Hubby Tag

#1 Where did you meet?
He was dating one of my best friends and she hooked me up on a blind date with his brother. So we went on a double date, me with his brother and him and my best friend. We got dinner and and then went back to their house and watched a movie. (I know I have a picture of the 4 of us that night, but it is filled away somewhere) At the end his brothers on-again/off-again girlfriend called(nobody told me there was one of those) and my friend was going the other way to do stuff. So Mike ended up taking me home.
*quick note, I am not a boyfriend stealer, My friend broke up with Mike and she told me I should date him because we have a lot in common. And we do.

#2 How long did you date before you were married?
We dated for 2 1/2 years, after that long we decided we should get married or move on. We decided to get married and we started planning our wedding. Mike had my ring special made and we got it 5 days before we got married. And the day he got it we went out to dinner and he officially proposed. So we always joke that we had a 5 day engagement.

#3 How long have you been married?
9 years on Dec 23. And holy cow did it go by so fast. Since having kids it's gone by so much faster.

#4 What does he do that surprises you?
Mike is pretty predictable, that or I'm really hard to surprise. He always surprises me with his persistance. I think if I had going on my plate all the things he does I would give up. But he does really good at balancing and keeping his priorities strait.

#5 What is your favorite feature of his?
I love his smile. It's so full, and when he smiles his eyes are real chocolately brown.

#6 What is your favorite quality of his?
It's a tie between his caring and his humility. He always puts everyone before himself. That one I learned really quick when we were dating. He is so likable too, I am constantly being told how much people like my hubby. And its so true, he is so kind to everyone.

#7 What is his favorite sport
If you would have asked me 10 years ago it would have been golf, no questions. But he hasn't been golfing much lately. what he loves to do now is, target shooting. We use to go all the time while we were dating and then a lot before we had kids. Now he goes more with his buddies. He's so good at it too, I remember one time we went and did a lot of shotgun shooting, my shoulder hurt so bad the next couple days and I complained that I was never going to shoot a shotgun again, and he got this big bruise on the front of his shoulder and went shooting again the next weekend.

#8 What is his favorite color?
Airforce Blue!! He likes it so much he got his car that color.

#9 What is his favorite food?
Anything pasta. Poor guy has suffered since I got diagnosed. So we started adding more pasta to our menu's.

#10 Does he have a nickname for you?
Babe, but owe the nicknames that we have for him....Herb, guido, handsome, uncle monkey, and more that I cant really say or he would kill me!!

#11 Do you have any children?
Ya, 3 kiddies, that everyone says look just like Mike.

#12 What do you like to do together?
Pretty much everything.

#13 When and where was your first kiss?
I think it was our second date, he'll have to correct me if I'm wrong. It was the 4th of July, we went on a double date with his best friend and they took us up in the Corona hills to watch the fireworks with some sparkeling cider. It was really good.

#14 Does he have a hidden talent?
He is great with kids, he likes to pretend that he isn't but he is.

#15 Who said I love you first?
I dont remember, I'll have to consult him on that one.

#16 What is his favorite type of music?
Rock and he will listen to country when I'm in the car.

#17 What do you admire most about him?
He's great at just about anything he tries. Even if he's never tried it before, he will give it a try and usually do pretty good at it. I wish I was like that.

#18 Do you think he’ll read this?
Oh yes, and expect a comment from him. :)

I TAG:
Lea, Rebecca(I told you I'd get ya), Kathy, and Barb.

