Dear Emily...(Roda)

You are amazing!

A wonderful best friend,

A wonderful girlfriend,

A amazing teacher,

and most importantly,

The best daughter your mom could have asked for.

You did more for her than most do in an entire lifetime.

I am confident saying she is eternally grateful for you.

Just wanted to let you know.

Love,

Em (Mary)

That took forever!

A really long TAG.....
Welcome to the 2009 edition of getting to know your friends. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends that you might not have known!
1. What time did you get up this morning? Which time? 5:45, 6:30, and then 7:15
2. Diamonds or pearls? Big Diamonds Please
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Marley and Me
4. What is your favorite TV show?Biggest Loser, Big love
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Fruit or bagels.
6. What is your middle name? Ann
7. What food do you dislike? fish
8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? I listen to my ipod or itunes.
9. What kind of car do you drive? 2000 Escalade
10. Favorite sandwich? sub sandwiches, any of them!
11. What characteristics do you despise? lying and people who are fake.
12. Favorite item of clothing? Comfy flip flops
13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Going to Mexico for my next birthday!!!
14. Favorite brand of clothing? Don't really have a favorite.
15. Where would you like to retire? Somewhere warm and tropical.
16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? 23, I got Mikey as a present, who could ask for a better present?
17. Favorite sport to watch? football.....
18. Farthest place you are sending this? Who knows
19. Person you expect to send it back first? All my friends did it first, so maybe Traci
20. When is your birthday? August 13, 1982
21. Are you a morning person or a night person? definitely a night person
22. What is your shoe size? 7
23. Pets? 1 big ugly fish
24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? If I tell you, then I have to kill you!
25. What did you want to be when you were little? A nurse
26. How are you today?Sleepy
27. What is your favorite flower? Stargazer lilies
28. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Feb 5th. Wedding anniversy
29. What is your favorite pastime? Playing with my kids
30. What are you listening to right now? Radio
31. What was the last thing you ate?? Cinnamon Raisin Bagel, yum
32. Do you wish on stars? sure do
33. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? purple
34. How is the weather right now? Sunny but cold
35. The first person you spoke to on the phone today? Mike
36. Favorite soft drink? H2O
37. Favorite Food at a Restaurant? depends on where I am, but good ol' american food is always a winner.
38. Real hair color? Dirty Blonde
39. What was your favorite toy as a child? my little ponies
40. Summer or winter? Summer....fo sho
41. Hugs or kisses? kisses
42. Chocolate or Vanilla? chocolate
43. Coffee or tea? tea
44. Do you want your friends to email you back? Of course!
45. When was the last time you cried? last week I was sick, and everything on t.v. was so sad! I am a huge baby when I am sick!
46. What is under your bed? forgetten toys and shoes
47. What did you do last night? made dinner, went to the store, gave garrett a bath, cuddled, went to bed.
48. What are you afraid of? losing my kids
49. Salty or sweet? sweet
50. How many keys on your key ring? To many
51. How many years at your current job? Almost a year
52. Favorite day of the week? Saturday...mornings.
53. How many towns have you lived in? 3
54. Do you make friends easily? no, I only have few GREAT ones and I like it that way.
55. How many people will you send this to? whoever would like to read it I guess
56. How many will respond? Not sure.

Christams...

So seeing how christmas was almost a month ago, I figure that I could pull it together and post our christmas stuff. This was the first year that Mikey was really excited. Garrett a little, but Mikey asked everyday when santa was going to come. It was a awesome day. We woke up to this.

I can't remember the last time I woke up to a white christmas. Fresh snow!

I felt like a kid a again.

Then on to opening presents. Mikey woke up early and we made him wait until Garrett woke up. Garrett is the kid who sleeps until 10 a.m. Mikey was going crazy, so we decided to wake up Garrett and let the gift exchange begin. As you can see, Garrett didn't care much at first.

Mikey got a coloring table, equipped with like 7,000 colors.

They got matching everything. I didn't even chance the fight, just bought two of everything.

If you ask me, the best gift was the Incredible Hulk fighting gloves. They are so FUN!

Don't let the size of the gloves compared to the size of his body fool you. He can hold his own and have a good time. Bye the way, don't mess with him, he's tough.

7 things tag....

7 Things I can DO:
~make others laugh
~be a great friend
~make my kids smile
~deal with other people's sick kids all day
~cook a mean meal
~listen with an open mind

7 Things I have a hard time doing:
~taking time for me
~Letting go of a grudge.
~Not taking things personally.
~Staying away from junk food
~Calling my friends
~Driving the speed limit.
~being patient with people who are ignorant.

