I'm thinking...

that arranged marriages are a great idea!!! Who could ask for a cuter daughter in law than Kate? She is beautiful, she's spunky, she has a fabulous family and Jaxton is a happy boy!!!

100

I had some extra time on my hands last weekend when I was sitting out in the hot sun watching Oklahoma's finest walk by my Cool Chicks booth, so here you have it...100 random things about me, cause I love randomness!!!

1. I hate being on the outside of an "inside" joke.
2. I wiggle my left foot to help me fall asleep.
3. I have pixy ears (they are pointy on top).
4. I hate watching PDA, therefore I don't participate in it either.
5. I love buying fun things for my friends that remind me of them.
6. I would take a Lake any day over the Ocean.
7. Oklahoma tact (or lack thereof) is one of my favorite things.
8. I NEVER wear lipstick.
9. I hate that I don't look good in brown.
10. I am a true friend.
11. I know that Heavenly Father loves me.
12. I'm glad jelly shoes are making a comeback, I need to get myself a pair.
13. I don't understand how old guys can hike their pants up past their bellybuttons.
14. I love snow cones.
15. I have my mom's ugly pointer finger, it's just a breeding ground for arthritis.
16. I love watching "The Bachelor & The Bachelorette," love it! Yes, my mom taught me better.
17. I wish I were a professional photographer.
18. I love making and keeping friends.
19. I cry when I get really really mad.
20. I am not intimidated easily.
21. I am NOT a butt kisser.
22. If I don't like someone, they usually know it.
23. I try to like everyone, but that doesn't always happen.
24. Mullets crack me up!
25. About every other day I wish that I had long hair.
26. I am a very fast walker and it drives me nuts when people are lolly gagging behind.
27. I wish I were more patient.
28. I ate hot dogs for breakfast when I was pregnant with Jaxton.
29. I hate cats, hate them. I can't stand when they come rub up on my legs.
30. I wish I could sing...please don't tell me that I can cause I sound like a man who has smoked my entire life.
31. I don't think I have a quiet voice, but I still wonder why Jaxton can't find his.
32. I love being tall.
33. My feet are very small for my height (7.5). I'm glad.
34. Daniel's quirks secretly make me happy.
35. I won the hoop shoot in 6th grade.
36. My sister could beat the crap out of me.
37. I'm sassy.
38. I get my lefts and rights mixed up all of the time.
39. I blame that on being raised in Roosevelt!!
40. I wish I knew how to play Tennis.
41. I love my laugh.
42. I am easily entertained.
43. I am the travel agent for pretty much everybody in my entire family.
44. I am thankful that I am self confident.
45. I am a bit of a control freak.
46. There are times that I feel like the younger sister when my younger sister is around.
47. I look forward to having one of those motorized wheelchairs when I get older.
48. I get self conscious about zits, that's about all.
49. When I was little I wanted my name to be Whitney.
50. I like cookie dough better than cooked cookies.
51. If I won a million bucks I would travel to every temple in the world.
52. I have been blessed with some of the best friends anybody could ever ask for throughout my life.
53. I wear my feelings on my sleeve.
54. I have a lot of moles.
55. I love them because my mom always told me they were beauty marks.
56. I drive fast.
57. I had my license suspended the summer I was an EFY counselor because I forgot to pay for a ticket.
58. I drove anyway, until my mom found out.
59. I crave Utah food all of the time.
60. My lucky number is 13. I know that because I won a cake at a cakewalk on #13.
61. I adore my grandpa. I don't know what I'm going to do without him so I try not to think about it.
62. I choose to be in denial at times.
63. My swear word of preference starts with an A and ends with a double S.
64. I'm usually using it at Daniel.
65. I love to ride horses.
66. Watching my kids grow up makes me miss being a kid.
67. I loved growing up in Roosevelt.
68. I'm glad we moved when we did.
69. I hated everyday of Jr. High because girls were mean to me and they teased me about not shaving my legs.
70. I loved every second of High School.
71. I am so excited for my 10 year reunion coming up this month.
72. I think my feet are cute.
73. I broke my middle toe on a fat kid.
74. I always wish Daniel could be a girl, just for 1 day, preferably during that special time of month.
75. Milk gives me gas. I do not like it.
76. I love carbs.
77. I am not a fan of hairy men.
78. OK just kidding, I love when the hair is poking out the top of the T-shirt.
79. 2 years ago on my road trip to Utah some boys put up a sign that said "Show me your boobs." I laughed all the way to Kansas. (I was breastfeeding at the time, that would not have been pretty!!!)
80. I think smoking is the most disgusting habit in the entire world.
81. I grew 7 inches in 9th grade.
82. I hate tattoos.
83. I wish I didn't know some things about some people.
84. I want to fly in a helicopter really bad.
85. I wish I had more time to read.
86. I hate the wind.
87. I was the Tiny Tot Princess when I was 4.
88. I told my mom I was going to be Miss America and I'm pretty sure I meant it. Sorry mom!
89. I am so proud of my sister.
90. I love all the nicknames that Daniel comes up with for our kids.
91. I've been pooped on by a bird.
92. I love being a mom....most days.
93. Sometimes I'm tempted to ask people if they looked in the mirror before they left their house.
94. I hate getting ready for the day.
95. I don't like talking on the phone.
96. I use sunglasses more as a headband than actual glasses.
97. I hate doing dishes.
98. I do not get embarrassed easily.
99. I do not get offended easily.
100. This is my most embarrassing moment: LONG before I knew what testicles were I saw my Uncles hairy feet and said, "Holy Hairy Testicles." The whole family stopped and stared at me with their mouths wide open. I explained to them that it came from Ace Venture saying "Holy Testicle Tuesday" and they all bust out laughing. I still had no idea what testicles were but I was embarrassed. It's even more embarrassing now that I do know what testicles are!!!!

