8 TV Shows I enjoy watching:
1. American Idol
2. Amazing Race
3. Clean House
4. NCIS
5. Criminal Minds
6. What Not To Wear
7. Yard Crashers
8. The Unit
8 Things that happened yesterday:
1. I made vanilla blueberry scones for breakfast.
2. Tucker was sick all day long and missed his basketball game.
3. Talia went to Girl Scout Thinking Day.
4. Talia and I sold Girl Scout cookies for 2 hours in freezing cold weather.
5. My mom, sister Betsy, and her little girl were visiting for the weekend.
6. I took Tucker to 7-Eleven for a slurpee to help his sore throat.
7. I took my mom and sister to the Bungalow Bread Store for cinnamon chip bread.
8. I watched the Secret Life of Bees with my mom and sister, Betsy. It was a very good movie but a little sad.
8 Things I am looking forward to:
1. Tucker getting over his sickness and finally feeling better.
2. Talia and I going to Wicked in March.
3. Trent and I going on a date next Saturday to his work party.
4. Visiting my parents during spring break at the end of March.
5. Jeppson/Smith Girls weekend in March.
6. Portland temple opening after being closed almost a month!
7. Getting a new roof on my house and painting the outside. (the finished product)
8. Watching American Idol this week. (I'm reaching here.)
8 Things on my wish list:
1. having another baby
2. Trip to someplace tropical with my husband.
3. Trip to Disneyland or Disneyworld with my family.
4. new kitchen cupboards and bathroom vanities.
5. Being thinner and fitting into smaller sized clothing.
6. Fixing up the other half of my yard.
7. Bigger yard
8. Dining room without carpet.
8 Things Trent did yesterday:
1. Replaced some trim boards on our house.
2. Took some garbage to the dump.
3. Exercised on the eliptical.
4. took a nap
5. Took care of the Tucker while I was selling Girl Scout cookies.
6. Searched the internet for boats and speakers for his boat (he does this daily).
7. watched tv and movies with the kids.
8. ate some Girl Scout cookies
8 People I Tag:
1. Emily
2. Jennifer
3. Brittany
4. Chantelle
5. Becky
6. Jodi
7. Sheri
8. Sharee
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
A Trip to the Beach
We were hoping to go to the beach on Valentine's day but there was chance of rain and we didn't want to risk driving out there for the day and have yucky weather. The kids and I ended up going on President's Day and it was beautiful. They had 8:00 a.m. dentist appointments and neither of them had cavities. Yeah! After their dentis appointment we went home and packed. We went to the Pacific City beach, which is our favorite beach. There is a big sand hill and tidepools in addition to a great beach. We took our dog, Tate, to the beach and this was his first time and he loved it. I never realized how many dogs are not on leashes at the beach and one dog tried to bite him and so he got scared of all the dogs after that. The weather was in the high 40's and there was very little wind. We climbed the sand hill first and then looked around in the tide pools. Talia and Tucker wore their swimming suits because I knew that even though it was still winter my children would get wet. I told them only up to their knees and of course they both ended up falling and getting wet up their shoulders. I always bring extra clothes and after they fell in the water they got cold and wanted to change. The water was freezing! My kids were about the only ones in the water. Everyone else was wearing coats and there is Talia and Tucker in the water. They dug in the dirt and went up on the sand hill again. Talia buried Tucker in the sand halfway up the hill and I wasn't able to get pictures because I had stayed down below. I took lots of pictures of the kids and of the beach. I LOVE my new camera. We had to leave by 3:00 to get Talia to swimming practice at 5:45. It was a very enjoyable and we just love living close enough to the beach to come for the day.
Here they are running down the sand hill.
These pictures were taken at the top of the sand hill.
Here is a picture of the sand hill. It is quite the hike up.
Here is the view from the top of the sand hill. It is just breathtaking.
Here are the tidepools and it is fun to check them out!
Here they are running down the sand hill.
These pictures were taken at the top of the sand hill.
Here is a picture of the sand hill. It is quite the hike up.
Here is the view from the top of the sand hill. It is just breathtaking.
Here are the tidepools and it is fun to check them out!
Happy Valentines Day!
