We went on a Date.

We are sooo high-class. Here's our date for last night: We stayed up til after the kids went to bed and went thru the Taco Bell drive-thru. (It is the only place open here until a whoppin' 9:30. Sad. The Wendys cups SAY they're open until 1:00a.m. or later but they're really not. Sad.) Then we ate our fourthmeal in the parking lot of Wal-Mart. We shopped until 11:00 p.m. for a Big Dudley Family Party which is taking place tomorrow! (More on that later, I'm SURE!) While shopping, we were in the camping section and we came across this invention called a Hot Dog Stick Rest. You rest your hot dog stick on it so you don't have to hold it yourself in the fire to get it roasted. Morgan said, "Gee, you've really got a problem when you can't hold your own weeny up." And I started laughing. And then he walked around the corner and said, "Whaat?? Oh, sick-o."

We call her the Pied Piper.

 

 

Meet Chelsie. She is our niece. We secretly call her the Pied Piper and these photos tell exactly why. We can't gather the children in one spot to save our lives if we want to, but enter: Chelsie. This is at a family party. She is a busy 18-year-old and can't make it to all of them. (We have a lot.) She was late arriving to this one, and she walked outside and the kids all ran up to show her whatever treasures they had collected. She stopped in her tracks to make them feel special. And turned around to help them do whatever it was they needed instead of going to do whatever it was she had intended. She helps whoever needs it whenever they need it. She's a good friend to everyone. Sorry about rough times this week. You handle pressure with grace. Bless you, Chelsie, we love you!! Happy Engagement!

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Walls!

 

 

 

This is a major exciting milestone... (aren't they all?) The first exterior walls have been put up on our house!! Hooray! It is looking awesome. Morgan made one minor mistake that made our bedroom a foot larger! Hahaha. He is stressed about it and I think it will be awesome. hahaha. Morgan also says the most significant thing about these walls is not the fact that they are up, necessarily, but the fact that they went up on the Opening Day of Bow Hunting Season. (Yes, those are capitalized in our family.) He is making sacrifices for our family. Love Him. :)

Scrappin

 

 

 

 

Here's some pages I whipped up recently. Excuse the farmer tan on me and the glare on some of the pictures. :)

Do you HUSK or SHUCK?

     

I'm not sure how to spell husk or shuck, but we shuck at our house. Apparently, it's a funny word to my husband who husks his corn. Anyway, this is an annual event that my girls look forward to. Last year Cyd was too little to do it so it was fun to see her hold it up and say, "I did it!!" Their favorite part? The worm they found. They're not the girliest girls you'll ever meet. :)

House News

     

I knew the concrete guys were pouring our garage yesterday so I went down to take a picture. The guy said, "Oh, did you come to get a picture of the handprints?" So I said, "Uhhh... YEAH!" Cool. Unexpected little excitement yesterday. I didn't get a picture of Cydnie doing it because she really thought that guy was just going to drop her in it. But you can see her print to the side of Sadie's. Fun stuff. :)

Carnival

     

We went to the carnival last night. Just me and the girls. It was late. But it was fun. The only thing was, it was tainted (for me, only) by the fact that Sadie was SOOOOOO NAUGHTY all day that I should NOT have taken her and I did not have the heart to take Cydnie without her. I didn't take her last year because she acted the exact same way she did yesterday and I just couldn't do it again. Husband said I was over-reacting (I was in tears more than once yesterday) but he wasn't home with her all day! hahaha. Advice needed. Please.

Teenage Conversations.

