fun changes

Over the past few days I think I've tried out every template available through blogger in attempt to customize some of the details. So far this is my favorite, but I still want to learn how to do things like change the header and add borders to my photos. Love blogger in beta though. It's sure fun to play around.
So, if you log on here and find some crazy colors/font/layout, it's because I'm just playing around with html/css. :)
A great site for backgrounds (it's where I got this one) is squidfingers.com---tons of them! Got nuts.

Natalie-isms

On the way home from church we passed the temple, she started babbling about getting married when she gets bigger. (It should be noted she's going to marry a daddy---hasn't figured out her's is taken yet but that's another story.) Anyway, babbling, when we hear "...I'm going to wear a white dress and clicky shoes...(pause with a big contented sigh)..."

Also in the car, out of the blue, or out of the babble more appropriately, we hear "...Santa's going to bring me a great big stereo!" and then throws her arms in the air either inexcitement or to show "great big" I'm not sure. Jared and I look at eachother, "stereo?" How does she know the word stereo? All we could attribute it to are books and movies. Ahhh the power of media. Then she starts bonking Isaac in the face and he's wailing. She kinda shrugs and says, "This is my brother Isaac. He cries a lot." And continues with bonking. Finally I say "That's it, Natalie. If you keep bonking him Santa's not going to bring you that stereo." Ahhh the power of Santa. Ha!

This morning Natalie "tooted"(barely a squeak) and she looked up at me and said, "Hey, did you here that? It was tiny, like Isaac."

Whenever we tell her something she doesn't like, such as time for bed or finish your milk, she says, "Hey! Be nice to me!"

Lastly, there's a new part to our bedtime routine: tip toe into her room and gingerly remove the book from it's fallen position on her face, turn off lantern/flashlight, gaze for a moment at her peaceful, angelic face and marvel how it can look so angelic because we know the real truth.

Go Bucks!!!!!!

This is the police surrounding the uprights. We couldn't hardly believe the police out at the game, but it was a huge game!!! Ohio State v. Michigan---doesn't get any bigger, especially this year. Great game. We old school taped it and haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I realized how much I take for granted commentators on TV and radio, but also was pleasantly surpized how much I did know! :) Ha ha! Jared would laugh at that

The band was spectacular. Someone sitting behind us joked it's not very often the halftime marching band show is as good as the game. Here is obviously an ET formation and you can probably guess correctly they were playing the ET soundtrack. Other selections included music from Pirates of the Caribbean (incredible pirate ship formation with moving water even), Titanic (with a ship breaking in half) and of course Star Wars. Amazing. They also did their ever popular and one-of-a-kind "Script Ohio."


This was a to-die-for red velvet cake, cream cheese frosting for a tailgating party. Those were our predictions funny though even after adding them together we weren't that close. In case you can't tell what's dotting the "I" it's not a fly, but Jared made a gray sweatervest with a red time. You know what it's for. :)

A Few Things...

I got the majority of the list off of another blogger's site, wellidaclare. Edited a handful involving drinking and other classy activities.
Numbers in red are things I've done. Feel free to copy it and post.

01. Sang the National Anthem at a public event
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (how many times...)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Won a pie eating contest, or any eating contest
08. Said “I love you’ and meant it (everyday)
09. Hugged a tree (it was one of the most real experiences of my life)
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. . Seen the Northern Lights (I dream of see them someday)
14.Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on slurpees
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope (life changing to watch moon rotate around Saturn and see the "red eye" of Jupiter)
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment (I think I do this when I get nervous or if something is aukward)
27. Had a food fight
28. Overcome a fear (working on getting over spiders and large bodies of water)
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run (admittedly not out of my skill, but lack of the outfielder's...)
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Can recite something over 100 words long
42. Have amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Slept in a castle
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites (MesaVerde)
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played some sort of game for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Eaten food you had no clue what it was but did it out of respect for your host
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Been skinny dipping (it's how I met Jared---ha ha ha, just kidding)
81. Rafted the Snake River (swam in it...rafted other rivers: Green and Rio Grande and Rouge)
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Stood up for something against the crowd
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Asked someone for forgiveness and received it
96. Raised children (raising)
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray
110. Been afraid for your life (I was standing on ice in the middle of a frozen pond listening to it crack all around me...and it was around 11pm oh, and once I was on the top of mountain above the tree line with 10 or so 12 year old scouts during a tremendous lightening storm so I was also terrified for their lives as well)
111. Helped an animal give birth (our guinea pig Chewy)
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Lived longer than a year in another country
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse (and shoed one!)
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read (S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, which I happen to be reading right now)
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (trout anyone?)
137. Skipped all your school reunions (not quite that dated yet...)
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

Chipotle gives out free burritos on Halloween as long as you are sporting anything tinfoil when you order. We went in around 4pm and were pretty much the only non-high school students. There was a man dressed in a business suit with a large tinfoil tie on. It was soooo good. I love the lime/cilantro rice. Mmmm boy!





Natalie was very into Trick-or-treating AKA "collecting loot."

Isaac and I ended up going as Goldilocks (errr...Grossilocks) and the wee bear. Natalie was her dragon officially and Jared was the scariest thing he could think of: a real doctor. Even Isaac had a little bag.