Class of 2000

My High School Senior Year

1. Who was your best friend? Sarah Gish and probably Dawn Sanow, I don't even know what happened to Dawn since HS, haven't even heard from her for about 5 years.

2.What sports did you play? Um, Cheeleading, Stunt Squad (that one counts) and Caprielles- dance team

3. What kind of car did you drive? 96' White Nissan Altima. I loved that car....

4. It's Friday night, where were you? At the game of course! That of Kelli Olsen's house just hanging out!

5. Were you a party animal? I loved parties but nobody could really be called a party animal where I went to HS.

6. Were you a flirt? Very much so

7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? nope

8. Were you a nerd? I'd like to think I wasn't but you never know what everyone else thought:) 9. Did you get suspended or expelled? No. I just got in trouble for talking too much, always.

10. Can you sing the fight song? Please don't remind me! It's been burned into my brain for eternity!

11. Who were your favorite teachers? Mrs. Obray was tops and then also probably McMillan(although I was terrible in Chemistry)

12. Where did you sit during lunch? In the lunch room a lot but we would go to Pizza Plus, Subway and sometime all the way into "town" to Mandarin Garden.\

13. What is your schools full name? Mountain Crest High School

14. School mascot? Mustangs! or as we often said: Stangs

15. Did you go to Prom? Yes, the first time was rather disappointing but Senior year was fun.

16. If you could go back and do it over, would you? I don't think so, I loved it while I was there and was sad to see it go but collage was a nice sequel.

17. What do you remember most about graduation? oh, about nothing. I remember worrying that my hair would look lame after wearing that cap for so long. Also that it was not as cool to have graduation in MC's new gym rather than the Spectrum.

18. What was your favorite class to skip? Biology, it was an easy class that tri for some reason. Also seminary, my grades didn't suffer when I skipped that one.

19. Did you have a job your senior year? For the first month of so, leftover from summer, I worked at Buckle in the mall.

20. Where did you go most often for lunch? Lunch room (everybody did for some unexplainable reason...) Pizza Plus

21. Have you gained weight since then? yeah I have

22. What did you do after graduation? All-night party at the Fun Park.

23. Did you go to your high school reunion? I did, it was unfortunately lame. I don't know how it could have been better though. too bad.

Now it's your turn!

Too Much

I've been having too much fun this summer to post much lately on this blog.

I have all these good ideas or just things I want to get in writing but never seem to be able to grab a few minutes all together to make them coherent!

I'll be taking a few weeks off, maybe just a week if I'm ultra organized but we'll see.
We are leaving for Lake Powell tomorrow morning and will be there baking in the glorious sun for a whole week! yay! nice tans for everyone. Not that Naomi needs any help.

Next Thursday when we leave good old Antelope Point (new marina that we are launching from this year) we will be heading West to St. George. Talia is scheduled to have her baby boy that day sometime and we are hoping to get an eyeful of him before we haul ourselves back East. His name is still up in the air. I like the nomination for Ezra. It's got a nice edge to it and it's after quite a wonderful guy.
We'll only be there for a day and will drive back home Friday to pack up and clean up our place for Zach to leave on Sunday. I'll chill at my moms with Naomi until Tuesday am when we fly out.

As you can imagine, it's going to be a little crazy.... I'm searching online today to see if I can get a jump start on getting us some internet service in D.C.

So, without any further ado, I'm going to post a few last pictures from this month before I drop off the face of the earth!

I'm being Sarcastic here, just so you know:)

So I've been banished from the computer for the past few days and I have to admit, I've been having withdrawal symptoms... yeah, so. Anyway. I finally managed to sneak it away from Zach for a few minutes and look at my pathetic blog. I've been neglecting it.
Zach's been busy reading and doing other stuff on this computer that I don't care to find out all the details out about since Thursday morning at about 9 a.m. He's in the middle of an exam of sorts, or rather an assessment of his writing and analytical whatever abilities in an attempt to "write on" to the law journal at Georgetown. He has officially one week. TO THE MINUTE. It's driving me insane. He's been at his dad's office for the quietness most of the time but today he was here so we had to be not here. I ended up going shopping and buying a shirt. For shame:)
Other than that fun detail, we are just baking here in the Logan heat. I thought it was supposed to be cooler here in the mountains than a balmy 100 degrees! You'd think I haven't lived here my whole life! :)
The 3rd to July fireworks were great, as always. I'm partial, the same way I think Beaver is the best ski resort, ever.
Naomi LOVED the fireworks. She kept on looking at me and then pointing to them in absolute awe. I didn't get any good shots of her watching them, Zach tried but we all know how pictures of people in the dark turn out, like they got a light bulb flashed in their eyes.... But she had a wonderful time. I think we had as much fun watching her as we did watching the fireworks!

