I've Been Tagged!

The stunning bride in this picture is named Kristen. She tagged me a while back (but since I was on my, you know, blogging vacation I just am now getting around to it.) First, I have got to tell you how freaking amazing Kristen is. Kristen is the type of friend everyone wants and NEEDS to have. She is a girlfriend for life! I can go for months without actually speaking with her, when we do speak it's as if there was never time or distance between us. I absolutely love this beautiful girl! My college experience would have been very different without her in my life! She is the best friend a girl could ever hope to have or be!

Four Shows I Watch:
1. The Biggest Looser - should use it as motivation, however in this household we just watch it for entertainment
2. LOST - I really think there is hope for them to make sense of everything at the end of this season
3. Curious George with the little man in my life
4. CNN with the big man in my life

Four Things I'm Passionate About:
1. My Husband
2. My Son
3. My Religion
4. Finding things that make me happy

Four Phrases I Say A Lot:
1. "I love you!"
2. "I am going to count to three....1, 2, 2 and a half, I serious...."
3. "Talk to you later."
4. "Come and cuddle with me."

Four Things I've Learned from the Past:
1. Trials can be an answer to your prayers.
2. Everything happens for a reason.
3. There is usually a reason behind everyone's behavior; give them the benefit of the doubt.
4. The sooner you can forgive and forget the better.

Four Places I Would Like to Go:
1. Scottland
2. Top of the Statue of Liberty
3. Tahiti
4. The past, not to change anything but just to see what it was like.

Four Things I Did Yesterday:
1. Primed some of the walls in our house
2. Washed, folded, AND put away four loads of laundry
3. Bought new door handles
4. Played volley ball

Four Things I'm Looking Forward to:
1. Moving into our new home
2. Greg's wedding in June
3. Going to the beach again with Mitch and Marshall this summer
4. Girls camp

Four Things I Love about Winter:
1. Christmas - of course!!!!
2. The whole month of December
3. Snowy snowy days
4. Cuddling under a warm blanket with the ones I love most

Four Things on My Wish List:
1. I wish I had 7 hours a day to just work out - no guilt.
2. I wish I had a private airplane and could hop on it to fly anywhere I wanted to visit with family and friends.
3. I wish everything would always go better than I planned.
4. I wish I could have 5 children. Not at the same time. You know, spread out over a period of time.

Four People I Tag
1. Rebecca J.
2. Alison W.
3. Mellisa C.
4. Laisa N.

Let me think, what have I been up to lately? A lot.

So it's been a while...I went on a blogging free vacation. It was nice. Got a lot done. Now I'm back for super long summary. I hope you can post, posts this long. I guess I will find out. So, what have I been up to lately? Well here it is. I guess the biggest thing (which I didn't include pictures of - it will be it's own separate post) was that we purchased our first "HOME". Yea! It pretty much has occupied our time for the last several weeks. Here are some other things that we've done. For the most part the pictures are in order from most recent to not most recent;) But because I am not that talented they're not really in order. However they are actual events and I was present durning them.


There are a lot of things that I love about Virginia. One of them being the springtime here. The weather has been beautiful. The Cherry Blossom festival was exceptional. When the breeze blows through the blossoms it begins snowing pink flakes. It's like walking through a dream. This picture does not do it justice.
We had the best Easter EVER! The Easter bunny brought the most yummy candies and presents for Marshall. Marshall hunted high and low to find all the easter eggs. It was adorable!
I helped plan a baby shower for a fun and great lady in our ward. I don't know if you can tell what's on top of those green cupcakes, but I made them. They're butterflies made out of Chocolate. My very talented friend Alison (Chris and Alison - located on the left side of the screen) blogged about how to make these super creative cupcakes. So I tried very hard to have them turn out just like hers. Well they didn't because her's were amazing. However, if you haven't seen hers then you just might think mine are pretty dang cool.
So speaking of very talented friends, I have another amazing friend, Ginnie. She is in our ward AND lives in my apartment complex. She challenged me to prepare and run for another 5k with her. So three days a week I would go to her house, we'd take turns watching each other's son while the other one ran. It worked out pretty great. My goal for this run was to beat my last time. I ran my last 5k in 35 minutes. So I really wanted to beat that time. Wasn't sure if I would be able to do it. Mitch and I would also go running around our neighborhood in the afternoons when he got home from work. However, the day of the race I was really excited and fostered my inner Shera. I ran the race in 28.52 minutes. That's pretty good for me.
Marshall enjoyed himself at a couple of Easter Egg hunts. The above picture was taken in another amazing friend's backyard. Rebecca was kind enough to invite us over to enjoy ourselves in a little Easter shindig.

We had a really fun time at our Primary activity. Marshall enjoyed the Easter egg hunt. It was a fun activity.

Mitch took us on an amazing family date. I love dates like this. Mitch took us to this super great restraunt, maybe you've heard of it - Chucky Cheese. Pretty much this story spells out F-U-N.
We celebrated Mitch's 28th birthday. Wohoo! He is just getting better with time. We went into DC. Watched a movie, had pizza that night, cake and ice cream. Mitch likes low key. I had a great time. Sure hope he did.
I survived a near death experience. Do you seen anything wrong with the above picture? If you noticed the blow dryer laying in the toilet you observed right. I was blowing drying my hair when my blow dryer took a suicidal leap from my hand and landed straight in the toilet. RIP. Thanks for not electricuting me or setting my house on fire or blowing a fuse as you went.
These two cuties are my students in a joy school that I teach with a friend. Again, another talent friend - Stacey who puts my efforts to shame. She does the most spectcular lessons and crafts! Marshall leaves her house with the biggest smile on his face - he loves school! She is also his sunbeam teacher so he loves church too! Here is a picture from a lesson I taught on plants. The below picture is from when we were learning the letter "T" we had a "T" party. So fun!