Woops

ok so I was very wrong.... here's what a puppy Australian Blue Heeler looks like. maybe my 5 yr old memory turned him into a beagle over the years!
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So that inspires this weeks "Weekly Wednesday"!! Tell us something you were positive about when you were little but then later found out you were wrong... like for example Kiera singing "when she sees me walkin by with a cheeto in my eye...."

Ode to Dylan

Ok I thought the results of the poll were very interesting. ALL of us chose Makita! What a sweet dog! Only I apparently liked Tatum and only Kie apparently likes Moki... haha sad! Poor little Buttons... no one liked him!? And he was so devoted to Makita! He just didn't have the best people skills... haha!

But this post is an ode to Dylan. Why? Because I am the only one who really remembers him and poor dog only wanted to play and we were all so scared of him. So here's for Dylan! I hope he had a better life with the boy next door!

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Now.. I don't know how accurate my memory is but here's what I remember of our time with Dylan.

One day Dad came home carrying a cardboard box and said he had a surprise for us. We all gathered around excited... hm, this was in Colorado so I must have been like 5 or 6 and Kie was like 3 0r 4? I don't know, you'll have to ask Mom about that. Anyway the box opened and out popped this adorable Beagle puppy! We were so excited!! This was our very first pet! Of course as a puppy he was very energetic and jumped all over us and everything else. It was quickly determined that "Dylan" (name chosen by Mom) would have to live outside. Well he must have always lived outside because the only thing I remember about him after that is trying to swing in the backyard and running away any time he would come near us. And then not wanting to go outside because the dreaded dog was out there. I also remember watching Mary Poppins once and dad decided it was time to let poor Dylan in. He was so excited to come in and jumped right up on the couch where we all were and we all screamed and ran away... needless to say Dylan was shooed back outside! Mom and Dad tried so hard to get us to play with him. Luckily the boy next door had a dog and that dog seemed to get along with our Dylan so when we moved to New Mexico Mom and Dad decided Dylan would be happier next door.

Wow, I hope my kids react better when we get our first dog!

BACK Meeting

I need to call a meeting to make a blog decision. Brian has requested to occasionally post random things. I told him I would have to ask permission. So I'm taking it to you guys. Do you think it would be ok for Brian, Steve, or even mom and dad to make an occasional post or comment, or is this blog strictly limited to the 4 of us?
Let me know what you think! :)

THe Sluggish Sloth

Ok, me and Brie got to talking about sloths and I started thinking about how fascinating they really are! I remember walking through a zoo in Utah once with Jarrett, the little boy I worked with, and we were in one of those rain forest exhibits. I just remember looking above my head for some reason and there was this creature just hanging about 10 feet above my head staring right at me. It seriously freaked me out and I had no idea what it was but I was sure it wasn't supposed to be out of a cage! Well now they have an exhibit like that at our zoo and they have a "sloth tree" where they have some sloth facts so I thought I would share some with you guys...

Sloths are very slow. They don't move at all unless they have to in order to eat or go to the bathroom and when they do it takes them a whole minute to cover only half a foot! They sleep 15-18 hours a day and only come down to go to the bathroom once a week! In fact they are so lazy that if a baby sloth falls from the mother it will probably die because the mother is unwilling to leave the tree to go find it! (Yeah Brie, I changed my mind when I read that!) Can you imagine being a sloth? Boring!

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Nothing like Snook from It's a Big Big World!

FUNNY STORY SPOTLIGHT-- Ashlyn Dancing!

I do believe Brie is due for a story but I remembered a random one of Ash and didn't wanna forget it!! I wanna see if anyone else remembers it (we were all there) One day when Ash was like 3 or 4 her and mom stayed home from church cause Ash was sick, When we all got home dinner was ready and mom said that Ashlyn had a surprise for us in the Office! We went to the office and Ash as all dressed up like a little cowgirl (jean skirt and tall cowboy boots) She had super long hair that was usually up or kind of ratty (ya know little kids and long hair) well what I remember most about the story is her hair was completely brushed straight (never was really done perfectly) and it was curled at the bottum.. I remember being so suprised she looked so cute!!.. anyways mom turned on whose bed have your boots been under (I think that was the song might have been a different one) and Ashlyn did a little dance.. mom made it up and taught it to her while we were at church and she got all dressed up and cleaned and ready it was so cute:).. that was more of a cute story.. just wanted to see who else remembers that!!!

Blog Background

I found this website that has some really cute blog backgrounds. I put one on my mommy blog and I really like it. So I want you guys to go to the webpage and see if there are any you guys like and think it would be fun to put on our blog. Or if you like the yellow better let me know. So click below and let me know! :)
Cute blog backgrounds

If you want to see what they look like on a blog you can look at my mommy blog: Mommy Diaries

A Little Buddha, Anyone?

