I've been tagged by Maggie, I'm suppose to share 7 things about myself and then tag 7 people. I found this to be more complicated than I thought it would be. I've tried to think of 7 things other than, 1. wife of Jared, 2. Mother of Grayson, 3. Mother of Lydia, 4. Mother of Kate, 5. Cook, 6. Maid, and 7. Punching bag. I don't know if these are much better but here you go:
1. I'm an all or nothin kinda girl. When I do something I either go all the way or don't even bother doing anything. Lately I end up doing nothing a lot, because going all the way sounds like to much trouble. I don't know why but doing something half way drives me crazy. Sometimes I try to not go all the way with something and before I know it I've gone to far. Like a party for example, I think to myself "I'll just have a few friends over and keep things simple." next thing I know I've spent days stressing, cleaning, cooking and have twenty kids and their parents running around our house. Another example is cleaning. You might be thinking, Your house is never clean. This is the problem, I can't do light house cleaning. I put off cleaning because I know it is always going to be more intense than I was planning. Once I start cleaning a room I start to notice everything wrong with the room and it drive me crazy to not to the job right.
2. I LOVE candy. Most of you already know this. If I could survive and not gain a thousand pounds, I would eat candy all day long. In fact I go through periods when I am pregnant, where the thought of eating food makes me sick- but candy doesn't and I will only eat candy. Halloween was always my favorite holiday. I would eat all my candy in three days. I named my first doll Candy. If there is candy in a room all I do is focus on the candy. Someone could be talking to me and all I'm thinking is, "why are we talking when there is candy just sitting over there." It has taken lots of practice to control myself, and I never buy candy. I would go insane having it in my house. My favorites include Swedish Fish, Nibbs, Starburst, Reeses Pieces, Twix, Baby Ruth, Dove Dark Chocolate, and of course my mom's homemade chocolates.
3. When I was in first grade my favorite animal was a turtle. So, for Halloween I begged my dad to make me a turtle costume. This was back in the day when you didn't buy costumes and if you did they were those weird plastic kind. Well, my dad is an all or nothin kinda guy,
and went all out and spent many hours making a paper mache shell. The costume was amazing for the time. My dad was so proud that he took me a Jazz game to participate in a costume contest. This how it worked- everyone was suppose to walk around the outside of the court and if they liked your costume they would pull you into the middle where they would chose a winner based off of crowd response. So, I'm walking around and next thing I know they pull me into the middle. Apparently, some guy in the crowd liked my costume(probably because I was the only kid in the middle) and started chanting "Turtle, Turtle..." Next thing I know the whole Salt Palace,(Yes this was at the Salt Palace) was chanting "Turtle, Turtle..." and I won a trip to California.
4. Growing up I lived with extreme paranoia. I was scared of everything, not just the dark or monsters. I had a lot of sleepless nights. I was scared that there would be a fire in the middle of the night and I wouldn't get out, I was scared that if I opened my eyes I would see a ghost. Walking in the middle of the day I would be scared someone would attack me, or there might be a flash flood. Yes, I know I was crazy to be afraid of a flash flood. My sibling loved to play trick on me because they know how scares I was. I spent most of my nights growing up on our couch, so I could fall asleep watching living scripture movies- they were the only thing that could calm me down. I'm over all that for the most part- I only freak out when I spend the night alone when Jared is out of town. (Jared says this is a mild description of my paranoia)
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5.I'm a picky eater. It's not so much that I don't like certain foods, I just like my food to taste good. Jared likes to call me a culinary snob. This doesn't mean I am a good cook either. I have no problem throwing an entire meal away if it is gross. It sounds like pure torture to sit and eat something I don't want to. I was always worried about going on a mission for this reason. I have a really bad gag reflex and honestly would probably throw up if I tried to eat something I didn't want to. I don't like skimping on cream, butter, salt, etc. I don't care if it's healthy as long as it tastes good. Now you all know why I'm so big.
6.If I could change one thing about myself, it would be that I could sing. I am hopeless when it comes to singing. I've honestly had people think I am joking when they hear me sing. The funny thing is, I was in Sunshine Generation when I was younger(I am really embarrassed to admit this). Here is the funny thing, they let me do solos, as you can see in this picture. Maybe none of the other kids could sing either. I've gone through periods where I wouldn't sing hymns in church or sing Happy Birthday at a party because I was to embarrassed, but I'm over that.
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7. My best friend has always been my sister Tami. I hear a lot of sister just fight while growing up. Not me and Tami we have always been really close. She was never to cool for me
or at least she didn't act like it, even when she moved on the Jr. High or even High School. Most of my greatest memories include her. Best of all, we married best friends so we could stay as close as possible after we got married. I still talk to her almost everyday, we always call each other to brag about our great deals. We spend the first hour of every visit showing each other all the new clothes we bought or the new decorations in our house, and the best part is we know the other one is just as excited as we are. (Shelly don't be jealous, your my other best friend now that Tami is gone).
TAG your it! I've tagged seven people: Tami, Shelly, Chad, Melanie, Laura, Dirk, and Allison. I had to do husbands, I don't know enough bloggers. Within 7 days, write 7 things about you or you'll be stuck with 7 curses upon your head (that's what I've heard, anyways!). Pass it on! It's fun to read new things about people!
With the weather being so great and no snow, we decided to get our Christmas tree up at Schuster Creek this year. It was so fun and so beautiful I wish we hadn't been in such a hurry to get back for the big game. We were excited to go with the Perry's but ended up going with some of my family when they couldn't make it. All the tree's were really tall so we basically had to cut down a big one and chop off the bottom.
It took awhile to find a good shape in all the wild trees, but we eventually found this one. I liked these picture of Jared sawing the tree, he makes it look so hard. The guys had alot of fun being Lumber Jacks until the chain saw ran out of oil and they had to do the rest by hand.
It was a big tree, I'm glad Jared and I weren't alone with all our kids. Lydia sang Oh Christmas Tree over and over again at the top of her lungs, it was cute the first couple of times.
The kids love to decorate the tree. It was killing them to wait till the end of the game for Jared to cut it down and bring it inside. It ended up being alot skinnier than I thought it would be, but we love it. Grayson keeps saying that Santa is going to come and steal all the decorations. I think he is confusing The Grinch will the real Santa. 
I'm scared to death of training Max, I don't want to do it. I'm scared I won't do it right. I'm scared it will be too hard with all that I'm already doing. But, I hate having mice enough to face it, and having such a cute puppy helps too.
We received the royal treatment at Ariel's Grotto for lunch. After being welcomed by Ariel we ate a special meal, and had all the princesses visit our table.
Grayson had the opportunity to train in the ways of the Jedi. As a young Padawan trainee he took the Jedi oath and learned to wield a lightsaber. Then he used the force to battle against the Dark Side, fighting Darth Vader and Darth Maul. We didn't get any pictures of him fighting Darth Vader but we do have it on video (I'll try and post it later- it takes to much time).We were so proud of our little Jedi.
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Having diner at the Blue Bayou (inside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride) was a special treat. The food was fabulous and the kids loved being pirates. They had amazing desserts, the one above is a pirate ship.
Last time the kids were scared of all the characters and would barely even look at them out of fear. Luckily this time they were excited with every new character we saw.
