Never a Dull Moment

Saturday, November 22, 2008

I love your blog award

My friend Jamie tagged me so here it is.....

This post is in honor of the "I Love Your Blog Award." I now have to answer each of the questions with a one word answer.

1. Where is your phone? pocket
2. Where is your significant other? Eric's
3. Your hair color? blonde
4. Your Mother? fabulous!
5. Your Father? lost
6. Your favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? ???
8. Your dream/goal? organization
9. The room you're in? living
10. Your hobby? sewing
11. Your fear? sadness
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? healthy
13. Where were you last night? airport
14. What you're not? quiet
15. One of your wish-list items? time
16. Where you grew up? Utah
17. The last thing you ate? lunch
18. What are you wearing? clothes
19. Your TV? off
20. Your pet? AWESOME
21. Your computer? addictive!
22. Your mood? carefree
23. Missing someone? always
24. Your car? Kia
25. Something you're not wearing? shoes
26. Favorite store? Target
27. Your Summer? boat
28. Love someone? yes!
29. Your favorite color? red
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? unsure

I now award five people the "I Love Your Blog Award."
1. Sara
2. Heather N
3. Candice
4. Song
5. Teresa

***On a side note I HATE these one word answer things because I am such a chatty it is VERY hard for me to just answer with one word! :)

Thursday, November 20, 2008

How well do my kids know me?

I have seen this on a few friends blogs and I wanted to see what my kids had to say....

Here we go:

Q1. What is something mom always says to you?
HD: Stop bothering your sisters
Sierra: "You say 'come here' alot" - I guess I am always needing her lol
Haylee: I love you

Q2. What makes mom happy?
D: Clean rooms
S: presents
Haylee: my love

Q3. What makes mom sad?
D: When our chores aren't done
S: When we are mean to each other
H: I don't know

Q4. What makes mom laugh?
D: me
S: when I say "Is this Burt from accounting?" - (that's a line from Horton Hears a Who and it cracks me up every time)
H: jokes

Q5. What was your mom like as a kid?
D: bad -(what the heck???)
S: undiciplined (alright who is making up stories about my childhood?!?)
H: cute

Q6. How old is your mom?
D: 33
S: 33
H: 33

Q7. How tall is your mom?
D: 5'5
S: 5'3
H: 5'30 -(she really did say 5 feet 30 inches -wow!)

Q8. What is her favorite thing to do:
D: talk on the phone
S: play bejewled
H: blog

Q9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
D: talk on the phone
S: get down on her knees and says "THEY'RE FINALLY GONE!" -she's very close! ha ha
H: get on the computer

Q10. If your mom becomes famous what will it be for?
D: loving her children -(he really wanted to say talking on the phone!)
S: comedy
H: singing

Q11. What is your mom really good at?
D: preparing lessons for church
S: cooking - (she must be thinking of someone else on this one!)
H: Bejeweled 2

Q12. What is your mom not very good at?
D: video games - except for the Wii
S: putting songs on my ipod
H: there is nothing that you are not good at (she is my sweet baby)

Q13. What does your mom do for her job?
D: photography
S: photography
H: photography -(after this she said "I mean you are really good at it. Have you seen the pictures that you do?")

Q14. What is your moms favorite food?
D: homeade caramels
S: chicken
H: I have no idea

Q15. What makes you proud of your mom?
D: that she has a strong spirit
S: everything you do for primary
H: how much you love us

Q16. If your mom were a cartoon character who would she be?
D: Daffy Duck - he is cracking up right now he said it's because I can get really mad but I can be nice 3 seconds later. (yikes - can you say mood swings? ha ha)
S: can't think of one
H: Minnie Mouse

Q17. What do you and your mom do together?
D: play the Wii
S: sew
H: school

Q18. How are you and your mom the same?
D: we have brown eyes
S: we both have wonderful personalities
H: we are both cute

Q19. How are you different?
D: I'm still in school
S: I have blue eyes
H: I don't have pierced ears

Q20. How do you know your mom loves you?
D: she drives me everywhere I need to go
S: does my laundry
H: she snuggles me

There you go! That was fun! I think we'll do it again in a year...if I'm not too busy talking on the phone! :) Happy Thursday everyone!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Happy Seventh Birthday Haylee Jo!

Thursday November the 6th Haylee turned SEVEN! WOW! I can't believe the last year has gone by so quickly!!! This year we started a new birthday tradition...Birthday Wishes. You get a wish for each year you are old. Haylee was really excited to spend her seven wishes

Wish #1 Pancakes for breakfast

YUMMY!

Wish#2 NO SCHOOL! -there aren't any pictures of this one

Wish #3 a luxurious bubble bath

She was in there for an hour!

opening presents - no wish needed here -

Pokemon Cards! Yessss!!!

A chemistry set from Grandma Chelle!

And drumroll please..... AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR! She wanted one of these so badly!

Very exciting!

Look at that awesome pink!

-that awesome pink set me back 10 more bucks than just the plain one!

Dad rockin' out before he left for work.

Oh yeah and now he's BALD!

