Questions, Answers, and Aunt Tera's Good Deed

A couple of questions (well 4 of them), and a couple (well, 4 of them, too) answers...
Q: Why is Miss Kylie so gussied up on a Saturday?
A: Our lucky little lady got to go to a birthday tea party (actually lemonade and homemade taffy) at the Lion House in downtown SLC and I must say that few things in life are cuter than a whole group of smily, giggly, excited, gussied up 7-year-old party-going girlies...
Q: Is that kid totally amazing or what?
A: Umm, yeah--besides amazing, Cael is a fantastic, though not necessarily "still-sitting" spectator at his big brother's basketball games...


Q: What are they staring at?
A: After 5 (and almost 1/2) years of serious dish-washing, our dishwasher completely gave out--serious bummer. Good news, though, we are all delighted with the replacement that was purchased and delivered. This is not to be confused with "delivered and installed" even though the signs all over Lowe's boldly professed their "installation guarantee" and then the round tag hanging inside of the new dishwasher also said "installation guarantee"--we took this to mean that "installation" was something they did, something they "guaranteed." Silly us! They can't install dishwashers! Something about OSHA and plumbers, it's still a little foggy. SO lucky for me, I am married to a handy handy (that's right, double handy) fella that took care of the installation part and I took care of the "keep it up, you're doing so great!!" part and now the dishes can again be stacked in a genuine dishwasher and not the genuine sink...


Q: What kind of super-fun game is being played here?
A: This is your basic "Twister" where one 3-year-old rolls up in the game mat and the other one tries to jump on him. You don't actually need the spinner for this version. Disclaimer--when played this way, "Twister" is not necessarily equal parts fun for both of the participants...




Here is Paul's sister, our cute Aunt Tera (pictured here with what may be the best birthday gift ever). On Friday, Aunt Tera and I had a great early morning at the Jordan River Temple. As we were walking back to the parking lot, this car pulls up and a very concerned lady rolls down the window to say "Fix that lady's skirt!" I'm sure we both had rather quizzical looks on our faces, so she repeated louder and more animatedly "FIX THAT LADY'S SKIRT!!" We turned around to see the nice 60-ish year-old lady that we had just said "hi" to --things were all fine when we saw her from the front--with her skirt and slip completely tucked into the backside of her waistband!! Oh dear--it was deja vu from "The Parent Trap" when Susan was leaning backwards against the rail of the deck talking to her dreamy date for the camp dance, Stafford, and Sharon and her room-mates quietly and carefully cut the back of Susan's pink party dress off, leaving her bloomers completely and embarrassingly exposed!! Aunt Tera sprang right into action and could not have been sweeter with this lady--"let's just fix your skirt here..."--the lady was gracious and shocked and possibly mortified, but with her backside covered. Nicely done, Aunt Tera, and if they ever take nominations for "Mormon of the Year" I think Tera may be a shoe-in...