4x4 picture tag

1. Open the fourth picture folder on your computer
2. Select the fourth picture in the folder
3. Post the picture to your blog & explain the picture
4. Tag 4 people to do the same

this picture is of Josh hiking with his patrol. it's actually one of my favorites because he was the youngest scout, this was his first long hike as well as his first sleeping hike. 22 miles and two or three nights packing his stuff. i wasn't there, dh was his partner for that one, but i heard it was pretty hard on j, as well as everyone who was in hearing range! but look at the older scouts helping him down the rock...isn't that awesome? they never once complained or told him to suck it up. they encouraged him, built  him up, and showed their true character...i love fox patrol...

40 odd things.....

You know the drill! 40 ODD things about ME!
Learn 40 things (more) about me and I'll learn 40 things about you.
Once you've read this, it's your turn ♥From Diana

1. Do you like blue cheese dressing? Not usually, but when I was first pregnant with Nathan....yum!

2. Did you ever smoke cigarettes? Yes

3. Do you own a gun? Nope...shot several, but never owned one

4. What's your favorite drink at Starbucks or & almost every single other specialty coffee shops? Hot chocolate

5. What do you think of hot dogs? We're all over the Hebrew Nationals...they are corn free, gluten free and kosher

6. Favorite Christmas song? Away in a Manger...sung by Avari gives me chills

7. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Dr Pepper

8. Can you do push ups? If I do them on my knees

9. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? My wedding ring

10. Favorite hobbies? reading....books or websites or backs of shampoo bottles....whatever

11. Do you have ADD? Sleep-deprived ADD, that's about it

12. What's one trait that you hate about yourself? my short temper. sigh....

13. Middle name? MY middle name????? Dawn...the mostest generic 70's middle name there was. But I have a special birthday addition, I'll bet no one can guess if they don't already know!!

14. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment? Why has my belly not SPLIT open from the pressure? I could use a Dr Pepper over crushed ice. Man, what am I making for the kids for dinner? (I am really serious about the Indian food for me)

15. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink? Homemade Emilade, sweet tea, dr pepper

16. Current worry right now? Baby position

17. Current hate(s)right now? Not really any right now

18. Favorite place to be? I'm going with Diane's answer, right here, right now. The girls going through baby clothes, we just finished an awesome game of Yahtzee and talking about menarche

19. How did you ring in the New Year? With a nap.

20. Like to travel? Yes, yes, yes! It used to suck for me, but my control issues have eased up SO much.

21. Name 3 people that you hope will complete this? Whomever will not be stressed by it (If you do it, comment and let me know!)

22. Do you own slippers? I have had a few pairs, my favs just died...now I have these white fluffy ones that are mmmmokay.

23. What color shirt are you wearing? Gray nautica long-sleeved shirt

24. Could you ever make it 39 days on the show Survivor? If no one else was screwing up my island. But I couldn't do the show, no.

25. Song you sing in the shower? I sing LOTS of songs in the shower.

26. Favorite girls names? Sophie, Molly, Tallulah

27. Favorite boys names? Cooper, Tyler, Jeremiah

28. What's in your pocket right now? No pockets.

29. Last thing that made you laugh? girls making lunch

30. Worst injury you've ever had? When my entire backbone slipped out of alignment, tore ligaments and pulled muscles all to the left. It was the most horrifying thing I've ever done to myself. I was fourteen. It's screwed up my back for life.

31. Do you love where you live? OH YEAH!

32. How many t.v's do you have in your house? Three, one in Josh's room, one in the boy's room, one in the TV room. The girls watch movies on the iMac and the laptop, in their room and Bre's room respectively.

33. Who's your loudest friend? I don't know....I'm so used to the kids.

34. Does someone have a crush on you? Zane does....teehee!

35. What's your favorite candy? Those dang snickers....

36. What were u doing at 12 AM last night? talking with dh

37. What were u doing at 7AM this morning? wondering if I REALLY had to get up early to make wheat-free biscuits for Dan, or if I could pass off a muffin from yesterday to go in the chocolate gravy.

38. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up today? No contractions....sigh

39. What's your favorite holiday? Thanksgiving...all the family and food without the commercial pressures

40. What are your plans for tomorrow? clean up, work on bible study verses, pot luck...have baby ;-) depends

Six happy things!