There you have it. Hope you enjoyed!!! Maybe I'll get crazy and do 100 more.

You know your almost 28 when....

You wake up in the morning with a wrinkle line on your cheek from sleeping on your face and it's still there after the shower. Boo to that!!!

Happy 7th Anniversary!!!

June 1, 2001

I married my Eternal Buddy!

The One that I laugh with and cry with (and throw things at occassionally)!!

I Love You Daniel, always and forever!!

Here's to some more wonderful years and some more crazy kids!

Happy Anniversary Wheetie!!

Tenderness....

Jaxton's prayer: "Dear Heavenly Father, please bless that I can be a missionary someday. Please bless that I can be like Jesus, Joseph Smith and the other prophets."

Hooray for my kindergarten graduate!!!!

Congratulations bud, I am so proud of you!!!

What I've been up to...

*Making gourmet meals for the family*

Mac & Cheese with Peas and Hot dogs

*Looking out the window and seeing this*

*Being crafty with my husband less (for the summer) friend Christy who swore she wasn't crafty but totally fibbed*

*Making headbands for Blaykli to match all of her summer dresses*

*Watching the kids in swimming lessons*

*Trying to prevent this from happening*


*Eating this for breakfast 3 days in a row*
THANK YOU CHRISTY!!!

*Laughing at this*

*And buying this*

Coming up next: Jaxton's Kindergarten Graduation, 2 weeks of the Zoo and Big Splash and then our trip to Utah and California!!!

Adventures of the Passer Outer

Yes, the passer outer would be me and yes, I did it again this week. It's usually only a problem when I am sick or I get hurt pretty bad. It's something that I have always dealt with and something that I am used to and it isn't until I pass out around people who haven't ever experienced that themselves that I am reminded of how weird it actually is. I'm super freaky:)!! But since I'm thinking about it, I'll share my passing out adventures with you because some of them are actually pretty stinkin' funny! Most the time seizures occur as well, but I think those have kind of died down with age.

*When I was little my dad was the neighborhood jungle gym. All the neighborhood kids would come over and he would throw us up in the air and catch us by our ankles. It was all fun and games until he missed my ankles one time and dropped me on my head about 1 inch from the concrete sidewalk. I'm pretty sure that's when I started these fun little episodes and I'm pretty sure that my mom threatened to kill him if he had killed me while they were on their way to the emergency room. As soon as I came to, my dad passed out, I think it kind of runs in the genes.

*I passed out once in the bathtub when I was sick and scared the poopies out of my mom.

*I passed out in my grandma's blazer once when I was sick and scared the poopies out of her.