So I was at a teenage uh.. function last night and I just wanted to share some of the snippets of conversation because I found them to be so ... thought provoking.
Please put the stereo-type teenage accent on these because it really was there.
Also, there was at LEAST one person "texting" at ALL TIMES.

girl: "Like, the cool thing about this scar, like is if you like push on it, you can feel bone."
boy: "Ewww, that is totally gross!"

boy: "So, did you REALLY think I was going to kill you when I was driving so fast around that corner?"
girl: "Well, I didn't think I was going to DIE but I totally thought you were going to ruin my car."
For the record, so did I.
but the question is, why was she letting him drive it?? Twice! After the first time he informed her there must be a governer on it because it dies when you go too fast around a corner.

girl: "Oh, my gosh, that was so totally deja vu. Like when you were saying you were going out for a Varsity spot on the soccer team, I was like, dude, I've been here before."

girl: "The other girl here and her best friend like the boy who is here. So the best friend is mad at her because he said he would go to her house, but he's here with the other girl. So they're trying to smooth things out with her so she's not mad at either of them."
This didn't make sense to me. Then I heard what the other "non-involved" friend was texting was, "They're practically ignoring each other" meaning the boy and the girl who were there. And uhhhh they were NOT practically ignoring each other unless ignoring means flirting uncontrollably and wrestling around.

It was a long 2 hours for me, folks. Tell me, why is it that when you can look back at high school, you don't remember being so self-involved, although you know it has to be true?? And the flirting was annoying to me. That has GOT TO MEAN I'M JUST OLD NOW!! :) And there's the good aspect of being old. :)

4th of July :)

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A Trip To The Dollar Store & Something Stupid

A Trip To The Dollar Store

I went to the Dollar Store yesterday to get some balloons inflated for customer-catchers at my big Pearls and Purse Party at the Park. It's fun to say. Say it.
First, I get to the door and there's a hand-written-with-sharpie construction paper on the door that says, "Help Bail Out Our Manager." Uhhhh.. okaayy.
Second, I say to the first clerk I see, who not to be rude couldn't be 17 yet with really dark makeup and clothes that COULD NOT be dress code. (Do they HAVE a dresscode at the dollar store? I guess not.) "Hi, I need some balloons blown up. Maybe some pinks and blacks." She says, "Well, we don't have any pink because when we would blow them up they were really small so we just threw them away." Okay... "And our black, it blows up as brown." Okay... She turns around to blow a black one up to show me how it looks brown and says, "OOOhhh, waiiit. We're out of helium." So I say, "Oh, okay I guess...." and I walked away maybe 3 steps and she yells, "Hey, Suzanne!! Guess What! God Loves Me! We're out of helium."

UGHHHH. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO IS ANNOYED BY THIS EXCHANGE???

Something Stupid

Last night I'm changing into my jammies and I say to my husband, (this may be a little personal. sorry. :)) I think I'm going to throw this bra away, it wouldn't stay down all day. He looks over and says, "UM, it's inside out."

Oh.

5 Things You Probably Didn't Want To Know About Me.

five things i was doing 10 years ago:
1. I was going to EVERY stake dance...
2. Writing a missionary whilst dating at home...
3. I was in a show choir. :) A Super Super cheesy one. No offense to
any current hi-lites... I know all past hi-lites recognize it now as cheesy.
4. I was in a tap-dancing musical.
5. I was dating. A lot. :)

five songs i know the lyrics to:
1. The Sign, Ace of Bace. hahaha
2. Wasted, Carrie Underwood
3. Most of Brad Paisley's songs
4. The Golden Girls' theme song
5. Most of Phil Vasser's songs


five things i would buy if i were a millionaire:
Morgan and I dream about this all the time. :)
1. Pay off family's bills.
2. a nice house.
3. Travel a lot
4. Four wheelers and campers and toys.
5. Scrapbook stuff.
I think Morgan's differs a little in there somewhere, I forget where.

five things i would never wear again:
Janaya, I have to steal some of your answers!
1. Burkenstocks.
2. Bangs that went clear to the back of my head for some reason
3. Hammer pants.
4. scrunchies.
5. slouch socks. layered. (Who would want to wear more than one pair of socks at a time! jeez!)

five things i would like to do:
1. Go to Hawaii, back to NYC, and maybe Africa. But not kill anything.
2. finish our house.
3. move in our house.
4. decorate our house.
5. TAKE THE KIDS TO DISNEYLAND and the beach.

five favorite toys:
1. Carebears
2. Easybake oven. My parents were mean and never gave me one
3. Nintendo. The old one. W/ Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. And Tetris.
4. Tetris
5. Strawberry shortcake & Cabbage Patch Kids. I had records and everything. records.

five people i tag:
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Our Family the Dudsons

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Fav. Mountain

 

This is Split Mountain, it's VERY close to my new house, so come and visit.

