Friday, May 16, 2008
Custom License Plates
That time of year
Boy, it's nice and hot here today! Well, for us. I'm sure people who live in hotter climates think 80* is great, and it is, but I just can't be outside for long in hot weather lol. But I did take the boys outside for a bit while I did some work in the garden. I raked and shoveled out the thick layer of wood chips that has been driving me nuts, and then started digging in the dirt to loosen it up. I had to stop about 1/4 through digging to come in because I was getting to hot and weak. Hubby says he'll help finish it up later. Then I need to buy some good soil to dig in and maybe in the next week or two I can start planting. Ooh, that reminds me I have a book on hold at the library that I have to pick up today, I better do that when Hubby gets home. It's a gardening book, something about square foot gardening, which I think will be helpful since we have such a small garden area.
Going to the chapel
Speaking of wedding's, you should check out 1st Class Wedding Invitations. They have a very large selection of quality wedding invitations that can be personalized however you want. I really like the Designer Jean M High Style Contemporary Wedding Invitation. It is a very different and fun invite, and I like that it isn't your average card. A really cool unique feature that 1st Class Wedding Invitations has is a zoom in. You can get a very clear close up view of each invitation and the detailing just by hovering over the image. So you can really see the quality of these invitations. If you are looking for great wedding invitations make sure you check out 1st Class.The Playroom
I love having a room dedicated just for the boys' toys. It's so nice to have them mostly stay in one area, though some do migrate upstairs once in a while. It's really nice that it is downstairs so I don't have to worry about guests seeing the mess and the boys' bedrooms stay cleaner as well as there aren't toys in there to distract the boys at bedtime.
A week or two ago I bought some new toy bins for the boys' toys. I even printed out pictures and put them on the bins so the boys know which toys go in each bin. I think I had more fun organizing toys than the boys lol. They thought the pictures were cool, but they'd rather look at the pictures than put toys in the bins. :) Doesn't that look nice?
But the boys seem to think the toys look much better dumped all over the floor instead of put away nicely. We can spend an hour cleaning up the playroom, and within 5 minutes every toy is back on the floor. I'm not sure why I even try anymore lol. I guess it just makes me feel good when it actually looks like this:
Secondbrain
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Friday's Feast
Appetizer
What is the nearest big city to your home?
- Salt Lake City, UT
Soup
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how well do you keep secrets?
- Well, I don't really get told many secrets actually, but I would guess around 8-9.
Salad
Describe your hair (color, texture, length).
- Blonde/brown, normal, long
Main Course
What kind of driver are you? Courteous? Aggressive? Slow?
- I follow the rules. Most of the time.
Dessert
When was the last time you had a really bad week?
- I usually don't have a whole bad week, just bad days here and there. There was some bad weeks about 3 years ago that were very stressful, but I don't want to get into it.
Rocky Mountain Trail
Thankful Thursday
Today I am thankful that I figured out why my vacuum wasn't working well the other day. I thought maybe it was giving out (cheapy we've had almost 5 yrs) but it turns out Jakey had just shoved a sponge inside it lol. So it still works fine (though an excuse to buy a Dyson would be nice lol) which is good because I had to vacuum up a whole shaker full of pepper that Jason dumped on the floor today. I am thankful for chocolate too, I just finished a Snickers creamy egg leftover from Easter and it was just what I needed to calm down from the pepper incident. Which reminds me of a funny story that still makes me laugh. I'm thankful for funny stories like this pepper story that make life more memorable. Yes, Dawn, a year later and it's still hilarious :D
What are you thankful for?
Lap Band Surgery
The Story of Us
I saw this on my friend Alicia's blog and thought it looked like a fun way to procrastinate the cleaning I should be doing :D
How did you meet:
Nate was my college roommate's sister's boyfriend's roommate. Make sense? Yeah, most people don't follow that lol. Anyway they all knew each other from living in Rexburg, Idaho. The first day we moved into our dorm, my roommate called Nate over to help her set up her computer since he was a computer science major. I answered the door in ugly PJs and my hair in a ponytail. Not really an attractive look I thought, but evidently he thought different. I didn't pay him much mind at first, but after he left my roommate came out and told me he thought I was cute, so she gave him our number. Over the next few weeks he kept losing our number and she kept giving it to him. Finally one day in October I was bored so I decided to go to his work (Wendy's) and see if he was there. Through a coincidence he actually came out to dump garbages just as I'd sat down to eat. He was so shocked to see me there. He came over and we talked and I told him "I thought you were going to call and ask me out" lol. (No, I am not always that forward.) He explained about losing our number again, so we went ahead and set up a date for the next Thursday. Our first date we went to a little restaurant called The Bluebird as well as to a haunted corn maze and a haunted straw maze (plus with the cold and me only having on a thin jacket, it was a nice excuse to cuddle closer lol). Right from the start I was so comfortable with him. We could talk about anything. I admit I didn't think he was the most attractive guy at first, I thought he was funny looking, but he grew on me :) 4 months later we were engaged, and 9 months after we started dating we were married.
Who eats more:
I was going to say him, but I think all together I might eat more because I eat more frequently and he never eats breakfast. But at a single meal he eats more.
Who said I love you first:
I wrote "Love, Kara" in an email for the first time. I don't know who actually said the words first.
Who is taller:
He's taller by a few inches, I'm 5'5".
Who sings better:
Me. When we were first together he wouldn't even sing during church, but now he does.
