I had no idea that I had been tagged....or maybe I just forgot

ag!
I have been tagged by my sister-in-law Amber

10 years ago I...
1- I just started my senior year this time 10 years ago
2- Dancing was my life
3- I worked at a sporting goods store and LOVED it
4- I was probably partying...that's all I did pretty much my senior year
5- I had just met the person who introduced me to the "mormon" religion as most people call it. I like to refer it as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.


5 things on today's "to do" list...
1- Well, it's 10:00 at night so...Read my scriptures
2- Read part of my book I got from the library, called Eat, Pray, Love
3- Put my pajamas on
4- Go to bed
5- Fall asleep
Tomorrow's to do list is take KennaDee to preschool, shop at Safeway, clean my house, learn new recipes that are dairy free, sew buttons on a few shirts.

5 snacks I enjoy...
1- wheat thins
2- Dr. Pepper
3- brownies (although not lately because I can't have milk)
4- grapes
5- pita chips and hummus

5 things I would do if I were a millionaire...
1- pay my tithing
2- pay off my house and all my bills (along with my parents)
3- TRAVEL, TRAVEL, TRAVEL
4- put some back for my children's college fund
5- Finish decorating my home and yard

5 places I have lived...
1-Mancos, CO
2-Cortez, CO
3-Austin, TX
4-Southern CA
5-Maryland and currently in Virginia

5 jobs that I have had...
1-bagger at a grocery store
2-hostess
3-sales representative
4-secretary
5-Independent Beauty Consultant for MK Cosmetics

Rules:
Each player answers the question themselves. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment letting them know that they've been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person that tagged you know when you've answered the questions on your blog.

So I tag:
1. Katie, Sara, Emily, Monica, Heather

Learning to Sew

Well, I just got finished reading several posts of my friend, Sara's blog. Her entries are always so enticing and fun to read. Too bad I didn't get blessed with the creative writing skills she did. Oh well. So, one of my friends is teaching me how to sew. Yes, that's right....I never learned how to sew. My first project was curtains. I'm not completely finished with them but when I finish I will take pictures. They add so much to our family room.

Now, you have to understand, my friend has two children who are very close in age with my children. She has a boy who is a year younger than KennaDee and a daughter who is a month in a half older than Jackson. Well, we were trying activity after activity to keep them entertained while we cut, sewed, measured, cut and sewed my curtains. It was seriously an all day project. We started at 2 and they didn't leave until 9:00 that evening. Where were our husbands? Out. Anyhow. We gave them pudding and it seemed that that had done the trick. They were quiet just eating their pudding downstairs while we were upstairs sewing. (Or so we thought.)
After the few minutes of silence, all of a sudden we hear laughing.....not just any laughter, but the kind of laughter that puts you on the floor and your stomach aching. Yeah, they were laughing hysterically. Megan goes downstairs to see what was so funny and she found Jackson like this.









Yep, they thought it was sooo funny to cover Jackson in pudding. His hair was covered, his clothes covered and the floor had several spots all over the carpet.

When Megan went downstairs, she called me, "Shara, we might have a problem," (she said this while laughing as well) "and you might want to bring your camera." I thought, oh they probably threw pudding all over my couch, so I grabbed my camera and ran downstairs.
I have to admit, I started to laugh until it occured to me that pudding has milk in it. YIKES!! I snapped a couple pictures and then ran Jackson to the bathtub. In case any of you do not know, he breaks into a huge rash and then the rash turns into little white welts wherever the milk touches. After the welts, it turns to excema. Poor guy. He loves pudding and wasn't too happy when I washed it all off.

Our day continued like that. Spill after spill after spill. That's what happens when you are so focused on something and leave two 2-3 year olds unattended for more than 5 minutes.

Japanese Exchange Student

For a week in August we had a foreign exchange student from Japan come stay with us and it was soo much fun! They had a specific schedule that they followed with the tour bus during the day for Monday through Friday and then Saturday and Sunday, they were just with us. We took her Six Flags in Maryland and she absolutely loved it. She said that they don't have huge amusement parks like that in Japan. Sunday we took her to the visitors center. She watched The Testaments in Japanese and they toured the area with the return missionary from Japan. She said she had a really great time.
It was kinda funny, she didn't speak very much English so she had this electronic translator and sometimes, I would try and ask her something and she would just give me this blank stare, then we would both smile, laugh and she'd hand me her translator. We had lots of fun together.

I didn't get too many pics of her but here she is with us on our couch.









And here she is with her friends at the visitors center.









If you ever have the opportunity to take in an exchange student, I would strongly encourage it. We had Ayane for a week and I wish she could have stayed longer. It seemed like right when we were communicating well, she had to leave. But it was lots of fun.