Ye Olde awsome music videos

I think we all know what my favorite book (and movie) is, but do we know what my favorite band is? That is the purpose of this post, to enlighten you on the virtues of the...... (drum roll here) PIANO GUYS! So here is a video of them playing Lord Of The Rings music!

The guy who plays cello is named Steve. For Christmas my little brother got a box of blocks that came with a man that had Steve's haircut. He was promptly dubbed Steve the Piano Guy and the smiley-faced cello that was in there was his cello. This next one is for Starwars fans.                             The one after that is for spy movie people. By the way for those of you that have watched Captain America the piano person's name is Schmidt
Last of all is just FUN!

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                                                                                thank you piano guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and sorry about any uneven spacing in the post I'm new to this adding videos thing.

Ye Olde never type with a little brother on your lap

Moms do amazing things, most of those amazing things I can't do. For a example mom sits typing away on her laptop with my baby brother on her lap and everything goes fine. I on the other hand pick him up to stop him crying (he seems to like me) and start typing this post. Lo and behold he starts slapping the keyboard as fast as his little hands can move. Amazing thing number two, cooking dinner for 10 kids most of which are bottomless pits. (yes me included in the bottomless pit thing) I on the other hand try to make "easy fudge" and end up with maraschino cherry ice cream (true story). My reasoning is that God made girls the housekeepers for a reason. Without them we'd still be stirring overly salted mushroom stew with a spear.
(I hate mushrooms even if I wish I was a hobbit) 


Thank you Erin for swooping in and saving those apple pies yesterday

Ye Olde late merry christmas

I know this is a little late and out of order but MERRY CHRISTMAS!














one animal's pride was hurt during the making of this blog post, but she has gotten over that now.

Ye Olde strange traditions connected with New Years Day

wilt under my stare and realize that I am the mascot for this blog and you aren't! (insert evil chuckles) 

    We humans are strange creatures... we have all these absurd traditions to do on all these different holidays (like eating black eyed peas at midnight on new years eve)  and so i have decided to compile a list of these strange traditions for new years:

                   #1 counting down from 10 seconds till midnight

                   #2 dropping a BIG apple in new york at midnight

                   #3 dropping a water melon at midnight

                   #4 eating black eyed peas at midnight

                   #5 making crazy resolutions for the new year
                   (I'm gonna convince mom to let me see all of lord of the rings before I turn 15)

etc..... etc..... etc..... etc ...... HAPPY NEW YEAR!


apologies to anyone who has a tradition that I forgot and mom if you read this I am begging you don't leave me in suspense any longer as to what epic things are in the rest of the lord of the rings movies!!!!!!!!

Ye Olde Halleilujah!

Justice has prevailed, we got a tree! Our fight has prevailed, tradition fulfilled, and I'm stuck sweeping pine needles again. Just like Christmas! (except it refuses to snow outside so we can't break our backs standing upright on a slippery sled while going 50 miles a hour off a snow ramp and trying to dodge the tree positioned almost right behind the ramp..... bummer)

 The Hobbit is coming out soon and I have decided in anticipation of it to wear my one ring every day until I see it! 

                                               "Nine for mortal men doomed to die,

                                                Seven for dwarf lords in their halls of stone.

                                                Three for elven kings beneath the sky,   

                                                One for the dark lord on his throne.  
                      
                                                One ring to rule them all,
                                                One ring to find them.
                                                One ring to bring them all, 
                                                And in the darkness bind them.
                                                In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie..."
I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 All credit for that quote goes to J.R.R. Tolkien.

Ye Fight To Keep The Christmas Tree Tradition And Why I Have'nt Posted In Almost A Week!

It all started a couple days ago with a subtle comment at a informal family meeting that suggested that we didn't actually need a tree this year.. Chaos erupted! windows were smashed! people were bashed! Okay that didn't actually happen, but needless to say the suggestion didn't meet with applause. It did have good backing we all reluctantly knew: the cost, little boy who likes destroying or pulling down things, no place to put it (mom didn't want it in the middle of the room, I wonder why?) etc... etc... We (the kids) decided to set about destroying these reasons. We tackled the money one first, Christmas tree fund! (my brother just walked up to me with a piece of duct tape on his chin while I was typing and said "Do you like my goatee?") Next we (the kids AND mom) decided to make room for a Christmas tree. Scanning rooms of house... kitchen... negative... living room... negative... dads office... BING! Next followed a flurry of activity as we unpacked boxes, swept, vacuumed, cleaned, and moved furniture. now we are waiting for dad to say we can get a tree. 

Now for why I havn't posted in almost a week. I am breaking down in tears as I write this, I abandoned my blog fans for almost a whole week. (dramatic music) To stuff myself on turkey at a house 120 miles (sniff) from this computer! Boohoo! I'm so horrible.. I hope I don't sleep for months as a punishment for what I did to you. (sniff) I'm so sor-(dramatic music suddenly cuts off) Take out the tears and that's why I havn't posted in so long. 


Most of the credit for the cleaning goes to my older sister

Ye Olde third post

"Ham was only a village, but villages were proud and independent still in those days. Farmer Giles had a dog. The dog's name was Garm. Dogs had to be content with short names in the vernacular: the Book-Latin was reserved for their betters. Garm could not talk even dog-Latin; but he could use the vulgar tongue (as could most dogs of his day) either to bully or to brag or to wheedle in. Bullying was for beggars or trespassers, bragging for other dogs, and wheedling for his master. Garm was both proud and afraid of Giles, who could bully and brag better then he could.''  

Unfortunately nowadays dogs and cats don't seem talk, even in the vulgar tongue. Personally I think that cats can and just choose not to talk to "lower life forms" as they call us. But they seem to make good mascots, so I guess that's okay.
No animals were hurt in the making of this blog post.