Posted by Jordan
Our plight:
We're going on a long road trip at the end of April.
Our destination:
We're headed North! We're driving our way through Southern Idaho, cutting a corner accross Wyoming, navigating through Montana, and then venturing across the vast, featureless plains East of the Rockies... all the way to the distant city of Bismarck, North Dakota. It's about 14 hours straight driving time.
The reason:
I have a dear friend from Russia that is emigrating to the United States and getting married there on the 25th of April!
An interesting side note:
It is ironic that my friend happens to be getting married in North Dakota, because the only other living "Knutson" relatives I have on this earth outside of Moab (other than my Uncle Shawn's family in Idaho) happen to live in North Dakota. My Grandpa Ollie was born in a little town near Bismarck. He and his sister eventually headed south and made their way to Moab, but they left their older brother back at the farm in ND, who still lives there with his posterity close by. We'll be staying with some of them while we're up there.
Our need:
We want to get one...maybe two books on CD to listen to during our 28 total hours of driving. We need some recommendations.
Our taste:
We like a variety of books, to be sure. But for this particular trip, we would like something that:
a) is going to keep us awake. Something with some suspense, maybe some action, whatever.
b) does not contain any elves, wizards, magic, or vampires. I know I just shot down probably every book on the top ten right now.
Jaicee and I recently read the entire Great and Terrible series by Chris Stewart, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I myself have read a handful of the Dirk Pitt novels by Clive Cussler, which is possibly along the lines of what I'm looking for, but I'm up for something new. I've never read the DaVinci Code, (or seen the movie) so I'm thinking about that one.
You know that mood you sometimes get in when you tell your spouse:
"Let's watch a movie," because you're in the mood for a movie. Then spouse says,"What do you want to watch?" And you reply, "Idunno... Something good." Then spouse begins to make some recommendations, but you shoot them down, one after another, because you only really know what you don't want to watch, but you don't know exactly what it is you do want to watch? You know that mood? You've all experienced it, I'm sure. Same thing happens when you want to eat out. Well, that's kinda how I am right now with this book thing. So...
Your turn:
Leave me a comment and tell me what you think. (That includes you, Mariah, and anyone else who is anonymously blog-stalking us.) I promise I won't shoot down anyone's ideas publicly. But I may call you at home and laugh into the phone. (Just kidding, of course.) I have rarely read a book that I didn't like for at least one reason or another. So hit me. What do you recommend?
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Fingerpainting
HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY NORAH!!!
We wanted to start a new tradition of getting a set of hand/foot prints for the girls' scrapbooks each year around their birthdays. Since Naivie just turned two, and today is Norah's 1st birthday, we figured now is a good time to start! What we hadn't figured on was how difficult it would actually be to get a hand print and foot print from a two-year-old and a one-year-old...
All of this mess, just for a couple of these:
We think it will be a lot cleaner in years to come...
...though not nearly as much fun!
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
New Favorite Quote
Posted by Jordan
Jaicee and I walked into the lobby of the new Arby's at the south end of Logan. I saw these sublime words written accross the walls above the soda fountain:
"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." -Luciano Pavarotti
Mmmm... Beautifully said, Luc. Couldn't have put it better myself.
(I hope after I die that I can have my words, or maybe even a picture, immortalized on the walls of a fast-food restaurant.)
Jaicee and I walked into the lobby of the new Arby's at the south end of Logan. I saw these sublime words written accross the walls above the soda fountain:
"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." -Luciano PavarottiMmmm... Beautifully said, Luc. Couldn't have put it better myself.
(I hope after I die that I can have my words, or maybe even a picture, immortalized on the walls of a fast-food restaurant.)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
So close, and yet so far...
Posted by Jaicee
I am continually amazed at our children! How fast they grow, how sweet it is to see them playing together, and also how they find ways to make me crazy!
Monday morning I was exercising in the living room with my DVDs, and I wasn't really paying too much attention to the girls playing on the floor. I didn't particularly notice that Naivie had left the room for a few minutes and then returned...
When I was finished exercising, I took Norah back to the girls' room to change her pants. I looked down at the trash can and noticed an unfolded diaper in it. Naivie sometimes gets clean diapers from the drawer and throws them away just because. Thinking "Oh, Naivie, stop throwing away the diapers!" I reached down to pick it up and found that it was not clean; there were little poops in it.
I always roll up the soiled diapers before I throw them away, and I did not remember changing a poopy diaper yet this morning... This is one of those moments that makes you raise one eyebrow and look suspiciously around the room.
I walked back out to the living room and saw Naivie standing there. I examined her from where I stood... she had all her clothes on and a diaper sticking out the top of her pants, as usual, but I knew something was wrong. I pulled down her pants and found that her diaper was askew. Hmmm... I examined further to find that her bottom was still a little dirty.
