Happy Anniversary to us!

Five years!

08.08.08

It's 080808! I'm easily amused. And I got tagged.

1. What is your favorite fictional character from a book or movie?
This is so hard. I love characters. If it were TV, it would be Jim. Movies would be... ok, there are too many. I'll spare you.
2. What are your 3 best physical assets?
um... I like the color of my hair, my eyes, and hands. Random stuff.
3. Name 3 attributes you would be proud to pass on to your children:
My affectionate-ness, intelligence and my generally positive outlook on life. Don't I sound conceited!
4. Name 3 attributes that you hope not to pass on to your children:
My temper, laziness and procrastination.
5.If you had to give up one of the following things FOREVER, which would you choose?1. all makeup 2. flat iron/curling iron 3. razors (laser hair removal isn't an option):
This was the hardest question. There's no way I could go without 3, I'm way way too hairy, and dark haired at that. So I guess #2, because I absolutely had to pick. But that would be sad! :)
6. What do you think is your best quality?
I get over things very easily.
7. What is your worst quality?
I have not much patience, and it gets worse when I am sleep deprived.
8. What would be a perfect day for you?
One where I wouldn't have to work, Jon was home with me, the girls were gone for part of the day, and I could eat whatever I wanted without any consequences. And go shopping. And I had it on Monday!
9. Where is your favorite place you have ever visited?
I loved France, although I think I appreciated it more afterward, than while I was actually there. I would love to go back.
10. Name something you are really good at?
I'm good at editing pictures.
11. What are you most shallow about?
I don't know, I like pretty babies more than ugly ones? lol
12. What is something you're a little bit conceited about?
My two cute girls. They ARE the cutest!
13. Name 3 things you are embarrassed to admit:
1. I hate brushing my teeth, and sometimes I don't do it. Ew, huh. 2. I read blogs and don't leave comments most of the time. But in my defense, the main time I get on the computer is when I'm feeding Aimee, and it's hard to type! 3. I eat a ton of junky food, and sometimes I complain to Jon that I feel so fat after. I think Jae might hate me :)
14. Tag 3 people:
Kim, Rebecca, Kate and Leslie (I can count, but I really want to do 4!)

29/100

I stole this from Nathaly's blog. Thanks Nat for giving me something to blog!

This is a list of the top 100 books ever published. Supposedly, the average person has only read 6 of these books.

I tag everyone. This is what you have to do:
1. Copy the list on your blog.
2. Read through the list and mark the books you've read in bold.
3. Italicize any you started, but didn't finish.
4. Color the ones you loved in a color. (whatever color, really.)


1. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Life of PI - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare
33. Ulysses - James Joyce
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen
62. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
98. Watership Down – Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

I guess 29 is better than 6. A ton of these are on my to-read list. And a few of them I've seen the movie, but I'm sure that doesn't count!

Pictures

Both girls are napping, and I was going to exercise. Then I decided to put pictures on the blog and eat cookies instead. Go me.
Aimee is feeling better today, by the way, she hasn't had a fever at all! She's just sleeping a lot.
Ok, here are some recent ones of Katie.

Finally, a smile. That is my excellent taking pictures while driving skills.This one makes me laugh so hard every time I see it. She looks so funny.

And here is Katie in the same wig, like two years ago.

She fell asleep on the way home, while reading her book. Funny girl. I guess lambs do make you sleepy.

And here's a video of Aimee. Be warned, it's loud. But you get a little taste of what it's like living here during the remodel!

That took forever to upload!

Poor little Aimee

Aimee was sick all weekend with a fever, and just being fussy and not quite herself. I went to church yesterday, and she just lay there not moving much, but not asleep, and she was really hot. We came home and she stopped moving at all, and couldn't hold up her head or keep her eyes open. We took her temp and it was 104! So we called the Dr and ended up taking her to the ER. They checked her urine and did a chest x-ray (which she was NOT happy about) and eventually they found out she has a UTI and kidney infection. So she's on some antibiotics and in two weeks she'll have an ultrasound and a few x-rays on her kidneys. That will tell us if she has VUR (vesicoureteral reflux). That is when the urine goes back up into the kidneys. So anyway, we'll let you know then. She is feeling much better now though, the antibiotics seem to be helping.

