Tagged?!

So I guess I've been tagged? Fun! And here's hoping Jessica meant me...not another Jill. Then I'd feel like a huge dork! :)

8 TV shows I love to watch...
1. The Office
2. Life
3. The Office
4. Life
5. The Office
6. Life
7. The Office
8. Life
I think I must be boring! Love, love, love these two shows! There are some I think I'd enjoy watching but either scheduling or my memory gets in the way!

8 favorite restaurants...(boy, Baker leaves much to be desired by way of restaurants. I think 8 might list them all!)
1. Subway
2. Burger Bob's...formerly known as Happy Burger
3. Golden Crown Chinese
4. The Chameleon Cafe
5. Arceo's Mexican or El Erradero Mexican (owned by the same people, different locations)
6. Geyser Grand Hotel restaurant
7. Charlie's Ice Cream Parlor :)
8. Inland Cafe (awesome burger!)
Not in any order...if it were, Charlie's would be #1 :)

8 Things that happened today...
1. Got my floors vacuumed and mopped today...hooray!
2. picked up Alex from school
3. changed some diapers, made some lunches, did some dishes, washed some laundry, etc...
4. took Alex to basketball practice (he made 2 baskets!)
5. went to the bead store...love that place!
6. checked out any new, juicy Twilight news
7. bought 3 candy bars from Shannon for a music fundraiser...which Mitchell got a hold of and enjoyed so much! Sneaky boy!
8. Mitchell wore his yogurt bowl as a hat...swiftly followed by a bath

8 things on my wish list...Only 8?!
1. a vacation with my husband with NO STRESS! Is there such a thing? And I mean a real vacation...away. And complete confidence and assurance that my kids will be fine/safe/healthy/happy while we're away.
2. a vacation with my sister to San Francisco...totally dreamy! (which would include a James Blunt concert)
3. to go to Germany when my sister has her baby, to enjoy her and help with kids and home stuff so she can relax and love on her new baby with no worries
4. visit my parents in California
5. unlimited funds so that I could afford to do these things!
6. no sickness...EVER
7. anything that has to do with Twilight or Stephenie Meyer (I think I might be pathetic...but I love it!)
8. a cook to get groceries for us and make our meals...I HATE trying to figure out what to make!

8 people I tag...how about 2...I don't know others besides Jessica (who tagged me) and Elise & Lowell (and she tagged them!)
1. Lisa (you go girl!)
2. Sam

Okay, so I now found out two other friends with blogs and I'm tagging them, too!
3. Greg and Kacey (hope you don't mind, Karen gave me your blog...CUTE!)
4. Brandy

Geekster...

Well, since it is my blog...does that mean I get a second to rant or ramble or whatever? :)

So, I guess I consider myself a bit of a geekster. I do goofy things and I'm quite naive and gullible but I just look at that as being someone of innocence, right?! (My brother-in-law would get a chuckle out of that because he's always trying to get me to turn red, blush, or whatever.)

I'm really not sure what my husband thinks about my being a geekster...I get crazy looks from him once in a while but he must've seen something in me in the first place to want to marry me, right?! I just hope I don't scare him...too late. He's scared.

My sister, on the other hand, is just as big of a geekster as me and it's fantastic! God knew we needed each other, truly. We've often teased that we should be married just because we 'get' eachother like no one else does...and when we crack some weird comment, we can cackle our witches laughs together while on-lookers stare blankly, not sure what to make of us. We have a dream of being neighbors someday...but I'd even settle for living within the same continent! It's been over a year since I've seen her and believe me, I need to see her face turn as red as mine when we do our wicked cackle!

I'm a bit prone to anxiety which is such a royal pain! And I think I'm realizing it's harder to deal with in the winter, when the sun is harder to come by. I'm afraid to think that it's something I'll always be trying to master. Sigh. However, I do have a testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ and I guess this is just one of the 'dragons' I have to learn to slay while I'm here. Having that understanding, I realize, has everything to do with who I am, who I can become and of course, the incredible blessing my life is.

I love my boys so much it's almost painful. So pickin' cute...such pains in my rear! :) (It's a good thing I love them, or....) I pray that I can be the best mom I'm capable, in spite of the human inadequacies God's given me, and that I can live worthy enough to receive His guidance and direction to help me know how to be. We live in such uncertain times.... I'm thankful I have Ken who has his 'ducks in a row' to trudge through the uncertainty with me at his side. God knew I needed that too!

Testing...?

Well...I feel like a fish out of water.
Blogging seems to be all the rage these days and I had been toying with the idea the last couple of weeks but didn't really feel brave enough (I still don't). But the last straw to my questioning whether to go for it or not was a 'Thank You' card I got in the mail from my cousin who got married a couple months ago. She closed the card with her signature and a "PS-Do you have a blog?"
At that moment I thought, 'maybe this is why I should do this...so family I haven't seen in forever can still see what's up with me and mine'...only if they want to, of course. :) I didn't get to go to her wedding and the last time I saw her was before she went on a mission for our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So, maybe this will seal a gap of lost time with loved one's quite a distance from me and me from them...
So...here's to a new beginning. Man, I hope I can keep up with this adventure!