Tagged

Okay, since it is Monday and I have been tagged, I will participate in TAGGED . . . so here goes . . .

7 things I plan to do before I die
1) Skydive, parasail, hang glide, etc etc
2) Travel foreign countries with kids / without kids/ with spouse / without spouse whatever it takes
3) Take many mission trips
4) See my children come to know Jesus, fall in love, get married, and have children of their own (that I will proceed to spoil ROTTEN)
5) Go to the Daytona 500
6) Be debt free
7) Leave my children with great memories of their childhood

7 things I can do
1) play softball
2) throw out stuff that has no purpose any longer
3) love my husband and children with great passion
4) love teenagers
5) organize events, closets, rooms, etc
6) over think situations
7) ride roller coasters

7 things I cannot do
1) spin in circles
2) play golf
3) control my anxiety of situations not in my control (I am working on it , maybe that should be a goal for the things before I die)
4) dance cool
5) develop a routine exercise program
6) remember to take prescriptions until they are all gone
7) think of things I cannot do

7 things that attract me to my spouse
1) His quirkiness
2) His drive
3) His cuteness
4) His inner ornery boy
5) His laugh
6) His smile
7) His love for Jesus, me and our kids!!!!!

7 things I say most often
1) Stop tormenting your sister.
2) Stop screaming for no reason.
3) Grace Elizabeth come back her with your naked booty!
4) Times up! (this applies to many situations - computer time, time out time, I am waiting for you and you keep telling me one minute and it is making me crazy time)
5) Tarter sauce!
6) For real?
7) Are you stinkin' kidding me?

7 celebrity crushes (aw come on a girl has to have some crushes . . . but I still love MY man!)
1) Johnny Depp
2) Kasey Kahne
3) Orlando Bloom
4) Noah Wylie (I think that is his name - Dr Carter from ER)

7 people who I think should do this
I think everyone I would have asked has already been tagged in the BlogWorld. I am way last on getting this done. So here is just a universal tag for anyone that needs something to blog about on this Monday!

Fav Foto Friday

It is an oldie but still one of my favs. This is Dawson at about 20 months. This was a talent he executed quite often. Isn't he adorable?

Where does she come up with this stuff?

Sophia is our deep thinker. We are always having people tell us she is a four year old with an adult mind. She just really really thinks about things, and then asks the most thought provoking questions. She is famous for getting into deep conversations with adults, and then when she grows tired of them, she just cuts them off with some random other thought she has. This morning is a fine example of how her little brain can bounce all over the place.

As she is eating her breakfast, she lets me know that some kid at school believes that God is invisible. And how that isn't right since God is in Heaven and very visible. I try to explain to her that maybe her friend meant that since God was with us and we couldn't actually see Him that was what her friend meant by invisible. She just argued that God can't be invisible because he is real and no one can really be invisible. She loves to argue about what is real and pretend. This conversation went on for awhile and involved other deep questions such as 'When is God coming back to earth for real so that we really can see Him?'.

About 5 minutes later, she is watching the Power Rangers. Dawson being ornery says the Power Rangers aren't real. Them are fighting words. Sophia kindly explained to Dawson that the Power Rangers that she was watching on TV were indeed real, however the Power Rangers she met at Disney were not. Okay, how is that? Well, because the Power Rangers at Disney were not on the TV with their super powers, they were just people in costumes pretending. Really? So she had me wait three different times in five different lines to get autographs of people she knew were pretending? UGH!

If I have said it once, I have said it a million times . . . I am in deep trouble with this child! She is going to be the teenager who uses double negative logic on her old mom to get what she wants.

This is how Wii Roll!

Okay it is a corny line . . . but I couldn't help it! Our family has been having a great time TOGETHER with our Wii. I am cherishing this time that our kids are playing together and are encouraging one another and just having fun.

Dumb Chevy Traverse commercial

Okay, so as you are aware, Jeff and I have been watching the Olympics every night since they started. We watch until our eyes close or until Bob wishes a good night with his closing remarks. Last night, he spoke directly to us in talking about sleep deprived folks due to the Olympics. That would be us! Last night I felt even odder since I had already read the results of the uneven bars and knew what happened to Nastia, yet I stayed up long after she was done performing and watched her get her silver. I also know the results for the beam exercise tonight for Shawn and Nastia, but I will no doubt be staying up and watching them anyway.

