We May Not Have It All Together...But Together We Have It All: I've been tagged...what luck!!!????

Thursday, February 28, 2008

I've been tagged...what luck!!!????

I have been tagged, and as I've seen other people who have been tagged...I kept hoping that somehow I could avoid the whole mess. As luck would have it...or should I say...since my obnoxious sister :) tagged me, then I will play along!

I am supposed to write 6 interesting things about myself. Hmmmm....I guess this is where I should end my tagging blog! OK, OK...I will try to come up with something!

1. When I was in High School (16 yrs old), I was an exchange student to Germany. An exchange student came to live at our home for a time, then we switched placed, and I went to live with her. While I was there, I got to go across the Berlin Wall and spend some time in East Germany just 6 months before the wall came down. My friend and I tried to bring a Book of Mormon in, but they confiscated it before we went across - hey, maybe the soldiers who took it read it! Just a side note - the entire time I was there (5 weeks), my exchange students parents were on vacation - so it was just us two girls - much to my moms horror when she found out!

2. We have two 4-wheelers at our house. We often get the question from husbands "how did you talk your wife into letting you get those?" If truth be told, it was me who did the talking! Many times I have loaded up the machines and the trailer (without Ira), and taken the kids to the mountains. LOVE IT!

3. There was a time in our marriage that we didn't know if we would ever have the priviledge of being parents - now look at us...baby #4 is 1/2 way here! So never say never!

4. I used to be fairly fluent in American Sign Language. Time does change things, and now I just like to think that I know ASL. Someday I would like to pick that up again!

5. Ira lived in an igloo in Alaska for quite a while. OK..OK. I know this isn't about me, but Ira and I are one, right? Besides, this is a family blog! His grandparents built an igloo lodge in Alaska (no, it wasn't made out of snow and ice).

6. Brayden, Emilie and Jarin have been to Disneyland/world many times (OK, Jarin only twice - 1x when I was pregnant with him, and the other when he was a few months old - so I don't know that either one counts for him). GrEaTeSt place on earth!!! Jarin tells people that he is Donald Duck, he talks about Disneyland almost everyday. We have successfully brainwashed the youngest Crawford to love Disneyland also.

5 comments:

Maria said...: Hey... I actually knew most of those things! I think the only one I didn't know (but it doesn't surprise me) is the igloo.

Hope you guys are starting to feel better!; February 29, 2008 at 10:30 AM
FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY said...: good job. why didn't you write about the time you went skinny dipping in the lake with all of your friends in the middle of February? ha ha...just kidding. You didn't really do that...did you???; February 29, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Anderson Avenue said...: I love when people get tagged, it's fun to learn new things about people!! Those are some cool things I would have never known about you guys!; February 29, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Amber Bradley said...: So fun! Loved it! I hope you are feeling better! I am hoping we see you at church tomorrow. We wanted to invite you to dinner and for a good game of hand and foot since the good old cabin was a flop.; March 1, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Sarah said...: cute cute comments. What a woman to load up those 4-wheelers all by herself! I love 4-wheeling also, but I'm not so sure I could get the trailer hooked up and those machines loaded. You go girl!; March 8, 2008 at 2:28 PM

Kute Komments!

Jarin: "I've been waiting all day for Kamden to grow up...when will he grow up like me?"
4-2010

