...The Wilson Kids have Too Much Fun when the Parents aren't around... :)

The other night, Mom left me in charge of all the younger kids. First, we played outside and competed in all sorts of games, then when it got dark we moved inside. And that's when the party started. While I blared Gangnam Style, the kids all danced around the living room. Even Joy Anna knew the moves. :)

Then, we had a photo fun. Here's the results:

Of Air Soft Bullets...

This morning I was watching Joshua and Joy Anna while they were playing outside. All was going well and there were no problems until Joshua walked up to me with his finger stuck up his nose as far as it would go. This didn't look good.

"Uh, Danielle? I have an airsoft bullet up my nose."

"You what?!"

"I stuck an airsoft bullet up my nose."

I couldn't believe what he was saying.

"But I've almost got it out." Here his finger goes almost sideways while still inside his nose.

"You know what, Joshua? Maybe we should tell Mommy about this and see if she has any ideas."

Joshua wasn't so keen on that idea, but I marched him inside where I started to explain the situation to Mom. Just then, Joshua lost his balance and toppled over. The force of his landing sent the airsoft bullet flying out of his nose and rolling across the floor. I saw the bullet and started laughing uncontrollably.

Then Joshua stuck his finger back up his nose and gave me a look of surprise, "It isn't there anymore!"

...this family...

The Least of my Worries

In getting ready for my trip, I was told to remove all jewelry and leave it home so it won't get stolen. On Friday, we pried off my jade bracelet (which has been a part of my arm since I was 10), and tomorrow I'll leave behind my rings. However, I am going to take my watch since, though it looks nice, it was only about $10 at Walmart.

Isaac thought I should take the watch off.

"But what if it gets stolen?" he asked, eyes round as saucers.

"Well," I replied, "I'll hopefully be able to rip it off and throw it in one direction and race away the other direction."

Isaac's eyes got wider, "but that's littering!"

I love my family. :-D

Peeping Tom

So today I attended a birth and the L&D room had a window which looked out on the Emergency Room parking lot - more specifically, where the ambulances unload their patients. Out of curiosity, I watched one ambulance unload its patient: a healthy-looking, well-dressed young man. At least, he looked healthy and well-dressed from the 4th floor.

He was covered with a sheet and as the EMTs were pushing his stretcher, he moved the sheet down. The EMT next to him snapped it back to its original position. The patient moved it down again. Without bothering to even glance at him, the EMT snapped it right back. This happened two more times before the patient finally gave up.

I have no clue what was actually happening, but from the 4th floor, it was hilarious!

Just for Laughs

Ok, ever since I found out about Pinterest, I've laughed so much. So I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorites...

This would be something Maria would do... 

I can't look at this one without bursting out laughing!

No, girl, I'm sorry - it's cat hair

Reading Back...

Every once in a while, I like to flip through my old diary and read what I had written. It's the only journal I've ever actually filled out (it took me four years...) and it's fun to see what I deemed "news-worthy" as a 10-14-year-old.

Anyway, I was reading it two nights ago and actually laughing out loud so I decided to share a couple of the more humorous snippets with y'all!

Enjoy! (Sorry, it's a little long, but it's a fast read...)

4/21/08: "Tomorrow I have testing, so I need to rest my brains."

5/13/08: "Last night, two men from Uganda were at our friend's house. We were invited to go listen to them speak. They introduced themselves as 'handsome and very funny.'...The greatest culture shock for them was american's driving: in Uganda, there are so many potholes, you have to twist and turn. Police know someone's drunk if they just drive straight."

5/14/08: "Last night, we [Nathan and I] dissected a frog. I wasn't looking forward to it, until I got to skin him. I was the best frog surgeon and I identified all his organs! Too bad he wasn't a girl. Oh, and we named him too. Or at least I did: his name is Oliver. Dr. Dobbins [who wrote our science curriculum] said his name was Herbert, but no, his name was Oliver. In case you're interested, he's in the trash can now."