7 Things that attract me to Mike:
~He smiles with his heart.
~He's a GREAT dad. ( mikey says his dad is his best friend :) )
~He gives great hugs
~He smells good
~He makes me laugh
~He pays attention

7 Things I say often:
~ Did you have very very good baby sleeps and very very good baby dreams?
~I hope you feel better.
~I love you the mostest
~Stop hitting your brother
~Don't stand on that, you'll fall and get hurt.
~When are you going to be home?
~Dr. Wadia?

7 Admirations:
~ Emily's Mom
~Grandmothers
~Parents of kids with disabilities
~Em
~Valerine
~My dad
~My boys


7 Favorite foods:
~Pizza
~broccoli
~Rum
~Artichokes
~Any sub sandwhich
~Shaken Black Ice Tea Lemonade
~Rocky Road ice cream

Tag

ABC Tag
A- Attached or Single: Attached
B- Best Friend: Em and Krysta
C- Cake or Pie: Pie
D- Day of Choice: Saturday
E- Essential Item: Lip Gloss
F-Favorite Color: Purple
G- Gummy Bears or Worms: Gummy Worms
H- Hometown: Fallon, NV
I- Favorite Indulgence: Shopping!
J-January or July: July, I LOVE the summer
K- Kids: 2 Boys Mikey and Garrett
L- Life isn't complete without: My WONDERFUL friends, family, and husband.
M-Marriage date: 02/05/2005
N- Number of Brothers and Sisters: 1 Sister
O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges...sweet and juicey
P- Phobias and Fears: Losing more loved ones, weird sounds in the night, something bad happening to my kids.
Q-Quirk: Video games on the computer.
R- Reason to smile: Mikey opening the bathroom door to tell me to stop that noise(blowdryer) so he can sleep.
S- Season of Choice: Summer
T- Tag 4 people: Em, Jen, Hayley Traci
U- Unknown Fact about me: I am a ninja! haha
V-Vegetable: artichokes, trees( as mikey calls them), greenbeans
W- Worst Habit: Procrastinating
X- X-ray or Ultra Sound: Ultrasounds
Y-Yogurt or Yo-Yo: Yougart, I am not talented enough for the yo-yo
Z- Zodiac Sign: Leo

Tag

Only use one word. Tag 5 of your favorite bloggers to do the same!
1. Today I am feeling motivated.
2. My favorite person is working.
3. One thing I did today was excercised.
4. Today my hair is blonde.
5. My friends are always fantastic.
6. People who bug me are liars.
7. Blogging makes me feel informational.
8. Instead of blogging I should be working.
9. My kids are precious.
10. My job is awesome.
11. I love my family because it's/he/she is adorable.
12. One person who makes me laugh really hard is: Mikey
13. One person who i tell everything to is: nunya
14. My weakness is: food! haha
15. My favorite gameshow is: Supermarket Sweep
16. No one knows I'm really good at: everything!
17. One thing I have not experienced but want to is: ???
18. My favorite subject in school was: Science
19. I have a secret crush on: Bob
20. My favorite word is: bufanda
21. My favorite thing to wear is: grey
22. One word to describe myself is: superstar!
23. One thing I miss is: Em
24. My favorite nick-name is: mama
25. A pet peeve of mine is: I can't explain all of them in one word!

Long time, no blog!

I bragged all of Thanksgiving about how I have been so good

about keeping up my blog at least once a week

and then no blogs from me in forever!

What can I say, I am a slacker.

So here it goes.

Thanksgiving was AWESOME!!!

Lots of food, family, friends, shopping, friends, and more food.

Mikey learned how to play baseball.

And then came the christmas tree. This year Mikey was all

about helping decorate it. Mike always puts the

lights on, then I put on the decorations.

We have a traditon, every year the boys pick out an ornament of their choice. They get to put it on the tree, and every year we have 3 new ornaments. One for each kid, and a 49er one the hubby.

He is a giant niner fan, anyone who has watched them play in the last 10 years knows how painful this condition is. Yet we still have a dedication wall.

This year Mikey and Garret both picked a Lightening McQueen ornament, big suprise there.

Mikey just wanted to put up all the ornaments all by himself.
Here he is tellimg me he doesn't need help.

After it was all said and done, I found some non decorations in our tree.

After we got everything on the tree, we turned off all the lights, Mikey looks up at me, smiles, and says "Mom, it's so beautiful"

I hope everyone noticed the dedication wall behind the tree, sometime I wish our tree was tall enough to cover up all that niner stuff. Oh well, maybe next year.