"Poop on the Hippo" for Dinner

Yes - you read that correctly, according to Madison we ate dinner at "Poop On The Hippo" - also known as Buca Di Beppo! We all got a good giggle everytime Madison would say where we were going for dinner!! To add to our dinner, Madison wanted to be a 'twin' with me so we wore our matching SPU sweatshirts (ahhh cute!) and Madison referred to me as 'big twin' and she was 'little twin'! Lots of fun!

The rest of the day we spent going to Costco then hanging out at Jaime's while Madison napped. After dinner we went to JoAnn's to buy fabric for the baby blanket Brandi is making for baby Emmalee. That took quite awhile to find the right fabric, then determine the correct about to buy, getting it cut, etc. By the time we got home it was already bedtime for Madison, so she went to bed and we watched tv. Brandi & I are also going to a 2 night crop next weekend so we had to get our scrapbooking stuff organized to take with us. Now she's working on the topper for my blog and I continue to move my blog from myspace to blogger! Pretty exciting day!!

And in case you were unaware...I am now at blogger and am slowly moving all my previous posts from my myspace blog to here!! Brandi is working on a fun topper/header that I hope we'll get added tomorrow!! Otherwise, I really should get to bed - I have nursery tomorrow and need to rest up for that!

Ciao!

Moving to Blogger

I am moving my blog to blogger - so come follow it over there!!

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I'm slowly moving all my posts from myspace over there - so it's taking time...but getting there! Brandi is making me page topper and then I'll enlist her to make my whole page ;)

See ya at blogger!

MaDiSoN tHe DeViL cHiLd

Okay I think (and Jaime gave me premission to post) that the devil has taken over our sweet little Madison Sophia. The easy going - go with the flow - very rarely naughty little girl! Over the past week she has done a few things that really stressed Jaime out, who has started contracting over it (not good). But regaurdless, I still find it kind of humerous. Jaime says "probably because it's not your kid" - good point...but I still get the giggles when I think about a few of the things she did this week!

1) Last weekend, we were hanging out and Madison was in her room playing (or so we thought) and I started to smell chemicals. Jaime quickly jumped up to go and check on Madison - and she had gotten a hold of the 409 bottle (how we're not quite sure) and was 'cleaning' her room. OMG what a mess and I've never heard Jaime scream so loud!

2) On Saturday, she climbed over the gate into Brandi's room and before anyone realized she had - she had 'painted' Brandi's bedroom wall with hand lotion! Needless to say Brandi wasn't real thrilled

3) On Tuesday, I was at Jaime's helping her begin to de-clutter her house now that she's in a 'nesting' mode. So each week we're gonna deep clean one room in her condo. This week we did the family room, but anyway that's beyond the point! While Jaime & I were cleaning, Madison came out and she had LOTION all over herself. Jaime once again ran (okay really waddled ) into Madison's room to find her room covered in Lotion, Butt Butt Paste and Vasoline! She had climbed her dresser and got her diaper cream basket off of it! Another mess!

4) Today, Jaime was in the shower and she heard Madison talking to her, and kept telling her "I pooped". Jaime told her "okay i'll be just out and will change you". When Jaime came out she found Madison without a diaper or pants on...and immediatly thought the worst Madison had actually pooped in her little potty (and had taken out the 'bowl' that catches the poop - so she just pooped into the potty!). But in doing so I had also got poop all over the carpet. While Jaime cleaned it all up, Madison kept saying "I'm potty-trained mamma" so proud of herself!

Can't wait to hear what mischief Madison gets into tomorrow! And Good Luck Jaime!

Comments:
Erin: She is potty-training herself :)

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The Great Newspaper Hunt

Tonight was our monthly "Girls Night Out" and it was finally my month to pick...so I of course picked The Olive Garden. Which happens to be my favorite resteraunt in the whole wide world! I have been looking forward to this for a long time! Anyway.... Charity got their late (shocker, I know), but told us she had stopped at a couple of stores to pick up a newspaper to save. Brandi then realized she hadn't bought a newspaper either and she loves to collect them. So off we went after dinner on the Great Newspaper Hunt.

