Dead Puppies

Ari and Nico wants a puppy for Christmas. Nico says he wants a puppy named baby chihuahua , I don't think he cares that it is a chihuahua he just wants to call it that. John refuses, and I can't blame him. John said no, and Ari thought he was being tricky and said that he will get one any ways, he will just tell Santa to bring him one. John told him that Santa can't bring puppies, that it is to cold and they die in the sleigh, so Santa can't bring puppies. He bought it and knows he can't have one. Nico on the other hand, doesn't buy it. He keeps telling us, "Santa said Yes!" He asked Santa for one anyways, and I guess this guy said yes. I think he is going to be said, I might have to buy one of those breathing stuffed animals. Luckily we are babysiting Emily Shakes new chihuahua in January for a week. I think I want a puppy for Christmas to, but I don't dare tell John.

Mac & Cheese

Coco Has been sick. We spent last Saturday at the doctors doing breathing treatments. I hate it when my kids are sick, but there is something so sweet about a two year old with a raspy voice, who just wants to cuddle. After getting a shot of steroids and a good nap, Coco woke up and felt much better. He was hungry and wanted Mac & Cheese in a big bowl. I went through every bowl in the house, untill he approved this one.
Sick kids can get whatever they want to.
This is my new-old couch. Raul from San Jose Upholstery did a really good job, (is slc, so you don't get confused). I have had this couch for about 8 years now, it has moved with me up and down 45 flights of stairs over those years, and the whole time I have lifted this beast I knew that it would someday be beautiful. And I think i finally is, now I just have to make the rest of the room beautiful. (And sweep under the couch)

Star Wars Nerds

Ari the Tie-fighter Pilot. Thanks to a figurine that Morgan gave us. John did such a good job on the costume, he made the box in front really lights up and he made it out of pvc pipe and bondo. The boots are just shoes with vinyl glued to them. I need to get closes up so you can see what a good job John did.
Jedi Luke Nico, as he likes to say it. I can't believe how stoked he is on his costume. He was so set on being Jedi Luke, I tried to convince him of being a different Luke (a chubby three year old in all black can look pretty funny, I wanted to protect his feelings), but he wouldn't have it, he would say "no! Jedi Luke, two boots one glove". So there you have it.

Baby Needs Cigarettes

Saturdays War Protest, Ari made his own sign.

This woman wants to be Miss Utah, she wants to have her picture taken with children and uses the f-word a lot.
Ari made this sign also, we couldn't figure it out, I think he was trying to copy a ron paul sign (kim you should be proud).
After a long day of protesting (which really ended up being a nice peaceful walk from the capital to the courthouse, I can't believe how many hoops you have to jump through to do something like this, did you know a stick to hold a sign is considered a concealed weapon?)
Nico fell asleep, and became a stand for people to pick up the Mormon Worker. It is a paper that my siblings and friends have been working on, it is pretty interesting, and has gotten a really positive response from the Salt Lake Tribune and the Washington Post. I am proud of them. There website doesn't seem to be working, but please let me know if you would like a copy.

I heart my mom

I just want to say I love my mother. She schedule time with me on her calendar a month ago to come over on Oct. 19th. And she did come, and it was worth the wait. She helped me clean the boy’s room. She taught me all the tips like make the boys clean their room before they go to sleep, and they will not only sleep better, they will want it clean. I wish she had taught me this as a child, because I am afraid that I am becoming addicted to sleeping pills, and I do not want to clean my room at all. It was a lovely day, I love my boy’s room and just like to lay in it and look at all of the good kid stuff.





Kind of creepy but hot.

If anyone is stuck within 200 miles of my mom she will come and pick you up, that is just the type of person she is. I want to be just like her. (If you are stuck somewhere you might have to pay for the gas, I am still not as well to do as my Mom.) So I got to got to Pocatello Idaho to pick up some of Cory’s stranded friends. I guess the good people of Idaho don’t like to give rides to hitchhikers. I kind of understand, they kind of did stink. I just like that I got to spend time with my Mom two times in one week.

late summer party

Car on fire (not a great shot because i was afraid to get out of my car, the car made popping sounds as i drove by with my camera out the window) That is the most visually exciting thing that has happened.
The sheet rocker is DONE!!! He is a true artist, and a hippie who dances around a tree for four days with out food or water, then smokes paotee, this is what caused a three week delay, evidently you need a lot of recovery time after you do that. It looks great, we are painting today, the floors should get done next week. And then I can move all of the office crap out of the kitchen, and be happy again.
What I am really excited for is to get my sewing machine out of storage, I am having withdrawals. I am also having flash backs of growing up in construction, which kind of exciting when you would have contest of who could hit the biggest whole in the wall, but not when your boyfriend comes over and your parents wave to him from bed trough the whole in the wall. John wants to redo the kitchen, and I am saying no, I just can't handle it.

to answer andi's question yes i did get my hair cut. i don't know what i was thinking, and when anyone asks me if they should get their hair cut, i say of course you should. if anyone wonders about my pose, the hair cut is a version of posh spices hair, and i channeled her for the iphotobooth pose. she is kind of hot, even though i hate to admit it. anika (morgans sister) she is my new hair stylist, she owns aerolab on broadway it SLC.I highly recommend her. This is taken after weeding my garden and being hot all day, imagine what it would look like if i actually did it.

