How hot is it? Too darn hot!
Author: Superpaige (Page 153 of 180)
I just finished shopping on Coldwater Creek and used my 50% off coupon code and then signed up for a Coldwater creek credit card to save an additional 20%. Whooo Hoo! The code to save 50% is SALE50. Check it out and buy yourself something pretty ( I say as I’m sitting here in my pajamas).
Wow. The family guests came last Sunday, and left yesterday (Sunday), so they were only here one week, but boy did we make the most of the time we had with them. We:
–Had a family party with every member of my family (except my mom and dad and Scott) here at my house
–Had a picnic in the park
–Went to the utah Children’s museum
–Took LK and the boys downtown to go to the Church History Museum while I went to Bells practice
–Went to the temple
–Went to the Children’s Garden at Thanksgiving Point
–Went to the grocery store. Twice.
–Went to a wedding reception
–Went to church in our brand new building
–Had a neighborhood Sunday night potluck
Yet still the kids had time to be bored, even though they had cousins here, spent the entire time NOT WORKING, played every available board game they could (I think the boys played Risk about 10 times), and even jumped on the trampoline in the few moments a day that it wasn’t too hot.
Today they woke up listless and sad that they don’t have built in playmates, and they know mom’s really going to make them clean up their rooms today since mother has been going just a little bit crazy with all this mess. The good thing is, we’ll see them this week, even though they aren’t staying here. We’ve already got a fieldtrip planned for Tuesday, and Friday we’ll go up to the Coleman family reunion and hang with them again.
While I loved having them here, I realize that there’s a reason I don’t have 9 children. Actually, there’s a whole bunch of reasons! I felt like I was cooking and making food, or cleaning up from the cooking and eating, the whole day. It wasn’t actually the whole day, it just felt like it. I went to paper plates for lunches, just so I wasn’t running the dishwasher three times a day in 100 degree plus weather. And the noise they all generate–oh the noise. Two 2 year old boys alone is more noise than I can handle, and add two 5 year old girls and 3 almost teen-age boys? Yep, it was fun. I sent them all outside Friday night even though the outside temp was probably still in the high 90s–I just couldn’t take all the noise while I was trying to clean up after them.
Today is a recovery day. Or maybe I should say an uncover day. I’d like to uncover my kitchen counter. And the floor in the girls’ room. And the laundry room. No. Not the laundry room.
So, if you were planning on coming to stay at the Erickson family hotel, you’d better not make your reservations this week. This week we’re closed. (would you believe it? I actually was planning to have another friend come and stay sometime between today and Thursday while they were in town, but we just found out on Friday that they AREN’T coming this year–I’m kind of relieved) Check back next week, because even though I sound like a whining complainer, we really did enjoy having guests. We always love having friends or relatives come and stay. It’s kind of like a vacation for us, too, while they are here. We get to visit and play with friends and do fun stuff that we may not do on a regular basis.
And for those of you who knit, here’s another great entry from the “you knit what?” blog. It makes me want to sing…
It was red and yellow and green and brown
And scarlet and black and ochre and peach
And ruby and olive and violet and fawn
And lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve
And cream and crimson and silver and rose
And azure and lemon and russet and grey
And purple and white and pink and orange
And red and yellow and green and brown and
Scarlet and black and ochre and peach
And ruby and olive and violet and fawn
And lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve
And cream and crimson and silver and rose
And azure and lemon and russet and grey
And purple and white and pink and orange
And blue
Last night, as I dragged myself into bed after a very long day of cooking for,cleaning up after, and putting up with the a whole lot of noise from the 12 people living in my house this week, I turned on the tv and started flipping through channels. Hey, there’s Meg Ryan and Rosie O’Donnel talking about “You don’t want to be in love, you want to be in love in a movie.” Only one of my favorite movies! Hooray! I started watching just in time to see Tom Hanks and his lovely wife Rita and Victor Garbe discussing the finer points of “An affair to Remember.” That’s about my favorite part of the movie
“And she was there on the couch, with her legs all shriveled, and then he sees the painting, and he KNOWS.”
And then comes this converstation:
Sam Baldwin: Well I’m not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie!
