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Four Things about me. This is just for fun

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Cinemark movie theaters –mostly in studio eats, the little café inside
2. Dominoes- for a whole 3 days
3. Primrose daycare and private school, and one in Des Moines. Both times working with 6 weeks up to 1st grade
4. Pasar- afterschool program for the Plano School district, working with k-5

Four places or more I have lived:
1. Lima, Peru
2. Quito, Ecuador
3. Seville, Spain
4. Mexico City, Mexico
5. Rexburg, ID
6. CAmpinas, Brazil (and I had three areas that I lived in on my mission do those count?) :)
7. Provo, UT
8. Des Moines, IA (that I miss so much)
Ha Ha, I wish. That was my friend Lisa’s list. Here’s me:
1. Logan Utah –born-4 and for a year of college
2. Plano Texas (Dallas area) 4-20 minus one year in utah
3. Des Moines Iowa – for 3 years of law school
4. Lancaster Wisconsin- current resident

Four Places I have been on vacation:
1. Utah
2. Nauvoo Illinois
3. Florida, honey moon
4. Minnesoda- twin cities, got to see the mall of America!

Four of my favorite foods:
1. dessert, I’m really liking pies right now
2. pumpkin, pretty much anything pumpkin
3. carbs: bread, noodles ect.
4. pretty much anything I didn’t have to make

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Anywhere but my messy house (that is how I feel most of the time)
2. Texas
3. Des Moines
4. someplace warm with a beach, and a full time on call babysitter and Ryan on vacation, no work

Four things you would have changed about your wedding day:
1. Better photographer, my guy left us and went and shot another bride! And he did cooler locations with her, just following her around snaping pictures, and he left the reception early.
2. RELAXED and dances more. Our line was forever long, I didn’t even get any food or the special drink I had my Grandmother send up
3. Found a video photographer
4. Had a separate day for Bridals

Four baby names you love (boy or girl)
1. Logan Daniel
2. Parker (Ryan doesn’t like this one cause it’s the name of the town my parents live in, but that’s not why I like it)
And I’m not sure for girl names, I already have 2 great ones
3. Emily Elaine
4. Kailtlyn Fe’ (pronounced Fay, it’s Portuguese for faith)

I LOVE looking at all the cute pictures of fall activities. Everyone’s kids look so cute! I’m WAY behind on blogging. Aren’t I always? Oh well. Life here is crazy one day and mind numbingly boring the next, such is the life of a mom. We are doing well though. We’ve started looking at houses and that is really exciting/stressful. I love looking at the houses and seeing the different floor plans and ways to decorating and thinking about the different things I could do to improve the house. Or, I guesss I should say the long list of things I could give Ryan to do to fix the house. He keeps telling me to give him projects, one of these days he’s really going to regret it! Lol, oh well. It’s also frustrating because our price range and what I want are a little different. Go figure, the more expensive houses are prettier. There are a lot in the reange we want to spend, but most need a lot of work and don’t have room to grow. We plan on having lots of children, so having room to grow is important to me. Even if it’s not finished yet, I don’t care. Well I could go on and on about houses. I just feel bad for our poor realator, she didn’t know what she was getting in to when we walked into her office. Oh well. I’m going to post a bunch of pictures from this month (wish me luck! I hope the my internet will coroperate!) and quick explanations, hopefully you’ll get an idea of life in Lancaster from the last month.
My brother Andrew, that just left for his mission let us borrow his Guitar hero game while he’s gone. Ryan was SOOO excited. For the first week or so he’d play on his lunch break. He almost always comes home for lunch, (which I LOVE!) so he’d play a little bit and then go back to work. To funny. I even played a few times, Ryan is way better though. Well Kaitlyn thought it was supper cool and wanted so bad to play too. My favorite was she would stand next to dad and dance with him. So cute! Here’s her looking supper cool!