We went to a couple of grocery stores, Fred Meyer, gas stations, fast food resteraunts and even a Park 'N Ride - but sadly there were no newspapers. I told her she might as well face the fact that she'd have to buy one off of Ebay! I told her I'd post onto my church's message board (since most Mormon's wanted McCain to win - I figured someone was bound to be willing to give away their paper) and I'd check to see if you could order back issues from the Seattle Times. So she finally dropped me off once we'd hit all the places we could and went home feeling defeated!

I got home and like I pomised posted onto my church's message board. I then went to the The Seattle Times website to see if I could order back issues - and found out that YES YOU CAN! So I sent them an email asking how I can go about picking one up! So we'll see!

Oh and Brandi also checked out Ebay...and they are already available for buying on Ebay, here are 2 of the higher priced auctions ....

The New York Post ~ Starting at $75.00
The New York Times ~ Starting at $399.00

Comments:
Erin: OH MY GOSH!! $400 for a newspaper??

Originally Posted on Myspace Blog

Yes, it is true...the 44th President of the United States of America will be Barack Obama! How awesome is that and how far has America come in the last century. During Obama's acceptance speech he talked quite a bit upon the change that America has seen over the past century and yet we still have a whole long way to go! It' should be really exciting to see what changes come upon America in the upcoming months and years! His speech tonight brought tears to my eyes about how proud I am to be an American and to have been able to be apart of such a monumental day in American History, and went to the polls and voted for him! What a remarkable day this has been!

Since I live in a family of clothes and fashion freaks...we all were discussing the outfits they were wearing and we came to the conclusion that Michelle Obama's dress was really ugly! It looked like she was wearing a pumpkin dress! The dress also made us question if she was pregnant, if she's not it definitely wasn't very flattering! And Jill Biden's suit was a hideous yellow color NOT patriotic at all! The 4 of them standing together on the stage they just looked silly!! LOL!

Oh...and because the world does revolve around me I thought I'd share my exciting election news with ya'll!! Ready...I was the 100th person to vote at my 'station' and the 499th person to vote at the Duvall Church School!! I was a bit annoyed not to be number 500, but I still was close!!

Comments:
Jaime: I agree about the clothes they were wearing. I did think that the kids looked cute though:)

Originally Posted on Myspace Blog

I Have A Friend...

who is only 24 and is falling apart! First her hips, now here feet...oh and there's her memory as well ... it's all gone ... what will go next??

love ya Erin...but sheesh...you're even worse then me and my problems and I'm a hypercondriac -- teeheehee! xoxo

Comments:
Erin: Not a hypercondriac!! Taking Thursday off to rest and see the doctor.

Originally Posted on Myspace Blog

Election --> Tomorrow!

Yay!! The election is TOMORROW...go Barack go! They (who ever 'they' are ) are estimating that we should know who wins the election by midnight EST (9:00pm here) tomorrow night! As of this point Barack Obama still has a 'large' lead in the polls...but we won't know for sure until tomorrow!

So if you haven't voted yet...get out TOMORROW!!

Comments:
Erin: Going at 6am??
Cori: *shockingly* the polls aren't open at 6am - unless I am heading east LOL! They open at 7am but NO i will not be there that early! I promised my mom I'd go BEFORE noon to make sure 'my vote counted'!

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Happy Halloween

We had a FUN halloween this year! We started 'celebrating' on Thursday night with our annual Family Pumpkin Carving Party. We all carved pumpkins and had soooo much fun removing the 'pumpkin poop' (what Madison called it). The pumpkins included....4 dancing ghosts (made by me), a cat (brandi), Barack Obama (jaime), the democrat 'logo' (mary) and a vampire (alex). Plus my dad and Madison both did 'old fashion' ones! So we had quite an eclectic variety!

On Halloween afternoon we (myself, Erin, Jaime & Madison) went with Kim, Sophia & the triplets to "trick or treating in downtown duvall". Sophia was 'supergirl' and the boys were bumblebees & Gabbi was a ladybug. The cutest costume of course was Minnie Mouse Madison! We had fun walking up and down Main Street while Sophie & Madison went store to store in Duvall.

After that we went back to my house and waited for 'real' trick or treating. But by then Madison was way overtired and pretty grumpy. She got spooked by a 'scary ghost' that came to the door, so she didn't really want to go out. We walked up the street but only went to the Harrington's before returning home.We had a GREAT Halloween here - hope you did as well! And I will leave you this evening with our Funny Story of the Night!

