Hole in the wall........

Our life unfortunately revolves around the TV, too much, but I don't think we are changing that fact anytime soon. TV has been bleak lately, granted there have been a few new shows and a few old ones have come back but most of them are waiting to make their debut next week and some in "early 2009." Lots of nerve if you ask me. First you cut our season short then you come back late September?? I think I will be telling my children, we used to have these shows called sitcoms and dramas. They don't do them anymore because they are too expensive and they take too long, that's why there are 12 versions of Big Brother on instead. Anyway, Thursday is usually our best night there is so much on and managing the DVR has almost become a refined skill in our family. Not today, there was NOTHING on. I saw this show Hole in the Wall. It's a game show where, you guessed it, if you don't contort your body to fill a hole in the wall you fall into water. Yes, it is as lame as is sounds. I taped it to show Jono how lame it was. He did not agree, he actually liked it. He watched the whole thing, even made comments about how difficult particular holes are. Is this the programming I have to look forward to? Have we been dished out so much lame TV that a show like this seems watchable. I know what some of you are thinking...... turn the TV off....... read a book........ do something constructive. I wish these were options but since these require more than slight consciousness we are going to politely pass. We can't just change a life long habit because of a few bad months. So we are going to hang in there with the TV and hope that our shows come back without rerunning every other week and maybe just maybe we can find some new, at least halfway decent shows. Any suggestions, we are not asking for a lot maybe just a little more than a hole in the wall to keep us entertained.

PS shame on you if read my title and interpreted it like a 14 year old boy would.

PPS Sorry the pic is not great, shockingly there is not a whole lot out there on this fabulous new game show.

Let's go Dodgers let's go.........

Kalia is becoming a huge Dodger fan. Usually in the mornings Kalia either sings, cries or says "Mommy, Mommy" until I come and get her. Recently she has been saying, "let's go Dodgers let's go, ch ch ch." She gets so excited to go to Dodger games and point out how many Dodger shirts she sees, including her own. (thanks Gay, I'll give it back one day, I promise). And yes those are Manny dreads she's wearing, I should have got a picture of Jono wearing them.

Her other favorite hobby, like most kids, is coloring. We all know she colors her toes but she decided why stop there. Apparently, while Jono was taking care of her, she colored herself all over. He gave her a bath, two seconds later she colored on herself again but worse. Frustrated he just put her in bed, when I got her up in the morning she said, "buggy color self mommy." She sure did. It was way worse than the picture and she stills has some on her.

I don't know how well you can see Kalia's feet but they are a little bit painted, but if you take a closer look they are not painted but markered. So that's weird. There was actually more marker but she just took a bath. I tried to figure out how that happened. Who would put marker on Kalia's toenails and not very well I might add. I knew it wasn't Kalia. I've seen her "draw", really it's more like angry scribbling. She can barely stay on the page, let alone stay on her toenails? Well the mystery was solved, I caught her doing it to herself today. I can't believe she was able to do that good of a job. I mean she is not getting at job at the nail salon or anything but there are times where it looks better than my toes which isn't saying much but still impressive. And where did she learn that? What a good idea, I'm going to start fixing my old toes with marker, maybe she will start a revolution.

My pictures are lame....

My family came to town and I got no good pictures, there are a few decent ones. I know, we went to Sea World where the animals seem almost magical and we have a picture of a turtle, but a 9 year took that picture so there's an excuse for that one. We went to the beach, Sea World and the Dodger game. I had a REALLY good, fun and relaxing time. Highlights of the trip:





1- Seeing Shamu - if I thought that Jono would not be making fun of me for the rest of my life I totally would have let the tears flow.


2- Having my mom potty train Kalia, well not quite but she sat on the toilet which she wouldn't even go near unless it was to stick her hand in it and say "yucky."


3- Having my mom volunteer to change her dirty diaper.


4- Having people, esp. Syd who she has confused with Jerry Seinfeld, playing with Kalia so that I don't have to feel guilty for not playing with her myself.


5- Kalia said "ball pease" to one of Washington Nationals players during batting practice and he could not refuse and he gave her the ball. Then she got it signed by former Dodger Odalis Perez. By the way, when I told Jono he said, really? He sucks.

It was a fun trip and my pictures are not bien so I guess I won't be entering them in any contests.

