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I was bored and was looking up quotes. I ended up running across this a few funny ones:

Whoever said, 'Anything is possible,' obviously never tried slamming a revolving door.

 It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. 

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

A husband was complaining about how women talk so much. His wife replied, "Well that's just because women always have to repeat what they say for the men." The husband replied, "What?"

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot

The road to success is always under construction

Our New Sofa (Settee)

Here's a picture of our new sofa (technically called a settee, whatever that means!). Since we ordered it by a picture, without ever having sat on a sample of one, we had no idea what it would feel like and went on faith that it would be okay comfort-wise speaking. Didn't count on the height being ill-fitting for the vertically-challenged member of the family.

Not sure you can tell from this video, but Katrina can't touch the ground. Actually, I can barely touch the ground, but we think it will settle when it gets worn in a little. As soon as I sat on it the first time, I just laughed, thinking of how it was going to be for Katrina--so before I let her sit down when she came home the first time, I ran for the camera. Poor girl! We love our short one. It fits Camilla just fine, though. (Some people remembered to grow their legs.)

I'm What?

I forgot to post my funny story from last week. I am the chorister for the ward, so I generally don't really look at the program-- since I know what songs they are anyway (I choose them). So I got to church last week and sat down, chatting with my roommates, when Heather leaned over and said, "You're speaking today?"
"I'm...what?"
Never heard from any member of the bishopric about this, and I hadn't even been there in weeks, since I had been on Christmas break, then a farewell, then Seattle. Welcome back, I guess. So before the service started, I went up to the front and brought it up. The one announcing said, "Yeah, you're right, you're not speaking," and corrected it. The bishop just laughed about it, and the other counselor said, "What do you mean you're not? We had you planned for 20 minutes!" I told him I could do a tap number, but I wasn't very prepared for that.
Anyway, I just thought it was funny. "Bishop? I was never informed that I was supposed to speak today..."

Three of the Hardest Things

I've decided that three of the things I find hardest about raising children are teething, toilet training, and teaching them to drive. I'm completely done with the first two jobs, and we are now in the midst of the third task with the last child. By mutual agreement, she is spending as much of that training with her dad as possible because they do better together. I'm too uptight. But in my defense, I spent more time with the teething babies and did the majority of the toilet training with all three. I also put in my fair share of the driver's training with the other two. This is fair. I'm old and worn out.

Stupid Poems

In my English class, I have to recite a 2 minute poem by memory. When I first started, I checked on line, and came across some pretty stupid ones such as:

Nuffin rhymes with Muffin
Nuffin nuffin nuffin
Rhymes with muffin
But nuffin nuffin nuffin
Rhymes with 'orange'
Could it be
That a cup of tea
Is not as good with an orange
As a muffin?

Birds
by: Lucas
A bird soaring high and high in the sky
As soon as i i look in the sky
it craps in my eye……
(I just thought that was funny)

Ode to Spider
Once upon a moonlit night there was a little spider,
Who sadly came across a girl who’s name was Molly Snyder.
Poor little guy stood no chance against her platform shoes,
She screamed and smacked and reduced dear spider to ooze.

A little poem of sortsRoses are red
Roses are red

Violets are blue

Most poems rhyme

But this one doesn't.

Clownfish

This really is not appropriate.

I don't find this funny.


You can't just walk in here,

You and your "jokes"


You only come to mock me.

Shame on you.


Knocking on someone's door is funny?

I don't see the joke


That's disturbing the peace

And annoying people.


Why does that poor man have to go to the doctor?

What? That's a joke?


You can't make fun of other people's

Unfortunate illnesses


If the man thinks he's a pair of curtains

Then he really should pull himself together.


This really is not appropriate.

Funny I don't find this.


Funny.

Not.

Big Deal Around Here

So the new Draper Temple has been occupying a bit of our time lately. We were complaining (and yes, we knew how ridiculous it was) that it would be taking maybe five or ten minutes longer to get to our new temple than our old one. But now that we've seen the inside of the new one, I think we'll stop complaining. Mark and I had the opportunity of ushering one day, after which we got a quick, self-guided tour of the temple. Then we got to help serve food another day for some VIP tours, during which time Camilla got to sneak through with a couple of families in the ward. Our family will tour soon; I will have another ushering assignment in the next couple weeks; and then Mark and I will get an opportunity one morning in March to spend a few hours in a sealing room, taking a few moments to explain the purpose of those rooms to the visitors. I'm also spending every Sunday evening at choir practice for a dedication session choir. (We get dedication session #3.) It's a beautiful temple (as are they all), but I think the font area is the most beautiful one I remember seeing.

Meanwhile, I keep going to the Jordan River temple. I'll miss it, but I think I'll keep going there sometimes for the convenience and familiarity, and probably just out of loyalty. It will be hard to make the shift--like losing an old friend. This is the one where I started attending weekly at the suggestion of my friend and now more than weekly because of the production of my husband and his family history work. (So many DeGrandgagnage's, so little time!)

A visit from the sisters!

My beautiful sisters came to visit me this weekend! Okay, they mostly came to see this cute fellow. . .

. . . but they were nice and pretended to be equally as excited to see me and Matt.

On Saturday we took them on a tour of downtown Seattle. Matt showed them his office, the library, and the apartment where he lived over the summer. After that, we visited the troll under the Aurora Bridge. Unfortunately, Matt stepped in some sort of animal feces on the way back to the car. We dubbed it "troll poop" and had an interesting time trying to get rid of the smell from our car.

Next came a visit to the famous Seattle Space Needle, complete with strange poses behind these bamboo-like structures.

Andrew was pretty tired by this point, but he agreed to show off his model pose for the girls:

Next on our tour was the Seattle Aquarium.

These are my strange, yet lovable, sisters:

And these are some of the cool things we saw: a puffer fish, a Finding Nemo tank (See? It's Nemo and Marlin and Dory!) and some silly eels that bury themselves in the sand and watch for food to go by.

Andrew really liked the fish and was excited to bang on every tank we passed. He even banged his head into a few glass walls while trying to get the fish.

Finally, Andrew zonked out while we toured Pike's Place Market.

We got some authentic Seattle sushi at the Japanese Gourmet Restaurant at Pike's Place Market, then headed home.

It was so fun having the girls here with us this weekend! Andrew was especially excited to wake them up in the morning and play with them all day long. He even showed off his rockin' swinging skills at the park.

Thanks for coming to visit! We miss you already!