2009 – Page 5 – Andelin Adventures

M&M Duels

This is just something funny that Jonathan printed out and had me read when we were in California last month:

Whenever I get a packet of M&M’s, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the sweet as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.

Taking two M&M’s between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That one is the loser, and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner continues to the next round.

I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&M’s are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&M’s as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.

Occasionally I will get a mutation, an M&M that is mis-shapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.

When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, a Division of Mars, Inc., along with a 3×5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.” This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free pound of M&M’s. I consider this grant money. I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament.

From a field of hundreds, we will discover the true champion.

There can only be one.

My Daisy

Tyra is now officially a Daisy Girl Scout! I am SO excited to be getting her into girl scouts, and SHE is even more excited than I am, if that’s even possible. 😉 She went to her first troop meeting yesterday and just LOVED it, she also earned 3 of the petals already!

Tonight we took her to the Girl Scout shop to get her vest and all the parts of the uniform, and Tyra was just beaming. How cute is my Daisy?

I see you!

This is the declaration Dinah made as she picked up the empty cracker box and looked through it, at me.

Spam

I hate spam. Both the canned meat and the spam e-mails. We also get a LOT of spam comments on this, our blog. I usually ignore them, but lately I’ve been getting these spam comments that are ‘jokes’. Here are a bunch of them:

A joke for you! What do you call a knife that cuts 4 loaves of bread at a time? A four-loaf cleaver.
Good joke 🙂 What do you call cheese that isn’t yours? Nacho cheese.
A joke for you peoples! How do you circumcise a whale? Send down fore-skin divers.
I have a nice fresh joke for you people) What did the Scotsman do when he couldn’t find a pair of pants? He kilt himself.
Nice joke! Why do elephants trumpet? They don’t know how to play the violin.
I have a fresh joke for you) What geometric figure represents a lost parrot? A polygon.
Good joke 🙂 What did God say when Joan of Arc showed up at the Pearly Gates? Well done.
I have a nice joke for you) Where do young dogs sleep when they camp out? In pup tents.
Fresh joke! Which side of a dog has the most hair? The out side.
Wanna very nice joke?)) What does a dog get when it finishes obedience school? A pet degree.
A joke for you! How do you revive a drowning rodent? Give it mouse-to-mouse resuscitation.
Fresh joke! What farm animal is a cannibal? A Cow, it eats it’s fodder!
I have read a good joke in internet 😉 Why do bagpipers walk when they play? They’re trying to get away from the noise.
I have a nice joke for you) Why did the turtle cross the road? To get to the Shell station!
A joke for you! What’s the saddest part of the day? Mourning.
Nice joke! What do you get when a cat walks along a beach? Sandy Claws!!
Good joke 🙂 Have you seen Quasimodo? I have a hunch he’s back!
I have a joke for you =) What do sea monsters eat for lunch? Fish and ships.
I have a nice joke for you) What’s the difference between boogers and broccoli? Kids won’t eat broccoli.

Ok that’s not even all of them, but at least they’re not dirty jokes right? 😉

Halloween 2009

The kids were so excited to dress up for school yesterday. Ethan wore the ghost busters costume (which was WAY too small for him, but there was no telling him that). Tyra wore the black kitty costume, Jeremy was Snoopy, Dinah was a ladybug, and Chloe was a zebra. Kyle and I talked about how we wanted to dress up, and it just didn’t work out this year (need to start planning NOW for next year) 😉 so I ended up wearing my high school prom dress (YAY I got it to zip up and I could still breathe!) and I’m glad nobody asked me what I was because I couldn’t decide between midieval or hippie (sorry there aren’t any pictures of me 🙁 Kyle didn’t take any). And since Kyle was a stinker and didn’t work on finding a costume for himself I made him wear the potato sack costume. 😛

Like my macho sack of potatoes? The costume reads: “Be beautiful in a potato sack. Looks like a sack, feels like a sack, IS A SACK. Fill with 100lbs. or more of charm, and save money on new French inspired creations. Guaranteed to loose shape without ironing. For evening wear, add Mink trimmings.”

We stayed for the costume parade at the school, and I got it on video.

We were dissapointed though, that the parade consisted of the 4 kindergarten classes and the parade of everyone else (including the afternoon kindergartners) would be later. Which means that Kyle missed it completely and I got LUCKY in that I picked Tyra up from school and found out that the parade was going to be happening shortly thereafter, so I ran home with the kids and got the camera so I could get a picture of Ethan in the parade and we got back to the school before the parade started. Bummer though that they didn’t walk all the way around the school. I picked a spot against the wall to keep the way clear so the parade could go through. THEN people started filling in the path to the hallway, and the parade came down the other hallway into the big room and they walked around the room and BACK down the same hallway! So I was completely unable to get a picture of Ethan in the parade, and Tyra, Jeremy and Dinah didn’t even know that the parade had happened because they were sitting on a bench and in the stroller and couldn’t see a thing. 🙁 So that was a complete waste of time.

After Ethan got home from school ( and he had changed into the clown costume because he finally had to admit the ghost busters one was too small) I loaded the kids up and took them to Kyle’s work so they could trick or treat there. We were quite late, and things had died down a lot, but the kids still got candy and were totally thrilled about it. Unfortunately though Kyle couldn’t come home with us because he had to go to the second job.

I brought the kids home fed them and then we went to our ward’s Halloween party, and the kids really enjoyed that. I spent the whole time feeding/burping & holding Chloe, and following Dinah around the cultural hall to make sure she didn’t run away. 😉

Today we had a great time helping the kids decorate their pumpkins. Jeremy made his homegrown pumpkin into a pirate.

Ethan told Kyle what face to cut into his pumpkin. Tyra wanted to use these little light pegs pumpkin decoration kit thingy that we have, and I helped her make a cat face. (She did NOT want to put her hand into the pumpkin to pull the seeds out though, Kyle and Dinah helped her with that). And Dinah made her pumpkin a princess.

We had our traditional pizza for dinner (which surprisingly the kids didn’t eat). Then it was time to trick or treat.

Ethan went as Spiderman, Tyra was a pink dog, Jeremy was Snoopy (again), Dinah was a smaller pink dog, and Chloe and I wore our same costumes as yesterday (Kyle didn’t dress up). We left the basket of candy on the porch, and we went around the block as a family and that was about it. We had fun though and by the time we got home the candy was ALMOST gone so I topped the basket off with some glow sticks. I stayed home with Chloe so I could warm her up and get her ready for bed, and Kyle took the kids to hit a few more houses, then they all decided they were too cold and we were done for the night. 🙂 Here are some very tired pink doggies:

I hereby declare Halloween a success because no kids were lost at any point during the festivities. 😀