Seven months

She is getting so old, it is so sad! I wasn't sad when Katie got older, but I want Aimee to be tiny forever. Anyway, here are seven things about her.
1. She smiles with her mouth wide open, and almost every picture I took had the same face.
2. She is very cuddly, and loves to be held.
3. Animal sounds make her giggle.
4. If you give her the right toys, she'll sit on the floor and play with them for 1/2 an hour.
5. She is mommy's girl. If I walk by she cries.
6. She can scoot herself backward when she's on her tummy. I'm so not ready for crawling.
7. She sleeps 7 hours in a row at night. I hope it continues to increase! And she's still swaddled for sleeping. People keep asking me when I'm going to stop, and they think it's weird. But she loves it, and goes right to sleep when she's swaddled. So I'm going to until she doesn't like it anymore!

Random Update

Katie fell off the swing yesterday. She leaned back and did a flip, and landed on her face. It was so sad, and some days I wonder if she'll even make it to 3! But she is tough, and about 5 minutes later she was begging to go back on the swing. She settled for the slide.
Then we were playing on the deck, and I found another wasp nest. In the eaves. So we went back inside, and there was a wasp in the bathroom!! How did it get there? I think they are stalking Katie.

Aimee has slept for about 7 hours in a row every night for the last two weeks. I love it! And, she can fall asleep without nursing. That took a while, but it's so nice now!

The house is coming along pretty fast now, they built the floor of the second floor already. Which is fun seeing it change so much in a day, but waking up at 7 am (which for night owls is brutal) to someone ripping the siding off the house which also happens to be 6 inches from your head- not so fun. It is so loud! Also, I'm writing this before I usually even wake up. Oh, one more thing. The guys working on the house like music- and to hear it over the nailing and such, it has to be really loud. (Notice a theme here?) So we sound like we are having a fiesta every day. Which is actually kind of fun!

I get headaches a lot. They make me so miserable, but then I take some ibuprofen, and 30 minutes later- bliss! I always feel so awesome after a headache has gone away. Really, I just feel normal, but it feels so much better than crappy! I recently realized it is the same with not being pregnant. I'm not one of those people who LOVE being pregnant. In fact, I hate it. I get huge (yes, everyone gets big, but my kids stick straight out of me, so I look like I'm having twins, plus my last kid was 9 lbs) and grumpy, and nothing works right. I love my babies, but if I could grow them outside my body I would. Anyway, nearly every day I wake up and feel excited that I'm not pregnant. I feel so good most of the time and I get giddy at the thought of not being pregnant again for a few years (or ever). I literally feel sick if I think about getting pregnant. So thank you IUD, marvelous little piece of plastic and hormones that keeps me from going insane.

Ok, all done. It feels better getting that all out!

Sad!

Katie got stung by a wasp today. We were playing on the deck, and all of a sudden she screamed. Somehow I knew immediately that it was a sting, before even seeing her hand. Anyway, I saw a wasp flying by her little table, so we went inside and I gave her a ring pop (thanks Lisa!) and put ice on her hand. We went outside again, and a few minutes later, I look down, and the wasp nest was under Katie's table! Freaky. So we all were banished inside. Katie is such a tough girl though, she didn't cry very long, and was totally fine after a couple minutes. She doesn't get that from me! At least I have a genuine reason to hate bugs!

And now pictures to make up for sad news!

I love this picture of Aimee she does this face all the time
Katie sandwich! Erica and Nickenstein.
These two are from Claire's party.

My nieces and nephews are so cute. I'm so glad a bunch of them live close,
and the others get to visit!

Happy Birthday

JON!

We love you, and you're the best husband and daddy we could ever have!
Enjoy the last year of your 20s!

Happy 4th of July!

Here's our day in pictures:
Strawberry pie, for breakfast. We're so healthy.

Then we had a party, and we made grilled artichokes with lemon garlic aioli. They were so good. There was a lot of other good food too, but I forgot to take more pictures. Oh I made my friend Sara's Lime Cilantro Rice with Pineapple, and it was so yummy. I don't normally like to mix sweet and salty, but I loved this rice. Click on the link to get the recipe.

After we ate, we watched the fireworks.

And one of Aimee, just because she's cute. We hope your day was fun too!