Soo, it's still winter here in PA. We laughed at the fact that Groundhog's Day is in the beginning of February, because I do not look forward to spring until the end of April or May. Last year my kids hunted for Easter eggs in the snow. So, since we don't have anything exciting going on and no cute pictures, I decided to blog about totally random things that makes our family unique.

(These are in no particular order)
1. We have an "L" shaped stick that we picked up in Central Park in New York 2 years ago. A toy that we bought for Sadie didn't make it home, but L-stick did. Sadie recently took it to school for show-and-tell.
2. Dallin loves to burp. He even changes the pitch of it if he has a particularly long one. Steve and I can't help but laugh.
3. Whenever something is particularly gross, we call it "wood-shed-nasty". It doesn't make any sense unless you've seen the movie Cold Comfort Farm
4. I can't help but laugh at potty humor. Steve often tells me that I am a 12-year-old boy trapped in a 30-year-old body.
5. Both of my kids are the size of a kid who is one year older. Sadie looks like a 6-year-old and Dallin looks like a 3-year-old. I didn't mind until Sadie was almost 4 and threw a huge fit in public. I got a lot of looks because people thought she was too old to act like that.
6. She still throws huge tantrums in public . . . she's getting better though.
7. Steve has recently lost 90 pounds and I have lost 30. It's the major topic of a lot of our discussions and our activities.
8. I love going to craft stores. It rejuvenates my soul. I don't even have to buy anything.
9. Dallin is in the "no" stage. But he is taking it to a whole new level. Sometimes we find him saying it over and over just to himself.
10. Sadie is an excellent reader. Everytime we sit down with her, we are amazed by what she can do.
11. I used to mock scrapbookers who had their supplies in a special case on wheels. I have become one of those kind of scrapbookers.
12. We are the kind of parents who let our kids fall. We warn them once and if they continue to do the stupid thing, we let them suffer the consequence. We've only gone to the emergency room once .
13. I love the Twilight series ( don't mock until you read them)
14. Steve and I both love the Firefly series. We are really sad that it isn't on TV anymore.
15. We have a huge library of movies . . . mostly thanks to Steve.
16. Dallin loves to watch movies too. He usually goes into sort of a trance. Sadie noticed this the other day and said, "He really likes movies, I think he's going to be like his Daddy"
17. Steve says that I have a reading addiction. I really do like to read. I go through phases. In the middle of my last really intense reading phase I got a note from Sadie one night that said "no reating allowd" Translation: You are spending too much time reading -- it is time to pay attention to me.
18. Steve mountain bikes in the middle of winter. You people from Oregon may be thinking, "So what?" Well, it's really, really cold. Apparently, he's not the only winter mountain biker though.
19. Steve and I go to different churches. It's not always easy, but we are making it work.
20. Sadie's main journal topic it about how much we all love eachother. It makes me feel good that she is so confident in our love for her and how much she loves all of us. It's one of my few validations that I am doing a good job.

There are a lot of other strange but true things that I could add, but I think I need to go and see what Dallin is up to.