Paradise and its cookies

This is my favorite treat. Warm Chocolate Chip Cookies and a huge class of cold milk. Recently, Anne and Emily have kindly introduced me to a place called Paradise Bakery. They make the best chocolate chip cookies ever! Nice and soft, so soft that they basically just melt in your mouth, just the right amount of chocolate and the size is, well, perfect. The other day I went there to get a sandwhich, that comes with a cookie- might I add- and do some work on the internet. They were giving out free samples of differnet kinds of cookies, and of course I helped myself. This picture is not what their cookies look like, but they sure look good. Thanks my dear sisters for introducing me to this heavenly bakery. I always want a Paradise cookie.

Happy Mother's Day

MOM- I love you so much. Thank you for all you have done for me. Your example and your love that you have given me means more than you'll ever know. Thank you for your hard work, your service, your love and your food! I love you so much. Happy Mother's Day.

ANGIE- I am so glad that I married into a wonderful family. You are so kind to me and you have been there for anything that we have needed. You are so thoughtful and generous. Thank you for all you do for us now, and thank you for raising a wonderful son. I love you. Happy Mother's day.

David Archuleta!

Yes. Yes. He is here in Salt Lake and I got to see him this morning. There were THOUSANDS of people there, girls screaming and chasing him. He had like five policemen around him as girls were tugging at his sweater, and yelling "we love you David!" He was so cute. Here are a few pics a I got from up above.

Happy Birthday John!

Happy Birthday to my BIG BROTHER John. Here are 33 memories I have of you, and why I love you:
33. Your lemon Bars
32. Your orange julius creations
31. Your thumb
30. When you played high school football and I got to brag that my brother was a Grizz
29. How hard you work
28. State CHAMP!
27. When you and Barry would take me shooting
26. When you and Dusty would wake me up early to be your flag girl when you went water skiing
25. Your naps on the air conditioning vent
24. When you made me work and work and work on doing sit-ups
23. How Mr. C always talked about you and Matt- what great people you were.
22. When my Biology teacher in High School was a buddy of yours when you went to high school-
21. Coach Negal said hi to me everytime he saw me and asked me about you and Matt
20. When you went to Ghana to help their people
19. When you went on your mission
18. When you baptized me
17. When you became my Hero and resuced me from the wierdo on the Bus
16. The way you would come home from 3-a-day practices and drink a ton of orange juice
15. When you were on Price is Right
14. Your testimony
13. When you came to my graduation from high school- that meant a lot to me.
12. The day I met Toria
11. The day you married Toria
10. When Asher was born
9. When Ivy was born
8. Your example of getting an Education
7. When you would play catch with me with a football on your visits home from college
6. How you can build and figure anything out.
5. How you can still play legos for hours
4. The way you can swing dance
3. How you came to my wedding-right when MIT started
2. Whenever someone is cooking or baking, it seems to disappear because of your walk-by snacking
1. The way you protected and took care of the rest of us five.
I LOVE YOU JOHN. I LOVE YOU TORIA. I HOPE YOU HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Birthday Party

Playing with Baby Claire. She loves her uncle. And books, look at all her books. We love her.
Tim and Jordan were a little tired when my sisters and I were finishing up the dinner. How cute.
Yum Yum Yum Yum
Harrison is eating a tomato. He is doing really well using his tooth to chew up adult food.

On Friday we had a birthday party for Cat and I at Emily's house. Em made a yummy dinner and Annie made me my favorite cake. Chocolate Cake with Chocolate frosting with strawberries on top! There was present opening, game playing and picture taking! Thanks girls, I had so much fun.

Spring? Are you here yet?

Apparently it is spring. That is what the calendar tells me at least. Hmmm, I wonder why then has it just snowed, our why I am still wearing a coat when I go outside? When I grew up, and spring came, there were endless amounts of gorgeous flowers in my parent's yard, the grass was a dark soft green, and the weather was just perfect-no need to be hot (which I find very uncomfortable, when there is no way to cool myself down) and no need to be cold. Being Oregon, it would rain sometimes, but when it stopped you could smell that crisp and sweet sent of the earth and everything would glisten in the sunlight afterwards. Spring meant flowers, birds singing, garden planting, sports, intense house cleaning with mom ("Time to get rid of stuff. If you haven't used it in six months, throw it away"). I love home in the spring; who wouldn't love perfection?

I've been tagged

1. 10 Years ago:
I was just getting into softball, finally enjoying to play sports, and spent a lot of time with my friends. That was pretty much all that I cared about- my friends at that age.

2. 5 Places I have lived:
- Ashland
-Rexburg
-San Antonio
-Salt Lake City
-Cedar City

3. 5 things to do on my list:
- work
-mop the floors
-pay the bills
-go to Ikea
-organize the closet

4. I enjoy:
Reading, hanging out with my husband, playing with my nieces and nephews, going to concerts, going to movies, playing softball, a cold glass of water, chocolate chips cookies, cheese, SLEEPING!

5. 3 bad habits:
- kicking my shoes off wherever and leaving them there for days
- not filling up the brita pitcher when it gets low
- leaving my bobby pins all over

6. 5 things you might not know about me
- Like Jess, I have to eat breakfast when I wake up; right when I wake up!
- I absolutely hate falling asleep on the coach; Like Jess again-haha
- I love to color in coloring books
- I was class president in 4th grade
- I have had the same toe ring on since 7th grade

7. 5 jobs that I have had:
-receptionist
-ground crew
-installed dishwashers, washers, and dryers
-worked in orthodontist office
-waitress

I am tagging Cat!