"I wanna be a Bothell Cougar..."

"I wanna wear the blue and white... I wanna be the STATE CHAMPION... I can't wait 'til Friday night!" Well, the game will be Saturday night, but that's how the chant goes. Bothell beat Ferris of Spokane on Saturday 14-7. The picture at the left is my former student and BHS running back Jon Kirchner. Eric, Kaylin, and I will be at the Tacoma Dome Saturday night at 7:30 pm to watch Bothell play for the Washington State 4A championship. And this year, they're going to win! :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are some things I'm thankful for. I'm copying this part from Jen: God, Husband, Family, Friends and Country are all givens. Consider it said.

• staying at home with Kaylin
  
• Kaylin's nap time
• disposable diapers
• my super comfortable and warm bed
• my washing machine
• my sewing machine
• living an hour or less from my parents and Eric's parents
• both sets of my grandparents are still living and live an hour away
  
• my fleece blanket
• hot chocolate
• pepsi
• cell phones
  
• playgroup
• the fact that longer length shirts and knee length skirts are "in"
• gift bags so I don't always have to use wrapping paper
• my calendar
• chocolate milkshakes
• good cheeseburgers
• onion rings
• guacamole
• low maintenance makeup and hairstyles
• being crafty: cards/scrapbooking/jewelry making/sewing/whatever
• Eric comes home for lunch every day
• good books
• keyless entry
• trunk popper
  
• the sound of the rain on my roof
• the sound of Kaylin laughing or clapping

Eric just called to say he'll be home in less than 5 minutes, which is about 45 minutes earlier than normal. And me, the great wife that I am, haven't even started dinner. I actually haven't even thought about dinner. I'm still full from the nacho party the laurels class had this afternoon. I don't have to go to mutual tonight (another thing I'm thankful for!), but Eric still does. I did bake the cookies Eric needs to bring to bribe his boys to come tonight. I guess I will have to end my list right there. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!!

Go Bothell!

Bothell is now 12-0 after last night's quarterfinal 42-14 win over last year's state champions Oak Harbor. Last year Bothell lost to Oak Harbor 21-14 in the state championship game. Next week we play Ferris of Spokane in the semi-finals. The picture at the left is Kurt Stottlemeyer intercepting an Oak Harbor pass. I had him in one of my Core 2 classes last year. Go Cougars!!!

Things I wish I liked

So I was reading Nicole's post following my tagging her (I'm sure that is terrible grammar, but oh well). Anyway, Nicole mentioned wanting to have a garden and other plants and things to take care of in her yard. As I was reading that I thought to myself, I wish I liked to work in the yard and garden. But alas, I do not. We actually paid the son of one of Eric's coworkers to tear apart our yard last summer and then we put bark down so all the nasty weeds wouldn't grow back as quickly. I'm happy to report that it worked wonders and I barely pulled any weeds this summer. Eric mows the lawn and trims the bushes, sometimes I deadhead the roses, and that's about it. The thought made me wonder, what other things do I wish I liked? Here is my list for the moment:

1. gardening and yard work--as previously explained
2. pickles--I think pickles smell interesting and I used to try one per year, I stopped tasting one per year when I finally realized that I will never like pickles
3. cleaning out my computer/craft room--I've organized bits and pieces, but it needs WORK

That's all I have for now. What's on your list???

I've been tagged...

Kelsey tagged me and so now I'm supposed to list 6 things that most people don't know about me. So here we go:

1. I have 4 fewer teeth than your average adult. When I was in 5th grade (I think) the orthodontist decided that my mouth was far too small for my apparently super huge teeth so he wanted me to get 4 of them yanked before I got braces. This does not include the 4 wisdom teeth I had pulled in high school.

2. I had the chicken pox TWICE. I had a light case when I was a baby and gave them to my mom who was pregnant with Kelsey (Hmmmm... let's ponder that one for a minute). I got them again, this time a bad case, in first grade.

3. I have had hallucinations. When I had the chicken pox in 1st grade my mom gave me Benadryl. We quickly found out that I am allergic to Benadryl. I ended up having lots of hallucinations and I can remember some of them to this day. There was an Indian with a feather on his head dancing around the kitchen, there was a bird flying in the living room, there were covered wagons crossing the street as we drove to the ER, and my personal favorite... while I was talking to my mom I hallucinated that Kelsey was standing next to me and I was telling my mom that Kelsey had stolen my dog watch... Kelsey was at school. My poor mom!

4. I have a scar on my arm from a girl's fingernail while playing in a basketball game. That girl had some claws!

5. I can talk in front of a gym full of thousands of high school kids (while in high school and currently) but am deathly afraid of speaking in sacrament meeting.

6. I have punched a boy. I was in elementary school and I thought this annoying boy who I will call "Doug" was being mean to our neighbor girl. So I walked over to him and punched him in the face. I proceeded to go hide behind the storage shed at the edge of the playground until a "duty" (that's what we called the playground monitor ladies) came to find me. She sent me to the principal's office. I don't remember getting in trouble, though.

So there you have it. I now tag Jenn, Erin, and Kim. (I know you don't have blogs, but you need to and this is my motivation to you to start one. You already have something for your first post!) I also tag Becca, Nicole, and Katie. Get thinking girls!

Bring on Christmas!

So now that Halloween is over, I figure that it's time for Christmas. I finished our Christmas stockings today. I've been working on them off and on for the past week and a half. I actually finished the two red ones on Halloween. They're not actually officially finished yet. I'm going to cross-stitch an initial on each one in metallic gold. Eric wants me to do our entire names in case we want to use the same initial for multiple kids. Like if we had a Kaylin, Kevin, and Korbin. Doubtful. Anyway... the story behind the stockings. I actually made two stockings and a matching tree skirt two years ago. The problem was that the stockings were way too small. We didn't even use them for Santa, we both used our old ones from growing up. So this year I decided to alter the stocking pattern to make it longer. I decided that Eric and I would both have red ones and that the kids would all be green. Originally I was red and Eric was green, but I didn't want to continue the red=girl and green=boy pattern for multiple reasons. One reason is that it might look weird having no pattern when they're all hung up (yes, that is the math nerd in me coming out). Another reason is that if all the kids are green, I could make extra stockings now and not have to wait until future kids are born. So that is why there are 4 green stockings in the picture. That doesn't mean that we are going to have 4 kids, it was just an easy number to get material for. And if for some crazy reason we have more than 4 kids, then hopefully I'll still have some leftover fabric to make more. I have extra of the patterned fabric but I will have to buy more green. I'm sure I'll be able to find a matching green so I'm not worried. I'll try to remember to post pictures once our initials (or names??) are on them. Maybe I'll even get a picture of them by the tree skirt so you can see that too.

And Kelsey, don't worry, I didn't forget that you tagged me. I am just having a hard time coming up with stuff :-).

Pizza recall??

I was watching the news this afternoon and saw a story about a pizza recall! Apparently some pizzas with pepperoni by Totino's or Jeno's might have eColi. I checked my freezer and I had one of the pizzas! I bet we ate at least one of the recalled pizzas because the one that I found we've had for a few weeks. Poor Eric, I had to toss one of his precious frozen pizzas.