*I passed out in 1st grade because I was sick and wouldn't stay home from school. I just loved it too much.

*I passed out in 1st or 2nd grade because we were practicing for a school performance and I had my knees locked for too long.

*I passed out in 4th grade on the playground because we were playing the whip game and I got whipped and hit the ground at full speed, it hurt.

*I passed out getting moles removed from my chest because I saw the needle.

*I almost passed out giving a shot to an orange in my Physiology class, that is when my dream of being a nurse was dashed.

*My sophomore year of high school I had a broken tailbone (I actually did not pass out when that happened because some stupid kid pulled my chair out from under me, sorry back to the point which is Hooray for me!) I decided that I was going to go sledding anyway cause I didn't want to miss out on anything fun. I put the blue donut that I had to sit on down my ski pants, (not realizing that it would totally deflate in the cold weather) and away I went. I happened to hit the only bump on the entire hill and came down right on my broken tailbone. My friend Collin Kartchner was there at the bottom with me and as I was blacking out I told him, "Collin I'm fainting, I'm fainting." He thought I was dying so he called for help but all of our friends at the top of the hill thought that he was kidding and that we had the whole joke planned so they all just laughed at him and he started doing CPR on me. This is a true story and technically I guess he was my first kiss :)!!!

*I passed out once because Bowdy hugged me so hard. I'm pretty sure that scared the poopies out of him too.

*I passed out at the Wilkinson Center at BYU right on the steps because I stepped wrong and sprained my ankle. I was with my BFF Molly at the time and I'm pretty sure we were going to try to go spy on Daniel. Anyway I told her that I was passing out and she said to me, "No you can't, I don't know what to do!" The EMT's came to help.

*I passed out last Thanksgiving on the way home from California because I had a sinus infection and when the airplane was descending my eyeballs felt like they were seriously popping out of my head and I was gone. Thank goodness Daniel was there to hold me while I was out.

*And last but not least, Monday I passed out while we were at the hospital for Blaykli's second eye surgery, and again later that day after I got up to put Blaykli on our bed. I've never done a two banger before so needless to say, it's pretty much been a waste of a week but I'm finally feeling better, thank goodness.

*I'm sure there are more but those are the ones I'm remembering at the time. I have yet to pass out while delivering a child which is a huge accomplishment for me and I've figured out that if I ever have to give blood if I lay down while they are doing it, I'm usually OK.

Donut Update...

Yesterday I got dressed and everything felt a little snug so I've decided The Cinnamon Honeybun is the culprit and my obsession has got to stop. I can't tell you the last time I had a "I'm feeling fat day," it's been years. So before it really gets out of hand I'm putting my foot down and only buying Honeybuns for special occasions and them I'm limiting myself to 1.

I'm so glad when Dad comes to town...

I'm so glad when Dad comes to town,

glad as I can be.

Give him a list of things to do

and cross them off once complete.

Watch the kids follow him around,

back and forth they go.

Shelves and mulch and swingsets and more,

"Pampa" is just a pro!!!

Thanks dad for everything that you do for us and our cute little house.

New Love of my Life....

So I went to Merritts Bakery this morning to get my dad some donuts for breakfast. He loves donuts!!! I'm there in line trying to decided which one to pick and there it was....

The Cinnamon Sugar Honeybun

Oh my gosh, I couldn't wait to get that thing in my mouth. I jumped in the car and started heading to Sonic to get Diet Cokes to compliment the donuts, of course, and I was finished with this little piece of heaven before I even got there. It just melted in my mouth. I got the drinks and headed back, no not home, BACK TO THE BAKERY for another Cinnamon Sugar Honeybun and told the cashier "that this was pretty much the best thing I have ever tasted in my entire life and that I was going to share this one" (ok so I lied about the sharing part!!) She laughed at me and sent me on my way with my 2nd Honeybun of the day but it's only 8:36 am so I might just return for numbers 3, 4 &5 depending on my mood and the capacity in my stomach!!! In other words my friends, this donut itself might just be the reason that I could live in Tulsa, OK for the rest of my life. I may be 437 pounds by the time that I die but it would all be worth it for this perfect little donut that is calling my name. Have a great Monday, I sure will!!!!