Momma Dont Allow

The time you are all awaiting is here. I had to upload the video to YouTube to get it on my blog. I really can't believe I'm putting this out in the blogingworld. But because it's not just me make the fool, I'm ok with it. JK
The funny thing was on Sunday when the Stake representative got up in our ward and talked about it and then said we'll have to schedule us for some ward activities. So Anne, it's not over. We need to keep practicing. ;)

Sexy Swingin Mommas

I had the opportunity(we'll call it that) to be apart of a group of women to sing in our stake musical night. Our ward music director picked out this cute folk song that none of us have heard before, but said it was an easy song. When I was originally asked, it was just us singing and maybe making some hand movements. Well then Kara was brought in to "choreograph" our dance. And, Kara, thats what you get for putting out in the blogworld that you use to be on your high school dance team. She came up with some real cute moves and by the time we learned them I thought what the heck am I getting myself into. I dont sing, I dont dance. So after lots and lots of practice we had our performances the last two nights. A women in our ward sewed us the cutest cosumes and after we assocorized with the right boots and sashes we looked so perfect. The first night we totally tanked. We were so nervous most of us couldn't sing, so you couldn't hear us. Mike came the second night and recorded it and we did so much better. And we had so much fun!!

Hunting for Pumpkins

While Grandpa was here we decided to take the kids to the the pumpkin patch to find their perfect pumpkins. And instead of cutting and gutting them, we chose the less messy way of just coloring on them. We like simplifying things, so next year we decided we're going to simplify even more and just buy the Mr Potato head push in features for the pumpkins.
The weather was perfect, nice and sunny, so it was really busy at the pumpkin patch. The kids loved it, even Kaki. They loved running through the pumpkins picking up, and inspecting all the pumpkins they could get their hands on. After about an hour of searching the WHOLE field, we all found exactly what we were looking for, so we loaded up our wheel barrel to take it to get weighed.
This year they had this cool scale you put the whole barrel on and they weigh your pumpkins and send you off to pay. Christian decided he wanted a turn to get weighed too, so he climbs on the scale and stands there and just stares at the lady who's weighing. So she told him how much he weighed and then gave him a receipt to give to the cashier. Then of course Lorin had to do the same thing. With receipts in hand they both walk over to the cashier, who laughs at them and gives them candy. Why couldn't we get candy with our receipt?

6-6-5

This is an easy tag, you go into your 6 photo folder and get the 6th picture and upload it and then tag 5 people. This photo is cute it's Lorin when she was like 2 1/2, I think, and we were visiting my friend Barb in AZ. We put a movie on for them to watch in Barbs bed. Notice Lorins black eye, she fell in the shower and hit her eye on the water spickit. I swear!! I love binkies, I'm such a supporter of them. They are like light switches for my kids. No matter how fussy they are you pop one of those suckers in and just like that they mellow.





So I tag,
Barb
Kara
Jamie
Allison
Joce

BUSY BUSY Weekend

This weekend, and actually last week just seemed like it was non stop busy. It started with Lorin's Halloween party and it's really not over yet.
On Thursday Mikes brother, Jon, drove in to town for a couple of days. Him and his wife just moved to Colorado, so they are only about 7 hours away. So Mike took him to mutual with him and because it was UEA weekend the young men had a game it up party. They split up between our house and one of the YM counselors house and played till after 11pm. Me, I just crashed, Lorins party really worked me. Then Friday night we went over to one of our friends house for an adult Halloween party. It was so much fun. We just pulled stuff from our closet and then went to the costume store for assesories. We even won a price, Best Group. I think Mike threatened them all with his "Tommy" if they didn't vote for us. JK Here are some way cute pictures of all the couples that dressed up.


Mike pulls this off so much better than me because he is brown. :( His cigar even lights up.


Dustin and Stephanie, they hosted the party. They did a great job!!


Ari and Amanda


Hyrum and Anne and their Pea Pod


Brian and Megan


Andy and Joce


Kurt and Kara



HD and Kendi



Tyler, Jamie and little bay Jack(thats short for Jack-O-Latern)


Gurtrude and Helga, JK Jeremy and Allison


Jon was such a great sport and dressed up too. He wore one of Mike's old costumes and took his rock band guitar.



Then on Saturday morning Mike's dad flew in from Cali for a visit too. So we all headed to watch Lorin play her last soccer game. Her team lost :( but they did really good. Lorin played goalie for a little while and she saved the ball a couple of times.



