Saturday, December 29, 2007

Hijacked!

Hey Sara's friends,
this is Melissa, her sister.
I just finished a post all about Sara!
If you want to see it,
You are welcome.
.
Sara please don't change your password because of this!
I love you!

Thursday, December 13, 2007

O Christmas Tree...

I love these girls.
For reals, I really, really love them!
Last week Melissa watched Oakley while I went to a hair appointment.


When I got home, they had done this!

I was elated because I hate doing it. (I'm a Grinch when it comes to decorating trees, not because I don't love beautiful Christmas trees, just because I'm not good at it and everyone else in my family is.... kind of like piano lessons.)

The only problem is, it keeps getting neutered.

Uh, Merry Christmas!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Runnin' runnin' runnin'....

TMI:

The babe has fire-rrhea. It seriously burned his little leggies. Oh, and sometimes he pukes. Whaaa for him! (Hey, I warned you, TMI.)


Now for you people who disagreed with me today: Um, what is this dog's bone made of? SHERPA! I was right. That lady's vest was sherpa lined.

Sorry, I was just bored.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

We got Elfed...

Okay, I totally stole this from Jacque's blog, but it is hilarious, even more so when you put your family in...

Check it out: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1145344634
I'm so good I think with these moves I could make cheer at Mesa Jr. Maybe?

Hope it gets you in the holiday spirit!!

P.S. If you were a single branch missing from my Christmas tree, where would you be hiding?

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Thanksgiving 2007

Family, feasting and fun are my favorite festivities, (F5 to those of you who know that I always do that) so here's to the holiday!

7:30 AM: Trashy Turkey Trot. My little turkey is in love with shoes. He wants them on all the time and then likes to run on the tile to hear them. After finishing breakfast, he found some shoes and wanted them on. I wasn't quite ready to move enough to give him a bath and ready for the day, so I improvised. I unzipped his jammies and tied the legs around his waist, and put on his shoes. It was quite a site.

(He's amazingly quick, so pictures were difficult.)

7:45 - 11:45: Baked pies and made jell-o. (Be so THANKFUL. I just deleted a whole section detailing this time period. It was boring. I fell asleep re-reading it.)

12:30 - 2:00: Ate and ate and ate and ate. My mom was amazing and hosted 61 turkeys at her home. Poor girl, if she were to do this same post her's would say, "Monday 5:30 AM - Thursday 8 PM cooked and cleaned. Thursday 8:30 PM: ate." She's the host with the most.

2:00 - 4:30: Rocket mania! New tradition - so much fun!! My cousins figured out how to make rockets with paper and duct tape and a launcher with an air compressor.
It was fantastic! I didn't actually make any, I just watched and tried to catch them.

Rocket Making/Rocket Crumpling/Doll Eating
Waiting
It's in the air! (Look at Aly's tongue. Oh, and I'm super happy and have weird hands / chicken claws.)Now I don't know what she's doing, but look at her face.We ran hard and didn't catch it. Ever.Oakley's too cool to chase rockets.
But, even cool kids look like dorks sometimes. Ha!

5:00 PM - the customary family group shot on Thanksgiving. Yes, we did do this the last thing of the day, and so I'm trashed and look like Melissa Joan Hart. Yippee!


Hope your day was great!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Happy, Happy Birthday, Melissa Dear!


My little sister MELISSA is turning 23!!

So, ode to Miss, here are 23 amazing things I love about her: (oh, there's pictures too, in no particular order)

#1:
She's the baby of the family. She was such a cute little baby and I loved playing with her. Since she's 5 1/2 years younger than me, I totally remember everything about when she was born, at home in the bathtub, I had the video camera. (totally kidding to any of you who don't know my family.)



(This was my favorite outfit of hers, when she grew out of it, I totally stole it to dress my home-made Cabbage Patch in.)

#2:
She's always up for a good time. Dressing up, dancing, being completely awesome, she's all in. Not just kindof, full fledged all in.

#3:
She loves to plan. Often, we get so excited about any event, and make lists of what's needed, and draw layouts of things. She's totally a member of the Finer Things Club.

(Remember these?)

#4:
We share a brain. Often we can have a conversation like this:
M: So do you think
S: Yes, but didn't he
M: I know they
S: No, I talked to Mom and she
M: Oh, okay.


