What do Aliens and Fishermen have in common?

Just before school ended this year our family went to see one of our favorite kid bands in concert. --A miracle for this town! It was an event that has added to our already bizarre family culture. (Hopefully our kids will grow beyond our family jokes and eventually someone will want to marry them.)

Trout Fishing In America Great music, fun show!

Below is a link to Little Reds Favorite song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB2m5nJnHnI

Here, she demonstrates what could be, with a sticky stretchy alien she bought at the Roswell Alien Festival! (More on that later.)

One Happy Trekkie!!

So I'm into two min posts right now. I can only post things that take tops 2 min.
So, in the following days, before I delve into family pictures, a trip, a visit, a Baptism, counter tops (solid surface), and all the rest of the madness that has been going on here, let me just say...

Go See The Star Trek Movie!

My mother and I saw it last week, and I saw it again tonight with some friends. It was pretty clean, no blood, one quick "bed" moment, very little swearing, just enough Star Trek cheese, and a plot! It was ultimately wonderful to watch the crew be placed into their roles. Like setting up a chessboard! I enjoyed every minute and can't wait to see it again! Maybe I'll start recording Original episodes and make a New Generation of Trekkies. :) Enjoy.

Survivors Club Financial Survival Widget

Quick Pick!

Please excuse the mess, We have paint swatches on the walls, and silverware in a bin, and ... well, we live here, and at least I got to work out this morning, right? This post was a last min thing for a friend. I Need Input Fast!

We are updating our kitchen to sell next spring (probably). New counters, hardware and lighting.
We have narrowed our search for (cheapest) laminate counters and now have to decide and order.

Our problems -Staying neutral is a bit boring
-I'm afraid of loosing a too-neutral counter top into the floor
-The wood grain on our cabinets is very pronounced and busy (but nice)

Our choices

On the tile floor.

One blends right into the tile, the other is too busy?

By the cabinets

Grey against the cabinets

Grey against the Tile

I think I like the grey best, but I'm too scared and everyone else says no.
-We've got to be able to sell.

Ideas?

Tagged

I was tagged to post the sixth picture from the sixth file in my pictures folder. Who knows what it will be, as my pictures are widely scattered between the hard drive on the broken computer, the laptop, our camera storage, and this computer. Lets see...





A better shot of this same picture was recently posted, rendering this one hopelessly boring, so I also chose the second picture from the second file. (after checking the third picture in the third file. It was also boring.)



This is Big Red at the District Spelling Bee a few months ago. She was thrilled to be one of the few third graders there, and although she got tripped up on "Mathematics," she had a great time! And Daddy got to take her out, so it was even more special.

-This was a fun game JayShay, thanks for inviting me to play. :)

Wonder of wonders, Miracle of miracles...

So, its our spring break too, and in true Ransom fashion, the girls took a Road Trip!
(Work prevented Dad from coming. we missed him greatly.)

Background: My camera is broken, the LCD screen is cracked. All you see is a lovely oil slick-type rainbow. So all our pictures are shots in the dark. It's worse than film days, because I don't even have a viewfinder. Just a wild point-and-shoot guess!

The Miracle: We're ecstatic to find that we have a few pictures from our trip. Who would have thunk it? (I am of the opinion that there are no small miracles, so I'm grateful!)


This trip was to our oft-neglected family in Oklahoma City. We have a large -not polygamist Utah large- but larger than average extended family. 75% (60%?) of which live in or just around the OKC. It's fun when we get together. The best phrase of the week was actually from Big Red. After three nights in a row of dinner with a large gathering of relatives, (different location, and different relatives each night), she gently but firmly pulled me aside and says "I need to know who is here, and how they are related to me. Very fair and valid question I thought. -It was very fun. I'm so glad we got to see lots of you, and sorry for those we missed. Thanks to all those who took time out of their non-spring break week to visit with us.-

In addition to the family, while we were there, we took in the Oklahoma City Temple grounds,



The Zoo!

"good monkey"

The Science Center,

After a "tornado" in a wind tube

And the Western Heritage (Cowboy) Museum!

Ready for a cattle drive?

Little Bukaroos

So just for fun, there are two movie references in this post. See if you can guess.

Where To Begin?

1: Well, our dear Blog has become an HGTV widow. I admit it. We now subscribe to a cable network and have a DVR. -I love it. We watch what we want, when we want. -Unfortunately, the time I used to blog on the computer, when my kids were in bed and I wait for my husband to come home from class, I watch TV instead. Lazy, I know. -but I'm getting a good grasp of what I need to do to finish our kitchen update. :)


2: We had a good family friend come to visit a month ot so ago. While he couldn't bring his family with him to play, he did bring us some chocolate goodies to try to ease the pain. He hung out a couple of days and provided us with our Family Home Evening entertainment. An arm wrestling match with Dad!

3: A couple weeks ago we had our yearly kids fun run. LIttle Red ran 1/2 mi. Yippie Skippie ran a mile all by herself, and Big Red and Chickadee ran 5K with Mom. Hooray! They now want to train for the Bataan Death march 15 mile memorial race. Mom is VERY apprehensive, but loath to discourage lofty goals. -any input on the reasonableness of allowing kids to walk (accompanied) a 15 mile hike with minimal training?