Ruffians! Thugs!

Well guys. Matt's working this evening, but luckily only until 10. :) If you missed out on the information that I have my final coming up on Thursday... well, now you know. And I've got a LOT to memorize. When Matt and I started dating, I remembered how once I had made a goal not to do homework on Sunday (Matt doesn't do his homework on Sunday either.) Now that I'm typing all this it seems pretty contradictory. Media, but no homework. :p Well. At least I'm starting somewhere. Anway. After a nap and some scripture study... I decided to watch a movie. Disney is on the approved list so I decided to watch Tangled! (I so love this movie) I made a joke about it having some gospel principles in there somewhere... and then I found this. Tangled FHE. (Yes!) Clearly I made a good choice. ;) But also I had to share my new favorite treat! Last night after the adult session of Stake Conference we had our date night for the week. (finally! can you say longest week ever?) We went to get some ice cream (which is becoming a weighty problem in our relationship... ha ha... weighty... anyway.) Matt found this 'Amaretto Cherry' ice cream yuck but it was in one of those pint sized over priced deals. So he told me I could get one of the big cartons (haha which would be great for him right? his favorite kind, and mine! ;) ) or a small one. I'll be honest with you, I picked a carton first. And then I remembered how I don't have money for larger clothes so... I found this smaller one! And I'm obsessed.

Also... I got my new glasses! And I like them! And they're not actually that much different from my old ones, which goes to show how wild and adventurous I am. ;)

Another also, I've rediscovered my love for the Andy Griffith show. Bones and those kinds of shows maybe enhanced my over active imagination while Matt was working his noc shifts, so Andy Griffith it is! (But seriously. How could you not love this?)

I catch myself giggling way too late at night right out loud by myself. :) Barney Fife is hilarious!

Summerween.

In case you're curious, I stole the title from a Disney Channel show called Gravity Falls. More on that later.
So. It's Thursday again. Apparently it's been dubbed my official laundry and blogging day. :p
(This morning as I'm still hiding under the quilt, Matt walks back into the room, "Are you doing laundry today?" groggily,"Yeah?" He whips out some clothes, "Good 'cause these are my last pair!" I'm glad we have underwear to keep me on laundry schedule. :p)

OH k. So here we go with the back tracking. Via pictures. (because "How can I blog boring things if I don't have pictures?")

Mustache rock. Clearly. In Grandma Marilyn's
rock collection in Hatch. This was the night before the cattle
drive. :)

Finally cold enough for hot chocolate?
Yes.
Cold enough for a hot chocolate clean up fail?
Definitely.
(Tori AKA Taurus, Torrence and TORI BABB,
had one of these at Snow and we always cleaned
it out by putting soapy water in it. Note for future
reference? Don't leave it on the 'froth' setting.
Because it works all too well. :) )

Cedar has gorgeous sunsets!! I didn't even have to edit these!

:)

 I. Love. Our. FHE. Group! Thanks, that's all. Except for now here's the story. (Did that sound a little Junie B-ish to you?) So we carved pumpkins at our house. And had pizza that I waited FOREVER for at Papa Murphy's. Which is apparently quite the place for Monday night cooking blues. We had two other couples make it, the Bond's and the Gehrings. So cute. :) After we finished carving, Jordan and Nikki started doing trust falls. Which lead into Matt and Jordan doing trust falls... which led into Kyle, Jordan and Matt doing monkey-in-the-middle style trust falls where they just pushed the guy in the middle back and forth between them until someone fell. :p And that turned into them taking turns jumping over each other. It's fairly entertaining, actually.

This one would be mine. :) He's cute. We like him.  

Jordan and Nikki. (sorry it's blurry!)

Kyle and Janessa 

 Of course, we had to document our creations... and what better way than to make faces that match the masterpiece! Interpretive art of art. :p

I didn't notice until just now... mine has like super
beady little eyes. 

Jordan trusting Matt...

And Matt trusting Jordan and Kyle...

And so on and so forth. 

We thought it kind of looked like a mechanical claw was
dropping Matt into line after it already dropped Kyle
and Jordan. Maybe we're weird?