Here's my quote for the week:

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.” - Buddha

B!'s BACK Quiz Results (oh, yay)

Well, I think Kie got the most of mine right....

Food: Flancer's Perfect Prickly Pear
Dessert: Pretty much anything with chocolate and peanut butter, Reese's, Dark Milky Way, and No Bake Cookies! (and nutella, haha)
Color: um...probably black, but I must wear too much blue since you all said it and it's not actually one of my favorites! haha
Movie: I have no idea.....I'll go with Wedding Singer for now
Book: Animal Farm all the way!!! What a great book (I read it in 10th grade, I wonder if my opinion would change if I read it again). Or The Great Gatsby.
Actor: Probably Steve Carrell at the moment (though I still like Adam)
Season: WinterLetter: hm....x and z are pretty cool - x is self-explanatory (just look at the amount of space it takes in a dictionary!) - but z makes every word it's part of sound cooler, so it's got to be a good letter, right? Q's pretty good, too....
Clothing: I don't know....tee-shirts? pants? little jackets?
Dream Job:
Animal: Giraffe! or dinosaur even (basically any type)
Hottie: Yep, Ash got this one....Jaaaaaake RYAN!!!! (craddle robber? no, wait this is Disney - he's probably older than me!)
Wannabe: probably Sandra Bullock, or Alexis Bledel (Kie made me think of her, haha), probably not a combination of the two though!
Place: Hm, it depends on the amount of time I live there - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life, or even most of my life, in NYC - but it'd be nice to experience life out in the eastern side of the country, or the southern - where you can have a swamp in your backyard (then again, I think I'd want to experience most places for a little bit, I don't know where I'd want to live for a long time....how could I, I don't know what it's like?)
Childhood: In 2nd grade, I was playing with Shelby Goodman at recess and then she left to go to the bathroom and said she'd be right back. So I waited and waited and waited for an unusually long time till recess lady blew her whistle. (Earlier on I'd thought I'd heard the whistle blow, but I figured I was wrong since Shelby hadn't come back yet!) So I ran over to line up to go back to class, but I didn't see my class -all the kids in my line were not in my class, and they all gave me weird looks! I think I said something to one of them and and found out they were 3rd graders (big ones)!! That's when I quickly ran to my classroom to find my whole class inside in the middle of practicing a poetry presentation of sorts that we were going to do for the parents. To make matters worse, I had missed my turn! I had stayed at recess late, not listened to the whistle, disrupted the poetry practice, AND missed my part. And kids kept telling me that! I felt SO bad. My teacher, however, didn't even ask where I had been; actually, she didn't say a word to me about it! Come to think of it now, it seems like she should have been a little concerned, don't you think? I mean, I was only in 2nd grade, shouldn't she keep tabs on all of her kids? Maybe she knew all along, but then it wouldn't make sense that she let me stay outside instead of getting me. Hmmm...........

Weekly Wednesday

Ok I decided instead of weekly trivia I'm going to call it Weekly Wednesday and it will either be sister trivia or just a random question for you to answer.

So this week's question is:

What is the worst (hardest/most disgusting/stupidest) job you can think of? Something that no one could pay you enough to do.

Ash's favs!

-Food--good job b! oriental flank stake
-Dessert--hm...choco chip cookies or brownies i guess!
-Color/Color to Wear--red
-Movie--hairspray!
-Book--hm work and the glory? i don't know...
-Actor/Actress--amanda bynes! good job kie!
-Season--winter of course! i love the cold, christmas, and my birthday!!! and hot chocolate! the list just goes on! haha
-Letter in he Alphabet--k...always has been...don't know why!
-Item of clothing--probably jackets
RANDOM QUESTIONS:
-If you could have any career or hobby at all (school not included and mother doesn't count) what would your "Dream Job" be? hm......this is a toughy....a piano composer...
-If you were any animal what would you be? --uh...dolphin sounds good...haha
-Who is the Best Looking (hottest) Actor?--oh geeze i have no idea! uh...milo whatever? (peter from heroes)
-If you could look like any female celebrity who would you pick?--hayden pennetierre, kate hudson? sandra bullock?
-I you could live anywhere in the US (ignoring family location-AZ) where would you live?--hawaii of course, and i do love az, but i think i'd also like to live in like virginia or around there...
-Tell us a time from your childhood when you did something wrong and felt bad about it but can laugh about it now. --when i was little and every time cassi had a boyfriend over and me and b would torment him...or that one time when kie had all her friends over and me and lauren were sitting on the stairs of the basement listeneing to them and we decided we wanted to go into the guest room to get something out of the closet but didn't really want kie to see us so we were crawling, (stupid little kdis would think a room of teenagers wouldn't notice) and one of her friends said, "it's so funny how little kids do these things to try to get attention when their siblings' friends are over." or something along those lines and i was sooooo embarrassed!
also, when i was in kindergarden and i scratched b's arm up on the bus and mrs techovich saw it getting off and made us talk to her, then she came into my class and told mrs. ball what happened, who had to come have her own little talk with me! geeze! that was pretty embarrassing too! SORRY B!!!