I have been tagged by Alex, from PolyKow...I just love the name of her blog!
Here it goes:
Six things that add to my joy and happiness...
1. A day spent in the sunshine
2. A new book
3. Watching my children play with each other
4. Hiking in eastern Oklahoma
5. One of my favorite songs on the radio, while the kids and I dance together
6. My husband walking in on us dancing, with a big grin on his face....

One word Answers

Not as easy as you might think! Now forward, change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It's really hard to only use one word answers. Be sure to send back to the person you received it from!

Where is your cell phone? desk

Your spouse? kitchen

Your hair? blue

Your mother? crazy

Your father? crazier

Your favorite thing? peace

Your dream last night? vampires

Your favorite drink? Coke

Your dream/goal? sleep

What room are you in? Bedroom

Your hobby? kids

Your fear? pain

Where do you want to be in 6 years? Home

Where were were you last night? date

Something that you aren't? quiet

Muffins? blueberry

Wish list item? iphone

Where you grew up? city

Last thing you did? read

What are you wearing? clothes 

Your pets? python

Friends? yes

Your life? busy

Your mood? sleepy

Missing someone? no

Your car? truck

Something you're not wearing? glasses

Your favorite store? target

Your favorite color? Green

When is the last time you laughed? scouts

Last time you cried? saturday

Who will resendpost this? quizzical

Where do you go to over and over? scouts

Five people who email me regularly? christy, heather, phoebe, dad, zane

My favorite place to eat? home

Favorite place I'd like to be at right now? bed

Labor Day Meme, from Melly

Cool idea Melly!
Here's a blog with a TON of links for blogs who've done the meme!

How long were your labors?

1. Josh-14 hours, followed by emergency csection
2. Breanna-5 hours, induced
3. Emily-7 hours, induced
4. Rachel-8 hours, arom
5. Sam-
6. Dan-7 hours
7. Ava-

How did you know you were in labor?

1. When they hooked me up to the pitocin ;-) I was two weeks overdue, with a bp of 180/120. Totally mismanaged midwife pregnancy. Finally sent me to Mercy for an emergency induction when we failed the NST three times.
2. Back in the day, it was common knowledge that all vbacs were induced to prevent big babies. Duh! So she was induced on her due date
3. Still with the inductions, ACOG wouldn't change their story for another year. Softened with cytotec and induced with pit, just like Bre.
4. Saw a new midwife, and she finally diagnosed me with a pit dependency and broke my water three weeks after my due date.
5. My first natural labor!!! I finally realized I was in labor when I took Breanna to speech therapy. It was my first time all day to sit lol. I went to the hospital where they told me I wasn't progressed enough to take seriously, and he was born three hours later.
6. I realized when I was getting the kids ready for church. We were supposed to be there for some reason, so I breathed through church, came home, had a big dinner of fried chicken and mashed potatoes, and went upstairs to have a baby.
7. Doing housework, I suddenly realized.

Where did you deliver?

1. Hospital
2. Better hospital
3. Hospital with better OB
4. Home
5. Back to hospital
6. Home
7. Home

Drugs?

1. Pitocin and epidural
2. Pitocin and epidural
3. Pitocin and epidural
4, 5, 6, 7. Nothing

C-section?

Yep, my first birth

Who delivered?

1. Dr Jerk, who didn't like emergency transfers from crappy midwives
2. Dr Michael Smith-O'Brian, one of the best OB's I've ever met
3. Dr Shelba Bethal-Still one of my fav OB's
4. GREAT midwife
5. Dr Bethal again
6. My husband
7. My husband

100 books meme

Stole a meme that looked interesting, I've enjoyed going through and reading the lists of others. SO you're supposed to mark the ones that you have read (i've italicized the ones i've read), and I'm going to say that you have to read the entire book lol! 'Cause I know I started War and Peace and set it down with a big ol' OMG. Maybe that shows an empty, not 'well-trained' mind, but I don't really care ;-) And no, it doesn't count if you've seen the movie version (LOL!)

1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11 Little Women Louisa M Alcott (i've actually read all of her books)
12 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare (some but not all)
15 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34 Emma Jane Austen
35 Persuasion Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières
39 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41 Animal Farm George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
45 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies William Golding
50 Atonement Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi Yann Martel
52 Dune Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World Aldous Huxley (one of my favorites)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72 Dracula Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94 Watership Down Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
100 Les Misérables Victor Hugo