7 Things you don't know about me

Ok, so Kylie tagged me to do a blog entry on things you don't know about me. I have a few minutes while I am uploading some pics, so I will give it a try. I'm supposed to tag 7 other people--ha! I don't know 7 others that blog. I would love to see what Diane, Blake and anyone else who blogs, would have to say though.

1. I am a chronic list maker. I make lists because I can't always remember all the tons of things that need to be done or that I think need to be done, so I write lists. I have lists in notebooks, lists on my planner, lists on sticky notes, lists on the desk, lists in my purse, and when I worked, I always had several lists at work. Do I actually get all of those things done? Nope. So then I write a list to consolidate several lists, thinking that it will be more efficient and I will actually get more done.

2. I write things on my planner or lists (see item #1) that I have already done and then cross it out. For example, if I clean the bathroom or buy a birthday card for someone, I will write it on my planner then cross it off. I know, seems like a waste of ink, but hey, it makes me feel like I have really gotten something done that day.

3. I don't like my birthday. It has nothing to do with getting older (although, I can imagine at some point in the near future, that might become more of an issue). I had a mom and dad that really tried to make us feel special on our birthdays. We always had an amazing homemade cake, frequently we would have birthday parties that were really fun, we would get fun gifts. It was always so much fun as a kid to have a birthday. Well now that I am an adult, I have realized that not everyone in the world will give you the same kind of love and attention on your birthday that your mom will. So I try not to get my expectations too high, but I do because of my past. Then come birthday, and it is so sad. It just isn't quite the same. Then I feel awful for feeling like I didn't get enough attention. I know, its a weird cycle, but that is how it is.

4. I swallow my gum. Not all the time, but frequently. I know, I probably have 10lbs of chewed gum sitting somewhere in my stomach waiting to be digested (everyone knows that it takes like 6 months for gum to be digested). But I just don't care. I would rather swallow it and deal with the repercussions than spit it out in to a wrapper that I have to put in my purse. Then find the nasty surprise of chewed up gum stored in wrapper, just waiting for me to find in the bottom of my purse or bag.

5. I love to sing to the radio or without the radio. Hmmm, some of you probably already knew that but the real clincher is, I won't sing with the radio around other people very often because I just make up my own words. I can't ever tell what they are saying in the songs, so I sing what ever I think it sounds like---most of the time I am wrong. Cam will occasionally stop me and ask what was I singing. Most of the time, he just chuckles to himself and lets me live in my oblivion.

6. Cam was my first kiss. And the only guy I have ever kissed. Now just for my pride sake, let me say that it wasn't because guys didn't try. I learned some pretty sneaky ways to avoid being kissed. With a lot of the guys I went out with, it just kinda grossed me out to kiss them. Not Cam though, that must mean it is true love. :)

7. I am absolutely driven by guilt. Ask me at any given time and I could tell you that I was feeling bad or guilty about ..... There is always something. It is like the blood running through my veins. For example, right now, I am feeling very guilty for wasting time typing a blog entry instead of ironing or finishing up the laundry. It's kinda of annoying to others, I'm sure but that is just how I function. Guilt. (I was going to insert some interesting pics to make this blog look all cute and stuff but I just feel awful for taking so much time typing it that I can't take the time to put pics in it. I need to go do something else. Maybe something off of one of my lists!)

Worms

Cam and Austin were doing some work in the front yard. Then I noticed they were just sitting, pondering the greater things in life. I found out later that they were looking at a huge earthworm. Boys!!

Halloween

Austin was a great lion and James was a chicken. James even learned how to roar from Austin , so we had a roaring chicken.

I was a bad flashback for everyone who thought this look was cool in high school.

Cam was a punk. (Several people at his work really thought he had tons of tatoos!)

James 1st birthday (Sept 10)

Happy Birthday James!! A big one year old.

The Baker family

I wanted to post this pic. It is my family at Henry's Lake, ID this August. We had lots of fun.

Cute kids

James (he is getting so big---almost 1 year old)
Some of James' first steps.
Cam and Austin
Austin pulling James in the "wagon" (who needs real toys if you are 3 and have an imagination!)

After..

So, here is the front of our house now. Cam + chainsaw = bye bye aspens
Austin attached my belt to the hitch on the car so that he could use it to pull the trees and limbs out of the yard. (Pretty resourceful for a three year old. It's a little scary)

Henry's Lake

Yellowstone Park--Stinky pots (not the kids, the stuff behind them--the painted indian pots or whatever)
Cam and JamesAll of us. Old Faithful is still fairly reliable. :)

Mimi and James at our rustic house/cabin thing that we stayed at.
The whole enchilada. (Behind us is Henry's Lake.)

