Friday, January 30, 2009

When did you recieved your first bicycle?

Well, it depends on what you consider a bicycle, and if it had belonged to someone else. We had a very little bike that we all learned how to ride on. I am sure it was my dad who taught me. I don't actually remember. But then when we grew out of that one, there was a bigger bike with a banana seat. When I turned twelve my parents gave me my first speed bike. I had that one until about 5 years ago when I got the best bike ever. It is a trek mountain bike. It is wonderful. I love it. I love bike riding. I have been able to ride a bike for as long as I can remember. I am the only one out of my sisters that really enjoys it. I think it is great. Now I have a trailer so I can go on bike rides with Josh and soon Lilly.

Guess what girls?!

My really great friend, here in Alaska, gave me a journal jar. Where you pull a little tab out and answer the question! I'm really excited about it. It will be so great for this blog.

So here we go...When did you recieved your first bicycle? Who taught you to ride a bike?

I got my bike for Christmas when I was about 6. I had little bikes before but this was my first big bike. Santa brought it to me. Kassy got one too. My dad taught me how to ride a bike. I remember crashing a few times because I didn't want to turn. I thought if I turned, even a little, the bike would fall.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Question #1 - Julie

What was your favorite pet you had growing up and why?

My favorite pet is actually two. But there really wasn't one without the other. So much so that when the one died, the other died not long after.

So if you haven't already guessed, my favorite pets were my dogs Rocky and Jake. We got them when they were just puppies. They were a valentines present for us kids (and my dad). We got them because the year before for Father's Day my mom had finally told my dad that he could get dogs again. They were the greatest dogs. Rocky would play and play with you, and Jake would just sit and let you pet him. He was such a good listener.

I remember that it wasn't until they were like 3 or so years old that I could take them for a walk by myself. they were too strong for me. Though Stephanie and I would take them on walks together. By me saying we would walk them, really I mean they would run us. They loved to go to the river and play. Well, Rocky loved to play in the water, Jake wouldn't go in until my dad was in the water.

They were so much a part of our family, that when Rocky needed surgery on his leg, we had it done. that summer we had to sleep down stairs with the dogs to take them outside when they needed to. While Rocky was at the vet, Jake wouldn't eat or anything. He didn't like to be without his brother.

When we moved, we took them with us. At first they would get out of the back yard and run away, they were trying to find home. But they finally got used to the new place.

There were so many times when I was sad that I would go and talk to them. It was always nice to talk to them. It really felt like they were listening and understanding what I was saying. When I was younger, I would climb in the dog house with them.

Then when I went to College, one of the first things I would do when I got home, was go out and see them. I always missed them so much when I was at school. When Rocky died, I was still at school, It was my third year of College. He died at the end of the semester, just before finals. My parents were so worried about how I would react, that they didn't tell me until I got home. It is sad how they died. Rocky we think had a heart attack. They found him just laying in the back yard. I spent a lot of time with Jake that summer. But he was never the same as he had been before. He didn't eat very well, he wouldn't really play or anything. It was durning the next semester that my parents decided it just wasn't fair to him to keep him alive anymore. So they took him to the vet and had him put asleep.

It still seems weird that they aren't at my parents house. We had them for such a long time. They were trully a part of our family. It sometimes makes me nervous to think about getting another dog because I don't know that they could ever match up to my memory of Rocky and Jake. But once I get into a house we are going to get a dog. I just love them so much. Plus I think it would be good for Josh and Lilly.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Question #1-Krista

What was your favorite pet you had growing up and why?

My favorite pet, by far, was Murphy. He took soooo much crap from Kassy and I. I remember running around the yard, hitting him with little sticks. He didn't do anything about it. Just ran around. Or when we would call him on the trampoline and then start jumping. Or spraying him with water. We were so mean.

But he stuck around. He loved us. And we loved him. I remember Murphy laying on the living floor and Kassy and I would scratch his back by kicking our feet up and down, along his back. He loved it. He would groan anytime someone rubbed his ears. He would sit down in the bath tub when he got a bath. He hated getting wet but knew there was nothing he could do about it! LOL

I remember anytime I was having boy problems, more like Kyle problems, I would go outside and throw rocks for SheRocks and sit with Murphy on the wall. I could cry or yell or just talk it out and he would just 'listen.' I'm positive he knew what I was saying! :)

The last memory I have of Murphy was Prom night, senior year. He had been gone for a few days but we all knew he kept lady friends over the hill so we weren't too worried. After three days of him not being home, we started looking. We found him stuck in the mud hole on the bottom of our property. His back legs were paralyzed from being so cold. My dad brought him up to the garage and then into the house. We tried to warm him up but it was too late. The rest of his body was starting to shut down.

