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.