Happy Mommy's day

1. What is something mom always says to you? Can you go...(insert job here)
2. What makes mom happy? New floors, home appliances, or a new cell phone, or ring
3. What makes mom sad? Seeing one of us sad
4. How does mom make you laugh? By not knowing how to read English :]
5. What was mom like as a child? From what Ive heard she was a normal child
6. How old is your mom? I'm sure she would like me to say 22
7. How tall is your mom? hmmm 6 foot something
8. What is her favorite thing to do? eh this vinyl lettering stuff
9. What does your mom do when you're not around? clean and cook
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? cooking
11. What is your mom really good at? Making Cuban sandwiches
12. What is your mom not very good at? singing...
13. What does your mom do for her job? shes a stay at home mom
14. What is your mom's favorite food? uh she has a lot of favorites
15. What makes you proud of your mom? Shes never embarrassed
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? i would have to say Patrick since she has her moments where she deserves a slap to the head
17. What do you and your mom do together? shop
18. How are you and your mom the same? We like to shop
19. How are you and your mom different? she speaks Spanish fluently and i am the worst speakin half Latin person you will ever meet.
20. How do you know your mom loves you? She embarrasses me just so she can hug me and say shes sorry:]

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

1. What is something mom always says to you? i love you
2. What makes mom happy? Me saying i love you
3. What makes mom sad? me leaving to go fishing.
4. How does mom make you laugh? me doing funny stuff
5. What was mom like as a child? I don't know.
6. How old is your mom? 30?...yeah 30
7. How tall is your mom? 6 foot 9
8. What is her favorite thing to do? watch tv
9. What does your mom do when you're not around? shopping
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? being the best mom ever
11. What is your mom really good at? cooking
12. What is your mom not very good at? hip-hop, she tried to at a dance thing and it was embarrassing
13. What does your mom do for her job? nothing.
14. What is your mom's favorite food? ice cream
15. What makes you proud of your mom? she lets me go fishing
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? spongebob
17. What do you and your mom do together? watch tv
18. How are you and your mom the same? we both like watching tv.
19. How are you and your mom different? she speaks Spanish and i can not.
20. How do you know your mom loves you? she tells me alot.

*the above responses were from Dylan

The Wonderfull Smell Of...Sharks?

This past Saturday my dad and my two little brothers, Dylan and Blake, went deep sea fishing. Ethan and I didn't go because we didn't want to miss our soccer games. (Which we both lost by 1 point) They were gone from 10 until around 4:30. As soon as they pulled the boat to the back I hopped in to look at the fish and the supposedly two sharks they had brought home. I had to help load everything off the boat and clean before I could look at the fish, so that took a good half hour maybe 45 minutes. As soon as I got off the boat I went straight to the cooler containing the fish. When i opened the cooler...BAM! Two sharks were sitting on top of the melting ice, life-less and dead. To tell you the truth, at first i was sort of freaked out because when i see a shark I expect it to be living or in a museum somewhere stuffed, not lifeless and still full of guts and blood. When I picked it up, a part of me wanted it to be alive to see it squirm, and the other part was saying "Chelsea, put it down, your guna drop it and daddy is going to get mad and your going to get in trouble." Well for anyone that knows me outta know I kept holding it. I mean honestly, how many chances are you going to get to hold a shark that your baby brother caught? Just for your information... I didn't drop it :] Well my dad waited till the next day to start cutting and cleaning the fish because it was to dark out side and to messy to do inside. when we opened the cooler...wow what a smell. The shark had begun to go bad, and when sharks begin to go bad...they stink! They smelled of ammonia and fishy water, not a good combination. Its just the right amount of stinky-ness to make you cringe for a couple of minutes. After standing around outside for a little bit, i got use to it. So as I grabbed a shark out of the cooler i handed it to my dad so he could cut it up. Even though they had gone bad, everyone still wanted to cut them up to see what was on the inside. We already knew it was going to be 90% meat and the rest would be either cartilage or intestines. We sliced it and opened up the guts. The first shark had some good eatin :] he had recently eaten an oyster that was still connected to its shell so it must have not of been in the stomach for long, otherwise it would have been deteriorated from the stomach acids. Wow I just went all science geek...at least I like science :] I really just wanted to inform people of the way sharks smelled when they go bad...so now you know!

