Clean the sink (written by mikyla)

Apartment 2 vs. the colossal amounts of ice cream, fudge, and sweet toppings, AKA “the kitchen sink”. It occurred at a location titled “Angies” and apparently it is where the locals eat. We burst through the doors demanding the respect and attention of everyone surrounding us, we waved, kissed a few small children’s foreheads and proceeded to a cozy little booth ready to take on the ferocious steel sink with its sweet contents spilling over the edge.

 

 

 

Our hearts were strong and hopeful as we dove in with our shining spoons. Our lips smacked, our teeth chewed, our throats swallowed. Everything was going delightfully and according to plan. Then we hit the wall….there was gnashing of teeth as Ice cream began to shimmy back up our throats despite our greatest efforts to keep it down. hope seemed lost. Defeat inevitable, children began to weep, and the haters continued hating.

 

BUT wait!!! Alas, there was hope!!! We are not quitters and we refused to be defeated! We had not come here just to indulge in endless amounts of creamy goodness for nothing!! We came to win!! So like the true warriors we are we pushed past the physical limitations of our own bodies and slayed the beast and all its fowl temptations!! One small step for our pride, a lot of work for some poor cow, and a championship worth sharing!!!!

 

I done been tricked!

We have been loving our new place to live! It’s so nice to have real insulated walls that don’t let the cold in. The dishwasher, laundry machines, a bathroom not full of diseases, even the garbage disposal are so wonderful!! But, this new house played a trick on me. I was laying in my bed one night when the smoke detector in the living room beeped and actually talked! “Low Battery” Mostly I was just upset that I just got here and now I have to change a battery. the next day I was sitting in the living room.  “BEEP! BEEP! Low battery” What the heck??? This time it sounded like it was coming from my bedroom. I heard it again a while later, this time maybe it was from mikylas room.  After a few more days we decided it was the living room detector. I changed the battery, finally the beeping and talking would stop! I was wrong. We kept hearing it! I took batteries out and still we heard it! Just yesterday mikyla opened a cupboard, “Whats in here?” and guess what she found!? The Smoke detector.

Here, will you put a diaper on him…

One lovely Tuesday my big sister Erica and lil Nixon came to play!! It was the best day off I have had up here in logan! We talked and laughed, ate and hiked, got pedicures and had lots of fun. Mikyla, Kenni, and I showed Erica around logan, telling her stories and showing her the places we like. My mom was so thoughtful and nice! She sent us some money so we could have a fun lunch!! We went to center street grill to get some yummy burgers! We thought that Nixon had a poopy diaper, Erica kept checking the bathroom but it was always locked. We decided we were fast enough we could do it in the booth with out anyone noticing. But as soon as the diaper came off Nixon grabbed a full glass of water and it dumped everywhere. Luckily he wasn’t really poopy! Erica first lifts Nixon up to hand him to me, flashing is wee wee to the world!! “Oh, Shoot!” ha then she slides him under the table to me, “here, will you put a diaper on him?” I couldn’t help but laugh as kenni and Erica soak up water and mikyla and I tag-team putting nixons’ diaper on. It was so great!

Funny Funny!!!

The other night I woke up at three in the morning laughing so hard! I had the best dream that was super funny:)

My siblings and I were swimming in a giant pool. Just having a blasty blast. Then I felt something brush against my leg! It was a mini shark!!! I yelled “shark!” and every one jumped out of the water… every one but steve.

“You guys, don’t worry. I know all about these.” Steve grabbed a shark by the tail and went off telling us all about it. Then grabbed another and another… he did know everything about them.

We decided to play a game and see who could catch a certain shark first. I really wanted to be the winner. So instead of running around the giant couch that suddenly appeared between us and the pool, I was going to jump it!! I ran as fast as I could and jumped. I felt like I jumped my hardest but I was not high enough. The couch took my feet out from under me. (it looked like wipe out when the people face plant) I hit the water with such force, I thought my face might make a hole in the bottom of the pool. I stopped just in time! I opened my clenched eyes to see bubbles escaping my mouth and saw Erica laughing too. Bubbles were floating to the top of the pool. Next thing I know I woke up laughing and laughing. 

Ok momma. here is my book for children…

I woke up in the morning and I might have…  yawned and screamed at the same time!

I wanted to eat cereal so I might have… picked the purple kind!

Then I might have… spilled the milk!

