Awesome video, hopefully one day Jordy will be on there

Go into Google and type "One day (your name) will" (not forgetting to place the quotation marks). Report your first 10 finding, regardless of relevance.
**Note, I tried to do Jordanna, but nothing came up. Then I tried an alternate spelling, but nothing came up...so I had to go with Jordy***

1. Awesome video, hopefully one day Jordy will be on there

2. Maybe one day Jordy will be able to swim But not today. Will someone teach Jordy to swim please? Lets hire a penguin that swims ...

3. Maybe One day Jordy will be as fast as me.. she does know her trance though... " I've got stars to sow, fat to chew and many different men to see about many ...

*******The above three are all that came up with the quotation marks...I had to repeat without the word "will" to get the rest************

4. One day Jordy asked his mommy what a war was. She said when the governments of countries were mad at each other they sent armies to fight ...

5. One day Jordy is out walking when suddenly a white man in a truck throws a beer bottle in his head. The good mood that Jordy was in ...

6. One day, jordy and I will GET MY LOVE BACK OF YOU! <3 Loads of love RUBY .... One day, jordy and I will fly to the moon n bk and havvvve spaaaaace babies ... (Okaaaay)

7. One day, Jordy goes to school... He forgot to bring his Mths textbook... He went back home and return to school... So, the next day, Jordy goes to school by ...

8. There always matchin my shirts && one day Jordy && Drew will write a song about it. =] Im the Most Clumsy person ever! I cant walk Straight, && I trip easy ...

9. Want them to be a apart of my program one day’. Jordy Smith. ‘Pushing the boundaries of Free Expression… Kickin new levels and movin on up… ...

10. “One day, Jordy and I were walking to the New Pier,” recalls Damien, “and in broad daylight we saw a guy stab another guy over a poker game and just get up ...

Okaaaaay, I am thinking about changing my nickname. First of all, it's a BOY'S nickname...boo hiss!

Dear Hubby comes home tomorrow from Costa Rica, can't wait!

Husband Quiz

I wanted to challenge myself, and visitors to my blog do this voluntarily so I'm not practically forcing you to read my lame-o answers if it shows up on your Facebook page. So read ahead if you want, skip if you don't! :)

Here's a chance to see how well you know your hubby. Copy and paste, fill in YOUR answers, then forward . . . shoot, you know what to do. The real challenge is to send it to your husband to see how right you really are.

1. He's sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen? Something funny. He could watch Madagascar over and over (first, not the second!), we like to watch Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld, Friends, and Scrubs.

2. You're out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad? Poppy Seed


3. What's one food he doesn't like? Seafood with the exception of shrimp and calamari

4. What is his favorite movie? Madagascar

5. Where did he go to high school? Cervantes Spanish High School in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

6. What size shoe does he wear? 6

7. If he was to collect anything, what would it be? Money... :)

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich? Ham with melted cheese.

9. What would this he eat every day if he could? He wouldn't. Too picky for that. :) But he could eat at Cafe Rio pretty often.

10. What is his favorite cereal? Fruit Loops

11. What is something he would never wear? Speedo

12. What is his favorite sports team? Chivas soccer team from Guadalajara

13. Who did he vote for? Can't vote yet! Is a permanent resident, we're just passing time until he can become a citizen.

14. Who is his best friend? ME! Of course, and next to me, Luis Eduardo and Edgar from Guadalajara

15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn't do? Fart :)

16. What is his favorite sport? He is not really into sports (hallelujah!) I guess it would be soccer if it's Chivas or Mexico playing.

17. You bake him a cake for his birthday; what kind would it be? CHOCOLATE

18. What is his favorite vacation? Cancun, or any exotic beach locale (California beaches don't quite cut it). Anywhere where he can lay on the beach and bake in the sun like a lizard (while I sit under an umbrella and use sunscreen, I'm sure I will be the one to get skin cancer). At the time of my writing this, he's on the beach in Costa Rica (for work!)

19. What could he spend hours doing? Looking into my eyes. :)

20. What is one unique talent he has? He makes me feel like a million dollars!

Spring is almost here!