We had a fun Valentine's weekend. It started on Friday with the kid's parties at school. I was in charge of Tucker's party and it was a lot of fun. I am glad that it is over with. Talia also had a very fun party at school. They came home with lots of candy and Valentines from their friends. After school we packed and I hurried to drop the kid's off at Aunt Brooke's ( she wanted them there at 4:00 and we a little late). Aunt Brooke had a slumber party with them on the Friday night before Valentine's Day. They went and played Laser Tag and went out to eat and then watched a movie at her apartment. They woke up to waffles and strawberries and they had a wonderful time. This gave us a great opportunity to go on our Valentine's date a day early. Trent and I went went out to eat at Outback. We tried going to PF Chang's but it was a 2 hour wait and at Outback there was only a 15 minutes wait. After dinner we went to Lowe's and I like to tease Trent because we can't go on a date without going to Lowe's or Home Depot to buy something for the house. We picked up a DVD on the way home and watched it when we got home. It was nice to have some alone time. We love it when Brooke takes the kids for a sleepover. Thank you Brooke!
Talia's Music Program
Talia participated in her music program last week at school. It was about heroes and she did a wonderful job. She had a speaking part and sang a verse in a one of the songs with 3 other girls. Trent had a stockholder meeting andwasn't able to come. We brought Maysen, Talia's best friend instead. We went out for ice cream afterwards and it was an enjoyable evening.
Tucker the Basketball Player
Tucker started playing basketball in January. He has been to a couple of practices and had three games. He is doing well and has made at least one basket at all of his games. I was out of town for his second game and of course he had a great game that weekend and made several baskets. He is really enjoying it and is playing with his friends from his old school. He has an excellent coach and it has been fun to see him improve.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
25 Random and Not So Random Things About Me
I have been tagged 4 times about 25 random and things about me and so I am finally taking the plunge and going to attempt it. I warn you that they really aren’t random because I was just lucky to come with 25 things! I will be impressed if you read through the entire list or should I say book without falling asleep.
1. My husband is my best friend and he can always make me laugh. We don’t get enough quality time together but when we get away for our anniversary weekend every year and for a date every now and then it is heaven! He is very supportive and patient with me and I don’t know what I would do without him.
2. Talia and Tucker mean everything to me. I can’t imagine life without them and would do anything for them. They are amazing and make my life amazing. For some unknown reason I haven’t been able to have any more children and that makes them even more special.
3. My family is awesome! I come from a large family (5 younger sisters and 1 younger brother). Everyone gets together at least once year and it so much fun to see everyone. There is nothing like family and family is everything. I also married into a good-sized family (Trent has 3 sisters) and I love getting together with my in-laws. They are so much fun and I really enjoy them. I live 4 hours from my parents, in-laws and a few siblings so we are able to see them a several times a year.
4. I love boating and water-skiing. I come from a family that owned a boat with a dad that made all of his kids learn to water-ski and slalom whether they liked it or not. Back when I was learning I didn’t like it very much but my dad was persistent and it paid off. I learned to love it and will now do the same thing to my children. I’m married to a man who is obsessed with boating, water-skiing, and wakeboarding. We spend many of our summer evenings on the Willamette River in Newberg. All our summer vacations are planned around boating. Talia is quite the wake boarder and water-skis and Tucker kneeboards and will be trying wakeboarding this summer.
5. I love playing the piano and would like to improve my skills by taking more piano lessons when life isn’t so crazy (I don’t when that will actually happen). I also teach beginner piano lessons to 5 students (2 of them are my children) and I really enjoy that. It is fun to see them progress and the world needs more piano players. I am the Relief Society pianist for my church and do not enjoy that. I love to play piano but I don’t love to play in front of people. I get so nervous I can’t enjoy it and wish I could figure out a way to stop being nervous. Anyone have any ideas?
6. I wake up at 5:15 in the morning to exercise with 2 of my dear friends. We run/walk 4 miles 4-5 times a week. The exercise is great and so is the company. It is such a stress reliever. I wish that it would help me lose some weight but it doesn’t seem to help. At least it is good for my health.
7. I am a night owl. I love to stay up late after everyone goes to bed and have a quiet house to myself. This isn’t very cohesive with getting up at 5:15 in the morning so I am very sleep deprived!
