My tax-return gift!

So here they are, my tax return washer and dryer! I am so excited to have a washer and dryer that are reliable and that actually wash and dry a load of laundry under 1 1/2 total time!

We got Kenmore's from Sears. Pretty good price! I was thinking about getting front loaders, but I really didn't want to spend more than $800 total. Anyway, I love them and they work great! Now it's fun to do laundry!

High School Tag!

Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be! At the end, choose 10 people (or more) to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU...

1. Did you date someone from your school? Yes

2. Did you marry someone from your high school? Nope

3. Did you car pool to school? Yes

4. What kind of car did you have? 1996 Honda Accord

5. What kind of car do you have now? '96 Accord and 2007 Accord

6. Its Saturday night...where are you now? At Davis Hospital working...definitly wishing I was home hanging out with my husband and son!

7. It is Saturday night...where were you then? Senior year?...hanging out with Melisa Hardison, Ashly MacFarlane, and Katie Arnold, and probably haning with some kind of guys!

8. What kind of job did you have in high school? Only worked in the summers, once at Surf-N-Swim and Maddox Chicken! :)

9. What kind of job do you do now? Registered Nurse...full-time mom and full-time wife

10. Were you a party animal? Not really

11. Were you considered a flirt? No, that came later in college! :)

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Nope

13. Were you a nerd? I don't think so...but I'm sure some people thought I was "nerdish"

14. Did you get suspended or expelled? No

15. Can you sing the fight song? Yes, and I can do the cheer with it...yes, I was a cheerleader in high school.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? Miss Larsen (English)

17. Where did you sit during lunch? The lunch room sometimes, but usually we left the school for lunch

18. What was your school's full name? Layton High School

19. When did you graduate? 1998

20. What was your school mascot? Lancer

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? There was only one regret, my senior year I decided I didn't want to cheer (I had had enough drama for the last two years of cheerleading), so I thought I'd do something else. A bunch of my friends got into the senior class presidency, and they had told me to interview for the senior cabinent(they helped the presidency). Anyway, I didn't and I really regret that, because I know I would have had LOTS of fun doing that. Oh well!

22. Did you have fun at Prom? Nope!

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? Nope

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? Actually my 10 year reunion was this last summer and I didn't want to go. It's not that I don't enjoy running into people I went to school with, I just am really passed that stage in my life. Maybe I'll go to my 25 year reunion? Who knows!

25. Do you still talk to people from school? Yes.

26. School Colors? Navy blue and White

Now I tag: Tatiana, Melinda, Erin, Malia, Trisha, Denise, Mekell, Sarah and whoever would like to take this! It's kind of fun!

Farewell bottle!

So, Josh is so close now to being a year old and I couldn't be more thrilled, except for one thing! Getting rid of the BOTTLE! Josh has been drinking from a sippy cup since he was about 7 months old, but the only thing he has drank from it is water. I am now trying to get him to drink REAL milk from the sippy cup and it's not going over so well.
Any of you experience mom's out there, please, I'm asking for some suggestions! I would surely appreciate it!
I'm definitly ready for Josh to be done with the bottle, but I just need Josh to be done with it as well! Wish me luck! :)

I just love this picture of Josh, I took it the other night and I love it! I love all of his teeth sticking out for all to see!

By the way, he doesn't have red hair...just kind of looks that way! :)

My "Christmas" present!

For about 2 years I have been wanting a new entertainment center. I have looked EVERYWHERE! I also have been waiting for something that would be affordable, but everything has been VERY pricey! Anyway about a month ago I found this entertainment center on KSL.com for a very good deal. It is in wonderful condition, it's real wood (its a Broyhill piece), and they even delivered it! Now for the best part, we got it for $175(they wanted over $250 for it). Anyway, I love it, and I am way excited to decorate the top of it. In the pics I have just thrown a few things on it, not the actual decorations! If anyone has any suggestions let me know!

Lastly, I am most excited now Josh can't play with the cords on the tv and push all of the buttons on the DVD player and the receiver! I love it!