Weekend at Marnie and Pops (Stewart grandparents)

Austin and Cam riding the jetski (up past Heber, UT)
Cam and Austin riding in the tube (this was Austin's very favorite thing. He got to ride in the tube at Henry's Lake with my fam and in UT with Cam's fam.) Cam even got bucked off of this ride but Austin stayed in. He thought it was hilarious when Cam fell out!
Cam riding on his brother's motorcycle. Let's just say, now he's got the fever.

Marnie and James

After a few coats of some calming paint.
This pic makes the hallway look yellow. It's not. It is all kind of a light tan color. It is pretty boring now. I need to decorate now that I don't have those crazy leaves on the walls.

After pics of house

This is Austin's room after a little paint.
The other part of Austin's room.
Here is our house with the "new" landscaping. (Thanks to mother nature).

The before pics of the house

Master Bedroom (it is now light grey/blue).
The kitchen (for those who couldn't see it in real life... the darker smudges on the wall are leafs. And they are impressions in the wall. So I had to fill them with spackle and paint. Fun, fun.)
James room. Whoa!
Austin's room. Whoa! Whoa!!
Austin helping me paint his room.

It's been a long time!!!!

Ok, it's true. It has been forever since we have posted anything. I have excuses, tons of them. But whatever. Now I am going to post some pics and stuff. We are now in our new house. We have painted Austin's room, the living room, our room and part of James room. Still have more to go. It takes forever to paint if you have "helpers". We are liking Kuna. Getting used to small town again but it's good. We have wanted to do a little work on our landscaping. Today we got a little jump start with that. We had a huge storm and crazy wind. Well, check out the pic, one of our trees went down. Luckily it was away from the house, not toward the house. So as I type this, Cam is off borrowing a chainsaw. Let the games begin...

The Man!

For the graduation BBQ the boys had shirts that said "My dad is the MAN!"
It's true, he is the man! We are so proud of his great graduation. The biggest bummer is that he missed gradation with honors (Cum laude) by just a tiny bit. He graduated with a 3.49 and needed a 3.5. Oh well! Great job anyhow.

Graduation---HOORAY!!

A new frontier

So, it's mostly official. Cam is going to work for Cypress Semiconductors here is Boise. He actually has the paperwork in his hand. So as long as he can sign it and return it to the company, we're in. Whew! I can say that having that taken care of really reduces the stress around here. Now for a new adventure. We need a place to move to. A house would be best. Although we did see a nice single wide trailer that had been updated by adding stucco to the outside. Interesting. Maybe we could do something like that. Just a slight mix of trash and class. That might fit us just right. We are starting to dive into this house stuff and it is more complicated than I thought (complicated = stress). We are meeting with a realtor and a financier today, so we shall see what kind of news they have. I'm sure we will keep you all posted. (Hey, so far we have done pretty well.)

Gnu's news

So, today is my last day of academic work at BSU as an undergrad. I'm pretty stoked! I normally wouldn't be writing this while I should be studying for a final, but I'm waiting for a 300 page document to print and it's taking a while. Don't worry, I put four pages per sheet, so it's really only 75 pages. I am somewhat environmentally conscious at least.

-By the way, I got an offer at Cypress. I think I'm going to take it, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to extricate myself from the Micron situation gracefully. I'm sure I'll think of something, and then I'll go tromping out gracefully like a herd of elephants.

I do update, I really do....

This is Austin. Suzanne asked him what he was doing, and he said, "I'm Spiderman, mom!" I don't know where he picked that up...

A favorite pastime, reading with the boys.

So, contrary to Suzanne's belief, I am posting something on our blog. Nevermind the fact that my Xanga has sat untouched for the past 18 months, I am perfectly capable of contributing to this on occasion.

At any rate, we had some funny pics to post, so I get to do it since Suzanne's wrist is hurting. That's my real excuse for posting. So there.

For an update on us... I'm graduating on Saturday. Hooray! One or the other of us has been in school since we got married. It will be a nice change I think to not have to worry about homework and papers and studying for a while and just be able to spend time together.

On that note, I need to get some sleep as I have a job interview at Cypress tomorrow morning.

Hi all.
So we have done it. We now have a blog. (thanks to some Engstrom inspiration) We (meaning I) will try to at least post pictures on here so you can all see our crazy kids. Maybe we will even put an actual post on here too. Who knows.