thought i'd share my last run. just basically to show how the nike+ helps with a run. it totally graphs everything out for you. this was my run from last night and it's a lot more spikey then what it normally looks thanks to the fact that I tried to kill myself by sprinting across the road with on coming traffic and i sprinted the last little bit. but it's oh so cool.
K I'm sorry for all of you who have tagged me recently and i haven't held up my end. so here's a tag and hopefully that will do for now.
quirky stuff:
1. I am terrible at chain letters, or anything on the pyramid scheme type thing. we just were "haunted" by an anonymous neighbor and we need to "haunt" 2 more families and I'm afraid it just might not happen. it's not that i don't want to. i'm just lazy.
2. I'm the least organized person in the world. yet by some magical unknown power i know where everything is and can almost always find whatever it is i'm looking for, which is fine for me except when i need help and can't really ask someone else to go find it for me.
3. I remember way too many things such as: people names, i remember most of the people that i served with in LDSSA including those that were not in my committee or people that i went to all my different schools, and weird enough random people that other people mention in conversations. I also have a crazy brain for random information. I also remember all of the phone numbers and names of people that I needed to know for my old job at Northern Title. I used to have to really focus on forgetting people's Social Security numbers when I would have to type them on paperwork. It was really weird to look at a person and think your social security number i s xxx-xx-xxxx. Really I should use my brain for better things like useful things but that stuff doesn't stick for some reason.
4. Before we had caller id I could tell who someone was by their voice but now that we've had caller id I feel lost and when people say "Hey." It takes me almost half of the conversation to remember who they are.
5. I'm not a perfectionist. Never will be and amazingly enough I'm Ok with it. One time a cousin was saying she couldn't do a blog because she would obsesse about it being perfect and what not and I was so happy to realize that I don't have that hindering me from doing the things that I want to.
6. I can't eat Tomatoes or Onions at least in whole form. I love tomato sauces and the flavor that onion can give when your cooking but can't eat them. I know that really it's in my brain and every year I give them a try trying to will myself to eat them but I just can't. I worry more than anything that I'm going to ruin my kids eating experince and I try to encourage them to eat them but they won't.
Anyhow there's some more crazy stuff about me. I'm not going to tag people because well secretly I hope your all lazy like me but if your bored or you don't know what to post just know that I tagged you.
So it was my birthday on Monday and I'm just getting to posting about it. It was a fantastic birthday and really as i creep closer to thirty I really can't help but get excited. We celebrated as a family on Sunday night. Monday I ignored nearly all of my "responsibilities" at home (dishes, laundry, cleaning and such) and read "Midnight Sun" online. (Darn that twilight series) Then my dear friend Mindy took our kids and I picked Jeremy up from work and we had an actual date. It was awesome. On my way to get Jeremy I nearly died twice thanks to things flying out of people's trucks but we made it home alive. It was a fantastic day. I really do like my birthdays not that it has to be a big hullabaloo I'm just grateful to be alive and to have the awesome life that I do. Anyhow here's a few pix from the day.
This is Jeremy's idea of a birthday cake. It's a grasshopper cookie. It made me laugh and still makes me smile.
Lizzie actually blew out my candle. I told her that since she blew it out that meant she was the one who turned 28.
This is the best present ever. My face doesn't say really how excited I was. If Jeremy hadn't given this to me on a Sunday night I probably would have left him right there on the spot and gone for a run. On it's maiden voyage we ran 4.66 miles in 45 minutes and burned 468 calories. It was so cool to see all the information and to have the added motivation to get out and run. Thanks again honey! I love it!
When Jeremy and I got back from our date Monday, Mindy and the kids had made this birthday cake for me. It was so cute and so yummy; although I was stuffed to the gills, there's always room for birthday cake. Delicious! (Ps it's a train. Mindy said they had a big debate over the train of Batman)
So Abby is amazing. And I fear I don't post about her often enough. With Lizzie in preschool 3 out 5 days a week I've been able to really get to know Abby. Which sounds terrible but Abby was just 19 months when Will was born and Lizzie is kind of...well.... let's just say she thrives off of attention.
One day, awhile back, I was watching Abby play with the alphabet magnets on the fridge, when a twinge of guilt hit me, I hadn't taken time with Abby to teach her the alphabet. When Lizzie was 2 I sat down and did Letter flash cards with her until she learned all of the letters. So I decided I would teach Abby the letters, only to discover that Abby already can recognize every single letter in the alphabet, both upper and lower case! Which just blows my mind. So we talk about letters every once in awhile but mostly we just play princesses and dance. She has funny voices. One we refer to as her princess voice which is a high pitch snow white type voice. She uses that voice most of the time but occasionally she lets out her goblin voice which is this deep throaty voice, it's really quite laughable not that she intends for it to be that way. Anyhow I have a video with Abby pointing out and saying each letter in the alphabet but for some reason it won't load so here's a video with her pointing out just a few of the letters. It just amazes me how smart she is just to pick up on something like this.
Last Family home evening we decided to have ice cream for our treat. We had some left over ice cream from Lizzie's birthday party and started dishing it up to the girls. Jeremy passed on the ice cream and I thought I'd have a small bowl. I started to scoop when I noticed one of the chocolate chips looked a little funny. On closer examination I saw this.........
For those of you who are checking that is a fly. It still nauseates me. I then looked at my girls shoveling their sweet little smiles with the previously dished ice cream. Oh...K I have to post this because just thinking about it makes me sick. Everyone enjoy your ice cream....
"Waiter! What is this fly doing in my ice cream?"
So Will had his 9 month Check up on Friday. We've been taking bets to see how much he actually weighs and he came in at a solid 20 lbs and 29 3/4 inches tall. My girls didn't hit that until well after their first birthdays so we're thrilled that Will is as solid as he is. He's already advanced into his one year old clothing which is a little weird but he sure has some seriously cute clothes. He's into crawling as fast as he can everywhere, climbing up anything that will stand still long enough for him to attach his hands to. He loves pushing chairs around and walking behind them. His favorite toy is the remote control especially if Daddy is using it. He loves eating but really loves to feed himself and eat real people food. He's up to 7 (that's right 7) teeth and the 8th tooth is getting ready to pop on through. He's still the happiest baby in the world and lets everyone know it. He waves to everyone and he's close to signing. He knows that he can communicate with his hands he just gets too excited to say stuff and just ends up laughing. He's due for a hair cut around his ears but I'm too chicken to cut it. He never ever holds still. He's known as wiggly Will in our house which has made diaper changing a fantastic chore. He has learned how to crawl, incredibly speedy-like, by using some toy to slide, helping to eliminate the friction. His favorite toy of choice is the phone on wheels. He's still a thumb sucker which for sure has it's pros and cons. As soon as Halloween comes around I know his birthday will be here in a flash so I'm just holding on to every bit of baby in him that he has left. We sure love our little guy and all of his adorable screams and grunts. I just wish I could hold off his birthday for a little while longer...Oh well I guess We'll just enjoy him why we can.