It's hard to see in the picture below, but just last week we found our first bug in the house, a cricket! Not that it's something to be proud of, but at least it means that Spring is almost here!

Tiago had fun chasing the cricket around, although it seemed for a while like he was Robot Number 5 in the movie Short Circuit, so zealous in his pursuit of the cricket that he almost stepped on it.

Now with the advent of Spring, I get to resume my role as the main spider killer in the house! Spiders, beware!

Small confession

I was at IKEA the other day to buy some towel racks and hooks so I could better organize my closet (thanks to the January issue of the Martha Stewart magazine for the ideas), when I got out of the car and saw a dirty receipt on the ground (it'd obviously been run over a few times). I got the urge to bend over and pick it up.

For using your debit card, IKEA will give you a coupon good for 3% of the total value you spent that day for your next visit.

So as I looked at this dirty receipt that I had just picked up, I saw that it was good for 16 cents off my next debit card purchase, so I saved 16 cents that day!

Is this terrible/weird? Is this something you would have done? Was 16 cents worth it (mind you, I couldn't tell the total amount until I picked it up)?

Weekly update

Well! One of the things on my mind is a "You know you're the mom of a toddler when..." kind of post...I'll just jot down a few ideas here. I had so many good ideas last week, but I have forgotten all the good ones...oh hey! That's my first one! You know you're a mom of a toddler when you try to remember something that was SO important and you can't remember for the life of you...oh well.

You know you're the mom of a toddler when:

...you start finding toys in the toilet and pacifiers in your clothes drawers. This is after you notice that of the 6 pacifiers you KNOW you had last week, you can only find 3. I think the other 3 got tossed out in the trash.

...you tidy up the house but 20 minutes later, you can't even tell a thing was done!

...you wear a pedometer to count your steps and you routinely log 2-3 miles per day without ever leaving the house.

...the constant refrain ringing in your head is "mommy mommy mommy mommy."

...your child has so many bruises from falling down that you're worried you'll get picked up for child abuse.

...you have to write everything down or else you will forget it.

...you occupy an entire side pew at the church so at least one escape route is completely blocked off.

...you split turns with your husband who gets to try to keep the baby quiet and happy for three hours during Church.

...when it ends up being your turn to take care of him during the last two hours of Church, you come home and immediately crash for a nap.

...you can't wait until he turns 18 months and can go to Nursery so both of you can focus on the lessons for the last two hours of Church.

...your DVDs are completely rearranged....every day.

...you feed the floor as much as you feed your toddler.

...you walk into your home office and realize with a sinking heart that you left one of the drawers of your filing cabinet open and he's grabbed the file with all of your bank statements and scattered them all over the floor. (I'm looking at it...right now)

...you go to play catch with your toddler with his favorite plush soccer ball and it hits you and the leather couch with a wet THUD, because he's previously dunked it in the toilet, and now there's toilet water and pedialyte (because he also got into the pantry) all over the kitchen floor and you just mopped yesterday!

...you roll your eyes at your husband when he suggest not having so many toys downstairs because it makes everything look cluttered (and exactly how do you propose that I keep the baby away from the DVDs, the pantry, the dishwasher, the drawer underneath the stove, etc if he has no toys to play with?)

...you are annoyed (yet secretly proud) that he says Mommy way more often than Daddy.

.......any other ideas?

Funny newspaper story

So Leo and I are on the couch right now and he's reading me some of the headlines from our city paper.

The best one so far is "Senior Center Field Trip to go to Museum of Ancient Life"

Hmmm...

Weekly update

What to write?

A week ago at this time, we were driving back home from my parents' place. We decided to break up the trip in two and stay in a hotel overnight just over halfway so that Baby Monkey wouldn't be confined in a car all day long. The drive down took 14 hours when it normally takes about 9 or 10 because we had to stop to let Baby Monkey out and eat!

