Kenny's Top 5

I figured to make it fair (not that I was really worried) and have Kenny pick his top 5. I also thought that since I put myself out there, I would make him get out of his comfort zone. He doesn't want to share any thoughts, so I'll just make sure you know who they are. Like any men will need help knowing who any of these women are :)

Kenny's Top 5:

Catherine Zita Jones

Anne Hathaway

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Liv Tyler

Angelina Jolie

The only commentary I can add is, he likes brunettes!!

My Top 5

My friend challenged anyone who reads her blog to pick their top 5. I didn't realize how hard that could be because I like so many different actors (and singers) for many different reasons. This has been fun to see how my tastes have changed since I was a teenager. Back then it was all about Jason Priestley. Whom, by the way, Kenny met at one of the races he was at and didn't even take a picture for me. I guess I can forgive him because he didn't come back with a picture of Angele Seelling either.

Without any further rambling, here are the 5 I could narrow it down to:

Robert Downey Jr: What can I say, he has just aged well! I love watching him in "Sherlock Holmes" and in "Iron Man". I remember back to when he was Charlie Chaplin and thought he was pretty cute, back then I was in High School and you already know where my mind was. Those eyes and the grey at the temples, oh my!

Vin Diesel: Really, need I say more? He just screams Testosterone! He knows how to handle a car and a gun. One of the few actors that will keep my attention even if I don't like the movie. Now, that's saying something. I could say more, but this is my family blog :)

Nicholas Cage: Oh, he had me back at "Moonstruck" and I've been hooked ever since. Most recently I have completely loved him in "Gone in 60 seconds" and "National Treasure". I love watching how arrogant he can be. I think it's that arrogant attitude and the fact that you wouldn't think he can be tough but he is, is what makes him stay on my top 5 list.

Brendan Fraser: he is so cute! He has been so much fun to watch since "Encino Man" (boy that dates me). I love that he seems to just have fun being an actor. It's fun watching him in a comedy and in slightly more serious roles. I really, really love him in the "Mummy". I thought it was interesting that it was hard to find an even slightly "sexy" picture of him, most of his pictures had his family in them. I think that made him even more endearing to me.

Trace Adkins: Here we go again, can we say testosterone? and that voice...it makes me melt. I have only been able to see him in concert once, but it was memorable. I also still think that he should have won "The Apprentice"! Once again, I really like how committed to his family he is. I will always keep my delusional thought that "Chrome" was written for me.

I know that each of these men have a past (which also draws me to them) and a small part of their lives that are private and only for them. Each of them in one way or another are incredibly handsome to me. For all of them I love their characters they play and that none of them take themselves completely serious, they all have a fun side to them.

And, don't worry, there is always a place for Sir Sean Connery. I know he's getting older (okay old) but there will always be a place for my favorite 007!

Snow and Flowers

This is our view from our balcony and I love seeing the dusting of snow on the mountains from the storm yesterday. Have I said how much I love the view that we have? I can see across the entire valley. I would miss these mountains if we ever had to move away.

Here is another picture of the mountains further south and I can see our next storm coming in. I just hope my boys can get home from school before it decides to storm at our place.

And with the grey sky's and snow, Kenny brought me some bright beautiful yellow flowers. I love how they brighten my day every time I look at them. I love that even after 16 years Kenny still brings me flowers!

Our New Place

I finally took some pictures of our new home. Please keep in mind that I was still unpacking when I took these. We love our new place and have been settling in quit nicely. The boys seem to be really liking their new schools and Charlie has been his normal "I can't adjust" self. Luckily Bella has been more adaptable like the boys and has done fine with the move.

This is our living room. I know the picture makes it look a little squishy, and it is a little, but we have room to put up all 4 recliners. We have loved watching movies together in our new living room.

Our dining room/office. I thought this was going to be really tight, but we have had plenty of room and I even have the table cleaned off now so we can eat dinner together. I love being able to look out those large windows while I gather my thoughts while I'm writing.

Our bedroom... It is squishy in here, but I love it. And your not allowed to really notice the laundry on my bed. I have hope that one day I will have maybe 2 days in a row when I'm not folding laundry and have it all over my bed.

You can't see the drapes really well, but they have red, orange, brown, grey, and a yellow color in them. I love them because they are not what I would normally have picked out. I have some things that will match them perfectly to put on the wall above our bed and above our night stand.

This is the other side of our room. For the past few years I haven't really decorated our room, but with having the books in our room I was able to put out some of our pictures of just Kenny and I and some of our things that we love. It is the first time in years that we feel like our room is ours and we love seeing our things out on display.

This is the boys room... They have been loving having the master bedroom. I'm loving having their stuff contained in one room. I thought they might have a hard time sharing a room but they have done wonderful.

Here is the other side of their bedroom, don't ya love the shot of the toilette? As with all of the other rooms, we will get our pictures hung soon.

This has been such a good move for us and we love where we are at and since we went to the wrong ward on Sunday, I can't wait to meet our neighbors. I also can't wait to get all of my pictures on the walls.

