Tagged

I was tagged by Sarah...here we go!

Some Jobs I've Had:

1. Waitress/Hostess at Rubys diner
2. sales associate at Carters
3. customer service for TaylorMade adidas golf
4. reservationist for Grand Pacific Resorts


Places to go for a Weekend Getaway:

1. Vegas
2. Palm Springs
3. Mexico
4. Solvang


Movies I Can Watch Over and Over Again:

1. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2. Happy Gilmore
3. Princess Bride
4. Big Daddy


My Guilty Pleasures:

1. Popcorn with salt and butter
2. taking naps
3. scrapbooking
4. reality shows


Places I Have Lived:

1. Defiance, Ohio
2. Provo, Utah
3. Vista, California
4. Oceanside, California


Places I've Been on Vacation:

1. Paris France
2. Heidelberg Germany
3. Hawaii
4. Puerto Rico


Favorite Foods:

1. popcorn
2. tortellini
3. mushrooms
4. cherries


First things you thought when you saw your significant other:

1. Can I help you?
2. Is he for real asking to borrow my tennis racket?
3. well he sure doesn't talk much
4. he's kinda cute...


If in a jam with Spouse, what tactics do you use to get out of the doghouse?

1. I can't share this...I want him to think I am sincere!



Websites I Visit Daily:

1. hotmail
2. myspace
3. blogger
4. two peas in a bucket


Best First Kiss Landmark:

1. couch in my apartment
2. front door
3. movie theatre
4. my lips?


Places I'd Rather Be Right Now:

1. In bed...
2. at the bank cashing my million dollar check
3. at the realtors office buying a house with the check I just cashed
4. scrapbooking


Now I get to tag four other blog buddies:

1. Crystal Campbell
2. Nichole Bruce
3. Autumn Garvin
4. Samantha Raadgep

So You Think You Can Dance

Last season of "So you think you can dance" Crystal and I both applied for tickets to go see the show which tapes in LA. We didn't ever hear back from them until a few weeks ago. I got 4 tickets and Crystal got 2.

We left around 11 am. Got there around 1pm. Stood outside until about 4pm. Got inside and stoof until about 7pm. My legs, specifically my knees felt like they were going to snap in half from standing so long. They do have seats in the audience but they are mainly for handicapped people, friends and family of the dancers, and the choreographers. So we stood along side of the stage.

It was really fun to go see the dancers and to cheer for all of our favorites. The only annoying part was Cat Deeley getting her make up done every 5 minutes out on stage, each judges 5 minute long comments and having to cheer in scream on demand in about 6 different stage colors ranging from aqua to mulberry. So lame! Oh yeah and at the end of the show they made us cheer while they zoomed in on EACH persons sign that they brought so they could use the clips of the signs during the dancers dance. Very staged. But it was still fun!!

This is outside of The Cheesecake Factory in LA at "THE GROVE" which is an upscale mall by the studios. While we were standing in line waiting for our table at the restaraunt I was thinking to myself...."wouldn't it be cool if I saw someone famous walk by?" not more than 5 minutes later I saw Matthew Perry walk by with a couple friends. It was so cool to see a famous person! LoL...I was star struck!

My mom and her friend Kristi went. Me and my friend Gaylynn went. Crystal and Zac went. I think Gaylynn was in the bathroom while we took these pictures.

Trip to Utah

Kasen and I went out to Utah a little bit ago and it was really fun because we got to see family. Jeremy's parents and little brother were in town from WA at the same time that we were there so we went to see them as well. Jeremy's family put Kasen and I up in a hotel and even paid for us to fly out there so that we could see them.

Kasen has a cousin (jeremys brothers son) who is about 2 months younger than Kasen is and they never really get to see each other because we live here in Cali and they live there in Utah. Well they got a full weeks time together and I really think they made good buddies! Kasen still asks from him and we have been home almost a week.

