I've been tagged: My Spouse

Since I was tagged by about 7 people with this thing i decided I would do it, plus it was kind of fun to reflect on our past dating life and our relationship. So here it goes.

How did you meet your spouse? Well I worked in the bookstore with this guy Nathan Roberts, (he lived with arch before their missions) he would always tell me about his friend Archie and how cool he was, he was still on his mission and was coming to school in the winter. Well you know how guys talk up their friends but they always turn out to be well... you know... anyway the first day of winter semester they came into thebookstore to buy books and I was smitten.
Where did you go on your first date? We pretty much hate this question because neither of us really remember it. We think it was either going ice skating, or dairy queen. We hung out a

lot with his friends so our actual dates are kind of a blur.

How long have you been together? We dated for a year and a half and have been married for almost four years, so grand total as of right now 4 years and 9 months.
Who eats more? Typically, Arch does, but when I'm pregnant I put him to shame.
Who said I love you first? Arch did--but let me preface the story- We had been dating for a year and had never EVER talked about anything serious ever, so I was beginning to think nothing was ever going to happen between us, we would just date forever because Arch wasn't capable of deep conversations...well he finally said it one night, and instead of me saying I love you to, I first said "You do?" all bewildered like. Of course I said I love you too a few minutes later, but apparantly it freaked Arch out that I didn't believe him, and he didn't said it again until about 3 months later.
Who is taller? He is.

Who sings better? I do, Arch can actually sing decently when he's trying to be funny, but when he tries to sing like in church, he's all over the place.
Who is smarter? Mostly he is, there might be a subject or two that I'm smarter in.
Who does the laundry and the dishes? I do, he might help out here and there with putting laundry in the washing machine, but I would feel safe to say he has folded the laundry 4 times in our marriage. But in his defense its mostly becaue he doesn it wrong and I'd rather do it right, he does do the dishes here and there and will help when I ask.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Well I really don't know, at our house Arch does, but when we sleep other places it changes, i wonder if it has to do with where the door is placed or the direction the room is facing... weird. Wait a minute I know, Arch sleeps closest to the Alarm clock because I sleep through them.
Who pays the bills? Arch does, he doesn't trust me to do them, I'm way to forgetful.
Who mows the lawn? Arch does, he's incharge of the outside stuff and the cars, and I'm in charge of the inside chores, but we do help eachother; its a little 1940's but it works for us.
Who cooks dinner? I do, because if I don't he makes chilli-mac, which is the most revolting mess of nastiness.
Who drives when you are together? He does--he always says he's a professional driver (he drove UPS trucks for a summer).
Who is more stubborn? We both are, we're both first borns so its kind of in our blood. However I would say Arch is and Arch would say I am.
Who is the first to admit when they're wrong? I will admit Arch is usually, he's always been really good at that, I'm so stubborn I hate giving in first, although sometimes I will say he's right (even though i know I'm right) when I get annoyed of arguing.
Whose parents do you see the most? my parents they live about 15 minutes away from us.
Who kissed who first? Well I guess I kissed him first, but it was about dang time it had been two months already!

Who proposed? He did, and it was the most amazing day, I was so shocked to see the amount of romanticness come out of arch...but we joke and say he used up his romantic abilities for the next 10 years... which has been about right so far. (just kidding, he's done about 3 romantic things since)
Who is more sensitive? I am... but Arch can be too, I think it would suprise many of you.
Who has more friends? I do, Arch seems to think he doesn't need any besides Zach, the Roberts brothers and Scott. Plus he says he isn't good at being social...whatever that means.

(See what I mean)--thanks to logans facebook for these pictures.

Who has more siblings? Arch does... 2 brothers 2 sisters. I have two sisters one brother.
Who wears the pants in the family? Oh Arch would say he does and I would say I do, so we probably trade off.

I tag... Lindsay Coudron, Lindsay Roberts, Keri, Sheena, and Audrey and Cassie

I'm BACK!!!

So for those of you who didn't know, we've never really had the internet, so any time i post something its because I'm at my parents house or I'm roaming around my house late at night trying to pick up on a wireless signal from our neighbors. Well I'm here to announce WE GOT INTERNET AND CABLE!!! You have no idea how happy this makes me, I feel like I could dance all day long, even Arch was impressed by my freakishly good mood. Seriously though, when you stay at home ALL day long with a child and you only have channel 8 (a fuzzy channel 8 that is) to keep you company life gets pretty sad, because now i know all the happenings of soap operas and quite frankly that makes me want to vomit out of the back of my throat. So heres to my glorious day and to my husband who finally gave in and agreed to let me get cable and interent. yahoo!!!!!