AI is back.....

Brooke performed at the Staples center, amazing. She did three songs and was amazing as usual. It was such a fun night. Jono had been sitting all day and two of his brothers are here McKay and Tanner, so he was a bit out-of-control. He was singing, dancing and making little comments. The other funny thing was how I had to convince Mckay and Tanner to go because they are both so cheap and don't like parting with their money unless it is for food or food. As soon as they got their first picture they were out of control. By the end of the night they had pictures with almost everyone from the top ten and Paula Abdul. They had to push their way through a fair amount of 12 year old girls to meet Archuleta but it was well worth it to them. The Paula pics are on their way so please hold your breath......

And here they are........

Last minute trip to Utah and my nerdy husband.....

I ended up going to Utah this last week at the last minute. One of my best friends moved to Utah from Hawaii and had her car shipped to Cali and I ended up driving it to Utah then flying home. Thank goodness Kady came with me! What a saint! The car ride was a little crazy but not too bad considering we had 3 kids under the age of 2 plus Cal. Jono kept himself busy with some serious guy time and I made sure to make fun of him for all of it. Kalia had so much fun with her grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousin.

She loved the piano and when she played it almost sounded like music as opposed to angry banging. My brother Scott took these two pictures, too cute.


My cute friend Amanda, she is so fun I wish she would live here but Utah is at least closer than Hawaii. Super lame, she has a 10 month old little girl who loved Kalia and Kalia loved her but sorry no pics because we are lame.


When I get home our DVR if filled up with crap and one of the shows is "the bachelorette" sorry to those of you that love this show but it is a little bit on the lame side for me. Jono tells me " I can't believe that I haven't been watching this show." He says he wants to watch it with me but he needs my undivded attention so that he can give me the details on the people. I tried to give the show a chance, I figured that if Jono was that excited about it that maybe this was another TV gem that I have been missing out on. No, it's lame, sorry to anyone who loves it. I got up once to get the phone and then to do the dishes and he started getting a little bit bugged with me, tells me, "oh another interuption." The whole time we are watching he is making comments like "man one of these guys is really going to get his heart broken", "that's not her style she is a traditional southern girl". He recounted over and over that he can't believe that he didn't watch all seaon. Jono likes cheesy stuff sometimes, but this is ridiculous. I am chalking it up to the fact that we are in the summer time and TV has dried up and that he hasn't quite recovered from the strike this season. Hopefully this fall and or January (when shows are starting to come back) he will be back to his "normal" crap shows but at least with some standards.

I have sugar issues……

I was debating what to write about for my next blog. I always feel like I need a picture so I was going to take a picture of some cupcakes that I made for a shower. I made way too many and they did not turn out how I envisioned them (story of my life). To make matters worse I piled them up on top of each other and there was frosting everywhere, they did not look good. And to be honest they did not taste that good, even though the mix was from the box?? Anyway, ,they did not look good and I didn’t care because I figured that it would help me not to eat them. Not the case. I still ate plenty of mediocre cupcakes. I wish I had a picture but let’s just say I offered them to someone who eats whatever you put in front of them and they passed. But I am chalking that up to the fact that there were remnants of 3 day old “éclair cake” left in with the cupcakes which made it especially gross. By the way the éclair cake was one of the best desserts I have ever had. I could never make it though because it would be my breakfast lunch and dinner until either A) the pan was gone or B) I was too sick to move. Anyway, getting back on track, where is the picture. I looked for my camera for 2 seconds and couldn’t find it and it finally got too gross for even me, I threw about 8 or so cupcakes away. If it wasn’t for calories and the occasional stomach rot I could eat cookies for breakfast, chocolate cake for lunch and Moose Tracks for dinner.

PS I also was lucky enough to have another visit from Britney who was surprised with airline tickets from her husband Cameron to go to Cali for her b-day. I was going to put all the cute stuff her husband did to tell her about the trip but I don't want wives to get mad at their hubsands for not doing cute and thoughtful stuff like that anymore. We had a really good time and Kalia is obsessed with Dylan. She followed him around and said everything he said and did everything that he did. She has even been calling her binky a "sassy" then giving a sly smile afterwards. Sassy is of course what Dylan calls it, too cute.