And maybe I might have… pointed at my lil sister!

One time I went to the park and I might have… had a picnic! But I didn’t,

I might have… went down a slide!

But before that I might have… done backflips out of the swing!

Maybe I fell on my back and I might have said. “I’m ok. Just embarrassed, lets not talk about it.” My friends might have… talked and laughed about it anyways!

And that might just be the end…

Shoes out the kazoo

So im just chilling on my “chouch” playing a lil bit of super Mario. I get smashed for the seventh time by the hammer head dudes and maybe threw the remote on the floor…  The remote was laying by a pair of shoes, I notice that we kinda have a lot of shoes all over our living room. I started pairing them up and counting, one… two… three… ……….. ten… eleven… fifteen!!! Yep that happened, I found fifteen pairs of shoes in our tiny living room.

Things I find funny:)

The time I nearly beat bowser (one knock on the head and I was champion of super Mario.) Bam! I got smashed.

Kenni thought it was fun to catch all of the ladybugs infesting our house. But then left the poor lil guys in a mason jar in the bathroom to die!!! So I might have took the lid off one night. 

I bought some yummy chocolate cream cheese and was slabbing it on a bagel when it slipped and fell on the ground!! I possibly started to through a fit, my boot hit some melted snow and I face planted it on the kitchen floor.  The butter knife went flying and my phone decided to top things off and pummel out of my pocket. I couldn’t help but laugh at this ridiculousness! 

You might be stubborn if…

KEnni: im not talking to you tell you get in the shower!

TARA: really? Well I don’t want to shower so this will be a fun game.

Kenni: Zack, im not talking to her.

Tara: Zack, you are on my side right?

ZACk: Im Switzerland

Tara: Remember that one time kenni when you said, I say… Switzerland!

Kenni: talking to zack she said. Well I don’t even know what she is talking about.

Tara: oh you!!!

Kenni turned on me and yelled, im not talking to…… Dang it!

I might have done a dance for joy in the living room. Yay for me:)

sometimes tara is really blonde

Is utah state a pretty good school?? Tara you should know, you live there… TARA: Where is it?

Yeah I lived in Monticello for a while. Tara: what where you doing living there?? There is like nothing out there…   They are apartments.

The fifth month of the year… whoever says may first wins. TARA: Well it doesn’t have to be the first, just any day in may:)  ha ha

Or No?

We all know that maddie jo is such a cute girl!! Well this weekend I got to go visit my family at the ranch:) I was sitting in a w on the living room floor, and maddie was standing behind me. She slowly walks around me and looks at my face. With her eyes squinted and one hand held in the air, “Tara are you wearing underwear or no?” ha ha “oh can you see my bum maddie?” She nodded. “Yep im wearing underwear,” Then I hear traces voice from across the room, “Well what color are they” ha ha ha it was so funny!!!

Whats up with the rocks!??

One morning we woke up to one single rock right in the middle of our doorway. “When did this show up?” I got home around two and left for work at six, so sometime very early in the morning. The next day when I got home from work there was a chocolate sitting right in front of the door. I threw it away cause I thought that was a bit sketch…

A few days went by with no rock action, but then two rocks showed up. Every night we got more and more rocks. This started to weird out my roomies. Ha we decided not to worry about it. We wrote HI using the rocks. From there we have gotten random messages about every other day. POO, POOH, SLUT, MUT. It’s a little creepy but I’m not too worried.

Yummy!

Erica and I had a love for chicken nuggets! It was one food we always had in the freezer. Well kenni and I are always eating tater tots. One morning we started the tots and both got on with the day. Kenni was called into work (over time baby!!) and I was about to leave and start our laundry. The smell of burning tots hit me like a ball to the face! Anyways, I sent kenni a text that said, “You like your tots crispy right? How about a lil bit ashy??”

Mikyla!

Ill tell you what’s new. Mikyla moved in when we got back from Christmas. We love her! I feel like we were all very close growing up, but kinda went our own ways as we got older. Well it has been a blast getting to know her again.

Tesa Marie!!

Matt and Jenny let us know they were pregnant with Tesa by sending a pizza from Pizza Hut! That’s a funny story cause for ten minutes I was wondering when the other pizza was going to show up:) ha ha im a dork

Jenny did a great job getting Tesa here just in time for kenni and I to see her before we had to head home to Logan.

We love that Pickering family so so much!!