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To all my fellow blogging friends and family, can I just tell y'all I love your blogs? I love being able to pop in and catch up on people's lives. So to all you out there who wonder if I really know you exist- I do! To read all the blogs I want and to leave comments is just not in my cards with really slow internet and two little chillens. Somehow some of you wonder moms out there can do it! There have been so many times I have been in the middle of writing a comment to someone and I end up pushing a wrong button or I have little hands who turn off the computer on me and that is just the end of it. Just know I do pop in and check on ya. Thanks so much for leaving me such fun little comments, they really mean a lot to me. Maybe sometime I can buckle down and bite the bullet to pay for faster internet and I will be a comment crazed woman!

Anyhow, what's new with us? Well, my sweet little Allie is not only getting her 4 incisors (yep, those lovely razor sharp snags) but she is also getting in second- year molars! All 4 of them, too. You're a bit early my child! Perhaps it's better to get it all done at once, huh? She just can be really grumpy. Of course I would too if I had the same dental woes.

So I started watching a little 6 month old during the day. So far it's been good. She actually is a pretty good baby and the girls love her. It will be good to get a little extra cash coming in. Jacob gets worried it will get me baby hungry, but so far I am perfectly happy to let her go home every afternoon! I still remember all too well how grumpy my babies are. Who knows, maybe the baby bug will just sneak up and bite me one of these days.

Dinner

Sometimes I am just not at the top of my culinary game. I go through spurts where my menus are planned, my shopping is done, and dinners are great. Then there are other times, such as now, where I find myself stuck in the dinner dilemma. Before I know it, the clock says it's 5 and I really have no idea what to cook. Even worse, nothin' is sounding like it's gonna hit the spot. So I flip thoughtlessly through my cookbooks hoping something new and yummy will pop out at me and I will just magically have all the ingredients. Hmmm. Cold cereal anyone? Okay, that's pathetic. So last night, to try and break up the humdrum of the not-so-hot-dinner week, I attempted a chicken and rice casserole. Sounds easy enough, huh? I've had plenty of casserole successes in the past. Well, at the last minute I decided to add a touch of catalina dressing hoping it would add a little zing to the dish. Let's just say upon pulling the casserole out of the oven, it was PINK. With a little orange cheese on top. At first I thought I could get away with it because it was close to Valentine's day, and maybe Jacob would think I was being festive. It tasted okay, it was edible at least. When I asked Jacob what he thought, he pretended that I was talking to someone else hoping he wouldn't have to answer. His smile and his lack of eye contact clued me off that he was really trying hard to decide how honest he was going to be. The look on his face did it and all I could do was laugh my guts out. He immediately joined in. So there we sat at the dinner table, laughing hysterically at what honest-to-goodness looked like someone had eaten a bunch of valentine's candy followed up by chicken and rice casserole and then had vomited on our plates. I had tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard. Bless your sweet little heart Jacob for trying so hard to protect my feelings. But, I can admit when truly, dinner looks like throw up. Aaah, we had a good laugh anyway. And a bowl of cereal.

Today

Today I went to lunch with my fellow sistas in the Relief Society Presidency so daddy got the girls for lunch. Afterward, I caught up with them at the library. Let's just say my girls and the library don't jive. I tried to pull Allie away from the little puzzle she was playing with- SCREAM! Then we walked over to the movie aisle to meet up with Jacob and Kenna who were looking to check out a movie for Kenna. Well, Kenna saw us, came running over to show us her movie and SLIP- her legs came right out from under her and she landed right on her tushy- SCREAM! (Thanks mostly to me for letting a very insistent Kenna wear her slippery sparkle silver shoes today). Then we went back over to the movies and Allie wanted to pull out every single movie. So of course when I try to keep her from destroying the movie aisle I inevitably get- SCREAM! Now, my girls just don't scream. They have the lung capacity of opera stars. I always thought Kenna was loud, but Allie can really give her a run for her money. In fact, when my parents were watching her, my dad was seriously considering ear plugs. No, really, he was. In the library I was starting to worry more about paying for broken windows than I was for the destruction in the movie section. I was just waiting to get kicked out. Wow. Definitely an Israelsen trait. He he he.

After the library we decided to venture into the Dollar Store where we found Kenna a pack of cute little headbands. She can't wear just ONE. Behold, her masterpiece.

Kenna's new thing is learning about "bad words." The word most often confronted is "stupid," and Kenna is the don't-say-stupid-nazi. So Kenna reminds me a few times a day that she is not saying "stupid." I told her the only time she can say stupid is when she is talking about the dogs. Not sure if that's gonna work out or not....