Tag catch up....

I was tagged a while ago and I am pretty sure these are the only 2, if not and you tagged me feel free to leave me a comment chewing me out for not doing your tag.



Quirk Tag: This one has been going around a bunch I am sure everyone knows how it goes.

~I have to sort my clothes hanging in the closet from dark to light and within the colors they have to be short sleeve to long sleeve...yet the rest of my house is a mess...go figure.

~When I eat pancakes I have to put on a little bit of syrup at a time. I pour it on a section big enough for like 3 bites and eat that, then I pour it over another section and take 3 more bites. (I am pretty sure I use way more that way...but that's how I like it)

~The first thing I do when I get up in the morning and the last thing I do before bed at night is check my blog to see if anyone new has commented...I also spend hours checking other peoples blogs to see if they have posted anything new...I am pretty sure that is the definition of an addict!

~I always have to have the TV or radio on during the day...the house is too quiet without it and it creeps me out.

~When I get dressed to go out and I want to look good I have to change my clothes at least 3 times...when it is a really special occasion I take pictures of myself and download them onto the computer so I can look at what I look like in each outfit and can compare them side by side. Brandon makes fun of me when I do this. It probably makes me sound really high maintenance but I promise I am not! Its more the opposite, I want to make sure I don't look like a horribly frumpy old mom!

~I am obsessed with lists! I have to write a list for everything...packing for vacations, my to do list, cleaning list, grocery list, etc. I feel TOTALLY overwhelmed if I don't have everything written down in front of me to see. When it is all in your head it seems like you have 50 million things to do but then when you write it down you can see that there are only 6 or 7. I feel like life's tasks are so much easier if they are on paper, you don't have to remember stuff, its all on the list. If I couldn't write lists I would probably cease to exist!!

Well that is it...I hope you still want to be my friend after all that. I tag no one with this one because I am sure everyone has already done it...if you have not and you want to then feel free to consider yourself tagged.

I have been tagged! I had to post pictures of the kitchen sink, favorite room, the fridge, a closet, laundry room, my self, kids, dream vacation, fav. shoes, and the bathroom. WITHOUT cleaning or making beautiful. So here goes....Ok ladies if this isn't proof that I didn't cheat and clean first I don't know what is! Don't judge me for my messy sink, our dishwasher broke and who has time to hand wash dishes!?!

My favorite room in the house Brandon likes to call "the reading room" probably because it is too small to do anything else in it but read! It is a tiny little room that you have to crawl into from our closet...fun huh!?!

I took a picture of Val's closet because its cleaner than mine!

And more proof that I didn't cheat...this is me, no makeup and all!

She is sleeping right now...Hooray for me!

Some day I want to go to Cancun and spend a whole week under this palm tree!


I don't wear these very often anymore now that I have to carry Valerie around!

I didn't cheat on this room, I just picked the cleaner bathroom of the 2. :)

So I didn't take a picture of the fridge because I forgot and am too lazy to go back downstairs and take another picture. I also didn't take a picture of the laundry room (on purpose) because that is in the basement and I refuse to go down in that spider infested place!! (Unless my life depends on it, or if Brandon's not home and my favorite shirt is in the dryer!!)

Now I tag anyone who wants to do this one...it is kinda fun I encourage you to do it...especially Tiffany, my new BFF!

Anniversary

I am pretty slow getting these pictures up, but right after we got back from our anniversary get-a-way I got deathly ill and am just barely getting back to regular life. Brandon and I went to Midway to celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary. It was a blast! I would recommend it to anyone. And thanks to my mom and Dennis for watching Valerie while we went! I missed her, but was glad to have a night alone with my husband!This is our cool cottage that we stayed in.

Mountain House Grill....excellent food!!

Eating gelatto at a the Zermatt hotel it had a crazy room with lots of clocks and tea pots on the walls...I guess clock are normal...but tea pots??

Check out the ceiling!

Walking around the Homestead where we stayed.This is the "Crater" it is a natural hot spring thing...they described it as kind of a volcano, the hot water comes up from deep down in the earth. It is like 60 feet deep, that is why they made us wear funny life vests.

You can see some bubbles in the water...there were people scuba diving below us...creepy!

After we got back on Saturday Brandon had his last soccer game of the season. I took this awesome picture just after he kicked the ball, he is flying through the air...how great was the timing of that shot!?!

Ha Ha Ha

She can walk!!

Ok I realize she might be just a touch slow, but that does not take away from my excitement today when Valerie took her FIRST STEPS EVER!! I knew she could do it because she can stand for a long time by herself and walk really good holding onto things, she just didn't dare to take those first steps by herself. I always would hold toys up in front of her and she would reach out her hand and try to get them, but still wouldn't walk forward. Well I learned today that I had her motivation all wrong. I held up my cell phone for her and she took 3 steps forward to get it! I was so excited I grabbed her and started jumping up and down and screaming, "You did it! You did it!" Then I called Brandon right away and I'm pretty sure I was still screaming when I told him that his baby girl took her first steps. Valerie was very proud of herself too she was smiling and laughing....that might have been because of all the screaming and jumping, but I will say it was because she was excited reach such a huge milestone. What an exciting day, I am very proud of my little munchkin!!

Valerie's Birthday and Amanda's Wedding

*Warning...this is probably one of the longest posts ever!!*

Did I ever mention how busy of a week we had last week?? Wednesday the 8th was our Anniversary, the 9th was Brandon's little sister Amanda's wedding, the 10th was Valerie's Birthday, and the 11th was Amanda's Carnival (reception). So I am gonna post pictures from Valerie's parties and Amanda's Wedding (we will celebrate our Anniversary this weekend I will post pictures of that next week). Also, I have been tagged by like 3 or 4 people and I promise I will get to those this week too just as soon as I have time. Party with my side of the family. She was trying to touch the flame! Crazy kid!

What a nice girl, she wanted to share!

Party with Brandon's side, this is my attempt at a fondant cake...I think I will let the professionals handle the cakes from now on!!

Please take note of the cute onesie I stayed up until 1:00 in the morning making the night before!

Valerie was SO spoiled by both families...we now need a bigger toy box!

Matt and Amanda sealed for time and eternity 10-09-08!

Sweet!!

I love this picture of Brandon and Amanda!

I thought this one was fun!

Matt and Amanda in the bouncy thing...I am not even sure what it's called.

Brandon and Val's turn.

How many receptions have you gone to that have a gigantic slide!?! If you can look closely in this picture there are about 8 of us at the top getting ready to go down all at the same time...I don't think that is recommended! Daniel and Ashley going down backwards!

They look so sweet and innocent...

....Yeah not so much...they were BRUTAL!!

They had a balloon guy...how cool is that!?! He made a Scooby Do for Matt and a flower bouquet for Amanda.

Happy Family!

Cute cousins!

The car

At most receptions people like to throw rice or blow bubbles. Not at a carnival! Nope they do silly string instead!

Notice me holding innocent bystander Valerie with silly string all over her? No one warned me about the silly string or I would have kept my distance.

Well 20 million pictures later that is finally the end. I hope you enjoyed the pictures, Brandon tells me I am a blog maniac...he is probably right!