5/28/08: "Yesterday, some friends came over. We dressed up the cat. She wasn't fond of us for the next hour."

7/10/08: "Yesterday, we [Mom, Nathan, and I] started painting the garage, but since Nathan and I can't paint an even layer of paint, Mom told us to fix the 3 PIGs lunch. That's ok, since my new CD came and I was able to listen while fixing lunch."

1/2/09: "One of our friends came over the other day and leaves tomorrow. There have been some not-so-good altercations between her and her parents, so Mom offered to take her to stay at our house. (That's not quite the whole truth, but I shouldn't write anything else, even in my diary...)"

3/10/09: "This morning, I made friendship bread. The small loaves were dry, but the bread wasn't cooked all the way. I picked it up and the whole middle fell out! I decided it was a 'friendship flop.'"

3/13/09: "Yesterday, I decapitated Kirsten [my doll]. Now I'm going to A.C. Moore to buy replacement doll parts."

4/3/09: "Mom's unreasonably mad at everyone and everything."

4/18/09: "Joshua's been quite the pest today. He screamed all morning!"

6/17/09: "Last month, Daddy turned 40! On our way to church that morning, we noticed some chalk notes in the street. They said:
'Awesome Savior'
'Awesome wife'
'Awesome appetite'
'Good man' '
Awesome brother'
'No hair'
 'When will Mr. Darst grow up?'
 'Frodo lives!'
'Go Canes!'
'Say hello to 2nd 1/2 of life'
'40'
'Old man'
 'Eat more chocolate'
'No more chalk.'
The signs were all courtesy of Mr. Darst. He wrote the notes all the way from our driveway to the end of our neighborhood (how embarrassing!)."

6/22/09: "Grace was a pain when she woke up. I admit, I almost punched her in the face, until I realized that she would holler loudly and get me in BIG trouble..."

6/26/09: "Last night, when Mom took N to CAP, the kids and I were going to watch the Pixar movie, "Cars." But then the DVD/VHS player broke - with the movie inside it. So then we grabbed a movie to watch on the computer - Windows Media Player wasn't installed. After that, we tried it on the upstairs computer but the monitor broke. Then, Mom got home and the garage door wouldn't close. Oh the joys of technology!"

7/3/09: "Last night, there was a miss-communication between Mom and Dad, so Mom told me and the PIGs not to watch a movie while she took Nathan to CAP since Daddy was going to come home soon. So I tried to keep the kids busy until Dad came home. But they wanted to watch a movie and got cranky and tired. Next, Joshua started screaming. To top it all off, Stall pooped in the corner. It only happens on a Thursday!"

7/20/09: "During church yesterday, Nathan and I sat in the back; our friends (the R family) sat a few rows in front of us, and our other friends (the D family) sat in the middle row. Well, Alison R glanced back at Nathan and thought he was glaring at her, so she started making weird faces back at him. Then she noticed Mrs. D's shocked face. Mrs. D thought Alison was making those faces at her!"

7/21/09: "Yesterday afternoon, Nathan and I were working at our friends house helping them pack up to move. At one point, I was helping the mom clean out their bonus room when I found a picture of her as a senior in high school. "Oh, Barbara," I breathed, "you were so beautiful!" Oops! Thankfully, she didn't take offense!"

8/14/09: "Mommy's trying to sell her hair and there's some creep who's interested in buying it. However, he keeps asking for pictures of Mommy's face and zoomed out pics of her profile. Now he's asking for a video of her getting her hair cut! We're getting uneasy about this weirdo."

9/1/09: "After dinner last night, we watched the video we took of adopting Grace. She came to us immodest, so when 6-year-old Nathan was filming, he said some bizarre things, such as "I can't wait until we take her upstairs and put clothes on her - her bottom's showing!" and "I need to report an accident: Grace just pea-ed on Mom!" His comments, plus his  -should we say? - expert, 6-year-old filming made the video VERY hilarious. (At one point, while filming the bar stool Mom was sitting on, he began to cry [think actual tears and sobs], 'Help! I can't find Mommy!')"

