Tag from Becky

I think: about homeless people a lot. Especially here in Seattle. Sometimes I give money sometimes I don't. I don't know what else to do.
I know: the (k+1) theorum
I want: my old body back!
I have: the world's best husband and a beautiful daughter!
I wish: I had a cool mom job like a "graphic artist" or "designer" or "pediatrician" --I'm totally craving a cool mom job right now.
I hate: the papparazzi and Judge Judy!!! What is this suing society we've become--we so don't live in reality anymore. Tort Reform!
I miss: friends
I fear: not being the mom and wife I want to be.
I smell: Fresh Washington Trees
I crave: Brownies.
I search: for Adam's stuff all the time! ;) ( he would say the same thing about me)
I wonder:when I should get pregnant again.
I regret: some of my choices, and my caddiness sometimes.
I love: my family and friends and the gospel
I always: feel inadequate to everybody else. (this is so me too- sorry for copying)
I am not: a pessimist.
I believe: that someday Nick and Jessica will get back together!! ;)
I dance: with one signature move that Adam always makes fun of! (ofcourse--what else is a Heder good for than to make fun of you!)
I sing: Pretty bad Harmony to good old songs by Whitney Houston
I write: on my blog, journalling is a thing of the past. the future is now.
I lose: it when I don't win games: checkers, scrabble, you name it- I lose it. no pun intended.
I win: changing-diaper-battles against Madeline ;)
I never: shave my legs (just kidding) um... shave my armpits (kidding again)... scrapbook! ha- there's one.
I listen: to the traffic on the freeway! (We live by a freeway)
I am scared: of rapists.
I need: a personal stylist.
I am happy about: my life! It honestly couldn't be better!

This was a tag from my lovely friend Becky who is about to give birth to her third beautiful girl! I don't think people read my blog enough to tag others but I'll try: I tag: Lauren and Glittersmama and Rachel

My new dresses!

This dress is kind of funky, the black part bubbles below the waist- Adam thought it was poor sewing (oh the untrained mind...) but that's how it's supposed to be. And the dress has POCKETS! Not that I would use them (just when no one was looking) and is very comfy. It would be cute if I could find some purple shoes to match the band, but I don't think that's going to happen, so I guess I'll stick with black. I don't have any grey. Suggestions?
Does this dress look too provocative??? I do want to wear it to church. I'm thinking either black or dark grey tights and a cute cream T-strap patent leather shoe.

(This post is for my sis-in-law, Sarah aka my fashion-counselor) But anyone may comment, ofcourse. I got these two new dresses for almost 1/2 price!!! What do you think? I think they're pretty cute! Yeah! I love new clothes...esp when they're 1/2 price!

My big dilemna STILL is comfy mom-shoes. Who has a good pair of comfy, yet cute mom shoes to walk around in all day, play on the playground and still look good, and they cannot be flip flops. ??? I don't think that shoe exists.

PS_ this is not me in the pictures

Yes, we're in Seattle

Ok, ok, I know, everyone's been wondering... I'm sure the question of where are we now is eating away all of your spare thoughts day after day... So let me FINALLY quench your wondering and tell you that we're in Seattle, WA. The weather has been great so far, and we are loving it. We are in a condo- quite different from the lavish home we had in CA. We have been busy adjusting and getting the AC fixed (total nightmare), anlol.d now I have to replace the garage door opener (Adam lost it- hehe)... so I haven't had much blogging time. If you've ever been to Seattle, please pipe up and tell me what you like or don't like about it, as I''m kind of burned out from doing my enthusiastic scouting of the area like I did in California. I don't know if I will be able to handle the weather- that's what worries me the most. But it's a pretty laid back big city, which is nice. Everyone I've met so far has been really nice and unpretentious. The idea is for us to choose between Palo Alto and Seattle, which I think will be a really hard decision. Any votes??? Now that we're here, it's funny, a big part of me just wants to go back to Utah. lol. Maybe it's just because that's my comfort zone. Anyway. That's what we've been up to.

P.S. I had to post this picture of the night scene of Seattle, because I've never seen it!!!

"Our" dog, Beau--we'll miss you!!

Who knew I could get so attached to a dog?? It was only two months that we watched Beau, but both Madeline and I totally fell in love. He was a great dog and he totally fell in love with us too. He followed me everyday all around the house: back and forth, upstairs and downstairs over and over throughout the day. We nursed him back to health after his dog attack, and he slept upstairs for a few days because he was so lonely and sad (sorry owners- hope that was ok!). And we found out that he snores incredibly loud and his farts STINK! But it was worth it. We had so much fun playing with him and Madeline would crawl all over him--he didn't love that but he would tolerate it, like a good dog.

Once when I was getting this ball to throw for him, he walked all over Madeline, scratching her and knocking her down! It was the one time I got mad at him. I hit him on the behind and banished him to the porch. I felt bad later and went out and lectured him like he could understand me, and then I told him I forgave him and gave him a hug. lol. Then we played ball.

I have thought about him several times since we've left, and I hope he doesn't think I've abandoned him--but what else could he think?

I think Adam secretly hoped that this experience would deter me from wanting to get a dog (I've always wanted a dog my whole life) but it did just the opposite. Unfortunately, we won't be settled for a couple of years at least (sigh), but taking care of Beau helped to fill that interim.

Visit from Family

Grandpa and Madeline
Clara on the beach!
Madeline on the beach

We had a fun visit from the Heders this past week! We went to Santa Cruz, the beach and just hung out at home! We played a mean game of Trivial Pursuit. haha. (I hate Trivial Pursuit because it makes me feel stupid)

We didn't have any pictures of Rachel, but here is her baby Clara who was sooooooooooooo dang cute (and chubby)! We had a great time--the Heders are always a blast. Thanks for visiting and making us feel like we had friends again!!

Lame Father's Day

So, I have botched Father's day as well as Adam's birthday this year, and Christmas. So for Christmas, I wanted to send him hang gliding, which would have been awesome, but it didn't work out, so I just gave him a tie (granted it was a SWEET tie), and for his birthday, I pretty much did nothing, and now father's day... I was totally going to redeem myself... I called every Best Buy, Target, Sears, in the surrounding area to find a Wii, which Adam has totally been wanting, and everywhere was OUT! What the heck! So, I had to do something, and I bought a Wii-mote (as we call it) for him, as a teaser to say, 'I will get you the Wii as soon as it comes back out again'. I thought he would be stoked. Well, he wasn't. He was just confused and disappointed. He kept thinking all day that I was playing a joke on him and that I secretly had it set up downstairs and any minute I was going to say "Just kidding!! It's downstairs all set up for you!!!" How awesome that would have been! But instead he finally said at the end of the day, "So, you really don't have the Wii set up downstairs do you?" I felt like such a turd. What the heck kind of present is a Wii-mote??? Later that evening I said, well did you kind of like your present? He said "yes, I will be upstairs playing with my Wii-mote for the rest of the evening". Well, at least he had a sense of humor about it.

Just us

Beep Beep!
Chomp. MJ is getting her two bottom teeth in.

Ha! I've killed the beast!

Madeline LOVES her babydoll. I'll have to video her kissing it with her open mouthed kisses--it's so cute! She's just chillin' watching Barney. lol. She totally loves Barney.
um...you think Madeline likes dogs???...watching Barney again.
Sun bathing princess.
We went to an Oakland A's game. Soooo fun! We could see the Oakland temple from the parking lot of the stadium.
Playing in the sandbox.