Tagged for a MeMe

I was tagged by K
Here are 8 random facts about myself

1) I can't dance! This includes aerobics, hip hop abs, or any other dance related movement to music!

2) Since giving birth to B, I cry at all sappy movies, most recently "The pursuit of Happyness" - my eyelids were still swollen in the morning.

3) I am the middle of three children - and still believe I am the "favorite" child.

4) I don't remember my dreams (never have), with the exception of the recurring dream that M gets killed in the line of duty. I hate it, and share it often with her so she will not let the dream come true.

5) In elementary school I was the c0-president of "the pantyhose club" where you had to kiss a boy to be in the club. Funny thing was that my best friend and co-president was also a lesbian!!! Who knew.

6) I hate to shop for groceries, movie rentals, and fabric!

7) After B was born and my 8 weeks of leave was up I headed back to work - only to catch phenomena within the first 2 hours of being at work. It was horrible, I was freezing cold and had blue lips when I arrived home. M & B drove me up to the ER! Long story short, one more week off from work!

8) I don't cook! When it's my night to get dinner ready we eat simple, plain easy to make food. M takes care of the real cooking, and don't let her fool you, she's a great cook!

Sunday Fun!

One of our last "free" Sundays for the next few months so we took the family on a bike ride along the Jordan River Parkway. We had a blast. B loves to ride in her cart, and usually sings to M the entire way. Dakota and I ride first so B can catch all the action and laugh at Dakota's big tongue flapping as he runs. Surprisingly, the parkway was not crowded and we nearly had the path all to ourselves. We spent about 2 1/2 hours, stopped several times for water breaks (Dakota's favorite part) and let B play on the playground as well. As we were out I thought to myself, we should do this more often and bring friends along next time. It's close to home, easy to get to, free and FUN! I'll have to admit that it took Dakota and extra hour or two to get cooled off. We went straight home and he made a slow dash for his pool. We set up B's pool and they were both in quicker than I could get it filled up. I thought for sure Dakota would be resting the remainder of the day. I was wrong. He had his ball in his mouth and was ready to play later that evening!!!

B's First Tee Ball Game

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. But if I do say so myself, I think she looks like a natural with a lot of potential!!! Of course she was listening intently to the coach (guy in yellow) and took a little time to "meet the boys" then saved the best part for last, her first attempt at hitting a coached pitched ball....and then coach brought out the Tee.

Charity Ride

As you may know, motorcycling is one of M's passions. When B was born M also became passionate about kids, their safety and well being. M took it upon herself to organize and develop this Charity Ride. I will have to admit that the Department of Corrections role is very minimal, it has been M and a handful of her co-workers who do all the work. That being said, it has been a huge undertaking that has also been very rewarding and has provided an opportunity for kids to have "wishes" granted. If you know much about the Make A Wish Foundation you may know that meeting the kids and hearing their "story" is very touching and emotional. It is rewarding to know that you had a part in making a wish come true for them. All that being said I just wanted to share the information about the ride in case any of you would like to join the ride! Also, just wanted to give huge props to M! She is the greatest wife, partner, lover, mother and best friend I could have ever dreamed of. She takes on too much, works too hard, and is too unselfish. I love and appreciate her more and more as we grow together on this journey of life. Thanks M, for everything. I love you.

Bad Morning

I'm not sure if you all have these kind of days. But it's on days like today I question weather or not I'm cut out to be a mom...I know what some of you might think, I only have one and she's such a "good" kid. Well, Baylor and I had a terrible, I mean horendous morning. I woke her at 7:20am (her regular time) and from that moment on she cried, was screaming, wanted to go to old school, wanted to call Cade (he was not home and had already gone to school), refused to change clothes, went biserk over the outfit I had picked (including the underware which was not Ariel), was kicking and hitting me and anything else she could reach, didn't want her hair combed, wanted her hair combed, no pony, yes pony, only one pony, etc, etc. You get the picture right?.....this went on for an hour and 10 mintues, and yes I lost my cool! It is not common for Baylor to behave like this and NEVER has it gone on for over an hour! So I began trying to figure out what had changed and why was she acting like this....well, so far all I can come up with is that she is no longer taking naps at school or at home on the weekends. The teacher approached us last week and indicated that she had not been sleeping when the younger kids went down for a nap. This had been going on for quite a while so they asked if she could go with the bigger kids for quiet time and a movie. We said that would be fine with us. Well, I attribute her outburst today to lack of sleep and being too, too tired to function and reason in the morning.....This transition is not going well so far....game plan for tonight: eat, tub, bed by 7:30!

Summer Fun

We began this weekend with both saturday and sunday free of work! Yes, believe it our not neither of us had to work any of our jobs, and we only had one commitment, Cameron and Spencer's birthday party. I can't remember the last time that M and I had a weekend together, without running to one end of the state to another to meet family functions, etc, etc. Well, we set out with big ideas of getting the "to do" list done! Good idea, but we didn't get to far. The good part was we had a great weekend. The birthday party was tons of fun. It was great to see old friends and enjoyed getting to know new ones - and putting families together with blog sites. Baylor had a great time too, she wanted to go back to Syd's house on Sunday! We attempted to see a movie at the theatre - Baylor didn't last and was begging to leave after 45 minutes - so it was home to accomplish the chores. M and I are sore from yard work and changing bike oil and filters. All in all we had a great time, somehow avoided heat stroke, and could not keep Baylor and Dakota out of the water!!! I know, I know, it was only 104 degrees.

Thanks for all the "welcome" comments!!!


I finally got around the the Disco Party pictures and thought I would just post a couple from the pre-skate at the moon, and Kelly's shooting duck could not go un-posted! We had a great time, thanks everyone!

"Bad Guys"

Baylor definitely takes after M on this one. Every night when we lay down for bed Baylor asks us "did you lock both doors and both locks", of course we answer "yes" and sort of shake our heads. Is this normal for a 3 year old to be so concerned about the doors??? Then, M got a new police car. Of course Baylor wanted to ride in it and M had to explain that only "bad guys" can ride in the back seat of mom's car. After a short pause and some deep thought from Bay she replied "don't ever let those bad guys hurt you". I couldn't believe it, she was so sincere.....

some background

So what does "all this for a Mickey Mouse bobber" have to do with it? Well, 12 years ago M and I were on one of our first adventures, fishing! Michelle pulled out this awesome Mickey Mouse bobber from her tackle box! At that point I knew it was fate! I am a huge fan of Mickey and couldn't believe that Michelle had the ultimate bobber!!! Since that time we continually joke with each other that if we were ever to divorce, the one doing the leaving would "walk in their panties and the other would retain sole possession of the Mickey Mouse bobber! Hence, we are still happily together, neither of us willing to give up Mickey!!!