I've been tagged!!
Here are the rules:
1) Post rules on your blog
2) Answer the six '8' items
3) Let each person know by leaving them a comment.
8 favorite TV shows:
1. Heros
2. We don't get T.V. ........ so I don't even know what shows are on the air now, (but I have season 1 of Heros on DVD!!!)
8 things I did yesterday:
1. Took Titan to the E.R. (he's fine...just a bump on the head)
2. Grocery shopped
3. Made Banana Bread
4. Gave Banana Bread to neighbors and talked with them for a while
5. Sang songs to Titan
6. Took Rocky for a walk
7. Made Dinner (sort of)
8. Read books with Titan
8 Things I'm looking forward to:
1. Croft Family reunion in July
2. Throwing a birthday party for my son and husband in July
3. Going camping in the grand Canyon (hopefully in April or May)
4. The next Date Night
5. Going to bed!!! And getting some sleep
6. I look forward to the day that my house is organized and "guest ready"
7. The end of this recession
8. the yard getting landscaped
8 favorite restaurants:
1. Chasa di Giai
2. TGIFridays
3. Karen's Kreamery
4. Black Eyed Pea
5. Benihanas (did I spell that right?)
6. Chipoltes
7. Top of the Hill
8. Outback
8 Things on my wish list:
1. More Time
2. More Patience
3. More understanding
4. A Happy Family*
5. To be the best mom and wife*
6. That my house just stayed clean all of the time (maybe in heaven huh?)*
7. More Fun
8. New socks
* I stole these answers from Heather
8 people I tag:
1. Ann
2. Kelsey
3. Heather M.
4. Darla R
5. Deb P
6. Emily
7. Becca J
8. Sabra
Friday, February 27, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Friday the 13th!!!! My new year's resolutions are.......
My birthday was last Friday, the 13th. I love having Friday the 13th birthdays!! They are fun. This year my husband took me to the ballet for my birthday. We saw "Romeo and Juliet". It was amazingly well done. I did not really think they would be able to do Shakespeare justice, but they did. The dancers movement were so emotional that it was very easy to follow the story line. I was very impressed!!!
I usually save my new year's resolutions for my birthday. January 1st does not really have any significance to me. But my birthday?!?! That means something to me! So I made my goals for my 33rd year!
I need your help (all of my blog readers)!!!! I need you to help keep me on track. Please post notes on my blog to remind me of my goals and ask me how I am doing towards reaching them. That way I will have more than just myself to answer too. Thanks!!
So here are my goals for this year!
Have a purpose for each fast Sunday. Don't just fast because I am supposed to.
Make dinner for my family on a (fairly) consistent basis. Find recipes that my family likes, easy to prepare, economical, healthy, and can be made with items from food storage, and make them into a cookbook for our family.
Food storage....
A) purchase 6 months worth by the end of 2009
B) Set up the food storage areas & use my sister's plan for rotating food
C) Make a food storage cook book / meal plan and follow it
D) Either Dixon or myself will go to the cannery at least once a month (3rd Thursday- our ward cannery day)
Do one thing each day to help organize myself/my family/my home....This can be a 5 minute project or doing one portion of a large project.
Make more friends. Once a month (minimum) have someone (or a family) over for dinner and games. Make an effort to talk to more people at church and the B-course wives at the squadron.
Learn to sew. I want to sew my son's Halloween costume this year. I have the sewing machine already and can sew a straight stitch, but that is about it. I need to set up a "sewing station" in
the "craft room" and practice. I need to find small projects to practice, also.
So there they are....my goals to reach before my 33rd birthday!!! I really hope you will help me by commenting on my blog making me be accountable for them! ( I know it seems like a lot of goals but I actually narrowed it down quite a bit. )
I usually save my new year's resolutions for my birthday. January 1st does not really have any significance to me. But my birthday?!?! That means something to me! So I made my goals for my 33rd year!
