You Know He Loves You When......

It's Friday night at 9:30 and you ask your husband for the tiniest little favor. Can you go to the store? It should be easy right? He asks what you need. Not even a trace of complaining in his voice. This is what you tell him- Go to customer service and ask for an ad, find the double coupons, cut them out, put them with the other coupons I'm about to give you, find the stuff on the list, make sure it matches the coupons, and go pay. But wait! Make sure that you separate the items, do a transaction, wait for the catalina to print and then ring up the other stuff and pay for it with the catalina that printed in the first transaction. I don't know what amazes me more- that he did this without protesting even once or that he actually knows what a catalina is. Who needs roses and the romantic dinners, this is true love and I'll take it any day!!!!

Just a typical morning.........

Mason says, "thanks babe" to Nate. Nate says, "shut-up! I'm not a girl". Mason replies, "o.k. then handsome". I say "stop it!". Mason says "sure thing Jen".
Ahhhhh, another day at the Wennergrens.

Breaking News........

There's breaking news out of a home in Clinton. 10 year old boy is charged and convicted for his masterminding and carrying out of a major crime spree involving guns and trespassing. The child in question "shot up" the house with water guns and broke into the food storage room. Major damage occurred, mostly to the child's digestive system after eating oh let's say, 40 candy bars or so. He was, however, conscious of eating a more balanced meal and finished it off with pickles, salsa, pasta, water, juice and other condiments before being apprehended. The sentence is being carried out as we speak. $46 in restitution to be paid and $200 to be worked off at his mother's discretion- yes, slave labor. He is also grounded for life. If his parents are unable to carry out this sentence a sibling or spouse will ensure the sentence is carried out. Some have criticized this sentence calling it cruel and unusual punishment because there is no Nintendo DS or Game Cube time allowed, but the most cruel may be the missing of Scout Camp. The cruelty is to the mother of course, for having to deal with having the child complain to her about it for the whole day. When the mother was asked for her comment, she only asked "Does anyone know what the law says about child abandonment until the first day of school?" That should not be puzzling to anyone with children. Oh how we all love summer!

Cow Appreciation Day

Yikes!!! It's been a long time since I've posted here, but this is definitely blog worthy. Do you remember the line from the movie "As Good As It Gets"? "Go sell crazy some place else- we're all stocked up here", well that's us! I have been sick for the past few days. This is down in bed sick with an earache and fever sick- but wait!!!! It's cow appreciation day at Chick-fil-a. Who misses that? I asked the kids if they still wanted to go and Mason resolutely answered "Absolutely!" Nate was game as long as there were other cows there. We got all our spots on and headed to chick-fil-a. I think we hit every stop light and the stares were comical. Of course chick-fil-a is in the mall too. All those people! Oh well, it's free food. It was so fun :) We got there and there were plenty of other cows and people were yelling "cute costumes". They rang the bell when they saw us and ushered us over to spin the wheel for prizes and had a basket full of candy for the kids. We won free drinks and sandwiches for our next visit. We ordered our food and the cashier said she loved to see families coming in to do this- not just the kids. She gave us all adult combo meals and told us about the new store that was going to be opening soon and that the first 100 people in the store on opening day would win free food for a year. Hmmm maybe a campout in our future? As we headed home I realized that we were out of gas. I so didn't want to get gas in a cow costume- maybe we could make it home. Yeah right- maybe if there wasn't an accident that diverted us totally off our route home. What's worse than getting gas in a cow costume? Running out of gas in a cow costume. All in all it was such a fun day. It was a nice change to be "fun and crazy" mom for a change instead of just "busy and serious mom".
*o.k. I know Mason looks like he has rabbit ears, but that's the best we could do with a cat costume. Nate's ears look like Goofy, but from the side they are cow ears.

Road Trip!

The countdown is on. Only 1 more day 'til we leave for Chicago!

Just another day...

Well, a few weeks have gone by and we've all survived the big "move out". I can't believe how whiny I was about the whole situation, someone should have seriously said , "enough already!!!!" Maybe it's having an awesome new sewing/exercise room that padded the blow. Whatever it was, I'm glad that things are starting to be normal again ( whatever normal is). I really need to start posting here more regularly. Steve commented tonight on the infrequency of the posts. Now if Steve's complaining about not enough on the blog, you know it's pretty bad because most of the time he forgets we even have a blog. I don't know why I'm so terrible at it, I post regularly on my other blog. Maybe it's because there is always so many more interesting things going on in Relief Society. Nah, I think I'm just lazy. What could be more entertaining than Mason explaining to the dentist that he's not old enough to have x-rays and making sure to tell him about pretty much every embarrassing thing that has ever happened in our household. Yeah, it's gotta be the lazy thing because I have enough material provided by my family to post hourly. I know I say it all the time but I will try to be better.

Lexii is settled into her new apartment and loving life! Boy, does time go by fast. It seems like I should be preparing for a spring dance recital or kindergarten graduation, not planning what I can turn her bedroom into (it is going to make a really nice exercise and craft room though). My baby is no longer a baby. I'm sure going to miss seeing her and talking to her everyday, but I am very excited for this new chapter of her life. Ahh.... to be young again (no thanks, I had a hard enough time getting to where I am. Only a crazy person would want to do it over again)!

Lex, congratulations on surviving through the teenage years. You have a wonderful life ahead of you. Go and be brilliant as usual.