Me In Pics

PSM had this on her blog and it was fun making so make one of yourself and let me know so I can check it out...

a.Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr.com Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.
d. copy the mosaic image (right click, save image as) to your computer.

Here are the questions:
1. What is your first name? Elizabeth
2. What is your favorite food? Sushi (this week, anyway)
3. What high school did you go to? Highland High School
4. What is your favorite color? Purple
5. Who is your celebrity crush? James Marsden (my kids have been watching a lot of Enchanted and Hairspray lately. My favorite line, "I'm handsome even when I'm sleeping!" -in answer to a charade type game with the squirrel in Enchanted.
6. Favorite drink? Mountain Dew
7. Dream vacation? Sweden
8. Favorite dessert? Chocolate covered strawberries
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Young at heart
10. What do you love most in life? family vacations
11. One word to describe you? loyal
12. Where do you live? South Jordan

1. Elizabeth or Elisabeth, 2. great sushi lunch!, 3. H Rock, 4. Deep Purple, 5. James Marsden, 6. Vintage Mountain Dew, 7. Stockholm, Sweden 064 - Drottningholm palace, 8. Chocolate-Covered Strawberries, 9. Young At Heart, 10. Family Chicago Christmas Vacation 2002, 11. Hill of Loyal, Perth and Kinross, 12. South Jordan, Aug 2, 2008

My Fun Funny Five-Year-Old

Anushka is not what I was expecting. But she kind of is. I always thought that I hoped I'd have a daughter I could really relate with - which means one that would prefer a soccer ball to a doll and t-shirts and shorts to bows and dresses. But, I've always said that I'd probably end up with a girly girl - and Oh Brother Did I!! She loves princesses, Polly pockets, ribbons in her hair, and dress up games. She's owned about five soccer balls in her life and I'm not sure if she's ever kicked one of them (maybe the pink one). But I wouldn't have her any other way.

• 'Brrr-ing' is a word in our house. Most people say 'freezing' but Anushka is always 'brrrr-ing cold'.


• If a DVD skips or doesn't play anymore, it's 'crunchy,' according to her - and that's how we all describe it now.


• She's picked up some Brittish phrases from 'Charlie & Lola'. She told me that she would do her homework 'straight away' and that my friend Jen told her 'loads of times' that her favorite colors are green and red.


• We're trying to get Diggity to try using the potty. Anushka tried to help us convince him by telling him he could use his 'squirty thing.'


• She's really into geography and can find countries on the globe that I'm pretty sure most adults couldn't find.


• I think this comes from Kindergarten but she's really into saying 'raise your hand if...' (you've been to China, or you've been to Texas)

Murder Mystery Dinner

Have you ever wanted an excuse to be rude to everyone you encounter for an evening? Friday night I had one. I had the sincere fortune of being cast as 'Purple' - the angry rock star whose last song was titled, "I'll Kill You if You Speak Again." I spent the evening telling people I hoped pianos would fall on their heads and that they were stupid and made stupid career/life decisions until *shocker* I was suddenly killed with a butter knife.
Need a recipe for a great evening? Get someone with enough initiative to turn a "We should all get together sometime" idea into a murder mystery dinner at her house Add some truly hilarious women to the mix (btw, the woman in red is Tamara of the 'Trek port-a-potty' story for those of you who have been reading my blog since last summer)Include fabulous food and friendsKaraoke always helps
And Voila! a definite night to remember...

9/11

LOTOJA

= 'Logan to Jackson' = Longest single-day bike race in North America = 206 miles, 3 states, one day, 9000 feet of climbing and you must finish by dark.

Saturday was the big day - BB has been training for about the last six months to complete this crazy ride. I had a great time following him and meeting him at the 'feed zones' to give him *you guessed it* food, drink, a pat on the back and send him on his next leg of the race. It wasn't hard at all :)

I am really proud of him and this amazing accomplishment...

Random Thoughts While Running My First Half Marathon

It wasn't fast. It wasn't pretty. But last Saturday, I completed my first (and most likely LAST) half-marathon. The Top of Utah (TOU) half marathon was a good experience in that I set a goal and accomplished it. I was amused at the really odd thoughts that ran through my head while running:

• Mr. Brightside by The Killers was one of the songs on my iPod and the line that really rang true was "I just can't run, it's killing me"


• Another song on said iPod was Tubthumping by Chumba Wumba and I have to say that CPR always pops into my head when I hear that song - plus she just ran her first half last month and was an inspiration to me (btw CPR - if you read this will you send me an invite to your blog? Daph has my email...)


• You know the tv show Alias? Wasn't it convenient that almost without fail, every place Sydney had to infiltrate was either next to or attached to some ultra hip, sexy dance club so she could ALWAYS go dressed up and wear blue wigs? (I told you the thoughts were really random)


• Note to self: Next time you train for a long race, give yourself more than 6 weeks to train


• 2nd note to self: Next time you train for a long race, try to avoid stomach flu the week before the race


• There was a group running in front of me that I began to refer to in my mind as the 'Tanning Salon Trio' - talk about some leather skin - the cool thing was that they were all skinnier than me and somehow I ran past them (sadly, many MANY people passed me)

Whittney is still my hero and beat me by almost 20 minutes.

The reward for running was a night at Bear Lake in our friend's 'cabin' - it's really a house about twice the size of ours and right on the lake. It was a great way to end the day - the kids got to ride on the boat, wave runners and play on the beach. I personally enjoyed the sitting on the beach and eating famous Bear Lake shakes. Thanks Landon and Jen!

Mommy Tag

Lei-lei (in the pink chair) tagged Anushka so here we go:

1.What is something Mommy always says? "Besides I love you?" Don't be mean to your brother.
2. What makes Mommy happy? Being nice to your brother.
3. What makes Mommy sad? When I am mean to my brother. (hmmm - not much of a theme eh?)
4. How does your Mom make you laugh? Remember when you were dancing with daddy and I was doing music on the globe? That was funny.
5. What was your Mom like as a child? A sweet kid (nope I didn't coach her)
6. How old is your Mom? UUUM - 27? (I'll take it)
7. How tall is your Mom? 6 (???)
8. What is your Mom's favorite thing to do? Take care of me.
9. What does Mom do when you're not around? Miss me (no self esteem problems here)
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? Soccer (yeah!)
11. What is your Mom really good at? Soccer
12. What is your Mom not good at? Rollerskating (how would she know that?)
13. What does Mom do for her job? Taking care of me and sometimes computer work
14. What is Mom's favorite food? pasta (not a bad guess)
15. What makes you proud of your Mom? When she's really really nice to me.
16. If your Mom were a carton character who would she be? Sleeping Beauty (I like the sleeping part)
17. What do you and your Mom do together? Go eat Jamba Juice when Diggity is at preschool.
18. How are you and your Mom the same? We look like each other (I'll take it)
19. How are you and your Mom different? I'm young and you're old.
20. How do you know your Mom loves you? I don't know how I know - cause you're always nice (that might be a little selective memory).

Tag: Ruby, Alexis/McKinley, Livi, a 'Spirited Sixer', Emma, Pickle