Sunday Night Madness

We sometimes go a bit crazy on Sunday nights.

As seen here.

Here was this Sunday:

It all started with the Cita deciding to go all gourmet on us and create this deletable piece of heaven.

I ran to get my camera asap and this was all that was left.

The Cita is basically awesome.

and adorable...really, really adorable.

Pepperoni pizza was her next concoction of wonderfulness.

It was so chessy that it could barely be controlled.

and by cheesy, that is cheese flipped on Andrew's lip, not a booger.

:)

We ended the night with this...display?

Brushing your teeth. @ Yahoo! Video

Yay for the house of nuts.

Keep on Runnin'

It's been awhile since any posts were done.

Why is this do you think?

Manly because Aliswan (moi) is the only one who know how to post.  

And that is something that we are perfectly ok with.

So, now that she (I) am back from Syria

the posting will once again resume.

So what shall we start with?

How about the greatest holiday of all time?

The 4th of July.

This is our favorite holiday.

There are certain traditions that we hold to.

The first being the 4th of July 5k.

This year was the Cita's first time running the race.

IT WAS AWESOME!!!

Here are some recaps.

The cita and pa getting ready for the race.
Check out their sweet matching shirts.
Planned or not planned?
You decide.

Jen getting her sunscreen on in the car.

Driving to the "drop off point".

It was very exciting.

The padre had been camped out there since 4:30 am.

Aliswan jumped out, 

the padre jumped in, 

and Stephie drove them to the start of the race and ran back to our spot.  

It was a well choreographed moment of perfection really.

Don't be mislead by the sign.  
The runners went the other way around the round-a-bout.

Our first arrivals: The padre and the Derude.

Next came the bug.
She went the way of the 10k runners and we almost missed her.
You rebel you.

Auntie Karen followed suit and got a round of high-fives from her familia,
and the saddest face I have ever seen on a 2 year old when T-dog watched her run away.
It took a bit of cuddling and fruit snacks to convince him that mommy was coming back.

The highlight was of course seeing pa and the cita.
This was the cita's first race.
We are all so proud.

and happy that she is still smiling at this point.

Just kidding, she did awesome!!!

There was still a good 20 to 30 minutes of people behind these champions.

Wave to the crowd guys, you are awesome!

Unkie Nate played the intimidating unibomber.  

He played the part well.

T-dog hit his nap-time during the parade.  

Probably the most chill kid I have ever seen at a parade.

Check his hat by the way...fantastic.

So, there is the brief summary of the race.  

There will be more pictures as some point.

Believe me, there are definitely more pictures.

Adios amigos!

and on your way home folks, please be wary of pirates.

How to annihilate grill wasps 101

Obviously the House of Nuts loves to make videos.

Embarrassing ones,

silly ones,

music ones,

and just plain ridiculous ones.

For example:

The eradication of grill wasps.

Our house is a prime target for wasps.

There are a lot of cute little nooks and crannies where they can stuff their little bodies and make little hives.  

So by the end of the day

It is no longer the House of Nuts

but in fact, 

the House of Hives.

and we don't like that.

Wasps are mean,

they fly in your face trying to intimidate you,

they show off constantly,

(really, who cares if you can fly?)

and they shove themselves, or parts of themselves, where they don't belong.

By stinging innocent bystanders and living in eaves, gutters, corners and grills.

So what do we nuts do?

Send Deruda and Padre to deal with the beasties.

While we film them.

How to annihilate grill wasps 101 @ Yahoo! Video

By the way, thank you Otis for the swell narration and Aliswan for the filming...albeit from a distance.

And then there was none.

This weekend we moved the Unkie, Auntie, T-dog, and Widgie out.  

It was a sad, sad, moment but there are always ways to bump up the happiness factor.  

Such as Bug wearing hot pink high heels.

Here is a few stills from the day:

Auntie Karen, in her sweet In-N-Out shirt.

Bug and I

Bug and I after packing, moving, unpacking and moving more stuff.

the Padre vacuuming the dust that was under the TV downstairs.

We had to vacuum because it was nasty thick.

Don't judge us, you would write in the dust to...

although I do believe the writing is still there, in storage, in the basement.

At least we are humorous cleaners.

So there was the move.

IN OTHER NEWS

Sunday was good.  The best part was when the cita burned the last pan of rolls.

Yes those are rolls you dirty reader, get your mind out of the toilet. :)

Also you will notice, or you may not, that I changed the blog template.
It used to look like this:

Now it looks...well like it does now.

Change is good.

In fact, almost everyone has recently (blogger and life wise)

Stephie did, as did Aliswan.

Still working out the kinks.

So there you go.

Lots of change afoot.

Aliswan graduates next week,

then leaves for Syria the week after, 

and starts grad school in August.

the little juan comes home from his mission in August,

after which he will promptly head back to university.

Stephie graduates from high school at the end of May,

and starts university with Jon, in August.

Deruda is going to his first prom in the next little bit,

and will be starting his junior year of high school in the fall.

Bug also starts high school in August.

Basically everyone is growing up, moving on, and going crazy.

Because that is what we do.

We are 'the nuts' in the House of Nuts after all.

A week in the life...or maybe just a night.

Our Grandma (the cita's mom) is INSANE at Yatzee!.

For a game of luck, she has sweet skills.

The padre beat her once.

Alas, Monday night was not that way.

The only person he did beat was himself.

For the worst score of all time.

His score was 47.

Yes, you read me right.

47.

It beat the previous worst score ever of 72.

Which was also held by the padre.

Just think padre, 

if it was golf,

you would be kicking our butts.

Today's posting--Round 2

Yes, I already posted today,

but then I found the family camera

and had to post some randomness from the familia.

Here is Bug at her first national competition.

Dancing With the Bug @ Yahoo! Video

No, she did not know I was taking video.
Yes, she was upset when she found out.
Yes, I do have video of her dances.
No, she refuses to let me post them.

The majority of the familia went to Sandy yesterday to bid farewell to Cecily.
She is going on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to Spain.
That is pretty awesome.
Afterwards they went to Temple Square

and hung out with the super sweet sister missionaries.

By the way, have you ever noticed that clean clothes are incredibly comfortable?

True story.

Happenings of the House--Superman and Flyingman

It's hard when your familia is doing so many things on so many DIFFERENT CAMERAS!!!

and then they keep forgetting to give them to you,

so you can post their craziness on the blog.

So you'll have to wait a bit for the familia.

But here is a bit of our lovely visitors.

This video is of T-dog and Stephie.

Stephie wanted to play Superman with T-dog.

Apparently that wasn't cool enough for the T-dog because he named himself "Flyingman"

We all thought it was pretty cute.

The Adventures of Superman and Flyingman @ Yahoo! Video

He renames things a lot.
Like when he thought that the song You've Got a Friend in Me from Disney's Toy Story was really saying
Are you kidding me?
So that is how he sings it.
Don't believe me?
Here is proof:

Are you kidding me? @ Yahoo! Video

Hope your spring is looking good.
Ours is,
on the days it isn't snowing.
:)