Through the eyes of our kids...

 
 
 
Our construction site through the eyes of our kids:

Those blocks are awesome to build with.
You can draw in sawdust.
There is always at least one toad or frog in the window well.
It's fun to look at the floor plan and point out where your bedroom is and REPEATEDLY remind Mom what color it is going to be.
You can throw a babydoll really high in the air. (This game is called Super Baby.)
The gravel rocks can write on concrete.
There's lots of dirt to play in.
You can crawl around like a bug and try to scare ants.
It's a fun space to run in.
The concrete nail gun is so loud it makes you laugh.
And the power tools look like fun:
Me: "Cydnie, did you see how the dust flies out of the back when Dad cuts the wood?"
Cydnie: "I try it?"
Me: "Uhhhh... not today."


What do we see???
A LOT OF POTENTIAL. :)

Update: We have finished framing in the basement, inculding top-plating. We can now start the floor joists and flooring. This is super exciting. I have learned how to use a "speed square" (which is SUCH stupid name for this particular tool, as it is not speedy to use and it is clearly a triangle) and a chop saw and a concrete nail gun thingy, and an air nail gun. Oh! And I built something all by myself. Something to steady the wood when I put it on the chop saw. But don't let this fool you. I LOOK LIKE A COMPLETE IDIOT trying to run a power tool of any kind. Oh well. I won't quit my day job.

Once Upon a Time

 

Once upon a time there was a little girl. And she had a little sister. The older sister loved flahslights. Her mom would look and look for her sometimes, only to find her in the closet with a flashlight looking at the different effects of light. She would hold it against books, and dolls, and stuffed animals. Just to see what it looked like. One night, when it was time to turn out the lights and go to sleep, the older sister talked her mother into letting her keep the flashlight in her bedroom. Soon after, the little sister was screaming bloody murder. She came into her mom's bedroom with a small, perfectly round burn on her cheek. Big sister had decided to see what it would look like if she took the cover off the flashlight and then held it on sister's face. They did NOT sleep happily ever after on that particular night. :)

Flaming Gorge

 
 
 
 
My mom decided to watch my sister's kids for a week since that is a good grandmotherly thing to do. Sadie and Cydnie had a BLAST with them here all the time. We went up to Flaming Gorge one of the days. Took the tour and saw an old friend. Never been on the tour before. Wow, that's probably embaressing. Lived here practically my whole life and never been on the Flaming Gorge tour... I bet none of you who read my blog who are from here ever have, either, huh! Anyway, it was pretty cool. Very clean. :) And it's a looong way up. And down. Oh! And they're trying to "dispel the myth" about the 3 men who fell in the concrete during construction. Dispel? Or cover up?

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Wrinkle Cream.

So I bought wrinkle cream yesterday. I saw that picture below (again) and I got in the car and went to the store SPECIFICALLY to BUY WRINKLE CREAM. I have always sort of prided myself on the fact that I have been a little more relaxed about age than others. I hit 25 and didn't panic the way a lot of my other friends were. And when I turned 26 it didn't bother me much that people (kind friends) pointed out that I was now in my "late 20s". I didn't think twice about the latest big one, the big 2-7 on my birthday; it was just another day. And 30 has never scared me, really. But last week when I saw that picture of myself...something snapped! There were tons of wrinkles and what looks like age spots PLUS acne. Something is wrong with the world when you are getting wrinkles and you STILL have your acne. So I freaked out and went and bought the wrinkle cream. And I didn't buy the 2.99 one or the 5.99 one. No, I bought the 14.99 one because clearly it will work better because it costs more. Right?? All of a sudden I am super vain! Anyway, I guess the point is I am fine with BEING older, I just don't want to LOOK it!! What about you? Scared of age?

Celebrity look-alikes hahahahahaha