Kiera's Favs

-Food: Spaghetti, Tetrazini :) YUM!!
-Dessert- WELL everyone did GREAT Tottsie Rolls and M&M (PB) are my FAVORITE candy ever..but if I were at a restaurant and got a real dessert it would be brownies!! everyone wins!
-Color/Color to Wear : color blue and Yellow to wear any bright colors!! or black ahha
-Movie: yikes.. thats hard.. probably remember th Titans.. or How to lose a guy in 10 Days! or Tad Hamilton haha
-Book: um hha ill g with Cassi's.. Magazines haha and of course the BOM
-Actor/Actress: hm Amanda Bynes, Will Smith, Hugh Jackman, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Kevin James, Kate Hudson, Bill Muray, Christopher Lloyd! Just to name a few.. way to hard!!
-Season: Winter and Fall mostly Winter just cuz its Christmas time but I dunno if that counts!
-Letter in he Alphabet: B.. no idea why though!
-Item of clothing: HM.. definetely sweat shirt and comfy pants:).. all those others are grea to. jackets and jewelry:)
RANDOM QUESTIONS:
-If you could have any career or hobby at all (school not included and mother doesn't count) what would your "Dream Job" be? I would be an Olympic athlete.. a Geneticist or a Psychologist
-If you were any animal what would you be? A bald Eagle.. or a Monkey! everyone guessed right there.. i must have told you guys!!
-Who is the Best Looking (hottest) Actor? hmm... good question.. Ewan McGregor or Josh Duhamel
-If you could look like any female celebrity who would you pick? Hm.. Kate Beckinsale, or Hudson, Winona Ryder, or Megan Fox (girl from transformers-not really a celebrity but shes pretty)
-I you could live anywhere in the US (ignoring family location-AZ) where would you live? well since I "coud liv anywhere" it would be Hawaii.. although i couldn't afford it.. or Colorado! hopefully i just stay in Az though
-Tell us a time from your childhood when you did something wrong and felt bad about it but can laugh about it now.: hm. nothing as fun as Cassi's I dont think.. although I remember always being scared to tell mom or dad or Cassi stuff.. or ask for stuff,um I'll go with a time that has to do with Cassi.. I was Always wanting to borrow your clothes and stuff but like TERRIFIED to ask (dont know why) but you let me borrow one of thosesilky shirts once and I loved it!! well some how a little tear got on the side and I WAS FREAKING OUT.. i didn't know what to do so I cam up with a stupid plan..so you wouldnt' get mad (stupidist idea) that night (I wanted you to think I didn't do it like on purpose so i thought it would be better if it just happened) ahha so I made a ripping noise like a tear noise and ran into your room like in a panic saying that i was taking it out of the hamper and i got stuck and rippd a whole.. ahha it was so stupid and you didnt even care.. but I felt aweful about it forever.. and I told you eventually cuz it was stupid.. im sure you remember.. anyways ..thats that!!! still don't know where it really came from though!!

Cassi's Favs

ok since everyone has guessed we are supposed to post our answers now, right? here are mine.