Bug- tagged by Tatiana

I am supposed to come up with 10 things that bug me and then tag 10 people. Here it goes...


1. CELL PHONES! Ok cell phones in general doesn't bother me, but people that talk on them while TRYING to drive bugs the heck out of me. Also, when I used to work at the bank I couldn't believe how people could completly ignore the person that was trying to help them because they were to busy talking on their cell phone. When I tell people that I don't own a cell phone people's jaws literally drop, and they all ask "well what do you do without a cell phone?" Usually I laugh and say, "I use telephones." Anyway, I hope no one get's offended by this, I definitly don't mean to offend, but I honestly get way bugged by this.

2. Bad drivers on the road. People that don't use blinkers, people that pull out in front of me and then go about 5 mph. Anyway, bad drivers in general bug me!

3. Flipping through television stations at a fast pace, without being able to actually see what's on!

4. Children who don't have any respect for adults or manners. I don't know what has happened but I swear a lot of kids these days are spoiled rotten brats who don't listen to adults and have absolutely no manners. (I sure hope I NEVER acted that way, because if I did, my butt would have been black and blue!)

5. Junk email. I get at least 10 emails per day that just bug me!

6. People that think that they are so much better than everyone else. "Holier than thou" attitudes. I met a lot of these kind throughout high school-college and I still meet them even at this age. It just bothers me to think that some people think that they are so perfect, when in reality they are being worse by looking down on others.

7. People that have an opinion about EVERYTHING! It's not that they just have opinions, but they think that their opinion is always right and are totally closed-minded to everyone else's opinions! That really bothers me!

8. Pessimistict (sp?) attitudes. You know, the-glass-is-half-empty kind of attitudes. Come on people, look for the silver-lining in every situation!

9. Lazy/needy patients. Ok you might have to be a nurse or CNA to REALLY understand this one and how TRULY irritating this one is. This last weekend was the worst for this one. I had 6 patients and I swear they were all so FREAKING whiny and lazy! Long story short, it's good to get out of bed once in a while, you can get up and turn the tv on yourself!

10. Call lights! If anyone else is a nurse, you will understand why call lights can bug you so very bad! Especially when people complain about that "you don't answer my call light fast enough". Well, if they didn't push that button EVERY OTHER MINUTE than maybe I would come faster because then I would think it's actually important! Argggggggggg! I understand the patient needs a call light, but they still bug the crap out of me! Oh, and whoever invented the call light...I don't like them!

Anyway, that felt kind of good to "vent"! I promise I don't get bugged by too many things. Anyway, I tag Mekell, Trisha, Malia, Melinda, Denise, Sarah, Erin, Melisa, Stacy

Josh's new talents!

Josh has decided that he can walk...I kid you not, about a two weeks ago he started taking a few steps here and there and now he walks EVERYWHERE! He honestly has great balance. He must get that from my side! (Dave knows he doesn't have very good balance...that's why he ran track! He had lots of speed, not a lot of coordination and balance! :) )

Anyway, he has been pulling himself to stand for a month and a half, he is talking so much...well, if you consider Ba-ba, Da-da, Ma-ma, Na-na, and Ga-ga talking!

Everyday Josh gets cuter and cuter, and his personality is coming out more and more every day. He is honestly so much fun to play with. I am enjoying this time with him so much. It's really fun to see what new things he'll do everyday and what new foods he'll eat! He isn't a picky eater, but if he could eat just goldfish crackers I think that he would! :)

Also, we went to his 9 month check up (even though is now 10 1/2 months old), and here are his most recent statistics: 24lbs, 29 1/2 inches tall, and 18 1/2 cm circumfrence of his head. I now call him my lollipop! (Large head and small body!) This check up was so nice, no shots! :) His 12month check up will be different though, lots of changes and lots of shots. yuck! I can't wait for him to be in a front-facing car seat, drinking regular milk, and no more bottles to clean! Can't wait!

P.S. Notice the cup in his hand? Well, today he decided that that cup is his new best friend! He carried it EVERYWHERE! It was really funny. Who needs to buy toys for kids? Just pull out random things and they'll love it! What a funny boy!