Tag: (game). An informal playground game involving chasing and touching.

1. If you could tell your teenage self something what would it be?
Jess: Make more videos
Nate: Listen to your parents

2. Did you do any extracurricular activities in high school?
Jess: Soccer, Cheerleading, Waterpolo, Senior Class President (you can call me Kelly from Saved by the Bell)
Nate: If you consider sluffing extracurricular or being in a rock band

3. What did you do in your free time?
Jess: Caused ruckus with friends, drank way too many slurpees, fried my brain with hours of MTV, and sat in my room scheming up new ways to spend every second with Nate.
Nate: Rock Bands, Soccer, Jess.

4. Coolest thing you did in high school.
Jess: Drove a tractor down Center Street.
Nate: Met Jess.

5. Did you have a boyfriend/girlfriend in high school?
Jess: Met Nate my Junior year---and now I'm laughing at Nate's comment below
Nate: Like the sands of the sea

6. Songs that come to mind...
Jess: Lots of Missy Elliot and all sorts of awful hip hop (I know, I know), Radiohead, Cake, Moby, Incubus, Abba, Matchbox 20 (played their CD over and over again my freshman year because Brody Lewis asked me out while one of their songs were playing), Romeo and Juliet Soundtrack, and Ida.
Nate: Quicksand, 9 Spine, Incubus, Think Tank, Piknik, Snapcase, Good Riddance, Goldfinger, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Intergallactic-skankin-turtle-trailertrash

7. If you could change one thing what would it be?
Jess: I would have taken a leave of absence my Senior year to taking care of my dying grandparents (geesh, that came out really intense)
Nate: I would have taken more advanced classes rather than carpentry and floral and greenhouse management.

8. What did you think you would be when you grew up?
Jess: I just knew I didn't want to be a teacher because that's what everyone said I should be (typical adolescent thinking)
Nate: A Rock Star living in New York

9. Picture of Self----Nate Senior Year, Me Junior Year



10. Craziest thing you did in high school
Jess: Rolled out of the beast while Aimee was turning left on Main Street in Kamas--the window knob and the door knob sure looked the same in that blasted car!
Nate: Ran naked around the baseball diamond at Barnes Park on various occasions--once hiding from the cops in the dugout.

P.S. Thanks for the tag Julie!!

Sonic

Tew's Treat

Blue Coconut Cream Slush $2.60

I prefer to be totally ignorant to what it is made of (blue coconut?) and how many calories it has.

Thanks to Valerie for introducing us!

P.S. Happy Hour is every day from 2pm-4pm (1/2 price on all beverages)

The Perfect Summer Dress?

I have been on a summer dress hunt for about 3 years now. When we lived in Philly I found the most perfect summer dress at H& M --it had little blue and red flowers, darling cap sleeves, and didn't show my undies to the world. But I thought it was too expensive, and probably made by a 5 year old in Peru, so I didn't get it. Then I talked about it for days and days and Nate finally told me I should get it if I loved it so much. But alas, when I went back, they only had a size 0 and a size 99 left. So I contemplated buying the size 0 to wear on my pinky finger but decided against it.

Anyone seen any cute dresses out and about?

PLaYtiMe

This past weekend we were baby-sitting two darling little people, Emily 8yrs. and Ben 6yrs., while their parents were in Arizona. We had a busy weekend watching Emily's soccer game, bowling, swimming, going to the dinosaur museum, reading lots of books, and playing!

My ranunculus are blooming!

Fritz Update

Fritz's little toe is doing much better! We have been torturing him with antibiotics and foot washes twice a day and it looks like we may have a full recovery. Keep your fingers crossed because the loud vet said if it doesn't get better he will need surgery. Here are some pics I took of the boys today while they were outside frolicking and rolling in the dirt. Typical boys.

My poor baby Frittata

This morning when I was petting Fritz I noticed that one of the toenails on his back leg was red and looked really infected. I had to put him in a cat straight jacket to get a closer look. It was swollen and looked pretty gross. (and it smelled awful!! i actually just had a gag reflex when I typed that)

I took him in to the vet and he prescribed an antibiotic (that was $30!!!) and we have to give it to him twice a day (which is a two person job) and we also have to clean his toe the best we can and put antibiotic ointment on it.

Fritz was such a trooper and was very well behaved despite being in pain and having the loudest doctor poking at him.

So when we got home he went straight for his food bowl and I let him eat for awhile while I tried to devise a plan to clean his toe. I first tried to let him lay in a favorite spot of his (the office chair) while I gently tried to clean it with a warm washcloth. That worked for about 5 seconds. Then I decided to put him in the football hold so he couldn't escape. Well that worked for about 30 seconds until I couldn't control the squirming and he went flying out of my arms. I was able to get a little Neosporin on that he licked off shortly after. I am going to wait for Nate to get home before I attempt again. My poor baby boy!!

Sobrinas y Sobrinos

All it takes is a birthday cake to get my nieces and nephews to be your new bestest friend. It was Grandma Gayle's birthday Sunday so she got the lovely experieces of having 5 great-grandkids help her blow out her candles. It was pretty cute.

(pic 2: Left to Right- Brenna, Kenny, JJ, Morgan, Katie)

Snapped this shot of Katie as she patiently waited for me to bounce her on the trampoline. She didn't quite grasp the "crack the egg" concept so we went for "salt the slug" instead.

Note to self: Never take 3 children under the age of 4 on the trampoline again. Even if they beg you. It's an anxiety attack waiting to happen.