Tagged.

My friend Annie tagged me for this little meme, but I have done one that is really similar. I will just to the parts that may be a little different.

10 years ago:
Ten years ago was hard! My brother, Mike, was in a sledding accident on Jan. 1st. He was in a coma, and I remember the first time I saw him so clearly. My Dad was in the room with me, and was wiping Mike's head with a washcloth. Then I had to sit, because I was going to pass out. My Dad came over to me, and started wiping my head with the wash cloth! I believe he had opened his eyes by this time (Jan. 31st), but was still not responding to much. My parents both lost their voices the first week from the shock of his accident, and took turns being by his side through this time. I was still working at Contempo at the Cottonwood mall, and was able to come and see him at the hospital quite a few times since I was already in close to SL. This is when I gained a true testimony of compassionate service. My parents ward fed our family EVERY SINGLE NIGHT...for more than a month! At the time there was four totally capable young adults in the house, and my Grandma down in the apt. The meals still came, and when my Mother or Father would come home to a home cooked meal, and children fed, you could see the gratitude in their faces.
I was just about to turn 20. Lincoln had proposed to me just before Christmas. We were excited to be newly engaged.

5 things on my to do list today:
Talia is feeling sick. I have her a bath, and then we cuddled and watched Mary Poppins.
I finished a coffee table book for a client.
Made some customer calls.
Photoshopped my lily pictures.
Cleaned the house.






5 places I have lived:
1:Midland, Tx
2:Brigham City, UT
3: American Fork, UT
4: Hillsboro, OR
5: Columbia, MD


5 Jobs i have had:
1:Contempo Casuals
2:Jazz n' Place Dance Studio
3:Nuskin
4: Intel (one of these things just doesn't belong here...one of these things just isn't the same. =)
5: Photographer =)

5 things people don't know about me:
Gosh, can you read my blog and not know it all...eventually.
I am an Aquarius.
I just found out I am a "little anemic".
Hmmm...
I *think* we are 100% sure of the name we will be using for this baby girl!
I stepped on a cricket with bare feet the other day. I almost died!
Ummm...
I LOVE February! I love Valentine's Day! Love Love Love!!! Red hearts, pink frosted cupcakes, a candy bar on my pillow from my Dad, love notes, valentine cards, flowers, chocolates, & hugs and smooches!! Seriously, I love it more than Christmas!

26 weeks

Photograph courtesy Wyatt Tidwell....with sticky apple hands. I wish my belly showed a little more in this picture. =)

We are a happy family......

It has been too long, and I should post something.

I don't feel like anything monumental has happened, but we had a really good week last week, and this week is close to an end.

We are such a happy and silly family. Tonight, Lincoln bribed the kids to finish their chicken noodle soup by promising a PARTY. I looked at him and tried not to laugh. The kids ate, and then he forced us out of the kitchen while he set up the "party". My heart could just burst with love for this guy! We can be so dorky together, and it doesn't matter. I had to preface with that, because it was a *crazy* party! There were three kinds of girl scout cookies, candy corn, and caramel corn on a paper pate, paper towels cut into snowflakes (I could have died laughing), a cup that has flashing lights at the bottom as the center piece, music blasting Wyatt's favorite dance tunes, and a funny "hat" for each person to wear. My hat was a white plastic bowl with a thumb hole, Talia had a big clear bowl, Wyatt donned a strainer, and Lincoln wore a pot. We danced to "I'm blue da ba di", "Ice Ice Baby", and a few other songs in the dark kitchen with the cup as our only light. My kids ate it up! They loved it! It sounds so ridiculous, but I can't stop smiling when I picture my kids munching cookies, and dancing. We are blessed to be able to be so silly and carefree.

(One little note: If you are every lucky enough to see Wyatt dance you would be so entertained. My goodness, this kid is good-----but in a messy b-boy fighter kind of way. I try to suggest or show steps to him, and he says, "Mom, my moves are cooler than that." So everything he does is purely Wyatt. Ooooo..I'll record him. He is too shy to show anyone. You'll love it.!)

I finally did it. I read Twilight. It is a book that my friends finished reading a LONG time ago. I asked for it for Christmas, so "I could be like the cool girls." I read it in two days, and then Lincoln went out at 9:00 at night to get me the second book, New Moon. He is at guitar class now, and is bringing me home the third book. (smoooch!) I guess that is the advantage to waiting so long to read the series....I don't have to wait for the next book to be published. =) I will have the whole series read in a weeks time.

Talia has had some high fevers, and a bad headache that scared me. She is doing fine today though. We have had some great days together. We got "kicked out of the house" on Wednesday afternoon, and so I took her to Panera bread. We had a nice lunch together, and she kept me laughing the whole time. My kids light up my life. Wyatt is doing really well at school, and his "real" teacher is now teaching for the first time this year. His teacher had cancer, and is feeling up to teaching- now that the chemotherapy is over. I get to help in school tomorrow, and I am excited to meet her.

I bought some flowers to photograph, but they all died before I was able to get some good photographs. What a waste.

We went to the PARK this week. It was 70 degrees. Hello....January? It was a nice time, and I tortured them for a minute with the ol' 5d. =)

I went to the mall with some friends, and had the best time. I think it is because I spent money, which I usually don't do. I went to Sephora, to use my gift certificate Lincoln got me. A true miracle happened; Natalia fell asleep in her stroller. I got to have a SA do my eyes and cheeks, and I got the most adorable Lorac pallet. I am a pallet junkie. I love it!