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Eight favorite TV shows

This is hard because I don't watch a lot of TV shows regularly.

1. American Idol (laugh if you will, but this is one that I do watch regularly when it is on)

The next four are just shows I watch if I happen to catch them.

2. Anything on HGTV

3. Law & Order (any of them)

4. The Office

5. Deal or No Deal

6. Super Nanny

The rest are Disney shows I watch with Jonathan that I actually kind of like.

7. Hannah Montana

8. Suite Life

Eight favorite Restaurants

1. Olive Garden

2. Applebees

3. Wingers

4. Chili's

5. Cobble Stone

6. BYU Creamery (I'm gonna steal this from Rachel's list because, even though I've only been there for ice cream, it is so yummy.)

7. Costco Snack Bar

8. Panda Express (I add this only because it is one of Russ and Jonathan's favorites. I don't really like it myself.)

Eight things I did yesterday

1. Woke Jonathan, made his lunch and took him to school.

2. Went to the Texaco for my diet coke fix.

3. Volunteered at the book fair

4. Spent money at the book fair

5. tidied the LR and kitchen a little

6. Got Jonathan dinner and went to get cash to pay babysitter.

7. Went to the Adoptive Parent Training dinner.

8. Went to bed semi-early so I could get up early for the Adoptive Parent Training today. (BIG thanks to Rachel and her family for watching Jonathan today. Our regular babysitters went to the *gasp* Utes game in Wyoming.)

Eight things I love about fall

1. The colors

2. The clothes. I LOVE fall and winter clothes. It's one of the few redeeming qualities of cold weather.

3. The cooler weather, but not cold weather. I like a gradual shift.

4. No lawn mowing! Gotta love that!

5. School. I love helping at Jonathan's school.

6. Halloween

7. Looking forward to the holidays

8. Corn maze, haunted houses, craft boutiques, etc.

Eight things I look forward to

1. Going to Oregon for Thanksgiving. We haven't been there since Jonathan was almost 2.

2. Christmas in Tucson. (I'm dreaming of a brown Christmas;))

3. Adopting a baby (I'm trying hard not to get my hopes up on this. I know it could take a while.)

4. Jonathan's birthday in February. This is bittersweet because my baby is growing up so fast.

5. Work. I really do enjoy my job. Who wouldn't love playing with babies and getting paid for it? Well, I guess some people wouldn't.

6. Christmas shopping. I always look forward to shopping.

7. Spring and no more snow. I know it hasn't even started snowing yet, but I hate hate hate the cold so I'm already looking forward to spring.

8. Russell's week off. We always look forward to this.

Eight things on my wish list

1. A baby

2. Either a house with bigger bedrooms or the basement finished (I stole this from Rachel too, but it is so true. They designed the bedrooms in these houses for elves.)

3. A Digital SLR camera. So not going to happen. That's why it's a wish list.

4. Mini Van

5. New kitchen cabinets and countertop

6. New carpet

7. A good economy

8. A laptop

Eight people I tag:

1. Brook

2. Suzette

3. Sarah Anne

4. Sarah Jayne

5. Kelly M.

6. April

7. Amy

8. Cindy

9. Heather

Parent Teacher Conference

Parent Teacher Conference was tonight and I thought I'd share some of Jonathan's work that she had on display. His teacher had a basket filled with folders that had the kids' work in them for parents to see. There were also some things hung up outside the classroom.

What are you going to be for Halloween? In case you can't see it at the bottom, it says Luigi.
The top color of the rainbow is his favorite color. He also seems to think his hair is orange and I don't know what favorite food is yellow. Maybe macaroni?

All by myself I can dance. But I need a friend to play the Wii.

Stats. Where it says "How many people in your family?" I think he is counting the dogs.

This is what he thinks Russ does while he's at school. In case you can't see it, he thinks Russ flies a Rocket Ship.

And this last one is a picture of my favorite time of the day. Picking Jonathan up from school. I love watching him run out of the school with his friends. They are just so cute and a little too grown up.

Flashback: Thanksgiving 2006

Rachel tagged me. What you're supposed to do is go go your fourth picture folder and post the fourth picture and tell us about it. My pictures are not organized in a very logical order so this is Thanksgiving 2006. It was also Russell's birthday. The people in it are My cousin Christina, my cousin Ben, Russ and Jonathan. I'm not sure who is cut off on the left side. Since I'm posting about Thanksgiving 2006, I'll also show you a picture of Russell's birthday cake. Oops. He might not be thrilled that I'm telling you all how old he is.
Now I tag everyone who reads this.

My new best friend

I made myself a new friend tonight. A little background first, in the ongoing saga of my arm. I went to see the Physical Therapist yesterday and she tortured I mean massaged my arm and electrocuted it with some machine. Once I was ready to just cut the arm off, she sent me home and told me to ice it. Seriously, I know there is a good reason for what she did and it is supposed to help in the long run, but it hurt.

Fast forward to today... I was in a crafty mood and decided to make myself something cute to ice my arm, instead of the bag of peas I have been using. So I went to Wally World (I know. We hate them, but we can't live without them.) and bought some fabric remnants and rice. Then I sewed (yes I sewed) myself a bag of rice. Now, as you can see in the picture, I am not a talented seamstress. I can't even sew a straight line and I broke 3 needles in the process, but it is functional. After only a few hours in the freezer I put it to the test and it felt so good on my poor tortured arm.

Fired

A month or so ago when I had just found out I was being released from Primary, I tried to prepare Jonathan for my absence. I explained that I wouldn't be playing the piano in Primary anymore because they were giving someone else a turn. His response: "Did you get fired?"

So glad he has confidence in his mother.

About that tree stump...

So, I finally got around to asking my neighbor why they cut down their tree. (Remember? The stump Jonathan tried to fly over?) Turns out that after a particularly bad thunderstorm the tree ended up split and it appeared that the tree may have been hit by lightning. Jonathan's school was recently hit by lightning (over the weekend, fortunately) so it is totally possible that this tree was also. Crazy!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I saw this on the Today show this morning. There is a doctor partnering with Avon to form a group of women without cancer who are willing to participate in Breast Cancer research. I think they are trying to get over a million women to sign up. Here's the link if you want to know more.

http://www.armyofwomen.org/