My Life Monday...

Food likes and dislikes.....

My favorite foods are food?? No probably my favorite type of food is MEXICAN! OH BABY! My favorite single food... FRESH BAKED YEAST ROLLS! Favorite fruit... oh hmm cherries and peaches. Freshed picked ones off the orchard are best. Favorite veggie... OH BOY! Salad veggies I love salad. So tomatoes, green leaf lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, etc. I know bad but true favorite drink is COKE and most missed drink (since I am a convert) is SWEET TEA!
My favorite candy... snickers almond or almond roca. My favorite thing lately though has been GRILLED SALMON! Trust me if you knew me you would know I DONT DO FISH! However I tried this last summer and since then its like a severe craving like sonic cherry limeades...

My foods I dislike??? I dont like cooked greens of any sort. I dont like pomegranetes (SP?) and I dont like ANY V8 drinks. I dont like slimy okra... fried is awesome but not just slimy YUCK!

I love most foods as you can see. FOOD IS MY FRIEND :D !!!


Life...

Book #2 Three Weeks with My Brother...

I havent finished it yet... alas I LOVE to read but just never seem to have more than 15-20 min (except right now cuz monkey #4 seems to have the horrible flu/cold/whatever combined into one stuff going around and ONLY wants mommy to hold her and sit with her!)to read unless I am sleeping and you know... sleep... read...sleep...read UMM SLEEP wins! Okay so I am about 1/2 way through this book and it is SOOO funny and serious and awesome. You know there is a song with a line Awful Beautiful Life... not that it was a wonderful life but that it has awful and beautiful all rolled into one and this song just SOOO personifies this book. It really is awesome so far. I love his other works and why should this one be ANY different. Anyways if you get a chance here is another winner... you can get the info off the side of the page lol..

Life...

My life Monday... Late again LOL

A growing experience. Share with us something that helped you grow in your life, whether good or bad...

Something that helped me grow in my life was getting married and having kids. When you get married you have to learn an all new form of sharing... cuz you have to share EVERYTHING and not like a sibling LOL! You all of a sudden have this person who you love but are not used to sharing all the intimate details of your life with yet you sleep with them, eat with them, and more things .... LOL! Then comes a passel of kids... I guess 4 qualifies for that LOL! You have to learn how to share everything all over again your body, your breast (if you bf) and your bed! LOL! Sleep becomes a moot point. You learn to be patient cuz getting upset with any of the afore mentioned ppl gets EVERYONE upset. You also have to learn to discipline children. What is tooo much and what doesnt work at all. You GROW soooo much from being a wife and a parent. Another thing you learn how when you went to school and hated it that now its your kids turn! LOL! Actually my kids LOVE school and cry if they cant go (like dr appts, etc) like my monkey #3 who after I ironed a shirt for him for some strange reason he stuck his hand on the unplugged and off iron BUT still HOT Iron... Went STRAIGHT to the docs... when they said okay here you go and took care of it and said keep it dry and clean and put this on 2x a day... TAKE ME TO SCHOOL MOM! Are you sure? YEP NOW MOM! haha. Now this he begs to stay home and wants to be homeschooled but i think that is because he wants to HOG my puter to himself LOL!

Off to the long list in a life of care...

Finished...

Okay I finished this book. Anyways I have read it before. It is such a great read. It really shows you the way life for the Jewish ppl was on the American front during WWII. How their lives were still affected from previous generations and it gives a view into Hasidism and other groups of Jewish ppl. I really really love how it goes so in depth but is a story of friendship at the heart. I know things have changed a lot but not so much at the same time. I think in all religions that are about this is the case. ALL start from basically Adam and Eve and Creation but the twists and turns along the way make each religion its own and each branch of religion more specific to that particular group.

Anyways if your looking for a good read and have a little time I strongly suggest you read this book. Heck if you do shoot me a response to your take of it....

On to the next book...

My Life Monday (late... cuz its the first time)

My Life Monday...

About someone we love. WOW I have four LOVELY lil monkeys I love but I am choosing My baby sister. I never really talk about her. We HATED each other from about the time we were BOTH in school so about 3rd grade for me LOL! I dont know what started it but I remember it has always been a very big tension between us. WELLLL about 6 yrs ago that tension finally seeped out. We were both very grown up and on to our own lives and not focusing on each other I guess.

Anyways I dont have ANY pictures of her but I PROMISE to get one. The reason I am choosing her on this Valentines week and not my own family is...
MY BABY SISTER IF FINALLY GETTING MARRIED! Yes she is! She is getting married on hubby's birthday! Which of course just happens to be the day before mine! It is something I very much want to attend and she really wants me to come BUT alas I just dont know how in the world I am going to be able to afford going... with 4 lil monkeys a trip from south Cali to New England is a tad bit expensive. Especially only for 2 days. Anyways she is getting married on a ship and she is sooo excited. They will be honeymooning in Europe! WOWOW!

Anyways I am so happy, ecstatic, over the moon that my baby sister is coming into her own and going to join the "Old Lady" crowd!

Rolling on...

So Valentines Day is tomorrow and I got some cute stuff I think for each of the monkeys. This year a cute lil stuffy for each and a small box of chocolates. For hubby I got exclusive chocolates. They are coffee flavored and others. I dont tend to buy them but he LOVES these and isnt a member so I bought something I knew he would like.

On an upnote a good friends spouse came home yesterday! YEAH! Several of the men from our ward came home from Iraq over the past few days. I am soooo excited for this. I remember when it was me and how freaked out I was until he got home and now it was there turn.

Another upnote there is a HUGE HUGE party in our stake coming up this month. Its a HUGE party for members AND nonmembers. Hubby says HE WILL GO! YEAH! Its a huge potluck so I have to come up with something good and will feed 10 ppl. They had this party 2 yrs ago too and had over 600 ppl in attendance. WOW!

Anyways today is the day to finish the mess laundry room and get it all squared away and sorted out from the shelves to the laundry. SOOO I better get on in there and get to it...

Keep on tickin...

So I was thinking ....

Someone pointed out how easy it is for Satan to get to us on Sundays... and I do have a testimony of this. My goal being to go to church every sunday unless it is ABSOLUTELY impossible. Well yesterday ya know its Super Bowl (and yes I actually WATCH football!) My head is killing me, when I first woke I couldnt talk and my throat hurt so bad. I was like we are not going. Monkey #4 had a fever... it was like everything in the world was pushing me away. Finally once I decided to go it seemed everything fell into place but before i said NO I AM GOING everything seemed to be going wrong. Anyways only Maya and I went and we left after the sacrament meeting was over. I am really glad we stayed. Some of the testimonies were so awesome. Anyways I wish I could have stayed for the sunday school cuz I really love my teacher (who also happened to be one of the awesome testimony bearers LOL). I still feel bad and I sound like a frog now and I cant really use the phone cuz my hubby cant seem to hear me without me yelling only I cant yell ...

So I am off to work on the kitchen, go grocery shopping NO I havent been yet!(we did go to sams and get a FEW things but my cubbards are pretty bare I havent really been in a month) and pick up the kids...

on a side note to friends who are overdue on their babies... i saw a friend today who had number 11 right after the first AND he was 14 days overdue and they finally induced him! He is TOOOO cute and was actually very tiny even for 2 wks over...

Keep on tickin....