8. I really enjoy reading but am a sporadic reader. I read with my kids and read my scriptures daily but I go in spurts when it comes to reading a good book. When I start reading a book I cannot put it down until I am done. I love the Twilight series and usually finish those books in less than a day or two. Luckily the last one came out on the weekend so that Trent could take care of the kids so that I could read all day. I also love Fablehaven books and am looking forward to new book coming in March. I seem to love teenage and children’s books.
9. I also love children’s movies. When there is a new movie out for the kids I am almost as excited as they are to see it. I prefer the non-animated ones like Spiderwick, Chronicles of Narnia, Matilda, Mary Poppins, 5 Children and It, Skyhigh, Enchanted and lots more.
10. I love to bake and cook. There are times that I do get tired of it but for the most part I really do enjoy creating something delicious to eat. I do enjoy eating the food also!
11. I am also always collecting new recipes and have so many recipes that I can’t even keep track of all them. I have tired to organize them but am always collecting more and so I can never keep up. I need to create a better organization system.
12. I love to make lists and have to make a weekly list of everything I need to do. I rarely get everything done on the list but if it isn’t on my list I will forget about it and it will not get done.
13. I am not very good at telling people no when it comes to volunteering at school or for my children’s activities. At school I get roped into doing things that I never intended on doing. I need to get more of backbone and practice saying no.
14. I am addicted to the Internet, my email and looking at people’s blogs. Sometimes I will go and look at my friends and family’s blogs and then I end reading their friends blogs and so forth. My husband thinks that I am weird for wanting to read about people that I have never met but I think that it is fun! My computer was broken for a couple of days last week and it was good for me to realize how much time I am on the computer and realize that I need try to manage my time better. So here I am wasting my time on a list of 25 random things about me for facebook and my blog.
I can’t believe I still have 10 to go. This is taking a lot longer than I thought it would. Oh well this is more fun than cleaning my house.
15. I love to laugh and make my children laugh. I don’t like my laugh and feel like it is too loud. It is kind of hard to change your laugh though. I was playing Don’t eat Pete with my kids awhile ago and we were laughing so hard that we were crying. It was so much fun. Talia is always laughing and has the best sense of humor. Once you get her laughing she can’t stop. I went to the beach 2 weekends ago with some friends and we laughed all night and it was so refreshing and rejuvenating. I downloaded the I Love to Laugh from Mary Poppins and it is one of our theme songs!
16. I enjoy thrift shopping and with both of my kids in school I am able to go to one of my favorite thrift stores most Tuesdays on their $.99 day. I almost always find some great deals. I love the challenge of digging to find high quality things for cheap!
17. I enjoy grocery shopping. I know that lots of people really dislike that errand but for some odd reason I enjoy it. Maybe it is because I like food so much. I do really try to plan my menu and make a list before I go.
18. I went to my first Broadway musical last September (Phantom of the Opera) and fell in love! Wicked is coming to Portland in March and I bought Talia and I tickets for our early birthday presents. We are so excited and will counting down the days soon. Musicals are about the last thing Trent would like to watch so I am going to help Talia fall in love them also.
19. My husband and I only buy fixer upper houses for some reason. Trent is very handy and can do most of the work himself, and I paint, shop and clean. We have owned a 4-plex and 2 houses and everyone one of them have been mostly redone. Trent says that we will not buy a fixer upper next time but I know my husband better than that. We will just have to wait and see.
This is harder than I thought it would be. I don’t know I am going to be able come up with 25 things!
20. We recently tore up our yard and put in a new one with new landscaping and it reminded me of how much I dislike yard work. I hear about those people that love gardening and I really wish I did because then my yard and garden would probably do look better. I will continue to garden and maybe someday I will learn to like it.
21. I really need to work on being more outgoing and friendly. We recently moved into a bigger house less than a mile away. It resulted in a new school and in a new church ward and stake. My children have been quite resilient and have made many new friends. I on the other hand have struggled to make friends. It is a much slower process for me and it made me realize how much I need to work on being more outgoing. I would like to be more outgoing I just haven’t figured out to motivate myself to actually do it.
