these are even cuter in real life

things i accomplished today ...

we put plastic over our windows so we are winter-weather ready. (c'mon ... we live in a trailer ... this sort of thing is to be expected from us).

we took our trash to the dump. and our recycling to the recycler.

i washed all our sheets. (and made the beds again).

i caught lincoln gabbering and flipping through his books all by himself quite a few times. it makes my little heart swell with pride that he seems to like books so far. (sorry, this isn't a 'book picture', but it is a pretty cute 'eating dirt' picture).

we went out on the town and had lunch at quiznos. with a coupon.

i vaccuumed.

i made one of the dinners we learned about at our last relief society activity. i think i liked it more than i expected.

speaking of food, this is day four without chocolate. for anyone who has been around me much, that is quite the feat. its not exactly a goal, more the byproduct of a current goal.

this picture is actually from a week or so ago. since lincoln walks and it would be severe torture to make him go to halloween events with other kids while his legs are stuck inside a fluffy catepillar i made him wear his bug suit on a walk and take some pictures.

tyler put more latches on the cupboards so that no more of this will happen. yeah, he is in the trash.

i finished book 3 of percy jackson. on a side note. i want to mention that i read the autobiography of CS Lewis a couple years ago. he said that a big part of his conversion was his interest in fantasy. and its funny that books like 'percy jackson' and 'the chronicles of narnia' can make me think more about Heavenly Father and maybe even shed some light on eternal principles.

oh! and maybe one of the most fulfilling events; i caouldn't figure out my dang zipper foot for my sewing machine a couple weeks ago. so, i gave up and tried to do a project without it. that surely backfired. so, then tonight i googled it and played with it and i figured it out! oh, glory!

The Not-Reading List

I like to read. And when its a good read there isn't much else I like to do until I'm finished. Every time I go to the library the book 'Cider House Rules' stand out to me. I finally picked it up yesterday. I knew it had something to do with abortion ... thats about it. About 90 pages in I decided I better read the synopsis to find out if I really did want to finish the book. Here is the thing- a book about abortion, or a doctor's mission to help women by performing abortions, or an orphan learning about his crazy past; all of these are themes I would be interested in reading about. But here is the bummer, after reading the synopsis and the first 90 pages I have discovered that those are plots in the book, but sex is what sells it. Its just ploy to hook readers because human minds are intrigued by sex. If there were less intimate details I would want to finish. John Irving just used abortion as the bait and sex as the hook and I just think its lacking real content. Sheesh ...

Lincoln's First ...

Some people blog about their babies first word or steps or tooth. Not me. The nurse in me wants to blog about Lincoln's first ... band-aid! Just a little paper cut from his intensive reading. But I was more than happy to pull out the animal band-aids and clean up his cut. I'm guessing that he will have it off his finger in minutes.

Family History

Okay, how awesome is this? I got on ancestry.com and found my family history back about 3 more generations. (By awesome, you may be thinking nerdy). And I just can't find enough time to look up all the things I want to. (So, I'm blogging about it rather than doing it ... Sheesh).

Mark Schnupp
1905-1978

• Margaret Yoscsak

• William Schnupp
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• John Schnupp
  1867-1933
• Anna M Hoffman
  1870-1958

• Lambertus Schnupp
  1832-1905
• Margaret A Wagner
  1838-1903
• Nicholas Hoffman
  1842-1925
• Anna Nealer
  1847-1891

• Johann A Schnupp
  1796-1845
• Anna M Burkard
  1798-1836
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• William Hoffman
  1805-1882
• S Stadtmiller
  1805-1887
• John Neiler
  1817-1889
• Margaret Graff
  1818-1897

• Johann Martin Schnupp
• Eva M Hoffman
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• John Hoffman
• Marie TBD
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Thanks Hailey, Hilgabilga, and Sussanah

I may post more about this adventure later just because the pictures are so cute, but for now I wanted to show off a picture of this beautiful wheat field.

Its awesome, right?

All the reasons I'm 90 ... or as many as i can think of right now

i like to knit. once i start on a project i get a little obsessive.

i like classical music. albeit, when i listen to it i think of scenes from bugs bunny.

i quilt.

i think about foods that are easy on my bowels. TMI, i know.

i think teenagers look ri-dic-o-lous.

my teeth are falling out, but really, they have been my whole life.

i drive slow.

i think lots of music and movies are inappropriate. thats if i have even heard of them.

i like to do family history work.

i am always cold. and i like to wear sweaters.

i have an impressive button collection.

my feet hurt if i wear the wrong shoes.

i really enjoy front porch sittin'.

fortunately, i have this kid to keep me young.