Favorite Things

Today's assignment is a list of 20 of my favorite things so here they are in no particular order.

1. my dog -Daisy is the best dog in the whole world.

2. my new Kia.

3. ipod touch

4. LaTolteca -best mexican restaurant by me!

5. my house-

6. Disneyland

7. the beach -any beach!

8. Facebook -sad but true

9. my bed!

10. Diet coke :)

11. autumn

12. swimming

13. BBQ's

14. my scentsy warmer

15. Christmas!

16. airplanes

17. my kiddos

18. going out to dinner

19. being outside

20. boating

Favorite Movie

Tonight's post is my favorite movie. I LOVE movies! We have tons of them and I have several "favorites" but whenever anyone asks me this question I always say "Steel Magnolias" That is definitely at the top of my list. Sierra and I just watched it together a couple of months ago and we laughed and cried together. Some of my other favorites include some Julia Roberts movies, Pretty Woman, My Best Friends Wedding, Runaway Bride. I love romantic comedies The Wedding Planner, Letters to Juliet, Leap Year, New In Town, You've Got Mail...there are a lot! Our current favorite Disney movie is Tangled. Love that one! Haylee now refuses to cut her hair so she can be Rapunzel for Halloween -I have been trying to get her to do that for years!!! Thank you Disney!

The kids and I are always using movie lines when we talk to each other, the following are favorites:

"Sorry, I was just looking at that bird over there" Bob from Monsters vs. Aliens

"A frying pan. Who knew right?" -Flynn Ryder from Tangled

"I guess [insert random act here] is frowned upon in this establishment!" the E-trade baby -that one is actually a commercial but we use it all the time.

"Llama faaaace" Emperor Kuzco from Emperor's New Groove

"Olo" "uh, it's 'hello'" from Megamind

"I've never gone 99% on anything and I think I'm AWESOME!" from Horton Hears a Who

"Is this Burt from accounting?" again Horton Hears a Who

"Pucker up and kiss it Whoville!" How the Grinch Stole Christmas

"Uh oh, someone's FABULOUS!" again How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Whenever we try on new clothes we like to act out the part of the Grinch where he is trying on outfits to go to the Christmas Whovilation and he walks back and forth and poses saying "ooooooo.....ahhhh.....mmmmm....That's it! I'm not going!" it usually ends with "That's it! I love this shirt!" or something of that nature. We are dorks, I know!

There are so many more lines we like to use! It is frustrating me that I can't think of them!!! They just come to us in the moment. All of my kids have a knack for comedic timing so we laugh a lot and movie quotes are a big part of that.

To finish my movie post here are some movies we are DYING to see this summer: Transformers 3, Harry Potter 7 Part 2, Green Lantern, Cars 2, Pirates and Kung Fu Panda (I know these are out but we haven't seen them yet)

Haylee funny #100,724...

Tonight Haylee and I had the following conversation:

Haylee: Mom, am I irish?

Me: No, you have some scottish in you and some german.

Haylee: Scottish? What does that mean? What do they do?

Me: uhhhh...they play the bagpipes.

Haylee: (indignantly) And wear plaid????

Me: yes, they wear plaid.

Haylee: (who used to despise plaid and refuse to wear anything plaid) Well, honestly mom I can say I'm starting to like plaid. Just a little bit though.

She is such a nerd. :)

One more from today:

Haylee: Mom is it impossible to hold completely still since the world is spinning?

...... I don't even know how to answer that! That's one of those if a tree falls in the forrest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound questions. lol

A favorite song

Okay, todays blog assignment is to post my favorite song.... that is a tough one. I love music. LOVE it! I don't really have a favorite genre anymore. I used to be a country girl through and through but I mostly listen to pop music these days. Well pop and country are about 70/30 respectively. :) On my ipod you can find songs like "Mormon Rap" to Tupac and Dr. Dre's "California Love" you could come across just about anything. Just had a great idea, instead of posting my favorite song since I don't have one specifically I will put my ip0d on shuffle, post the titles of the first 10 songs that play and why I like them. Whatever happens don't judge me.... lol

1. Sean Kingston: "Shawty's like a melody in my head" - love Sean Kingston, his songs have great beats and he doesn't use profanity!!! Woo hoo!

2. Cee Lo Green: "Forget you" -this song is super popular right now, I just like it, catchy little tune.

3. Nikki Blonsky: "I can hear the Bells" from the musical Hairspray. I LOVE THIS SONG!!! I turn it up in the car and sing along.

4. Laurie Berkner: "Bumble Bee (Buzz Buzz)" this is a total kiddie song that Haylee and I have been singing since she was like 2 - we turn this up and sing along too. :)

5. Taylor Swift: "Should've said No" -- love Taylor Swift! She is awesome!

6. Jason Mraz: "I'm Yours" love this song too, love that it is simple, I never skip this when it comes on.

7. Katy Perry: "California Gurls (featuring Snoop Dog) - love the beat of this song

8. Garth Brooks: "To make you feel my love" such a sweet love song From the movie Hope Floats

9. Brad Paisley: "I'm gonna Miss Her" - I adore Brad Paisley!

10. Miley Cyrus: "Party in the USA" -I turn this up, sing AND dance in the car. I could blame this on Sierra but it's not true I love this song!

So there ya go, my favorite song changes from day to day pretty much. We download tons of music at our house, the last song I bought off of itunes was Scotty McCreery's "I love you this big" LOVE that song. My current favorite for sure!