After a stop at Stateline, a casino/outlet center just barely inside Nevada on the border with California, and scoring some good deals (80% off at Williams Sonoma which made things...normally priced!) we continued on to St. George. I got to drive the entire way, through no real fault of Mr. Monkey. I usually drive in and out of California because I know the freeways better and plus my "California driver mode" switches on by the time I hit the metropolis that is Southern California, where drivers are faster and more aggressive. Then by the time we left Stateline, it was getting dark so Mr. Monkey asked me to drive because he has terrible night vision. So that's why I got to drive all the way!

I was excited to land in St. George because our hotel had a TV with cable in the room so that meant I got to watch HGTV for a few hours! Oh yeah! The plan for the next day was to stop by my Uncle Don's house (the last remaining brother of my Grandma, so he's a great-uncle) and have him give us a tour of Zion's and show us the dinosaur foot prints about a mile from his house, but the baby threw up in the morning so we thought it best not to expose him to any potential viruses as he's almost 84.

I got to drive from St. George back home, because Mr. Monkey was worried about potentially driving on snow and ice (not used to the stick shift in my car yet), so of course there was NONE all the way home! It started snowing like crazy a few hours after we got home so it was a good thing we didn't stay in St. George any longer.

What next? It's soooo nice to be at HOME!

Mr. Monkey started back to work on Monday, after two weeks off. He commented that it's hard to get back in the grind, although he was excited to get some stuff done! He got a larger salary raise this year than most people in the company because it was stipulated in our contract when we returned from Mexico that he would get a certain percentage at the end of the year, and that was before the whole economy fell apart. The company is in good shape, though so we are happy.

Baby Monkey has been a pill lately since he's entering the toddler phase AND he's teething three molars at the same time (OUCH!). So we've been operating on less sleep than normal, although he's slept through the night for the past couple of night so maybe we're over that part for now (hopefully I haven't spoken too soon!). OH! And he was sick, too....so the combination of all three did not make for the most pleasant baby to be around.

My sister and her husband joined us for a few days while they waited for the day to arrive for them to go to Cancun (lucky!). We got to celebrate my brother-in-law's birthday which was on the 6th. The 6th is also Three Kings Day (when the wisemen supposedly found the baby Jesus), and in Mexico it is celebrated with a butter-dough cake called the Rosca de Reyes. There are a couple of plastic dolls (very small) hidden inside of the cake and the tradition goes that if you find a doll in your piece of cake, then you are supposed to bring the tamales for yet ANOTHER party to be held on February 2nd. I love how we have parties to find out who gets to host the next party!

I actually found a Rosca de Reyes cake at a WalMart nearby...I was so surprised, since it's a Mexican tradition...I also found a tortilleria inside this WalMart, which I thought was pretty cool. But what is not cool is that they have a bored-looking white girl making flour tortillas (don't they know that it's the CORN tortillas that taste the best fresh!). And they didn't even have any fresh ones wrapped up and ready for me to take home, so I had to settle for the packaged kind. So I got the cake and then I used a gallon of milk to make Hot Chocolate with chocolate from Oaxaca, Mexico and Atole which is a corn-starch based drink which tastes like drinking liquid pudding (yummy!!!). Ready for a big party!

My sister didn't want to celebrate her husband's birthday with people they (well, he) didn't know (which was supposed to be Leo's brother, sister and her fiance), they ditched us and celebrated his birthday with some friends in Provo. Leo's brother, sister and her fiance didn't even end up coming up for the Rosca because they said the freeways were too bad to drive (so my sister and her husband made it down to Provo and back just fine and these kids couldn't make it up from Provo?) So Dear hubby and I were all alone for Rosca de Reyes with a gallon of drinks and a huge cake. Stinkers.

BUT! We invited some friends of ours over from the ward who are from Brazil, so we got to introduce them to this custom and we had a GREAT time! They have a little baby who was born in late November, so we were trying to get Baby Monkey to hold the little girl, which he was doing for a few minutes until I took the picture (of course!). Now it just looks like he wants out!

So since I found one of the dolls in my piece of cake, that means I'm providing the tamales for a party on February 2nd and our friend Melyssa (the blonde you see in the picture) agreed to bring Brazilian Cheese Bread (yum!). This is a good opportunity to fulfill one of my goals for this year, which is to learn how to make tamales!

And that's our week in a (long) nutshell!