Another 10 things...but I'll count it as 20 since it's so stinkin' long!

12. When I was a teenager I had a thing for behinds.
14. I once grabbed the lead singer's behind from "Better than Ezra".
16. My sister and I were once mooning drunks at a bar across the parking lot from our hotel room. Long story short, a police officer woke up our coach (we were on a cross country trip) and the coach and police officer came to our room...
18. One time during cross country practice, I was pretending to grab our coach's behind and at that exact moment he turned around. Did I mention he was a preacher? He quit coaching girls the next year.
20. So, since the preacher quit, the next year we had a new cross country coach. By the end of the season he cussed my best friend and I out in front of the whole team and told us we were the "cancer" of our team. He quit coaching girls the next year.
22. I ran cross country for 3 years in high school-I use to have the 3rd fastest time in the school history (3 miles in 20 minutes)-but then my little sister blew my time out of the water!
24. I love sports, basically any kind of sports. Raquetball, volleyball, running, biking, triathlons, waterpolo, swimming, softball, etc. Unfortunately, I have had WAY TOO MANY very embarrassing moments doing sports, though I would consider myself a naturally athletic, coordinated person, but maybe that's just what I like to think...
26. Last year I played on a city league softball team through my work. I was running to first base and somehow got my legs tangled up and full on supermanned (is that a word?) it. I literally did a full on face-plant. I didn't even make it all the way to the base, I just layed there on the ground, laughing hysterically. Luckily, I was close enough to the base that the other team didn't realize that I hadn't actually reached the base.
28. A couple of years ago I was on a volleyball team. I hadn't played volleyball since I was a freshman in high school, which was about 5 years. My team was VERY competitive and serious. It was my turn to serve the ball so I threw the ball up in the air and then hit the ball. I forgot a VERY important part in the act of serving. I forgot to take a STEP when I served. My feet got all tangled up and I biffed it face down on the floor. I wasn't ever invited to play on their team again.
30. While at Ricks I decided to try my luck at waterpolo. You can imagine my surprise when I noticed that a guy that my roommates thought was really cute was on the waterpolo team. We were practicing treading water when this "cute" guy started talking to me. I couldn't wait to get home and tell my roommates that I spent the night talking with the boy they thought was so hot. I was imagining how jealous they would be when all of a sudden I heard everyone yelling. I then realized they were all yelling at me. Needless to say, while I was talking to this guy, the team had formed a circle and had started passing weights around the circle that you had to hold above your head and then pass them on. The person next to me was holding them waiting for me to take them. Completely flustered, I quickly grabbed the weights. (Let me insert here that it is fairly easy to just sit there treading water-it's another thing to hold 30 lb weights above your heard while treading water-you have to have your legs going MUCH faster in order to do this-for which I was NOT prepared) Next thing I knew I was at the bottom (of the deep end!) of the pool and the guy that handed me the weights was taking the weights from me, and the "cute" guy was grabbing me around the waist and pulling me back up to the top.

100 things about me...

Okay, my mind is totally blanking so I'm going to do the good 'ole "100 things about yourself" thing, hope it's not too boring for you all (I'll only do 10 things at a time to spare you a little)...
1. I love food
2. When I was young I was a COMPULSIVE food thief, and I mean compulsive (banned from three stores for it, put on probation twice for it)
3. My second probation officer is what inspired me to look into the field of criminal justice instead of accounting
4. At Ricks, while studying criminal justice, I took a social work class (to fulfill a general requirement) and decided in that very moment that social work was NOT for me
5. I am a social worker
6. When I was growing up, I felt sorry for anyone that had to serve an LDS mission
7. I served an LDS mission in Brazil
8. While serving a mission in Brazil, I had lice for the first 7 months-(I'm an expert at recognizing lice or eggs if you need any help!)
9. I met Dave in Brazil
10.We have two children and they are THE cutest children ever...see for yourselves...


Izak reading to Landon


Our cute 3-year-old Izak


Our happy little baby-Landon 5 months

Proud Parents

So the other day I had a conversation with a guy I work with that made my day. He was saying what good parents Dave and I are (shh, don't tell him the truth!) and that Izak is so well behaved. He said he and his wife were discussing this and it has made them have more of a desire to have children of their own. It was one of those moments that just makes you feel so good as a parent and so proud of your child. As I shut the door I felt a sense of pride for my child who is so cute, obedient, and well behaved. A second after I shut the door, my well behaved child quickly ran up to me and said "sorry mommy", which is NEVER a good sign. And then I walked into the kitchen to this....



And then into the hallway to this...


Now, don't you all want children?


We love our cute, obedient, well behaved Izak!