So we all got to have our time with him before......., I was last. I went in the garage and pet him. He started to whine. And a thought came to me that he was hungry. I gave him dog food and he ate it like it was Hamburger Helper, his favorite. The poor puppy was starving. I glad that I was able to comfort him in his last few minutes.

I'm grateful that I was able to say goodbye. He was a great dog. People from school still remember him. I wish I had a picture of him to go with this post.

Anyway there's my pet story. I'm going to go wipe my tears! (I'm such a girl!) Now your guys turn to answer a question. Once we have all answered all the questions, I'll find more.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Another post

So I put up some questions on the sidebar for us to answer.

I also gave everyone admin privileges so that you guys can add sites or whatever.

I really think these question thing is going to be great!

I'll add more when we use these ones up.

Julie-read the comment on the last post.

Love ya guys!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Family Updates

I liked Julie's idea of Family Updates so here I go.

Chris is still enjoying his work on the F-22's. His squardron is in Guam. They only left 6 people behind to keep up the shop. Chris was one of the lucky ones. Although Guam would be a cool place to visit, the squadron will be gone until the end of May. There isn't a lot to do in Guam besides drink and have 'relations' with the hookers....so Chris would do a lot of beach walking and fishing. I'm glad that he got to stay here. I would miss him a lot.

So because Chris didn't get his orders when he was suppose to, (the military put the wrong date) he is now OPEN. Which means he can work on any plane that carries bombs or has guns, anywhere. The chances that we will go overseas isn't big but now is a possiblity. Now we could even go to Mynot, North Dakota!! LOL (I hope not!) Anyway it will be really exciting to see where Heavenly Father puts us at our next base.

Connor is at such a fun age. He is learning new things almost every day. Two days ago, I went outside to start the truck and check the mail. Connor usually stands at our glass door and watches me. Well I get the mail and am opening it halfway up the walk way is Connor with no shoes or socks, on the ice and snow. He is just smiling away so proud of himself for meeting his mom! I just busted out laughing, making note that I need to remember to close the door all the way now!

I'm cutting out fabric for a log cabin. I doesn't look too hard but I think I'm going to have to do a lot of UNsewing!! I'm also taking my first quilting class this Saturday. I'll post pictures later...probably on my blog.

We are still trying to have another baby, with no luck. It's 18 months of trying. I sometimes wish we had more medical coverage so I could take meds for it. (right now, we'd have to pay for all the treatments and doctors out of pocket.) We talked about waiting until 2 years and then think about adoption. So we'll see. I just wanna another little one around. Just one would make me happy.

My sister Kassy is going through a tough time right now. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life. She knows that she needs to get out of Marysville (because she's about to loose her job and when she broke up with Billy, in October, she slept with all his friends). So that's coming back to haunt her because now everyone knows what she did. She was living with a boy named Ryan, but he is getting laid off from Boeing next month and is moving back to Georgia. Soooo she is moving in with my dad. Oh can you just hear the drama now?? At least she isn't moving in with mom. She thinks that she is going to get fired from her job at the pool (cuz she causes sooooo much drama) and they are making budget cuts. She decided that because her boyfriend, Shawn, and we live in Alaska that she is going to move her butt up here. I DON"T THINK SO!!! It will be news to her when I tell her that she can't stay with us but I got to think of my family first. Chris would kill her. I would be a mess and Connor would, well he'd probably love her.

My mom is still enjoying being single. She is dating all kinds of fun people. She is actually tame compared to before. She is still dating a few guys but they are more just dinner dates than anything else. She just bought a new truck. The van is about died. She loves her motorcycle. She rides it at least once a week.

My dad is still living with that Chirstine chick. She is nice and really loves Connor. He lives up way past Arlington, almost to Orso. Still working at Boeing. Nothing new there.

Chris' family is good. His grandpa is on his last breath as we speak. But we've all known it was coming for a year so it's time. Chris' sister in law, Megan Waggoner (wilcox) is pregnant again with a boy. Heather Vawdrey (I used to live with her...Chris' cousin who set us up) is pregnant. She married Nathan Griffin.

Aimee is doing good. Shiree just got married this past weekend to a boy from Everett. Aimee is due in May.

I think that's about it. Nicci your turn!

Family Update

So I thought that you both might want to hear what is happening in my family.

Stephanie has finally started a blog. http://sw416.blogspot.com/ It is linked on my blog. Though Krista if you wanted to add it on this blog, she wouldn't care. She is still at school in Provo. I think she has one year left. She has been kind of dating a boy. She is unsure if all the things they have been doing are dates. We keep telling her that they are, but she doesn't believe us.

Heather also has a blog. She is already linked on this blog. She can't find a job that pays very well, or gives her very many hours. This is a big problem because she is try to pay off all her student loans and things like that. So she has decided to take a medical training course. I think that will be great. I am very excited for her. It will be good for her to have something to do again.