All about me -in a month or so

I am stealing this from my friend Rebekah because I have loved learning about her this last month and think she is awesome! Plus it is a good record of my life right now which I think is a fab idea for my posterity who will no doubt think I am super cool and want to learn more about me! The idea is to write about certain things everyday sooo..here we go.... I'll start with a current pic. :)

I think this pic sums me up (well at least for this last week) I like to be outside, I am very ready for summer, I have big kids, I do not have to swim, I get to relax by the pool, I have been waiting 17+ years for this moment, it is blissful!
Okay for the the first day I am supposed to tell you five things that have shaped me most as a person.... hmmm... tough question.

1. My religion. I am a mormon. We are Christians. We are not weirdos -well most of us I can't speak for everyone . :) We believe in Christ. We believe that families can be together forever. The gospel brings me so much peace and happiness. I know that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me and who cares about the smallest concerns in my life. Miracles are everywhere. If you want to know more you can go to mormon.org.

2. My children. My whole life all I ever wanted to be was a mom. I used to fill out a questionnaire in my journal about once a year and every time I filled out the "what do you want to be when you grow up" the answer was always "a mom" that is still my answer. My children are the most important people in my life (along with my hubby of course) I put them before a career, money, time for myself, fancy vacations. And I wouldn't change a thing. I love being a stay at home mom. I hope I am doing a good job. So far my kiddos are honor roll students, good leaders, great examples, they are hilarious and gorgeous and none of them has ever been arrested...hopefully this is a sign they are all on the right track and that I am still in the running for mother of the year. Although I did wreck D's car a couple months ago....not sure if I am still a front runner due to that incident. :)

3. My divorce. I was married to HD and Sierra's dad for 5 years. We were married very young and it was not easy. This shaped me as a person because I became more confident and found out who I was through the process. It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to go through but I am so glad I did!

4. My husband. Joe is amazing. He is the hardest working person I have ever met in my entire life. If I ask him to do something for me, it's done. That very minute if he can. He takes such good care of me. He has an awesome job and has earned all of the respect and promotion he has received. I know that I come first in his life. He loves me unconditionally, he is the first person in my life that I have known that.

5. The military. This has definitely shaped who I am! It has been a part of my life for the last 14 years or so. Being a military spouse is not easy. You live in great places, you live in not so great places. You move, if you don't move your friends move. It is sad but then new friends move in and things are happy again. Our family motto is "Bloom Where you are Planted" we try to live by this. You can bloom anywhere if you try hard enough. I am a very lucky military spouse for a lot of reasons. My husband does not deploy. Ever. The longest we have ever been apart is like 37 days. That is unheard of in the military. I am so grateful. Because of his job now we will be stationed here until he retires. All of the guys he works with are in the same boat so we do have a lot of friends who don't move either. That is a HUGE blessing.

So that's a little bit about me to start off. I hope you enjoyed learning a few things. Heck! I think I even learned a few things!

P.S. My nine year old is still awake and it's 11 o'clock pm on a school night...does that make me a bad mom? I hope not because this happens almost every night. What can I say the kid is a night owl like her mama, and for the record I put her to bed at 10, and also for the record she is home schooled so being up until 11 isn't too big of a deal. I just hope this doesn't put me even further out of the running for mom of the year after this. :)

4A Baseball State Semi-Finals

HD's high school team won their region championship last Friday and yesterday they played in the state semi-finals for the 4A schools in the state of Maryland. They played at the University of Maryland. It was so cool! Before the game they introduced each player over the loud speaker, then they played the National Anthem. HD was the captain of the JV team this year. They had a great record and he started every game playing short stop. A few players from the JV team got "called up" to varsity for the playoff's HD was one of them. He didn't play yesterday but it was still very cool to be on the field and to have his name announced over the loudspeaker. They played the best team in the state, Westminster they are undefeated. They lost 11-2 but made some great plays and had a good attitude about how far they went. One of the top four schools in the state!!!

Waiting in the dugout to be introduced

The team after introductions -I took a video of this so I don't have any closer pics of when D came out

The coaches shaking hands and exchanging rosters

Getting ready for the National Anthem

In the huddle- "DEFENSE!"

Watching the action

Out of the dugout for fist bumping and encouragement

uh same picture...I couldn't get it to delete sorry :)

Sitting in the dugout

Shaking hands after the game

So cool to have played on a University field!!!

Haylee-isms

Two more Haylee funnies:

We were doing school and she got frustrated and the conversation went like this

Haylee: That's it! I quit!

Me: You can't quit it's against the rules of school, the #1 rule is no quitting

Haylee: Well since I just quit the rules don't apply to me any more!

Me: Touche'

I mean can you argue with that logic?

The second one we were at Joe's work for his promotion ceremony. Joe's big boss was there, the head honcho, the guy in charge of everyone....he is a Colonel -after the ceremony Haylee asked me if she could go over and talk to him. I said sure thinking she just wanted to shake his hand since she had seen him on TV.

About the time she got over to him I realized I better get my hiney over there because with Haylee, as you well know, you never know what will come out of her mouth. I see the Col. bending down and laughing a bit when I get there I hear this part of the conversation..

Col.: Popcorn? (laughing)

Haylee: Yeah, when you rank up are you going to be popcorn? (laughing a bit as she says this)

Col: (quizzical look)

Haylee: ya, know cause now you are a "kernel" so when you rank up you'll be popcorn.

Col.: (cracks up) and tells her he is going to use that joke.

Me: (really wants to say, uh sorry about that crazy kid Sir. I'll go find her mother) but what can I do? I laugh too. That kid is funny!!! Glad he thought so!