Thngs going on at the Musil's house!

The next few posts are going to be filled with random nothingness I am afraid.  But that pretty much sums up what has been going on around here (besides Easter of course).  I got a new camera for my birthday (I know it's not my birthday yet but, it was on sale and I lost my old point and shoot.  Plus I don't like to carry my big one around everywhere just for everyday snap shots) and I took some pictures with it to see what it was like.  Unfortunately it took me a while to fix the funky color problem especially with the skin tones but hopefully I got that corrected.  Here are some handsome pictures of my little man showing off his awesome muscles before church.  I had to bribe him to let me put them up on here.

Ella has been learning about ants in school.  One day she came home from school and told me that her teacher gave them more snacks if they up up their antenna's so I had Ella show me her best antenna.  The other girls kindly obliged too and showed me theirs.  I don't know where Tyler was probably on the computer.

Just a cute picture of Lou and Me.  Cheesing it!                          

I put Ella on top of the fridge the other day and she was petrified something about Uncle Farts on Carpet (my brother Pete) putting her up on top of my parents super high cabinets in their kitchen has forever more freaked her out.  After the other girls jumped up there to show her that it wasn't that big deal she decided that she was cool with it.  Now almost everyday she wants to get up there.  Don't ask me why I did it in the first place I am completely unsure.  I do know where Tyler was for these pictures by the way.  He was at scouts.

Ella's school field trip

Ok now that I switched over to the new blogger finally I have to get used to it again and not put my pictures up in the wrong order so they will turn out how I want them too.  Anyway for Ella's field trip we went to see the play Room on the Broom.  It was performed by 4 actors from England.  They played the 4 people and puppets in the play at the same time.  Ella loved it and giggled the whole time.  While we were there they announced that the actors would be gong to the Eagle River Library to have a little meet and greet a few days later and invited everyone to show up.  I took Ella to meet them.  They read the kids a book and the library had supplies for the kids to make wands out of.  After the reading Ella went up to the actors (one was missing she wasn't feeling very well) and asked them if she could have her picture taken with them.  I of course had nothing to do with that.  Ella and I both talked with them for a while.  They were all very nice.  OK so here is the embarrassing part.  As I was talking to them I noticed that I started to have a British accent.  A British accent you say.  Have you ever even been to England?  The answer is NO!  I have no idea where that came from.  I was started to sound like a really bad actor in a really bad movie (maybe Kevin Costner).  Once I noticed it I had to think about every word that I was saying to make sure that it didn't come out with an accent.  I know that is really random but, it happens to me whenever I am around anyone with an accent.  The last time it happened I was in Florida with Lesley and her Aunt.  We were talking about something and I said lawyer (law yer) not the normal (lowyer) like I would normally say.  I may of also said Holloween not Halloween.  So that is a tad bit of information that you may or may not of known about me.  How embarrassing is that?  I guess I am just awesome like that.

 The little boy in the background giving me the evil eye was telling me that I was NOT supposed to have any electronic device on and that I needed to put it away!  Oopsie busted again!

 The next day Ella got to bring home Franny Fire bird.  Franny is the stuffed animal in their class that every kids gets to bring home and write about what they did with her.  Ella didn't do too many things that were exciting.  I did find an excuse not to make dinner that night and took Franny and the rest of the family to Qdoba to dinner.  Franny just had to do something fun.  She also played outside with Tyler and Ella.  Franny had a blast at our house.

My cool nail polish!

Ok so my super cool nail polish doesn't really warrant a post all on it's own.  But that fact that I got to spend some good old fashion QT with my girls does.  I got this really cool polish called Shatter from OPI (thanks Joy for telling me about it).  It makes it look like your nails have a crackle finish.  I have gotten more compliments on my nails then on anything else in a really long time.  I bought it through Amazon which is a really funny story:  When I went to check out at amazon it asked me if I wanted to use my credits.  Credits? I thought to myself I have credits on there?  Heck yeah I want to use my credits.  After using my credits I ended up paying zilch for it and as an added bonus I still had 30 dollars worth of credits on there.  Did I find it odd that I had credits on there, you ask? Why of course I did.  Did I question it at all and jump feet first into using said credits? That is exactly what happened.  After using them and finding out that there was still 30 dollars worth of credits I almost went on a shopping spree with it.  Mind you it wouldn't of been that successful but 30 dollars of credits is 30 dollars of credits.  I decided not to do that.  When Nate got home from work I was so excited about my FREE nail polish that I just had to tell him all about it.  When I came to the part of free and credits I talked that sucker up knowing how proud Nate would be of me saving HIM money.  His response.  Of course we have credits on there.  After all I did give him a gift certificate for Christmas to go with his new Kindle.  Oops.  Thanks babe for the way awesome nail polish.

