Mud is Fun

I broke down today and let Kate get her hands dirty. Literally. Her favorite thing to do when we go outside is to splash around in the water and mud in the gutter. I usually won't let her, but today I just let her have at it. Of course, the fun was followed by a bath!

Christmas is coming!

Sorry it's been so long since the last post. We are so excited for Christmas around here! And most of the shopping is done. Here are some pictures of our decorations; the tree is a fake. Jason requested a fake one and I didn't really care that much, so there you have it. At least now we don't have to worry about getting one every year. And the reason the stockings are so mismatched is because mine and Jason's are the ones we had growing up and I decided to "make" one for Kate (I use the term loosely because I bought a plain stocking and just added stuff to it). Merry Christmas!

Tagged again!

5 things I was doing 10 years ago

-Going to the U of U without a clue of what I wanted to do
-Working at Genealogy Research Associates
-Living with 5 other girls in a 3 bedroom apartment (and only 2 bathrooms! Gasp!)
-Driving to my parents house on fumes and then doing odd jobs to earn the gas money to drive back to my apartment
-Taking my mom to get her chemo treatments for her breast cancer

5 snacks I love

-Cheese and crackers
-Red grapes
-Jelly beans
-Chocolate (preferably with peanut butter)
-Twizzlers

5 things I have to do today (It is 9 pm so I am going to list things I did today)

-Made blueberry muffins and scrambled eggs for breakfast
-Went to a baby shower
-Read over the lesson I am substitute teaching in Primary tomorrow
-Went to Walmart
-Went to work

5 things I would do if I was a millionaire

-Pay off student/car loans
-Buy a VW Touareg
-Go on a trip to Europe
-Move back to Utah
-Buy equipment for my dad to donate to hospitals when he goes on his service trips. Better yet, go with him and donate it myself!

5 places I have lived

-Holladay, Utah
-Salt Lake City, Utah
-Houston, TX
-Los Angeles, CA (only for 6 months but it should still count!)
-Des Moines, Iowa (again, only for about 6 months)

5 jobs I have had

-Hostess at Frontier Pies
-Medco (good times, right Steph? Remember driving there at 5 AM?)
-Researcher at Genealogy Research Associates
-Nurse Aide at the U of U hospital
-Ultrasound tech

5 people I tag

-Becca T.
-Ashley T. (gotcha back!)
-Addy
-Cat
-Sally W.

Tagged!

My friend Ashley tagged me awhile ago (Sorry Ashley!). So here are 5 weird/interesting things about me:

1. I hate anticipating loud noises. One of my worst fears is little kids with balloons because they don't know that they can pop the balloon if they squeeze it too hard and I just watch them playing with the balloon cringing the whole time. I also can't open those cans of dough for rolls because of the pop when the pressure is released. Jason always has to open them for me.

2. The time on my alarm clock is always set 20 minutes ahead of time. I know I could just hit the snooze button, but I think there is something about waking up and seeing that the time doesn't look as early as it actually is. And 10 minutes doesn't cut it, it has to be 20.

3. I love to read, but I don't like non-fiction very much because I always feel like after I am done with the book I should have learned something; as if there is going to be a quiz on the material or something.

4. I couldn't take showers until I was about 9 years old. I had no real reason to be scared of them, but whenever my mom had put me in the shower before, I would just stand there and scream, so I think she gave up after awhile. My older sister asked once if I had seen Psycho and my mom told her to shut her mouth before she told me about the shower scene. I think that night was my first shower!

5. I hate things touching my neck. I refused to wear turtlenecks when I was younger and I will wear them now but spend the whole day stretching the neck of the shirt out so it isn't so close to my neck.

So there you go Ash, I hope I haven't freaked you out or anything! I tag Angela Repasi. Let's hear all your absurdities so I don't feel so weird!

Fe Fi Fo Fum

I'll explain the costumes. Kate is the beanstalk, Jason is the giant and I am the giant's wife. Kate carried around a little doll who was Jack. Creative, no? About a week ago our neighborhood had a fall festival with a petting zoo, a train, pony rides, games and food. It was a lot of fun and will be even more fun next year when Kate is a little older. But the highlight was the costume contest because we won second prize in the family costume category! That night was the ward party which was also fun, but again, I think Kate will have more fun next year.
On Halloween my friend down the street put together a little baby/toddler walk around the neighborhood and we went back to her house after for cider and yummy cookies that her and I had made the day before. After that Jason came home from work and walked Kate around to a few houses for trick-or-treating. Then we went to a ward members house for a party and more treats. Last, we had some friends over for pizza and a scary movie (I am Legend). Whew! A fun but exhausting Halloween!

Kate walks!

Work in progress

We have finally had someone working on the house and to my disbelief, they think they may be finished by the end of the week! The roof is done and the drywall and plaster are up. All that's left is paint and carpet. Yea! I had lost confidence that everything would be complete by Halloween, but that is starting to become a reality. So a month and a half and $9,000 later we are back to normal!
This week it rained so much in one day that the streets in our neighborhood flooded. I watched the water praying it wouldn't reach the house because wouldn't that just be the icing on the cake! Luckily it never got higher than the sidewalk, but you can sort of tell from the picture how high the water got by looking at the tires on the jeep. The crazy thing is that I called Jason to tell him not to bother coming home from work because our Jetta never would have made it and he had no idea how bad it was!