Friday, October 31, 2008

I have a thing for "Edward's"!


I bought the book Twilight awhile back because I've heard so much about it I wanted to find out what the fuss was all about, but I kept putting off reading it because it sounded kinda dumb to me. I think because I was so determined not to like it, I hated the first chapter and almost didn't read anymore. I say almost because it hooked me after that and I stayed up till 2am reading! (Yup, I got 4hrs of sleep last night, the hardest thing about being an adult is telling myself when to go to bed). I've only read the first 150 pages, but so far I looove the Edward character! I even went back and re-read the Edward parts at lunch today before continuing on :)
When I think about it I always like Edward characters. I love Edward Rochester in the book "Jane Eyre", and the Edward in "Sense and Sensibility". When I was in college my 3 roomates all left to go home for a three day weekend. (I lived to far away to go home, and I had an old car running on hamsters that wounldn't have made the trip anyway.) So I had a movie marathon and one of my roomates had an edited (TV recording) of Pretty Woman. I must've watched that 3 times that weekend cuz I loved the Edward guy, I even went to the mall and pretended like I had Richard Gere's credit card (the part where she goes shopping) and I tried on everything I liked at Ann Taylor and Bannana Republic just for fun. (I couldn't really buy anything).
Of course I think the hottest most charming Edward is the one I married! I love reading in my journal about our first dates. He still makes my heart flutter!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Crazy Gato!!!

Katie LOVES lucky charms! Whenever she hears me pour a bowl she skids into the kitchen. She waits till I turn to the fridge to get the milk, then she'll hop up on the counter -paw out a few marshmellows and race off before I can scold her for being up there.

There is one corner in our family room that has a potted palm tree, and today I noticed a stinky smell whenever I got close -so I've been shampooing the carpet in that corner like mad -but it still stunk. So I got real close and sniffed everything to figure out where the odor was coming from, turns out Katie pooped in the soil there! (I know it was her -she's devious) DISGUSTING! Now everything is cleaned and fabreezed, and I'm wondering 'Does anybody want a cat?' J/K

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The mad "hat"-ter family!

My dad is very light skinned. He freckles in the sun and burns very easily -so he never goes on any outdoor adventures without one of his floppy brimmed straw hats! (He was pretending to be a pirate on this rafting trip last yr -that's why he has the goofy eye patch on, he even talked in Pirate lingo with words like 'matey' and 'aaargh' :) I appreciate the fact that he is skin cancer conciouse now, but when I was growing up I was always a little embarrased that he insisted on wearing his farmer John's hat, and he often tried to get us to wear one too! I love my Dad so much!.........Now to preface the next picture I need to explain a little about my brother Jay. He is one year younger than me and has low functioning Autism. He is the sweetest boy and I love him so much! He has a hard time understanding the purpose of things. For example, my mom taught him how to empty the dishwasher -so then he started putting all the dishes he found away in the cubbords -clean or dirty, and regardless of whether you were done eating your meal or not. All he understood was that "dishes go in cubbords". So she tried to reverse it by teaching him how to put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher -but then he started taking clean dishes out of the cupboards and precaroiusly trying to balance /stuff them all in the dishwasher. Needless to say, he was quickly excused from helping out with household chores (mabey he's secretly a geniuse!) He understands that "hats go on your head" so anytime he finds one he'll put it on -and my brothers have a lot of baseball hats! My mom found him asleep in bed like this one night and I thought it was pretty funny :)

Sunday, October 5, 2008

My Brother's on a Mission!




My brother Brian lived with us for about a year while he was going to school, then in June he left to serve a mission in Atlanta, Georgia Spanish speaking! I miss him (he was my work-out buddy, now I'm just getting chubby J/K) but I'm so proud of him! He's picking up Spanish really well and his zone just had 7 baptisms! (My brothers the tall one with dark hair)