(I almost feel like this day is right up there with my wedding day and the day of Zaylies birth... hence the extatic wedding picture.)

Anaheim HERE WE COME!

Thats right folks, this weekend we are heading down to the sunny state of California to get out of the snow and go to a supercross race in Anaheim. This race is going to be so cool because all of the old school riders like Jeremy McGrath, Jeff Staton, Rick Johnson and Jeff Ward will be there riding all their old school bikes from when they used to race. Of course all the new guys will be there too, like Ricky Carmichael(spelling), Bubba Stewart, Kevin Windham, and Ivan Tedesco. They are going to have a race where they ride the older two strokes...its going to be awesome to hear some sweet two stroke pipe. We also get to go down to the pits and see all the factory bikes and riders. There are going to be a lot of crazy mullet wearin, booty showin, redneck cream of the crop. This is where they all come out of the wood work; good stuff.

We've got Sunday to play around so we're thinking about California Adventure or Disney Land or something of that nature so if you know of anything really fun to do do down there let us know by friday! We're leaving the baby behind with the Grandparents so we get to have a fun little vacation by ourselves, well and with Arch's boss and his wife, and another riding buddy of theirs and his wife, but still- no babies! YAY! (Sorry to all you Roberts', three exclamation marks in one paragraph, I'm just not a good enough writer to get the excitement across with out them)


We'll take pictures of the event and post them when we get back. Till then...

Coming out of hiding #2

I'm sure most of my blog lurkers have moved on to other blogs that are frequently updated, so for those of you who still check to see if I've updated our blog in the past two months-WE'RE BACK-for now. Our internet is a bit iffy at home, plus life has been out of contrizzol lately there just hasn't been time for internet frivolity. Anyway we've got some things to catch up on, such as our just plain crazy halloween party! All the usuals came, Zach and Keri, Ben and Ryanne, Nate and Scott and their dates, Brennen and Cassie, and we were able to add some new ones this year Bud-Keri's brother, and Sam Archie's brother (and their dates). We also invited some of Arch's work buddy's, so it was a happenin party. We had tons of food, the usual soups and rolls, a plethera of goodies, and freakin awesome costumes. Arch and I this year were....drum roll please.... Nacho Libre and Encarnacion the nun. Arch made the perfect nacho, and I wasn't such a bad nun myself. Zaylie was a bronco's cheerleader, she was so cute. Here are some pics of the event.

Zaylie and her friend Nola who was a Denver Nuggets cheerleader

Arch's work buddy's-- In the middle Rob-was a nerd-and far right Adam was Joe Dirt




Brennen and Cassie were Dwight and Angela from The Office


Sam and his girlfriend Amber came as a cowboy and Indian


Zach and Arch playing Zaylie. Oh by the way, Zach was a wetback and Keri was a baseball player.




So Ben brought his chain saw, so of course the pumpkins didn't last long. Then Arch and Zach had a brilliant idea... bust out the fireworks that they didn't use on July 4th. 10:30 pm on a school night, shizzle mayhem returned. We do have a video of the mayhem, we like to call it Ghetto life III.




So thats all for now, we hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and have a very Happy New year.

Coming out of hiding

Wow I feel like such a hypocrite. I think I am always the one to post a comment on anothers blog when its only been a week since they've posted something and say ..."Good freak, give us an update" And here I am taking two months to finally post some pictures, but thats it, thats all i got-pictures no events, no exciting news, just boring pictures. I feel like our lives have been so busy, but with what? That I couldn't tell you because I'm not sure myself. I guess thats just the life of being a mom, I feel like I am always running around like a chicken with its head cut off, but if you asked me at the end of the day what I did, I wouldn't know what to say. It seems like the simplest errand can now take forever with a child. My rule is to add an hour for every errand i have to run, so if I plan on going to walmart AND the dollar store, I would need to add an extra TWO hours to the amount of time it would typically take me to run to walmart and the dollar store. Do I have some serious issues, or can anyone else relate?



Anyway, here are some pictures updating you on the last two months, of course there are no pictures of Arch and I, just Zaylie--hope you enjoy.

Future model? haha

She was a crazy child up until we put her on the luv sac, and the second she sat on it, it was as if she knew it was a place to relax--we couldn't get her to smile, talk or move, she just sat there for about 5 minutes.