Mmm, do you know what I want right now???

It's 10:30 at night on Friday night and I want a treat, but not just any treat. I want my friend Christy's homemade Strawberry pie. Mmmmm, it's delicious. I wish I had a picture to show you but I don't, so you will just have to imagine it's sweet deliciousness. I love friends who are fabulous bakers, it makes me happy!!! Last time she made it Daniel and I fought over the leftovers for breakfast the next morning. Yep, it's that good!

Commenting to the comments...

So I've decided that instead of feeling like I have to e-mail each of you individually if there is something I want to say after you have commented on my blog, I'm going to do what my friends do and respond to your comments through commenting to the comments. Did that make any sense? Basically if you comment and you think that I will respond, check back and see, it will be lots of fun and I'm excited!!! Happy commenting!

Levi Luttman

I've waiting to post this story because it might be one of those stories that you had to be there but I can't stop laughing about it, and it's been a week and a half, so I'm thinking it's time to share. When we were down in OKC we stayed up half the night talking and this was the funniest compilation of stories ever... It started with a question about high school love or something from "The Chick Game" and Lacey #1 started telling us a story about how she was snuggling on a tramp with this guy when she was a freshman or sophomore and one of her friends saw her and went and told her Young Women's leader. So at church the next Sunday the very inappropriate (I might add) Young Women's leader started talking to them about morality but she was telling them things like "You should never go into the freezer section of the grocery store because boys will be turned on," etc. etc. (is that a joke?) She even went so far as to tell them about "Levi Lovin" (that is the Utah phrase for something else, if you can't figure it out e-mail me and I will fill you in). Anyway, so we were all laughing our heads off in disbelief because poor Lacey said at the time she had no idea what her leader was talking about and everybody was staring at her because she was the only one with a boyfriend. Then we all started laughing about the phrase "Levi Lovin" because our California friends had never heard of that. Then Michelle piped in and started telling us about a guy she dated named Levi Luttman. He called her once and said, "Hi this is Levi Luttman." It must have been in some seductive voice because she said that she just started yelling at him, "Is this some kind of a sick joke, I have no idea what you are talking about, don't you ever call me again you sicko," and so on. She said that after she got done yelling it all just clicked and this Levi Luttman was on the other end of the phone just wondering what in the crap he had said to make her so upset. To make matters worse, he wasn't a member of the Church so she couldn't explain to him WHY she was so upset or WHAT it was that she thought he had said. I'm pretty sure I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants!!!! Hooray for good times and good laughs! I love my crazy friends!!!!

******A few clarifications****** Just in case Levi ever googles his name and sees this little ditty pop up, Michele asked me to clarify a few things: #1. Levi is one good looking specimen :) according to Michele and she was quite fond of him and #2. She met Levi and was excited for him to call her but he was shy and waited 5 weeks to do so, so this phone call occured the first time that he did call her to ask her out. I think that pretty much rules out the seductive voice theory that I had!!!

Time Out for Women in OKC

Last weekend was a blast! A group of 7 of us from the ward (it was suppose to be 10 but I won't get into that other than to say BOOOOO once again) went down to Time Out for Women and totally enjoyed ourselves. For those of you who don't know what Time Out for Women is, it's a Mormon thing, kind of like a mini Education Week that Deseret Book puts on each year in different locations. There are speakers and singers and the best part is, it's only for women!

We got there Friday afternoon and checked into our Hotel Room and then went and walked around Bricktown and had Abuello's for Liner. Speaking of Abuello's their Avocado Enchiladas are the bomb and I'm not even that big of a fan of avocados. Friday night Michael McLean did a little mini concert and we listened to Kim ______ (I can't remember his last name). But one question he asked us that I would like to ask all of you is this: "If you saw a mother treating her daughter the way you treat yourself, what kind of a mother would you think she was??" Think about that for awhile and start loving yourselves sisters!!! Heavenly Father has confidence in us, do we have confidence in ourselves?

After Friday nights activities we went to The Melting Pot for dessert and I'm pretty sure that I had a little taste of Heaven in that Banana Foster White Chocolate that I had. YUMMM is all I have to say and yes, I licked my plate clean even after all of the dippers were gone.

