Love wearing Mommy's shoes

Adelyn loves putting on my shoes, these shoes were extra funny to me because they are so tall.

100 Things you may not know about me

This is a challenge given to a bunch of us girls in the neighborhood by our good friend Angie. It seems like everyone else has done it but me so I am going to give it a shot.

1. I love being a mom
2. I call myself a stay at home mom even though I do two jobs outside the home
3. One of my jobs I get to take my girls with me
4. I am happy when I have things going on everyday
5. I often feel guilty for being too busy
6. I also feel guilty for giving up nursing my two month old
7. My favorite color currently is purple
8. I like listening to other people's experiences
9. I have 5 nieces and 3 nephews
10. It is a great blessing to be an aunt
11. I (like Angie) am a recovering pack rat. I inherit this from my mother and have to fight the urge all the time.
12. My sister is my best friend and is always there when I need her
13. My family (both born into and married into) are my prized possessions
14. I think of my friends as an extension of my family
15. I love to shop for great deals (garage sales and clearance are my favorites)
16. I really want braces....someday when we have extra money (haha extra money?!)
17. My goal is to loose 20lbs to get to my pre preg weight
18. I am deathly afraid of spiders
19. I cannot play any sports very well, but I still like to play them
20. I love it when my two year old has a conversation with me
21. I am very unorganized
22. My favorite thing about holidays is the decor
23. I have a grandpa that lives in Germany and I have never had a conversation with him
24. I have only five cousins all from the same family
25. I have never been to a family reunion
26. The most disgusting thing to me is when people burp
27. I want to go on a mission for my church with my husband
28. I was in student government all three years of high school
29. I sucked my thumb until I was nine
30. I love to sleep with socks on in the winter and Derik hates it!
31. My favorite childhood cartoon was "Cities of Gold"
32. I love to read good books
33. Harry Potter is my current favorite read
34. I love food, all food :)
35. I took a weightlifting class in high school, and it was the first PE class I loved
36. I went to Germany when I was in third grade to visit my grandpa
37. I ran away from my husband for nine months before he convinced me to marry him!
38. He is the love of my life and I am grateful he was so patient
39. I think that pizza is good any time of day
40. I am scared of the dark
41. I am scared to go in the basement at night
42. I am always cold
43. I think that children only get more fun as they get older (so far)
44. I love twirly dresses
45. I have to go somewhere once everyday to feel like I have done something
46. I have the best neighbors I could ask for
47. I have five brothers and one sister, my oldest brother died as a baby
48. My favorite person to buy for is Adelyn (I love girl stuff)
49. My favorite animal is a horse
50. My parents owned a horse while I was growing up, we rode him every Saturday all summer
51. My husband is converting me into a Jazz basketball fan
52. I hated wearing dresses in elementary school and although I like dresses now I still don't like wearing high heels
53. I had a crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas in elementary school
54. Now my celeb crushes are Matt Damon and Will Smith
55. My favorite show to watch is Biggest Looser, it gets me motivated
56. I would like to be an RN someday
57. When my house is a mess I feel yucky
58. If I had a lot of money I would travel
59. I love to get my hair done
60. I love all games
61. I like having long fingernails, but long toenails disgust me
62. When my mom said that we were Mormons, I told her "no we're not we're Worle's". That was my maiden name and I was four at the time.
63. Ice cream of any kind makes me happy
64. Seeing a baby smile makes me happier than ice cream does :)
65. The first car drove was a Toyota Tercell, I was the fourth teenager to drive it
66. When I was a sophomore in high school I was in three car wrecks with other people driving
67. My dream car right now is a white suv with tinted windows and a DVD player.
68. Singing and dancing to the radio is my favorite activity with my two year old
69. This list has taken me weeks to finish
70. I love to walk in warm rain
71. I played with barbies until I was twelve
72. When I was pregnant with my first baby I craved hot dogs and McDonald's Double Chesse Burgers...I ate them at least one a week all nine months
73. I cannot watch scary movies, they give me nightmares
74. I love to dress up on Halloween.....and I love lots of candy too!
75. My favorite thing about Christmas is that it seems to last all month long
76. I have a hard time staying up past 11:00
77. The Hawaii temple is my favorite because it is so different on the outside
78. My favorite thing about my husband is he makes me laugh
79. I love to learn new things....I would like to take more college classes for fun when the kids get older
80. I am very scared to move away from my family
81. I love to bake sweets...but I love to eat them more
82. I wished it would only snow in December
83. I love playing in the water, but I hate wearing a swimsuit
84. I am trying (not very hard) to like video games for my husband
85. I don't like to drive...I would much rather be a passenger
86. Salmon is my current favorite food...this also changes a lot
87. The person I would most love to meet is President Hinckley
88. The place I would most love to go is Hawaii
89. I hate to get up in the morning, but I feel good when I get up early
90. I love to meet new people
91. I always worry that people don't really like me and are just being nice
92. I have always been insecure about my legs (they are tree trunk legs:)
93. I feel like I am not old enough to be married and have children
94. I am obsessed with brushing my teeth
95. I love country music
96. I love it when people comb or play with my hair
97. I own more than thirty pairs of shoes
98. I like mowing the lawn (mostly to get a tan)
99. I still own the first car I ever purchased myself (a 1998 ford escort)
100. This was a ton harder than I ever expected

Derik is Surrounded by Girls!!

These are Derik's two sisters...we had a lot of fun being all together this past weekend!

Adelyn Loves her cousins!!!!

Adelyn rarely will slow down long enough to pose for a picture....but she was rather found of her oldest cousin and sat for quite a while with him by her side.

Aliya's Blessing day

Mommy and Daddy

Here is Mom and Dad with Aliya. Adelyn would be here but she wouldn't sit still for the picture. We were at the park after Austin's Baptism.

Summer Fun

We went to a spray park wich is free. It is great the kids play and the mom's gab.

Hanging out

I was watching my sister's two kids and they all looked so sweet watching tv:)

Two Months Old

This picture was taken on August 28th, Aliya was two months old!!!