Flashback Friday

This week, I am going way back. 5 whole years. This is the weekend that Mike and I got married. It's been a great, eventful 5 years, but I wouldn't take one of those days back.

Happy Anniversary, Mike.

I love you!

What a bunch of GQ's, well mostly the one in the middle!

So funny, I had to share

Christmas party after Christmas party

Yesterday was Mike's work Christmas party and our ward Christmas party. The work party was at Costco, complete with a $150 cash card. However, that was at 7 AM! Too early for me and really too early for Ethan. But this is a new, important job for Mike so he went solo. After he got home, we piled in the car in our pj's and headed over to our ward Christmas party complete with breakfast, yummy breakfast. I was so hungry and ate more food for breakfast than I have eaten in a really long time. We had a short program on the meaning of Christmas then sang Christmas songs and when we sang "Here Comes Santa Clause," in walked Santa Clause. Ethan is afraid of Santa and won't go near him. Even after all the kids had left the building and when Santa walked past Ethan, Ethan came running to me crying. Some day he'll like Santa! It was a fun morning.

After Saturday chores, we headed to the mall to look for a new coat for Mike. We went to Mervyn's to find one, but they didn't have any in his size that we wanted to spend money on. He did find one at Burlington. I found a new dress at Down East. Normally I wouldn't pay full price, but hey Mike's grandparents send us money for Christmas and that's what I decided to do with mine. Mike bought his coat with his. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa LeDuc! We love our new stuff. And Ethan got a robot claw with some of his money. We'll take him shopping after Christmas to spend the rest.

Playing in the leaves

Last week Kristen and her girls came over and played in all the leaves that were in our backyard. I think they had fun. I had fun watching them.

Jumping in the pile

Throwing the leaves

Burying Mattison

The finished product!

Little engineer

Ethan has become quite the computer wiz lately. His favorite channel is Noggin and one day he and Mike saw an advertisement for their web site where Ethan could play games. Mike pulled it up and found a game building robots. Mike taught Ethan how to use the mouse on his lap top and Ethan picked up on it quickly. He loves to play the game and has now gotten to the point where he can built 10 robots in a whopping 20 minutes, pretty good, I think, for a 3 year old.

He has also learned to use the mouse on my parents' desktop and the other day he was building robots with Isabel and Meg, and out of the blue said, "I love you, Isabel!"

I really, really liked it

I went to see Twilight with a friend in my ward this weekend. I have been so excited to see it because I love the books and I think I have a crush on Edward! (Only it's the Edward in my head.) I know movies based on books are different than the book so I was expecting a lot of differences, especially when I re-read Twilight and it is so long I kept thinking, how are they going to put all this information in the movie? But I was pleasantly surprised. Maybe it was because I didn't see it opening weekend, maybe it was because the theater wasn't full of 16 year old girls, maybe it was my attitude but I really, really liked it. I will definitely see it again, and maybe twice while it's in the theaters. It was different than the book, a little, but it had to be to cram 400 pages of book into a 2 hour movie, but I enjoyed it and am so excited to see New Moon when it comes out.

What did you think?

Tagged!

7 weird things about me
1. I have a weird thing about a clean house, I can’t stand it to be dirty
2. I have to have the toilet paper roll with the flap on the outside
3. I don’t like chocolate cake
4. I am anal about where Ethan’s toys go, in the living room, family room, and bedroom, they all have their own place
5. I only lived away from home one summer before I got married
6. I have to have my toenails painted in the summer time but don’t care at all in the winter when I wear socks all the time
7. I have to put lotion on my feet every night before I go to bed

10 years ago
1. I had just graduated from high school
2. I was in my first semester at BYU
3. I had lots of friends on mission and I was make cookies to send to them and writing them letters
4. I was saving money by living at home
5. I was so ready for physical science to be OVER!

5 things on my to do list
1. Paint my kitchen.
2. Set up for YW in excellence tonight
3. Make it through YW in excellence tonight
4. Shop for food for YW in excellence
5. Try to take a nap or rest this afternoon

5 snacks I enjoy
1. Crazy corn
2. Chocolate
3. Mom’s mint brownies
4. Nuts
5. A shake from JCW’s or Purple Turtle

5 things I would do if I was a Millionaire
1. SHOP by feet off
2. Buy a new car
3. Fix up my house and then sell it and buy a new one
4. Help out my family with their expenses
5. After all that, I’d put the rest in the bank

5 places I have lived
1. North Orem, UT
2. South Orem, UT
3. Provo, UT
4. Bakersfield, CA
5. Pleasant Grove, UT

5 jobs I have had
1. Buyer at Kid to Kid
2. Sales associate at Kid to Kid
3. Sales associate at Hur Jewelers
4. Legal Secretary
5. Preschool teacher

I tag Catherine, Angie, Summer, and Ashley