Almost Flatlined...but there's still a faint blogbeat...

I'm back! This post is dedicated to Lorie, Laurie, Chrissy, Leslie, Kirstin and all my other patient friends who haven't threatened to hang me by my leg hairs for all the dead blog air (which are, by the way, long and practically braid-able due to the fact that I haven't had a moment to shave them in weeks...sorry TMI).

We are alive and very well and ready to give updates on the latest. Consider this a run-down on our co-starring super heroes....





Ruby, previously known as Reese's Pieces:

Talents:
Scooting along places with sharp edges and narrowly averting disaster.
Grinning big, cheesy toothless grins

Loves:
Her Mama
Black beans
Bananas
and anything she beats us to on the kitchen floor

Likes:
Her sisters...except when she's been too loved up.
Nuzzling shoulders

Hates:
Getting licked by her 5 year old sister.
Avocados





Lulu, the Destructive One

Talents:

Dancing like a princess
Finding new bodily orifices to cram small things into (who knew a nostril could actually stretch like that?)
Walking into doors and walls
Doing an impression of a battered child

Loves:

Her breakfast eggs scrambled
Nuts, berries and bread
Leaving devastation in her wake
Asserting her will with high pitched banshee shrieks that make dogs howl
'Eskagaters' (sometime during our move to Florida, she combined 'escalator' and 'alligator' together and came up with this word to describe that nifty contraption that equals hours of fun in the mall.)

Likes:
Smashing her baby sister
Soccer
The feeling of 'Gooshing' her poop on the floor. Unfortunately this goes along with poopie foot prints leading to her hiding place.
Her Uncle Joe in Afghanistan.

Hates:
Meat
Tomatoes
Naps


Bunny, the new READER!!

Talents:
Giving gifts of love
Riding her bicycle (she taught herself)
Unpantsing department store mannequins in no time flat

Loves:
'Everyone except for Satan'
'Every color except gray'
Her breakfast eggs boiled
Homemade hash browns
Randomly licking people

Likes:
Nuts, any kind, in any form
Potatoes prepared in any way.
Being the first person awake in the morning

Hates:
Ants...seriously. This stemming from a traumatic altercation with Utah Ants
Coconut (with a bloody passion) AND she can pick it out of a dish even when masked by dozens of other ingredients.


Sunshine
Talents:
Creating brilliant things with clay
Being a sincere and loyal friend
Playing well with babies
Changing said baby's diaper mid crawl.


Loves:

Her friends
Sniffing the deodorant scents along the 'Personal Hygiene' aisle in the grocery store
Reading anything she can get her hands on
Her breakfast eggs Sunny-side-Up with a side of toast

Likes:

Reruns of 'The Ghost Whisperer
Snuggling with her Mama
Making $$ for college which 'is going to be like $600 or something'.

Hates:Nuts


He-Man:
Talents:
Finder of unique sea shells
Adjuster of hundreds of military personnel.
Buying the gift that is 'just right'.

Loves:
Me
Taking Naps
Being the conquering hero (He just finished the Ragnar Relay-Utah Wasatch Back---Woot, Woot!) Conquering Heroes are Sexy Hot!

Likes:
The Ocean (way more than he thought he would)
The green things of Florida
Fresh nut PiesCitrus fruits

Hates:
Humidity


As for me, here's my goings-on

*Accepted a calling in my church to serve as Stake Relief Society Secretary. Essentially, I help the woman's leadership of our area by keeping records, making phone calls, taking meeting minutes and being a regular 'go-to' gal.

*Tended our two amazingly awesome 12 year old cousins for 2 and a half weeks while their parents took a fabulous jet-setting holiday to Germany.

*Ran off all but 7 lbs. of 'Birthin' Ruby Baby Weight'. I'm still scared to try on my jeans as it appears my hips have literally achieved what a midwife once told me..."You have a pelvis a Mac Truck could drive through". No lie. During the throws of labor, no less.

*Turned another year older, and hopefully wiser. I was feted by my husband, friends and neighbors with a surprise block party complete with a brand new fire pit.

*Limped to a finish at the end of the homeschooling year and was successful.

*Came up with, what I think, is a brilliant concept for a new book and began writing it....I just really need to finish it this time.

*Fell in love with a new show (new to us that is) named 'Chuck'.

*Said Auf Wiedersehen to my parents who were offered a job and promptly high-tailed it out of Southern Arizona.

So, there you have it...my defense for hairy, swimsuit unworthy legs, chipped and peeling pedicure and my lack of blogging.

But that's all gonna change now that I've defibrillated my blog a couple of times and I can make out a steady rhythm.