22. I love to scrap book and make cards. I have lots of supplies and am trying to start a paper-crafting group that would meet once a month. I just need to meet more people so that I can start it.
23. I love having a clean kitchen and it is my dream to have all of my kitchen counters cleared off. I am constantly putting things away and clearing off the counters but they magically fill up again before I know it.
24. I am not a fan of high places and went bungee jumping while I was going to school at BYU. It was all because of peer pressure and of course I bought the 1-hour package because it was a better deal. The people that worked there told me they had never heard anyone scream louder. I was quite proud and wasn’t surprised because the terror that I felt was expressed in those screams. I actually jumped more than 1 time because my so-called friends talked me into it. My friends told me it wouldn’t be as bad the 2nd time and I was a sucker. I guess at least I can say that I went bungee jumping.
25. Last one - Yippeeeeee! I love photography. Trent and I got a nice camera for Christmas and I love it. We are hoping to take a photography class soon so that we can learn to take better pictures.
1. My husband is my best friend and he can always make me laugh. We don’t get enough quality time together but when we get away for our anniversary weekend every year and for a date every now and then it is heaven! He is very supportive and patient with me and I don’t know what I would do without him.
2. Talia and Tucker mean everything to me. I can’t imagine life without them and would do anything for them. They are amazing and make my life amazing. For some unknown reason I haven’t been able to have any more children and that makes them even more special.
3. My family is awesome! I come from a large family (5 younger sisters and 1 younger brother). Everyone gets together at least once year and it so much fun to see everyone. There is nothing like family and family is everything. I also married into a good-sized family (Trent has 3 sisters) and I love getting together with my in-laws. They are so much fun and I really enjoy them. I live 4 hours from my parents, in-laws and a few siblings so we are able to see them a several times a year.
4. I love boating and water-skiing. I come from a family that owned a boat with a dad that made all of his kids learn to water-ski and slalom whether they liked it or not. Back when I was learning I didn’t like it very much but my dad was persistent and it paid off. I learned to love it and will now do the same thing to my children. I’m married to a man who is obsessed with boating, water-skiing, and wakeboarding. We spend many of our summer evenings on the Willamette River in Newberg. All our summer vacations are planned around boating. Talia is quite the wake boarder and water-skis and Tucker kneeboards and will be trying wakeboarding this summer.
5. I love playing the piano and would like to improve my skills by taking more piano lessons when life isn’t so crazy (I don’t when that will actually happen). I also teach beginner piano lessons to 5 students (2 of them are my children) and I really enjoy that. It is fun to see them progress and the world needs more piano players. I am the Relief Society pianist for my church and do not enjoy that. I love to play piano but I don’t love to play in front of people. I get so nervous I can’t enjoy it and wish I could figure out a way to stop being nervous. Anyone have any ideas?
6. I wake up at 5:15 in the morning to exercise with 2 of my dear friends. We run/walk 4 miles 4-5 times a week. The exercise is great and so is the company. It is such a stress reliever. I wish that it would help me lose some weight but it doesn’t seem to help. At least it is good for my health.
7. I am a night owl. I love to stay up late after everyone goes to bed and have a quiet house to myself. This isn’t very cohesive with getting up at 5:15 in the morning so I am very sleep deprived!
8. I really enjoy reading but am a sporadic reader. I read with my kids and read my scriptures daily but I go in spurts when it comes to reading a good book. When I start reading a book I cannot put it down until I am done. I love the Twilight series and usually finish those books in less than a day or two. Luckily the last one came out on the weekend so that Trent could take care of the kids so that I could read all day. I also love Fablehaven books and am looking forward to new book coming in March. I seem to love teenage and children’s books.
9. I also love children’s movies. When there is a new movie out for the kids I am almost as excited as they are to see it. I prefer the non-animated ones like Spiderwick, Chronicles of Narnia, Matilda, Mary Poppins, 5 Children and It, Skyhigh, Enchanted and lots more.
10. I love to bake and cook. There are times that I do get tired of it but for the most part I really do enjoy creating something delicious to eat. I do enjoy eating the food also!