*DOOR BELL RINGS* Both my dad & I go and answer the door and standing at the door is Barack Obama! As Barack was leaving my dad said "hey Barack check out your pumpkin". Barak looked down at the pumpkin and then back at my dad and at the pumpkin again - sort of waved to my dad as if he was acknologing my dad. Then turned around a left...

My dad and I looked at eachother dumbfoundly trying to figure out what had happened....we finally realized that we think Barack thought we were calling HIM a PUMPKIN! At that moment we both started laughing histarically! And continue to laugh about it from time to time when one of us brings it up!

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MEDRIX Auction

MEDRIX: Medical ♦ Education ♦ Development of Resourses ♦ International eXchange

So last night I went to an auction benefiting MEDRIX. The only reason I went was the SPU associate dean of the nursing program invited any interested pre-nursing students & nursing students to attend and sit at her table. So my main intention of going was to suck up, schmooze & get my name out there. In addition to the associate dean, Dr. Henshaw, the dean of the nursing program was there, two insturctors and a handful of past students. So that was really cool that I got to introduce myself to them and eat dinner with them in somewhat of an intimiate setting. It was almost like getting a 'mini interview', so that made it totally worth it!

A few days a go I got an email from another student who wanted to attend but didn't have a car asking if she could have a ride. I happily obliged because I figured at least then I'd have someone to hang out with during the event! So I picked up Angie about 4:15 from SPU and we headed to the event in Medina at the Overlake Country Club & Golf Course. Neither one of us had any idea what we were should expect for the event, but we were game to go. Oh and Angie is in the nursing program now, so it was nice to be able to pick her brain on the application process, what she recommended and learned - so that was really helpful!

We arrived a few minutes before 5:00 (when it officially started) and then had basically an hour and a half to wander around. We quickly bid on a few items we were interested in, in the end I was the only 'winner' with one item for my grandma's birthday gift. Then sat down in a seating area to read more about Medrix. While we were sitting, Dr. Henshaw came over and sat with us and we chatted about MEDRIX and what it was, we also got to meet the MEDRIX Board President & also the CEO. The Board President came over and gave us an indepth explantion of what MEDRIX is...

MEDRIX saves lives and improves the quality of life for countless families in Southeast Asia by providing Medical Resources, Education, Safe Water Development, and Clinic Refurbishments.

They send doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers, paramedics, etc. down to Vietnam to teach medical personnel about better methods of medicine, cleanliness and assist with operations for patients down there (heart surgery's for example). They also teach local schools, children and other people of Vietnam about how important safewater is (high percentage of children that die in Vietnam is due to dehydration caused from diahrea from the un-safewater) and provide nutrition training for the people of Vietnam.

I was really impressed and moved by this company. SPU became involved with MEDRIX through their nursing program. Each spring SPU sends 10 of their nursing students to Vietnam with MEDRIX for 5-weeks to due one of their rotations. The SPU nursing students not only get a chance to work with Vietnamese doctors, nurses, and many more - but also learn more about less fortunate countries and how they can help. SPU was also named the MEDRIX "2008 Hero's Award" for all their help and support! So that was a really neat thing to be apart of.

So I went to this auction with the thought of - I DON'T WANT TO GO and only going to get to spend time with the nursing instructors who will decide my fate, but learned a whole lot and ended up really enjoying my time. I am now thinking that maybe (shocking I know) I want to go to Vietnam while I'm in the nursing program. So we shall see! It was a really amazing night and I had a lot of fun!

Comment:
Erin: Sounds very exciting lol

Originally Posted on Myspace Blog

Ode To A Clean Room!

Hallalujuah I got my room cleaned!! I thought I'd share with you all the amount of work I achieved - I took some before, during & after pics of my room just so you get an idea of what a mess it was! My mom would be mortified if she knew I was posting pictures of it!!

Yay now a CLEAN ROOM!! Now....how long will it last??

Tonight, I got to go to a really cool auction for a company, MEDRIX that works with the SPU nursing program, stay tuned tomorrow for a re-cap of that!

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Comments:
Erin: Looks great! Nice big clean day for everyone.
Amy: Wow. You weren't kidding about how messy your room was. Good job cleaning it. I'll give you even more props if you can keep it clean. :)

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