It's just paper

This morning Dad went to put on his slippers so that he could take out the trash. Before grabbing the first slipper he noticed a piece of shredded cardboard inside the slipper. He went to pull it out and realized that there was more, a lot more in there. Then he grabbed the other slipper and found that both slippers were stuffed with carefully shredded cardboard pieces. Which made him think that either a rat was building a nest in his slippers, or Mickayla and Will had something to do with it. So he went to Mickayla and asked if she had anything to do with the cardboard shreds in his slippers. To which she mater-of-factly replied, "It's just paper Dad"

I have no idea what made them think it was a good idea to shred cardboard and stuff it in Dad's slippers... but what does it matter... after all, it is just paper.

From our Outing in San Fran

Brent, Brooklynn and I were up in the city visiting the Museum of Modern Art yesterday and met up with Ann and Keith for some clam chowder afterwards. Brooklynn seems to be even more amusing than usual when she's around Ann and Keith.

Brent and I had been in the restroom of the restaurant washing our hands and missed a conversation between Ann and Brooklynn. So all we heard was the waiter taking our drink orders and Brooklynn flips over the menu to the drinks and asks very certainly for "an Apple Cider with no Caffeine." But she was pointing to the adult drinks and Ann explained to the waiter, "she means without alcohol." Brent and I were baffled. I told the waiter she'd take a Sprite.
So what we missed was, Brooklynn asked Ann if they had any juice. Ann noticed that some of the mixed drinks had juice in them, one even had apple cider so she was pretty sure they could get her a glass.

Then as we were leaving the restaurant Brooklynn calls out, "Look, Mom, an iguana!" I was very surprised to see that there was actually a man walking down the street with a very large iguana on his shoulder. He saw how interested Brooklyn was in the iguana and let her pet it. She was very concerned that she wouldn't be able to wash her hands after touching it, but after some coaxing she carefully touched it only using the back of one finger. Two blocks later I pulled a Granda Risenmay and told her to do up her coat because I was cold. She immediately objected and holding her finder out which she had been trying so hard to not contaminate anything with asked "How can I when I have an IGUANA FINGER?"

She also said that Ann and Keith were her "very best friends." Which is not funny, just adorable.

Terrorists?

Scott came down the stairs this morning and said very matter of factly, "We can't be negotiating with terrorists!"

(He was referring to Lily's list of demands at 4 this morning: milk in a bottle, sleeping on the sofa, and the TV on.)

What ARE you going to do with me?

Will gave me a total guilt trip this morning.

(laying in bed)
Will: Mom, are you going to work?
Erin: Yeah, I have to go to work today.
Will: Will you watch my show and cuddle with me?
Erin: No, I'm sorry, I have to get ready for work.
Will: Mom... what are you going to do with me?
Erin: When I get home we can play hungry hungry hippos!?
Will: I dont want to play any games.
Erin: We can go for a walk!?
Will: It's too cold!

Apparently I'm just a big dissapointment to him. :( lol

The Second Article of Faith

LaDawn: Tell me the Second Article of Faith
Brooklynn: I don't remember it
LaDawn: Well, what is it about?
Brooklynn: Punishment
LaDawn: for... (I was expecting to hear "sins")
Brooklynn: Boys

I immediately realized, amidst my laughter, that last Sunday I had made a joke about it only talking about how "men" would be punished and not women. Apparently I should keep my feminist thoughts to myself--I know Brent would appreciate it, but I thought it would help her remember the wording.

open mouth, insert foot

Yesterday I was on a first date with someone. He didn't tell me what we were doing but we drove down to the piers in Seattle. He had mentioned something about a cool bar downtown on the water, so I assumed that's where we were going. We were walking along the pier and browsed around the old curiosity shoppe, then as we continued walking we were almost to the aquarium. He said, "oh there's the aquarium." and I said "ugh, I hate the aquarium." There was a moment of awkward silence before I said "...oh, is that where we are going?" He said "... well we were..." Perfect Erin moment. Why did I say such a thing?! I went on to explain that it's not that I don't like going to the aquarium, it's just that I think they charge WAY too much. ($16 per person, and it only takes about an hour to go through the whole thing.) Anyway, we did go to the aquarium. And we had a great time looking at everything. The otters were both of our favorites. They reminded me of Reed and Blake because they were wrestling around. But needless to say I had a definite foot in my mouth experience. :/

Terrorist?

Just in case you haven't figured it out yet... this is what took down the plane in the Hudson River.

