6 Quirks....

Helloooooo!
My sil, Melanie, tagged me to do a 6 quirks meme. I'm a little hesitant to share. Don't want to scare you away. But, here goes.

1. I can't hold still. Drives Cory crazy if he's sitting by me. I'm always bouncing my leg up and down, or wiggling my foot. I think it's my version of ADD. I'm doing it even now with the laptop on my lap. Cory keeps putting his hand on my leg to stop me.

2. I curl my toes under my feet. That's how I sit. It looks really weird. But to me, it's comfortable.

3. I don't like my legs to be constricted. If Cory puts his legs over mine, or the kids lay on my legs, it drives me CRAZY! If I have one leg free, I'm okay. But if I can't move my legs, I feel claustrophobic. Maybe this has to do with quirk #1. I blame it on my 2 older siblings. They used to sit on me and tickle torture me.

4. Because of the tickle tortures in my childhood, I am immune to the whole tickling thing, now. I am not ticklish at all. It's great. Cory is totally ticklish, so I can torture him without any retribution. It's fabulous!

5. I hate it when people scrape silverware on their teeth and plates. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I can't feed my children with silverware. I have to use plastic ware, or those little spoons with the rubber-type covering on them. I, myself, can use silverware, because I'm careful not to let it touch my teeth.

6. I don't like broken crayons, or crayons that aren't sharp. I always stock up on crayons at the beginning of the school year, so we have sharp crayons at our house. The result is a very large amount of unused broken and un-sharp crayons, wasting away in boxes somewhere. I can't bring myself to throw them away. I keep thinking I make these someday.

So there you have it. I tag everyone (specifically Wendy. Have you created your blog yet?!?) Are you brave enough to share?(If you do, leave a comment that you posted on your blog, so I don't miss it!!)

Getting settled

I have decided that I am not a big fan of moving. Anyone else feel that way?

We are here, getting settled, and trying to keep our heads above the sea of boxes that has taken over our new home. I honestly don't know how we fit all this stuff in our other house. It may take me FOREVER to unpack it all!

We are loving our new home. The kids are loving their new schools. I have joined the PTO, and am in charge of AR, and the newletter. The kids seem to be adjusting well, and are making friends.(at least that's what they tell me) I hope things continue to go well.

I'll post some pictures as soon as I can find the charger for the camera. I'll be back soon with tales of our move and our live. Have a great day!!

(Wendy, hurry up and start your blog, already!!)

Improv Everywhere....

Yeah, I know I should be packing, and I know I said you wouldn't hear from me again until next week, but I had to post this. My sister sent me an e-mail with a link to an Improv Everywhere clip on you tube. Here it is.
So funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M

So then, I decided to check out their website. Here are some of my favorites.

I'm sure some of you have seen this one before....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo

In honor of the Olympics....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggm_j_6jgTc

Power to the redheads!!!!....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPmd_wc7s8

If you want to check out the website, its www.improveverywhere.com

Third time's a charm...

Woohoo! We have a place to live! We met with the builders (different builders than the last house) of the house we wanted on Wednesday. We made an offer for the asking price, with contingencies that we would rent the home until ours sells. And we signed the offer right there, so we are under contract now. So we are moving this weekend. I should be packing. But, I'm tired, and I'm going to bed. Probably won't hear from me untill next week. We won't have internet until Wednesday. Thanks for your prayers!!

Do you want your house to sell?

If you do, we are now offering our services (for a small fee, of course). It would seem that all we need to do is make an offer on a house, and someone else will swoop in and grab it from us. (I'm angry, by the way) Or maybe I just jinxed us by blogging about it before our offer was accepted. At any rate, we are now starting all over and looking for houses, AGAIN. I am blogging to you from Poky. When we found out, we packed up and headed east. We'll head to IF tomorrow morning and hopefully find the THE house. Third times a charm, right? Our awesome IF realtor is rearranging his schedule for us, so he can take us around to look at more houses. He is awesome. If you ever move to IF, we've got the realtor for you.

Anyway, we thought for sure we had this house. We think that maybe they were using us to get a higher offer from someone else. We'd been negotiating back and forth for a few days. Our realtor kept calling them today to find out their response to our last offer, leaving messages every time. Then, right before the "deadline", they called our realtor and said someone gave them a better offer this morning. Phooey.

I'm a little stressed. School starts so soon, and I'm just not sure where we'll be. Wish us luck, again!

Need a laugh?

Laughs provided by Gabby's 1st grade vocab/writing notebook:

-crabby, brave
Somewone was crabby. I was brave.
(I wonder if she was talking about me?)

-creature
A creature is an liveing prsan or a animale. I am a creture. A animale is a creature.
(sometimes, she really does fit into this catagory)

-buried, exciiting, scared, quivered
I quivered in my bed. I was exciting on my brothers berthday. It is scardy in the dark. My granma's dog buried his poop in the sand.
(?)

-gloomy, tiptoe
It was gloomy. I was gloomy outside this morning. It is gloomy at nihgt. It is gloomy after rain sours. It is gloomy in a tornatoe. It is gloomy in a hrakan.
(I don't know about you, but I think I would be more than just gloomy in a "tornatoe")

-narrow
Ivy is narrow.
(I wish I was narrow.)

-pleasant, crash
Pleasant means nice. It is a pleasant day. I like being pleasant. Pleasant is a nice thing to do. I like people that are pleasant. It is pleasant to give stuff. Crash means a big nois.
(Loved this one. She's not always so pleasant!)

