Does anyone else love "Charlie and Lola" like we do? That's where the title line is from just incase you are not a fan. My kids love any cartoon with British accents. "Kipper" is also one our all time Brit faves for sure. I guess it used to be on Nickelodeon or Disney Channel ages ago, but my friend turned me on to them once they were only available on DVD and Samantha was about three or so. It's based on books by Mick Inkpen, great name for an author eh?
Not that I meant for this post to be an infomercial for "Kipper the Dog" but it's one of those best kept secret kind of things so I guess it might be of some worth for me to share. I know you can still buy the DVD's on Amazon and I also picked one up just last month at the f.y.e. store in Orem. The way my friend described why she liked the DVD series so much was this: "Kipper is one of only movies I can put on for my kids and not feel like some annoying friend has come over to play." I think what she meant by that is both the storylines and the character's are very simple but clever. The music is cheery without being annoying and the best part is the character's are all British! They call their cookies, biscuits and eat cucumber sandwiches. Who knows if that is actually what British people do but gosh is sounds like it is! That's so painfully American of me to say right?
Samantha has loved them for YEARS and surprisingly Jonas LOVES them too.. maybe a little more than Samantha. But ala Reading Rainbow, don't take MY word for it!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A Little Irreverent Yes...
But HI-larious!
So I was trolling YouTube for a conference talk...No seriously! I was! It was to show my Young Women if you MUST know...Okay... OKay,okay so I did look up the "Chocolate Rain" guy while I was there...
I had that song stuck in my head. For some reason whenever a song is stuck in my head I HAVE to LISTEN to THAT song to get it out sometimes. Does anyone else have that experience?
I mean I will have songs stuck in my head for DAYS at a time. I will dream about them...and they will be there waiting for me when I wake up. NOWADAY I can just look up whichever song is plaguing my damaged, damaged mind and the good people at Amazon.com/mp3 can help me exorcise my musical demons...
But back in the day, I would just have to hope and pray that Fisher and Todd would play "Groovy Kind of Love" on the radio sooner rather than later. Otherwise, it was like a tiny Phil Collins had gotten stuck in my head, had fallen deeply in love with hypothalamus and was now seranading her, (let's call it a her), was now seranading her into submission with his wussiest of all his Wuss Rock... Although have to say that I DO love that song..I'm not afraid to admit it anymore. Groovy Kind of Love gets me RIGHT THERE!
Well, I should donate my brain to science when I pass on because there's stuff happening in there that really should be analyzed. But I think that you would agree having "CHOC-LATE Raaaiiin" in my head ALL day??? REALLY
It needed to be addressed...
Anyways I ran across these two little nuggets of entertainment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2CXnJfzkRw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW1b9XM_8Vg
Nothing is funnier than missionaries trying to entertain themselves...Oh my goodness! The "Sweet Spirit" song just about made me pee my pants. I can laugh at it though because I OWN my own Sweet Spiritedness. : ) Michael Scott would pronounce it "Sweet Spiritcanity".
Well I hope all is well with all of you. Have a great Halloween and Happy voting! Peace!
P.S. for my Snow Peeps... Doesn't the short elder look a lot like our beloved Dan Schmidt? Daneth McSchmidtty, I miss that kid...
So I was trolling YouTube for a conference talk...No seriously! I was! It was to show my Young Women if you MUST know...Okay... OKay,okay so I did look up the "Chocolate Rain" guy while I was there...
I had that song stuck in my head. For some reason whenever a song is stuck in my head I HAVE to LISTEN to THAT song to get it out sometimes. Does anyone else have that experience?
I mean I will have songs stuck in my head for DAYS at a time. I will dream about them...and they will be there waiting for me when I wake up. NOWADAY I can just look up whichever song is plaguing my damaged, damaged mind and the good people at Amazon.com/mp3 can help me exorcise my musical demons...
But back in the day, I would just have to hope and pray that Fisher and Todd would play "Groovy Kind of Love" on the radio sooner rather than later. Otherwise, it was like a tiny Phil Collins had gotten stuck in my head, had fallen deeply in love with hypothalamus and was now seranading her, (let's call it a her), was now seranading her into submission with his wussiest of all his Wuss Rock... Although have to say that I DO love that song..I'm not afraid to admit it anymore. Groovy Kind of Love gets me RIGHT THERE!
Well, I should donate my brain to science when I pass on because there's stuff happening in there that really should be analyzed. But I think that you would agree having "CHOC-LATE Raaaiiin" in my head ALL day??? REALLY
It needed to be addressed...
Anyways I ran across these two little nuggets of entertainment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2CXnJfzkRw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW1b9XM_8Vg
Nothing is funnier than missionaries trying to entertain themselves...Oh my goodness! The "Sweet Spirit" song just about made me pee my pants. I can laugh at it though because I OWN my own Sweet Spiritedness. : ) Michael Scott would pronounce it "Sweet Spiritcanity".
Well I hope all is well with all of you. Have a great Halloween and Happy voting! Peace!
P.S. for my Snow Peeps... Doesn't the short elder look a lot like our beloved Dan Schmidt? Daneth McSchmidtty, I miss that kid...
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Big Ol' Jet Airliner
Your welcome for having that Steve Miller song stuck in your head for the rest of the day! : )
So last week the Davies family took the longest vacation we have ever taken in our entire lives. It was just the best. In fact we're sick of having real lives and we're just going to go back on vacation and do that instead. How are we going to pay our bills you ask? We're sick of paying those so we just gonna go ahead and stop doing that too. That takes care of my Office Space quote of the day...
