The Biznards

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Our Feathered Friends

Ever since Friday Mac and Sally (that's what Ethan named them) have been visiting us on a daily basis. They enjoy taking a little bath in our yucky little fountain thing. Its so small it hardly seems enjoyable, but nonetheless they like using it. They don't stay all day but they come in intervals throughout the day, mainly to take a rest. Its fun to come home and see if they've arrived yet. I hope they continue to come visit us and I'm half expecting and hoping to see some little ducklings in the near future.

Chad and Ethan resting after a hard day at "soccer practice."

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

To Courtney On Her 37th Birthday

Just A Few Things I Love About Courtney:

She loves to laugh and her laugh is infectious.
She appreciates beauty in nature and always notices it - especially Tulips
I love that she loves Ethan, and all her nieces and nephews for that matter.
She's very generous and giving.
She loves candy. She's not just your everyday chocolate lover, she loves the non-chocolatey stuff like, candy corns and such.
She's very welcoming and always insists that people stay at her house. She always makes everyone feel welcome.
She always thinks ahead of the best way to get to and from somewhere - She must get there the quickest way possible.
She's a total bargain shopper.
She graciously accepted her year supply of cooking oils on her birthday (bless dad's heart).
She's a very loving mommy.
She's one of my bestfriends.
Most of all she's my big sis and I love her!!

Happy Birthday Courtney!!! (one day late)

Monday, April 14, 2008

Chin Puppets

The other day Ethan and I made chin puppets which was great fun and gave us lots of laughs.

Now I periodically find him looking at me like this. Then I see him start to smile so I know he's caught the vision of my potential chin puppet.
P.S. Unfortunately I couldn't talk him out of this miss match of an outfit.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Tidbits

Our Little Climber

This last month Ethan took a rock climbing class and really loved it. He went to the top the first day and was able to ring the bell. We were quite proud of him.

People I love but rarely get to see. Great seeing everyone! (Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of everyone that we were able to see). And great roadtrip Courtney and little A! Me and Robino (aka: Robyn)

The Bolen Ladies

Great Aunt Rose, me, and Ethan

Carrie and Emily

American Idol Predictions

Some of us locals are making our predictions of who will win American Idol and who will be going off each week. #1 is who I think will win it, so the bottom one is who I thought would get kicked off this week. As you'll see I'm 0 for 1 so far. Keep in mind my list is not who I would necessarily choose, its who I think America will choose. The local winner will either win a free dinner or ice cream. But if anyone wants to participate please include your predictions in my comments. You probably won't win anything but you'll at least have some bragging rights. My predictions are:

1. David Cook

2. David Archuleta

3. Brooke White

4. Michael Johns

5. Carly Smithson

6. Jason Castro

7. Syesha

8. Ramielle

9. Kristy Lee Cook

Thursday, March 27, 2008

My Favorite

I'm back! It appears I've been on a blogging hiatus, and to be honest I've enjoyed the break. I totally love blogging but that's part of the problem, I love it too much and sometimes it can take up too much of my time when there are other important things to do.

Some may know that I'm not one to choose "favorites" - I say, Why limit yourself? That being said, I've decided that Easter is my favorite holiday. Easter signifies so much, most importantly I love the celebration of Christ's life, death, and resurrection. Easter also signifies spring and everything new that comes with it. New life in plants and animals, SUN, warmth, saying goodbye to winter, open windows, fresh air, spring cleaning, being outside, gardening, bright clothing, tanning lotions - I could go on and on. Yay for Spring!

Easter itself was lovely. We decided to celebrate the Easter Bunny on Saturday so we could focus on the most important part of Easter on Sunday. I liked it that way. Its weird to be the Easter Bunny. Chad and I found ourselves wondering what and how the Easter Bunny should do things. Do we do toys in the baskets? How elaborate should they be? How much candy do we give? When do the dyed eggs come out of the fridge? Are the dyed eggs part of the EBs job or does the kid just know that the parents hide them? So many questions and yet another year down and he still believes. I think we did our job.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Its Finally Coming!!

Tomorrow's the big day! I have been waiting forever it seems for this movie to be released on DVD. I've wanted to see it again and I've been wanting Chad to see it. I absolutely love this movie because I was so thoroughly entertained throughout and Steve Carell makes me laugh. Not to mention it was pretty clean.

I hate building up movies too much cause I know that ruins it so go in not expecting too much and you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

My American Idol Fav

This guy is my favorite from American Idol. I even take the time to vote for him. I vote for him and David Archuleta each week. He's not polished at all but I really love his style of singing and I like how he has minimal instruments in the background. Does anyone else think he looks like John Travolta from the side? And listen to Paula at the end, she can barely get her words out. Its weird.

Ethan & Gavin Quotes Worth Repeating:

The best is when Gavin tells me, "You're my best mom!" And when he comes out from his nap and says, "Mom, I still love you." (I love the "still" part - I'm just glad his feelings didn't change during his nap).

