Tag Your It...

So, to begin my blogging experience, I have been "tagged" by my dear friend Brandi. She sent around this fun questionaire to kind of get my mind thinking. I was just just going to fill it out and email it back to her but she talked me into setting up a blog...so here it goes. It's actually been kind of fun.

1. Best thing you cooked last week?
Chicken Tortilla Soup. I'm not sure if it was a big hit with my family but I have been craving it everyday since.

I also made Meatloaf one day which was ok (that was a hit with the kids) but I made a really yummy salad to go with it. It had lettuce,apples, craisins, motz cheese, and bacon and then a really yummy dressing to go on top of it. Been craving that everyday too. Can ya tell I like food?

2.If money, time, and babysitting were no object, where would you go and with who?

Oh...so many places. I want to go to Hawaii soooo bad with my hubby. I would take a vacation for a couple weeks without kids and just enjoy each other and the warm weather. I would also like to go somewhere in the Carribean or someplace like that cause I've never been there, of course with my husband.

I want to take the kids to California. Go to Disneyland. Go visit Becca and Gerry!

If sickness were no object, the place I would love to go the very most right now would be Brazil! I would go with Mike's whole family. I can't imagine a better place to be right now. Just to see smiles on so many hurting faces would be worth any vacation in the world.

3.When was the last time I cried?

Honestly? I can't stop crying....I hurt for so many people right now. With some recent bad news my heart just hurts.

4. 5 things you were doing this month 10 years ago.
(not sure I can think of 5 things but here it goes.....)

1. I had just started my Junior year of Highschool at Copper Hills. I made some good friends, most of who I am still close with to this day. We had some good times going to the mall, dragging state, and hanging at Artic Circle.
2. I was on the JV cheer squad having the time of my life! I would wake up at 4:30 every morning to shower and go to cheer practice. I don't know how I did it cause I can't drag myself out of bed at 7:00 now. But we had a really fun squad and a really fun year that year. We weren't very good....but we had fun. At competition the only good remark the judges had for us were "cute outfits."
3. I met this really cute boy who I started dating named Michael Davis. And as time will tell this month marks our ten year anniversary of dating!
4. Even though I had started dating Mike, I had already been asked out to Homecoming by somebody else, so of course I had to go with him. It was the most excruciating night of my life. Mike of course got to go with this gorgeous blonde (Nichole Terry) that everybody was in love with. I did end up ditching him for one dance and got to dance with Mike. Wasn't that sweet of him:)
5. It was hard enough coming up with 1-4 I don't think I can come up with the 5th

5. 5 things on your to do list

1. Finish painting the toy room. YES I AM STILL PAINTING! We are almost finished though and with winter settling in I hope to be finished with it soon, so the kids have a place to play!

2. Clean my blinds. (That's always on my to do list cause I never do it.)

3. Finish my Christmas shopping. I am on a mission to get it done early this year so I can enjoy the season this year.

4. Clean my house (That's always on my list too, cause it's always dirty...impossible to stay on top of. I don't know maybe I'm just lazy.)

5. Organize my storage area so I can fit my food storage in. I have all my food storage in Brayden's soon to be closet and he's going to need it soon.

6. 5 favorite snacks
Cinnamon rolls (actually let's just bunch pastries into one category), Swedish Fish, Fruit, Pretzels, Crackers with Cheese and Salami

7. 5 bad habits
Dr. Pepper, procrastinating, love sleeping too much (I can not wake up in the morning,), I'm a pushover, Dr. Pepper

8. 5 favorite foods
This category really isn't fair that they narrowed it to ONLY 5! This is my favorite category!
Texas Roadhouse Salmon, Cafe Rio Pork Salad, Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup, Italian Food, Chinese Food.

9. 5 favorite places you've been
1. Switzerland. The trip I took with Mike this year was amazing. It was a trip we probably never would have taken by ourselves. Let alone, never would have been able to afford. So I am greatful his company gave us that opportunity. I have so many great memories that I will cherish always.

2. Brazil. We went when Brayden was about 6 months old. It was so amazing and beautiful. I hope we will be able to go back and take all the kids one day. Kaylee and Kade have never met their Grandma and Grandpa that live there. Like I said above, it is the one vacation I wish we could all go on right now.

3.Hawaii. Even though when I went, I went as a babysitter. I didn't get to see as many exciting places as I would have liked. I still got to do a lot of fun things and it is a gorgeous place.

4. California. What a fun place. No matter how many times you go there it is exciting! Especially when you have kids.

5. Florida. I have been there a couple times. I went as a kid. And then I had a chance to take the kids for Thanksgiving a couple years ago. Grandma Wags lived there and we had a chance to go visit her and we went to Disneyworld. It was a fun trip.

10. 5 favorite memories
1. Going to my Grandma and Grandpa's house. I loved when my Grandma Ige would have "girls night" she would take us to the River Queen and get us ice cream. We would go back to her house and sit around and sing and then lay around her floor and have a slumber party. I loved when I got sleep over at my Grandma Karma's. I would lay in her cozy bed's and listen to the sounds of the cars going past at night. We would always wake in the morning to the smell of bacon, she would always make us a variety of different things because she wasn't sure what it was we wanted that particular morning.

2. When I was a little girl I would wake up really early on the mornings my dad had to work early. I would wait til I could tell he was all ready for work then I would sneak out of my bed, before he left for work, and he would sit on the couch and just hold me. No one else was awake, just me and my dad. I also remember he would bring us home jaw breakers from work.

3. I fond memory I have is a family vacation we took to California. It was the first "real" trip we had taken. It was so much fun. We did so many fun things. And for some reason I remember so much of that trip and I was only like in 4th grade.

4.I remember the day that Mike and I and Brayden got sealed in the temple. It was such an amazing day. It was a day we had been looking forward too for a long time. Brayden was so little, and I worried how he would behave and how the ceremony would go. But the day couldn't have gone better. I remember who was there, and where they were sitting in the room, I remember Brayden's precious expressions on his face when they brought him in the room, and the way he looked at everybody that was there, and for a brief moment thinking he knew exactly what was happening. I hope those memories will be with me always. It was sad we didn't make it to the temple the traditional way most couples do, but we got to share something so sacred with our little family that day. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

5.I'm going to sum 3 of my other favorite memories into one. The birth of my babies. Each one of their experiences were unique, and fascinating in their own way. They each hold a special place in my heart. Not only their birth but bringing them home and being granted the opportunity to be their mother. Hopefully I can instill in them some precious memories that they will remember always.