Hurst Family News

Per request made by Oma I am updating our blog. Evidently 11 days is far too big of a gap. I agree. I just hadn't gotten around to it until now. Thanks for the prompting. :) Christmas this year was really nice. We stayed at home and had a quiet and mostly peaceful Christmas morning. I say mostly because when Ian figured out there was candy in everyone's stockings he thought it was ALL up for grabs. No go. I'm am a wee protective of my stocking candy- probably stemming back to the days of siblings and the need for bartering goods. I'll trade you this crunch bell for that peanut butter tree . How 'bout TWO crunch bells? The festivities began on Christmas Eve when I made my first real Christmas Dinner. May I just say it is hard to cook a ham and rolls and grandma's macaroni salad (I really need to come up with a cool name for it because those outside my immediate family don't know what to expect from that) and mashed potatoes and gravy (after ru...

So I've been thinking about Christmas Spirit lately. Appropriate seeing as we're a mere 9 days away at this point from the day of Christmas. When we celebrate Christ's birth. People who don't believe in Christ or that his birth was of great significance (or even real) still get into the spirit of the season. Santa encourages us to be nice and to think of others. I think the general good feelings that come during this time of year are due to the fact that more of us are thinking about Christ more often. Or at least more people are perhaps thinking more Christlike and thinking of others. Whichever the case may be, it's more pleasant to see the kindness. It's so easy to get caught up in the selfish gimmie gimmies of gifts. What I need- what I want. Me me me. It makes me think of another time- NOT Christmas where I felt like there was perhaps a little more togetherness. Right after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th 2001 i...

...I am trying to ignore the fact that my head feels like it may, at any given moment, explode. ...I'm watching Ian play with his blocks and trying desperately to keep his little brother from playing with them too. He's building a train-something-or-other. I think it's supposed to be a train depot like on Thomas the Train. ...Landon is practising sky-diving. At least that's what it looks like. He can't crawl yet but you still have to keep an eye on him. He rolls and manages to get around somehow. ...Sean is sitting in Church all alone :( The little boys and I are ditching church (sinners!)--well Ian was sick and now I am too. ...I am wishing I had an appetite for the fudge I made yesterday. My dry HoneyNut Cheerios were enough for me this morning. ...I'm thinking about Christmas gifts and what craftiness needs to go into some of them. For obvious reasons I cannot elaborate here just yet. ...I'm looking forward to our vacation this summer. And to a t...

We were introduced to a website called StarFall.com . It is a great website to teach kids their ABC (as well as other options I haven't looked at. Ian loves the place and continually wants to do "Ay-Be-Shees". Well, for the longest time, he would just click-click-click no matter where the cursor was. I patiently (debatable) tried to show him how the movements of the cursor coincide with the movements of the mouse, but he would usually move the mouse so fast that it would be from one side of the screen to the other in no time. This meant that most of the time we had to place the mouse, tell him not to move it and to "click" it. This morning, he wanted to get on to "Ay-Be-Shees" so I let him. He seemed to be getting lucky, because I continued to here it spout off the ABC's, etc. Then I realized he could actually use the mouse. He could get it where he wanted and click. I immediately took the following video. -Sean-

I found this on a friend's blog and thought it might be fun.  We'll see how long it takes Sean to notice I've even blogged. tee hee hee. -How long have you been married? 3years, and almost 9 months -How long did you date? Well from our first date in May to when we got engaged in October- 5 months...but most of those we were apart and not really dating.  Just chatting.  Technically September to October: a month until we got engaged. -How old is he? 26 and a half -Who eats more sweets? Me. By far. I have a sweet tooth like you wouldn't believe.  Sean would usually rather have chips and salsa over goodies. -Who said I love you first? Me. At 3 Peaks. Sean did say it back. (By the way that is also where he proposed...good idea mister) -Who is taller? Sean - Who can sing better? I'd say me. But I love to hear him sing, especially to the boys. There is something so pure about singing. - Who is smarter? Sean is. I have my own strengths. (If you go by grades I'...

Take a look at this:  Do you see what I see? I spy with my little eye two sleepy boys.  Don't believe me? See for yourself: When I went to put Landon in bed (in his crib) I found big brother hiding/asleep on the floor.  What the heck, at least he's asleep.  Or so I thought.  When I brought the camera out to take this shot he kind of woke up and told me he was playing hide and seek.  I offered him his pillow and he fell right back asleep. Go figure.

Let's start with one of my favorite parts of My Best Friend's Wedding .  If you haven't seen it;  I'm sorry.  It's one of my all time favorites.  Julianne Potter(Played by Julia Roberts) : George, I didn't tell you my dress was lavender. George Downes(Played by Rupert Everett) --you have to hear it in a Gay British Male Accent : Suddenly, a familiar song. And, you're off your chair in one, exquisite movement... wondering, searching, sniffing the wind like a dapple deer. Has God heard your little prayer? Will Cinderella dance again? And then, suddenly, the crowds part and there he is: sleek, stylish... radiant with charisma. Bizarrely, he's on the telephone. But then, so are you. And then he comes towards you... the moves of a jungle cat. Although you quite correctly sense that he is... gay... like most devastatingly handsome single men of his age are, you think... what the heck. Life goes on. Maybe there won't be marriage... maybe there won't ...

Now I'm sure you've heard of the house that Jack built. Well this is the cake that Trish built. A lot of man (woman) hours went into it but it sure looks AWESOME! Oh and did I mention she's never taken a cake decorating class or anything.  Just figured it out. The boys took the beads off once before the wedding but Trish worked her magic and fixed it.  At least the fondant doesn't let the little kids swipe frosting like in weddings past. Next up is the happy couple.  (I caught them a bit off guard) Mr. & Mrs. Tyler and Nikki Bunting. (Notice the beautiful swag on the arch...I made that and Sean did the black scarf draping. Man of many talents.) Now check out the likeness of these two in clay form.  Crazy huh? Flowers, jewelry, detailed dress and all.  (Also notice the cute vase with limes an hot pink Gerber daisies behind the cake. Very cute and very Nikki.) A little bit closer now: A lady in my in law's ward made it.  Amazing.  A LO...