Crawford Family Trivia

On Monday morning, Oct. 3rd, I went to the funeral of my friend, Steve Calabrese. He was a wonderful, kind and hilarious man who I admire very much. His step-daughter talked about fun family trips they had in the car and how they would play movie trivia and even family trivia!

That got me to thinking that I have never done something like that and we really needed a fun and memorable family home evening so I started digging through old family letters and this blog for some fun questions and memories. There was much to be found!

Dad and Tess showing their answers. They look like they had fun!

Rustin (trying to cover-up in his blanket) shows his answer board. He had more fun drawing all over his board than anything!

Liv used on of our huge white boards and was on the stairs showing us her GIANT answers.

Chloe used a clip board and took this very seriously!

And the winner is... TESS! All the girls did really well and were right behind Tess. The boys... not so much! 

 Here is our quiz! Take it yourself and see if you can beat Tess (hopefully you can beat Rustin at least!)

1. On our first boat regatta, what was the name of Rustin and Chloe’s boat?

a. Rustoe         b. Chlustin         c. Rudy-co

2. In the first boat regatta, how long did the boat,  Tessivia, stay afloat?

a. 35 min.          b. 55 min.          c. 65 min.

3. What was the name of Olivia’s frog she brought home from the Gallman’s birthday party?

a. Hopper         b. Skipper           c. Jumper

4. All 3 sisters, plus Josie and Hailey, made Rustin a happy birthday sign on the garage, blew up balloons and baked him a cake while he was gone at football on his birthday when he was turning…

a. 11                   b. 12                  c. 13

5.  How long did Mom and Dad date before they got married?

a. 14 months         b. 20 months         c. 2 years

6. One night in Sept. 2008, 14 year old Tess was battling a majorly big spider covered in baby spiders downstairs by herself. She decided to kill it with

a. Spotshot                  b. 409         c. Spray-n-wash

7.  At a gymnastics mini-meet when Chloe was 10 and Liv was 8, Mom dropped and broke the video camera, one camera wouldn’t work, and she left the back up camera at home. Then she missed one of Chloe’s routines because they changed the order. Mom was so upset that she

a. Left         b. Swore         c. Cried

8. When watching news reports about people in California protesting against the church because we supported the marriage amendment, prop. 8, who said, “I bet Pres. Monson is getting a lot of crap these days!”

a. Dad         b. Chloe         c. Tess

9. The day before Obama’s inauguration in 2009, we honored him by

a. going shooting with Bill and Liza,         b. blowing darts at his effigy c. Reading the Constitution

10. When Tess was a baby, she was eating her shoe and I told her to stop eating it. I said, “We don’t eat shoes!” Tess replied by saying, “We only eat…..”

a. Cookies         b. Yogurt         c. Bagels

11. In 1996, on our way to move to Arizona, Dad pulled over to check the tires. A cop came to our car window and told us to leave right away because we had accidentally pulled into a

a. Crime scene         b. Prison         c. Movie set where they were filming

12. Besides, “Mama” and “Dada” all of the kids’ first word was…

a. Hi                  b. Mine         c. No!

13. In 1998, all the kid’s favorite game to play with Daddy was…

a. Bull                  b. Tickle fight         c. Uno

14. When Rustin was 5 years old, he said he wanted us to ONLY call him…

a. Rudy         b. Rustin         C. Russ

15. When Chloe was little, she called a suitcase a…

a. A Soup-case                  b. A Trip-bag         c. A Pack-it

16. In first grade Olivia wore sneakers every day to school and she told me it was so she could chase boys on the play ground and …

a. Kiss them                  b. Kick them                  c. Punch them

Answers:

a,c,b,c,a,a,c,b,a,c,b,a,a,c,c,a

Thanks, Steve, for the great idea! BEST FAMILY NIGHT EVER!!!!

General Conference Weekend :)

This year, to make General Conference weekend even more special, I decided to make a big yummy breakfast (crepes!) and invite my parents over to eat and watch the Sunday morning session with us. 

I'm so glad I did!

"Mom made breakfast?!! This must be a holiday or a MIRACLE!"

We had a zillion things to put in and on our crepes and stuffed ourselves silly!

Then we relaxed as we listened to the words of the prophets and apostles and other church leaders. What an amazing opportunity we are blessed with twice a year!

It has been many years coming, but I was so pleased with how reverent my kids were so Grandma and Grandpa (and all of us) could really hear and feel the messages being delivered to our home.

We wear our Sunday clothes to help us remember it's the Sabbath Day and to help us be more reverent. I was so happy when my parents showed up in their church clothes too! Must be where I get it from! 

Rustin is camped out on the floor underneath the blue blankets you see at the bottom of the picture. He stayed awake!

Mary Anne's Birthday!

 We had a yummy dinner on July 2, 2011 at our house with the Koskis and Wilsons to celebrate my wonderful mother's birthday (July 3rd). 

We had made her a tie-dye apron the day before but it didn't really turn out like we'd hoped, so we made her a tie-dye apron cake instead! It was the colors of the original apron (pretty much) and we added the famous "Rollersaurus" to the pocket! The inside of the cake was tie-dye too. We made 4 different colors of cake batter from a white cake mix and swirled them together. It worked great!

Once again, Peter is the star of the show! Tess is wearing one of the tie-dye aprons.

Happy Birthday Grandma!!!

Lake Mead Vacation!

