Belt Test!

Today - Scott stayed home from work. We are headed out to the Redwoods! I am very excited! But what is even BETTER???!!

Daddy got to see Dallin in action during his belt test for Karate. He started out at a white belt. He tested today for his yellow belt! Well - the Sensei doing the testing bumped him up to a Tiny Tigers ORANGE belt!!! Dallin is so very thrilled!!!! And so are we! He did a fantastic job! He was praised on having the "Stance of the Day" with the shot above!

This one here is his horse stance.

Congratulations Dallin!!!!

Scott as a child...

Ok, Kevin from TX... Here you go. It's not nearly as horrid as my childhood. Scott is really cute as a kid!!! I only have this one little envelope of pictures that his mom gave to me a few years ago. But with that and one from his mission and our wedding - I think you will see the changes in him!

Here he is as a baby - awwww

Notice the cute curls?


His son inherited them...

This is Scott's cute family when Scott was a young child. I think his mom doesn't appreciate that we don't let his hair grow out on top. It just drives Scott nuts. But it is kinda cute!

Isn't he just ADORABLE??!!!


This is sometime in elementary school I would think....

I was actually going through my box of pictures the other day and found this one. I thought, who in the heck am I supposed to know in this photo??

Then I realized that this is a picture of Scott's soccor team... Here he is... And what is he doing? Giving rabbit ears to some poor kid...


Then I found this one of him on a basketball team. I tell ya - I had NO idea that my hubby played sports like this! I just thought he was a bike geek his WHOLE life!!

Then he went on a mission. Look - he still had hair!

Then we got married. Look - he still had hair!

Here he painted his toes to match my baby sister's! Look - he still had hair!!

Well - maybe it was starting to thin out...

My husband, my best friend, the father of my children... I sure do love him!

Useless Information

So I have always spelled the word "weird" wrong. I just realized yesterday that I have done this probably my whole life. You learn in school the rule "i before e except after c". So I have always spelled it "wierd". It looks right to me. Of course it looks right - i before e except after c. Well, I was doing a spellcheck yesterday or maybe it was the day before. It was sometime this week anyhow. And it came up the other way. So just now I was IM-ing with my cute friend Karyssa and spelled the word properly. I turned to Scott and asked him that if the rule is "i before e except after c then why is weird spelled wrong?" He asked me, "What is the word?" I said, "Weird." I was typing to Karyssa and anxiously awaiting for the answer from him when I realized that he was saying that it's a weird word and that's why... A little bit of a blonde moment for me...

Another little tidbit of info. My son is SUCH the great problem solver! He asked if our house was old. I said Yes. He asked if we were going to stay in our old house for a while. I said, Yes. He asked, then are we going to move to Indiana? (this is where my parents own a home) I said, Well, if daddy can find a job out there then yes. But we have to be where daddy can have a job.

His solution: Well, daddy can just do grampa's job for him!

What a little problem solver!!!

Lawsie Mercy!

A saying taken from The Pioneer Woman - Lawsie Mercy - I have just been down Memory Lane!!!

Side Bar here - This is my 100th Post!

Ok... So my cutest BFF (best friend forever) has been periodically giving me a hard time for not mentioning her before on my blog... Weeeeeeelllllll..... I love you Steph! Good thing I am going out of town for a week!!!!

I have to say first of all - I know full well that I was a total and complete nerdy goober growing up. And having gone through all of my photos this past hour... You are going to get some FUN blogs coming up in the next few weeks!!! My family better watch out! Lynnette is the only one close enough to hurt me though. I think the rest will forgive me before they see me again!

Like I said - total geek. How big did glasses have to be to be able to see out of them for pete's sake??

Well, my best friend Steph and I met in the 8th grade. We both moved to Rockville within a few weeks of each other. We must have met at church first and then saw each other at school. In fact, I remember being in the locker room after gym class waiting for the bell to ring for us all to go to our next class and she talked to me. I couldn't believe that someone so pretty and most assuredly POPULAR was actually speaking words to me!!! I am exactly 6 weeks older than her. This is from one of my early ugly year birthday parties...

She never liked to get her picture taken. I don't really know why - except that we are girls and girls aren't supposed to like to get their picture taken, right??

Then we went off to college... I started to normal out about then. I looked for a picture of the 2 of us at graduation from the horrid years of high school that I would NEVER re-do, but just couldn't seem to find one!!

We had fun in college! We thought we were pretty cool matching our clothes. HEY - WE WERE COOL!!!

We went to dances together. This was a picture of us either before or after a dance. Notice the sweatshirt? This was in 1990. I still wear it. Yep.. Geek...

This was that same dance. We had a tent up and had dinner in the tent. Ya - we were cool. Like the double socks? The black underneath the white?? That was in then...

We even went and ran through the sprinklers on the soccor field at Ricks... Then we were cold so we went to Aspen Village and jumped into their pool. Never mind that it was a boys housing.... We were cool... Then when we got home we were FREEZING - so we all jumped into a hot shower before stripping down... Have I mentioned how cool we were??!!!