All Boxed Up

We're going backward for a moment. I wanted to show you the chaos that we enjoyed living in while we were getting ready to move. I also have to add that all the boxing was done by Kenny, Kelton, Taylor, Becca, Cheryl Thomas, Rebecca Wynn, Nancy Stephens and Sister Nielson (sorry, I don't know your first name). I think I was only able to pack about 4 boxes and then would have to rest. It just about killed me to have everyone else do my work, but Thank You for all of your help and love.

Above and below is the living room. We tip toed around these boxes and I'm glad that it worked out okay and that even the pets were careful because within this pile was my china and my Christmas dishes.

You can't really tell, but there was just this narrow passageway to get into the kitchen.

A couple thoughts: I personally love that I took this showing how things really were with the blankets everywhere and the box on the chair, sometimes seeing real life can be an eye opener.

Next thought is that my green plant stand that is next to the orange and grey backpack is missing, I can't find it. If anyone out there knows what happened to my plant stand please let me know. I would really like to get my plant off my kitchen table. Thank You!

Below is the dinning area of our kitchen, this is the only part of the kitchen I can show you. If I had turned the camera and let you see my counter tops, it would have been to much of reality.

Anyway, I can't believe that two people came in here and boxed my entire kitchen in less than an hour. They were amazing!!

This is one section of the bonus room that was above the garage. This is the cleanest I have seen that room in over six months (why did I just admit that?). I think I gave up on that room when I realized that no matter what I did the carpet would always be protected by a layer of Lego's.

Here is the "blue room" also known as the "girl room" or just "mom's room". I guess they all worked except for it was also the catch all room. This was where everything went when we didn't know what to do with it. The pile of clothing on the ironing board should be proof enough. This was the one room that I walked into probably 20 times to pack and then walked right back out because I just couldn't think of what to do with anything in there. I know the obvious answer would be to put it into a box, but I didn't want to keep some of the things in the room and I didn't want to pack them, move them, and then try to figure out what to do.

Nancy was wonderful because she just tore through there like a tornado and had everything organized and boxed in no time. I'm glad she did because I have found things that I want to use in decorating our new place.

Thanks to everyones help, we were able to move everything out of the house quickly and get it loaded onto the trucks. Our only draw back was that as all of our furniture was moved out to the yard so it could be organized and loaded quickly, we had several people stop and look over our furniture and things like we were having a yard sale.

A couple of the guys that were outside with our things did have to tell one person that we were not having a yard sale. It never occurred to me that people would think that. Now that I know this, I will make a sign that says "this is not a yard sale" and post it somewhere.

Please don't let that worry any of you, we are not planning on moving again anytime soon (haaaahaaaahaaaaa). We never plan, it just happens.

Thank you to everyone that helped us. I'm not going to list individuals because I'll miss someone.

Thank you to my family that was able to help!!

Thank you to Kenny's family that was able to come and help!!

Thank you to a large portion of the Elders Quorum for helping us!!

One last Thank You to Sister Nielsen and Sister Merritt for the wonderful dinners that you made for us. They were so good!!

Mobster Mommy

I have been having a hard time waking up in the mornings to get the boys to school, so this is what I looked like this morning. Yes, that is my black velvet "jogging" outfit. I really don't know what these are called and I don't jog, but ya get the point.

When I got into the car with Taylor this morning, Taylor looked over at me and started by saying, "No offense mom..."

When Taylor starts a comment that way it usually isn't followed by something nice. Last time he started a comment like this to me he said that my dress looked a little moomooish. I was really nervous to hear what he could say this morning, there was a lot to choose from.

What I got this morning was, "but you look like a mob boss."

Was it the leisure look in crushed velvet that gave him this idea? I'm not admiting that any of the Sopranos episodes could have given him an idea like this, nope!

So, tonight he brought in his fedora and had me put it on. Because, you know that I can't be any kind of a good mob boss with out a fedora.

Now that I look at myself, I would have to agree with Taylor a little. I have the build, the clothes, and the attitude. I would need a different Fedora, I don't think this style fits me.

Has anyone else had to start their day like this?

Fist Bump

I did see the GI doctor on Monday and found out that I do have to have a colonoscopy and an endoscopy. Before I went to my appointment I was joking with my sister-in-law and told her that I want everything done at one time. She thought they would need to do is separately. I really want both procedures done at one time and I said that they could have one person at one end and another at the other end and "fist bump" in the middle. We laughed a lot over that but she still thought that it would most likely be done separately.

Later (still before my appointment) I told my mom what I wanted and she thought it was funny but I don't remember her saying to much about it. I then suggested that we could bet as to where they would "fist bump". She ruined it by being a nurse and knowing exactly where each scope ended. That was the end of betting, I thought it would have been fun. Sick, but fun.

When I went to my appointment the doctor informed me that I did need both the upper and lower scope and that we can do them at the same time. No way!

My appointment isn't until the first part of November, but I will keep you posted. Not about the prepping part (yuuuuuck), but the after part when I am coming out of anesthesia. Post anesthesia is always entertaining.