Shiny Happy People

And now I present to you the Costas....thanks sister for cute pictures.

All I Want For Christmas:

Dear Santa,

I tried to be a good wife and cook my husband a nice delicious steak. He rarely gets them because I throw up at the thought of chewing and swallowing one. I bought top-o-the-line stuff. I read a recipe. I had my marinade....then I tried to "tenderize" the darn thing....which, Santa sir, is kinda hard when you dont have one of those special tenderizing tools. So Santa, as you can tell by the pictures below, I had to resort to using something else....Santa darling- I look like a fool hammering my husbands prime cut piece of nastyness. If I shall ever venture to cook one again, I'm gonna need a tenderizing tool.
Thank you kindly,
Shea Costa

Becometh As A Child

...." becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love..." (Mosiah 3:19)

And that's exactely what I did November 10-12. Disneyland. I've gone 2394832874 times. But to go with my children and watch Disneyland and the magic it is through their eyes was amazing.

As adults we look at things and try to figure them out. We take the magic out of life. Children watch in wonder and awe. Life is so much better with a 7 year old and a 1 year old. Disneyland is too.

Gobblepalooza

The month of November seemed to slip out of my fingers; so now I gotta play catch up. First up--a story about eating...my favorite kinds of stories.

This story involves, Rolls, salad, turkey, gravy, jello, carrots, pie, brownies...food, food, and more food.

Ya, ya guessed it. Thanksgiving. I have never had the "privledge" to cook an entire feast of food at my house. My lovely aunt and uncle invited us over and just asked that I bring some side dishes. Who'da thunk that making 1 salad, 1 fancy carrots, and 1 jello dish would take 4 hours that morning. Geez oh petes...

Riley and Zoie were in seventh heaven. Riley loved it cause she had people to play with and things to decorate. Zoie loved it cause she got food. Anytime food is around, Zoie is content. Berns and I were just happy to be with family laughing and creating fond memories for our kiddos. We are thankful for so many things--but mostly for each other. Life is good.

This is the face you get from Zoie when you ask her to say "cheese"...priceless.




This is the face you get when you ask Berns to say "cheese"...uh...priceless?

The Dark Side

We took a superb trip to Disneyland last week with the majority of my family. While there the oldest grandkids got to partake in the Jedi Academy. Something I never thought Riley would be interested in...think again Shea.

As luck would have it Riley, cousins Riian and Cole were pulled up on stage to fight the villans. Darth Mal, Darth Vader, and Darth sumthing-or-other. Riley got the luck of the draw for a one on one battle with Darth Vader.

Light Sabers were slashing and soon enough Darth Vader said in his very breathy creepy voice, "Come to the dark side." On which Riley replied without missing a beat. "NEVA!!!!! (never)"

The crowd applauded and hollared. There you have it friends. Now introducing Riley Skywalker.

Seems to make "cents"....

Riley: "Mom, I'll make a deal with you. I'll give you .80 cents and you give me .90."

Me: *silence*---who is this girl!?

I tell you what people--dont take loans out from Bank of Riley...she seems to have interest figured out.

Karate Kid

This is how our discussion with Riley went upon picking her up from school the other day:

Berns: "Riley, how was school?"

Riley: "A kid in my class tried to kiss me! Gross!"

Berns: "Well thats no good. What did you tell him?"

Riley: "I told him this: 'I can do karate- I can do it now!'"

Berns: *silent extremem laughter*


That's my girl!!