Seeking out new life and new civilizations

Yes, that was a Star Trek reference. We LOVE Star Trek!

The characters, the missions, the discussions, the romance, the action, the adventure, the moral dilemmas, so intriguing! I had only seen a few minutes of one TNG episode when I was ten. I thought Trek was only for nerds and geeks. But my honey grew up watching it. His dad and brothers like it too, but we like it the most. In fact, come to think of it, we are the biggest Star Trek fans I know. ha! I dream about it often, I dream I am in the Star Trek world, it feels so real.
We have watched every single episode in order except for the last season of The Original Series. To those of you that have only seen the newer Star Trek movies with Christopher Pine, you are missing out! The newer movies are set in an alternate universe, and the cinematography, the cast, the characters, the stories are not even close to being as deep and thought-provoking as most of the television show episodes. Most recently, we have been re-watching "Enterprise".

Which aired in 2001-2005, it's the most recent Star Trek tv show. We have even started showing some of the episodes to the kids, it's TV-PG.
Oh, yeah and we like to dress our kids up like Spock.

In April we have tickets to Salt Lake Comic-Con, which will have most of the Star Trek: The Next Genergation Cast! http://saltlakecomiccon.com/project_category/star-trek-the-next-generation/
 cool! Don't worry, tons of nerdy/geeky pics coming.
One last confession. Yes, we named one of our kids after a Star Trek character, Wesley Crusher.

This is what happens when your newly potty trained child closes the bathroom door

Grant's Plants

Every fall Justin and I love to go to this place called Vineyard Garden Center. They have a pumpkin patch, petting zoo, and corn maze. We once had an elderly neighbor named Bill, and he always loved to give us gardening advice, including, go to Grants Plants. So, we went to Vineyard Garden Center and right underneath it we noticed it was also called Grants Plants. So we came home and told our neighbor about going to Vineyard Garden Center, AKA Grant's Plants, He was adamant that Vineyard Garden Center was not Grant's Plants. Anyway, it may not sound very funny to you but it struck me and Justin's funny bone. Bill was a character.

Anyway, we met my sister and cousin there in the fall and had a grand old time.

We even met "Grant"!

What would Charles do?

Occasionally, when in a parenting or moral or social dilemna, I like to ask myself, What would Charles Ingalls do? He is the fellow on Little House on the Prairie. Sometimes I even ask myself, WHat would Caroline Ingalls do(that's his wife)? Gotta love it.

Vegas, baby! Part 1

So, as some of may already know, we took a family trip to Las Vegas, Nevada. We booked a room at the Circus Circus for four nights, packed up our van, the kiddos and were off.The kids didn't really like having to stay in the van for the five hour trip, but we found ways to amuse them. Our van's DVD player was a life saver, same with the cinnamon bagels I packed.Once we arrived it was all very exciting, Justin pointed out all the hotels we could see from our hotel room window.If you ask Michael what his favorite part was about the entire vacation, he would say "Living in the hotel." with a huge grin on his face. The kids laughed a lot, jumped on the beds, and love to tickle each other. The kids actually slept pretty well considering all five of us slept in the same room.

fUN in the sUN

fun times, fun times. (Post on Vegas later.)

Sunday morning go for a drive (or ride)

It's a line in one of my favorite beatles song. Also, I love to go for a long bike ride on sundays. I LOVE to ride my bike. It is sooo fun. I am sooo glad the weather is starting to be warm enough to ride.
This is a pic of my kids and their cousins at my brother's wedding. It was REALLY hard to get all of them to look and smile all at the same time.

"Bessers" and Michael's Other Terms of Endearment

So, Michael has been using some pretty interesting nicknames lately.

Krishna our kitten he refers to as "Pitna".

He calls Francesca "Pampie" or "Pampers".

I am "Momsie".

Justin is "Pops".

And yep, For Wesley, it's usually "Bessers" or "Bessie".

Hopefully this is just a phase...