Life......

I've been a real blog loser lately. It's not that I have nothing to say. Oh no! I've had many interesting thoughts, as well as silly anecdotes from the kids, I just have'nt gotten around to actually blogging about them.

What do you suppose is wrong with me? I have my suspicions.

Oh well. So moving on....

Have you noticed that gas has gone up again? Around here, gas has gone up over 20 cents since Monday. I just hope it doesn't go up anymore or I am going to have to start complaining again.

New Year's Resolutions. Yikes! I have to admit that I kinda sorta hate them. It's probably because I can never seem to keep them. This year I am seriously trying my best to change that though. ONe of my goals is to read my scriptures BEFORE I get on the computer each day. That's going to be a hard one (for me), but I know if I just try that I can do it. I also have a goal to lose another 20 pounds. Yeah, I have this same goal year after year, but this time I want it to be different. I am joining my friend Melinda's Biggest Loser contest. Maybe I will even WIN and get the CASH PRIZE! Dream Big, that's my motto!

Fives about me

My sister did this on her blog and it looked like fun, so I am copying it.
Without further ado:

Top 5 movies
Legally Blonde
Batman Begins
Some Kind of Wonderful
Bourne (all of them)
Pride & Prejudice

5 things in my fridge
3 kinds of milk
sliced up cucumbers
cheese sticks
soft flour tortillas
yeast

5 things to do today or tomorrow
laundry
dinner to my friend Hollie that just had a baby
pick up Rachel's prescription from pharmacy
Chiropractor appt
check out the craft fair to see what good things they have

5 words I hate
the f word
crimanittly (probably NOT how you spell it...)
uh
ma'am
any anatomy part (hate to say the names, hate it!)

5 things in my purse
cell phone
planner/calendar
sharpie marker
wallet
pictures of my family

5 goals
have happy children
pay off house before Meghan goes to college
lose another 20 pounds
maybe one more baby....
read the Bible all the way through

5 random things about me
I love cheesecake
Spiders give me the heebie geebies
I speak portuguese
I am named after my dad (my middle name)
I have been driving for 17 years

Tag, I'm it.

I got tagged by my friend Shannon. She did this as part of her "100 things post" to celebrate 100 posts. (Congrats Shannon!)



Anyway, here it goes:



I am: chubby
I think: random things
I know: Jesus loves me
I want: happy children
I have: a good husband
I dislike: people who are ignorant
I miss: my Grandma K and my Uncle D
I fear: losing my husband or kids
I feel: tired
I hear: Jonathan and Porter playing outside
I smell: bleach (I cleaned bathrooms this morning)
I crave: food
I cry: at sappy love stories
I usually: fly off the handle at little things
I search: the internet for information (yesterday it was about Hobo spiders)
I wonder:
I regret: time that I didn't spend with my grandma before she died
I love: my kids and my husband more than I could've ever imagined
I care: too much what people think
I always: wear my seatbelt
I worry: about THE earthquake
I am not: the best person I COULD be
I remember: my first kiss with Mike
I believe: in happily ever after
I dance: with Mike in our kitchen
I sing: in the car very loud
I don't always: say "I'm sorry"
I argue: who doesn't???
I write: on my blog and occasionally in my journal
I win: nothing
I lose: to Holly all the time at Scrabulous/Wordscraper on Facebook


Now it's your turn. I tag Her Royal Highness,Magirk, Holly, and my little sister Andi.

Tagged from Shannon

So my friend Shannon did this fun tag thing on her blog. She tagged herself and since I am a copycat, I tagged myself to do it also. Here it is:

10 things I hate but wish I didn't
1. Fish (it's the smell...can't stand it, but fish is good for me)
2. slow people, or people being slow on purpose
3. water (it's the reason I don't know how to swim)
4. making dinner
5. cleaning (cuz seriously, my house needs to be cleaner)
6. yardwork (I really should care more......)
7. exercise
8. water
9. ?
10. ?

10 things I love but wish I didn't
1. caffeinated pop
2. stupid television shows (girls next door, living lohan,etc)
3. sitting on my fat butt
4. food
5. surfing on the computer
6. Facebook
7. spending money
8. reading (my family gets SOOOOO NEGLECTED when I start a new book...)
9. juice (not the best thing for a diabetic)
10. chocolate (it's the reason I can't lose more weight, I swear!!)

