Friday 5 pm

Here's what it looked like at our place at 5 pm Friday...

mama needed her a dr. pepper. 

 Damon's new morning study area, and the root beer for our home made pizza

Damon's face when he gets home...

guess who didn't do any dishes. and had macaroni for lunch...

for real, we fill a trash can a day. we need a bigger one. ice cream maker still out, 5 days later...

baby taking a nap arched into his favorite weird contortion. 

he heard us talking about him...

happy samsung.

exciting stuff huh? apparently i do a whole not of not-housework all day long... mostly i just do this:

there you have it.

so.

i have this suuuuuuuuuuper funnycute picture of ellis falling face first over the front of the boppy. but this here blog just told me i'm out of picture space. for real? that happens?  apparently now i have to "buy" internet space.

like it's limited or running low or something.

so.

there you go. i guess i'll have to buy some of that web that's floating around in the flipping air, for crying out loud. just so i can show you the funny picture.

good thing i won $5 2 nights ago by betting Damon that ... actually i don't remember what the bet was, it was something on tv... i think it might have been something from Pawn Stars, since we are obsessed with that show and i want Ellis' nickname/ our one day future dog's name to be Chumlee. anyways. i won $5. we like to bet each other money since we are super poor and we have it to throw around. as if i don't just spend money when i feel so inclined.



i'm trying to stop though.

back to the picture. i'll be buying some space on the internet machine and putting it up in a while. i have to think about this though.

really.

9:15 pm what???

sometimes you're coming home from a walk to the grocery store with your deli meats and your jones sodas and you happen upon a lovely scene, something like this:

and your heart goes 'pitter patter pitter patter i NEED THAT!"

and an hour or so later, you convince your husband to go back and get it for you (aka you drive the car with the dresser half in the drunk half out, while he walks behind the car holding the back end of the dresser, through the apartment complex, home) and your irish neighbor to help him carry it up and then you go to home depot and get all your stuffs with happy visions of 

in your head... or something like it... or any entertainment center type thing in general, to get rid of this yucko-ness...

so even though some huge storm is supposed to come in and it's dark and there are bugs everywhere and landing in the paint, you want it done tonight!  here it is taken apart, kinda can get an idea of how it looked. like crap.

and here it is all done. i may take the top 2 drawers out and just have them be open shelves for the dvd player and maybe movies, but i haven't decided yet... still better than before. and for a total cost of $7 after paint and a foam brush, it was worth it.

(sorry for the crappy pictures, i took them on the computer cause i'm lazy.)

we had some peeps over tonight and made strawberry gelato and key lime ice cream, yum! here are a couple of pics...

damon and his frans and their babiez

ellis and his girlfriend to the left share the same bday. and ellis' gf to the right is 4 months older than him. wonder which one he'll pick...

Damon and Ellis hanging out

isn't he so cute? we think so...

Conference 4/11

Did you have a favorite conference talk? I had 2.  Here's one of them:

Elder Bednar's "The Spirit of Revelation"

I especially liked this part:

"I have talked with many individuals who question the strength of their personal testimony and underestimate their spiritual capacity because they do not receive frequent, miraculous, or strong impressions. Perhaps as we consider the experiences of Joseph in the Sacred Grove, of Saul on the road to Damascus, and of Alma the Younger, we come to believe something is wrong with or lacking in us if we fall short in our lives of these well-known and spiritually striking examples. If you have had similar thoughts or doubts, please know that you are quite normal. Just keep pressing forward obediently and with faith in the Savior. As you do so, you “cannot go amiss” (D&C 80:3)."

we are Famiy.

here are some pictures Kristi took of us 3 in our orchard. yes, ours. funniest moment of the whole thing, when we first got to the orchard and were looking for a good 'aisle' and damon pointed out the deer down near the end. kristi goes, 'oh, those are deer? i thought they were tree stumps!' and then when damon was like, 'for reals?', she was all, 'i couldn't see them, ok?  i have astigmatism!!!'. and it was funny. maybe you had to be there...

we didn't plan this whole thing very well- like, we didn't bring any clothes for pictures. Ellis had nothing super cute/non animal covered to wear, i luckily did plenty of shopping while in utah and had a shirt and jeans that almost fit better (except see how baggy they are under my knees? how disappointing)and could borrow a cardigan from Kristi. and also luckily, Damon and Morgan are like the same size: lanky. so Damon wore Morgan's shirt.  and black church shoes. haha. oh well, can't have it all.  next time we'll do better.

ellis was not very happy at the time. and doesn't damon look like such a manly mountain man??? like he's gonna go all ax on us and start chopping down those apple trees.

So Many Posts!!!

Here's a little video so our fam can see Ellis and hear him 'talk' a little. I'll try to take some more later on, he gets in good moods where he smiles a lot and coos, and it is so fun...


Ellis 5 weeks 1 day from tara demars on Vimeo.


also, I went to take a picture of us together and raised his hand to wave at the camera- and this is what I got! my little rebel.

(why does my eye look so big and weird?)

Conference Weekend

It's General Conference weekend!

Can't wait to "sit at the feet" of a Prophet and Apostles, and learn more about the gospel, be inspired to make positive life changes, and be spiritually fed.

Having a living prophet on the earth today brings me and mine such peace and happiness, and as much as we know that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet, we know that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and that he restored the gospel to Earth in this dispensation.

Have some time? Want to be uplifted? This is a wonderful film, and a great tribute to a great man.