9/10/09: "This morning, Staal had his first vet appointment. He was a pesky mess! He barked, whined, squirmed, etc! Then, the vet said that he will need for us to give him eye drops. Oh brother! That'll be interesting!"

9/12/09: "We got to Grammy's house really late last night. No one got to bed before 10:45. Originally, the 3 PIGs were in one bed. That was the stupidest idea ever!"

11/2/09: "On Saturday, we filmed SIN-Derella [if you're confused, pronounce it and if you know Nathan and my personalities, you'll get it!]. While filming scene 4, we started teasing Brittany about a certain young man. We even have a short video clip of Bailey [one of the actresses] shouting, "Brittany loves so-and-so!" Maybe I can use it for blackmail..."

11/4/09: "Joshua's very funny...Promise talks constantly...Isaac is Isaac...Grace, is...well, never mind...Nathan is a mystery still needing to be solved."

Great Wolf Lodge

Tuesday morning, after family worship, Mom and Dad announced that we were going on a surprise vacation for the next two days to Great Wolf Lodge. We were given 90 minutes to get packed and ready to go. My first thoughts were about school - do I have enough of a grip on my school to take two days out of my week? However, Mom assured me she had taken care of that.

Then, as I was feeding Joy Anna breakfast an hour later, Dad came in from loading the car and said, "Danielle, go outside and greet your guest for the trip." I couldn't help but think "What?!"

When I went outside, there was my friend Molly. I was absolutely stoked. Until an hour before, I had absolutely no idea that we were going anywhere, and now we were going to a very fun water park with one of my good friends.

When we got to the water park, we found out some more of our good friends were there too. It turns out, it was home-school day at Great Wolf Lodge, so we saw a bunch of people we recognized.

Another thing we found out was that Dad purposely had us leave early (and get there before anyone else) so we could eat lunch at Five Guys. That would be dad. :-D

At Great Wolf Lodge, there were many different water slides and pools for different ages and heights. I suddenly felt a little nervous, hearing that one of the slides had a drop (!), so I started with the "easy" slides. One of them had double tubes so two people could ride at the same time.

Nathan and Promise coming off the tube water slide

 Nathan tried to encourage Molly and I to try out the "Howlin' Tornado" water slide, the one with the drop, but I decided to build up to it. I wasn't sure how to deal with a drop. Finally, after trying all the other slides, I agreed to ride the Tornado.

In reality, I was so scared, I could scarcely breath. Wild adventure is not usually my thing. The tube for the Tornado held four people, so Nathan, Molly, Grace, and I rode it together. Then the life guard purposely flipped the tube so I rode backwards. Thanks a lot, dude. There were many twists then suddenly the enclosed slide got dark. There was a light up ahead, which I could barely see because I was having to look over my shoulder.

Then suddenly we were dropping. I'd guess the drop was about five feet. I started screaming, "I'm going to die!" When the drop ended, we ended in an open area where the tube flew up the sides. I was certain we were going to fall out so I continued to scream, "I'm going to die!" Then as suddenly as the excitement started, it ended. And I was still alive.

And would you believe it? The Howlin' Tornado became my favorite ride! Though every time I rode it, I still screamed like there was no tomorrow on the drop. The funniest part about the ride was when I rode it with Isaac and his friend Luke. Luke can seems very calm and steady, not the type of person who would scream on a water slide. But I was wrong. The moment the slide started moving, he started screaming like a girl. I was laughing so hard, I almost forgot to scream. :-D

Another funny part was Grace. She didn't have her "ears" on, so she could hear nothing. Whenever we went down a water slide with her, she'd cackle like a maniac. It was hilarious. But she was a big dare devil (surprise, surprise) and her favorite ride was the Tornado also. Actually, she drove the life guards crazy because she wouldn't respond when they blew the whistle at her... Haha!

