Tag!

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Tag! How To Play This Game of Tag. Post these rules on you blog. Answer these 15 questions about yourself on your blog. List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. Here it is...

Joys
1- My husband. He's wonderful, handsome, and I love him to pieces! He makes me laugh.
2- My kids. They are so much fun to be around! I love being a SAHM to them.
3- Church. It makes me happy because I feel like it helps me be a better person. Or at least makes me want to attempt to be a better person. :)

Fears
1- Child predators. The thought of anyone hurting my kids is one of my biggest fears.
2- Spiders. I'm not a big fan of any insects, but those give me the willies!
3- Mice. Words can not express how much these little things disgust me. Confession: Right after we moved in to our house, a mouse ran across my living room floor, just a few feet away from where my kids were playing. After I finished sreaming and freaking out, I called Brent at work and he came home and killed it. Lots of D-con and foam insulation later (filling in the gaps where they come in from under the house), we've been mice free for a very long time now!

Goals (In no particular order)
1- Finish school! I really want to get my degree, although I'm still not sure what to major in. :)
2- Get in shape! Always one of my goals. No specific weight goal, I just want to feel healthy.
3-Be more patient. Another thing I'm always working on.

Obsessions/Collections
1-(Obsession) Sugar, mainly chocolate. Unfortunately for my rear-end, I've got a serious sweet tooth! Bummer!
2-(Collection) I used to collect cow stuff before I got married, but I've gotten rid of most of it now. I still think it's cute though. I've kept a few things for sentimental reasons, having to do with how Brent purposed marriage to me. Very sweet story, but I'll save that for another time.
3- Hmmm, I can't think of anything else at the moment. I'd love to be able to say that I'm obsessed with a clean house (I'm sure Brent would love to be able to say that too). But loving it to be clean and actually keeping it that way are too entirely different matters! :)

Random Facts
1- Brent was the first person I ever said "I love you" too (besides my family). We didn't have our first official date until we'd already been dating for several weeks, held hands, kissed, told each other we loved eachother. We just hung out together all the time.
2- I can't stand Ketchup (HATE IT!). But I love everything else tomato-based. I think I'm the only person I know that hates Ketchup. I'm crazy, I know!
3- The calling I have in my ward has been the scariest one I've had so far, but has also turned out to be fun! I'm the chorister in Relief Society. I have no musical ability whatsoever, I sing like a frog, I don't play any musical instruments, I didn't know how to lead music (besides the basic 4/4). I had to look it up in the back of the hymn book. But I've had a lot of fun learning and growing!

Wow, that was long. Kudos to you if you read the whole thing! Hope i didn't bore you too much! :)

I tag Katie C, Katie M, Leslie, Mandy, Nikki.

Mmmmmm...

Yesterday I made strawberry freezer jam! Sooooo yummy! My friend Katie inspired me. She gave me a jar of hers and it was SOOOOOO good! I'd never had freezer jam before. It's very different than regular jam. Because you don't cook it, it tastes like fresh strawberries! So I bought 12 (yes, twelve) pounds of strawberries and nine boxes of pectin and almost 15 pounds of sugar. I spent all afternoon making strawberry freezer jam! What can I say, I'm a glutton for punishment. I tend to get these crazy hairbrained ideas, and instead of starting off small, I think I need to jump in feet first, gung-ho! Mine didn't turn out quite as good as Katie's, but I still think it's pretty good. I did it all in one batch, and next time I think I'll do it in smaller batches. That will be much easier! But now we have a freezer full of yummy fresh freezer jam! Mmmmm!

Kate's one year pictures (at 14 months) :)

I'm not real crazy about any of these pictures. I don't think the photographer did a very good job. He hardly ever caught her smiling. Anyway, here goes!

Latest happenings

This weekend, I went up to Eagar for my business. It was so much fun to see my family, including Heidi and Devin. I'm so glad they're back in AZ. I sure missed then while they were in Idaho for two years! And of course, Kaden had lots of fun playing with Dante and Michael, who are my parent's foster kids. On Sunday, Brent and I and the kids went down to Mesa to visit Brent's family. Brent's brother's wife Shanna had baby girl number three on Friday. Her name is Evee Beth Blanch, 7 lb 15 oz. She is SOOO CUTE!!! It was so much fun to hold a tiny baby again. It almost made me baby hungry again. Almost! :)

Kate is walking a lot more now. She walks about 1/2 of the time. She's still faster at crawling so that's her preferred method of transportation when she's in a hurry. Also, she got her first hair cut today! I trimmed her bangs because they were getting in her eyes, and I trimmed the hair at the back of her neck. It had grown in longer on the sides and shorter in the middle, so I just evened it out a little. It looks like a little bob now, it's so cute! And, she's talking a lot more now too. She says "cheese", "thank you", "mama", "dada", "yeah", "no". It amazes me every day how fast she's changing. She's such a sweet little girl, and we are so blessed to have her and Kaden in our lives.