five years together

so derek done did good. he got me a butterfly necklace for our anniversary. i'd show a picture, but i can't get any to come out right. basically it's a silver butterfly with crushed diamonds on it. everytime i take a picture the flash gets on the diamonds and all you see is a mass of light. when i turn the flash off you can't see any detail at all, it just looks hazy. maybe when i'm out today i'll get a better picture and post it. so our plan is to go to lunch together for our anniversary. my dad said that he and my mom would probably take our kids for us during that time. it should be nice.

quoting movies

i like to quote movies a lot. today i read my sister in law's blog and it said that she was a smarty pants. so i commented to her and i asked how pants could be smart. well, i reminded me of a movie line where a young "girl" asks how an airport can be wrong when her dad says maybe they're at the wrong airport. that part always cracks me up. points to anyone who can guess the movie. here's the quote:
daddy- maybe we're at the wrong airport.
marie- but how can an airport be wrong...?
i bet nobody gets it. it's too obscure, with too narrow of a target audience. maybe i'll give it away later.
anyway, derek and i do this movie-quoting all the time. it's great when the quote totally fits the situation. on the season premiere of snl there was a skit where a waiter kept talking about how it smelled like pepper in the restaurant. well, a couple days later we were at derek's parents house and one of my sil's said "why do i smell pepper?" i just about died and nobody knew why i was laughing so hard until derek finally figured it out, and chuckled. then we explained the skit. i know that snl is not technically a movie, but it's still nice to quote. one thing that my bil has said to me a few times is "keep it secret. keep it safe." all you tolkien fans ought to know that one. anyway, what are some of your favorite quotes? let me know.

a liger, bred for it's skills in magic

so we're watching napoleon dynamite. it one of the only movies that derek and i can agree on to watch. we love this movie. it is so funny. the first time i saw it derek thought it was so dumb. i immediately watched it a second time and derek started quoting and chuckling. i think that some things just need to grow on him. anyway, we really like that movie. the other day he said something about a bodaggit. i forgot about when napoleon calls uncle rico that. it was really funny.

braggin'

just a little story to brag about emmy. yesterday during sacrament meeting she was standing in front of the pew and playing, but when we started singing she would stop what she was doing and start waving her arms like she was directing the music. she wasn't on the right beat, but she was on beat. like she didn't go down on the down beat, but she was keeping the right time. i knew that the ladies behind her were chuckling and thinking that she was so cute, but i didn't know who it was because i didn't want to turn around and stare during sacrament meeting. so, anyway, when we got to relief society it was a combined meeting since it was ward conference and the stake relief society president stands up to talk and she started by saying how cute the little coltrin girl was. then she said "what is she, three?", so i said "two!". i thought it was funny because i don't think of her as looking like a three year old, but i guess that sometimes she acts like it. i think she is just way ahead of the game. she's so smart. sometimes derek says that he thinks she's smarter than him. yesterday i jokingly said that he should wait until she's in kindergarten and then she would be smarter than all of us. not that my kids are awesome and your kids are slow, but i just get amazed when they learn a new skill. i have to admit, though, that i do tend to wave the kids arms during songs, though not anymore. emmy wants to do it on her own. she did it all on her own yesterday. she and andrew sing the songs that they learn in nursery. they really like "i am like a star" and "i am a child of God" and "popcorn popping". we like to sing songs and they do the actions they learn in nursery. sometimes i don't understand what they are doing, but as long as they know, it's all good. anyway, just wanted to brag about the kids.

anniversary

so i've been dropping some hints to derek for what i want for our anniversary. this saturday is our fifth anniversary. it's just zipped by. it doesn't even feel like it's been five years already. i guess in some ways it does, since i have a three and a half year old, but it still seems like we should have hit a rough patch or two along the way. maybe at seven years we'll get the itch, like sarah was talking about a while back. not that she has an itch, but she was glad that they weren't feeling that way. anyway, i've been dropping some pretty obvious hints at potential gifts. apparently i'm always obvious. one of my problems is that i'm not sly at all. this is a problem when people want my help. case in point: sarah's engagement ring. so tony wanted to propose, but he didn't want to go ring shopping with sarah so my job was to find out just what she wanted and her ring size. like i'm gonna be able to do that without her knowing what i'm doing. needless to say, she figured it out and patiently waited to get engaged.

redone

i just made the apple crisp again and i layered it like i said i would and it definately turned out better. mmm, apple crisp

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recipe

so apparently i need to post this apple crisp recipe. i called nursemom and she gave me this recipe over the phone and it just came from her recipe box.

apple crisp

4 cups of apples peeled and sliced
1/2 cup of sugar
1 tbls flour
mix all together and put into dish

topping:
3/4 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup melted butter
stir together and sprinkle on top

sprinkle cinnamon on top
bake at 350º til done, about 30 minutes

now, i used apples that were a little too juicy so mine came out just a little bit runny. i also think that i will do alternating layers next time i make it with apples then topping then apples then topping then cinnamon. just a thought. i have not made it again yet, but maybe today i will.

if anyone makes it let me know how it turned out for you.