Have you ever...

Stole this from Lonna's blog...you copy and paste and then highlight the ones you've done...
Feel free to play along!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (as far as they will let you now...not the top :( )
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Ran a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain.
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies--nope but I sure have eaten my fair share. (I second that!)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma...nope, but have a good story about Shane donating!
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating...didn't kill, but helped prepare
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

A day (or two) in our life.

Jennie issued the challenge to document in pictures a day in your life. I have to admit that I actually forgot until about 9:30, so you have part of 2 days to make up for it!! So here is a typical day in pictures!

We start the day out with breakfast...cereal, eggo waffles, frozen something or other...I'm not a get up and make breakfast kind of person! Then I make lunches...and we wait for one of the kids (usually Gemma) to start scripture study. (Someday I'll hear it about this picture!)After the younger kids off to school, I head to the gym.

No day would be complete without a fountain diet drink!

Austin will play Lego Star Wars or watch cartoons while I'm at the gym...(Notice the change of clothes...one of many throughout the day!)
Today we are heading to the park with playgroup...Here we are getting in the car.
Here's Austin doing the monkey bars...
Austin after falling off the monkey bars...Can't you see the scrape on his chin?!
Eating lunch at the yummy Central Market Cafe...
Right after this I told Austin to wait to do the monkey bars...he didn't...Luckily Lonna was there to help him up after falling flat on his back. We're still hearing about it today...poor guy!
Paige made these yummy cookies!
Now I get to work...right now it's finishing up the magazine (Sneak peek look at our back cover!)
Then it's time for more cookie! (This is why I go to the gym!)Then it's time for homework
folding laundry (kids do it!)
Driving kids to activity days
dinner (Curry and Naan Bread...YUMMO!)
baths and bedtime for kids!
I finish up data entry work
Shane and I finish up the day watching our shows!

Survivor & The Office

I'm still laughing at how Randy got voted out of Survivor!

Best Birthday Dinner!

Tonight Shane took me to a restaurant called Jasper's...let me add an aside here...Shane and I went to a thank you to the media of Austin in July/Aug sometime. They gave away gift baskets from businesses around Austin and we won one...(most likely because Shane was there too...I don't win anything! :) In this basket was a gift card for dinner for two at Jasper's. So we took advantage of it for my birthday!
This place is AWESOME! It's a new special night out place! Since it was all paid for we tried it all! Appetizer, salad, entree and dessert! Everything from the food, to the atmosphere to the service was great! If you watch Iron Chef, you will appreciate this place! The chef who started it in Dallas beat Bobby Flay on the Iron Chef.
I totally felt like a judge on Iron Chef. The presentation of the food was amazing and it made you want to try it all! I am not a seafood eater...apparently (apart from the crab) I have never eaten seafood cooked right. I tried the Rock Shrimp...which was yummy and even tried Shane's tuna...which just melted in my mouth...If I could have gotten past the fact that it was raw tuna I probably would have eaten another bite!
I ordered focaccia bread (yummy!), the house salad (amazing pecan pieces on it), and the baby back ribs (fall off the bones literally!).
Right now I am enjoying the Butterfinger Creme Brulee. It had a homemade piece of butterfinger on it and the whole thing is amazing! I can't wait to try the other 2 "mini" desserts in the fridge!
I think my favorite part (besides the food) was the server. He always said "Of course" when you told him what you want...as if there was no other choice and your choice was the best there was! or "My pleasure" I have to say I love it when I am told this...When Shane and I were on vacation once, every person at the hotel said, "My pleasure"...it makes me feel as if I am the most important person in the world...This also makes me think that I should be saying this to my children...It might help me have a better attitude...I've yet to do it though! :)
Anyway...the best part of the evening was when they said..."The check is covered." We practically had to beg the waiter to let us leave a tip!
All in all it was a good "21st" birthday! ;)
(I was going to put pictures of the food up, but I can't get them off the website...you'll just have to go here to check it out!)

More time...Maybe?!

We have mailed in our first issue of our magazine for the final layout and printing...now we just have to give final approvals! I'm hoping I can find time to post about the other things that have been going on! (I'm pretty sure there was more going on while I was so focused and engrossed with putting the magazine together...I have four children right?!:) ) More to come...but right now I am going to bed!