Wish us luck

Hunter and Lexi go in tomorrow to have their adenoids and tonsils removed. Hunter goes in first and then Lexi next. Sometimes after having these removed, people sound a lot different. I'm anxious to hear what my kids will sound like because they have always sounded real stuffed up.

It's a hashbrown miracle!

I love breakfast and what's even better is when you can make it for dinner. Now I will admit that hash browns are up there on the top of my list, but I am horrible at making them. I have tried and asked how others do it. Courtney makes this wonderful fruitada (sp?), but because of my lack of hash brown making skills I've only it made it once :) A couple of weeks ago I was in the grocery store buying some frozen french fries (hunter got to choose what was for dinner) and low and behold I see these hash brown patties that look quite similar to the kind that McDonald's serve for breakfast. I thought why not give those a try. They are so good! Never again will I sit scraping the burnt hash browns off my frying pan for hours. Hash brown patties are the only way to go :)

ok so I've run out of material :)

Here's another tag that I copied...enjoy

Who was your FIRST pet?
My first pet was a dog named Taffy, she was a collie

Do you still talk to your FIRST love(crush)?
No, Haven't seen or talked to him since I ran into him my freshman year of college

What was your FIRST job?
ok so I am a Lynden girl born and raised so of course I picked strawberries at the age of 2 while my mom punched tickets.

What was your FIRST car?
1984 convertible Pontiac Sunbird

Who was the first person to text/call you this morning?
My husband Wynden

Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
Mrs. Nyland

Where did you go on your FIRST airplane ride?
California

Who was your FIRST best friend and do you still talk?
My neighbor Becky Hendricks. We run into each other every once in a while.

Where was your FIRST sleepover?
I'm sure it was at Becky's house

Who was the FIRST person you talked to this morning?
Lexi

Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
My sister Heidi's when I was 11. I was a jr attendant.

What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
ironed Wynden's clothes

What was the FIRST concert you attended?
Well with the Lynden Fair I'm sure it was some old country singer, but the first one I went to out of Lynden was Michael W Smith

FIRST set of stitches and how?
When I was 22 I had a fat tumor removed on my shoulder.

FIRST piercing?
My ears I thinks I was 4

FIRST foreign country?
Do you count Canada when it borders on the town you live in? Otherwise Mexico

FIRST movie you remember?
Annie is the first that comes to mind even though I was a little older when I saw it

What was your FIRST bike?
A blue cloud banana seat nicknamed Speed because it was so fast

What was your FIRST computer?
My parents got a computer when I was in high school.

Who was your FIRST roommate?
Jenni (crazy crazy)

FIRST KISS?
Brent Van Dalen...A wedding set up by my sister who tricked me into kissing him and then told on me (he was a neighbor boy). I was about five years old.

I can't wait!

Four weeks from Friday and I will no longer be able to complain about being pregnant. Four weeks does sound like a long way away still, but I can say less than a month now. Life is pretty boring here lately, with the weather and cold season still upon us. I have been acting out the part of Cruella very well lately poor kids :) The kids are cute though most the time, It will be interesting to see how this fifth one fits into the family.

I did it....I finished the Harry Potter series. Not bad not bad at all. It was definitely a change from Twilight, but that is exactly what I needed. The seventh book was my all time favorite. I stayed up on Friday night until after 1:00 to finish it (thanks to the Dr. Pepper I drank at Mcdonalds). The fifth book was my least favorite of course I have heard lots of other people say that. Now I am going to watch the movies, so I will be all set for when the 6th one comes out. What's next on my reading agenda you might ask. I think I am going to take a break. I would love to in a perfect world of course to be up to date with all my scrapbooking, which actually would not take me too long, if I neglected my children for a while :) Also I guess I am nesting. I am always a cleaner, but I seem to have taken it to extremes lately. I have what I call perfect rooms. The definition of a perfect room is of course one that has no clutter and is clean all of the time. Right now I have four perfect rooms. The living room where most enter our home and three bathrooms. I would love for most of my house to be perfect rooms, but I know that would be hard with my little children, unless I locked them in a closet somewhere and I love them too much for that :) On Saturday I took what we called our toy room and transported all of the toys from that room to our bonus room. If I had been closer to my due date I am sure that this would have put me into labor. It took all day. I got rid of six garbage bags full of toys. Don't worry we still have enough toys for the whole town of Lynden. Anyway the old toy room is being made into a guest room and is very close to being finished which drum roll please will be another room that will be considered a "perfect room" This makes my whole day just thinking of it I'm sure yours as well.

Lydia's pregnancy tag

So Lydia did this tag on her blog by mistake, but I say why not.

8 favorite TV shows
1. American Idol
2. Biggest Loser
3. The Office
4. 48 hours Mystery
5. Wheel of Fortune
6. The Price is Right
7. Seinfeld
8.
My list unfortunately was hard because channel 4 and dish network still have not come to an agreement on their contract, also I am still reading Harry Potter :)

8 Things I did yesterday
1. Cleaned up the house
2. Took a nap
3. Took Hunter and Karlee to swimming lessons
4. went visiting teaching (aren't I a saint)
5. finished Harry Potter #6
6. started Harry Potter #7
7. made up a recipe for stuffed mushrooms and they were actually very good
8. spent time with my family

8 Things I look forward to
1. Not being pregnant
2. having a baby around
3. summer and doing things outside
4. future vacations
5. wearing normal clothes
6. eating out
7. killing the stray cat that wakes me up every night by crying
8. Macy's one day sales

8 Favorite restaurants
1. Red Robin
2. Olive Garden
3. The Nuthouse
4. Hong Kong
5. PF Changs
6. The Cheesecake Factory
7. The Black Forest (in B'ham next to Lowe's)
8. Outback
This was very easy for me because I love to eat out!!!!

8 Things I wish for
1. Happy Kids
2. Healthy Kids
3. Debt free
4. Happy Husband
5. A vacation every month
6. quick labor
7. To be a better person
8. a perfectly clean, organized house

6th picture in the 6th file

ok so thankfully I was tagged because blogging ideas are few and far between for me lately :)

The first picture is my actual 6th picture in my 6th file (it is Karlee in Hawaii when she got to go by herself with just Wynden and me. she was 10 months old), but why stop there. The next picture is the 6th picture in the 6th file for 2007 just moments after Hallie was born. In my 2008 files this is a picture of Hallie when she got to go with Wynden and me to Mexico by herself (she was 10 months old too). For 2009 I do not have 6 files yet so it is just the 6th picture in my 1st file of Lexi and a friend getting ready to cheer at a Lynden basketball game for mini cheer.