Is that fire or is LaDawn cooking again?

I remembered this one as I was cleaning out the oven the other day.
Around Thanksgiving I slopped something over in the oven. The next time I turned the oven on it of course smoked. We aired out the house but later as we got back from shopping we were accosted with the smell of smoke. I said, "Oh it smells like smoke in here."
Brent said, "No, it just smells like you've been baking." Then before I could even turn around and give him a dirty look he said, "... because you said earlier you spilled something in the oven!"

As Seen on TV and the Tivo Generation

While watching TV we saw an ad for exercise equipment. Brent and I were making fun of the countdown to get this great deal by saying, "only 5 seconds left!"
Brooklynn looked up and said, "Just pause it. Then the timer will stop."
Phew! Now we can get the Bender Ball AND VHS instruction tape for the special price of $9.99.

Nativity Story

Brent to Brooklynn following the reading of the nativity story from the Bible by Brent and the acting out of the story with the wooden nativity figures by Brooklynn and assisted by Mom... "Wow, Brooklynn, thanks. I've never seen the nativity story with a shooting star, the wisemen falling to their knees because they were knocked down by a meteor and the shepherds telling the sheep to 'wait up.'"

Taking over the world

Brooklynn to the vacuum: "Don't take control of the whole world you naughty thing!" I'm not exactly sure what she meant by this but thought it was funny.

She was vacuuming the stairs at the time. Her method was also amusing, she took the hose and jabbed it five or ten times at each stair then say "1-2-3 Stop!" and turned the vacuum off and moved it down one stair, said "1-2-3 Go!" turned on the vacuum and repeated the process. We'll see how effective that was when she's done, but I suspect I may have to redo it.

Will was playing with packing peanuts while I was taking gifts out of the boxes. I had a big box of the peanuts on the floor. He started dumping them out on top of the dog and all over the floor. Then he layed in it like he was making a snow angel. When he got up and was running through the peanuts I asked him what he was doing. He said, I am making it look like Christmas! (snow)

... Used to hate, but now I love.

While playing a game called Conga on Thanksgiving,when it was Brent's turn we had to guess what his answer was for the question: Something I used to hate but now I love. He asked the question, the timer started and Brooklynn was the first to guess. Without any hesitation she said very mater-of-factly, "Sex!?" We had to stop the timer as we all laughed hysterically. We aren't sure where she came up with this answer. LaDawn said Brooklynn doesn't even know what the word means. And unfortunately I think we've now taught her that that is a funny word. But we just couldn't help but to laugh. I'm guessing LaDawn, Brent and Brooklynn had a very interesting conversation that evening after we all left. :)

When playing Wii "Boom Blocks"

Mickayla to Candice: If you get even more mad at Scott, he can sleep in the closet . . . there's a pillow there.

This one deserves a rerun

OK, this is a post from Erin's blog from months ago prior to the creation of Risenmay One Liners. I came across it looking for a photo and it's still fall-off-the-chair funny so I thought it deserved another post.

"Tits"

Mom wanted to post this on her blog but thought it was a little inappropriate... so I told her I'd do it because no one would be surprised with it coming from me.... :)

As we all know, Will still can't say many words very clearly. For example he calls Mickayla "Peela" and often when kids are at this stage they say an innocent word that ends up not sounding so innocent.

The other day we were at Mom and Dad's and Will was playing with Fritz, who he happens to call "Tits." I was telling him that he needed to stop because the dogs were getting too rialed up. But Will replied "Mom, I want to play with Tits!" If that wasn't funny enough Blake followed with a comment of "Don't we all!" Mom was standing near by and started laughing hysterically. Then she stopped and tried to be serious as she said, "BLAKE!" but then she continued laughing.

It was a funny experience, but it was even more funny later. Yesterday I was retelling this story to Candice, Scott and Dad. I didn't think Dad would think it was that funny but boy was I wrong. He laughed so hard that his face was almost purple, which made mom laugh. It was funny, but almost uncomfortable how funny our parents thought this was. After all, we were all delivered by a stork... right! Apparently Dad thought it was so funny that even a few minutes later he randomly burst out laughing. Apparently he was still thinking about Blakes comment of "Dont we all!".... Yikes!

Car Seat Laws

So I was reading up on if Brooklynn could get her wish and not have to sit in the booster seat in the car anymore. FYI, technically she doesn't have to, but it would be dangerous for her since the shoulder belt is too high. Anyway, that's not the funny part. Here is a clip of the rules for safety seats.