It was delicious!!!! My tummy was happy!!! So were Lacey's lips!!!

We went back to our Hotel and got into our Jammies and stayed up talking until the wee hours of the morning, it was so fun getting to know so much about each other, we just didn't want to go to sleep.

Saturday was a day full of Hilary Weeks (she has a new CD coming out in September that is going to be awesome) and more wonderful speakers. The spirit was strong, it was fantastic!

Heather, Pat, Michele, Susanna, Me, Kristen, Lacey, and Melissa

I also saw Annette and Kim, some of my best chums that I love to death...

These were my favorite purchases, since I always seem to share

How excited am I to read this...

How great is this going to look hanging in my kitchen...

To finish off our fabulous weekend we decided to stop by the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial since Saturday was the 13th anniversary of the tragic incident. The Spirit there was strong as well and it was interesting to learn more about it since I was only a Freshman in High School at the time and I didn't even know where Oklahoma was.

Thanks for the fun weekend girls, I love you all!!!

Say HELLO to my little friend!!!!

This is Michele and I love her for a ton of reasons but I think one of the biggest reasons is because she is so dang cute and small. I'm not really touching her boob, I'm just pointing out where the top of my hip begins on her darling little body. Don't you just want to pick her up and squeeze her to death?

Hooray for Ebay (ooh that rhymed)!!!!

So I went to the mall last week and searched high and low for some cute, fun, casual yet potentially dressy white shoes to wear with skirts and such in the summertime. NO LUCK! I knew exactly what I was looking for and saw it in other colors just not white. Anyway, I came home and googled MIA, found the perfect shoes and guess what they were SOLD OUT everywhere! By this time I was starting to feel sorry for myself and my cute shoes hopes were dashed, big sigh...and then it caught my eye (ooh that rhymed again, I'm on a roll).....the link to EBAY. I went there to search for the MIA Esie's in a 7.5 and there they were...beautiful and brand new, but only 2 pair in my size. Yah, no bidders, I was the first. I bid $35.oo for a $60.00 pair of shoes and waited for almost 2 full days to find out that I WON!!!! But wait, it gets better, the starting bid was 19.99 and nobody else bid so I got them for 19.99 plus shipping, which was still cheaper than the 35.00 that I was willing to pay plus shipping. I'm pretty sure that Ebay is my new best friend! I'm also pretty sure that you all know how Ebay works so that was a little too much detail, unless you are my mom, then you will think that's the coolest thing you've ever heard of and want to try it yourself but then I'll have to answer all your silly questions :) Just kidding mom, I still love you and I really love my new shoes!!!

Hooray for Ebay!!!

Confession of an Imperfect Me #4

Here it is, my 4th confession: I AM ADDICTED TO WEBKINZ. I know, how lame can I be?? I'm not addicted to the webkinz themselves (I could build a house with all the stuffed animals we have), I'm addicted to the website that you can go to and play games to earn money to buy things for your webkinz. Jaxton and Blaykli have 6 combined: Eddie the pug, Shaq the lab, Mack the frog, Ralphie the Koala, Sweet Do Do the Hippo, and Tandi the pig. Naming their webkinz is about as far as I let the kids go and then I take it from there with all of the decisions concerning each of them. No joke, when my sister was here we played for hours on end, trying out all of the different games, earning the money and then having serious conversations about what we were going to purchase to make each of their rooms the cutest, what colors to paint the walls, furniture to buy, etc. Daniel laughed at us, my mom laughed at us, Jaxton yelled at us (cause he wanted to play himself), and we laughed at ourselves but that didn't stop us from having more conversations about the layout of the room and what they really needed, opposed to what we thought they wanted. Like they even know or care, although each time we bought them something a little blurb would come up from the animal thanking us for buying that for them. It was pretty cute and it made me feel happy inside! I know you are all laughing at me and thinking that I am totally kidding about all of this but---I'M NOT!!! If you don't believe me, ask my sister or Jaxton, he will tell you that I never give him turns on the computer and it's true. :)

Happy Anniversary to our House!!!!

Last week marked the 1 year anniversary of us living in our first house, not of our house itself, in that case it would be 80 years old!!! We absolutely love our little house and have been able to make this house our home. Thanks to my dad who has helped us with EVERYTHING that we have done inside and out and thanks to all of our friends who come over and make memories with us here.