Greg: She’s, as you just saw, very emotional.
Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of “the Dirty Dozen.”
Greg: Who didn’t?
Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin
[Begins to cry]
Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis…
Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop!
Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez…
Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines…
Greg: Stop.
Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel – at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet…
Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.
(Isn’t google great? I found that in about 30 seconds!)
Anyway, then I channel surfed during the commercial, and lo and behold, I find another one of my favorite movies with the word sleep in the title starring Sandra Bullock–do you know what it is? Yes! While you were sleeping! So it warmed my heart that ‘Walter’ from Sleepless in Seattle, even though he didn’t win Meg Ryan’s heart, managed to get the girl in While you were sleeping (and then later goes on to save the world from aliens with Will Smith–Bill’s a busy guy!)
So, it was a nice way to end the day, and go to sleep.
So, I like yoga, I really do. I find that it helps me relax, release pent up frustrations, stretch, get some exercise, and all those good things. I used to go twice a week on a regular basis (stop laughing–you). Well, for various reasons, most of them related to my general laziness, I haven’t gone to yoga for about a year now.
Until this week.
My sister-in-law, LK, who is visiting, had come with me before when I was going to yoga on a regular basis. She asked if that class was still going on. I didn’t really know, having not gone myself for such a long time, but I had an inkling that it was at 8:00 now, so we just went. Lo and behold, there was a yoga class. We rolled out our mats and joined right in. It wasn’t a huge power yoga session (Oh, thank Heavens) and we managed to somehow make it through without passing out or dissolving into a pile of gelatinous goo.
But the next day…. Ow, ow, ow, and ow. Every time I moved by body, it hurt. Some hurts were worse than others, like my arms were pretty ouchy, but it only hurt a little bit when I laughed. I went to bells rehearsal last night and didn’t think I would have the strength to hold my bells up for two hours, but I somehow managed (resting my hands on the table when I wasn’t playing).
This morning, we decided to repeat the torture. The first down dog of the day was pretty stiff, and the sun salutation was pretty shaky, but we got through it. Thankfully, she had to cut the class short in time so she could go to the airport and pick up her nephew, so it was only about 1/2 hour of good solid yoga. But I feel much better.
Let’s hope that I can keep it up when LK is gone and nobody is prompting me to go.
So, what’s your exercise routine this summer?
Wow. My Brother Scott’s family is here visiting for a week or so (Scott’s not–he had to go back home and work), but there are 2 boys about Cole’s age, a little girl around Jenna’s age, and a little boy younger than John. The kids are in cousin heaven! So far they are just playing playing playing. There’s a lot of noise, but no fighting (yet). Tonight my two sisters and their families, and my aunt and uncle came over for a barbeque. Lots of fun! I’m so thankful for my family–all of them.
I feel a song coming on. I think I’ll try this one.
Yes, I know you’re tired of reading about our trip, but I guess I’m not done talking about it, so here we go–just a few more pictures.
We saw the Late Show with David Letterman,
and went up to the top of the Empire State Building. 
and took lots of pictures of the city from way up there.
We melted in the heat and humidity and went to see the World Trade Towers spot. 
Here’s me at Wicked, 
and at the Alice in Wonderland stutue in Central park, 
. While I was taking some pictures of children and ducks, Ryan was having a little nap in central park. 
Even though most of our pictutes look like we’re just hot and tired, we did actually have a great time. 
Right up until it was time to come home. Since I’ve already blogged all about our frustration about that, I won’t go into details, but just show a few lovely pictures of us waiting. 
and waiting.
to get a flight home.
Just a few pictures to show the highlights of our trip.
Here’s one of Elder Coleman giving us a tour of the Smith family frame home.
Niagara Falls was quite a great experience. 
with our two different colored slickers to “keep us dry”and our “special shoes”
and the nice ranger lady who helped us start up the car when the battery was dead (it was raining in the morning, and then lights got left on all day–oops!
We had wonderful personalized tours of all the church sites by knowledgable and loveable tour guides, too.
We saw the Hill Camora and the “Hill Camora Cat”
We even went to an awesome concert by the Raleigh Ringers!
And in another post I’ll share some pictures from New York City.
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