My daughter had successfully changed her own diaper without telling me.
I couldn't believe it! She left the room, took off her pants, took off her diaper and placed it in the trash, put on a clean diaper, put her pants back on, and came back out into the living room like nothing had happened! This is the very thing I had wished she would do when she was an infant... but now that she's two-and supposed to be learning to use the potty-I didn't know whether to throw up my hands in frustration or to laugh!
When Jordan came home later that day, I told him what had happened and he found it hysterical. We talked and decided that if she's smart enough to change her own diaper, we need to step up the potty training! So today for the first time, we put Naivie in "big girl panties" to see if she would get the point. It has seemed to work for a lot of people we know; we hope it will work for Naivie too.
We've already had a few accidents and wet carpet spots, but we are not daunted! Sort of... well, okay, actually we're a lot daunted... but we're gonna give it our best shot anyway! Wish us luck, and any helpful hints will be appreciated!
I am continually amazed at our children! How fast they grow, how sweet it is to see them playing together, and also how they find ways to make me crazy!
Monday morning I was exercising in the living room with my DVDs, and I wasn't really paying too much attention to the girls playing on the floor. I didn't particularly notice that Naivie had left the room for a few minutes and then returned...
When I was finished exercising, I took Norah back to the girls' room to change her pants. I looked down at the trash can and noticed an unfolded diaper in it. Naivie sometimes gets clean diapers from the drawer and throws them away just because. Thinking "Oh, Naivie, stop throwing away the diapers!" I reached down to pick it up and found that it was not clean; there were little poops in it.
I always roll up the soiled diapers before I throw them away, and I did not remember changing a poopy diaper yet this morning... This is one of those moments that makes you raise one eyebrow and look suspiciously around the room.
I walked back out to the living room and saw Naivie standing there. I examined her from where I stood... she had all her clothes on and a diaper sticking out the top of her pants, as usual, but I knew something was wrong. I pulled down her pants and found that her diaper was askew. Hmmm... I examined further to find that her bottom was still a little dirty.
My daughter had successfully changed her own diaper without telling me.
I couldn't believe it! She left the room, took off her pants, took off her diaper and placed it in the trash, put on a clean diaper, put her pants back on, and came back out into the living room like nothing had happened! This is the very thing I had wished she would do when she was an infant... but now that she's two-and supposed to be learning to use the potty-I didn't know whether to throw up my hands in frustration or to laugh!
When Jordan came home later that day, I told him what had happened and he found it hysterical. We talked and decided that if she's smart enough to change her own diaper, we need to step up the potty training! So today for the first time, we put Naivie in "big girl panties" to see if she would get the point. It has seemed to work for a lot of people we know; we hope it will work for Naivie too.
We've already had a few accidents and wet carpet spots, but we are not daunted! Sort of... well, okay, actually we're a lot daunted... but we're gonna give it our best shot anyway! Wish us luck, and any helpful hints will be appreciated!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tagged!
Posted by Jaicee
I got tagged by Amanda in La Sal!
FIRSTS:
1. Who was your first Prom date? I only went once... is that lame? I went with Trevor Black, my high school crush.
2. Do you still talk to your first love? No, are you kidding?
3. What was the first time you drove like? Well, I drove around the block a few times before I started drivers' ed, but when I really got my first experience, I was driving my family's fifteen passenger van down the freeway at 1:00 in the morning to pick up a cousin from the airport. There were fifty semis out to get me. They closed in on me and shone their headlights right into my mirrors... I couldn't see... it was terrifying...
4. What was your first job? I was a car hop at Maddox. I was awesome.
5. What was your first car? Beandip. An old Buick station wagon with peeling paint and caution tape stuck to the front bumper.
6. Who was the first person to text you today? Oh, I hardly ever text. The idea of having a "first person to text me" is ridiculous! I think I can count all the texts I've ever gotten on one hand and they are all from Jordan. I'm not "hip" with the technology... bummer.
7. Who is the first person you thought of this morning? Jordan!
8. Who was your first grade teacher? Mrs. ... um... hold on... Kenyon!! She was the best teacher, she gave us all pieces of colored chalk and we drew pictures on big pieces of paper. I always drew fishes in the sea, complete with seaweed and clams.
9.Who was your first best friend, and do you still talk? Her name was Cassie Lauritzen. When I moved away, we wrote letters for a while, but I lost her years ago. I can't find her anywhere.
10. Where was your first sleepover? I don't know. It might have been Stephanie's house... This is like trying to dig up info from the deepest darkest parts of my mind! lol!
11.Where did you go on your first airplane ride? San Francisco, on a choir trip. Beautiful city!
12. Who was the first person you talked to today? My Jordan.
13. Who's wedding were you in for the first time? As far as I can remember it was my uncle Lee's wedding. I got to carry a big long... thing, that had a flame on the end and light all the candles before the bride came in.