Anyway back to the original story.  Natalie and Nichole loved my nails so much I decided to do their nails too.  As show in the first picture below I went with Pink ( don't be frightened by the fact that in the picture I only have 3 fingers.  I do in fact have all 5 of my fingers still intact but, it is incredibly hard to take a picture with your phone with one hand so this is what you get), Natalie went with Blue, and Nichole went with the Silver color.  Following the nail painting a photo shoot occurred where we volunteered Ella to be the photographer.  We goofed off taking silly pictures for about 20 minutes.  Although it all started with just some silly nails it ended up being a great time with Natalie and Nichole.

 

On to another story that I just had to share.  This was a post from FB.  It made me laugh so hard that I almost peed my pants.  Let me set the scene the beginning of this post takes place between two of my family members.  One being around the age of 16 and the other 14.  Name have been changed to save face of the two girls involved.  The older of the two lets call her SmAli  wrote this as her status: ( it happens to be a short conversation between the two relatives)

commercial for Kate and prince William's wedding-

 SmAli: oh my I can't wait to watch their wedding, it's gonna be way cool.

Smarah: wow SmAli your not even going. You weren't invited.

to which this is the response in the comment session:

Smarah: I was invited.

SmAli: Shut up. Just cuz your name means princess doesn't mean you were invited to the biggest wedding of the century.

Smarah: I'm leaving tomorrow.

SmAli: Well im leaving tonight. I'm better. I'm staying in their palace.

SmAli: THE Birmingham palace.

Smarah: I like how you had to look that up....

SmAli: I didn't know how to spell it?

Smarah: Yeah....okay

SmAli: Go to bed

At this point I couldn't help myself I had to intervene
Me: F.y.I. You would be staying at The Buckingham Palace.

SmAli and Smarah's mom then posts:  My daughters are brilliant....wow. Now if the wedding were in Alabama perhaps you could stay in the Birmingham palace.

SmAli: That's embarrassing..

Smarah: Haha you even looked it up. How sad!


I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bike.

I came home the other night from working out and guess what?  Ella was in the middle of the driveway riding her bike!  She has never done that before.  Nate decided that he was going to fix up the bike's for the summer and got Ella's bike ready to go.  He then handed it to Ella gave her some basic instructions and she was off.  She took to it almost immediately.  I was sad that I missed this momentous occasion but I am also happy for her that she is riding her bike.  Now she is constantly hounding us to go outside and sit with her while she rides her bike.  Nate decided that he would take Tyler's bike for a ride too.  Right off the bat he crashed it into the van and then accidentally popped one of the tubes in it.  After he was done with the bike he decided that he would take a turn on Ella's razor scooter.  He decided to show off and do a trick and crashed.  The neighbor had just pulled up and was unloading  stuff from his car when it happened and you could see the confusion on his face as he tried to decide if he should ask if Nate was OK or if he should just ignore the grown man on a little kids scooter and save the grown man his dignity.  He choose the latter and I am sure went inside and told everyone there about Nate's awesome trick! 

I am glad that Ella has found the love of bike riding.  I used to love to do it when I was little (and even jumped on the bike myself this weekend and my tush is paying for that now). It seems that a whole new world opens up to you when you can finally ride a bike!  Way to go Ella!

A whole lot going on

The beginning of March started the military's annual Mustache March.  Which we lovingly call Molest-ache March because mustaches remind me of what a pedophile might wear.  Nate started growing out his mustache in the middle of the month so it didn't grow in as thick as is could of if he would of started at the beginning.  By the end of the month it was driving him crazy and he couldn't wait to shave it off.  I am glad it's gone I wasn't too fond of the mustache myself.         

I saw on someones blog about how they took all of their leftover wax from their scentsy and would add it to a jar with a wick on it to form an emergency candle.  Here is my first one.  Turned out pretty cute for an emergency candle. I think anyway.

Last Saturday and Sunday was General Conference.  During the Saturday afternoon session 3 of the 4 kids ended up on top of me some how.  Tyler and Ella would sit there and have staring contests while conference was going on.  At least they didn't start pounding on each other or anything.

Ella decided to accessories herself with Nate's goggles.  She decided that she was going to be different by putting them on inside out and upside down.

I caught a picture of Scoobs sleeping.  She hates when I do that.  But I have to take pictures so that I can remember that she is quite once a day.  And here it is.

Ella's favorite place to sit in the house is on the window seal.  She stares out the window and watches for the two rabbits that hang out under one of the pine trees. 



More Snowing

Just when I thought that there  can't possibly be more snow there is more.  It snowed several times this week. One time it snowed so bad and was so windy that I thought that my while driving down the road and the snow was blowing in on me sideways I was just going to be pushed right off the road.  Luckily that did not happen.  It is nice because by the afternoon all of the new snow has melted away and part of the old snow is gone too.  I can't wait to see some of the gorgeous green that I know is going to come with summer.