Tag

I can't believe I got tagged. Whatever that means. I am sooo boring and not cool that this is going to be the lamest 25 things in the history of online tags.

1. I lived in the same ward until I went away to college.

2. I vomited all over the MARB at BYU while pregnant with Sam.

3. I swam for BYU and set a Western Athletic Conference record. That seems like another life.

4. I have been on a hanglider all over California (no wait, that was a ride at Disneyland)

5. When I was sixteen I went to Austria, Germany, and Switzerland with my parents and brother Geoff.

6. I love to watch college football and could sit all day Saturday just watching games. Too bad I have children.

7. In 1994, I went to a BYU-Notre Dame football game in South Bend and BYU won.

8. I graduated from BYU in 3.5 years by taking tennis online. Woohoo.

9. I have a belly button piercing. Just kidding.

10. My least favorite time of day is just before bedtime for the kids.

11. My least favorite chore is cleaning the floor. Maybe we need a dog.

12. My favorite place to eat out is Mangos.

13. I love the smell of dusty rain in Arizona and I don't like snow.

14. I married my best friend and have 5 extremely competitive children.

15. I have never been to a rock concert.

16. If you do the math, each person in my house has 199 square feet to themselves. Some days that just isn't enough. If you add the bird and two turtles, we have even less.

17. Growing up I always thought I wanted 7 kids - 5 boys and 2 girls.

18. My favorite dessert is Sprinkles vanilla cupcakes, Linda's fudge cake at Cheesecake Factory, Blue Bell cookies and cream ice cream, Blue Bell chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, IBC rootbeer and Breyer's vanilla ice cream rootbeer floats, peppermint ice cream in the winter, hot fudge sundaes at Nielson's, mint chocolate chip ice cream from 31 flavors, ron's chocolate cake warmed up with vanilla ice cream, peach cobbler, Granny's shakes in Heber, Utah, and peanut M&M's. That's just one right!!

19. My master closet is currently hanging on the wall in my bedroom due to Ron's office invading our closet.

20. Food cannot be touching on my plate. It makes Thanksgiving really difficult.

21. Ron is a better cook than me.

22. I desperately hate hospitals and stay the minimum time allowed after having a baby. I was irritated that Jill wouldn't poop so I had to stay an extra day.

23. I am the youngest of 5. 3 girls, 2 boys and have great parents.

24. When I was 13, I was paranoid that I had caught AIDS from a drinking fountain.

25. My sister and I could talk on the phone for hours and hours and hours and never run out of things to say.

Ok. Now, I tag Kat and Thelissa and Libby. Have fun.

Birthday Cake

Remember the mom could you . . . post? Well, this is a sad attempt at an R2D2 cake for Casey's birthday.

peaches

Jill LOVES peaches. Jill starts her morning by eating a peach by herself. And I mean by herself. She wants to feel the peach in her hand, smush it between her fingers, and then taste the goodness of a sweet, ripe peach. We are all going to be sad when peaches are no longer in season.

preschool

Casey is loving Mrs. Kotsur at Mendoza. On Casey's birthday, we got to hear the class sing Happy Birthday to Casey "underwater" as they all plugged their noses. He laughed through the whole song and still talks about it. I have had fun looking at past pictures on the computer and thought I would post this one of Casey's first day of school.

fall sports

We are in the swing of fall sports around here. I feel lucky to have Sam and Zach playing on the same football team. It has been fun for them and less work for me. Maggie has loved soccer and we love the fall weather at the games. Just a couple picts now that I have them on the computer. Sam had to miss the first day of practice with stitches in his foot. So, a picture of Sam will have to come when the camera visits a game.

Could you . . .

It seems lately my kids have been asking for me to make random items. It always begins with could you make . . . and then some wonderful item that I am supposed to magically make appear. Casey is usually asking for a house for one of his toys out of legos, (and he is very particular about how it is to be made) Sam asks for gourmet food items - usually involving sugar, Zach asks for THE MOST random things, and the other day Maggie asked if I could make a duct tape wallet for a birthday gift. Oh, boy. I told her my duct tape expertise pretty much ends at wallets. But, she thought her friend would like a purse much more than a wallet. So, I gave the purse a good try, and after nearly cutting my finger off with the rotary cutter, and after many messed up pieces of hot pink duct tape, it turned out decent enough to be sent to the party as a gift.

I soon had requests from the others for duct tape backpacks and new wallets with snaps. I had to answer. . . probably not. At least not today.

P.S. As soon as my computer is finished freaking out and the usb ports will work, I'll have to post a picture of the purse.

a simple joy

It's amazing what the youngest of five can get away with. Never in a million years would a dum dum been found in Sam's mouth at age 8 months, but Jillie pretty much gets what she wants as long as she is happy. I let her suck away until I realized that bubble gum sucker slobber was getting dangerously close to Ron's flip flops. So, after the picture was taken, I was forced to take the sucker away. But, boy did she delight in the sweet, sticky goodness for as long as it lasted. If only that simple joy could be bottled up and sold.