We joke about this face as her greeting face...this is the face she makes when she says hello, she puckers up her lips and sticks out her tongue.
Bonding time

Mouse Attack

Three weeks ago we went to Arch's annual family camp reunion up at Lily Lake in the Bear Tooth mountains, this was Zaylies first camping trip and she LOVED it! Zaylie loves to be outside, she even loves the wind, it makes her laugh. She was quite the trooper through the rainstorms, the thunderstorms, the nickle sized mosquitos, the constant appliage of mosquito spray and sunscreen, and the bajillion people always wanting to hold her. But the real story begins with our first night there, when Arch's uncle Rand invited us to sleep in his trailer. I'll tell the story from Arch's point of view, because it takes less time...We had been sleeping for about an hour when Arch twitched really bad, you know how you do that when you feel like your falling in your sleep, he opened his eyes and saw a big dark thing on his pillow, but then it went away, so he wasn't really sure if he was dreaming or what. So 20 minutes go by and he jumps really bad again, but this time he sits up and says... um theres a mouse in the trailer. I'm like what are you sure, he says..."YES IT RAN ACROSS MY FACE" yup he felt little cold feet prints run across his face... im like two inches away from arch...gross. So I sit up and look over at Zaylie and the second i look at her, I hear a scuttering and then the mouse RUNS ACROSS ZAYLIE'S FACE!!! Of course I freak out and scream "ZAYLIE" and grab her legs and pull her towards me, and she starts screaming... needless to say in the middle of the night, Arch went and made a bed for me and Zaylie in our Jeep and Arch slept in a tent...the mouse was seen the next day, but never found.

Here is an exampe of how dirty the kids get out there, and how many mosquito bites they get...this is only an hour into the morning, I can't even describe how covered they are in dirt by the end of the night--well i guess i can--they look like Derek Zoolander when he covers his face in black down in the coal mines--Zaylie will be among them next year...YIKES! Aren't
they so cute.




FREEZER BURN

So one day Arch thought it would be funny to give Zaylie a frozen otter pop to let her chew on, of course she had the time of her life, but look what it did to her face for 4 days.



LEMONS

We went out to dinner one night, and we thought it would be funny to see how she reacted to a lemon... we were all expecting to see a disorted face in disgust, but instead she grabbed the lemon and went to town. If you tried to take it away she would scream in protest until she got it back. She does this with pickles and limes too, I think she's going to be like her dad--if its edible she'll eat it. (I don't let her actually swallow chunks or anything, just wanted to be clear incase any of you think im a bad mother)



Zaylie has started eating solid foods, and LOVES it, she was a pro right from the start. Her favorites are sweet potatoes, banana's and prunes. But she absolutly hates pea's. She will actually keep eating them, she never turns down food, but she'll open her mouth like, awe man this stuff again. Then once the peas are in her mouth she'll make this awful face (kind of like you would expect with eating a lemon) and then start dry heaving, but she'll open her mouth again for another bite, but Arch won't let me feed them to her anymore, so no worries.



Just some cute stuff

Tagged

I've been tagged by Cassie

4 jobs I've had:
1. Famous Footwear
2. BYU-Idaho Bookstore
3. Secretary/receptionist at a law firm
4. Substitute teacher

4 movies I can watch over and over again:
1. Nacho Libre
2. Zoolander
3. The Notebook
4. Sweet Home Alabama

4 Favorite TV shows:
1. Friends
2. The Office
3. 24
4. Grey's Anatomy

4 favorite hobbies:
1. Reading
2. Camping
3. Scrapbooking
4. Headband Making

Places I have lived:
1. Littleton, CO
2. Washington D.C.
3. Nashville, TN
4. Renton, WA

4 Favorite Foods:
1. molten lava cakes with cookie dough ice cream
2. Chicken rolls and potatoe soup
3. Chicken Alfredo from Johnny Carinos
4. Chicken Parmigana

4 Places I would rather be right now:
1. Cancun
2. California visiting Nathan and Lindsay and going to Hollywood
3. Hawaii
4. On a date with my hubby--Johnny Carinos and movie (Bourne Ultimatum) sp?

4 Websites I check daily:
1. E-mail- hotmail
2. Bolgs-oh there are so many
3. Facebook
4. myspace

I tag:
1. Keri (ha now you have to update your blog)
2. Lindsay
3. Audrey
4. Rachell