Party like it’s 1999

My sweet Tristan was born 15 years ago today. He was this tiny 6.3 lb. conehead baby and now he’s 180 lbs., almost 5’10″, squatting 335 lb. CRA.ZEE. Happy birthday Tdog!! You are awesome and I’m so proud of you!!

Friday was my dad’s birthday and this Friday is Isabel’s 11th. So… we went to PAR.TAY at Chuck E. Cheese. dadbday

I was in charge of the cake for the party. So… the cake lady at Kroger now thinks I’m insane.

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CAKE

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Napoleon Dynamite pretty much rules…

Duke won. If I had made a bracket I would have at least picked the overall winner. But I never, in a million years, would have expected Butler to even be in the Final 4!! They played awesome and seriously, if my Duke wasn’t the team they were playing I would have totally been cheering for Butler. I have nothing but respect for them.

Yesterday I got all this, 12 pack of Charmin, 3 12 packs Dr. Pepper, 3 packs Stride gum, 2 Oral B toothbruses, 1 Colgate Total, The Chipmunks Squeakquel dvd, 5 packs of batteries, 2 bottles Head and Shoulders, 2 bottles Smart Rinse mouthwash, 2 bottles Dawn and 2 bottles of Cascade dishwasher soap:

Please note the dvd alone costs $24.99. I got all of this for less than $22. I know others would have done better, but I was stoked. Yay for saving money.

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OH! And today I got to do some paralegal type stuff for my friend who is a lawyer. I am stoked for the opportunity. I get to start helping her as needed. Sei said now I’m gonna be like the cool chick off “The Good Wife” that does all the dirty work. I love that show- have y’all seen it?

Speaking of shows… YVONNE, did you watch “24″!?!?! Were you trippin’ the whole 2 hours too, or what?? I was yellin at the tv like a maniac!! That is all.

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Posted by Tori on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Filed under Our Crazy Life · Tagged with 24, birthdays, couponing, jack bauer, napoleon dynamite, teenagers, The Good Wife

Alec is rad

My kids are funny. They are. They so totally rock and I love being with them. Alec is a lot like Sei. He’s very social and funny and sensitive. I love it. Last week he got to give a talk during church. When Tristan spoke last year we had the BIG DARE where we dared Tristan to use a Napoleon Dynamite quote during his talk. He is awesome and did it, of course. This time was Alec’s turn. He SOOOOOO did it. He even talked LIKE Napoleon. He started his talk with a (true) story. He said, “I went to scout camp this past week and it was pretty much the hottest week of my life. My lips got really chapped so I was digging thru my bag hoping my mom packed me chapstick. I found a ziplock bag that had this Napoleon quote written on it: CAN YOU BRING ME MY CHAPSTICK?… BUT MY LIPS HURT REAL BAD! “ It was rad and everyone laughed. So cool. I, of course, was the dork who wrote that on the ziplock that I packed his chapstick in. Yesssssssssssssssss.

And then today at church there was a special musical number this lady and her daughter were singing. The prelude music for it totally sounded like “The Rose” by Bette Midler. Sei leaned over and said, “I thought it was The Rose.” Then I look over at Alec and he’s doing his hands like a butterfly…. like at the end of this video (around 1:00). He had me rollin’…

How’d I get such rad kids???

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Posted by Tori on Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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I double-dog dare you!

So…. Sei has been helping Tristan with his talk for Sunday. So far it sounds great. But being the dorks we are we had to include a dare. You know- like when you give the speaker a word – like “constipation”- they HAVE to use a some point during the talk? Or like my friend dared me to use sign language while giving my talk. So, while introducing my family I said how many kids we had. I said “I had 3. He had 2. We have 2 together, so 7 total.” I signed every number. ASL numbers are different than regular finger counting, so people were probably going “What is she doing??” And I started laughing like a dork as I winked at my friend.

Anyway… Tristan’s dare is to talk like Napoleon at some point. He can say “My mom is the coolest” or “My mom drinks 1%, but she could drink whole if she wanted to.” Or something along those lines. I even told him if he talks like Pedro then it counts too. “It’s my mom’s birthday today. I might build her a cake or something…”

I quoted my brother once in a talk. I said, “Elder Walker A. W____ said….” I wonder if anyone caught that- wondering “Who the heck is Elder W_____??”

Tristan says he’s gonna do it, but I bet he’ll chicken out. We’ll see… I would love for him to quote a song in his talk like Bill and Ted. “All we are is dust in the wind dude.” “Dust. Wind.” “Dude.”