Oh Naps!

This was written about two weeks ago...

I'm currently in the middle of a potentially wonderful or equally horrid situation. Ok, that's a little dramatic. Naomi is awake, and sad/mad in her pack and play, she woke up after 45 minutes and I'm not getting her out. She's taking one nap a day and on our new schedule that IS GOING TO WORK, she will "nap" for at least 1 and 1/2 hours.

Sigh.

Yesterday was day one of my new enforced nap schedule, I had been kinda winging it for the past week or so since she dropped to one nap, getting her down for a nap anywhere between noon and 3!!! I needed some structure, so did she.
She woke up yesterday too, I went in and calmed her a bit and told her to go back to sleep, like magic, she did! Today I am trying the "don't go in there'' approach. So far, um.... indeterminable results.

My goal is to have nap time start between 12:30 and 1p.m. (for now) and like I said above, have her nap at least 1 1/2. That's not too much to ask is it???!!

ooooohkay. I think I'm going to have to go in there. be back in a sec....

Well. I started this post and then never finished it! I decided to post it anyway, it's a little bit of a journal entry type post, for me anyway. Naomi is now officially transitioned to her one nap a day, it's usually about 1 and 1/2 hours, sometimes 2 or more. Looks like it worked out.

Natalie's Birthday & Summer Stuff

My little sister Natalie turned 23 on Saturday. It was her "golden" b-day, 23, on the 23rd. She's living it up in SLC and currently has a cute new boyfriend whom she likes rather a lot:) We had a little party at Mom and Dads yesterday. Ginger, one of my older sisters came with her 3, Emily, Leia and Max. The girls had fun playing with Naomi and they treated her super special, it was adorable to watch.

Natalie

The CAKE! It was a cookies and cream ice cream cake. Leia and Emily watching it all.

Zach & Naomi

Emily & Leia

Mom!

Dad, soon to retire and turning 62 on Wednesday!

Birthday girl and her dad, note the 8 foot tall hollyhock plant in the background!

Natalie, Ginger, Trisha

Emily giving Nominomi a ride, what a cute little red wagon.

And, more fun- on Friday we were at the Champlin's for an informal get-together. Dylan and Naomi were the life of the party (of course) as they jumped on the trampoline with the sprinkler underneath.

For dinner I made my new specialty, california rolls! This time I had the help of a bamboo mat, that helped the final product's look quite a bit. Too bad we ate them before I could get a picture! My sister-in-law, Talia (very pregnant) is trying her hand at them tonight, Wes is total sushi addict:)

Naomi, Talia and Dylan

Cute cousins!

Natalee, Jeff & Linda (background) & Tal

Weird..... do I know him??

All those cute Champlin girls: Talia, Linda, Naomi, Trisha, Heidi, Natalee

Almost all those cute Champlin Boys: Jeff, Dylan, Luke, Chad, Brock & Zach.
Wes was finishing up his last hole at the golf course...

self-inflicted fun

TAG...

Erica just "Tagged" me, so here goes!

4 JOBS I'VE HAD:
1. Video Store clerk
2. Cheerleading coach
3. Case Manager-Site Visitor at Head Start
4. MOM!!!

4 MOVIES I CAN ALWAYS WATCH:
1. Little Women
2. Pride and Prejudice (both BBC and "new" versions)
3. Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn, I'm a fanatic)
4. Princess Bride

4 PLACES I'VE LIVED:
1. Providence, UT
2. Logan, UT
3. Carbondale, IL (actually our address was Murphysboro, we were just outside the city limits.)
4. Soon to live in: Silver Spring, MD

TV SHOWS I ENJOY:
1. The Office
2. Seinfeld
We don't actually have TV, guess I'm outta show!