Samantha's class does "Show and Teach" every Friday. For this week we prepared a little scrapbook about our vacation and she passed out scallop shells that we found in Newport. It was a big hit. There were tons of shells on this.. uh "private" boat harbor... so many it was as if only one or two families use that harbor... As if they had paid trillions of dollars to be the sole users of it with no intention of having annoying tourists gallivanting in on a red and white striped, fringed surrey and making off with dozens and dozens of shells... Weird huh?
So here is Samantha's show and teach... Twist on the old show and tell... We slipped in some educational crapola about shells and high tides that I'll spare you from. Mostly she just talked about her fantastic vacation. Give us a break, we never get to do stuff like this so we're allowed some unabashed bragging right?
Last week my family went on vacation in California. We did a lot of cool stuff we had never done before.
My brother and I took our first ride in an airplane.
We went a professional baseball game at Dodger Stadium.
We saw street performers in Santa Monica. There were skateboarding dogs, a guy who could blow really cool bubbles, my faves breakdancers and a monkey in a cowboy suit. If you give him a dollar he will shake your hand. side note: We called Grandma Davies the next day to tell her about our adventures. Jonas summed his experience very succinctly by saying "I saw da monkey."
We got to see a real red carpet with real movies stars...from pretty far away
We spent a few days at Disneyland...
And California Adventure... I got to be in the High School Musical dance party...
side note:
Jonas' favorite movie is "Cars". He got to see Lightning McQueen and Mater. The Disney Pixar parade started at 5pm which was about the time Jonas would crash in the stroller for a late nap. We went to the parade three times...Jonas was awake for one, BARELY, but that was enough. : )
We spent two days at the beach. One day we went to Huntington Beach and the next day we went to Newport Beach.
In Newport we rented a four-person bikecar. I sat in the basket in the front with my friend Alyssa.
On the last day we drove back to Los Angeles and went to the Getty Museum. There were lots of famous paintings and antiques. This bed in almost 300 years old. It came from France and it is worth 6 MILLION DOLLARS!
They made a replica of this bed for the children's room. This is us reading books on it.
Our trip to California was really great and I was sad to leave, but I was so happy to come back and see all my friends here at Park School. The End.
Here's a couple more pics that I liked. The swimming pool one is purely for my ego since it is the best picture that has been taken of me since I've had children. The fact that Brad is about eight feet above me and the rest of me is hidden from the neck down may have something to do why I like it. NEVERTHELESS, I do like it. : )
So last week the Davies family took the longest vacation we have ever taken in our entire lives. It was just the best. In fact we're sick of having real lives and we're just going to go back on vacation and do that instead. How are we going to pay our bills you ask? We're sick of paying those so we just gonna go ahead and stop doing that too. That takes care of my Office Space quote of the day...
Samantha's class does "Show and Teach" every Friday. For this week we prepared a little scrapbook about our vacation and she passed out scallop shells that we found in Newport. It was a big hit. There were tons of shells on this.. uh "private" boat harbor... so many it was as if only one or two families use that harbor... As if they had paid trillions of dollars to be the sole users of it with no intention of having annoying tourists gallivanting in on a red and white striped, fringed surrey and making off with dozens and dozens of shells... Weird huh?
So here is Samantha's show and teach... Twist on the old show and tell... We slipped in some educational crapola about shells and high tides that I'll spare you from. Mostly she just talked about her fantastic vacation. Give us a break, we never get to do stuff like this so we're allowed some unabashed bragging right?
Last week my family went on vacation in California. We did a lot of cool stuff we had never done before.
My brother and I took our first ride in an airplane.
We went a professional baseball game at Dodger Stadium.
We saw street performers in Santa Monica. There were skateboarding dogs, a guy who could blow really cool bubbles, my faves breakdancers and a monkey in a cowboy suit. If you give him a dollar he will shake your hand. side note: We called Grandma Davies the next day to tell her about our adventures. Jonas summed his experience very succinctly by saying "I saw da monkey."
We got to see a real red carpet with real movies stars...from pretty far away
We spent a few days at Disneyland...
And California Adventure... I got to be in the High School Musical dance party...
side note:
Jonas' favorite movie is "Cars". He got to see Lightning McQueen and Mater. The Disney Pixar parade started at 5pm which was about the time Jonas would crash in the stroller for a late nap. We went to the parade three times...Jonas was awake for one, BARELY, but that was enough. : )
We spent two days at the beach. One day we went to Huntington Beach and the next day we went to Newport Beach.
In Newport we rented a four-person bikecar. I sat in the basket in the front with my friend Alyssa.
On the last day we drove back to Los Angeles and went to the Getty Museum. There were lots of famous paintings and antiques. This bed in almost 300 years old. It came from France and it is worth 6 MILLION DOLLARS!
They made a replica of this bed for the children's room. This is us reading books on it.
Our trip to California was really great and I was sad to leave, but I was so happy to come back and see all my friends here at Park School. The End.
Here's a couple more pics that I liked. The swimming pool one is purely for my ego since it is the best picture that has been taken of me since I've had children. The fact that Brad is about eight feet above me and the rest of me is hidden from the neck down may have something to do why I like it. NEVERTHELESS, I do like it. : )
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