Then of course we did the whole glamour shots thing...

But then - she met her NEW best friend... but he'll never have anything on ME!!!!

Apparently I had something really dazzling to say, seeing as Steph wasn't even looking at me and Theo was looking at me like, Shut up already!!!

You know how friends kind of go away when they get married? Well, not MY best friend!! We would play Euchre till 4 in the morning and then sneak me back to my girls housing that had a 10 pm curfew (oops).

EDIT*** So I just noticed that this must have been taken right after our glamour shots. Also, see the end table? They are the same ones that we have in our basement. Scott brought them into the marriage. I wonder if they were leftovers from the first wifey???

As Steph began to procreate - I decided that I would head out for Korea to preach the gospel. She supported me the whole time!! I looked and looked for a picture of me holding her first baby as I was at the airport leaving for Korea. I can't seem to find it when I need it....

We were separated for many many years as I was on my mission and living in the Midwest. Then I moved out here and lived almost as far from where she lived as possible - so we didn't get to hang out much after I found a job. But now we live just a few short minutes away. I love her SOOOO much! And her beautiful family!!!

Here's to having a best friend through all the fun and the yuck!!! I love ya Steph!!!

Four Things

Ok... I had to wait until the kids were in bed to think about this. So, I have Johnny Cash's Live performance at some prison playing and think that I can do this now...

I got Tagged to do this on one SIL's blog and then another SIL emailed it to me. So I guess I am going to cave into the pressure ;-)

Four Jobs I Have Had:
1. Waitress at the Pizza Oven
2. Administrative temp through Adecco Temp Agency
3. Recruiter at Adecco Temp Agency
4. Admin Asst. at Pepper Construction Company

Four Movies I Have Seen More Than Once:
1. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
2. Contact
3. Star Wars Trilogy
4. Walk The Line

Four Places I Have Lived:
Only 4??? But there are SOOOOO many!!!! I will just list them all :)
1. Baltimore, Maryland
2. California
3. Taipei, Taiwan
4. Gibson City and St. Joe Illinois
5. The townhouse we lived in and Dale City, Virginia
6. Concord, California
7. Boise, Idaho
8. Lilburn, Georgia
9. Falls Church, Virginia
10. Rockville, Maryland
11. Rexburg, Idaho
12. Danville and Speedway, Indiana
13. Korea
14. Danville and Speedway, Indiana (again)
15. Utah

Four TV Shows I Watch:
1. Lost
2. The Amazing Race
3. hmmmm.... Sometimes Cold Case
4. well...... that's about it.

Four Places I Have Been:
1. New York (Palmyra/Niagara Falls)
2. Yellowstone
3. Nogoles, Mexico
4. Bahamas (twice!)

Four People Who Call Me Regularly:
1. Scott
2. Well.... this is sad...
3. Oh - Steph VO!
4. Umm.... eeks.... I am a loser.

Four Of My Favorite Foods:
I have to limit it to 4????
1. Pizza
2. Any Asian food
3. Strawberries (even better with chocolate on them!)
4. Reese's Easter Eggs

Four Place I Would Like To Visit:
1. Redwoods (oh - I am going there next week!)
2. Denali National Park
3. Mayan Ruins
4. Africa

Four Things I am Looking Forward to this Coming Year:
1. Working in my garden
2. Spending good vacation time with my hubby and kids
3. Seeing Dallin progress in Karate
4. Lynnette getting married

Four Things I Love To Do:
1. Take pictures of my kids and figure out fun blogs for them.
2. Grow food from seeds - it's very satisfying
3. Dance around my house to really loud music (when no one is watching)
4. Learn weird things that really don't matter to anyone!

Four Friends I Am Tagging to Respond:
Anyone who wants to. I would really like to hear Kevin from Tx's response. But I think he's too chicken.. Bawwwwk b-b-b-b-b-baaaaaaaawwwwwkk!

Now off to do things I DON'T LOVE TO DO! Mop my kitchen floor!

I am unique!!!

My sister in law had this on her blog and I thought it would be fun! I AM TOTALLY UNIQUE!!!

www.howmanyofme.com This is pretty cool! There are 252,000 people with my first name. There are 1215 people with my last name. Although I would think there are a lot more people than that with my last name (for those who know it would probably know why - multiple wives and whatnot). BUT -- There is only 1 person in the United States with my first and last name. I would assume that would be me...

Except then I just did this with my maiden name and it says that there are 1215 people with my old last name. So maybe it's not so cool.... Oh well.

Serving Time Together

Dallin and I had a deal today that if he threw his lincoln log again that he would sit in time out. We were downstairs in the basement playing (since it's too cold for mommy and Maggie to go outside). Dallin threw his lincoln log... He didn't even cry. I just looked at him, raised my eyebrows and said "Over on the stair please." Off he went. But as soon as he sat down, Maggie went to join him in his time he had to serve. It is just so sweet to me that she loves her big brother SO much!