This is a cute pic of Kasen in our hotel bed. Well HIS hotel bed. We got 2 doubles so we wouldn't have to share. Even though he had his own, he still slept on the very edge. He is ALMOST as white as the bed sheets. ALMOST.

Kangaroo Zoo

While we were in Utah Nichole and my mother in law and I took the older boys to a place called Kangaroo Zoo. They had a bunch of inflatable bouncies. They all pretty much had a slide, but some had obstacle courses, walls to climb, or ropes to climb. Kasen and Braxton had such a great time. That was probably my favorite thing we did while I was there. Don't get me wrong I LOVED all the shopping we did too, but I love seeing my little boy laugh and run and giggle with delight more than ANYTHING. It makes me so happy to see him so happy and it made me even happier to see Nichole so happy to see Braxton the same way. Our cheeks hurt by the end of the night because we were smiling and laughing so much. Here are some pictures. Hopefully you can smile like we did!

A little explanation on this one...Kasen, the smarty pants that he is...figured out that if he put his legs together and his arms flat to his side, while laying down, would make him go a LOT faster! This is the best picture I had of it, but it doesn't show it all that well because he was at the end and was starting to sit up at this point which is why his head is up and his arms and legs are spread. My kid is so smart! lol....

Gotta love the bright green socks that we had to buy in order for them to play since we didn't have any with us. $2! Can you believe that?!

Thanksgiving Point

Here are a few pictures from our trip with Braxton (kasens cousin) to Thanksgiving Point animal farm.

Braxton and Kasen feeding the goats at Thanksgiving Point.
Kasen and Grandpa looking over the edge at the chickens.
Kasen riding a pony, he wanted to ride on the biggest one and I actually got a smile out of him this time.
This is my sweet sister in law Nichole and her baby Isaac. So cute.

Employed!

Just wanted to share with everyone that Jeremy got a full time job and we are now fully employed!! Woo hoo!! What a relief. Our prayers have been answered. Thank you to all of you who have prayed for us, or helped give us job leads. We appreciate it.

Jeremy will be working for a company called Biosite. It's in Sorrento Valley. He plans on taking the coaster down, so that he wont have to make the commute in our crappy car. He will be working in software validation project management. The company makes medical diagnostic testing equipment.

I am so proud of him and so happy for him! I love him dearly! Yaay for Jeremy!

Brain Cancer

A few weeks ago on the 4th of July, Jeremys cousin Geraldine and her family (husband and 2 daughters) were visiting her parents in Oregon. Geraldine lives in Sacramento now, and has no family near by. They went to her parents home for the holiday. As they were all sitting there at dinner in the 4th, her speech started to slur and she lost control of the left side of her body.

She was immediately rushed to the hospital where they found a tumor in her (right lobe?) brain the size of a golfball. They took her into emergency surgery the very next day. They removed her tumor, but had to wait a week or so to find out if it was cancerous...Geraldine is only like 24. After her tumor was removed, the same day she started have seizures. They put her on seizure medicine, but isn't able to drive for at least a year. Can you imagine having 2 little ones and not being able to drive?

After the surgery, she started staying at her parents home in oregon, and was planning on staying 4-6 weeks. Her mom is helping take care of the kids while Geraldine is recovering.

A couple weeks have gone by and her husband finally went back home to Sacramento. When he got home they had several messages from the hospital in Oregon. Apparently they were trying to get ahold of Geraldine. Her father (Jeremy's uncle) rushed her to the hospital. It turns out that Geraldine has a very agressive type of brain cancer and is going to have to undergo radiation and chemotherapy, among other things.

She will be going back to California now and her husbands mother is flying in from Argentina and will be staying with her and their family until October.

I can't even imagine the pain and heartache their family is going through. I know that the Lord will look out for them, and watch over them. I know that whatever happens in this situation is the Lord's will. He will take care of ALL of us either way. My prayers are with her and her family, and I have already put there name in at the San Diego Temple. If any of you feel inclined to pray for them or to enter their names in at your temple, all the support is appreciated!