New favorites.

These are my new favorites.

Somuchpun.com

and

myfoodlooksfunny.com
please get sucked in and waste an hour of your day.

"Oh Admiral Ackbar, you should have known."

Zoo!

Grumma is here for the week so we went to the zoo! Anna was pretty into it now that she knows all the animals. We were pretty lucky to get a good show from the best animals.If you haven't seen this mama and baby elephant yet, you should. They are adorable, they had a mudbath together while we were watching.

This is really how close we got to the giraffe outside. This is without zoom.

This is with zoom.

Tiger taming.

The tigers were napping at the top of the enclosure, then Anna woke them up with her screaming when we told her it was time to move on, so this one woke up and walked right in front of us.

Anna on the elephant trunk.

Anna and Grumma at the zoo, best friends.

Tino the gorilla was just hanging out by the window waiting for someone to take pictures of him.

Classic Hogle Zoo picture. I took a series of these all in a row, in each picture Anna's arms are angled different directions.

Inside Toy Story 2

If I were to write an analytic essay on Toy Story 2 (which I have watched every day for the last week and a half) I would write about the concept of "forever" as it pertains to these toys.

For instance:

• In the beginning, Andy's mom tells him "Toys don't last forever"

• The Prospector and Jessie try to convince Woody to join them at the museum where they can live forever, protected from the hands of children.
• It is generally accepted that life as they know it (with Andy) will not last "forever".
• The Prospector complains of spending "A lifetime on a dime-store shelf".
• Jessie is scared of spending an eternity in sunless storage.

I think it could get published in the Journal of Popular Culture.

More from the crazy lady

Ben insisted I share this.
So if you were with us for this post about recycling, this is an addendum about me being the crazy lady on our street. We got a flier on the door Thursday about a blanket drive for an Eagle Scout project. Great, I thought, this is a good way to get rid of some of our storage and help others. The flier said they would pick it up Saturday after 10. So this morning I gathered my donation and set it on the porch in a big see through bag, very recognizable. We left just before 10, and as we drove away we both remarked that they would probably forget about us like always.* We also noticed that no one else on our street had any bags on their porches. A bad sign.
When we got home the bag was still there. Ben had thrown away our flier, but luckily someone's garbage had blown into our yard and I found a flier in the bushes. I called the number for the Eagle Scout listed on the flier as I carried the paper to the recycling bin.** As I was leaving my nearly irate message I thought maybe I should check the date listed. You guessed it. Next Week. BOO. Why would you pass out fliers for a charity drive a week and a half early? Especially when it takes maybe an hour of notice to gather up a donation? Why must I seem perpetually insane?
That's my vent for the day.

Here's a picture and a story.
We went to the Farm Country today so Ben could see Anna ride the ponies. She has done it enough that I let her do it without me holding on to her. He was extremely nervous. Every time she came around she said "I'n ridin' a horse!" Then she changed it to "Hold on tight!" Maybe she picked up on our subtle yelling/clues. When we got in the car, Ben started to strap her in and remarked "We have to tighten these straps, if we get in a crash, she'll die" *** As he closed the door she started yelling, "Get ina crash an die! Get ina crash an die!" Perfect.


*We were too late at the scouting for food drive as well and our plastic bag was on the porch for most of the day. But I looked up the Utah Food Bank and found that if we took our bag to IHOP, we could get a book of coupons. So take that scouts!

**Which we haven't successfully taken to be emptied in a month.

***Her straps are loose because of her winter coat.

Spring

It must be Spring.

Ben went grocery shopping and unconsciously bought Cracker Jacks and ballpark peanuts.

I had unconscious urges to watch The Ten Commandments.

Anybody else?

Recipes That Don't Work

Recipes That Don't Work: Getting it out of the Pan.
#1: Be overconfident in the amount of spray/butter/flour that you put in the pan.

#2: Wait either too long, or not long enough.

#3: Turn it upside down and shake violently until something moves.

#4: Scrape out whatever did not come out and pile it up beside whatever has come out whole.

don't enjoy!

ps. the cake isn't very good anyway.

Still Here

There's been a lot of talk this weekend about blogging being dead. That may be, but I'm here with nothing special to keep you reading a little longer.Daddy Daughter Dates: Ben likes to go to Cold Stone occasionally, he takes Anna and they have a good time. This is after they came home, sharing some Pistachio ice cream.

New Swimming Suit: I'm not sure why, but I thought she needed a new swimming suit in early March. She picked it out and she loves to wear it. I bought it a size too big, so the shorts fall right down. I'm counting on large, water sogged diapers to keep them up.

Computers: I don't have a picture, but today she folded a flashcard in half so it sat upright and told me it was a computer that she could watch a show on. Then she folded one up for me.


Easter Egg Hunt: Grumma Sue hosted the first annual Gillespie grandchildren Easter Egg Hunt. Attendance was low, but really, it can only go up from here.

Wasabi: At dinner last night, Anna reached over and grabbed my wasabi and put half of it in her mouth. There was some tongue scraping and many tears, but she survived. Maybe it will keep her from eating play-doh in the future.

Pacifier: The pacifier disappeared the other night. We have not found it and Anna has been pacifier free for 5 days. She hasn't willingly taken a nap since then, but she will go to sleep at night. So it's a win/fail.