Stacking

Little E learned to stack things for the first time a couple of weeks ago. He found that my baking cupboard was the only one I couldn't tie, rubber band or block shut, so he gets into it all the time.

He also found out that that's where the chocolate chips are kept. He always rearranges everything that is on the shelves. For some reason he usually takes both cocoa tins out first, and then the vintage Tupperware canisters, then the plastic Costco jars. This day he took everything out and started to stack things on top of each other. I use the empty Costco jars for my coconut, brown sugar, etc. and he found out that they can also be used as fun stacking toys so he tried every combination possible to get his stack as high as he is tall. He managed to do it.

This is the before picture.

Here is the first try...notice you have to hold your mouth a certain way to be able to stack correctly.

He's up to three high...look at that proud face which some how has the remnants of chocolate chips on it now. How did that happen?

Here's a different 3 high combo that didn't work.

Here is a 4 high that's pretty good, but not high enough.

Here is the best one.....now he's ready to knock it down, which he did many times as cousin Isabelle looks on. My baking cupboard will never be the same I fear.

Wayne's sister Jill Stubbs was in town for a summit meeting for work but managed to find the time to stay with us for a couple of days. Wayne, Jill and I went to the BYU/U of W women's basketball game on the 4th. It was a very good game that went into overtime and in the end Wyoming won. We were sitting just above the Wyoming team and didn't realize but the video camera kept passing by the team, and thus capturing Jill, Wayne and me eating our popcorn. It was pretty funny but I couldn't get my camera to snap the TV screen fast enough to capture us all. You were right, that it is Wayne just above the shoulder of Wyoming's coach. If the camera had slowed down enough to capture us better, you would have seen us all snarfing down hot dogs and popcorn. We didn't have time to eat dinner before we left and we were so hungry that by the time we finally got something to eat we looked rather silly just shoving it all in. However we were proud of Kristin Scheffler, #12 on the Wyo. team. She is from Lovell, Wyoming and lived right next door to Wayne's Mom and Dad. They watched her high school career and were very proud of her. She is a daughter of Laurie Minchow and a niece to Jimmy Minchow who owns a gas station and restaurants in Lovell. She is a freshman and already one of the best shooters so I am sure she will have a very good career as a Wyoming Cowgirl basketball player.

Kristin is #12 on the team and is a 5'11" guard.

Despite giving up a 12-point halftime lead, the Wyoming Cowgirl basketball team held on for a 57-55 overtime victory against the BYU Cougars on Wednesday night in Provo.
"This is a big win for our program," said UW head coach Joe Legerski. "This is a tremendous place to play and with eight freshmen and sophomores on the roster...it is a big win. I thought at the end BYU made more plays to get the game to overtime, and we are fortunate that one more shot fell for us in the end.

I know that this is a bad picture, but it's because I took it while watching the TV screen and the camera didn't like doing that. I kept getting lines running through it. You may be wondering why I took it anyway. Well, you need to do a little detective work here. Why DID I take it? You will probably want to click to enlarge and then look it over very carefully. Then leave me a comment and tell me why you think I took it. The date, which is cut off a little is March 4, 2009.

This is a tag item from cute Chels Winterholler's blog. This just happened to be the 6th picture in the 6th folder of my pictures file. You are supposed to tell about the picture so here it goes.

This is my good friend Jody from Montana. I have know her for over 30 years. We were young mothers together in the same ward in the early years and have stayed friends. We both moved to the heights and lived only a few blocks from each other for many years. I stole this picture from her blog. Isn't she classy? She is talented in photography, sewing, crafting, decorating her home, and herself. She does temple work, is a fab granny, and has a wicked sense of humor. She is also a traveling fool and is married to one of the funniest guys I know, who also happens to be the Bishop. Jody, thanks for being my friend, and I will probably call you for help on my blog book. It's not going real well. Now it's your turn. I tag Colett, Kee, Amy, Jody, Susan, and Margaret and anyone else who reads this.
1. Go to your documents/pictures

.2. Go to your 6th file folder.

3. Go to your 6th picture.

4. Post and blog about it.

5. Tag 6 people to do the same

We have had the freeze, thaw, freeze, thaw, freeze, thaw, freeze thing going on here for several weeks. We have a cover over the deck that collects these ice cycles because it is an unheated fiberglass cover. I think they are beautiful and I keep plucking them down. Every time I do though, I want to poke someone with it. Maybe I did that as a child, I don't remember, but maybe it is some latent urge I have never gotten to satisfy. When I pick them up I feel like a Star Wars character with a light sabre or one of the three musketeers. The problem... there is never anyone around here to poke. My dog just won't cooperate. SO...if you ever come over and I say to you ""En Gard and run to my freezer, watch out!