100 Things About Me!

Since my sisters have both done this and they did it for my mom, I figured I would give it a go. I'm not sure my 100 things will be all that cool, but here it goes.

1. My middle name is Lynn after my mom
2. My first name is Heather, I was named Heather because if my dad had been a boy that is what he would have been named.
3. Heather is a Scottish thistle or as Steve says, 'A Weed'
4. I have 3 kids
5. I have one husband, he is pretty fantastic
6. I learned to do Cartwheels when I was 2 or 3
7. I am the Middle sister
8. My brother always liked me best when we were little and always defended me
9. It has neither been denied nor confirmed that I am my parents favorite child
10. My Sisters both think I am the favorite
11. I have very small feet
12. My left foot is totally different from my right - I have stubby deformed toes and toe nails. Ask me sometime, I'll show you.
13. I love to travel
14. I just got home from a trip to Myrtle Beach, SC with my wonderful hubby and my parents
15. I went on a Study abroad to Israel
16. I have been to Egypt
17. I have also been to Jordan
18. I spent my 20th birthday eating super yummy ice cream in the country of Jordan with some great friends.
19. I really would love to go to Europe and Austrailia
20. I never, ever, ever want to go to China
21. I look a whole bunch like my Aunt Peri
22. I am the shortest adult person in my family and Steve's
23. I don't mind be the shortest person
24. I graduated from BYU
25. I have a degree in Business Marketing
26. I worked at a Bark Plant in Rexburg Idaho. You know like the stuff you buy in bags to put in your yard and flower beds.
27. Steve and I have lived in 7 different cities in 9 years of marriage.
28. Six of those places were in the first 3 years of our marriage
29. Rexburg
30. Ephraim, UT
31. Springville, UT
32. Logan, UT
33. Midvale, UT
34. Lehi, UT
35. And finally where we are now.
36. Before my mini van I drove 6 different cars.
37. I have jet lag really bad!
38. I totally love my sisters, they are my bestest pals in all the land
39. I talk to Julie at least once a day, usually more.
40. I would talk to Marilee everyday, but she is never in one place long enough.
41. My baby is in his bed singing a song right now.
42. I love my kids so very much
43. I love being a mom, but I'm not so good at it all the time
44. I hope someday I can live close to my sisters
45. I have the best in-laws in the whole world. No really they are the best.
46. Not only are my in-laws awesome, but Steve's brothers and sisters and spouse's are cool too.
47. I love to read
48. I played basketball in High School, until my senior year
49. I love to ski
50. I haven't skiied since I got married plus some, so we'll say it's been 9 years.
51. I love to water ski, wake board, or wake surf. Just put me in a boat
52. I am not what you would call an animal lover
53. I am terrified of Horses, but I don't want my kids to be. We'll blame the scared of horses thing on Mr. Griffith's ( I think) where we used to go to horse camp because he told me that if a horse bites you it won't stop until it feels it's teeth touch.
54. I was forced to go to horse camp even though I was terrified.
55. I was also forced to take tennis lessons one summer
56. I love to swim
57. I wish I hadn't been such a scared and shy kid and joined the swim club like my parents encouraged me to
58. I am so glad to be able to stay at home with my kids, what a blessing.
59. My hubby just got a promotion!!! Yippy, you are the best.
60. I will forever have that last 10 pounds of 'baby' weight to lose
61. I enjoy going to work out at the gym
62. Working out helps keep me sane as a mom and relieves lots of my stress.
63. Sometimes I can't help but offer up my opinion, even though it usually isn't wanted.
64. When I was a little girl I always wanted to be a nurse.
65. I was going to try to go through the nursing program at BYU, but my Chemistry grades weren't good enough. Stupid chemistry department
66. I would still like to be a nurse
67. I love to read, but it kind of goes in spurts.
68. My mum-in-law just bought me the new Stephanie Meyer book "the host" I'll let you all know how it is.
69. I love Twilight and can't wait for the next book and the movie.
70. I am surprised how easily I have been able to come up with these things.
71. My best friend moved a year ago and I still miss her and wish she lived around the corner.
72. My baby was so mad at me when I came home from my trip and wouldn't look at me and wanted to cry. He wanted Auntie JuJu instead.
73. I can hardly keep my eyes open - it is almost midnight in the time zone I am used to and it is only 9 pm here
74. I clean my house from top to bottom once a week, usually on Monday's
75. I despise doing laundry, especially the folding and putting it away
76. I love the warm weather
77. I am not looking forward to the heat of summer
78. I wish that we had a pool in our backyard
79. I totally love to listen to Mylie Cyrus/Hannah Montana
80. I think I like her songs better than Brooklynn
81. I would really love to go to a Maroon 5 concert, but they aren't coming here
82. I love to watch sports with my hubby, even though he thinks I don't
83. I would like to learn to golf someday when I don't have kids home all day
84. One of my jobs in college was cleaning the dorms
85. I also worked at media services at BYU
86. Steve and I watched the movie 3:10 to Yuma this week and it was awesome
87. I also recently watched August Rush and I thought it was super cute
88. I watch too much TV
89. What did I ever do before my TiVo? It is the best
90. My favorite TV show right now is Grey's anatomy
91. My Tyler turns 8 this year.
92. Steve and I had a lady tell us the other day that we didn't look old enough to have 3 kids - Thanks lady
93. I found my first two gray hairs a few weeks ago
94. I totally sleep on my stomach
95. I'm getting hungry sitting here typing this
96. I enjoy going on trips without my kids and re-connecting with my hubby
97. I miss my kids when I leave them
98. I have to clean my house before I go on a trip so that when I get home it is clean
99. Only 9 days of school yet and I don't know what the heck we are going to do all summer
100. I am at the end and now I am off to bed!