Who is Smarter:
I would say him, though I don't think I'm dumb :)
Who does the Laundry:
Me, and I hate laundry
Who does the dishes:
Mostly me, but he will about once a week if I ask. He also does a better job than me lol, I just throw it all in the dishwasher and if it doesn't get clean the first time I run it again. He actually scrubs stuff and wipes down all the counters and handwashes pans and stuff.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed:
Depends on how you look at it. From the point of view of laying in the bed it's him. I'm a bit neurotic about it, I have to sleep on the left side, unless it's against a wall, then I sleep on whatever side is not by the wall lol.
Who pays the bills:
Usually me. He keeps track of the money, I keep track of paying the bills and just tell him when, how much, and who. Works pretty good for us.
Who mows the Lawn:
Him. He likes yard work, I hate machines that can chop me up, so it's the best for us lol
Who cooks dinner:
Mostly me, he rarely does, but helps out sometimes. I used to really hate it and not cook much, but now I have a 4wk rotating menu that is simple and makes it easy to shop and make meals.
Who drives when you are together:
Him. I don't really like to drive.
Who is more stubborn:
Definitely me
Who kissed who first:
He kissed me. Funny story too. Our 3rd date we were standing in my dorm saying goodnight and he asked if he could kiss me. I had never been kissed before and was extremely nervous so I told him I would close my eyes and he could kiss me. It was short and not very good. I remember thinking "that's it? ew" But after a while kissing got better.
Who proposed:
He did. February 24th at 2am. We were talking after getting off work (We both worked at Wendy's by then and they close late) and he suddenly said he had something to tell me. He said he was moving and I said "What?! Where?" He explained that because his roommate was getting married he needed to find a new apartment. And he wanted to find a new roommate who he already knew and liked. Then I started realizing where he was going with this and started grinning. He took my right hand and asked "Kara, will you marry me?" And I said "Really?! Yes!" We stayed up late giggling and making plans. A few months later when he bought a ring he took me to the field where the corn maze had been where we had our first date, and got down on one knee and proposed again.
Who is more sensitive:
I think we both are about the same
Who has more siblings:
Me. He has 4 and I grew up with 7, but also had an older brother and sister who were adopted and married before I was born, and so I don't really know them as well, and now my parents take in foster kids and have guardianship of my cousin's daughter who is like a sister.
Who wears the pants:
We both make decisions and stuff together.
I'm not tagging anyone, cuz I've been such a slacker with doing meme's I'm tagged for, but if you do it let me know!
Making appointments
One of the things I need to do today is call and make some appointments. I need to call my old family doctor and see if he will see Jakey for his 2 year appointment (my baby is almost 2!), call the chiropractor for Hubby and me (need to make sure he's covered by our insurance first), and call around for a family dentist and get appointments for Hubby, me, and Jason. Jason has 2 cavities in his top front teeth and I feel so bad I haven't gotten it taken care of yet. I was brushing and flossing his teeth this morning and when I flossed between those teeth he kept flinching and saying ouch :( So hopefully they can get us in soon. It will be nice to get in to the chiropractor, I haven't gone in over a year and my neck keeps getting out of place. So far I've been using drug treatment of Tylenol whenever it gets bad, but I don't want to do that all the time since I'm pregnant, so I hope this will really help my headaches. Guess I better get those calls made before I forget again!
Way too big
A few days ago Hubby sent me an email about a guy's $20million home that had gone into foreclosure and it had pictures of the house. Oh my gosh, that house was huge! It had a ballroom (maybe 2? I can't remember), game room with pool tables and stuff, bar, ice cream parlor (so jealous of that! lol), theater room with theater rope and seating and everything, two master closets the size of bedrooms, a huge master bath, jacuzzi and sauna rooms, and so much more. And it was on about 9 acres of land with completely landscaped gardens and stuff. I can't even imagine the mortgage payment on a house that big! I think the power bill alone would be as much as our house payment lol. No wonder it got foreclosed on! Even if I had the money I don't think I'd want a house that big, you wouldn't even use most of the rooms. And it would take hours to search the house if I needed to find the kids for something lol. My house is 2800 sq ft and that's more than I can take care of most days. The ballroom alone in that big house is bigger than my whole home. Who really needs that much space?
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Past my bedtime
Every day I tell myself I am going to try to get to bed around 9pm because I'm always so tired. But everyday 10pm rolls around before I know it. I just realized that I think Hubby went to bed without me. Normally he's up watching TV long after I head to bed. In fact he usually just ends up falling asleep on the couch and never makes it up to bed, silly man. It's just so hard for me to make myself go to bed earlier, because the boys get put in bed at 8pm but by the time they actually settle down and fall asleep it's almost 9 and I just want a little bit of peace and quiet time lol. Anyway, I better head to bed I guess :)
Tribute to loved ones
Being cute
I really wish I could get Jason to nap more often. It's getting harder and harder to make him nap, but I really really need a nap myself most days but can't because he won't. :P Today I tried to get him to nap, and I laid on my bed for about an hour listening to him get into things, make noise, go up and down the stairs, etc. Everytime I was almost asleep I'd have to wake up to tell him to be quiet so he wouldn't wake up Jakey (which miraculously he didn't). I'm tempted to just lock him in his room so at least I won't have to worry about what he's doing while I nap lol, but I don't do that, we all know 3 year olds can do a lot of damage when left alone too long!
Good thing he is being so cute today. While I was trying to nap he occasionally called "I love you mom!" to me, and he's been spending a lot of time fixing his "house" (a big box my glider came in) with his play tools and building a window in it lol. Jakey also has a "house", the box the new oven came in, and Jason has been helping him fix his house too. They are being so adorable, I haven't even really lost my temper today, though I did get a little frustrated while cleaning the playroom earlier, but they were actually better at helping clean it up today. Aren't they cute? :)
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