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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Friday, September 21, 2007

Good thing I love him...

Hey guys, I put a post on our family blog about Carter. It will for sure bring a smile to at least Jessica's face. And, Nat, you can see what lies ahead for you. So, click here and it should take you to Carter's latest adventure. Really, it's a good thing I love him! Love you all!

Monday, September 17, 2007

which on which one?




well on behalf of Jen i am supposed to post these to boys who i used to like and they liked me. and its this whole dumb thing with i didn't know who to like. and now that i don't like either of them but i think my point is that Jen wanted to see what these boys looked like so she told me to post them. i know i am an idiot. well here they are. hehehe the one to the left with me in which i look really gross in beacuse we just came back from quading, is brad mickleson and the one to the right is Parker S.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

A few of the kids...










Hey everyone, I just wanted to post a few pictures of me DARLING kids! We went to the place where we are (all) going to be taking family pictures over Thanksgiving. Anyways, although my pictures are mostly of just the kids and not the background, it's a beautiful neighborhood that is still being built. I am having WAY too much fun with my camera and can't wait to take pictures of everyone when you all get here. Love you all and sorry you are O.D.ing on pictures of the kids. :)

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The Girls

Hannah is always making us laugh, she loves to just crawl around and explore on her own. This is what she did with the intertube.
We thought we lost her for a minute, but she was just in the toy cupboard!
This is how she held the baby all by herself. She was being very motherly. She also loves to play with it's eyelashes.
Evelyn LOVES to water flowers! This was at our friends' house.
Evelyn next to her friend Ashley. She calls her Ash-a-ley, like Natalie calls Brad Brad-a-ley.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Here ya go Ladies

4 jobs I have had in my life
- Neighborhood lawnmower
- Newspaper delivery girl
- Chili’s Hostess
- Nanny, Preschool teacher and Substitute teacher

4 movies I could watch over and over
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sound of Music
- Grease (My sister and I used to watch it over and over and over. I actually haven’t seen it in a really long time)
- A Muppet Christmas Carol (thanks to Evelyn who watches it over and over and over and over)

4 places I have lived
- Seattle, WA
- Rexburg, ID
- Andalusia, Spain
- Salem, OR

4 guilty pleasures
-Reading while Ben is taking care of the girls and I get to be oblivious to the world like he often is while he is reading
- Blue Bunny Birthday Cake Ice Cream with blue ribbon frosting and confetti candy pieces
- Reese’s peanut butter cups
- Oprah’s 20th Anniversary DVD series

4 Places I have vacationed
-Whistler, Canada
- Tijuana, Mexico
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Cairns, Sydney, Melbourne and Geelong Australia

4 of my favorite foods
-Ben’s cooking (even though he always adds mushrooms)
- FRUIT
- Beans and Corn
- POTATOES

4 places I would rather be right now
- San Juan Islands, Washington
- Somewhere in China speaking Chinese to some cute little Chinese elderly folk having them tell me their life stories
- Europe, maybe in Finland or England discovering my ancestry (speaking fluent Finnish of course), visiting my friend Sunny in Geneva, the Madrid Temple, Southern Spain visiting mi gente, or seeing Greece and painting landscape pictures in a little seaside village.
- A great big huge old wonderful library or bookstore with wonderful beautiful music playing without my children for some of the time so I can read, and with my children for the rest of the time so I can read to them.

4 books I love
-Wild Swans, Jung Chang
-Biographies
-Night, Elie Wiesel
- I Have Lived a Thousand Years

4 things I would love to know how to do
- Be able to produce professional-quality paintings
- to communicate with anyone I wanted to in their own language, including babies
- sew
- play the piano better, be able to sing beautifully and play the guitar all at the same time, play the violin

4 things I worry about
- That a big tall tractor will come barreling through our daughters’ room and smoosh them
- Smelling bad
- Calamities and natural disasters
- plane, train and car accidents

4 of my happiest moments
-When I was hired as a librarian at BYU-Idaho
-The day before our wedding (it sounds bad, but Ben would understand, it was a good day)
-Sweet little short moments together as a family dancing, or being outside, or laughing together
-Being baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

4 things I want to do in the future
-Write a book
- Find out about my ancestors and more about my immediate family
- Go to beautiful places with our little family
-Be able to anonymously leave thousands of dollars every month to neighbors, friends, and family, who I know could really use it.

Okay, let's here from some of the guys now!

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Well Done, Ladies!!

I must say that I am highly impressed with you three girls for doing the tagging. It really is fun learning things about other people, like that Natalie loves Devils Arithmetic. I LOVED that book! Also, who knew that Grammie enjoying doing things for her kids/grandkids! :) Anyways, I hope the rest of you do this because it's really fun reading these. We sure love you all and can't wait for Thanksgiving.
Also, everyone start throwing out ideas for what to wear for family pictures. Each family in different colors or what? Look around and post ideas on the blog... maybe an example of something you saw on line. Love you all!! Jen and Co.