I Loved This!

It's so true. I would choose the escalator every time when faced with stairs. But maybe if it was a piano, I would spend a couple hours on it going up and down just for fun.

Sigh...Tags?

I have been tagged by other bloggers to do this several times and I've always ignored it. But now that I am completely alone, I guess I will. (Greg took all three boys grocery shopping!! Is he great, or what?!) This tag is called "all 4s." Pretty self explanatory.

4 shows I like to watch...

1. The Office
2. Clean House ( I LOVE sassy, black girl Niecy Nash)
3. The Berenstain Bears on PBS with my kids. Really, I do.
4. Modern Marvels on the History Channel.

4 things I am passionate about...

1. My children.
2. My husband.
3. Maintaining my personal happiness and looking for ways to grow.
4. my iPhone.

4 phrases I say a lot...

1. No, David!
2. Who has my keys?
3. I love you.
4. Get your shoes on and go to the bathroom.

4 of my favorite stuff...

1. Laughing Cow cheese triangles.
2. My summer flip flops.
3. My flowers in bloom.
4. A good work out.

4 things I have learned from the past...

1. Hindsight is 20/20.
2. Things always seem to work out.
3. If a child is throwing up during the night, let him finish and get it all out before you change sheets and pajamas.
4. Nail polish doesn't come out of carpet. EVER.

4 places I want to go...

1. Europe.
2. Hawaii.
3. Alaska.
4. Australia.

4 things I would like to learn to do...

1. Fly an airplane.
2. Learn a language beyond the 2 years of German I took in high school.
3. home decorating
4. garden (better)

4 things I did yesterday...

1. Went to church.
2. Cooked hamburgers and hot dogs on our grill.
3. Took a nap.
4. Went to bed at 7pm (I have been sick...that's why all the sleeping)

4 things I am looking forward to...

1. Summer!
2. Greg's student loans paid off.
3. The end of the binkie phase.
4. My anniversary in CA.

4 things I am not looking forward to...

1. Scouting with 3 boys. (Yes, I need an attitude adjustment)
2. Cleaning my garage.
3. Spring allergies.
4. potty training my youngest.

4 things I love about Winter...

1. Skiing
2. The associated Holidays.
3. Watching my kids play in the snow.
4. The beauty of the snow covered mountains a stone's throw away from me.

4 things I love about Summer...

1. Mowing the lawn.
2. Family vacations.
3. Having an air conditioned house.
4. Swimming

4 things that bug me...

1. When I wake up an hour before the alarm goes off and can't go back to sleep.
2. Most reality TV shows.
3. When a movie or book ends unhappily. It just irritates me for days.
4. Cleaning up after boys in the bathroom. Aiming for cheerios doesn't work at our house.

4 things on my wish list...

1. furniture for our basement.
2. a new car for Greg.
3. some M&Ms
4. a Kindle

4 things on my to-do list

1. de-weed the garden, then lay sod
2. paint the boys' bedrooms
3. fold all the laundry
4. organize my office

4 of my favorite foods

1. avocados
2. raspberries
3. popcorn
4. Italian food.

4 things I do when bored

1. play marioKart on the Wii
2. re-read a favorite book
3. play the piano
4. vacuum. (I love to vacuum)

So if you made it all through that and care to join the madness, tag you're it!

Spring Break 2K10

Greg asked for (and was denied) the week of our spring break off from work. So we did the next best thing and just made a quick trip over the weekend to St. George, Utah. Just so our kids got some sort of trip for their spring break instead of staying home and complaining. Which they had been doing the whole week before the trip.
We checked into our hotel Friday night and had much fun jumping on beds, checking out the mini fridge, pulling lamps off the table, calling the front desk accidentally a few times, enjoying the lovely view, then finally going to bed.
The next morning we got up and loaded into the car and drove the 45 minutes or so to Zion National Park. I had been there before with my family when I was younger and remember it being super hot and just a long, winding drive. That's probably what our kids thought on this trip (except the hot). But it's a stunning drive and we snapped many pictures. There was a mile long tunnel that goes through the mountain which the kids thought was the best part of the drive. We stopped a few times to get out and hike around a bit. We found a nice trail that was marked to be 10 miles long but we probably only went a half mile before we turned around. After we'd had our fill, we drove back to St. George and spent a couple hours in the hotel pool.
Sunday morning we got up and went to church at the meeting house across the street from the temple. My grandparents used to live in a town house across the street from the temple and this was their church house, though I don't remember the ward. We just went to the 11:00 ward there and sat quietly in the back. After church we wandered around the temple grounds for awhile, then went to the cemetery where my grandparents are buried. We left for home and made it safe and sound. All in all, a nice, quick family trip.




David's foot after the pool.




We passed an ostrich farm (or something) on the way to Zions. So we pulled over for a closer look.