So, if you think this is fun....tag yourself and play along!

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY (except I'm gonna explain it anyway)

We camped out by the Challis Hot Springs. We got unlimited swimming and we were in the pool almost every chance we could be. I had changed Sidney into her swimmy suit and the other girls and I were putting ours on when I looked over at Sidney on the bed and noticed that she was trying to put my bra on! I laughed so hard. Then I yelled for one of the girls to grab the camera for me so I could take a picture. When we all got changed I took the camera and went out and showed my mom and sisters and anybody else who wanted a peep and proclaimed loudly, "THAT is totally gonna go on my blog!"

Out of Time

I have finally succumbed to what I have been trying to do for oh so very long. I deleted my blogroll from my sidebar. You see, I just don't have time to go through everyone's blog every day. I love you all. I do. But I just gotta have more time for me and my kiddos, oh yeah, and that crazy guy I am married to. He wants some time also.

The Good news is that I finally figured out how to do Google Reader. So, all of your URL's are on there and it will tell me when you post something new and I can read it. If I don't comment, please don't think that I stopped reading you. I didn't. I probably just laughed and then moved on. It happens.

I'm. So. Sorry.

It had to be done.

blogging break

I am taking a bit of a blogging break this weekend. My husband's sister's daughter (okay, my niece!) is being baptized and we are going to go and be with family and enjoy ourselves!

I appreciate all you sweet, kind comments about our adoption story. It is a very special part of our life and even though I hesitate to tell intimate details, I do want to share it. Like I tell my girls, "You can't be ashamed of your adoption. It is a part of you and it makes you special. Other kids were just born into their eternal families, but your mom and dad got to come on a treasure hunt to find you!" :) And they truly are treasures!!

Anyway, thanks for reading!!

WWW award

WooHOO! Holly from 2Kids and Tired gave me this awesome award! I am so appreciative! I love blogging and receiving awards or any recognition of any kind makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Thanks again Holly!

In turn I am passing this award on to other bloggers that I think are wonderful women of the web. Since I can't give to everyone (frankly, it would take me forever to type that all out), I am only giving to 4 bloggers that I know do not have this award. I give this to: Shannon, Her Royal Highness, Kim, and Cecily.


Hooray for blogging!

I'm clean, how about you?

Dad Interrupted

Just a few minutes ago at lunch, Rachel asked my husband,"Dad, do you have a website like Mom does"? He told her no and she said,"Well, you should get one." Then Jenny piped up and said, "yeah and call it Michael dot com". I was laughing really hard by now, and Rachel said, "No, it should be Dad Interrupted. Like Mom's only because you're the Dad".

His reaction....oh he just sighed really big.

Where are you from?

I had someone visit my blog from Romania and from Australia!

How cool is that?

I personally think it is pretty neat.

If you are wondering how I know this, it's because I have a map on my sidebar that logs where you are visiting from. I can recognize most of the places by people I know, and then sometimes I can't and I just wonder who you are.

For example: on the map it says Twin Falls, Idaho...that's my awesome sis-in-law Ronda. When it says Meridian, Idaho...that is Holly from 2KidsandTired. If it says Franklin,Tennessee, then that is Keeley from Wanderer In A Strange Land. If it says Farmington, Utah or Syracuse,Utah, then I know it is my friends from around here. It is all very interesting. It makes me feel a bit like a CIA agent tracking you down or something....Hee Hee Hee (that's my evil secret agent laugh, in case you were wondering)

So, who are you and where are you from? I'd love to meet you!

NaBloPoMo

If you visit my blog frequently, or even at all, you may have noticed that I have a new widget (I think that is what they are called) on my sidebar. Of course, it is possible that you don't even pay attention to all the junk I have over there. Whatever. At any rate, I DO have a new widget. It is my NaBloPoMo widget. What's that you say? Well, let me explain. I have really gotten into this blogging thing. My husband thinks I am a freak. Whatever. I enjoy it and so therefore I will do it. So, the month of November is National Blog Posting Month. Or NaBloPoMo, if you will. I joined. The deal is this: you have to post on your blog EVERYDAY for the whole month of November. I think it sounds like fun, so I am gonna do it!

Stand by though. Not all my posts will be awesome and fabulous and out-of-this-world.

Okay, so they aren't anyway.

At least you know what you are getting and are fore-warned.