14. What was the first thing that you did this morning? ... um... y'know.
15. Who was the first concert that you went to? Colors!!! Oh, those were the good days!
16. First tattoo? I think it was a Disney character... maybe Cinderella... but it wasn't real, in case you were wondering. :)
17. First piercing? My ears. I also pierced my pinky fingernail when I was little. I thought it would be pretty with an earring in it.
18. First foreign country you have been to? Russia!
19. First movie you remember seeing? Oh, I don't have any idea! Back in the days of VHS when I was very small, I wore out "The Little Mermaid" because I watched it just about everyday.
20. When was your first detention? I've never been to detention. What an angel!
21. What was the first state that you lived in? Utah! First and only.
22. Who was your first roommate? Brittanyross. She was the best roommate. I had a much bigger selection of clothes when we lived together.
23. First funeral you attended? I remember going to one of my great, great grandmothers' funeral when I was little and my mom tried to get me to touch her hand! I know she was trying to get me to overcome my fear, but it made it worse!
24. Who was your first kiss? I was a VL until I kissed Jordan for the first time. Yea!
25. What is the first thing you do when you get on the computer? I just check my email, usually.
I tag: Sheri, Sarah, Anneliesa, and Jill
I got tagged by Amanda in La Sal!
FIRSTS:
1. Who was your first Prom date? I only went once... is that lame? I went with Trevor Black, my high school crush.
2. Do you still talk to your first love? No, are you kidding?
3. What was the first time you drove like? Well, I drove around the block a few times before I started drivers' ed, but when I really got my first experience, I was driving my family's fifteen passenger van down the freeway at 1:00 in the morning to pick up a cousin from the airport. There were fifty semis out to get me. They closed in on me and shone their headlights right into my mirrors... I couldn't see... it was terrifying...
4. What was your first job? I was a car hop at Maddox. I was awesome.
5. What was your first car? Beandip. An old Buick station wagon with peeling paint and caution tape stuck to the front bumper.
6. Who was the first person to text you today? Oh, I hardly ever text. The idea of having a "first person to text me" is ridiculous! I think I can count all the texts I've ever gotten on one hand and they are all from Jordan. I'm not "hip" with the technology... bummer.
7. Who is the first person you thought of this morning? Jordan!
8. Who was your first grade teacher? Mrs. ... um... hold on... Kenyon!! She was the best teacher, she gave us all pieces of colored chalk and we drew pictures on big pieces of paper. I always drew fishes in the sea, complete with seaweed and clams.
9.Who was your first best friend, and do you still talk? Her name was Cassie Lauritzen. When I moved away, we wrote letters for a while, but I lost her years ago. I can't find her anywhere.
10. Where was your first sleepover? I don't know. It might have been Stephanie's house... This is like trying to dig up info from the deepest darkest parts of my mind! lol!
11.Where did you go on your first airplane ride? San Francisco, on a choir trip. Beautiful city!
12. Who was the first person you talked to today? My Jordan.
13. Who's wedding were you in for the first time? As far as I can remember it was my uncle Lee's wedding. I got to carry a big long... thing, that had a flame on the end and light all the candles before the bride came in.
14. What was the first thing that you did this morning? ... um... y'know.
15. Who was the first concert that you went to? Colors!!! Oh, those were the good days!
16. First tattoo? I think it was a Disney character... maybe Cinderella... but it wasn't real, in case you were wondering. :)
17. First piercing? My ears. I also pierced my pinky fingernail when I was little. I thought it would be pretty with an earring in it.
18. First foreign country you have been to? Russia!
19. First movie you remember seeing? Oh, I don't have any idea! Back in the days of VHS when I was very small, I wore out "The Little Mermaid" because I watched it just about everyday.
20. When was your first detention? I've never been to detention. What an angel!
21. What was the first state that you lived in? Utah! First and only.
22. Who was your first roommate? Brittanyross. She was the best roommate. I had a much bigger selection of clothes when we lived together.
23. First funeral you attended? I remember going to one of my great, great grandmothers' funeral when I was little and my mom tried to get me to touch her hand! I know she was trying to get me to overcome my fear, but it made it worse!
24. Who was your first kiss? I was a VL until I kissed Jordan for the first time. Yea!
25. What is the first thing you do when you get on the computer? I just check my email, usually.
I tag: Sheri, Sarah, Anneliesa, and Jill
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Light at the end of the tunnel
Aaaaah, yes. Good bye February.
Welcome March. Welcome daylight. Welcome thaw.
Winter is still hanging around, but it is on its death bed.
Halleluiah.
Welcome March. Welcome daylight. Welcome thaw.
Winter is still hanging around, but it is on its death bed.
Halleluiah.
This guy is totally me: helping the snowman melt faster, because the sun is too slow.
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