A Mosaic About ME!

I got this idea from a friend of a friend's blog. Here is a photo mosaic about me! Can you guess what each picture means?

1. What is your first name? Heather
2. What is your favorite food? Coffee Lover's ice cream from Cold Stone
3. What school did you go to? Utah Valley University
4. What is your favorite color? Blue
5. What is your favorite animal? Polar Bear
6. Favorite Drink? Vanilla Coke
7. Dream Vacation? Scotland
8. Favorite Dessert? Creme Brulee
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Book critic
10. What do you love most in life? Family
11. One word to describe you? Comfortable
12. Your nickname? Mama

The Concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

Oh, and be careful because I ran across some racy pics. Don't search for anything with a kinky double meaning, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean??

(Another) Quote of the Day:
"We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves." ~Mark Twain

song: Operator, Jim Croce

Sisters, Sisters

Janie absolutely loves to push around this walker. It belongs to Dayton and Lexie, but Gracie borrowed it when she was learning how to walk and Janie did the same, just recently! Janie is a pro walker nowadays, but she still loves pushing it around and Gracie decided to cash in on that fact. She sat down in it right as Janie was tootling along and Janie pushed her all the way across the room! It was pretty funny to watch :) I'm still in shock that I had my camera at the ready and got a good picture of the goings on!

Quote of the Day:

"If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child." ~Linda Sunshine

A Pumpkin's A Pumpkin, No Matter How Small

It's that time of year again, so we took the girls to the pumpkin patch to pick out some good lookin' gourds for our front porch! I LOVE pumpkins, Halloween and all the warm fuzzy things that go with fall. Maybe it's the prospect of wearing sweatshirts in the evenings, drinking hot chocolate for breakfast and using our fireplace that warm the cockles of my little heart...who knows? I have been mourning the fact that I'll be putting away my mirrorball flipflops soon. Those have been my favorite shoes ever. I haven't given them a final farewell yet...it's just too sad! But I do love breakin' out my old coats and putting the duvet on the bed. Ahhhhh...toasty. Here are some pics from our jaunt to the Patch...

This was about the biggest pumpkin that Janie could hold :)

Rare, yes. The sisters share a moment of parent-dictated affection.

I love this picture because it's so Janie. She is still such a mini-mite and her walk has a swagger that is adorable :)

Gracie pointed out every pumpkin that had any green on it and called it "Silly!!" Apparently, green is a very funny color for a pumpkin :)

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." -Albert Camus

Song: Come Monday, Jimmy Buffet

A Tough Week To Be Jane...

This has definitely been a bad week for little people named Jane Eleanor Alexander. She fought a fever of 103 for three days, got pushed into a door frame by her "loving" sister, and never gets to go to dance class or preschool! Life just isn't fair! Here are some pictures from her "week O fun."

Schweaty hair and a really high fever...at least Daddy's cuddling her :)

Gracie's "I don't know what you're talking about" face. Little devil.

The hugest, most alien goose egg of all time was brought into existence on Janie's forhead. Grace pushed her down and she hit her bedroom door frame on the way. I was so freaked out I ran downstairs and woke up mom and dad to look at it too. I almost took her to the doctor's, but she fell asleep after I held ice on it for a while and so I just let her take a long nap. Poor thing. It was truly sickening to see. It has healed really quickly and all that's left is a greenish bruise that's fading each day.A much happier girl...she loves to hang out and "help" me do the dishes. It's kind of like a race to see how many dishes she can pull out while I'm putting more in! (Usually she wins and I just give up on the dishes altogether :) She can't resist all the sippy cups...that's why she's reaching up into the top basket. Maybe she's experimenting with fermentation and I keep jacking up all the test results!

Quote of the Day:

"For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked." - Bill Cosby

Song: Satellite, Guster

Home Again, Home Again

We got home last night from our trip to Reno...eight hours in the car with my two kids and I was about to go Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on their...butts. It was totally worth it though because we had such a great time with Dennis and Tawny! They made us feel so welcome and their house is so clean and comfortable that we felt right at home. We played Loaded Questions and Chicken Bones (at which Denny will proudly tell you his winning score of 4 points! I think it's some kind of a record...especially for a first timer! Yeah, he schooled us all.) And we had tacos and steaks and Round Table pizza! Them's the makings of a great few days! We even drove up to lake Tahoe and were amazed at how very beautiful it was. Sunlight glittering on a lake (or the ocean) is one of Heavenly Father's most beautiful works of art. We're glad to be home though so I don't have to worry about the girls pulling down D's curtains anymore...don't ask :)

Question of the day...
What can you find at home that you find nowhere else?

Over the river and through the woods...

We're heading to Nevada in the morning to visit Dennis and Tawny! Joe has to give a work presentation in Reno on Tuesday night, so the girls and I are tagging along so we can kick it with our homies! JK We are so excited to go and see their new digs and play some games with them. I wish they lived closer so we could hang out more often. Oh well. We'll just take advantage of mileage reimbursement from Joe's work :)

Quote of the Day:

"In America, there are two classes of travel: First class, and with children." -- Robert Benchley

MNF

Monday Night Football = lots of reading time for Heather! I seriously do love football season, but for me, background noise is usually the way I prefer to take it. It gives me lots of time to do things that I don't have time to do during the off season. For example, today we bought our very own copy of Loaded Questions. It's a great game that we play every time we're with the Alexander clan. I found it at Target and got one. So, while Joe was occupied with kickoff, I cleaned out our game cabinet and got rid of a bag of garbage and a few games that we never play. I took out all the girls' games to be stored elsewhere so that I can make it the RULE that in order to open the game cabinet you have to know what a maxi pad is for. Grace, the Queen of Chaos can make quick work of a game cabinet, leaving destruction and despair in her wake so next time she's at su casa, lock it up! You think I'm joking.

Have you ever read a book that was so great that you just didn't want to put it away on your bookshelf? I finished reading Dune a couple of weeks ago and it was so good. Just SO, SO GOOD! I do love a hefty dose of Sci Fi every now and again, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I liked it so much, but Dang! It was GREAT! If you like that genre, I highly recommend it. I'm sad that I had to update my widget to show that I had moved on to another book :( LOL.

"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."
~ Dawn Adams ~

We Are Family

Here's the last installment of pictures from our fun family get-together. We were so sad that we didn't get to stay and have fun in Torrey, so we were glad to have another family fling that we got to participate in.

The Fam...minus one angel who's making sure Gracie and Janie are hiking safely :)

The cousins all played dress up and this outfit was by far the favorite :) It was Zoe's halloween costume a few years back but on this trip it was a cat AND a horse for all to enjoy!

Here he comes...the zulu chief, cheif, chief!

Dad rocked everybody at pool!

There was a nice walking path along the back of the condo, next to the golf course. Pretty~

Grandpa and Janie (and IceBat).

Grandpa and Gracie in the "gondol" - that's what the kids called it :)

Check out that view behind them! It was quite spectacular! Somehow though, with kids running around you can't spend much time looking at the view...you're fixing skinned knees, rocks in shoes, cries of "carry me, carry me!" etc.

We played lots of games at night and Joe and I even learned a few new ones that are keepers! Speed Scrabble was fun, so was Chicken Bones...Andrea and Ryck's domino game creation that is complicated and pretty hilarious ;) We're eagerly awaiting the Chicken Bones blog unveiling sometime soon :) All in all, GREAT times! We missed the Pope family though and hope they're settling into their new abode in Washington. Love you guys!