Six Questions

I got this sent to me by a friend and thought that it would make a good tag. So I tag Brina, Aimee, Stacey, Mom, Linda, and Verity.


1) Six places that I go to over and over: Gateway,head start, Mom's house, my house, Walmart, church
2) Six people who e-mail me regularly: Brina, Aimee, Tevan, Serena, Verity, knit picks
3) Six of my favorite places to eat: At home, The Lodge, Texas Cattle Co., Sizzler, Home Town Buffet, Olive Garden
4) Six places I would rather be right now: In bed, with family, on vacation, Barnes & Noble, in the mountains, with Dad and Sherry
5) Six people I think will respond: hopefully the six people I tagged. :)
6) Six TV shows I watch: Bones, Knight Rider, NCIS, CSIs, The Mentalist, Numbers

Answer the questions and Remember to have fun.

Fall Is

I thought I would share some pictures and thoughts about the season. This afternoon I was taking a nap in my old room, hiding from kids, and the window was open blowing in the breeze and smells of fall. Anyway when my kids found me and woke me up, I was laying there and this poem came to me.

Fall Is

Fall is...

changing...

golden hues...

leaf jumping...

chilly walks...

blowing breezes...

warming jackets...

crisp nights...

many leaves...

spices baking...

Victoria's Favorite...

Fall.

When Victoria saw me posting this she said, "Hey that's when we played in the leaves in Fall. It's Fall when the leaves fall down."

Beautimous Bonk

Well Logee was being Logee, and climbed up on Dad's chair the preceded to fall off of Dad's chair and land on his head. As horrible as it looks it didn't slow him down at all. And it certainly didn't keep him from climbing on anything else either.

Well, I finally got some footage of my little monster playing the piano and I thought I would share. Enjoy.

Again and again

Sometimes no matter what you do you do it wrong. Then you try to fix it and everything gets worse. And no matter how hard you try to fix things it's just not good enough. The kid, the car, the clothes, just messed it all up. Try not to make him mad and mad is what I make him. Simply put, failed yet again. Bravo.

Sunday Afternoon

We spent our Sunday afternoon making a 'Sunday Game' as Victoria says. Though for a game to fit that description to her you just have to play the game on Sunday. So I thought it would be a good idea to have actual 'Sunday Games' or maybe more church oriented games. So Mom went and found a game in an old Friends magazine, while I worked on creating a game. So anyway we picked 24 primary songs that the kids might know, might listen to, and that are fun to do. And then we found a small picture to go with that was fun to look at so that they could pick songs from the pictures. I don't know if it will be a hit or not, but my kids aren't as fond of Primary Songs as I am and I was hoping that this might change their minds.

Mostly we just used the LDS clip art, though originally I was going to draw the pictures. Mom saved me a lot of time by thinking up the clip art. Though for a few there weren't any pictures so I googled some images. The few that are shown here are Popcorn Popping, Once There was a Snowman, Little Purple Pansies, The Golden Plates, The Wise Man and the Foolish Man, and Hinges. As you might have guessed we couldn't find a good hinge in the LDS clip art, but when I googled it I got Optamus, and Mom and I both thought it was pretty funny. :) We also figured that we could 'upgrade' or add songs as they got older, and their attention spans lengthened. Anywho it was a fun afternoon for Mom and I even if the kids didn't have fun.

Ode to my Hubby!

1. Where did you first meet? At our friend Tommy's house. Though at the time he was engaged to someone else who had a little girl named Becca. The only things that stuck that very first time I saw him were that he was holding a baby seat and he had a nice, kind smile.

2. How long did you date before you got married? 364 days. We would have gotten married a year later, but it was a Sunday so we did it the day before instead.

3. How long have you been married? 8 years, and still some days it feels like it just happened.

4. What does he do that surprises you? Besides loving me for me, he'll bring me flowers. Out of the blue for no reason other than to make me smile. He does it a lot, but it still surprises me.

5. What is your favorite feature about him? His smile, always his smile. *Alert* cheesy line coming. Though on the night we started going out I actually told him that 'He had beautiful eyes.' We were sitting outside at night and there was thunder and lightning everywhere around us and it was making the green of his eyes change, from emerald green, to a yellow green, to a darker forrest green.

6. What is your favorite quality about him? He is utterly generous. He always wants to help family out even when we really can't. Once he told me he wished he could buy my Mom and Dad an RV so that Dad could still go camping, once it became to hard on him to go.

7. Does he have a nickname for you? Gorgeous

8. What is his favorite color? I don't think he has a favorite. Though he likes this silvery blue satin color, hard to describe, but we tried to match it in the colors from our wedding.

9. What is his favorite food? Um to be honest I don't think my hubby is big on favorites, he likes too much of anything to have to choose. Um here are some... ham hock and beans, corned beef and cabbage, steak, fish, though not salmon unless it is sushi, shrimp, any of his Mom's recipes.

10. What is his favorite sport? Hunting, though maybe I should say that it is his current favorite hobby. He doesn't sport/trophy hunt, but hunting is usually considered a sport. To watch I would say football, I think.

11. Who said "I love You" first? I think I did. Actually I think it was the night of our first kiss. But I'm not 100% sure. But the important part is that he Loves me back!

12. When and where was your first kiss? As for when, I think it was within the first month that we started dating, as for where, we were target shooting out in the desert with friends. And I was leaning against Tommy's bronco and Scott came over and leaned against me and kissed me, and left me feeling a bit dazed with a goofy grin on my face.

13. What is your favorite thing to do together? Alone together is always good. :) But I really do enjoy just going to the movies with him. Or just taking a drive somewhere.

14. How old is he? 30

15. Do you have any kids? 3 great loveable monsters! Victoria, Sirus and Logan

16. What is a hidden talent he has? He is a dreamer. It may not be a hidden talent, but I can't do it. He'll come up with these ideas, dreams, schemes and develope them, look into what he'd have to do, how it would all work, everything. Often nothing comes of it, but it's there in his mind to pull out whenever he needs a pick me up, a this could happen sort of thing. Sometimes I get frustrated because they don't happen, but sometimes they do.

17. What is his favorite type of music? He likes lots of music and all different types.

18. What do you admire the most about him? I could point out his faults or rather the things that I have a hard time with because they would be easier to list than what I admire about him, but I won't. I will say that I admire him, utterly, entirely, and wholely him. His smile, his kindness, the way he loves me, the way he loves our kids. How sometimes he seems as though he himself is a kid. Him, just him.

19. Do you think he is going to read this? Only if I read it to him so maybe he'll see it.

I am getting to being tagged kinda late, but I have been meaning to do it, it has just been taking me a while to actually sit down and do it. And the only person I am tagging is Mom. I know you don't have a blog, but I would like to hear these things about Dad anyway, unless it makes you to sad.

Yay Me!

Okay so this is probably silly to most people, but I'm excited. The main reason I looked into doing a blog was so that I could share my knitted patterns with others. And keeping that in mind there is a site that I use for other patterns, that I love. It is called Knitting Pattern Central. Anyway the gal in charge of the site says she'll post free patterns on her site if you have them up on a site/blog with pictures to go with them. So I've been trying to get some stuff up to do just that. And this last week I was able to contact her and she agreed to put my stuff up. So at least 2 of my patterns are there and now there is a link to my blog from her site! So I say, "YAY ME!!!!"