Sisterly love

Here are a few pics of us (mostly Me McKinna and Eliza cuz we live at home) being sisters and acting like we love each other :)



Kd Eliza McKinna- this is what we do sunday mornin when the power's out





Kd Eliza Nicole- at the beach


Tryin to get Bean to go down the zipline


bein silly on the truck

precious

princess wave


this ones real people, we do love each other. on christmas morning


Face freeze!! I-KD-sacrificed my face so McKinna could feel victory. Not like she beat me down or anything. hehe

Naan disaster

I really hate cooking and baking because nothing ever turns out how I want. But every once in a while I want to try something new. I have no expectations because I've never had it before. But then I tasted naan at an indian food restaurant. It was delish. My wonderful sister, Brittni, found me a recipe that had good reviews. Saturday I finally tried making it with reedonculously high expectations. I failed.

My pappa did help me squish the dough flat. Thanks POP!! Also he told me to stop kneeding the dough after like 8 minutes even though it told me to do it for 10. I prolly shoulda stopped at 5.

This does not help my love of cooking (well lack of love)

It turned out disgusting. They are all out of order, but here are a few pics from the adventure...

For McKinna

So the other day I decide, hey I'm gonna post a post!! But I could not get it to log in. Oh well. Then tonight McKinna tells me to blog some. I'm like I can't sign in. But I figured it out. So here it is. Let's go back to presidents day weekend.
Eliza, Dad, and I went to Rexburg, picked up McKinna, and headed to the cabin. Way fun. Lots of snow. Super cold. But definite bonding time. Sadly we got no real pictures :(
Next: Out of this world Pizza. So one Saturday like the whole family was home. Crazy. So we decided to do somethin TOGETHER. We were gonna do malibu raceway but it was rainy, rock climbing, but it was closed, then agreed on laserport. But as we were gettin our shoes on mom was like "hey what about out of this world?" Out of this world it was. I drove past that at least once a day last year and had never been. It was crazy fun. Except being 16 people kinda look at you funny, although I didn't really care. Except I hate seeing fellow students that I know but am not friends with, working there. Only McKinna really understands this. But its akward. The other bad thing was they have the slides like at mcdinalds. They are all staticy and hurt your back. Even when I was little I would arch my back so it wouldn't shock so much. But now static seriously drives me crazy, so it was torture. We were there for HOURS!! We saw people come in after us and leave WAYYYYYY before us. We do that alot.
Rock climbing. We love rock climbing. But bean's never been. When we are in seattle we go climb the rock, but we don't go to seattle very often. Well, a friend of ours recently got really into rock climbing, so we went with her. It was so tiring, but good. It was the first time I really followed the little taped routes. Ummm, HARD!!
I think I will save spring break for another day. Partially because this is getting long, and also because you will need pictures. Which I don't exactly know how to put up.

~your favorite blogger, KD

HAPPY VALENTINE'S -or not

I was eating some conversation hearts a few days after Valentine's day. One seemed to be extrememly crunchy. I thought, "that's weird". Later my tooth felt rough on the inside edge. Now that really was weird,, as it has a crown on it. Well, being the number person that I am, I put 1 and 1 together and figured out the crunchy conversation heart was actually a piece of the crown that had broken off. I had quite a 'conversation' with that bag of hearts. Either those hearts are a lot harder than they use to be, or, my crowns are getting weak. Anyway- Happy Valentine's day!!

Reliving memories

The other day we were putting Christmas decorations away. Yes, just the other day. As I'm handing boxes to my dad who then gave them to bean, then to mom, he handed me a tape. One of those tapes you put mini tapes in. This was like gold in my hands. Something we've been looking for. So I stop putting decorations away and leave that to the rest of the family. I pulled out the home videos :)
This is now a daily thing. All my sisters have gotten texts about some home video. They usually have no idea what i'm talking about, but, oh well. I have laughed to tears a few times over these videos. And I've also learned that none of us girls have changed. Just a few examples: The voice Nicole gets when someone challenges her or she's annoyed; how I HAVE TO know who every present is TO AND FROM; how Brittni loves every present she gets; how Eliza loves following her sisters around; the way moms voice changes when she tells us to get out of her room-she MEANS IT-, how dad always crumples the paper as soon as it's off the present, and how McKinna is so humble about her talents-her swimming: she kicked Butt.
These videos are all I have talked about since I first pulled em' out. They are my favorite things. Most of the videos aren't labeled, so when I pop it in I never know what one it is. But seconds into a clip I often remember. Like Brittni's JFK project, or me and McKinna doing the weather with a snowflake sheet as the "green screen thing" it was snowing in evey place she mentioned; awesome 3000- tons of people passed me and I searched the crowd for mom and dad; Nicole and McKinna's "food show", and so many more.
So far this post means nothing to anybody but me. And maybe a few sisters. But onto something you might care about.

Food.

I hate cooking. I really do. I don't even really enjoy making most desserts. But I helped cook tonight. I picked out a recipe and mom and I bought stuff for it last night. We made roasted pepper penne. Or something. But we used bow tie pasta instead. I love fun pastas :) I was pleasantly surprised because when this whole meal was cooked it didn't smell as delicious. But it sure tasted good! Anyways, this whole night was a miracle. I cooked, I liked what I cooked, and it was a new recipe. Those three rarely happen and never all together!!

Deep thoughts. What do I really need to say? haha
Sister Preece has recently gotten me hooked on these. They are poem like quote ish things they used to have on SNL. Except they aren't inspirational or anything. Just crazy. The other night Me, Sarah, Lizzy, Eliza, and Shayna were making movies and we wanted to put some deep thoughts in. Well there was one in particular I just could not get through. I cracked up every time! here it is...

Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.
-Jack Handey


~your favorite blogger, Katie

Routine

I have a whole list of blogs on my computer favorites. Every once in a while I skim through them and see if there are any new posts on them. Our blog happens to be on the list also and never fails, I am going down the list and click ours. Always chuckle at myself that I absent mindedly check ours. It's not like a new blog will magically appear (just like the house doesn't magically clean itself or the laundry jump in to the washing machine by itself) if I don't do it.

Welcome 2009

Well, we all made it to 2009. The girls (KD & McKinna) had a New Year's eve party at our house. I, being the protective female parental unit, was all for it since I knew where they were, who they were with, and that they would not be out on the roads. Of course I was not ready for the noise level that would be in the house. But you can live through almost anything when you know it won't last forever.
I am not one for New Year's resolutions. If I have to say a resolution I tell everyone that I always live up to mine of not making any!!! Ya, I'm just good like that. There are things that I would like to accomplish, but I am not into setting myself up for a fall.
*I would like to try alot of new recipes from my new Taste of Home cookbook KD gave me for Christmas (Thanks Wendy for helping her with that purchase).
*I would like to figure out how to lift weights correctly and get a flat stomach.
*I would like to better my time at my next marathon (ogden in May)& qualify for Boston, even though I don't know if I would do Boston (hate hills). Although it would be a good excuse to go back East for a visit!!
*I would like to learn how to really use the Garmin 305 I just ordered from Costco.
*I would love to pay off my house, but I am afraid that one is not possible in one year.
*I would like to do a really long bike ride that would take a week to complete.
While there are a lot of other things I would like, those are probably top on my list. As for today - well I would just like to get a good night's sleep.
Happy 2009!!