Jenny and Andrew are still living in Richland. They have finally gotten over being sick. Poor little Nathan was sick with the stumach flu for 2 weeks, he also had both of his ear drums burst, and the medican they put him on gave him diarea. He lost about 2 pounds. Which is really bad because at his one year appointment, the doctor said that they needed to keep him on formula to get his nutriants and calories to see if he would gain more weight. But that is over and he is finally eating again. So it is nice to hear that they are over that.

As for my parents. They are doing great. My mom is teaching seminary and doing a great job. My dad is still working for boeing. I think he is very glad to be back there and back in Washington. He still has to travel a little with this job, but nothing like what he had to do with Ford. They are actually going to be here the first weekend in March because that is when we are blessing Lilly. By the way, if either of you will be in the area, you are more than welcome to come. I would love to see you.

So I think that pretty much covers the basics. I hope you enjoyed the update. I would love updates on your families.

P.S. Nicci, we love the outfits that you sent for Lilly they are very cute. Also we took the farm back that you got for Josh because my parents had already givin a farm to him for Christmas. We got the Little People bus for him. He loves it. He kept trying put put the bus in the barn. First he was trying to put it through the front, it obviously didn't fit, so he moved around back to try and get it to fit there.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Worst Friend ever!

I'm sorry Nicci. I totally forgot that your birthday was coming up. I have been really bad at remembering peoples birthdays. I hope that you had a fun day. How does it feel to be 25? You are now a quarter of a century old. Join the club.

That is all I really wanted to say on this blog. Though if you all get me birthdays and other important dates, I will try to find somewhere to put them so that I remember them.

Love ya

Saturday, January 17, 2009

My life

So I am sorry that I have been a slacker as well about posting. For the past two weeks or so I have gotten on here and think 'I need to post, what should I post about, I don't know. I will do it later.'. But I totally am not very good at all, I have had this much saved for like 3 or 4 days. I am finally getting to it to finish it.

I still don't really know what I am going to post about, but I will just start writing. Things have been going really well here. Life is definantly more crazy with two kids than it was with one. But it is fun. I don't get much sleep though. Lilly is a night owl and Josh is a morning bird. Usually Lilly is going to bed around 12 and wakes up every 3 or so hours and Josh wakes up about 7. And Lilly seems to think it is fun to see if she can wake Josh up durning his nap. He wakes up really easy, so he hasn't been having as long of naps. It is making for longs days. But I wouldn't change them.

So do either of you have ideas on what we can do on this blog? I think it would be fun to use this blog as I don't know what the right word is. I just know I have a hard time writing here because I have been writing on my blog. I feel kind of silly repeating myself on the blogs. If there was questions we could answer or something like that. I don't know.

Well I will talk to you all later.

Hi!

Hi girls! Sorry it's been awhile. There is not a whole lot going on. I bought a new car right before Christmas. It's an 06 Toyota 4Runner and I absolutely love it! I tried to upload a photo but my computer is being stubborn today so... It's silver so it hides the dirt which is nice because I am horrible about washing my car. I got the one with the leather interior which I was greatful for because Beth spilled her hot chocolate on the seat the day after I bought it and it wiped right up! She is a lucky girl!!! :o) It looks like I won't be going to the academy until February or March now... I had to go and get pneumonia which meant that I couldn't go to the January academy. It's okay though because now maybe it'll be a little warmer outside. I was bummed at first but then I had to remember that the Lord has a plan so I'm trusting that He knows what He is doing; especially since my Chief was not happy that I got sick. Krista, to answer your question, I have not been going to church. I wish you guys were here cause then I might go with you. Anyway, I should get back to work. Love you!!!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

SO ...

So girls...HI!!

I've been so bad about writing on this blog. I write on the other one but that doesn't count.

So an update on Aimee....she had another ultrasound on Thursday. The placenta moved to the right place now!! So she can deliver normal now. Baby boy is healthy. Tyson is still sticking around. So has another ultrasound to check on the placenta again in february. She is sooo excited to have another baby!

Chris and I are still trying to have a baby. It's so frustrating. I bought a computer program to help track my cycle so I can SEE when I am fertile and all that jazz. I just want Connor to have a sibling...at this point...one more would be great! We wanted 5 or 6 but it doesn't look like that's happen in this life.

Thank goodness we know about the Gospel and know that we can have babies in Heaven.

Speaking of church....what church are you going to Nicci? I wish I was there and I would drag you to church with me. I know you loved it! You just gotta look past the drama queens like Marie!!

Not much else going on here...it's still in the negatives around here. -24 today....but tomorrow our high is 5!!!! And Tuesday 20 and snow!! I just hope it warms up. I don't car about the snow anymore!

Well Connor is now playing with a roll of toliet paper...gotta go before I have to throw the whole thing away!!

Later