Sister dates save my life sometimes. (Aunt Cherene, that was almost as cool as some of our other alliterations? Yeah?) I kidnapped Bri this afternoon while my mom was at work (and by kidnapped I do mean kidnapped. It was a crime of passion. Or impulse. None of that premeditated stuff. But my mom really didn't know about it or where she was until she got home and texted me. :p) Tonight at Institute Matt and I are signed up for treats. So Bri came over to my house and helped me make some of my mom's delicious Vanilla Bundt Cake. Seriously, it's like buy bigger pants good. After the cakes were cooling, we may or may not have downloaded the Disney Channel app on my ipod so she could show me this funny show! (Gravity Falls) Which is, as she informed me, quite funny. That's where the post title came from. We watched an episode called Summerween... where they carved jack-o-melons, and had Halloween in the Summer! The past few days have been so warm here, so I figured it fits. I can't decide if I'm proud of myself for still watching Disney shows and occasionally Veggie Tales or if I should be concerned about my stunt in growing up. :p

(Seriously though. Sunday we don't watch anything besides church movies or Disney, and since we're lacking most of both categories... or any category really, we decided last Sunday that Veggie Tales Jonah and the Whale totally was a Sunday show. And we maybe even giggled at it.)

"now pretend to eat the batter!"

"pretend to eat even more batter!"

Mmmm. Be jealous. ;) And yes, the pan is different. We made
two! :) Cuz 'mama eat EVERYTHING' :) (including piggles)

And as of 3:00 tomorrow, Matt's on Fall Break! So we're headed off to Hatch to brain wash my husband into being a blood thirsty killer like the rest of our fam. Sounds like the average American southern utah family, right? ;) 

Hunger games in real life!

Ok ok, so not really. But Matt and I did get to go watch Marissa play in Powder Puff football last night! (Which some of those girls made into a hunger games-ish situation. In my opinion. A fair amount of faceplanting went on.)
The first time the game was scheduled it poured. Which would have been ok because they're practically "rugby girls" :) but then the lightning started and even rugby girls get electrocuted sometimes so they rescheduled it.

Cheer boys... of course.

Miss is in front on the white team. She's #15!

Aaand the cheer boys dance. Oh man. :p

The pink scooter gang. :p 

Monday night (the original game night) was fun anyway because we got to have FHE with my family. It's kind of weird to feel like we're the guests at the house now, but fun to see how everyone else is changing. Bri is in 5th grade this year, and she's so stinkin cute! New hair cut, cute clothes, cute flower shaped brackets with her braces :) She's a cutie batootie!

And also, Matt and I have had date nights every week but we never take pictures... so here's the one and only documentation of them:

You can see how much he loves pictures ;)

And last but definitely not least.... ('...last's the best of all the game!') Mein seester Erin visited and had a girl's night with me. She probably still doesn't fully appreciate how much I needed one that night! Mr. Coffin happens to have lots of homework to do, seeing how he's in school. Before our nice neighbors let us split the cost of their internet he went to the library to get everything done... I love my alone time, don't get me wrong. Solitude is beautiful. Except for when you're bored out of your mind and it's late at night. So. Erin saved the day. (Yay Erin!!) We made Rolo Snickerdoodles. Yum? So of course, I dragged her with me to go shopping. And we may or may not have stumbled upon some fantastic new posessions.

Phenomenal, really. :)

P.S I lied about the only one documentation... Matt and I went to the temple last weekend! Ta da. Here we are. All temple ready. :p

Anywho... Now I get to baby sit in the comfort of my own apartment so I should go baby proof everything probably. :p