Here are the most drastic before and afters.

Bathroom

Kitchen


The Front Room

Here are some other pictures

The Laundry Room
Our Room

Blaykli's Room

Jaxton's Room

2005 One Shining Moment

We were told that players would give their left legs to be on this and this is the second year that me and Kristi made it in a row!!! Hooray for us being so crazy and for the love CBS had for us!

Final Four

I know I'm reminiscing about the "good old" days but having the Final Four be in San Antonio again this year has brought back so many of the BEST memories Daniel and I have ever had in our lives. I'm so thankful that we got to share them together.

I don't think anybody understands what a big deal that is unless they have experienced it themselves and really there aren't words to describe all the feelings that we went through together during that run. I will never forget throwing my arms around Daniel after their win against St. Joes to get them to the Final Four and thanking him for bringing me to Oklahoma. It was a tender moment.

Anyway, we threw a Final Four Party on Monday night and busted out all of the fun Final Four treasures that Daniel got for being a participant. Here are the table decorations and yes, I am wearing a 'Cool Chicks Wear Blue' shirt in honor of Kansas cause we've got to represent for the Big 12!! Awesome win by the Jayhawks by the way, and a big thanks to them for leading me to victory in my bracket with Daniel a close 2nd. The Bobiks rock the bracketology, that's all there is to it!!!!

Proud Wife Moment....

Who says white boys can't jump??? This would make any wife proud.

The Funky Name Tag

My rock star name (first pet and current car): Mitzi Mini Van {I'm thinking my agents might have a problem with that one}

My gangsta name (favorite candy bar and favorite cookie): Carmello Chocolate Crinkle {Now I just need a brown velor jumpsuit that says "Juicy" on the butt and I'm set}

My detective name (favorite color and favorite animal): Orange Possum {It's really not my favorite (although I do think it's awesome they can hang upside down from their tails) (Wait, those are possums right?) I've just passed a dead one on the side of the road a million times so it's on my brain}

My Star Wars name (first three letters of last name and first two letters of first name then the word "of" then a medication you are on): Bobna of Proactive {Hey it's medicine, kind of}

My superhero name (2nd favorite color and favorite drink with "The" in front): The Bright Pink "Conoco Concoction" {My powers are secret concoctions that will never be discussed}

My Nascar name (first names of your grandfathers): Jay Calvin {That ones a winner. Why couldn't my grampa's names be Lightning and McQueen?}

My stripper name (name of your favorite perfume/cologne and your favorite candy): Deep Red Mini Eggs {I'm not sure how, but that kind of sounds kinky!}

Witness-protection name (mother's and father's middle names): Lyn Bradley {Could it be any more boring??? Seriously, that would just not work for me}

Thanks for the tag Christy, I needed something to light a fire under my rear. I tag all 3 Laceys and Whitney. I would totally tag Molly but she just had her baby boy yesterday (HOORAY) so I'll give her a break!

Here they are...as promised

My PLUMP pictures
From 125 to 160 in approximately 2 1/2 months!!!

Chunky but Funky!!!

Check out the double chin on this one!

I don't think anything needs to be said except HOORAY for Daniel who feel in love with me despite the 40 pounds I had gained! He liked me large and in charge!

I'm so sorry.....

Sorry about the lack of blogging lately. I have 3 good reasons but apparently they aren't good enough for some of you :)!!
#1. I have been scanning all of my pictures into my computer and trust me, I have found some real doosies that I will be able to blog about, but that takes time my friends.
#2. I started the whole cleaning out of the garage, putting away winter clothes, getting spring and summer stuff out, etc. 2 days before my mom and sister came to town. Yah, not quite sure what I was thinking there but it's done now so all is well.
#3. My mom and sister have been here for 5 days and we have been BUSY!!!!!! We've been to a wedding, gotten ready for Blaykli's birthday, done business stuff in Stillwater, and shopped. There has been no time for blogging.
I know this might surprise some of you but I do have a life besides blogging:). I really am sorry to leave you hanging though, I promise. I will get back in the swing of things and you my friends have a lot to look forward to so be prepared.
Loves to all!