Monday, January 2, 2012

Holiday Re-cap

We do still exist! Thanksgiving was eventful, although I'm sad to say BOTH of our cameras "went the way of all the earth" (whatever that means). They were lost-ish. I visited Memphis and had a wonderful time with family. We ate TONS (there went the pant sized lost), played games and laughed and laughed. I can't remember having more fun with my family. My Granny LOVES the game catchphrase, but is terrible at it. We laughed until our sides ached from her reading what she thought was the clue, then finding out she really couldn't see the screen so she "made up" the difference. Thus, she is hereafter known as "old cataract eyes". Back at the homestead, Scott suffered a boxer's fracture in his had from.... can you guess? That's right! None other than the ward turkey bowl! The night before I left town I went to see Wicked. It was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!!!! I loved it. Best $68 I ever spent. (Good thing Scott doesn't read this blog)

We celebrated Matthew turning 1 in the beginning of December. He's such a happy boy and so friendly. The pictures are on my mother-in-law's camera, since ours disappeared. I'll post them later, because they really are something. He could have eaten the whole chocolate cake, and ever since then he's been a sugar-aholic.

We had our traditional Christmas eve Nativity reading at Scott's parents. Matthew was the cutest Joseph perhaps in the history of little Josephs. He loved walking around with the wooden "staff" for the shepherds, except he held it by the crook of the cane, so it looked more like a blind-man's walking stick. Too funny! Lucky for me my mom also sent us another camera, though Scott hates it. Maybe our tax return will allow for a new camera ("new"just like the last one we had, mind you).
Christmas day we spent at our home in the morning since we had church at 1, and it was fun to see him rip all the presents open. He particularly loved the giant box full of packing peanuts my mom sent- there was a rocking horse in it.

That pretty much sums up the holiday season in the Rollins home. Stay tuned and you might just see another post before next Christmas....

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Summertime

I’ve been busy lazy this summer, which is the reasoning behind the lack of blogging.

We did this:

-Successfully housed and returned summer intern to Utah.

-Visited Seattle family (sans Scott)

-Babysat (ongoing…)

-Replaced head gasket on Honda (also still ongoing…)

-Got promoted

-Grew some top teeth

-Started crawling/pulling up on EVERYTHING/daring to walk at 8 months

This made us feel:

-glad I’m not stressed about cooking dinner every night

-angry at the airport worker in Seattle that made me throw away my baby food at the beginning of a 12hr day. Seriously…. It didn’t have any explosives in it!

-happy/tired/who could have multiples and survive?/ more than one child will be a cinch because I can handle 4 under 4 for a whole day and keep them alive

-happy to have saved $3000 with a handy husband/wish it didn’t take a decade to finish the job

-Yay!! more money, boo longer hours and working mostly nights

-Please child go to sleep and stop grinding your teeth together because it makes an AWFUL sound

-huzzah you can keep yourself occupied for 20 minutes/no you do not have to stand all day, stop being cranky/ I will trip you if you try that again

Now on to the pictures:


Saturday, June 4, 2011

This Old House

We live in an old house. And we have a veritable forest on both sides of the old house we live in. Apparently, this combination is not good. NOT GOOD I SAY!! Do you know why it's not good?

The deer live in those forests that surround us. And they eat all our flowers and what small things I garden. Boo.

When's hunting season again?

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Mom-isms


EAT YOUR VEGGIES!
SIT UP STRAIGHT!

Matthew really loves food. Really loves it. Peas included. Also he is our very own Chia pet, as demonstrated in the first picture. It was miracle grow that did the trick.