Bad haircut = shaving your own head totally bald! :)

Wish #4 - making things explode...well not quite.

Wish #5 eating dinner on the couch while watching TV

-Usually a big no no!

Wish #6 was an extra bedtime story - no pictures of that one either.

Wish #7 was to go see Madagascar 2 on Friday - it was HYSTERICAL!

So the wishes were for the actual day of her birthday today -Saturday- we had her party. It was a carnival theme and we had a BLAST! The pictures of the kids actually playing the games were pretty blurry -Joe wasn't using the flash - but here is what we did...

The first game we played was "Lucky Cups" throw a ball into the cup

and try to hit the colored ones for points.

Then we did a bean bag toss.

Here is a random picture of the cake. I have never in my life stacked

a cake and decorated it. It was fun!

What do you think?

The table

the decorations

the cupcakes...decorated by Haylee

the adult friends from r to l

Eric, Ally (little friend), Lisa, Troy, Erica, Meta, Sheena, Hermione, and Matt

What a fab group! T and E drove all the way from Pennsylvania!

The kids picking their bean bags. Sierra and I made them.

The cake with the candles

Singing to the birthday girl

The mysterious fortune tellers. You should have heard some of their awesome predictions.

*If you put on your coat....you will be warm.

*You will recieve presents on December 25th.

*You will recieve a treat before the end of the day.

Scary how right on they were!

Here is the mysterious fortune teller on another day. I mentioned above how Sierra and I made the bean bags. I have been teaching her how to sew and she is LOVING it. She is making a rag quilt for a Young Women's project. I have had such a great time teaching her.

She is doing GREAT!

Cutting fabric while grandma was here.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Halloween 2008

Happy Halloween everyone! We had a really fun Halloween and I think we ended up with more candy than we started with!!! Yikes! I think we will be giving it away as Christmas presents! I don't have any pictures of HD and Sierra as they are way too cool to hang out with me long enough for that! :) HD trick or treated with his buddies they all wore capes and went as teenagers wearing capes. Ha Ha! Sierra was a pirate and had a really cute costume but she was at Bolling AFB with her friend Tasha they trick or treated over there and then had a sleep over. I talked to her last night and she said they got a ton of candy and had a blast. So that leaves me with my youngest - thank goodness she's still too young to ditch me!- Haylee was Indiana Jones. Her favorite part of the costume was the whip. We went out with our friends and ended up having about 10 kids in our trick or treat party. We were all worn out last night! Hope you all had a fun night as well!

Indiana Jones and her sidekick Daisy

Can you tell how much Daisy loves wearing this hat?

Indi at sunset

Keeping the front porch under control!

Whapsh!

And now kind of an added post with pictures of our sweet Daisy dog.

I honestly don't know what we would do without her!

Our sweet girl.

I have pictures from carving pumpkins too but that will have to wait for another day! :)

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Old Friends

Tonight I went to a meeting at church (it was Stake Auxillary Training for those of you who know what I am talking about) :) - One of the best things about going is not just learning new things but getting to see a bunch of people from around the area that I don't get to see that often. I went into one of the other rooms tonight looking for my friend Cyndi, I took her daughters senior pictures and I was giving her the proofs on CD, I find her chat for a moment when I happen to look up and see my friend Colleen from Edwards AFB, CA!!! We were in the same ward at Edwards and I just LOVE HER! I knew she was in the area somewhere but I didn't realize that she was in my Stake! I haven't seen Colleen in four years but there she was in the same room as me! :) It seriously made my whole night!
Military life is hard. Your friends become your family. Most people don't understand that. It's our friends who are there at our kids baptisms, our friends who are there when it's our birthday, our firends who are there to help us when life is falling apart, friends who are there when you have a baby. Not having family around me has made me a stronger person than I ever thought possible. I am so blessed and thankful for the friends that have been there during all those special moments of my life and extra grateful for the ones that have been in it more than once! We have another set of friends moving to this base next May. It is so fun to reconnect after beign apart for a few years and to do it for longer than just a visit is AWESOME! :) To all of my military friends - I LOVE YOU! Thank you for always being there when I need you and for being such an amazing extended family!

Monday, October 20, 2008

I've been tagged!

My friend Teresa tagged "everyone!" to do this so here is mine. :)

You post the fourth picture from the fourth folder in your pictures. Here it is...

It is the tree in our front yard after an ice storm last February. Right before I went out to take the pictures the sun was shining and the tree was all lit up. As soon as I grabbed the camera and went out there it was cloudy again! Bummer... Here are some of the other pictures I took that day.

It was really cool how the ice was coated on the branches.

PS These pictures look much better if they are bigger! Click on each picture to see it up close. :)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The Pumpkin Patch

On Monday we went on our yearly outing to the pumpkin patch. We went with our friends Rob, Michelle, and Tyler of course! :) It was unseasonably warm around 80 degrees but that is cooler than when we went last year! Last year the temperature was 98! The kids had a great time and we got some big pumpkins for a great price! Can't beat that! Here is our day....

My three pumpkins