Heidi, Belle, Ally, Addie (& Jack behind her) eating pizza Friday night
Nothin' says "I'm Irish" like eating a big piece of pizza ;)
All the kids loved the pizza & Uncle Rich was (again) our hero!

On Friday it was almost 50 degrees outside, so at 4pm, we took the kids out to play and draw on the drive way with sidewalk chalk. They had so much fun! Here's Ally & Addie...see Ad writing her name?

PS: I have about 6 more pix to post, but Blogger is freaking out, so I'll post them when I can.

Addie, Ally, Heidi, Jack, & Belle with sidewalk chalk
Me helping the kids make a rainbow for St. Pat's Day

Ally
Heidi (& Jack behind her) running around like wild kids
Deceptively Darling Isabelle

We have no infant chairs or toys at our house, so sometimes we had to make do for Baby Ben. He liked sitting in Heidi's High Chair...
One night, Uncle Rich had to set Ben down in this canvas box. Creative, but kinda sad.

Top O' The Mornin' To Ya...

Update: Arizona beat Wisconsin in the first round of the tourney (YAY!) and you would not believe the weather today! It's 49 degreesF and the wind is 10mph (that's like NO WIND in Livingston)--I got the mail in bare feet and it was so sunny and warm! So it's been a happy St. Patty's afterall!!!

We kicked off our big St. Patty's celebration this morning with...morning sickness!! Yay, my favorite! So the green pancakes I planned fell through and now the kids are just having a normal day, except Addie & Ally wore green (Ally is wearing Addie's Flogging Molly shirt--I should make them all learn a Flogging Molly song today, huh?). I think I will make green eggs and ham omelets for lunch and Shamrock shakes...if we didn't have 6 crazy kids, we'd get a babysitter and go out to O'Ryan's pub here in Livingston--it's the coolest old school pub with yummy Irish food and music.

So yeah, my sister has been here all week with her 4 cute kids and it has actually been pretty fun--just a little crazy! You can read some details here. I have to go see what the 23-month-old tasmanian devils are doing.

More later! PS: BEAR DOWN, ARIZONA!!!

More Idol Thoughts

Looks like I have my finger on the pulse of pop culture afterall... (heh, heh)!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11751511/

May Melissa and Kevin go home this week before my entire sense of justice gets tweaked!

Happy Happy Birthday, Dana Dear!

Dana & Jill hanging out at Utah Lake in 1992

My sister Dana, left, turned 28 yesterday (March12th). Even though she had kind of a sucky weekend, we hope she feels our LOVE and GOOD WISHES over the 1500-miles to Texas! Dana, we love and miss you!

Sam Post's Blessing Day

Baby Sam on 3/5 Post Family on Blessing Day: Jake, Matt, Sam & Amie
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PS: doesn't Jake look like a ventriloquist's dummy in this photo (& Matt is the ventriloquist)?
Petersen Family on Blessing Day: Isabelle, Jill, Ben, Jack, Ally, & Drew

Papa Post was there, too, but I didn't get a picture of him on my camera (I hope Matt did). Amie made us a yummy baked potato bar lunch and the kids had so much fun playing. Poor Uncle Drew and Papa had to head back home after only 22 hours of visiting so they could work on Monday, but it was well worth the trip!

Cousin Fun @ Sam's Blessing

We arrived in Helena around 11am; Dad Post & the Petersens had arrived the night before from Utah. The kids were just sitting down to a yummy luncj made by Super-Amie--mini-PBJ sandwiches, apples, and goldfish. Here, Heidi, Jake, and Isabelle munch some goldfish and have FUN!
After church, Uncle Matt helped Rich wrangle the kids; here's Matt with Addie (I love this picture!)
Matt with Addie again...
Aunt Jill did Ally's and Addie's hair before church...don't they look adorable?

Jewish Boyz

Perhaps you remember the SNL episode when Jerry Seinfeld was guest hosting and he did a Mary -Katherine Gallagher skit w/ Molly Shannon in which MK is all in love with him and he's the star of the Jewish High School Basketball team. In the very last line of the skit, MK does her trademark cheerleading lunge, throws her arms in the air and cheers, "Jewish Boys!" Well, I totally identify. I think I have mentioned before that I had a thing for certain polynesian men and really, really smart Jewish boys (For example, Ben Stein, the older conservative version, Jon Stewart, the younger and typically liberal version). I married a "white poly," but apparently the Jewish Boy thing lives on in my subconscience. I posted this comment to a friend earlier:

I have been meaning to blog this, but since I have to take a unisom every night when I am pregnant, I have been getting a lot of dream sleep. And since I have crazy hormones coursing thru my veins, the dreams are kooky. And since I watch The Daily Show on tivo almost every night before I sleep, I have been dating Jon Stewart in my dreams. But it's not "now me" and "now him," it's like 10-years-ago, post-college-pre-marriage us (cuz we are both obviously happily married with children now, duh). He is just in my dreams every single night and I think it's hilarious. My baby is going to be half Jewish.

PS: I have heard snide remarks from my conservative friends about my listening to NPR and watching The Daily Show, as if my political beliefs and values couldn't stand up to hearing another point of view. I'll try not to be insulted by the insinuation, but I think it is very healthy to listen to all kinds of ideas in order to form your own (Not to mention the insanely sharp wit on TDS and the very in-depth and people-based reporting on NPR shows like All Things Considered). It's kind of like being afraid to visit someone else's church because it would make me less of a Mormon. I have always been strengthened by opposition and it's nice to be well-informed and understand at least where other people are coming from. And if I couldn't be Mormon, I would be Jewish any day. Well, a Jew for Jesus maybe.