I need your help (all of my blog readers)!!!! I need you to help keep me on track. Please post notes on my blog to remind me of my goals and ask me how I am doing towards reaching them. That way I will have more than just myself to answer too. Thanks!!
So here are my goals for this year!
Have a purpose for each fast Sunday. Don't just fast because I am supposed to.
Make dinner for my family on a (fairly) consistent basis. Find recipes that my family likes, easy to prepare, economical, healthy, and can be made with items from food storage, and make them into a cookbook for our family.
Food storage....
A) purchase 6 months worth by the end of 2009
B) Set up the food storage areas & use my sister's plan for rotating food
C) Make a food storage cook book / meal plan and follow it
D) Either Dixon or myself will go to the cannery at least once a month (3rd Thursday- our ward cannery day)
Do one thing each day to help organize myself/my family/my home....This can be a 5 minute project or doing one portion of a large project.
Make more friends. Once a month (minimum) have someone (or a family) over for dinner and games. Make an effort to talk to more people at church and the B-course wives at the squadron.
Learn to sew. I want to sew my son's Halloween costume this year. I have the sewing machine already and can sew a straight stitch, but that is about it. I need to set up a "sewing station" in
the "craft room" and practice. I need to find small projects to practice, also.
So there they are....my goals to reach before my 33rd birthday!!! I really hope you will help me by commenting on my blog making me be accountable for them! ( I know it seems like a lot of goals but I actually narrowed it down quite a bit. )
Sunday, February 15, 2009
YOU CAN WIN
My sister, Ann, posted this on her blog and I am took her up on the offer. So here it is:
The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. {might be a little while}
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or maybe even some creation I haven't even invented yet. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.The catch?
Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!
*Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!*
The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. {might be a little while}
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or maybe even some creation I haven't even invented yet. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.The catch?
Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!
*Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!*
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Christmas, January and cute things!
We went to Midway for Christmas. We got to see all of the Crofts. Titan got to meet all of the Croft Cousins (except Ashleigh). It was great!! We had a lot of fun hanging out with them. Below is a picture of Papa Jim and Grandma Jo with all of the Croft Grandkids!
Titan loves hats. He got lots of hats for Christmas. Papa and Grandma Jo gave him a biking helmet to wear when we go for bike rides.
It snowed a lot in Utah while we were there. About four feet in four days. Here are a couple of videos of the fun that Dixon and Tyler (Dixon's younger brother) had in the all the snow. Dixon is in black.
Titan has recently been battling a cold. He has had a cough and runny nose. After the first couple of days and I started to realize that he was coughing onto other kids. That is when I started telling him to cover his mouth when he coughs. It took a few times and a couple of examples but he now covers his mouth when he coughs (most of the time). He will also cover mine or Dixon's mouth if we forget to do so when we cough/sneeze.
We have started using "Timeout" as discipline. Titan will get sent to timeout if he gets on the table, or hits, or throws something. The timeout spot is the corner of the room created by the couch and loveseat against perpendicular walls and the ends pushed together to make a "box". For a while it worked pretty well but then Titan realized it was easy to pull himself out of that box by squeezing between the place where the arms of the couches don't quite touch. When he pulls himself out of the corner, before timeout is complete, we tell him to go back to time out. And he does! That the crazy thing. He will just cry all the way back to the corner and climb over the couch and put himself back in timeout, and continue crying there. One day Titan did something that he thought he would get in trouble for. We did not see him do it though. Titan came up to us and then started pointing to the time out corner. Usually, when he points he wants you to go in that direction. So we stared walking to where he was pointing not know what he was doing. Once we got there we watched as he crawled over the couch and put himself in the timeout corner and sat down.
Titan has had to learn to say "sorry" and give loves (hugs or cuddles). As all toddlers do, sometimes he will (usually unintentionally) hurt someone by bumping into them or hitting them. I make him go to that person and sign the word "sorry" to them and then give them a "love". One day at a park a little girl was crying. Titan went over to her and watched her cry for a minute. He looked really concerned for her. Then he went over to her and gave her a hug. It was too sweet!