08.02.02

Five long and happy years!

The Burdicks

http://simpsonizeme.com/

DA DA DA Star Wars

My family is obsessed with Star Wars. Even me, I was Princess Leia for Halloween (a lot) and not that long ago. If I ever had twins I am afraid that I would have to name them Luke and Leia. And yes I would do side buns on her head. Which would be the sole reason if I ever had a girl I would ever grow here hair out. I am a little sick of it. Whenever I see it on I want to poke my eyes out a little bit. I can't admit this to my family, they would think of me as a traitor. Ari would cry (he did once when Cory told him she didn't like it, it was a lie by the way).




At two Nico favorite song is Star Wars (which is a melody of all songs sung to a variety of words usually, Mom Papa Mom Papa) he sing it in his sleep, during any hymn at church, it is a pretty consistent thing actually. Everything is a light saber, and he will challenge anyone to a duel, Ari he doesn't challenge, he just goes for it. I have had to confiscate many versions of light sabers, a pretzel, a stick that he tore off the flag from on the forth, and every utensil. He makes light saber noises, uses the force with his hand, and will fall if he has been hit. He has stolen Ari Bobo Fett cod piece which goes awesome with a diaper.


Ari has now moved on, he was once like Nico, but now he nows all of the characters. He wanted to be Bobba Fett for Halloween, and John created this costume. Complete with a cod piece and a jet pack. Because that is how crazy John is about star wars. (He won't tell me how much it ended up costing.) It took days of John molding plastic, painting and scuffing in armor in the right places. Now John wants to make Nico a Storm trooper, I just hope that he is still in diapers by then, because there is nothing as cool as a storm trooper in a diaper.

rocky mountian highs

Things I have learned

1- If Andi ever calls you to go on a road trip, go. Don't think about the fact that there will be four children under four who are resistant to the effects of benadryl. Because it will be fun.

2-If you are ever in the situation of peeing by the side of Andi's van at two in the morning it the parking lot of a Wendy's smelling the stench of skunk she had just hit, don't worry she will not drive off.

3- Releasing children from a car after a four hour car into a grocery store is a very loud and frighting thing. And it takes more then two mothers to control them.


4- Four year olds are not afraid to try to ride a moose.

5- Beautiful things are not always what they seem.

6- Sleep is always better in your own bed.

What I am doing now.

i have cut back on my hours at work to one full day and one part day a week. i want more time for my children for john and for myself.

i am going to make a website and try to get some photography work. i love to take photos of children and weddings, so that is what i am going to focus on. Andi once told me that i just need to just sell myself. so that is what i am going to try to do. i am going to work on my art, and my crafts and see if i can support my creative habits. i have been so excited that i haven’t been able so sleep. staying up at night thinking about all of the things i am going to be able to accomplish in my spare time. because of not sleeping i spend most of the day laying on the couch and wishing i could get some rest. i hope this will stop soon and that i can put my new found excitement to work.

ikea and julie buck, are now both in utah (at least julie is here until friday). i feel like i am living in a dream.

This post was originally made in june, right before 'the flood' so the website is still in the works.

dirty kids, dirty house/ June 6 2007

This is from a prevous blog no one ever saw, because know one knew.



I have resorted to washing my children in the sink. The basement has flooded and the other bathroom is under construction. We will be able to bathe upstairs as of today. I was afraid that I was going to relive my teenage years (actually my whole child hood until I was 24) of living in the mist of a remodel. I should have cleaned out the sink before throwing Nico in. But I was watching my Emily Shakes kids also. Four boys does not leave much time for cleaning. I was just happy to get a kid clean.

under pressure

i am feeling some pressure to start this blog. how can i be a good friend or family member if my friends and family can not occasionally peek into my life. i have a little bit of phobia of email and instant communication, i don't like the telephone, i think i just don't like to talk very much. or type for that matter, and reading through this i can see why, i sound kind of dumb. oh well.

i came home from work and ari dressed himself. nicos black pants and and his black zapatisa t-shirt, were awesome. i told him he look like a rock star. he asked why, and i explained that rock stars wore black to look cool. he informed me that he just wore black because he liked it. at least he doesn't wear 'black on the outside, because that is how he feels on the inside'. my goal in life is to keep him from that.
nico is pretty cute to. even when he drinks his "chocolate milk shake" but not so much when he dumps it all over the floor and then paints with it.