Parental Idiosyncrasies...

This is my family. I love them. They are great. One of my favorite things about these people?...I have really funny parents. If you know me, you probably know Stuart and Michelle, and that right there is nuff said. If you don't know them, well, they are hilarious. Since it's thanksgiving I wanted to highlight some of the reasons I am thankful for them, and love them. Mostly I was thinking of a lot of funny things they say or do. It makes me want to just go hug them right now. Maybe you can get a laugh from them too.

• Once when I woke up before school in junior high, I walked down the hall and saw my mom on the couch eating hot fudge with a spoon straight out of the jar. I asked her why she was eating it by itself (meaning that it probably wasn't good for breakfast) to which she responded matter of factly, "well it's too early for ice cream."
  
• Once at a ward function, there was smoke in the kitchen from something burning. My dad went in there to help them clean it up. He brought the vacuum with him and started to vacuum up the smoke. It didn't really work. ha I love my dad.
• Most parents discourage the use of BB guns or explosives. When we got a BB gun for Christmas a few years ago my mom also bought us a box of those glass ball Christmas ornaments and a bag of little plastic animals to shoot. And we all had a great time setting them up in the back yard and destroying them.
  
• Kyle would always tell my dad totally bogus facts about things, just cause my dad is really gullible. I think our whole family is pretty gullible actually. but it was hilarious when kyle and I would keep it going, and when he was falling for it, our dad would get this high pitched voice that would say, "oh come on now, you are pulling my leg!" or a low pitched drawn out, "Naaaaahhhhhhh. now kyle. I dont' know about that" if he was doubting.
• Once at the carwash my mom and I spent about twenty minutes making fun of a woman who was taking boxes of blueberries out of her car. We aren't exactly the healthiest family, we enjoy mostly refined white flour and snack food, so blueberries were just hilarious to us. What on earth would you do with a box of blueberries? Well, we came up with some funny ideas. For days after that I would get texts or voicemails from my mom about blueberries.
  
• Once when me and a bunch of friends were downstairs watching a movie, my mom came in the room carrying the BB gun and said, "Bell, you gotta come try this, this is really fun!". So I followed her upstairs, and she showed me how she had been shooting the snails crawling up our house with the BB gun. I think Emilie said something like wow, our parents think completely opposite of each other. :)
• it's funny when my dad cries during touching movies. usually it's in remember the titans or another touching sports or Christmas movie.
  
• Phrases my parents use:
• You little turkey lip! -dad
• this is a good quality item -dad
• you little lazy bum -mom
• men don't look under things -mom
• men follow you around messing up what you just cleaned -mom
• men don't think that far in advance -mom
• stuart, I just said that -mom
• you need to be a little more pleasant kellie -dad
  
• hey belltone (one of mom's nicknames for me)! -mom, followed by, Michelle! she is not a hearing aid! -dad
• mom's nicknames for me and kyle: kell, kell bell, beltone, beltini, bellisima, bell bottom, kelty, bells, ky, kyty, killer ky, tiny mite. This woman is creative I tell you. and I love it.
  

Well, that's all that's really all I have thought of for now. They are so funny. I love my parents. I'm glad they both have such good sense's of humor, and love me. They are great.

today's fact for good health...

The title of this blog is a reminder necessary for keeping good health, is it not? In keeping with the spirit of that, I would like tell you another fact for a healthy life.

This is a Daphnia, aka waterflea. They are really tiny little buggers, this pic is under the scope.



Disgusting? Yes. I am fully aware. I have had to stare at them for a long time today.

I have learned about him and grown to love him as a close friend the past little while as I have studied about him in my biology lab-despite his see-through grossyness. My group (which is me and two other girls)was assigned to do an experiment with Daphnia (multiple daphnia, in fact our teacher has a whole fishbowl full of 'em). We chose to see what substances would affect their heartrate, since you can see their heartbeats really well under a microscope.

In water his heartbeat is about 200. In apple juice it's about 50. And here's where we get to the health part.

this is a popular energy beverage of today's society.



Tasting of lime sherbet and smarties, it is packed with b vitamins, guarine, taurine, and caffeine.

We chose a little daphnia that was swimming around like a champ, put him on the slide and put TWO DROPS of rockstar on him. Boom. Dead. Heart stopped. kicked the bucket. gonzo. done. Poor little fella. It was fatal.

But maybe he was just wimpy, so we got another little guy and put him on the slide.

He swam around for like two seconds aaaaaand... croak. on to the next life. Do you think there are Daphnia in the spirit world? If there are, welp, then they had a flood of em coming home today, cause they just couldn't handle the process. Sorry sorta...
It was cardiac arrest I'm pretty sure. yikes.

OK, MORAL: aka, health fact.

don't drink Rockstar. Its a killer. Imagine what it does to your poor innards. don't do it.

Lifting Burdens-The Atonement

How lucky are we to know all of these things? That we have Prophets and Apostles of God to give us such an obvious formula for happiness? We are SO lucky.
Most of the world doesn't have it, I bet half have no idea it's even possible to have such a blessing. I love this Church. I am lucky and I know it. :)