"I killed a man....with this thumb!"

Every year for the past 3 years E.R. Dickson has had a free movie night open to families. Seeing that my mom is very involved in the elementary school, we all went. The movie night is normally held outside so its under the stars and in the cool breeze. Today though, it had been kind of overcast and windy. The newscaster also called for a chance of rain either tonight or tomorrow. The people who were showing the movie wanted to play it safe and set up inside the gym. As we were on our way there I thought, "The gym is going to be so packed, there's not going to be any room and I'm going to be miserable." To my surprise it wasn't packed at all it seems that the 'bad' weather scared everyone away. May I add that the weather was perfectly fine all night. It was crowded a tad but not overly crowded it was just the right amount. They were playing the movie Ratatouille. No one in our family besides Dylan and Hannah has seen the movie before so we were all excited. Well i was kind of tired i just got done with soccer practice at the YMCA, we came straight from there. So we were all stinky, sweaty, dirty and gross.Well my brother and I were anyway. The movie started out kind of weird. There was a rat jumping out of a window holding a cook book, like a rat knows how to cook...yeah right. It was one of those scenes where the person has a flash back to explain how they got into the situation they are in. As he is having the flash back it eventually catches up with the current point and carries on into the movie. Basically the movie was about a rat who became a gourmet chef in France with the help of a young terrible cook. Its a movie you would have to see for yourself. Well there was a part in the movie where the only girl chef is explaining how everyone in the kitchen has a secret and there was one man who had been sent to jail but know one knew why. Every time someone would ask the story would change and one time he held up his hand and all he said was " I killed a man...WITH THIS THUMB!" I have to admit it wasn't that funny i think it was a mix of me being tired and hungry and sleep deprived that made it absolutely hilarious for me. I just cant explain the whole movie though, it would take way to long and it would BE way to long. So anyway, the movie was pretty good and no one seemed to mind that my brother and I smelled like sweat and dirt. I definitely suggest this to families with small children :]

Just a little tid-bit :]

I've seen on other blogs how people just simply talk about their life, or things that make them smile, just simple things like that. So i thought to myself "MY TURN!" For starters, do you ever actually think and analyze how much your life would change if you could go back in time and simply change one thing? Just one thing? I know i do all the time. I always wonder what would have happened if I would have gone to this one dance or if I would have said that one thing before it was to late. Do you know what I mean? If I could go back to last semester, English class, i would have changed one simple question i asked. We were beginning to read this story, Animal Farm, and its kind of mocking the Russian democracy many years ago. Well their were all these rules that the animals had to follow on who they could talk to and what they could do. Well one rule stated that they were ordered to never speak to or associate with anything that stands on 2 legs. Which left me thinking, "What about fish?" When I raised my hand to ask my teacher, the question came out all wrong. Instead of saying "What about a fish?" I said "What's a fish?" From that moment on she never let me forget it. To this day she bugs me about it even though I'm not in her class anymore she tells all of her classes about me when they start reading the book. Now that I look back it was funny but not at the moment. I constantly think "What would have happened if I would have thought about what I was going to say before i said it? What if?" Point is, sometimes you only have one chance to do really good or screw it up...no pressure :] I've learned that sometimes its the mistakes that you make that make people like you, its not always about what your good at or how good at something you are. This brings up another subject. Friends. Their the ones you can act like a total and complete idiot around and you know they wont laugh AT you but their going to laugh WITH you. My friends have always been my second family. The older i get the more friends i make...but sometimes i lose friends. Friends are there when you need them, best friends are ALWAYS there even when your being a complete idiot and they don't get embarrassed. The people who are in your past are there for a reason they remain in the past because that's where they belong. The people who are with you now are the people your suppose to be with and those that have been there all along, will always be there. People always have there places for you in their life's and you'll always have places for people in yours. My point is, people come and go and some decide to stay, those that stay are the ones that matter the most.

Mamasita?