super genius and original title

Yeah. Benedryl  kills my creative brain cells apparently.
Catch up time! Matthew my husband formally known as cute Matt hates pictures being taken. So guess who hasn't taken pictures for a while? Shannon the wife. :) We need to work on that though, because my blog looks so lonely with out the usual picture vomit.
FHE ended up being really fun (sorry if I said that already) and I'm excited to hang out with these couples more often. One guy was stinkin hilarious because at Snow I think I heard him talk twice, and that was at church where he was being serious. I think the English major who 'can't spell' should have been a thespian! Anywho. Fun stuff, right? The other Ephraim couple, J and N are outdoorsy and adventurous, so we've been trying to plan a camping trip. How fun would that be?? We need to hurry though, because nights are starting to get a little on the freezy side.
This weekend was busy but fun! Friday we had our date night, which consisted of starting a batch of whites in the laundry so we could be clothed for the rest of the weekend, grabbing a $4 pizza (and maybe two desserts for $6 :p) and taking it to the Canyon Park. Complete with a quilt and some koolaid. Classic. :) A couple from our ward was there with their newish puppy. Matt's dying to get a lab, which would be fun and all because they're suuuuuuuper adorable, right? Especially their super adorable slobber and adorable poop and pee and bite marks and adorable shedding habits. :) It's a decision in progress. Good thing we've got an apartment with no yard that isn't exactly pet compatible so we have time to figure out compromises. Like an unlimited lint roller fund for all the hair that comes with the adorable puppy. :) (Can you tell that's my biggest hang up? Hair. Is. Gross.) After the park we we as in Matt watched Monsters Vs. Aliens. I've had allergies so I may or may not have popped a benedryl and fallen asleep twenty minutes into it. :p
Saturday we drove to Springville to stay with bro-in-law Matt and Mallorie. First of all, she's the cutest decorator ever. I love their house! Her latest project was a jewelry board out of an old frame and some cardboard and fabric covered sewing bobbins. I should study how to be crafty. We went up a canyon that has a name that I don't remember anymore, and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. The leaves are starting to change!! I love it! SO excited. :)
Sunday was Grandma Wilde's farewell, and she did awesome! The grandkids did a missionary medley, bro-in-law Matt and I didn't know if we were supposed to join them or not (ok so I didn't know and Matt didn't want to :p) but then Jennifer motioned rather enthusiastically for us to go up, I just crossed my fingers that I wouldn't face plant on my way up. Not only am I an unrecognized grandchild at this point, but I'd be a clumsy/show ruining, unrecognized grandchild. :p Thankfully no one tripped and even though Grandma Coffin (who was accompanying us) forgot we were singing 'Called to Serve' after two of the littles played their violins, it turned out pretty well.:) I think we kind of just sang over the song she was playing until she switched to Called to Serve. Good thing Grandma Coffin's a musical genius! :) The luncheon was fun, Matt and I have spent more time with my family since day one so it's kind of fun to go and hang out with his when we get the chance! We just need a teleporting machine, clearly. Then we could play all the time!
Ok. Now that I've bored you... I have some funny babysitting stuff.
Lately I've gotten pro at putting baby brother to sleep for an afternoon nap, which comes in handy when big sister needs LOTS of attention. Like, it's basically impossible to function if they're both coherent. Either she needs to be preoccupied with carebears or he needs to be asleep. I don't know how mom's survive. :p While baby R is asleep A and I have lots of good conversations, which tend to consist of a lot of "why?"'s and "huh?"'s. Very intellectual. ;) Yet entertaining. Last week we were trying to finish five more 'big girl bites' when out of nowhere she tells me "I want to wap you. ... Lap, map..."
"You want to map me?"
"Yeah!" lights up, "with magic! See? Use you magic!"

Also, Matt comes to visit occasionally, between classes. ok, so maybe I shouldn't blog. I just wrote that 'matt comes to visit occasionally inbetween classes. inbetween?? Go to bed shannon. He saves my sanity. And morphs into a rock star. ;) 

And then this afternoon:
A:I can go to you house! (we took a field trip to my parents house once, since it's down the street and those swings are fenced in. opposed to the 3 fountains swings that aren't and are harder to keep children within close proximity while you're there. the only problem with the field trip was A not wanting to walk home and being stubborn, and me ending up carrying her in one arm and pushing sleeping R in the stroller with the other. clearly i'm amazing. ;p)
Me: No, no one's home! We need to stay here with baby R.
A: But I can come to you house one time. Ok? Is that ok?
Me: But your mom would miss you! I'll be honest. sometimes i just keep the argument going to hear her responses. i know. i'm a despicable human being. ruffling three year old feathers for my own selfish pleasure. :p (name that movie! :foh yo own sewfish pweasah!)
A: thinking for a while... My mommy and Daddy can stay with baby R. I can come to your house!
She looked pretty pleased with herself for coming up with that solution. :p
Aaand then we watched three million episodes of Blues Clues. I think I understand now...

I probably would've lost it after being overly animated to just a camera crew for years too. Poor Steve. 

Anywho. Lucky me, I'm babysitting again tonight! I'm kinda glad I have a nice husband who lets me drag him with me so I have an ally ;)

Happy monday!

This was just from our drive home yesterday. I'm in
love with clouds. :)

In case you need a giggle. Or several. :)

You HAVE to look at these. Seriously. Make sure you don't have to go to the bathroom beforehand though, because we couldn't stop laughing at these!

P.S FHE went well, I love the other couples we had over. Lots of giggles and peanut butter and chocolate. :) And, of course, good times had by all. :p We've already got parties and camping trips planned, and Nikki and I are going to kick our scrooge husbands out and have a Christmas decorating spree. (... when December comes, of course. :p And yes, boys, we know it's only September. :D )