(Last, but not least. This one is my fave.)
-problem, collection, magnifying glass, teddy bear
I have a collection of teddy bears. I have a magnifying glass. I have a problem.

Good News, Good Book...

We are, hopefully, 1 counter offer away from getting a house in Idaho Falls. Woohoo!!

This is it.

Do you like it? Yeah, it's lacking grass and a fence, and the basement is unfinished, but hopefully it will be ours. The best news is we have been pre-qualified. That was my biggest worry, with the market being as bad as it is. But, turned out, I didn't need to worry at all! We will probably be moving the end of next week. I'm sad to leave Twin. I love our Ward. We've made a lot of fabulous friends. We love the school. We just got a new Temple. But we're anxious and excited to move on to a new part of our life. We signed Alex and Gabby up for school yesterday, and will sign Madi up for Middle School next week. School starts in 2 weeks. Crazy!!Now, if we could just get this house sold! Our new realtor has been awesome. She does what she says she's gonna do, when she says she will. It's been great!

Now on to more important stuff(hehehe). Have you read it, yet?

I did. I loved it! It took me awhile, though. I kept getting interrupted by kids. So I ended up reading it at night after the kids were in bed. Stayed up till the wee hours getting my vampire fix. I thought it was a great book. There were a few twists that totally caught me by surprise. That's not easy to do. I'm usally pretty good at figuring things out quickly in books and movies. I still pretty much had things figured out before they happened, but she was able to shock me with a twist every now and then. Bummer it was the last in the series. I do, however, think that she crossed the line from young adult fiction to adult fiction with this one. Have you read it? What did you think?

Wordless Wednesday

Lucky us. This is growing in our backyard!

For more on Wordless Wednesday, go here.

Good Times

I am one of those people who L-O-V-E family reunions. I love being with my family. My brother lives in Omaha and my sister lives near Provo, so it's alway a treat when we are able to all be together. My parents live less that an hour away, so we are able to see them often. Anyway, the party started last Friday (July 25). That's when my sister and I arrived at my parent's house. My brother got there Thurs night.

On Saturday my brother's wife (Sandy), Cory's sister (Felicia), and a different sister's husband (Jay)-yeah, that's confusing...sorry- all competed in the Spudman triathalon in Burley. My heroes. I signed up to do it once, and backed out. Too scary for me. Anyway, they all did awesome. After that was a family reunion for my Mom's side of the family. Just a little 1-day, potluck, come-and visit-all-day type of thing. It was fun to see so many people I hadn't seen in a long time.

On Sunday, we skipped church. We used the excuse that getting 18 people ready for church with only 1 bathroom was near impossible. My sister brought stuff to do a mentos geyser. When you drop a roll of mentos in a 2 liter bottle of diet cola, it shoots up really high into the sky. It was awesome! Each kid got to do one.

We made up for skipping church when on Monday when we went to the Temple open house. It was our second time. It's absolutely beautiful. The kids think it's awesome, too, and were excited to show their cousins. We took some pics of each family after the tour, then headed to our house for lunch.

After lunch, we all packed up and headed to Island Park for the remainder of the time we would be together. We have a Blad family cabin up there that Cory helped his Dad build. It is absolute Heaven up there. So peaceful, and sooooo much more room than my parents have at their house. (3 bathrooms-yay!) It's a fabulous get-a-way. I'm excited that when we move, we will be so much closer. Anyway, we had lots of fun, going to Johnny Sack's cabin, Mesa Falls, Buffalo Springs, Yellowstone, Sawtelle Peak, Big Spring.....I didn't go to all the places. Too hard with baby. And even if I didn't have a baby, I wouldn't have gone to Sawtelle Peak. Too scary for me. It's the top of a mountain in Island Park, and it is home to a radar thing for airplanes. The road up is switchback all the way (can you say carsick?). Cory said Alex was really concerned about his little brother the whole time...kept yelling at him to get away from the edge. At least I know he's looking out for him, right? Anyway, I guess the cool thing about it is you can see a 360 degree panoramic view encompasing 3 states. Awesome. I'm completely happy to view that from the pictures Cory took.

My brother had to end their vacation earlier than expected when they recieved some bad news from home, and had to leave pretty quickly. My kids were pretty bummed about that. They were sad to see their cousins leave. But they still had 1 cousin left, and even though he's only 2 years old, they love to play with him. Drew is a hoot. And I think he had fun playing with them. My sister said that when they got home, he wouldn't get out of the car. He wanted to go to "Abby's house" (that's how he would say Gabby) I loved that whenever he saw Cory he'd say "Unca Ory?, Unca Ory?" He didn't ever want anything, just to say Cory's name....so cute!

I hope they all had as much fun as we did. The kids were pretty sad to see people leave, and tears were shed each time someone left. We decided to stay one more day and go back to Yellowstone on Thursday, then came home Friday. Friday happened to be Cory's birthday. Poor guy. He spent it cleaning the cabin and driving home. We did stop in IF and took the kids to see the house we want to buy. They we stopped in Poky and ate a birthday dinner at Texas Roadhouse (yum!). Then we stopped one last time at my parent's house. They had very graciously made Cory a birthday cake, since we were traveling all day. Finally made it home late Friday night. I did absolutely nothing the next day. Nada. But Cory went to Costco and surprised me the book. You know the one. Breaking Dawn, the last in the Twilight series. All I have to say about that is I agree with the title of chapter nine...sure as heck didn't see that one coming!

Face Lift

Do you like my new look? I love these colors! We just got back from a week long, good time, family reunion. I love my family! My kids cried when everyone left. Stay tuned for lots of pics and rundown of what we did!