I've been tagged by Heather!

It has been a while since I've written a new post. We had a great vacation. I'll give details later in another post. For now I got tagged. And I thought this looked cute, so I wanted to join in on the fun.




20 Years ago... I was 11. It was quite the summer. I had just finished elementary school, and I was so excited to be going into middle school. I had a fun summer fling with my next door neighbor Cam. Christensen. He was a hot older man. (Actually he was going to be a freshman in
high school. That's kinda creepy when you think about it now. My brother Joseph and I would
hang out at his house all day with Cam and his younger sisters. We'd
order pizza and time it to make sure it got there in 30 min. or less. And that is where we'd watch movies like "LaBamba" and "Dirty Dancing", ones that our parents didn't want us to watch. That was when hypnotizing was "in" so I would tell Joseph to hypnotize me and make me kiss Cam. (Remember I was still really young.) Of course I wasn't really out. But it was a good excuse. What a little floozy I was, huh. Cam even won a 4 ft. stuffed Panda Bear for me at the county fair. What a gentleman. It was a great little romance until we got into a huge fight and I gave his panda bear back to him. It ended with Cam and all the neighborhood boys ripping up the panda bear in the middle of the street. There was stuffing everywhere. Wow, what drama. Especially for an 11 year old. Well, thanks for that stroll down memory lane. On to the next one.


10 years ago. It was the first summer since I'd graduated high school that I didn't go away to work. For the summers I'd worked in West Yellowstone. I was working in Logan at Intellysis, doing data entry. The work portion of it was extremely boring, but the computers would break down often, or we'd run out of forms and process for hours. So while we waited we got paid to hang out, once or twice we brought in a tv and vcr and watched movies. I even learned how to kick box from a guy named Brian that was a
Jiu Jitzu instructor. (Yes, I'm sure it's spelled wrong.) I was a
Supervisor during the summer, and it was really fun. My friend
Sarah Coffin was living with our family during the summer to gain
Utah residency. She is from West Yellowstone, so we went on
several trips up to West Yellowstone that summer. We also hung
out a lot with all my guy friends that were coming home from their missions. It was a very fun summer.






10 years ago. At the Crazy
House near Quake Lake.


5 years ago. I was 26. Jerry and I had been married for about 6 months. I was tutoring during my summer break from teaching. We also went on a lot of vacations that summer. We went to Disneyland, and Utah a couple times. We had a small little family reunion/talent show when my parents moved back to Utah. Jerry and I dressed up like Milli Vanilli, and did an audition for American Idol, for our skit. He is so good to participate in my family talent
shows. We also got to go on a great vacation to Warroad Minnesota, and Winnepeg, Canada to visit Jerry's mission. It was
so neat to meet the people Jerry served. It was a great summer.









5 years ago. Family Talent
Show.

3 years ago. Hayden was about 7 months old. Spitting up all the time, but so adorable. I had just finished my fifth and last year teaching. We went on a fun family vacation to Yellowstone. We bought a HUGE, nice tent for the occasion and decided to save money by camping. After the stress of assembling the tent, and a flying rubber mallet we finally got set up. Yellowstone was beautiful, but unfortunately Hayden got sick and threw up all over our tent, our car, the middle of Mc Donalds, and had a MAJOR blowout at Old Faithful. Not fun! He did get feeling better though.
Enough that we could still enjoy our vacation. I think camping
might be out for our family though. The other time we went
camping at Mt. Charleston, Hayden started coughing because of
allergies and ended up throwing up in the tent again. I think we
are just jinxed. On the way home from Yellowstone we stopped in Preston, ID to see all the sites from the movie Napoleon Dynamite. Then we stayed in Utah for a bit to see family and of course to go to Lagoon.





3 years ago. Yellowstone!

1 year ago. Lagoon.

1 year ago... Hayden was 2, and Rebecca was 8 months. My niece, Shalane and her friend, Shelby came down to stay with us for about a week and a half. It was very fun, but exhausting. They got to see the Ocean's Thirteen red carpet event. Our family also went up to Utah a couple times. Jerry and I ran in the Honeyville, 4th of July 5K race. It was fun. We also went to Lagoon- of course. And we spent 45 minutes walking around Hogle Zoo, just to see empty cages, because the animals were too hot, so they were inside. And the animals that were outside were just sleeping. It was more fun going to Target after that. We also got to see my brother John and his wife Sara from Texas. It was a fun summer.

Yesterday... I got back into real life after our two week vacation. I woke up to Rebecca screaming in her crib. I went in to find that she had taken off her pjs, and her diaper, and then decided to poop in the crib. DISGUSTING!!! I had a Relief Society meeting in the morning. Kept the tv off for the majority of the morning, so I felt like a good mom. Tutored a student. Caught up on some of the episodes of "Days of our Lives" that I missed. (Sorry mom, it's true. I still watch.) Then we went to Jerry's brother, Devin's birthday party. Then I went to dinner with some girlfriends. And when I watched the results show of "So You think you can Dance."

Today... We woke up and went on a walk to the grocery store. Then we went to Walmart. (Lots of shopping.) Played games - all with the rules a 3 year old makes up. Apparently the "Real" way to play Candyland is just to take your piece and bounce it along the path, and when you run into another player you bounce on top of them, or fight with their piece till one piece is thrown out of the other player's hand. I'm supposed to clean today, and do laundry, we'll see if that actually happens. Tonight we are going to the 51's baseball game. Jerry got tickets with his work. I think it will be fun. Well, if the heat doesn't kill us.

Tomorrow... My ambitions are great. Probably only 1/2 of this will actually get done, but I'll try to accomplish it all. Go to the temple, tutor, go see Wall E as a family, shampoo the carpets, organize my house, play, read, and I don't know what else. We'll see what actually happens.

One year from now... Hayden will be 4, Rebecca 2, and our new little one about 5 months! Yip, it's true. I guess, now is as good of a time as any to announce our news. We are expecting! I'm due in February. I'm very excited, and to be honest, a little scared too because we'll be outnumbered. I'm not very far along, only 9 weeks, but I feel great. I'm very lucky because I haven't had any morning sickness with any of my children. I should learn by now not to stress it and enjoy it. So anyway, back to one year from now. We'll have three children and I'll have already lost the baby weight and be SMOKIN' HOT:) (never hurts to dream, right) We'll be sweating in the HOT Vegas sun, and vacation as much as we can!

So there is my fun life. Thanks for enduring the walk down memory lane. Now I'm officially tagging Angela R., Sara R., Melanie C., Amber P., and Amy C. (I'm probably supposed to limit it to three, but I want to see all of them.