8 Things About Me

1) Post rules on your blog
2) Answer the six "8" items
3) Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment


8 Favorite TV Shows

1. Heroes
2. House
3. Bones
4. Monk
5. Jon and Kate plus 8
6. Clean House (I miss having the Style channel)
7. Good Eats
8. Mythbusters



8 Things I did yesterday

1. Went to work
2. Went to Becca’s dance class
3. Played Chuzzle on the computer
4. Tried and failed at taking a nap
5. Yelled at Dish Network (I miss Comcast)
6. Made dinner
7. Contemplated cleaning the house
8. Watched Heroes with Jeremy

8 Things I Look Forward To
1. The weekend
2. Nap time
3. Visiting family in Utah
4. Time to scrapbook
5. Birthdays
6. 20 years from now the kids out of the house
7. A raise in April
8. Fun with the kids

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Johnny Carinos
2. Fats Asian Bistro
3. BJs Restaurant
4. Olive Garden
5. Tahoe Joes
6. Joes Crab Shack
7. Iceberg
8. In N Out



8 Things on My Wish List
1. A Macbook
2. A new car
3. To come home one day and have a clean house
4. Remodeled Kitchen
5. Landscaped front and back yard
6. For all the unfinished painting in the house to be completed
7. Go to New York
8. Happy family



8 Quirks
1. I love shoes. I own many pairs but usually wear the same two pair.
2. I have to have something covering me at night, even during summer.
3. My sheets have to be tucked in at the bottom for me to sleep.
4. When I read a book I read the beginning, end and then the rest of the book.
5. Large group gatherings tend to make me uncomfortable.
6. Messes drive me crazy.
7. I love watching cartoons with my kids.
8. I love taking out all my scrapbook supplies, looking at what I have and putting it all away.

People to Tag
1. Jeni
2. Suzi
3. Michelle
4. Kara
5. Holly
6. Alicia

There’s supposed to be 8 people to tag but I don’t read that many blogs yet.

Fairytale Town

Sariah turns 7 on Thursday. She wanted to celebrate her birthday while my family was visiting. Of course, she also asked if she could have a different party with Nana later. Anyway, what she chose to do was go to Fairytale town. If you want to see the full video, send me an email and I will send you a link to view it in my Picasa Web album. If you set it to double the original size you can see the captions without losing too much quality. It wasn't as big as I would like here. Hopefully you can see the captions.

Cute JD pics from Fairytale town

I always have a hard time getting JD to pose for a picture. He invariably runs up to the camera as soon as he sees it and he absolutely refuses to smile on demand. I'll have to post some pics of the girls later but this post is dedicated to cute JD pics. I thought this picture was really cute. I took it right after he went down a slide shaped like the home of the old woman who lives in a shoe. We finally got him to go down facing forward instead of sliding on his tummy. He zoomed down super-fast and landed right on his butt. Thank goodness for the extra padding that is a diaper.

I was trying to catch him smiling here. He'd run around and then stop, smile and say "Hi Mommy" and run off again. Unfortunately I was too slow and this is as close as I got to a smile.

There's a little spot in Fairytale town called "Jack and Jills' Hill". This old water pump actually works. Once JD discovered it he didn't want to leave. He probably spent 20 minutes at that spot fascinated by the pump. This is his "No, I'm not moving" look once I told him it was time to go.

This picture is a little fuzzy due to the fact that JD was running toward me when I was trying to take it but I think it's cute anyway because I like the look on his face.

He has such a fun personality and I'm glad that I've been able to relax more with him and enjoy him. When the girls were his age I had a harder time relaxing and I missed out on their personalities at the time that they were really coming out.

School Days

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

JD's Birthday

JD wanted nothing more than to drink soda when we went to the Musser's for a little family birthday party for JD. Now, I'm not a nut about letting my kids have sugar or anything I figure that if I let them have treats, they'll be less likely to binge on them. But I did want him to eat something other than cake and he wasn't having anything to do with it. He's very stubborn like that.