We were driving by a farm which was being fertilized. Jarin sniffs a big sniff and says, "Mmmm...that smells like my strawberry nose" (the strawberry nose was a yummy smelling gas mask from the dentist)!
Jarin: "Is is "fat man or bat man"?
Jarin "My heart is dirty and needs to be cleaned." Then I wash his face, and he says, "My heart is clean!" (He watched me put lipstick on once, and thought my top lips looked like hearts. Now he thinks that lips are hearts). Which makes me wonder what he thinks when he says, "The Holy Ghost makes our heart feel good."
Jarin asked with a great big smile that melts my heart, "Mom, are you being grumpy with me?" (yes, I was - but that started us both laughing instead!)
We were having a family home evening helping Emilie to prepare for baptism. We talked to her about making good choices and right vs. wrong. We were trying to prompt her to give an answer when Ira asked her, "What's opposite of right, (he asked it in the context of right choices), and she answered, "Left." (you should have seen the look Ira and I gave each other - it spoke volumes!)
Same family home evening... we were talking about the Holy Ghost. Jarin (being very tired and very sensitive at the moment anyways), started going balistic on us. Not only did he say he was scared of the Holy Ghost. And not only was he crying because he was scared, but he was SOBBING, and it continued for about an hour (which is when he fell asleep still crying)!! Then first thing out of his mouth when he woke up was that he was scared of the Holy Ghost! We think we are doing the right thing by teaching our children, but really - we have taumatized Jarin! I can only imagine what was going on in his little imagination. Did I mention that FHE finished earlier than planned?
Ira was feeling the baby move at a particularly active time. He said, "Is he moving furniture around in there?" (some days it sure feels like it!)
There was a baby being blessed in church Sunday, and Jarin saw the priesthood men in a circle, and loudly proclaims "Look mom, their playing ring around the rosies!"
Emilie asked me, "Since our eyes are blue, how come everything doesn't look blue to us?" I explained how we see through the black circle in our eyes. She said, "Then the blue is just for decoration?"
Jarin walks around the house constantly saying, and singing "I am a Child of God, and He has sent me here." And when anyones voices get too loud, he sings, "Love at home... Love at home..." I'm not sure he even knows the meaning of what he's singing, but it stops the contention and usually starts a few giggles.
Ira was talking about leap year, and Emilie asked, "What is leap year? Is it when we leap to school?"
Ira asked Emilie if you put plastic wrap or foil over a pan going in the oven. She said tinfoil. Ira said "Good thinking Emilie." She responded by saying, "No, I didn't think...my teacher told me." (thank goodness for teachers, so we don't have to think!)
Jarin asked me if he could have something, and I had told him no. He responded by asking again, then answering his own question as if he were me, "Of course you can sweetheart." (it's no wonder he gets whatever he wants - how cute is that?)
In church today, a half a second before the sacrament prayer was being said, (so it was very quiet in the room), Jarin observed that his dad was sitting on the stand, and calls out in his loudest voice, "That's my daddy up there!"
Brayden said, "I've learned to never mess with a pregnant person."
Today I told Jarin he was a sweetHEART, and he said, "No, I have a beautiful HEART, and mommy is beautiful too." (a comment like that, he can have whatever he wants!)
This one was said a year or so ago, but it was one of the best we've had ever - so it bears repeating! Emilie said to mom, "Someday I am going to marry my prince, just like you married your prince."
Jarin said, "We don't say 'monkey butt' do we?"
Jarin see's a bumble bee and says, "It's a bum-bum bee".
Emilie singing, "Loose, footloose, kick off my church shoes."

Hmmmmm...

I copied this from my sisters blog, but it's just too perfectly perfect to not be reminded of as often as possible!

Hmmmm....
There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head.'Well,' she said, 'I think I'll braid my hair today!'So she did, and she had a wonderful day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head.'H-M-M,' she said, 'I think I'll part my hair down the middle today!'So she did and she had a grand day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head.'Well,' she said, 'today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail.'So she did and she had a fun, fun day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head.'YEA!' she exclaimed, 'I don't have to fix my hair today!'Attitude is everything. Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

INSPIRATION

"A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation." Joseph Smith

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone. The things you do for others remain as your legacy."

"Fix it up...wear it out... make due...or do without!" - Gordon B Hinckley

"In righteousness there is great simplicity" - William R. Bradford

"The most important thing parents can do for their children is to teach them to feel The Spirit and recognize when it is no longer with them."

Elder M. Russell Ballard: "There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children...What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."

The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference."-Ardeth G. Kapp