To all you out there, I challenge you all to write down your 100 things, I hope mine weren't to mundane!

My Tyler

A quick story about Ty.  He came home from School the other day excited to tell me about a new center they are doing at school.  They do centers everyday to work on spelling math etc.  So, he goes on to tell me that the new center is called postcards.  They get to pick someone in their class to write a postcard to and then they will be delivered the following Monday.  I said, "Wow buddy that sounds fun, who did you write your postcard to this week."  He says, "Gabriel"  Now of course to you all this means nothing, but let me tell you a little about Gabriel.  He is a little boy in his class who is really nice, but has some problems.  He is not well liked and very often teased.  There have been a few times when Tyler has come home very frustrated because this little boy was bugging him at school, but regardless, my kind son Tyler still has always tried to be nice to him.  So, I then asked Tyler, "Why did you decide to write one to him?"  He replied, "Because no one else in my class will write one to him mom!"  My heart melted, boy I am lucky to have such a thoughtful wonderful boy and what a lesson he taught me.  I definitely can't take credit for teaching him how to be so aware of those around him, but I am so happy he is.   

Baseball, New Hair and Playing!

We have been spending a lot of time at baseball as of late, I'm sure you are all sick of hearing about it, but it has been fun and although Brooklynn complains about it, we all have a good time watching Tyler. I finally got around to taking some pictures at a couple of games so you can all see how cute he is.

Getting A Hit

The Catcher

We also decided it was time for a summer haircut for Tyler. What do you think?



Josh has been coming up with some more word lately, forgive me for constantly posting his words, but since this is mostly my journal, I've got to write them down so I don't forget. He can finally say his own name Gosh, pretty close I think. Book (Brook) is also a new one. Mouse is one of my favorites though, this one means mouth. It is so super cute when he says it. ShooShoo (for ChooChoo) is pretty adorable as well. This kid is way into his 'guys' which are power rangers and he has also started watching our Power Ranger DVD. He will stand in front during the 'fighting' scenes and say 'figh' (fight), kick, and pun (punch) and then try to mimic them, we have totally created a monster. Oh ya another thing he says is 'CooCoo' for Scooter. This is a video clip of Josh and the scooter, he actually is figuring out how to ride it, but I didn't have time to post the video of him practicing.




Brooklynn had a May Day celebration at school with a May Pole and the like, I took a couple of pictures of her and Taylie at the big celebration. As you will see they made bonets and the boys wore bow-ties. It was very cute and of course Brooklynn was very excited about the whole thing!

Brooklynn and Taylie