Maggie-isms

Where does time go? Last night I was trying to quickly find something on our blog from a few years ago and instead I ended up taking a major stroll down memory lane looking at all the pictures of tiny Maggie and baby Lane. The pictures were evidence of how much has changed, even though those memories seem like just yesterday. I wanted to cry and smile all at the same time. It made me realize how important this blog is to me; a lot of those memories I had completely forgotten about until I read them last night.  So here I am more devoted to this blog again.  

Today we spent a good portion of the day today looking through all the pictures and stories with Maggie.  She enjoyed seeing all the pictures from when she was a baby. I think she laughed the hardest at the video of her trying cereal for the first time.

This morning as we were walking out the door for church, a deer got itself hung up in a gate (I watched it happen). So we changed out of our church clothes, went and rescued the deer, changed back into our church clothes and ended up being 15 minutes late for church, but at least the deer was ok :)

Anyway, here's a few pictures from this week and then a compilation of Maggie-isms.  

 Our snowman turned into a skeleton.

We did family history one night for a youth activity and I was chuckling to myself when I kept hearing kids say things like, "my work only goes back to the 1400s" and "this computer is loading too slow." It really wasn't that long ago that things had to be written down by hand and you had to go to a genealogical library and scroll through microfilm to find names. Times have changed.  Supposedly one of my lines can be traced back to Adam and Eve, but I'm not sure which one.  Everyone was very impressed though that one of the young men's lines goes back to Adam and Eve.    

The saddles are coming along.  I'm really trying to find the time to crack down and get them done so they are ready to ride by summer time. While the glue was drying on them I made myself some spur straps.  I am really loving this design; I just might have to change my original plans for my saddle and include this :)

The kids have had fun sledding down the luge track, I mean our driveway.  Lane was all giggles until he got a little scared at the end.

Jonathan had to run pick up some parts in Brigham City one day and we decided we'd stop at eat at Maddox's after.  It's always a treat to eat there.  The kids were excited, we were excited, and then we got there and realized we made the same mistake we've made at least five other times in our marriage.  It was Monday and they're closed Mondays. So then Maggie was crying in the backseat because we told her we would eat at the frisbee place (the kids meal is served on a frisbee), and I was crying inside for getting my own hopes up.  We ended up splurging and eating at Ruby River, which ended up being a very delicious, albeit expensive, meal. In the end everyone was happy, so I guess it worked out.    

I've realized that most of the funny things Maggie says get posted on facebook, and not on the blog. So I scanned through the last few years of my posts on facebook and found them all to include on here. Here they are to never be forgotten:

"We sang "we are all enlisted" for the opening hymn at chuch on Sunday and Maggie is still singing "happy are we, happy are we" over and over again. I think we found her favorite hymn ." June 1, 2012

"Me: Maggie, will you please walk through each room and pick up your toys that are laying out so that we can get the house clean?
Maggie: Who's coming over?
Me: No one...
True, I have more motivation to clean when I know someone's coming over, but that's not the only time I clean." April 13, 2012

"While eating lunch, Maggie had a concerned look on her face and was awful quiet.
Me: are you ok Sweetie?
Maggie: yeah, I'm just trying to figure out when I should get married.
Oh boy! What are we in for?" September 8, 2012

"Maggie quote of the day: (as she's holding an empty pop can) "Mom, what animal makes Coke?"" Novermber 2, 1012

"Maggie quote of the day:
Me: Maggie, what's your line for the primary program?
Maggie: I can be kind to my friends and say hi to them. 
Then after a few second pause, she looks at me seriously and says, "You keep asking me that! How do you not know it by now?"" November 14, 2012

"Today's Maggie quote: "Mom, did you know that h says hhhhuh. Like when you're done running hhhuh-hhhuh-hhhuh-hhhuh-hhhuh." Why, yes, I am out of shape. Thanks for pointing it out" November 15, 2012

"Disney, through the eyes of a child: 
Maggie: "Mom, you know the lady that doesn't wear shoes, that lives on a boat with her raccoon, but it doesn't eat her?"
Me: "Uhhh...Oh, you mean Pocahontas?"
Maggie: "Yeah!"
I didn't know she had ever seen Pocahontas, so I asked her if she watched that movie at Grandma and Grandpa's, to which she replied, (with a hint of sassiness) "It was a DVD mom."" January 25, 2013