Russ is snoozing hard demonstrating what a wonderful and relaxing our week at Lake Mead was with our new friends, the Smiths. Oct. 8-15, 2011

Chloe and Liv and I came up to the top deck of the boat after a swim and found Daddy cuttin' some zzzzz's

Russ and Rick and Allison all grew up in Boise, Idaho and graduated from high school in 1982, 84 and 86. They have so much fun talking about the good ol' days in Idaho and all the friends they have in common although they didn't know each other back then.

Russ, cousin Sydney, Miranda Smith, and Sydney's friend, Dan, are sitting around the big square table in the middle of the main living room cabin of the houseboat where we ate our meals, watched movies, and played LOTS and LOTS of card games! Mostly; Five Crowns, Egyptian Rat-race, war, Speed, Fast Sundays and we even played a little Risk and "What if...then"

Rustin trying to decide what his next move's gonna be.

Jacob Standiford (Hillary Smith's boyfriend) and Miranda in a heated card battle

Russ dealing out a game for him and Tess while Rustin is acting like Rustin.

Bentley on the far end of the table was a total crack up! He was so much fun to be around and had tons of fun with Rustin!

Olivia and Chloe and I had tons of fun up on the top having a dance party where we watched Olivia's moves and made up crazy themed dances, that often involved acting like we were throwing ourselves over the railing into the lake below. I'm making the face that Olivia makes when she does her best, funkiest dance! She does it better though!

Tess the wakeboarder is back! Although we don't have our own boat, Tess learned to wakeboard when she was pretty young and LOVES it as well as being quite good at it!

I can't help it, but the crash pictures are as fun as anything else!

Olivia all bundled up during our morning boat ride. 

Rustin is scowling because he didn't wear his contacts all week and when he doesn't he is always squinting or scowling.

Rustin and Bentley cutting up the water with the Jet Skis out on Lake Mead

Chloe showing us a great crash as she's trying to do a little wakeboarding

Now she's up and doing great!

I love this scared face. She is not thrilled about going over the wake!

We loved this cute little duck couple was always close to our boat. We called them Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

One of the many cool features of the houseboat was the slide off the back. 

We could only slide off it when the ski boat was out in the water and not tied to the back of the houseboat. GO LIVVY!

Liv doing a great pose before she hits the water!

Tess looks like she's riding on Shamu in this picture. She LOVED the Jet Skis!!!

Biting her tongue and riding hard!

Bentley making us laugh our heads off proving to his dad that this Personal Floatation Device does NOT flip you over on your stomach if you are unconscious in the water.

My cute husband!

Taking off for our one and only tube ride (the tube had a leak in it already).

Bentley, Olivia and Rustin getting blown around and soon Bentley is thrown off the side by a sharp turn!

Chloe hops on and little does she know it's about to get a lot worse!

A big turn and a big wake spells craziness! Olivia is on the water and Rustin looks like he's about to land on her! Chloe is nowhere to be seen!!!

Now they're all gone!

Here they are and surprisingly, no one is hurt and everyone is smiling!

Rustin's turn for some wake surfing. He wakeboarded earlier when I wasn't on the boat and hurt his already injured ear drum (from tubing this summer) so it was only surfing and jet skis for him after that.

When you wake surf, you don't hold onto a rope after you get up. You just let the enormous wake push you along and surf on it. IT'S A BLAST! Rustin is fighting to get back in front of the wake. He's going to get left behind if he doesn't move up quick!

Just had to show the gorgeous water and Rustin's killer calves!

Here goes Tess on the wake surfboard. She's got her concentration face on.

Now she's playing in the water and telling us she loves us (posing for cool picture!) in ASL.

She was amazing at wake surfing and could just ride along forever!

This is one of my many crashes! I finally got the hang of it on Saturday (the day we left) and man was is a blast to find that groove in the wave and just ride and have fun!!!

Allison loves her daughter, Miranda, and gives her a smooch on the boat. 

Olivia is fighting to get up on the wakeboard for the first time in her life!

Oh ya! She gets up and gets a cool pose in, just like Tess!

Oh no! She's going down! Great crash shot!!

Olivia bites her lip when concentrating!

So does Rustin...

Tess too!

Chloe is the queen of funny tongue and lip biting!

This is as close as I got to biting my lip. 

Allison got great pictures of Russ which I will add when I get the CD from her.

Chloe has got the wake surfing down (at least for the moment) and gives us a smile!

 What a cute girl!!!

Miranda and Chloe went on a "treasure hunt" and found a swampy area full of junky treasures. This grass growing kick board was their favorite!

Here are their other treasures. Chloe put on two of these flip flops so she could walk around and get more stuff! Ewwww!!

After Tess and Rustin left for youth conference at Camp LoMia (on Thurs.) Chloe took good care of Miranda.

When Rustin left, Olivia took over his room and was loving just chilling with her favorite snack and movie after a long day in the sun.

I'm standing at the back end of the houseboat and looking towards the front. There are six bedrooms along the hallway on the left (3 upstairs and 3 down) and three bathrooms on the right. This is the biggest houseboat at the Callville Bay Marina and the Smiths got it for free from their company for a whole week!

Bentley, Rick, Miranda, Jacob, Hillary, Allison, Chloe and Russ in the kitchen on our last day.

 Miranda watching "The Tourist" with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie while Russ fiddles with the panel of switches.

Here she is, the "XS1." Our lovely home for the week!

XS1 parked in Rufus Bay and the M1, Allison's parents' boat is parked just on the other side of the hill from us. They were a fun group to hang out with too (Anne and Rjay, Lynn and Dave, Florence and George)