Est. 4 January 2008

It's a girl! My parents have added another child to their family with the marriage of Karen to Adam a week or so ago. They were married in Nauvoo on the Illinois tundra. Here's them before:
and after:

They look so happy and so in love, and I'm so happy for them. The two strangest things: seeing my brother with a wedding ring on his left hand (totally wiggin'!), and hearing Karen's married name for the first time. The coolest thing of the whole trip: Karen and Adam's first dance. It only took a few days for someone to slam it on YouTube. Check it out for yourself, and then be jealous that you didn't think of it first. I know I am.



Welcome, Karen! We're glad you're one of us now!

I'm it

The pictures are still on the camera from the wedding, the dishes are in the sink, I still haven't unpacked all the way, but I've been tagged by my friend Celeste, so now you get to hear me talk more about myself. I'm sure you're waiting with baited breath.

A. The Rules are posted at the beginning

B. Each player answers about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player tags 5 people, posts their names, and goes to their blogs letting them know they've been tagged.

5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago
1. Beginning my second semester at BYU
2. Starting to date Joel again after our first semester hiatus
3. Staying up until all hours doing things like eating Pizza Pipeline, playing army, and mud wrestling with my ward on DT field
4. Missing my family for the first (but not last) time
5. Alternating an 8am American Heritage lab with Angela - and trying to figure out how girls wore makeup and did their hair at 8am!

5 Things on My To-Do List Today
1. Walk the dog (done)
2. Read scriptures (does journal count?)
3. Go to work (done and done)
4. Lounge on the couch / eat dinner / puzzle (yes)
5. Go to bed before 11pm (hopefully)

5 Snacks I Enjoy
1. Celery and peanut butter
2. Warm cookies and cold milk (Otis Spunkmeyer chocolate chip are the best)
3. Chips and cheesy salsa dip
4. Kettle corn and M&Ms
5. Egg nog (or vanilla steamer) and ginger snaps

5 Things I'd Do If I Were a Billionaire
1. Rejoice exceedingly
2. Pay off debts of everyone who reads this blog
3. Buy houses - One on Sea Island (just to stick it to the man), One in San Diego, One in Maine, One in Kansas, and One in Colorado. For balance. And family.
4. Travel - London, Japan, India, Ireland, the Caribbean, the Grand Canyon, San Fransisco, Seattle, Austin, Toronto, Paris, Greece, Africa ... just to get started
5. Go to fashion week and get one of everything. Every fashion week.

3 Bad Habits
1. Finishing other people's sentences
2. Noticing everything
3. Needing to reorganize freshly organized things - just so that it's organized the way I want it

5 Jobs I've Had....
1. Carhop
2. Sno Cone girl
3. House cleaner (not a keeper - just a cleaner)
4. Dishwasher
5. Usher (not The Usher, like an usher at a Fine Arts Center)

5 Things People Probably Don't Know About Me
This is going to be hard. I'm sure at least one of you is going to already know at least one of these things. I'm so into sharing.
1. As an usher I closed a door during a performance that resulted in an actor cutting his head open on it, going to the hospital, and a stand-in having to read from the script for the rest of the performance. Then dealing with the whole department saying, "I just don't know how that door got closed."
2. I don't like raw fish
3. I do like seaweed
4. I have a specific routine for picking out clothes in the morning so as to make decisions as quickly as possible.
5. I have a hard time making decisions

The people I choose are Tawny, Nora, Ashley, Karen, and Shawn. These are people I'd like to learn more about. I either don't know you very well, or I haven't heard from you in a while. Ready ... GO!