Our husbands and co-workers hate it.

#5:
Speaking of work, she's the best front desk girl anyone has ever met. She knows everybody's life, inside and out, recognizes people (from our thousands of patients) voices on the phone without them saying who they are, and has had MANY opportunities to date patients. They were SO sad when they saw her gigantic wedding ring on. Poor short boys, Elvis impersonators, men that just comment on a survey that the front desk girl is very attractive and include their name, return missionaries, other attractive boys, on and on and on... I'm afraid our male patient base is going to totally disappear when she leaves to go to hygiene school.


#6:
Yeah, that's right, I said hygiene school! This girl is possibly the smartest girl I've met. My dad says he seriously think her IQ is in the genius level (but she's suprisingly sociable) and I'd have to agree. She took all three science pre-req's (chemistry, micro and anatomy) in one semester, first try, and got A's in all of them. Then, she applied to hygiene school and got in on her first try. Yep, she's genius alright!


#7:
She's the eyebrow master. She manicures my eyebrows and is fantastic at it.

#8:
She has OCD and puts it to good use. She overthinks things and hence, everything is very well thought out.

#9:
When she was little, she went through a harsh ugly duckling stage. (This is largely my fault. I encouraged the cut, the perm, and just when she was passing through, I started in at experimenting different hair cuts on her.) It's just easier to love someone who you know wasn't always freakishly beautiful. You like her bangin' body? I'm totally jealous.

(yeah, I wish that was me!)

#10:
She's the most gracious gift accepter. You could give her turtle poo, and she would be so excited to have something nice to fertilize her neighbor's plants with. She would probably shed tears of joy over it too.


#11:
She talked me into getting my first pair of flare jeans. Being the hottie she was in high-school, she looked out for me and moved me on past straight leg high rise (maybe Zena) jeans.

#12:
She has an amazing sense of design. For a too brief moment, she considered going into interior design. She changed her mind and ever since I've been begging her to take one for the team and go back to that.


#13:
She can speak her mind. None of us other Jones' can. (Except Jake when he snaps and throws binders off a shelf.) But she's not a jerk about it, she's just honest.

#14:

She's a fantastic 2nd mom to Oakley. We think that sometimes people think we are a lesbian couple with our adopted baby. Oh, when he was born, I said he had Melissa's eyes. (Because I remember when she was born, remember?)


#15:
She's INCREDIBLY sentimental. Even more than me. Once she started crying during "bridge over troubled water" when we were doing the dishes before I got married. I still laugh at that, and then get a little teary.

#16:
Melissa has had several nick-names. Miss is #1. There's also been Mitz, Mel, Mel-Mels, Smelly (okay that was only one day *wink*) and maybe my favorite - Malissafint like Melifacint the bad witch on Sleeping beauty. That used to make her super mad and she'd start crying and run to my mom's room and slam the door and lock it.

#17:
Oh, she is so fun to tease. I love to hear her whine.

#18:
She has good sense of direction like a man. You know, she can go somewhere and totally find her way and not get lost of panicky. Even out of town and stuff.



#19:
She is easy to please with her favorites: Favorite food: bean and cheese burrito. Favorite drink: Diet Pepsi. Favorite treat: Sour Watermelons.

#20:
Her first CD she ever bought was Pretty Woman soundtrack.



#21:
She makes amazing rolls. Who other than your grandma makes good rolls? Nobody under the age of 45, except, oh yeah, Melissa. (Okay maybe Kelli too, thanks for teaching her how.) Jason says he wants his own little batch on Thanksgiving.


#22:
She's a gifted writer. Read her blog here. She could be a published columnist. Had she written this, it'd be much more cohesive and organized.

#23:
She's very, very thoughtful. She writes the nicest notes for any occasion. She is an includer, and a host. She wants everyone to be happy, everything to be fair and everything to be presented well. She puts much more effort into all she does, to make everything more fun for everyone. You're the best Sissy! (Oh, that's one of the nicknames I forgot, used to be Sissy Lou Lou, then shortened to Sissy, but dropped when our neighbor moved in named Sissy (V***.))


Anyhow, Love you Lots!!