Examples of children who are not specifically required to use a safety seat or booster or to ride in
the back seat:
Age 3, 65 lbs., in any vehicle
Age 2, 61 lbs., in any vehicle
Age 5, 55 lbs., in a vehicle with no shoulder belts in back
Age 6, 50 lbs., in any vehicle
Age 2, 42 lbs., in a vehicle with no shoulder belts in back

What 2 year old is 61 pounds!!! Good grief--the parents should worry more about the kid dying of a heart attack than a car accident.

Stick Figures Get Their Vote Too

(open the picture so it's bigger and you'll see the joke--hint he's Republican)

Voting Day

LaDawn: Today is election day, where we vote for who we want to be the president and other offices, and what we want to be laws.
Brooklynn: Do you vote like kids vote, where everyone puts their heads down and then raises their hand for the person they want to vote for?

A few minutes later as we pulled up to the school...
Brooklynn: I would make it the law that I didn't have to be in a booster seat any more.

Holy Crap

LOL, I wish this wasn't funny. But seriously, who would do that?!?! Gross.

Got Milk?

As we all probably know, Google has sponsored ads in Gmail that seemingly relate to text from emails. They are interesting to see and can often be rather funny. I was reading Reed's latest letter and a particular ad caught my eye, and I thought I'd share:

Sponsor a Milking Buffalo
One milking buffalo can allow a poor family a better life.

Getting dressed in the dark

Amanda, my friend at work, was kind enough to get dressed in the dark as to not wake up her sleeping boyfriend. Her simple mistake made my day. :)

Now this is creative!

Ann, Keith, Brent and I's friend Jini, who REALLY wants to be a Risenmay emailed us this. It made me laugh. (Sorry it's small, just click on it so it's readable)

My Amazing Girl

LaDawn: You can't watch TV and read a book at the same time.
Brooklynn: I'm an amazing girl.

How can you argue with that?!

Coins

We moved this weekend. After most things had been taken out of the apartment we went back to get a few more in the car. Being in the "debris stage" of moving Brooklynn was getting quite a few coins to add to her piggy bank. I saw one on the ground and quickly recognized it wasn't American, I thought at first if it was a Euro or Pound I'd brought back from my trip.

Looking at it as I handed it to her, I said, "Here's another coin but you can't spend it, it's Canadian. I wonder where that came from?"

Brooklynn responded, "From Canada."

First known picture of Michael Phelps

Trev sent this to me.

First known picture of Michael Phelps.

Kegels

Brian to Mom: Do you do your kegels?
Mom: Yes, faithfully.
Mickayla: Sometimes I have to pull her out of the squeeze part.
Erin: WHAT?! lol

Ok this one definitely takes an explanation. As if it's not funny enough that my boyfriend was asking my mom if she does her kegels, Mickaylas comment made it even more funny.

Brian and I were in the Kitchen talking to mom and I was telling her how a friend and I had a conversation about how ever since we'd had children we have to be careful laughing to hard, sneezing, coughing... and how neither of us are good at doing our kegels. I mentioned that when I went to 321bounce (it's like pump it up, with blow up bounce houses) that I thought I was going to pee my pants. Mom told me how horrible that was. Then the above comments were made.... we all laughed for a few minutes, and then once mom regained composure she told us that what Mickayla meant was that at 321bounce Mickayla pulled mom through the part of the bounce house that you have to squeeze though. :)

Beautiful Girl

Grandma Sparks to Tammy: You are a beautiful girl.

It sounded nice until that night when to she said the same thing to the 76 year old hometeacher. I don't feel as pretty after that.

How Mormon's Spell their names

This is a snipit from a chat that Blake and I had today. He was telling me about some girls that he met....

Blake: and I need to remember her name... jk i know what it is
me: what is it?
Blake: Aimee
me: spelt like that?
Blake: i dont know
me: lol
Blake: looks good to me
me: that's the weirdest spelling lol maybe it's Amy, the normal way
Blake: lol maybe
me: but if she's from Utah you're right, it's Aimee or something else thats weird
Blake: i know someone with it spelled aimee
me: what's the other girls name?
Blake: jenepher (spelled like that)
me: are you serious!
Blake: yah...
me: LOL I'm seriously laughing out loud at work
that is rediculous

Ducks on the Roof

Will: Why aren't they at the beach?

It's mine

Erin: "Will, that's Uncle Blakes, put it back."

Will: "Uncle Blake is at college.... it's mine."