After her game we went to a park and did some family pictures. Mike's dad wanted to get some pictures with his boys so I played photographer for a little bit. It was a lot of fun and the pictures turned out real cute.







Then after family pictures the kids, and Mike played at the park.




That night after we put the kids to bed we finished the night off with the good ole fashion Rock Band, our band 2 Bros.




And then we celebrated my Kathryn's 1st birthday sunday night. I can't believe she's one. She has changed so much in just the past couple of months and her facial expression just make us laugh so hard. If you point at her she'll point back. And she says momma and dadda and uh-oh. And she'll wave bye bye. Or she can shake her head no. She's gotten good at swating at Christian if he gets to close to her. She has this new laugh, where she scrunches up her face and shows you all 6 of her teeth. Her tantrums are getting better and they definetely are efficient, once she starts crying Lorin will make sure she gets whatever she wants. Yesterday she was sitting on my lap and I was calling for Christian and she was mimiking the sound. It almost sounded like she was saying Christian. She loves Lorin, loves to play with her follow her, get in her toys and pull her hair. And she is still pretty weary of Christian. He still plays to rough for her.

We did the MoNsTeR MaSh

A little early but still very much enjoyable... Today Lorin had her Halloween party at school. Her track goes off school for the next three weeks so we worked it out to have the classes Halloween party on their last day of school before the break. I honestly have to say, it was kinda stressful. It ended up to be great!! But I'm so glad it's over. Just another ball that I dont have to juggle right now.

They weren't aloud to wear their costumes so the kids were invited to wear anything and everything Halloweeney that they have. Avi gave Lorin this cute Halloween shirt in her Halloween gift, so they went to school looking like twin'ers. They were so cute, They even had matching bows(that was more of a last minute, what should we put in the hair).



We split the class into 3 groups and sent them to 3 different stations and had them rotate every 15 mins. I was in charge of the graveyard walk, and it was so funny to see the kids so competitive that they would hop from grave to grave to be sure they got their spot in the next round. Jocelyn did pin the nose on the pumpkin and brought a frankenstien mask with blacked out eyes for them to cover their eyes with. And then the third station was a craft, where they made reflector pins for them to wear for Halloween. They could choose between a pumpkin, a frankenstein or a candy corn. Then at the end we did Halloween bingo and ate donuts with green milk. Every single student ended up coming today and good thing cause holy cow did we have candy!! There was still tons of candy that was left over, we just left it for Lorins teacher.






It looked like the kids had a lot of fun, and I had a lot of fun watching them. It is so rewarding to see the smiles on their faces and their backpacks full of candy. It makes all the stress worth it.

TAG

Thanks so much Rebecca, I will keep you in mind next time I need to tag someone. JK

Here are the rules: Answer the following questions with one word answers and one word only! Then pass it on to seven others.


Here are the questions:


1. Where is your cell phone? Abyss-JK dunno

2. Where is your significant other? Abyss-JK cleaning

3. Your hair color? blondish

4. Your mother? Loved

5. Your father? Smarty

6. Your favorite thing? Mike

7. Your dream last night? forgotten

8. Your dream/goal? Sleep

9. The room you're in? Office

10. Your hobby? kids

11. Your fear? loneliness

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Beach

13. Where were you last night? Home

14. What you're not? Warm

15. One of your wish-list items? Jonny Depp

16. Where you grew up? SoCal

17. The last thing you did? Cleaned

18. What are you wearing? jammies

19. Your TV? boring

20. Your pet? Christian

21. Your computer? Entertaining

22. Your mood? exhausted

23. Missing someone? madre

24. Your car? Pilot

25. Something you're not wearing? earrings

26. Favorite store? Target

27. Your summer? Short

28. Love someone? Enormously

29. Your favorite color? Blue

30. When is the last time you laughed? recently

31. Last time you cried? PS I Love You (that's one word, I promise, It's the name of one movie)

I tag
Barb
Kathy
Allison
Leann
Lori
Kara
Jamie

Twilight