Kaitlyn loves to help out. Sometimes she really is a big helper and other times… She loves to help put away the dishes (so cute!) but doesn’t understand when I’m loading that I don’t want her to unload. She likes to help put the laundry into the dryer and close the lid, often before I’m ready. Lol, she’s great though. Her favorite is to help with Emily. As soon as she hears Emily I hear her, Emily! Emily, bottle. That poor girl doesn’t even have a chance to get hungry. Kaitlyn just loves to feed her. And she gets really mad if I don’t let her feed Emily her baby food. She does a pretty good job, just have to make sure she doesn’t shove the spoon in to far! Here’s Kaitlyn helping feed Em



For FHE at the beginning of the month we carved and painted pumpkins. Kaitlyn LOVED the painting part. She looks like a real artist. She was very serious about her work. I loved it!





She was very sad when it was time to come in. She did not want to put her pumpkin on the porch. Here’s the finished product, our pumpkins on the porch.



I finally go Kaitlyn’s hair up into pig tails, I was pretty excited! She officially no longer bald! Unfortunately Em is losing all her hair now. They’re switching places.




More to come soon, I hope!

Yay, 2 in 1 day. I hope my luck holds!

Emily with her grandparents. In the first one my dad's eating, but wait so is Emmy! -We love grandparents, they're so yummy, I mean fun.





We love to play games, so we had some friends and family come over one night. It was so nice. Emily and my friends baby, Skylar were having fun with each other. Emily is 3 months younger but just as big (gotta love those rolls!) Skylar was showing off her way cool moves, she was so close to crawling. I think Emily was envious, but to lazy to figure it out herself. lol, that's fine with me. I'm fine with her not crawling for a very long time! They were both trying to eat the other girls skirt. It was so funny, but I didn’t get a pic of it, darn it! After they left Ryan and my brother in law played each other in DDR. It was so much fun. Mindy, my sister in law and I played too. But, I took a quick picture of the boys dancing.



I also got to on a girls day out shopping with Ryan’s Mom and two sisters. That was so much fun. We even got to check out IKEA. So much fun. Oh, the ways I could spend money! In fact I spent most of the days shopping. I had this huge craving for crazy amounts of shopping while I was there. Probably because there’s no where to shop here. I am so deprived! Okay, not really but I do miss shopping. The main reason we went down was to see Andrew before he left for a two year mission for our church. He had a combined birthday party and farewell on that Sunday. It was fun to see everyone come and support my brother. I'm so proud of him. He is the first of my siblings to serve. It's exciting and a little hard to send him off for two years, but I know he will be a wonderful missionary.

Finally!

I know you've been going crazy waiting for the update I promised, so here it is! Well part of it. I had more, but I'm still having problems with my internet. I can't tell you how shocked I was to be able to get this much. Hopefully I'll be able to post more soon. I'm working on it I promise!

While we were there my parents gave Kaitlyn her 2 year birthday present early. She LOVED it. This is her just after opening it, and playing with her sister and aunts.






It turned into a mini photo session, just cause everyone was having so much fun.

Bee and TEXAS!!!

The same day that Ryan got hit at work, Kaitlyn had a rough day too! We met Ryan at an outside event for some lunch. We had just gotten our food and sat down when Kaitlyn was stung just under the eye by a bee! Not kidding. Poor girl. Luckily Ryan’s work was near by so we went there to eat and check out Kaitlyn’s eye. On that day two of my babies were hurt. This is a picture of Kaitlyn’s eye.



I couldn’t get her to sit still enough for a really good shot of it. I felt so bad for her. And of coarse it was by the eye so I couldn’t put anything on it for her.

Here’s a happier picture. Kaitlyn loves to play inside the dirty clothes hamper.



TEXAS!!!!!

We drove down to Texas to visit my brother before he left on a mission for our church. It was so nice to be in Texas and to see family. EVERYONE in both our families live in Texas. It’s hard to be so far away sometimes. We left Tuesday September 25 in the late afternoon and drove all day and night to get to Texas. We were just climbing out of the car in my parents drive way when my brother Jace walked out side on his way to SEMINARY!! That tells you how early it was (just before 6 am). Jace was very surprised to see us, in fact I was worried he wouldn’t even notice, since he was half asleep. But, he woke up enough to give us big hugs before he left. We walked inside and no one was awake yet. LOL, oh well. I went in my parents room and my mom and grandmi got up and were like you’re here? It was fun. I got to wake up the whole house. I got the girls (Jessica and Tiara) up, and went and said good morning to Kurtis who went right back to sleep. Gotta love teenage boys! We stayed until Monday morning and it was so great to see everyone. Katrina even came up from Austin and got to see Emily for the first time. (Yes, it was our first time back to Texas since CHRISTMAS!!! I was definitely glad to be there) We got some cute pictures with all the cousins. These are my two favorite.