And now here's some pictures from our mini-vacation.

Decoration on the wall of the hotel room. I thought it was pretty cool.

Some creepy animatronic creatures in the lobby who put on a show...

Stuffed wolf.

I wanted to get a picture of the front of the Lodge, since it was really cool with a wolf on either side, but it was raining so I had to content myself with standing under the portico getting side profiles.

The kiddy fort. Joshua loved it! The bucket on the top would fill with water then dump everywhere. I stood under it once with about five other people, only to be surprised at how hard the water came down. Seriously? They could knock someone out with it! Ok, maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration... :-D

My little friend, Sophie. :-D

You Know You're a Wilson When...

You Know You're a Wilson when...you can make a loaf of bread without consulting directions, yet have absolutely no idea how to make a pot of coffee.

You Know You're a Wilson when...a kissing scene plays across the TV and everyone looks away and says, "Ew!"

You Know You're a Wilson when...the wheat grinder breaks and all the kids under the age of 10 get excited since that means we get highly processed store bought bread.

You Know You're a Wilson when...you take up a whole row of seats at Church.

You Know You're a Wilson when...your pregnant mom's late in deciding to leave for the hospital and call the midwife.

You Know You're a Wilson when...you buy an ice cream cone and receive a lecture about how with the money you spent on that one dessert, you could have bought an entire quart of ice cream.

You Know You're a Wilson when...your whole family walks almost single-file down a side walk and look like they're a parade.

You Know You're a Wilson when...a lazy Saturday afternoon means working on left over school work instead of mulching or weeding.

You Know You're a Wilson when...you invent new verbs which make people look at you strange (ripsticking, saucing, cheesing, etc).

You Know You're a Wilson when...bats live in your attic.

You Know You're a Wilson when...it's nearly impossible to find a summer dress that will meet all the requirements.

You Know You're a Wilson when...you listen to your parents talk about what a guy must do in order to get Mom and Dad's permission to court you and you start to feel sorry for him...

You Know You're a Wilson when...all the animals in the house are either stupid or neurotic.

No Need for Words

I need to hear this every stinkin' day...

Oh Dogs

This is something I could very easily see happening, if we had this type of trash can. These days, Troy has been sticking his nose into the trash can, and I'm sure he'd look like this... :-D Also, Staal has gotten a vent caught on him, so yah, if we had this type of trash can, this would totally happen.

The Ant and the Grasshopper with a Twist... :-D

Dad sent me this e-mail and I thought it was hilarious. It's political, so if I offend anyone, I'm sorry, but I thought it was funny - and true!

Enjoy!

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

 

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

 

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper

calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be

allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

 

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,

and ABC show up to

provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper

next to a video of the ant

in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

 

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper

is allowed to suffer so?

 

Kermit the Frog appears

on Oprah

with the grasshopper

and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not EasyBeing Green...'

 

Occupy the Anthill stages

a demonstration in front of the ant's

house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

 

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright

has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake,

while he damns the ants.

 

President Obamacondems the ant

and blames

President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the

Pope

for the grasshopper's

plight..

 

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid

exclaim in an interview with Larry

King that the ant has

gotten rich off the back ofthe

grasshopper,

and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

 

Finally, the EEOC drafts

the Economic Equity &

Anti-Grasshopper Act

retroactive to the beginning of

the summer.

 

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number

of green bugs and,

having  nothing left to  pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the GovernmentGreen Czar

and given  to thegrasshopper.

 

The story ends as we see the grasshopper

and his free-loading  friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is  in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,

crumbles around them because the grasshopper  doesn't  maintain it.

 

The ant has  disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

 

The grasshopper  is found  dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken

over  by a gang of spiders  who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous  and peaceful, neighborhood.

 

The entire Nation collapses

bringing the rest

of the free world with it.

 

 

MORAL OF THE STORY:

 

 

Be careful how you vote in 2012.

 

 

It's the Truth

Credit goes to author