"A Maggie quote for my horsey friends (and other friends too):
The other day Maggie was running through the house with her stick horse and Jonathan asked her to stop running. To which she replied, "I'm not running, I'm doing the Tennessee walk." I'm not sure how she even knows what a Tennessee Walker is, we're pretty biased toward quarter horses..." March 18, 2013

"We won't be at church on Sunday, so last night I asked Maggie if she could sing me the surprise songs that the primary kids are planning on singing to the moms. She answered, "Ring of Fire" and then started singing, "I fell in to a burning ring of fire. I went down down down and the flames went higher...that's what we learned in primary, Mom"

Maybe I will cancel our plans and make it to church after all" May 11, 2013

"Maggie's vacuuming again and just said to Lane, "hurry and clean up your toys or I'll vacuum them up." This made me realize two things, a) I've probably used that threat before, and b) Lane obeys Maggie more quickly than he obeys me. Silly kids " May 17, 2013

"My church calling is in the young women's organization, so each Wednesday night I explain to the kids that I have to leave to go to the young women's activity. According to Maggie though my church calling is "young humans" and it cracks me up to hear her ask, "what did you do at young humans?" Or "what was your young humans lesson about?"" July 18, 2013

"While baking homemade bread this morning, Maggie walks into the kitchen and says, "it smells like Oklahoma in here!" If Oklahoma smells like baking bread I could never live there, I'd be hungry all the time." July 28, 2013

"While Lane was crawling around, pretending to be a puppy, Maggie says to me, "Mom, guess what? We got a new puppy! Its name is Frustration."" August 26, 2013

"Tonight Jonathan jumped out of a doorway and growled when I least expected it and scared the living daylights out of me. Shortly after, Maggie said our family prayer and prayed that I wouldn't be a mean mom...Let me tell ya, I'm feeling really loved over here! " October 13, 2013

"Last night when Maggie prayed, she said, "please bless Disneyland to still be there when we can go someday." Hahaha, I love her prayers." December 12, 2013

I also forgot to mention this from just the other day,
"After a snapping sound, a long nose bleed, and a pounding headache, I'm pretty sure Lane just broke my nose. I asked him to come cuddle with me on the couch, and when he went to lay down he clocked me square in the nose with the back of his head. Who knew motherhood could be such a dangerous profession?" My nose is ok.  Still a little loose on the one side, but it's not crooked so that's good. 

This was also on facebook:

Here are 8 things only a few people know about me...

1. I took first place in a national collegiate equine specialist contest and won some prize money and a large framed poster of a thoroughbred from Taylor Farms, which ended up getting Jonathan and I upgraded to a first class flight home for free because the flight attendant had ownership in a horse from Taylor Farms and was so excited when she saw my framed poster that she upgraded our seats to first class. The contest was at nationals for the Post-secondary Agricultural Students association (similar to FFA) in St. Louis, Missouri.
2. I have golfed a hole in one on a 144 yard par three. Sadly, I haven't swung a golf club in quite some time.
3. I spoke with a lisp up until about five years ago. I was terribly self conscious about it and was teased relentlessly for it through middle school and high school. I had speech therapy in grade school, but when I tried to talk correctly it slowed my speech down, which also resulted in teasing. I was finally fed up enough with it that when I was asked to speak in church about five years ago I practiced it and practiced it until I felt comfortable delivering it without a lisp, and I haven't looked back since. My speech is still not perfect, but it's a lot better than it was.
4. I love to learn and try new things! I consistently cruise the non-fiction do-it-yourself type books at the library, and if that makes me a nerd, then so be it 
5. I've met Bill Murray and instantly lost all the respect I ever gained for him from watching What About Bob and his other classics. He definitely had the I'm-a-star-so-I'm-better-than-everyone-else attitude and if I remember correctly, he had the mouth of a sailor.
6. I made my husband's saddle and am currently working on two more.
7. I don't have much desire to go to Hawaii or Paris, but I would LOVE to go to the Denver Stock Show, The Calgary Stampede, and the NFR at least once before I croak.8. I have a life list of 101 things I really want to do before I die. It's typed up and hanging in our office and includes such things as adopt and train a mustang, learn to trick rope, go to the antiques roadshow, ride a tandem bike, pan for gold, everything in #7, and a bunch of other random things. 

Aren't you proud of me for only waiting two weeks to blog again? ;)