I was trolling through my spam emails the other day when I came across one about my kid being the winner in child modeling contest. I've never entered my kids in a contest? My eyes nearly fell out of my head when I scrolled down and saw her…..
If this looks familiar, it is because I was tagged on facebook but if you refer to #4 ,I thought that this would be a better place to post. So this post ends up being random things and a flash back Friday, all at the same time. I am really trying to step up my blogging this year. Seven post for all of 2008 is just shameful.
1.I pay full price for next to nothing, especially clothing and love to hunt for a good bargain. I also search for a coupon for everything and I love to search craigslist for great deals. Reuse, renew, recycle
2. My husband is my polar opposites, and that is a very good thing. He brings out the adventurous side of me.
3. I worry about every thing and have always been quite anxiety ridden.
4.I can be extremely private.
5. For my 13th birthday, my mom took me out and said I could buy what ever I liked. I bought a 100 dollars worth of books. So boring, but I was in heaven. 
6. I don’t function well in large groups, but Adam's large family has helped me cope with this issue.
7. I will make a complete fool of myself, to hear my kids laugh.
8. I hate change, ex: I carried the same backpack from 8th grade until I graduated because no other backpack felt just right.
9. I can be very possessive, but not in the single white female kind of way. In a loyal, if you mess with them, you mess with me kind of way.
10. I love music so much so that in second grade instead of buying toys, I would take my allowance to Tower Record and buy 99cent cassette singles.
11. I love to travel and want to backpack around Europe one day.
12. I hate being the center of attention .
13. I have always wanted to adopt a child.
14. I dream of living abroad again with my children one day
15. I seek out information about the things that frighten me.
16. I wanted to be nothing but a doctor (a medical examiner to be exact) until the age of 24. While going to school and working as a lab tech at the U of U medical school, I realized that if my dream came true, I would not be able to raise a family in the manner that I felt was right. I mourned the lost of my life long dream until I had Rylee, and have not second guessed my decision since.
17. The closest person I have ever had die is my college roommate Jessa. She was from Apple Valley, Minnesota and the sweetest person I have ever known. It still makes me water up to think that I can’t write her an email or call her up.
18. Growing up I always felt so very tall and awkward (I am 5’7), until I left home and realized that I just grew up with a lot of very short boys.
19. In ten years, I can count the number of times on one hand, in which I have driven while Adam has been in the car.
20. After dating for four months Adam handed me his checkbook and I have paid the bills ever since.
21. Until the age of 12, I had a near perfect photographic memory. I would memorize stories out of the Friend, and give them as talks in primary, word for word. It would freak everyone out.
22. As each year passes, I become a worst speller.
23. I am and always have been a night owl.
24. I hate wearing the same outfit more than a couple of times.
25. I never thought I would be a stay at home mom, but being home is more rewarding and harder then I could have ever imagined.
I have always loved cupcakes. I loved birthday and class parties in grade school, just for the hope of getting my hands on a cupcake. I loved the different flavors, and the single serving size. I enjoyed getting to experience the different textures of the frosting, the decorations and sprinkles. I loved how they would coordinate with the given holiday, and if I was lucky…there would be an inedible decoration to keep as a souvenir.
So when I was pregnant with Rylee, my good friend Dionne, the only other person I have ever met that loves cupcakes as much me, said there is this amazing cupcake shop in Wallingford that we had to go to. While Wallingford is a distance, I was up for the adventure. Nearly four years, and countless cupcakes later, I am here to RAVE about Trophy Cupcakes and party store. If you come to Seattle for a visit, are taking your kids to the Woodland Park Zoo, or just need to go for a drive, you must stop by. Their flavors vary by the day, but there is always something baked for everyone’s taste. The retro decorating and party favors are so fun and the house hot chocolate is unlike anything I have ever tasted and ask for a homeade marshmallow to go with it. You will not be disappointed!! Here is a link to their site, www.trophycupcakes.com, but be prepared to drool!!
For the last week, Rylee has been attending a new preschool. Due to her speech delay, she was eligible for an intensive program through our school district that helps her get up to speed. The process of getting her enrolled was crazy long and so tedious you would have thought she was trying to get into college. Needless to say, once she was accepted, they told me that she would be picked up and dropped of everyday! At first, that was music to my ears. No having to drive back and forth, no loading and unloading of two, sometimes three kids, I only have to run errands with one. Yippee!!! And then I began to think, this is where I go wrong most of the time, she is only three! She is my baby. Wonder if they lose her? Is she going to have a meltdown? 
Well needless to say, Lauren and I were the only ones that had meltdowns. When the bus showed up Rylee walked on, sat down and waved us goodbye. Only tears shed where the ones by Lauren as we headed back into the house. When school was over, back to end of the driveway we waited, and I think the pictures speak for themselves.
She has her sister back and all is right in her world again.
She loves the bus and it is the main topic of every
get into sooooo much trouble?
The reason we don't climb into the kitchen sink....
is because mom has to use all those wicked 
How can someone with such short legs, climb so well, 
Of course this is Adam's laptop that was in my care at the
This work of art was done in permanent marker , and is
