ABC's of me

A - ADVOCATE FOR: getting the HUGE blue spruce in my front yard cut down
B - BEST FEATURE: I would say my eyes, the only part I really like about myself
C - COULD DO WITHOUT: Morning sickness
D - DREAMS & DESIRES: Raise wonderful respectful, intelligent children and enjoy life with less stress.
E - ESSENTIAL ITEMS: Music, books, and my family
F - FAVORITE PAST TIME: anything with my family, volleyball, sewing, reading
G - GOOD AT: Cooking, listening
H - HAVE NEVER TRIED: Roller coasters, the thought makes me nauseas.
I - IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS: I would buy a house with property so my kids could have room to run and play and help my family get out of debt. And a really nice vacation somewhere overseas. Europe, New Zealand
J - JUNKIE FOR: Mountain Dew
K - KINDRED SPIRIT: Heather
L - LITTLE KNOWN FACT: I'd get a tatoo if I could decide on what to get.
M - MEMORABLE MOMENT: Getting married, and the births of my children
N - NEVER AGAIN WILL I: get married
O - OCCASIONAL INDULGENCE: ME time
P - PROFESSION: Mom and my husbands business organizer
Q - QUOTE: "The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature, but by your
approach"-Jewel-
R - REASON TO SMILE: my family
S - SORRY ABOUT: not reading to my children as much as I should.
T - TAG SOME FRIENDS: April, Becca, Keri, Ivy
U - UNINTERESTED IN: Hearing lies and justifacations for the lies
V - VERY SCARED OF: Being left alone, and how to raise my children if something happened to my husband.
W - WORST HABIT: . I worry about everything all the time.
X - X MARKS MY IDEAL VACATION SPOT: New Zealand, Europe, Hawaii
Y - YUMMIEST DESSERT: Chocolate Island from Bahama Breeze
Z - ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer- I'm a true crab.

Sunflowers

For Easter my Mom got us some Giant Sunflower seeds, and now they have fully grown and I wanted you to be able to see how HUGE they actually are. Here are a few pictures of JD and the kids showing how big they are.

They have got to be close to 10 ft tall. They are just Amazing!

EXCITED

JD has been talking about getting me a new ring for our Anniversary and we were not able to do it then, but I went looking again today on this great website that makes lab created diamonds that are pretty much equal to mined diamonds with the exception of the price, and I found this awsome ring and bought it. The company has just created this new platinum and they are doing a super sale on the products in exchange for a survey in 6 months to report on how the platinum is wearing. I am so excited to get it and see how it looks on. The total weight of the ring is 3.8 carats. Go check out the website they have a ton of really great stuff at incredible prices.

http://www.diamondnexuslabs.com/

Long Week

So we've had a bit of a long week. Last Monday I went out to the Van to find that the doors didn't get locked the night before and that someone stole our portable DVD player and my Digital camera with over 100 pics of my kids on it. So with that said it was really upsetting to lose all those pics of the kids, but my Step Dad came into town on Wed, and brought his camera with him. So I'm now able to take pics. Here are a few that I got yesterday and I thought they were really cute.

We pierced Ellie's ears on Friday so she has these cute little pink earings in, and I think she looks so adorable. We called my Mom after we had them done and Ellie told her I have earrings in my ears and I'm so cute.

More Pics

It's taken a while but here are some more pics of our WA trip over the 4th of July

All but a few of the family Uncle Doug

Looking for Agates My Mom and Ellie

Too cool for her shades Can't get away from the swing

Uncle Russ kissin his fish he hooked himself

Dell and Uncle Russ JT and Fletcher Jailed

The Catch Cooked

Ready to Eat YUM!!!

My Mom and Dell Our Bella

Memories

As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember! Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you (if you already haven't). It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

VACATION!!!

We're home and we're all still alive. We just spent a week in Anacortes, WA with 13 family members not counting us. We had the most wonderful time celebrating the 4th of July and my Uncles 50th Birthday. My Mom, Grandma, Auntie and her family along with us all traveled up for the occasion. My cousin Tor and his family live there locally, along with my cousin Shawn.

We had quite the time my Uncle lives on Lake Erie, so there were paddle boat rides, fishing and even a few rides in the power boat. Dell wanted nothing more than to go fishing with Uncle Russ, but unfortunetly not a single fish was caught. We had so much fun and got to do so many fun things so here's the breakdown.

July 1st and 2nd- we(JD) drove the 14 hours to Anacortes

July 3rd- we hung out at the lake and Dell fished and went for boat rides

All Ready for a paddle boat ride Enjoying the water

July 4th- Uncle Russ took us out Clam digging and Oyster hunting

Tor and Holly working on the Clam Chowder Fireworks

July 5th- JD along with my Uncle Russ and Uncle Doug went out Crabbing

July 6th- 11of us went out to Deception Pass and Cranberry Lake

Dell Loves the water Ellie Not so much

July 7th- JD along with Uncle Russ and Uncle Doug went Salmon fishing ( Fish 1 Fishermen 0

July 8th- 14 of us took the Ferry over to Friday Harbor and spent the day enjoying the sights

Looking for Agates Tor his awsome wife and Daughter

Friday Harbor A Cool Boat we saw

Uncle Doug made his own Todem Pole Dell next to an Orca Fin

Ellie enjoying a REALLY juicy plum. Willow Island and my family

July 9th and 10th- We made the long journey home. Stopping to see Grandma and Grandpa Great in Yakima, WA. It was wonderful to see them again.

It was so great to see people from my Mom's side of the family we don't get to get together very often, but we have so much fun when we do. I have to say I have a wonderful family and I love all of you very much. I'll add more photos as I get them.