This morning Gavin saw the medicine cups on the counter and said he needed medicine. Since he's not sick, I said, "You don't need medicine, you're not sick." He goes all whiny, "but I am sick! I'm sick of cereal." (January 6, 2015)

Today I shared half of my cookie with Gavin, he very politely replied when I handed it to him, "Thanks mom! Good job sharing!" (Sept 20, 2014)

This was told to me by my neighbor while Gavin was at her house playing with her daughter, Emma.
Emma tells Gavin, "I have a bum."
Gavin: "I think I have a bum too."
All the while looking behind them trying to get a peak at their own bums. I love conversations between three year olds! (Sept, 2014)

I was talking to Ethan about my on t.v. interview the next day. He was a little nervous I'd embarass him and goes, "Mom, I really don't want you to make a fool of this family!" (July 11,2013)

On Friday we took Ethan and 5 of his friends somewhere for his birthday. We borrowed my brother's car since its big and it could fit all of us. When we all got in the car the boys were saying how the owner of the car must be rich because the car was so big. They were informed that the car belonged to Ethan's uncle. They were still in awe of how rich he must be when Ethan exclaimed, "He's a redhead, of course he's rich!" Hmm...if only I were a redhead. (January 14, 2011)

Ethan gave Tito a little kiss on the head. After he kissed him he was wiping Tito's head off and said, "I'm wiping the wetness off, but the love's still there." So profound. (October 10, 2010)

My sis-in-law Mel and I took our kids to a pool to swim pretty far from our house. They'd been in the car probably for about 30-45 min. I hear Ethan in the backseat ask his fellow cousins, "Are you guys having fun? I'm having fun just talking!" (October 7, 2010)

One morning as Ethan was requesting some breakfast, he said, "Hey, you're kind of like my servant!" He was quite pleased with that discovery. (May, 2010)

At dinner Ethan says to Chad, "Dad, how do you eat in like two seconds?!"

Chad: "Cause I'm a pig."

Ethan: "Pigs don't eat THAT fast!" (March 4, 2010)

Ethan Quote Archives

My Mom was telling Ethan about how she remembers her 1st grade teacher. She paused for a moment to think of her teacher's name and Ethan took the opportunity to whisper in her ear and inform her, "She's probably dead." (January 26, 2010)

Ethan, analizing why the spider was crawling on his leg the other night. "I don't think that spider was TRYING to poison me." (December 18, 2009)

"My friend want to write Santa to tell him what he wants. I want to write Santa to thank him for all that he does." (December, 2009)

From the backseat Ethan says, "I have my pinky in my nose. I'm not picking it, it just kin of feels good!" I looked back and sure enough, his pinky was in his nose. And in all honesty, he's really not a nose picker so I know it wasn't just an excuse. (August 14, 2009)

Chad and I were talking about how my sister-in-law, Mel is going to be the president of Ethan's old preschool. Ethan must have missed the "preschool" part and he goes: "What!? Mel's going to be president? Its not going to be Barack Obama anymore?" (August 9, 2009)

While Ethan was coming home from school with my friend Cathy and her two boys, apparently her two year old was being really loud and Ethan says, "I always wanted a sibling, but I didn't know they could be so anooying!" (May, 2009)

While we were at the park with one of Ethan's friends and his mom, Ethan's friend realized he lost one of the toys that he brought. As he and his mom started frantically looking for it, Ethan quietly, yet knowingly says to me, "And that why I don't bring toys to the park." (March, 2009)

During church Ethan plugs his ears and says, "I don't want to listen anymore."
Me: "Why?"
Ethan: "Because I don't want my eardrums to run out of hearing." (3/15/2009)

Ethan and I were looking through a book about bodies and we were talking about kidneys and where they are located in the body.

Me: (Pointing to the small of his back) "So this is where your kidneys are."
Ethan: "So does that mean you have adultneys?"
Get it? Adult-neys? He's got kid-neys, so I should have adult-neys right? And he wasn't kidding. (1/20/2009)

Me: "Ethan, do you love Tido?"
Ethan: "Yeah, I love him...The only thing I don't like about him is that his butt is always in your face." (1/5/2009)

As we were talking about going to Costco and getting some lunch, Ethan exclaims, "I just love Costco food! Its just so good! We should get their recipe and their autograph!" (1/2/2009)

I'm a little more familiar with the area where we live than Chad is, so sometimes I have to tell him where to turn while driving. One day while I was telling him where to turn left and right, from the backseat Ethan says, "Mom, stop bossing dad around!" (a while ago, 2008)

Aunt Courtney asked Ethan what his favorite part of kindergarten is, he replied, "going home." (9/1/2008)

Ethan: Dad, when you got married did you have a wedding cake?
Chad: Yes I did.
Ethan: Why didn't you save any for me?...Well, its ok cause I guess you didn't really know about me then. (8/12/2008)

While putting Ethan to bed tonight he told me, "You're the sweetest parents I ever had." (6/11/2008)

The other day we were at the store and there was a shirt that Ethan wanted that we didn't buy for him. The next day while he was getting dressed he comes up to me and says, "Mom, I'll give you a choice, either you buy me that shirt or I won't wear any clothes tomorrow." (6/8/2008)

Today during testimony meeting Ethan says to Chad,
"Oh gosh, why does everyone have to say the church is true?"

Tonight as Ethan and I were sipping out hot cocoa, I asked him if it ever made him sad that he didn't have any brothers or sisters. He replied, "No, I have a good life."

While driving in the car I was telling Ethan how he was going to play with his good friend Hayden the next day. Ethan hesitates, "Well. . .I was going to do some research tomorrow." "Oh really, well what are you going to research?" "Oh, I was going to do some research on my mission." (3/13/08)

One Sunday during the Sacrament Ethan whispers to me:
"I can't think of Jesus, I can only think of Superheroes."

"I want to be a cow so I can poop in a field."

"When adults tickle kids they pee a little bit."

Ethan: I want a new mom.
Me: Well that makes me sad that you would say that. Why do you want a new mom?"
Ethan: Because you're so old.

Me: "Ethan, I'm so glad you're my son."
Ethan: "Don't talk about son, child, married, or pregnant. That makes me nervous."

As Ethan was looking at Courtney's parakeet and the bird was looking back at him with just one of his eyes, cause that's just how birds look, Ethan demanded, "Look at me with both eyes bird!"

Today while driving in the snow Ethan asked me if snow is white. I told him that it is and he said, "Oh good because I was worried that I be blind color (aka color blind)."