-So my internet sucks and I can't put up any more photos right now. More to come soon.

Ryan

So, if you read the previous post, you heard all about Ryan's adventure at work. When he came home that evening he said, I got hit today. I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. It didn't even cross my mind that something like that would happen. Who goes up and just hits another person anyway? Well Wednesday morning last week they went to court for a restraining order. Ryan came home for lunch and was very stressed out. This guy was horrible! This time he was actually sober, but he was not acting normal. The girls that work there told me he used to be decent when sober, but he's just scary now. Luckily the judge signed for the restaining order and he's not allowed to come in to the office any more or contact anyone. I thought moving into a small town would be safer, and for the most part it is. I guess Ryan's just going to meet and work with some pretty scarry people! Silly me thought a Lawyer was a safe job. Oh well. Hopefully this is the olny situation. His bosses said nothing like this has ever happend before, but it happened on his 2nd day as an atterney. Anyway, on a lighter note, here are some fun quizzes I took.

You Could Be a Vampire... If You Had To

Like most people, the thought of being a vampire has crossed your mind. But you're not sure if you'd do it, even if you could. Living forever doesn't sound half bad, if you could live forever with the people you love the most. But do vampires even love? And would the vampire version of you even be you? It's all too much to contemplate. Luckily, the chances of you ever becoming a vampire are astronomically low. What you would like best about being a vampire: Living forever What you would like least about being a vampire: Blood stained teeth

Could You Be a Vampire?

You Belong in Rome

You're a big city soul with a small town heart Which is why you're attracted to the romance of Rome Strolling down picture perfect streets, cappuccino in hand And gorgeous Italian people - could life get any better?

What City Do You Belong In?

BATTERED AND BRUISED

Ryan posting this one – Flash back to September 21, 2007. I was sworn in on the 19th so it is only my second day as an attorney. It is about 1:30 in the afternoon. I walk up to the front of the office to ask my secretary a question. While up there a man walks into the office and immediately the secretary says “(name withheld), you can’t be in here you need to leave.” She has fear etched on her face. He replies, I want to talk to one of the other attorneys. The attorney wasn’t there. He is wasted drunk, smells it and has an open beer in his hand. Long story short, this guy is a former client of the office, is drunk most hours of the day, and has some vendetta against the attorney for an unknown reason. Therefore, we have a thick file of recorded instances when he has called in and harassed the office on the phone or driven by that attorney’s home in an attempt to harass him and his family. When he learns that the attorney isn’t there he proceeds to make threatening remarks, climb on the counter, and act like an idiot. Three of us in the office tell him 15 to 20 times to leave but he refuses. The police are called and we tell him this but he still doesn’t leave. I keep my eyes on him the whole time but never make an aggressive move towards him. He doesn’t like the fact that I am staring at him, so he says some derogatory remark against attorneys in general and them open hand slaps me hard on the left side of my face. The other attorney in the office makes me step back as he postures for a fight. The other attorney tells him we don’t want any trouble and again tells him to leave. He finally decides to leave for some reason (unfortunately before the police arrive) and swears and threatens us on the way out. The police show up and they get a report on him. The other attorney at the office takes a picture of the mark he left on my face when he hit me for evidentiary purposes. Luckily, the police arrested him that night, but his sorry @%& parents posted the 1500 dollar bail for him and he got out of jail. His parents are the type that do not parent, they bail him out every time he gets in trouble, and guess what, the guy is over 40. Anyway, he will definitely be charged with disorderly conduct and will likely be charged with battery, and I’ll get to testify if it goes to trial. Can you believe it, two days as an attorney and I’m all ready getting physically abused. :o) Other then that work has been great since then.