I've Been Tagged! Thanks Alot Alison!

Favorite person (outside family): Debbie Ray-She is the funniest person without even trying and is a hoot to be around. Plus her laugh is the very best, she is just so much fun.


Favorite food: Bucca de Beppo’s 1894 salad.



Quirks: I am always counting things, it’s a weird habit, can’t even explain how it’s done but obviously I have passed it down to McKayla because she does it too.



How would the person who loves you most describe you in ten words or less?


Any regrets in life: Too many to list but the one I regret the most is not getting a college education right after High School. I am still stewing over that whether I should do it now or not but it just isn’t going to happen, I would like to be a smarter and more intelligent person.



Favorite Charity/Cause: Anything that has to do with children and helping them.



Favorite Blog recently? I love The McGrath’s; it is always very entertaining and fun.


Something you can't get enough of: Diet Coke and time in a day, can never get everything done I want to.



Worst job you’ve ever had: I worked at a law firm in High School and all the lawyers were creepy and jerks. I was just the grunt but still it was not a great place to be.



What job would you pay NOT to have? A person who cleans out porta-potties. We saw some pretty grotty ones this last weekend that were almost topped off and it was more than I could stand to use it for 1 minute, I could never be the one to clean it out! Yuck!


If you could be a fly on the wall, where? With teenagers anywhere!


Guilty Pleasure: Brownies, anytime, any day, all day!



Got any confessions? I love Coffee Ice Cream


If you HAD to spend $1,000 on YOURSELF, how would you spend it? At the Harley store on clothes and some Ape Hangers.


Favorite thing about your house? It is so quiet and peaceful and roomy. We never feel like we are on top of each other like we did in California.


Least favorite thing about your house? That I don’t have an endless amount of money to keep putting beautiful things on the walls.


One thing you are bad at? Gardening, obviously from the pic before, but I really have to force myself to go out and work in it.



One thing you’re good at? Organizing and finishing things I have started, I’m a freak about it and it gets me in trouble a lot because I can’t just walk away.


If you could change something about your circumstances, what? I would have my husband working here more and away less.


Who would you like to meet someday? Meg Ryan and tell her how poorly she has aged! JK Nicholas Cage has always been one of my favs., he's not a babe or anything just seems like a genuine cool person. I love The Rock, so I could definately stand to meet him and his giant bicepts.



What makes you feel sexy? Not much! Maybe pretty earrings or when my nails are done just perfectly.


Who is your real life hero? Michelle, she seems to be so full of good things and always out to help someone else. She has taught me the most in my life and about the really important things.


When are you most relaxed? Scrapbooking without interruptions


What stresses you out? When a plan changes or when I watch my kids do something stupid that could change their life for the worse.


What can you not live without? Travis, my kids, Diet Coke, M&M’s, and Cold Stone

Do you agree or disagree with the recent article that reported that blogs are authored by narcissists? Negative!



So I guess Cyndi, Melinda, and Jenny, tag you're it! Sorry but I do love you!

Finally Purchased!

Well, I finally bit the bullet and went for it. Aidan actually ordered it from Travis' Amazon account so technically I didn't, if it was to come up. Haha! Thanks Aidan! I am taking the kids to Jackson this week and I really wanted to have it to take and play with so I went ahead and ordered it. I told Travis how grateful I was that he took the time to send me an awesome birthday gift, the Cricket, and the sweet the card was and him planning ahead, I was really thankful that he did that for me. His reply was "I hope you enjoy your Cricket and your new camera!" I had to laugh my head off cuz it was so unexpected and way funny how he never said anything about it all except that. We had a good laugh! Stay tuned for awesome pics.

Twilight

She's hooked! Sab never really gets into reading a book but this one was different. She spent 3 days plugging away at it. She would stop to tell me where she was or to say how retarded Bella was or something funny, but she finished it and is on to the next one. She wants to finish all 3 books by the time the forth one comes out. We are still upset about what a dog Edward is in the movie, it's just wrong to portrat him as such a hunk of burning love in the book and to be such a wuss in the movie.

Dudes Got Ideas

Isaac is obsessed with these Army guys and plays with them inside everywhere and outside in the dirt and in the neighbors sand box. They were purchased at the dollar store with some money he had earned and so he left the store with a giant bag of Army dudes, complete with tanks and all. He had an idea in the middle of eating his breakfast and I forgot what he was doing so I went off to get ready for the day and this is what he came up with. I'm sure Sabrina helped with the cute, decorative part but the idea itself was all Isaac. He collected empty shells from shooting sometime with C.C. and he bought this gun, again at the dollar store, that broke within the first 24 hours of buying it. So again he was thinking about something cool and figured out that the gun would actually launch the empty shells. What else would a little boy want, dudes, bullets, and a gun. Hours of entertainment and a cash flow, there is actually a slot to put your 5 cents. Cute little man!

Could He Be Any Happier?

Tegan had us all laughing at him cuz he was just so dang happy and so cute. Summer, Mark, and Tegan all come down for Nick's Homecoming talk and got to stay a few extra days. As you can see Tegan seems to be quite the happy little man. It was so fun to have him around and get to know him a little better. His parents are very happy themselves and seem to really love being parents. They are such a cute family, I am so happy for them.

I wished I had a pic of Tegan when we got to Cabella's. I'm not sure who was happier to be there Mark or Tegan. The girls had drug the boys all over the valley looking at home decor stores and so the guys were due. Tegan was running all over the place just getting to the door and he was doing his happy dance. It was SOOOO cute. We had a hard time getting Isaac and Tegan off the 4-wheelers at the front door but then the fun began with the huge fish tank and all the ugly fish swimming around. It was definately a field trip but really fun to watch Tegan and see what he and Mark got all giddy about. Summer is such a great wife, she even got all excited about plenty of things there too. I love their family, they are really so great together. I'm glad we live closer now so we can see them more often and enjoy their family.

Meg Ryan Gone Ugly

Remember how cute she was in this top pic? Well, it's long gone. I watched this movie last night with her and Antonio Banderos and it was aweful. Not only was their acting bad but she looked HORRIBLE! Like something has happened to her beautiful face. Look in the pic on the left and you'll see. Her eyes are all puffy and her smile is SOOOOO fake. Around her mouth is so weird. So I am recommending NOT watching "My Moms New Boyfriend". She is really stupid in it, maybe it's the part but it really sucks. She starts out as 230 pounds and then gets all skinny and is dating many guys at once, one is like 17. She's just a little too weird in this movie, bad acting, and the actresses beautiful features gone WAY bad.

Way Pathetic!

So this is my Garden, if you can call it that. My neighbor and I went to the store and went to other neighbors to get all the tips and tricks. we decided the put the stuff in my garden that would spread out because I have so much space. After a long day of planting just after Mother's Day, things started growing quite well. The sunflowers are doing the best but most of the stuff was just for fun anyway, like the three rows of corn and the pumpkins. The weekend before Father's Day, Travis and I spent several hours out there weeding and using the rake thing to make it all look nice and this is what I got three weeks later. More weeds than food! If you look close, my three rows of corn are there but there are only 14 stocks of corn way spread out in all 3 of the rows. I planted 8 mounds of pumpkin seeds and only three are growing. The carrots are sparse and so are the onions. The broccoli is looking good and so is the zucchini and the spaghetti squash, but there are a TON of weeds that WANT to be there. I just hope that this summer isn't the summer that we need to live off our garden, we would all be good canadates for Survivor if that's the case. Maybe it will look like a more productive garden once the weeds are gone. Wish me luck!