I've Been Tagged!

A: The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B: Each player answers the questions about themselves
C: At the end of the post, the player then tags 3 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
I was 26, Rylee was 1 year, and Jason and I had just purchased our first NEW home. It was in Post Falls, ID. We had it built from the ground up. It was a fun, but a very stressful process. I guess we haven't recovered yet, because we purchased homes since, but have never had one built again. :o)

2. What was on my to-do list for today?
Take the big kids to school across town. Take Abree to pre-school across town. Shop for some pillows to go on our new leather couch...and whatever else struck my fancy for our new house. Unpack, unpack, unpack. Pick the kids up from school. (Got the shopping and picking up done, but didn't get much unpacking done.)

3. What would I do if I suddenly became a billionaire?
Hire someone to organize and clean my house. Hire someone to cook for me and my family. Buy a house/car for each person in my family (mom/dad/siblings). Go on a family cruise. Hire some one to manage my money.

4. 3 Bad habits...
-Staying up WAY too late
-Procrastinating
-Getting on my kids about messes, instead of enjoying and playing with them

5. Places I have lived.....
Boise, ID
Spokane, WA
Post Falls, ID
West Valley, UT
Twin Falls, ID
Boise, ID
Meridian, ID

6. Places I have worked...
KFC (Couldn't eat fried chicken for years...sadly I'm over it now.)
Hewlett Packard
My home

7. 3 Things people don't know about me...
-I wish I could take a pill for FULL nutrition, instead of food. I don't like to cook and I eat too many sweets.
-I have a special talent where I can squirt water through my two front teeth, several feet away. Ask me, I'll show you sometime.
-I don't get bored. I love to have quiet, thinking time.

I would like to tag; Tiffany, Krissi and Arianne.

Sleep Over & School Carnival

Instead of having a friend birthday party this year, Taylee chose to have a friend spend the night. On Friday, Taylee's good friend Kaisha came over after school and hung out with us for the night. I made a "sleep over cake" for the occasion. Can you tell who's who? My favorite part of the cake was the little teddy bears they were each holding. Aren't they cute?!

Grandma McKinley invited us to come to her school's Family Fun Night Carnival. There was a $10 entrance fee per family. That included all the hotdogs, chips, pop and carnival gaming you could stand. There was also karaoke and a .10 cent book sale going on. The kids had so much fun running around and doing all that they could do, I barely saw them.

Rylee and Tawnya doing some karaoke-ing.

Sweet Katelyn.

Face painting was one of the highlights.

"Look, I got a flower on my cheek Audrey!"

Crazy, good friends Taylee & Kaisha.

Flat Stanley's Visit

Our good friend Emilie sent us Flat Stanley for a school project. Stanley helped us move and then went about our day-to-day life with us. He baked brownies with Rylee, ate a cupcake with Taylee (for her birthday), did homework with Treyson and went to pre-school with Abree. He's probably been on greater adventures, but we were glad he came to visit us. ---Emilie, if Stanley hasn't made it back to you yet...he's on his way!

Happy Birthday Taylee!

It seems like our life is always busy around Taylee's birthday. Many times we've been on a trip and a few times we've moved. I don't know why, but life is busy around April 29th. This year was no exception. Being in the middle of a move and not being able to be in our new house all day (floor guy was here, puting 2 coats of protection on our hardwood floors), I was unable to bake a cake. So we purchased a chocolate cake and ladybug cupcakes to share with family that came over for cake and ice cream. Sorry Taylee. (Actually, I don't think she even cared.. I guess that's just mother-guilt speaking.)

Rylee and Taylee arranged her birthday gifts and took a picture.Taylee received 2 "Webkinz", a white kitty and a golden lab puppy. She was totally excited since watching Rylee play with her puppy on-line. ---Have you seen these things? They are just normal stuffed animals, but they come with a code that you enter on-line and then you can do things with your pet in a virtual world. Honestly, I don't know much about the whole thing, except that my kids are going crazy about them. ---She named them Caitlyn (cat) and Cameron (dog).

The naked truth...we're still moving.

I told Jason I didn't want to start packing until we had signed on the dotted line. So... after we signed closing papers on Wednesday, we started packing. We did major packing on Thursday and then decided to get the U-Haul and do the majority of our moving on Friday.
Saturday was another big packing and cleaning day. We did take a break on Sunday, but then were back at it on Monday. Jason had taken the whole day off to do moving/cleaning stuff. Actually, he mostly did the moving stuff and I mostly did the cleaning stuff. Monday was a really nice day. As Jason was spraying out the garage and driveway the kids took full advantage of the water and begged to get sprayed. Next thing I knew, Abree was nearly naked. She LOVED to get sprayed and then run off and squeal. Silly kid. ---I'm tired, and I haven't even started unpacking the new house.

Neighborhood Welcome

Yesterday, as I was waiting for the Dish network guy to show up, my NEW next-door neighbor brought a basket over. She introduced herself and welcomed us to the neighborhood. How sweet is that? Included in the basket is all the fixings for spaghetti, french bread, salad and brownie mix. She even included foil pans to bake the brownies in...how considerate. :o)

Seems like things are off to a good start.