4. FAVORITE FOODS:
1. raspberries
2. Bueno bars
3. mashed potatoes and gravy, love my moms:)
4. Nutella

WEBSITES I VISIT (ALMOST DAILY):
1. Blogs
2. E-mail
3. Parentdish
4. Babycenter

4 PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1. Cabo
2. On a cruise
3. Boating
4. Hawaii

4 BLOGGER BUDDIES TO TAG:
1. Jenny
2. Kristen
3. Erin
4. Dani

WOW- been a minute

Summer is so my favorite!
I've been so busy having fun that I haven't gotten around to posting for the past, um- forever:)
Zach's been busy working part-time for his uncle's development project and then being an intern at the courthouse the other "part." He's home a lot more than in law school, that's for sure and it's been so nice. Naomi loves her daddy and I do too!
We've been busy little people so far this summer. Going to the pool, the park, boating and playing at (both) grandma's houses. And Grandpa's houses too I should add.
Naomi LOVES the water. Leaving the pool is always a little sad. She also loves the water slides at the pool too. Today she was actually trying to push my mom and nephew Isaac out of the way so she could hurry up and go down!
Naomi has been talking up a storm lately and is so sweet. She says "please" when asking for things all the time! It makes me laugh, I don't know if I could refuse such a sweet request.

Ok, so other new- something funny happened on my way the get my hair cut. A few days ago I was going to King Hair, just a walk-in to get my hair trimmed and especially my bangs. I pulled in the back by Cafe Ibis but all the parking in the back was full or "reserved" for Zions bank customers. So I drove out through the automatic teller lane onto 100 N to turn onto Main street to park. As I pull forward to look for traffic before turning onto 100 N all of the sudden a kid on a skateboard appears out of NOWHERE! Actually he came from the direction of Main, he was hidden from my view, and me from his by the Zions building until the last possible second.
My instincts kicked in even as I am going through the horrid scenario or popping this kid clean off his board. I wasn't going fast, just a few miles an hour really but still, it would have hurt... Lucky for my brain my feet slam on the brakes, and as I screech to a stop the kid and I stare at each other for a half second and we both put our hands up for some reason as he continues to roll past. Me for "Oh wow, sooooo sorry and so glad I didn't HIT YOU!" Him for "wow dude, that was close, I'm all right." So that was my little heart stopping event of the week. I figure I only need about one a week to keep me going:)

Bath time...

We got home from a fabulous over-nighter at Bear Lake yesterday at about 6:30 p.m. We mulled around and I got most of our stuff unpacked and put away, (it was an over-nighter, you'd think we could take our p.j.s but no.)
After the mini clean-up and put-away I was being gloriously lazy and sitting on our bed reading a novel, actually to be more accurate, I was totally sucked into this dumb book- Harlan Cobin, The Woods.
Anyway, Zach was being so great as to get Naomi ready for bed. They were in the bathroom rinsing out the tub for a bath and Naomi was dutifully dropping her tub toys into the tub one by one. I was actually listening to them and reading. Weird but I do that. So I hear the tub water stop and then all of the sudden Zach is laughing, really laughing. He has this funny laugh that he doesn't let escape all that often, I love it. I pulled my head out of the book to listen for what was going on. Zach walks into our room with his hair, face and shoulders totally soaking, dripping wet.
What tha......?
He was still laughing when he could finally tell me what happened:
"I was rinsing out the tub and then I went to plug the tub for the bath. I flipped the plug and the water stopped!"
So then he leaned his head in further, looking at the faucet to figure out what happened to the water? We live in a old and more than a little run down 1970's apartment so maybe the water just decided to turn off.....
All of this took just a few seconds - then WHAM the water hit him.
He pulled the shower plug thingy up, not the tub drain plug.
Sometimes I swear law school has sucked up about 1/2 his brain by now!

Boy or Girl?

Whattaya think, could she pull it off?

BIG Helper

-plus another cute shot, Naomi's little pool is in our living room....