FAVORITES:
-Food: Roast and potatoes. This has only been my favorite since I moved away from home so I think I love it so much because every time we have it it makes me feel "at home". The smell when you walk into the door... mmmmm! Ask Brian, I get very nostalgic when we have roast around here!
-Dessert- you guys were right... choc chip cookies
-Color/Color to Wear - color would be purple but i don't wear purple... that would be pink or dark colors
-Movie: Sleeping Beauty Duh!! haha j/k. Actually my most fav movie is Phantom of the Opera
-Book: Definitely Twilight! You all should at least go read the first chapter so you can see that you would actually want to keep reading! Just the first chapter! Go do it now!
-Actor/Actress: Kate Beckinsale, Emmy Rossum, Shia Laboeuf, Topher Grace, Harrison Ford... there are too many!
-Season: In MN... fall
-Letter in the Alphabet: Kie how did you know? It's S... i have no idea why
-Item of clothing: PJ pants! definitely
RANDOM QUESTIONS:
-If you could have any career or hobby at all (school not included and mother doesn't count) what would your "Dream Job" be? I would LOVE to be an event planner... or a photographer... or a designer of some sort... sorry counselor as a dream job? yikes, no
-If you were any animal what would you be? hm.... maybe a bird or something? I have no idea
-Who is the Best Looking (hottest) Actor? Christian Bale! He is very good looking!
-If you could look like any female celebrity who would you pick? hm... probably Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell and Naomi Watts are really pretty too,
-If you could live anywhere in the US (ignoring family location-AZ) where would you live? Brie is right... it would still be AZ... that's considering the high price of living in Hawaii and how far away it is from everything though!
-Tell us a time from your childhood when you did something wrong and felt bad about it but can laugh about it now. Hahahaha... ok here goes... when I was in 2nd grade we used to take these spelling tests and then trade with another student and grade them. Well Sarah my evil friend suggested that we don't really mark any wrong so that we both got all the points and for some reason I agreed. I'm pretty sure I got them all right anyway but she definitely did not which is why she wanted to do it. I felt SO bad that i told another friend and asked her if she would go up with me to tell on Sarah. So we did and Ms Garcia gave us a little lecture and sent us back to our seats. When I got home I didn't tell mom because I thought she would be so mad. I remember every day I would say to myself "I'll tell her when I'm in 5th grade, then it won't matter anymore" I think this lasted for a couple months? Who knows it may have only been a few days but felt like a few months.. haha. Then we were outside taking a walk and it was just me and mom and she told me what a good daughter I was and then I just blurted it all out! It's so funny to think about that now and how scared I was to tell her.
Ok and another quick one... You all know how dad likes to play around. So one day we were being dumb (I was probably 15 or 16) and I threatened to spit on him. He didn't believe me so I thought how funny it would be if I actually did it... so I did... gross! He did not laugh and I felt so so so stupid! Stupid enough that I still feel bad about it!
Although... the laser thing was pretty bad too, I'm not sure I can laugh about that one yet... I mean I actually had the police called on me! Ahh

Character Craze

I know Brie hasn't been able to guess on the quiz yet but I'm bored and I know she won't have time once Monday comes again so I'm going to go ahead and do this.
Kiera gave me a funny idea with her quiz. When I started thinking about who people looked like I came up with this...
I'm going to list some shows and I want you guys to say what character each of us would represent. And if you want to add mom, dad, Steve and Brian into the mix that's fine too.

The Office
Friends
Saved By the Bell
LOST
Heroes
24
Romantic comedy character
Horror movie character
Superhero character
Singer/Musician

Ok I guess that's enough... haha I was laughing so hard while I was typing this out thinking about what I'm going to say so I can't wait to see what you guys say.

BACK QUIZ

first off I should clarify.. we are officially going by BACK. (B!, Ash, Cass, Kie).. even though Kie is last:(.. it's just easier!!! so instead of sister this and sister that.. it is henceforth.. BACK!!!.. SO.. after having fun guessing each others favorite songs here is an official Quiz to answer about each other!!.. so first you answer all the questions about each of the fellow BACK members (excluding yourself of course) in the comments then when everyone has guessed everyone's you make a post with your real answers!! so here are THE QUESTIONS!!!
FAVORITES:
-Food
-Dessert
-Color/Color to Wear -
-Movie
-Book
-Actor/Actress
-Season
-Letter in he Alphabet
-Item of clothing
RANDOM QUESTIONS:
-If you could have any career or hobby at all (school not included and mother doesn't count) what would your "Dream Job" be?
-If you were any animal what would you be?
-Who is the Best Looking (hottest) Actor?
-If you could look like any female celebrity who would you pick?
-I you could live anywhere in the US (ignoring family location-AZ) where would you live?
-Tell us a time from your childhood when you did something wrong and felt bad about it but can laugh about it now.
-Do an imitation of each sister, a common phrase they say a lot and the way they say it or anything that sticks out! (you don't have t answer this for yourself in the post:)

More Trivia Already?

Ok not to add too much to the blog in one day but the playlist is done. So... let's see who can guess who picked what song! Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is just the blog song, no one picked that. But after that one it goes in order by genre. Alternative/rock is first, then sountracks, oldies, pop, and country. So, who do you think picked each song??

Sister Trivia

Ok I thought of something to do every once-in-a-while. Sister Trivia! I'll ask a question about one of you and then everyone else has to answer. Once everyone has answered then the sister that the question is about can tell us what the right answer is. Winner gets... hm, what should the winner get?

Ok first question...