Brian, Tyler and Julia came over to the Musser's for the party along with both sets of grandparents. We had fun. Brian said he was going to get JD to eat. So I believe it went something like: bite of food, drink of soda, some more soda, maybe another bite of food. Jeremy swears that Brian got JD to eat. I don't know though, they sounded like they were having an awful lot of fun. =o)




I think this picture of Brian pretending to take JD's toy is really funny. It was nice to see everyone enjoying themselves. Plus I like it when I can get pictures of Brian and Tyler having fun. Especially Tyler because he doesn't like to pose. It was hard to get JD to go to the next toy after opening one because he wanted to start playing with what he just opened. Right now he's torn between his scooter, which he keeps trying to take into the house and the toy drill and chain saw. He's pretended to drill and saw just about everyone in the house.


This is the outfit we bought JD for his birthday, Jeremy decided to take some pictures of the kids before church and he likes this one because of the face JD is making. Unfortunately the lighting wasn't very good and the fact that JD managed to konk himself on the head (notice the large bruise on the left) didn't help anything either. But, he's still a cute kid. I can't believe he's two now. It seems like I just got back to work after maternity leave. I'm a little sad that I don't have any little babies to cuddle anymore but it's been really neat watching them learn and get older. JD is starting to talk more now. He loves his ba-bee (blanket) and his mo (milk). He also tries to say shark (he has a stuffed hammerhead shark) but it tends to sound more like he's coughing up a hair ball. The funniest thing is when he tries to string words together in a sentence. It usually comes out as babble. I'm lucky to get the first word and the last word. Usually it has something to do with wanting a drink of milk or a snack. The kid drinks milk like it's water. I have my dad and grandmother to thank for that I guess. I'm wondering if we'll have to start potty training him soon. Jeremy said that today he threw a diaper and wipes at him. Jeremy asked him if he needed to be changed. He said yes and started trying to take off his diaper.

Old Pics

I found these old pictures of Sariah and Becca from when we went to Ikea and they had their faces painted. I think that what people can do with some paint and a paintbrush is really neat. My mom is an excellent painter. So what my question is: "Why didn't I inherit that talent?" Good news is though that I'm pretty good at a scrapbook layout. Someone else can be the artist, I can use their art to make a cool page.

Grateful list

Right now I'm at the Mussers' house in Stockton, very thankful that they have wireless internet. I think the thing I love most about coming to Stockton is that there's always someone to entertain the kids and give me a few minutes of peace. Right now Heather is watching a movie with Sariah and Becca.

I've really enjoyed looking at the blogs that my friends and family have created. What a neat way to keep in touch and journal what is happening in your life. We are so blessed to live in a time where we have the technology that allows us to communicate so easily.

I'm also thankful that church material is available via satellite, internet, and pretty much any other way you can think of. I think it's so cool that I can download conference, the Ensign onto my Ipod or my phone. At this moment, Womens' conference and General Conference are waiting for me at home on the DVR for me to watch after the kids go to bed.

Last week the check engine light to my car came on (whoever thought up the idea of a check engine light should be tortured within an inch of their life) For those of you who don't know, we've probably spent $7000 in the last year fixing the minivan and the Neon. Really, I'm ready for a new car but since we've dug ourselves a hole fixing the ones we have we can't afford a new one. Anyway, the car has to be smogged and registered next month and I was trying to figure out how we could afford to fix a vehicle again. There was about a million things that could be wrong and I was just hoping that it wasn't the transmission. As it turn out, a leak that has been in my car for the last several months ended up getting into the heads and ruining the spark plugs and wires causing one of the cylinders to shut down. Luckily, fixing it was under $300 and this month is the month of the extra paycheck. So, the point of this long drawn out story is that I know Heavenly Father is watching over me because if it had been any other time I'd have been on the phone begging my mom for money.

I'm thankful for my health and that my kids and hubby are healthy too. Multiple members of mine and Jeremy's extended family have had to spend way too much time in the hospital this year. Luckily, my cousin's baby is getting stronger and I'm hopeful that the other members of extended family that have had health problems will be helped by good doctors and I know they have a stong support system to help them through whatever comes.

Lastly I am thankful for scrapbooking and that Jeremy gives me time to do it. I went scrapping last night after not having gone in a couple of months and it was nice to go, be creative, and get some time away.