Memories: Part 3 "Even if I have to go bathroom?"

My all time favorite line from the movie Annie is when miss Hannigan comes into the orphan room after Annie is smuggled away in the laundry and asks, "Where's Annie?" And one of the girls replies, "She had to go bathroom." Then miss Hannigan mocking the girl in a really nasally voice mimics back, "She had to go bathroom." Check it out real quick on youtube here. I always thought I would play that little girl really well.

Probably Summer Time 1991

My parents were leaving for the night and told us children to wash the dishes, “THEY HAD BETTER BE CLEAN BY THE TIME WE GET HOME.” I don’t know whose idea it was, siblings feel free to comment here, but somehow we agreed to just hide the dishes in the oven so when our parents got home they would think the dishes were done and ran off to play.

Weeellll later that night my parents came home and being the intellectual people they are, they found the stash. Oooohhhh we were in troouuuuble. My dad was fuming, “Now you kids had better stay in here and wash these dishes, I don’t want anyone to leave the kitchen for any reason until the dishes are done.” I asked my dad, “even if we have to use the bathroom?” He replied, “I don’t even care if you have to use the bathroom, you stay in here and finish the dishes.”

I don’t know how, but this came off as a challenge to me, so I stood there and wet myself. Yeah sure I knew it was sick, and it felt awful as it ran down my stretchy pants into my jelly shoes. But that was all put aside because I knew that at any moment I would get one of these, “oh Heather I am so sorry I didn’t know you had to use the restroom or I would have let you go.” But instead I got one of these, “Well now you have to stand there in your pee and do the dishes.” Luckily my mom inserted with a voice of reason, “Jerry that’s unsanitary.” So I was forced to clean up my own pee, wash my clothes, take a bath and then do the dishes.  

Oh Just This and That

Soooo where to begin? So much to share and only 15 minutes til bed. Speed round:
Habitat for humanity toilet crazy
all lids up....

all lids down....

Goggles

Fun at our new found park in Bainbridge

And kayaking on a warm Saturday night

Activities like this remind me of how our lives used to be back West, lots of recreation. I am so grateful to all of our friends and family, both here and there, who always make/made doing fun outdoor things like this possible. It rejuvenates us to get out and do active things, I have been swimming a lot lately and eating better and I have so much more energy and strength and I love it.

This little adventure wasn't flawless though, I pinched my finger in the ore as I snapped it together and took off a huge chunk of skin it looks sick and hurts badly. I also rubbed the skin off thumb because I was such and intense paddler, haha or my hands have become week and sensitive. Only three years ago I frequently ripped quarter sized pieces of skin off my hands while rock climbing and didn't think about it at all, now all of the sudden one tiny rip makes me whine.

By the way Kacen loves the boats.

I want to give a special thanks to my in-laws because they indulge my silly wants, like: kayaking, sister wives, hot fudge, ice cream and Papa John's Hawaiian Pizza, they are soooo good to me and what do they usually get? An ornery pregnant woman.  I love my in-laws so much and don't really express it too well. They are such good people, and great parents. A special shout out to Perry on this Father's Day, he helped my husband become the amazing man he is today, through his example of love and compassion. He never reads this and I always joke him that I write about them on here so if he ever does read this at least he will find something nice.

A special shout out to my daddy-o, Jerry. He is a great dad, I talk to him at least once a week. He loves his grand kids so much and just likes to hear what we are up to. I love my parents so much too. My fav memories of my dad is when he used to take me out of school to go fishing and told me if I told my mom he would not do it any more. So we would sneak out of town, get some junk food and go fish. I hate fishing, but loved the time with my pops.

And last but not least a special shout out to my Ky Ky pie. I love this guy so much. I don't like to even think of my life without him. He not only lead our family in doing correct things, he works hard, he cares about becoming a better person, he takes care of Kacen and he does the laundry and dishes. What a man! Oh and he is so cute. One time when we were somewhat newly married he skated down to Winger's, where I was working, and some hostesses were near the door and said, "Oh man look at that hottie out there, I love a cute preppy skater look." So I went to see and it was my Ky, haha. Yeah he is a hottie. And also he makes me laugh and motivates me to get out and to things I know I love even when I feel lazy and just want to sit around eating muddy buddies witting blog posts (hehe I am doing that right now).

Happy Sunday.

Child Art Work Father's Day Card

Have you ever wondered what to do with your kids abstract art, or yours for that matter?

 Because Kacen loves painting I decided to use his paintings for our Father's Day cards.

I am sure you can be much more creative and artsy than me but I just cut the paintings up into little tiles and used them to go around the border of the card. I was trying to make more masculine cards.

And there you have it, a super easy re-purposed Father's Day card.

  

I think that in addition to this card I will be making lemon cheesecake too! Yumm!

A Good Dinner

I made a pretty darn good dinner the other night: Lime cilantro peanut pesto pasta salad, found here, glazed Asian chicken found here, and grilled zucchini and asparagus. And then to top it all off I made my first ever chocolate souffle found here. Ok there was a tiny bit malfunction when I took the collar off but it was so good, like so tender and delicious and gooey and we served it with homemade chocolate sauce.