Tagged!

I was tagged by my mate, Laura, today, so here goes.

5 things I was doing 10 years ago:

1. At University in New Zealand, training to be a teacher.
2. Subbing the WORST class I've ever had to overcome in my life.
3. Trying to get over my fathers passing away.
4. Organizing going on a mission for the church and whether or not I'd go.
5. Getting my heart ripped out by an old boyfriend, who met his wife a week after we broke up.
(Don't worry folks, turns out I didn't need him, cause some random dude in Utah out on his mission, at the time, was the one for me)

5 things on my 'to do' list:

1. Clean the bathrooms. (I hate this job)
2. Vacume the front room.
3. Make a nice dinner tonight.
4. Finish reading Jane Eyre
5. Finish my quilt

5 favourite snacks/food:

1. Kudos bars
2. Fruit
3. Good sandwich
4. Salmon
5. Fries

5 things I would do if I was a billionaire:

1. Pay for Dru's law school.
2. Give money to my family and help out friends with certain things.
3. Go to the church and see what I could do to help others around the world.
4. Knock down our house and buy Kimberly's off of her and Berdella's and build us a nice as house, just how we've dreamed of.
5. Try and hire a brainy as guy to invent teleporting so I didn't have to spend 12 hours on the plane visiting my family.

5 bad habits:

1. Putting my nail in between my teeth and clicking it. I never notice actually but periodically Dru will pull my hand out of my mouth.
2. Not cleaning the bathrooms enough.
3. Short temper with my kids.
4. Not reading the scriptures daily for half an hour.
5. Brushing Masaru's teeth every night.

5 Places I have lived:

1. Invercargill, South Island, New Zealand
2. Brisbane, Australia
3. Bountiful, Utah
4. Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
5. Hamilton, North Island, New Zealand

5 people I tag:

1. Kayla
2. Mandi
3. Kristin
4. Ashley
5. Sarah. Nelson

Just sittin around

We didn't have anything to do yesterday so we had a very lazy day around the house. Yoda was feeling a little cold so he came to sit next to Myles and snuggle up. Little did he know what that would entail. He was kicked, slapped, pulled at, and generally tortured until he moved off the couch. He was a great sport however. He just sat there and took it. Never trying to snap at Myles. Myles was having a grand time!

Old Dress

So, my friends, this is the EXACT SAME dress that I wore when I was Yuki's age.
Yes, yes it has lastest 31 LONG years. My sister didn't even wear it, I don't think.
So when I was in NZ this last trip I grabbed it, scince I have a girl, and waited for the right moment to put it on her.
It needs a bit of fixing as it only has three buttons in the back and almost splits down to the bottom of the dress.
So it's semi backless LOL.
So it needs to be on the warm side!
But 2 Sunday's ago I put it on Yuki and I think she looks pretty cute.
I know, I know I always say how cute she is, but come on folks, it is what it is!
So I was quite proud of this moment.
My mother has the pic's of me in the dress so I can't copy and scan it in for you to see how IDENTICAL, Yuki and I look.
It's pretty amazing how similar the both of us look at this age.
So I think she'll turn out alright looking.
I think I turned out alright looking!!!
Ahhhhhhhhh so humble.

And the rain came down

Our last min. trip to Sequoia National Forest was really great. It rained most of the time, but we were prepared and our tent managed not to leak so we were dry as a bone till we left. We did some short hikes, and saw a lot of beautiful scenery along the highway. We will have to go back to see more. It's a huge place and we just didn't have time to do everything. In this picture you can see how beautiful it is there. The weather is always best on the day it's time to leave. It was a beautiful day around Lake Hume. It was a great trip, one we hope to do again.

This is Juanita one of the camp hosts. She and her husband Fred work for Cal Land Management. They let us come inside their trailer for a cup of hot chocolate and to escape the rain for a while.

We left Yoda in the car, I don't think he even noticed we were gone.

Daddy and Myles standing in front of the fire as it starts to rain. It was a good thing we brought so many warm clothes. We needed all of them!

Yoda in his "camo" jacket and packs. We are trying to get him in shape while also trying to harness his endless amounts of energy. Filling the pack with "stuff" helps to give him a "job" and he gets tiered more quickly. The tour bus full of French people thought he was the star of the trip. Everyone got out their cameras to take a picture of the smelly beast!

Bjorn and Myles are standing on top of a logged Sequoia tree. Even this picture doesn't give you a great perspective of how huge these trees are. Amidst all the rain we still were able to get out and see a few sights. It was a great trip all in all.

Up and running again

Just a sneak peak at my TWO new teeth!

Having a grand time in my new "jumper"

Early morning time with Grandma, I woke her up at 6 each morning!

Look at me, I can sit all by myself. It looks like I'm leaning on daddy's leg, but I'm not!

Sorry for the long delay. I got a new camera and I hadn't had time to download the software to get the pictures transfered from the camera to the computer. We're up and runnin now however. Here are a few pictures of Myles and a some of Grandma's visit last weekend.

Jessie

So this is me and my friend Jessie, who also happens to be my brothers girlfriend. (hopefully soon to be wife) Come on Haydn I had to take the dig.
Anyway she was staying with some friends in Layton and I picked her up on Tuesday, right after my black eye fiasco!! Literally, my head was still bleeding LOL
So we spent from Tuesday till Saturday together.
It was a wonderful time.
She got all this material from a place in Salt Lake, some garden village place, is that right? Anyway all these scrap pieces of material. So she could make a quilt.
So we had this vision and decided to just go for it.
We went into Welfare Square and the missionary happened to love making quilts and we told her what we were doing and she stared at us and said "You can't do that, it's only your first time"
Jessie and I looked at each other and starting laughing cause we just assumed it'd be easy.

Ahhhhhhhh turns out making a quilt takes A LOT of time and effort. We were cutting out the material just with my kitchen sissors. Then when Jessie was getting *carple tunnel I rang a friend in the ward and go some MATERIAL CUTTING SISSORS.
Oh my goodness WHO INVENTED THOSE. Man they were the best thing ever. So we glided throught he rest of the peices of material.
Then we went to Joan's for some more material and those ladies listened to our ideas and gave us some GREAT ideas. I just don't know who comes up with this stuff. It's brilliant!!

ANYWAY we're not finished but here it is so far.
Jessie left it with me so I could finish it and I"m really excited. I've never done anything like this before because I don't trust myself. I'm very...............relaxed about things I guess it is and I think when your'e making a quilt you need to be more precise!
So we'll see how it goes.
Thanks to Jessie for getting us started on it. We'll see where I end up with it.
It was a great week of shopping, talking, hanging out, laughing.
Turns out Jessies favourtie colours are grey, pink and peach.
Something you learn after 7 hours of park city shopping!!!
I had a great time and now my house is a disaster and I need to get back on track this week.
Funs over people!!

*I'm pretty sure that this is spelt wrong, but if you've already noticed my spelling isn't my strong point, plus words in NZ are spelt different and I just can't keep up with it all.
So feel free to enlighten me of the correct spelling of this word!

Birthday Pic's

Here's a few pic's right before Dru and I headed out for the night on my birthday.
I just took them with my arm sticking out, hence the reason for the same pose every pic.
LOL
Not too good fo Yuki, but oh well, you can't win them all.