Kiera used to get so embarrassed when we would tease her about boys so we never really knew who she had crushes on. Now that she's married maybe she won't be so shy about it! ;) So the question is... who was Kiera's very first crush?

Wait a Minute!

I just figured out what is going on here! Do you remember when Kie and Cass told me I had little squinty, Asian eyes?? Is that why you chose Mulan for me???? If it is, that's VERY rude!

Yet Another Weekly!

Okay, maybe I'm over-doing the whole weekly thing, but I thought it could be fun to have challenges (weekly or just whenever). Just say no if you don't want to.

This week I just wanted to add to the "funny phrases" challenge. I think we should not only try to say those other words, but completely stop using the word cool till next Tuesday. But of course we'll slip, so I think we should report in the comments how many times we slip. Then, I think we should decide the punishment for the one who slips the most on the comments.

If this is just too much work, that's fine, just thought I'd ask.

Funny sister story

I remember way back when I was in 5th grade and Cassi was in 7th she had her first boyfriend Stuart Crewse!! Well I remember reading some paper that was on the counter and I turned it around and there was a note.. I didn't read it all because it wasn't mine and that's rude but I was just reading a little to see what it was and it was something Cassi wrote to mom saying "I held his hand it that ok" haha.. for some reason its so funny now.. you were always open with mom.. and its funny how at the time holding hands seemed so bad to you!!!!..

A Little Inspiration

I thought it would be fun to have a weekly quote, but I didn't suggest it for the side bar because I wanted you to comment on them!

So here's my quote for this week, but first the history behind it. I found it years ago, and it has brought me inspiration ever since; you may know that I even have it taped to my bedroom wall.

"You don't die at 80 if you can live to 96"

The Office Pranks

Ok we have been addicted to The Office lately and we just finished season 3 a couple days ago. I can't stop thinking about all Jim's pranks on Dwight. So I want to know what are your favorite pranks from the show? Mine are.... (click on the title to see the clip)

Future Dwight

Jim as Dwight

Vending Machine


I also like the one where Jim acts like a vampire and the one where he hides Dwight's desk in the bathroom... but I couldn't find clips of those! :(

Funny Phrases

Okay, so in choir we sang this song called "The Common Cold". It's kind of a goofy song about someone who has a really bad cold. The humor is in the words though. There's one part toward the end that says, "A common cold gadzooks forsooth!". So my question is, what happened to words and phrases like that? Why do we only say boring things like wow, or cool? I miss the days where they used creative words! Now it's all lazy and rotten language! What is this world coming to? haha :P

FUNNY STORY SPOLTLIGHT!!

REMEMBER WHEN: We were in PARIS and we went to Disney Land and watched Honey We Shrunk The Audience and after we got to the hotel sweet little Ashlyn said "I was in the perfect seat.. everything was coming RIGHT AT ME!!!!" cute little kids!! they say the darndest things:)

Muay Thia

well one of our sisters (B!) likes to pretend she likes fighting... but last night I saw the true B!.. she's.. A DANCER!!!! yup she misses ballet.. an pleeayin (whatever the spelling) she saw this lovely solo and she claimed he could do the exact dance.. (we are talking college level dancers here) and she insisted on making fun of pretty much every dance we saw.. can you say jealousy?? I thought the other sisters would like to know this!!!! pretty big deal!!! SO since I have made the discovery of B!'s secret passion I would like to know what my other sisters secret sport dreams would be.. if you could be any type of "athlete"... ANY at all!!! off the top of my head I think figure skating would be cool.. although its def something to think about!!...let me know

Women's Restroom

Quick question..... I went to the restroom at school the other day - the women's restroom of course - and I needed to change my clothes, so I went in the handicapped stall for the extra space (I had never looked inside this stall before, though I had used that particular restroom several times before), and much to my surprise and confusion, there was a urinal in the stall along with a toilet. So my question is, why on earth is there a urinal in the women's restroom??! Handicapped women are still women - they can't use a urinal!! And yes, I double-checked to see if it was the women's room, and there were other things in it that showed that it is undoubtedly a women's restroom. Hmmm......

Pajama Pants

Ok sisters... this is going to be a fun blog where we can just be silly and stupid!!

So I'll start us off....

Pajama Pants

Ok I love pajama pants! Isn't is weird in all the movies that you never see any of the girls wearing pajama pants? They are always wearing silky night gowns or weird pajama outfit things! What is with that? All the people I have ever had slumber parties with have always worn pajama pants. Don't you think it would be weird to sleep in a dress? Especially a silky dress that you'd be slipping around in all night! Weird!

Ok that's my thought of the day! It's short but it's all I have time for right now! Now what is your favorite kind of pajama pants???

Love you guys!