11. I am also always collecting new recipes and have so many recipes that I can’t even keep track of all them. I have tired to organize them but am always collecting more and so I can never keep up. I need to create a better organization system.
12. I love to make lists and have to make a weekly list of everything I need to do. I rarely get everything done on the list but if it isn’t on my list I will forget about it and it will not get done.
13. I am not very good at telling people no when it comes to volunteering at school or for my children’s activities. At school I get roped into doing things that I never intended on doing. I need to get more of backbone and practice saying no.
14. I am addicted to the Internet, my email and looking at people’s blogs. Sometimes I will go and look at my friends and family’s blogs and then I end reading their friends blogs and so forth. My husband thinks that I am weird for wanting to read about people that I have never met but I think that it is fun! My computer was broken for a couple of days last week and it was good for me to realize how much time I am on the computer and realize that I need try to manage my time better. So here I am wasting my time on a list of 25 random things about me for facebook and my blog.
I can’t believe I still have 10 to go. This is taking a lot longer than I thought it would. Oh well this is more fun than cleaning my house.
15. I love to laugh and make my children laugh. I don’t like my laugh and feel like it is too loud. It is kind of hard to change your laugh though. I was playing Don’t eat Pete with my kids awhile ago and we were laughing so hard that we were crying. It was so much fun. Talia is always laughing and has the best sense of humor. Once you get her laughing she can’t stop. I went to the beach 2 weekends ago with some friends and we laughed all night and it was so refreshing and rejuvenating. I downloaded the I Love to Laugh from Mary Poppins and it is one of our theme songs!
16. I enjoy thrift shopping and with both of my kids in school I am able to go to one of my favorite thrift stores most Tuesdays on their $.99 day. I almost always find some great deals. I love the challenge of digging to find high quality things for cheap!
17. I enjoy grocery shopping. I know that lots of people really dislike that errand but for some odd reason I enjoy it. Maybe it is because I like food so much. I do really try to plan my menu and make a list before I go.
18. I went to my first Broadway musical last September (Phantom of the Opera) and fell in love! Wicked is coming to Portland in March and I bought Talia and I tickets for our early birthday presents. We are so excited and will counting down the days soon. Musicals are about the last thing Trent would like to watch so I am going to help Talia fall in love them also.
19. My husband and I only buy fixer upper houses for some reason. Trent is very handy and can do most of the work himself, and I paint, shop and clean. We have owned a 4-plex and 2 houses and everyone one of them have been mostly redone. Trent says that we will not buy a fixer upper next time but I know my husband better than that. We will just have to wait and see.
This is harder than I thought it would be. I don’t know I am going to be able come up with 25 things!
20. We recently tore up our yard and put in a new one with new landscaping and it reminded me of how much I dislike yard work. I hear about those people that love gardening and I really wish I did because then my yard and garden would probably do look better. I will continue to garden and maybe someday I will learn to like it.
21. I really need to work on being more outgoing and friendly. We recently moved into a bigger house less than a mile away. It resulted in a new school and in a new church ward and stake. My children have been quite resilient and have made many new friends. I on the other hand have struggled to make friends. It is a much slower process for me and it made me realize how much I need to work on being more outgoing. I would like to be more outgoing I just haven’t figured out to motivate myself to actually do it.
22. I love to scrap book and make cards. I have lots of supplies and am trying to start a paper-crafting group that would meet once a month. I just need to meet more people so that I can start it.
23. I love having a clean kitchen and it is my dream to have all of my kitchen counters cleared off. I am constantly putting things away and clearing off the counters but they magically fill up again before I know it.
24. I am not a fan of high places and went bungee jumping while I was going to school at BYU. It was all because of peer pressure and of course I bought the 1-hour package because it was a better deal. The people that worked there told me they had never heard anyone scream louder. I was quite proud and wasn’t surprised because the terror that I felt was expressed in those screams. I actually jumped more than 1 time because my so-called friends talked me into it. My friends told me it wouldn’t be as bad the 2nd time and I was a sucker. I guess at least I can say that I went bungee jumping.
25. Last one - Yippeeeeee! I love photography. Trent and I got a nice camera for Christmas and I love it. We are hoping to take a photography class soon so that we can learn to take better pictures.
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