Cecily Odom just so happens to be the funniest little girl I have ever met. I mean, for a 6 year old, she's very witty and just plain funny. All 6 year old's are some what witty but Cecily has risen the bar. So today at the church pot luck my mom asked her to get her a cup because she forget to pick one up. Cecily went and got her a cup, no complaints, because she loves my mom to death. As she is walking back, she starts talking to Dylan. Well, like all 6 year old's, her attention span isn't very long and she couldn't really focus on 2 things at once. Cecily continued to talk to Dylan even after she got to the table but was still holding the cup. After a few minutes she noticed she had it in her hand still. She looked at my mom and threw it to her. I mean this was a throw, it went over Dylan's head, in front of my mom's face, and into her lap. Cecily felt bad you could tell in her face. She shrunk in her chair and very slyly, trying to get on my mom's good side, said "Eh....mamasita?" It was the funniest thing i had heard all day. She is desperate to be my mom's favorite out of Ariel and herself. So I guess when she said that she figured she would get brownie points for saying something in Spanish. We laughed about this for a while and I'm sure its going to be something we talk about for a while to.

Family Home Evening

As I've stated before, our family home evenings are always hectic and crazy. Tonight though, it was the funniest it has ever been. The family decided to play Disney Movie sheraids for tonight. Let me explain what happened. So the first person to go was my mom because she picked the game. She started to curl her hair with her finger and skip around for a few minutes. When no one got it she then started to act as if she was eating something from under our TV shelf. Once she did that everyone instantly knew it was Elf but Dylan had the fastest instincts so he was up next. Dylan looked like he knew what he was doing at first, but it was down hill from there. He got on all fours on the ground and acted like....geez I dont even know he looked like he was being wacked in the back repedidly with a whip or something very painfull. Then he would stand up and start pointing and again looking like he was being hit with something very painfull. As soon as everyone had given up on trying to figure it out, it came to me...Barnyard! He let out a sigh of relief, im sure he was tired of trying to get us to get it. It took me a minute to figure out what I wanted to do, but I finally thought if something. I began to act as if I was hitting something on the ground. Then I made an array of different faces. As I started to make the different faces I thought "If they dont get this I just might die." I was getting tired of making faces and I couldnt remember but 3 dwarfs, so thankfully my mom figured it out. I was acting out Snow white and the 7 dwarfs. Since my mom had already gone she let Ethan go. Let me tell you now, if I had one moment where I wish there was a camera in the house that had betteries, it would have been then. I thought I was going to pee in my pants and im pretty sure everyone else was about to also. Ethan gets up and imediately looks like he knows whats he going to do. There's the problem, he always LOOKS the part but rarely will he actually get it right. He started jumping around and do some crazy things I didnt know he could do. Its very hard to explain but im going to try. I guess ill start off by telling you he was trying to explain the movie Fantasmic. He was waving his arms around his head in circles and crashing then down to the floor. He would then get on his hands and knees and make weird body movements that are litteraly undescribeable. I really wish I would have had a camera it would have given everyone who reads this a good 10 minute laugh. Anyways, he continued to make weird facil expressions and hand movements untill we all gave up. He acted as if we all should have known what he was talking about when he told us what movie he was acting out. So after he sat down he was down right exasted, i had never seen someone so....I dont even know how to explain it. The next person up was Hannah. She had picked to do The Little Mermaid which could be either easy or hard depending on what you acvt out and how you act it out. Hannah, being herself, chose the easy route. She acted as if she was swimming and that was all she had to do, everyone knew exactly what she was doing. After Hannah went Blake, this was another funny one. He started acting like he was holding a baby in his arms, rocking it softly back and forth. He then sat on the ground with his knees pulled in under his arms and rocked himself back and forth. The entire time he was staring at my dad, it got to the point where my dad suggested that he make eye contact with everyone because he was getting freaked out. You could tell in my dads facial expression he wasnt joking. With that being said he turned and faced everyone still doing the same things over and over. I started to think "Do they know that the purpose of shirades is to perform different parts from a movie, not just one or two sceens over and over?" I deicded to just let them continue without saying anything, I mean really its just family home evening. Anyway, He was trying to act out Hercules. It was getting late and everyone was getting to the point that they were so tired they were hyper. So the family was going to do a second round, but everyone was just way to hyper. I still cant believe my camera didnt have betteries. The one night I need it the most...no batteries. Ill just have to make sure we have batteries AND a working camera next time.