The one thing that has driven me nuts for days now is this way dumb (dare I say the S word, STUPID) Chevy Traverse commercial. If you have watched at least one night of the Olympics, you have seen this bizarre commercial. It is of a man with big shiny white teeth and no shirt ironing while making reservations on the phone for some 6 month anniversary. The whole time he is smiling. At one point he holds up a cute little dress that he ironed. They then show the cool Chevy Traverse and how it is great for everything. Then they show this man (still shirtless) on the floor happily cleaning a toilet. EVERYTIME I see this commercial it completly distracts me and makes me wonder what its point is. And you know when you have a question you go to the world wide web for the answer. I found that many, many people found this commercial to be dumb and annoying. When looking for the meaning behind this mans actions most will agree that Chevy is trying to show us women the "perfect man" so that we will see that the Traverse is just like him and is the "perfect vehicle" for us. I am sooooo sorry but I missed that message in there. I honestly couldn't remember this morning what the name of the vehicle was. I just remembered that man's cheezy smile, ironing away in his nice clean living room with his dark jeans on that I would actually yell at my husband for cleaning a toilet in. I mean really can you say 'bleach stains'. Anyway, just venting away about how commercials have gone so far to try to reach us and make us want their product - that they have actually ended up confusing and frustrating this consumer to a point of not even caring what the commerial is for but what the commercial means. UGH!

Oh by the way, the meds the Dr gave Jeff seem to be helping some. However, it is still 4-9 days before we have official results on what might have been ailing him. Ah, sarcasm, gotta love it.

What is blog worthy today?

This weekend was just kind of a hang out and chill kind of Stahly weekend. No earth shattering stories. No side hurting tales of humorous child outbursts. Just a low key, yet busy, weekend.
Friday, we attended a surprise birthday party Friday night for a few hours, and watched the Phelp Olympics.
Saturday, we hung out around the house watching the Olympics. We attempted to get Gracie's 1 year photos taken. Yes, she is almost 15 months old. Yes, she is the fourth child. Yes, I was a bit behind getting the photos taken. She is just much much too busy to stand around and have her beautiful self photographed though. So by the time we were able to get her to stay in one place, she was worn out and just put her thumb in her mouth and sat there. Still looking cute, but with her thumb firmly stuck! We got about 5 fairly good pics out of the deal, and spent the least amount on photos I believe I have ever spent. We will try again at Christmas. After that, we bought the needed soccer gear for Sophia and Dawson for the coming fall season, ate some dinner, and headed home to again watch the Phelps Olympics.
Sunday, we lost our minds and bought our family a Wii. We have talked and talked about one. And Saturday we heard Toys R Us was getting some in Sunday morning. So after church we decided to just go see. And they had 2 left when we got there. One is now in our living room and was played for 6 hours yesterday. I will say it is a good family game system. Brandon joined us quite a bit as we played. And of course, we topped the day off with watching the Nastia/Shawn Olympics last night!
Today, my dear Jeff finally agreed to go to the doctor to see about this soreness/muscle aches, tiredness yuck that he has had since Thursday. They did chest xrays and did blood work. However, obvioulsy our town hasn't quite arrived yet because it will take 5-10 days to get the blood work back. Can it really take that long? What if something was really really wrong with him? Can we really wait 5-10 days to find out? I just am not sure I understand that. Anyway, they did give him some drugs for anything viral that might be occuring - so maybe that will help pep him up and get him back on his feet.
Okay, so my Monday ramblings are over! Not sure if I entertained anyone or not. Probably not. Just felt it my privilege to keep all my 10 readers up to date on the excitement that is our life here in the Stahly clan.

Favorite Foto Friday

It says "Baby Bottle Pop" right on it . . . so doesn't that mean it is for my baby????

PS Tell my mom I have shingles on the right side of my torso. Yes, shingles. Some old person disease. Like I wasn't already having a hard enough time with the birthday last week. Now I go and get some painful odd old person illness. UGH!