snow day!

Theoretically speaking, I will be updating on Sundays.....maybe. It's snowing!!! I can be excited about it right now because the kids haven't gone outside, then inside, then back outside, etc. That will happen tomorrow because school is cancelled. Waiting on laundry right now....exciting! Carson's basketball games started Saturday. He is on a team with three boys from church and some other kids I don't know yet, but they all seem to have fun together. Peyton thinks now that he's five he can do anything he wants. He tries to make his own peanut butter sandwhiches, pour his own lemonade (both bad messy ideas), and he also decided that he was in Carson's primary class (also a bad idea). Ryan is a dancing machine. For New Years Eve, we went to a party where we all played Just Dance 2 on the Wii. Ever since then, he has been dancing anytime he hears music. That game is super fun. He memorized two of the dances (Viva Las Vegas and I've Got the Power) and tries hard to do the moves accurately. He is so smart. Reminds me of how Carson was at that age. Carson also loves that game, but hates songs that are "for girls", so of course, I made him dance to "It's Raining Men". Boy do I regret that! We were in Walmart and passed through the underwear aisle. There was a man posing for what appeared to be a thong for men and he looked at me and said "Wow, that's inappropriate" then proceeded to bust into song, singing....yep, you guessed it "It's Raining Men, Hallelujah" We may need to start a blog for things Carson says in Walmart underwear aisles, or at least avoid that aisle. Ben is growing up fast and likes to smile at Carson, but not so much the other boys. Other random stuff: The stomach flu that we thought we have been passing for the past two and a half months is not a stomach flu, but is actually contaminated beef from the cow we had butchered. BOOOO! At least we know how to stop the stomach issues everyone has had, but that was our food storage. OH wait, we had thousands of blackbirds fall dead from the sky here in Beebe on New Years Eve and everyone thinks it's the end of the world. Very weird incident, but I don't care because there are probably 5,000 more sitting in every single tree by the boys school and I'm really not exaggerating. A few thousand won't be missed! We had Stake Conference and I kept the Anderson boys for the Saturday night meeting. We made homemade cheezits out of chickpeas, wheat flour, and cheese. They loved using the cookie cutters and the crackers weren't bad. It might help if the top of my oven worked, crackers taste better if they are crunchy. We also watched the Razorbacks play in the Sugar Bowl and they lost, so Daniel was quite upset. It was down to the wire and the Hogs made some dumb mistakes, so there was yelling at the tv. Laundry is done, so it's time for sleep!