Titan loves hats. He got lots of hats for Christmas. Papa and Grandma Jo gave him a biking helmet to wear when we go for bike rides.
It snowed a lot in Utah while we were there. About four feet in four days. Here are a couple of videos of the fun that Dixon and Tyler (Dixon's younger brother) had in the all the snow. Dixon is in black.
More cute and not-so-cute things that Titan has been up doing lately;
A few times in the past couple of months Titan has "caught" Dixon and I kissing. We will stand in the kitchen, living room, hall-wall, where ever the mood strikes us and start to kiss. When Titan see us doing this he wants in on the "action" too. He will literally try to pull us apart so that he can kiss one of us.
We have a pretty good bedtime routine for Titan. We will sing songs as we go up the stairs. Then change his diaper, get into pajamas, and then say prayers. After prayers we sit in the rocker/glider and sing more songs and then put him in the crib when he is just about asleep. Some nights Titan is more tired than others. When he is really tired he will point to the crib to get us to put him in there. One night I was singing and rocking with him and I didn't want to put him in the crib just yet. I sang and held him for a long time. I think he pointed to the crib a couple of times, but I really couldn't see what he was doing cause it was so dark in the room. After about the third round of every primary song I can remember he raised his hand and covered my mouth to get me to stop singing.
While on the cruise Titan started a new habit (for lack of a better word). There were not very many other children on the cruise but anytime we saw one Titan did one of two things. If he saw a little girl, he went up to them and gave them a hug or did some little cute gesture to flirt with them. Sometimes he would do this for ladies too. One time Titan and I were walking down the corridor and we came upon a pretty lady walking and holding hands with her 3 or 4 year old son. Titan went up them and pulled their hands apart and put his own hand in hers and tried to walk away with her. . . . . But if he sees a little boy he was not as nice to them. He would go up to the little boy, as calm and casually as can be, then grab and scratch their face. Many times he made big marks on their faces before I could stop him. We figured he was just trying to limit the competition. (That would make Dixon proud, to see a competitive edge in Titan) I feel so bad for the other kids. I had to keep a very close eye on him for a while. It seems as though this faze has past now. Thank goodness!!!! (although, he still hugs the girls)
Titan has recently been battling a cold. He has had a cough and runny nose. After the first couple of days and I started to realize that he was coughing onto other kids. That is when I started telling him to cover his mouth when he coughs. It took a few times and a couple of examples but he now covers his mouth when he coughs (most of the time). He will also cover mine or Dixon's mouth if we forget to do so when we cough/sneeze.
We have started using "Timeout" as discipline. Titan will get sent to timeout if he gets on the table, or hits, or throws something. The timeout spot is the corner of the room created by the couch and loveseat against perpendicular walls and the ends pushed together to make a "box". For a while it worked pretty well but then Titan realized it was easy to pull himself out of that box by squeezing between the place where the arms of the couches don't quite touch. When he pulls himself out of the corner, before timeout is complete, we tell him to go back to time out. And he does! That the crazy thing. He will just cry all the way back to the corner and climb over the couch and put himself back in timeout, and continue crying there. One day Titan did something that he thought he would get in trouble for. We did not see him do it though. Titan came up to us and then started pointing to the time out corner. Usually, when he points he wants you to go in that direction. So we stared walking to where he was pointing not know what he was doing. Once we got there we watched as he crawled over the couch and put himself in the timeout corner and sat down.
Titan has had to learn to say "sorry" and give loves (hugs or cuddles). As all toddlers do, sometimes he will (usually unintentionally) hurt someone by bumping into them or hitting them. I make him go to that person and sign the word "sorry" to them and then give them a "love". One day at a park a little girl was crying. Titan went over to her and watched her cry for a minute. He looked really concerned for her. Then he went over to her and gave her a hug. It was too sweet!
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