :)

I wanted to share a few fav pictures of the girls from January....I LOVE the one of their feet sticking up in the bath tub :)

Zach turned five a few weeks ago. It was a fun day. At our house presents are first thing in the morning .... a fun way to wake up I guess. This year he wanted G.I. Joes, a jeep for them a remote control Mario Kart and a few other fun things. I made him a spongebob cake last minute (he requested the night before...sunday) so it's not that great but it made him happy. Spongebob has since been "banned" in our house. That show is on all the time. But after watching the kids make the dumbest jokes...so we're taking a break. back to the bday. Ben was working from home so we took him to lunch at panda express (he really looks forward to lunchdates ....we've only been a few times :) ) but this was extra special since dad went with, and he got his own "topper" what he called the to go box of his own....that he shared with maddie :) We had cake after family night...which for some reason i can't remember Zach got in trouble and then trew a huge fit. to try to calm him down I gave everyone party blowers and attacked him with them :) it was funny