25 Random Things Tag

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.


1. All my dreams right now are about scary things, but instead of being afraid my head makes fun of everything happening.

2. Anything I have craved I only eat for about a week, then I dont want it again, ever.

3. I am only 10 lbs heavier than I was when I started this pregnancy.

4. I always watch my tv shows on the internet because I never remember when they are on tv.

5. The day of the week my bday is on, is the same day of the week my moms bday is on. Marlees due date fits into that pattern.

6. I want to go to hair school this summer.

7. I can read an entire book in one day if it is a good one, but I rarely find any good ones so I have now started maybe a dozen and never finished them because I cant pay attention to them.

8. I am almost legally blind.

9. The sound of crinkling paper or wrappers drives me nuts, I want to attack people who are doing it.

10. My belly is moving right now.

11. Peanut butter and Jelly is my favorite snack.

12. I love using the internet to pass time, but never find anything to do on here.

13. I love to go on long drives to no where.

14. I dream of going on a vacation, but I never know where I would go. I would be good with anywhere i think.

15. Anytime I get together with my family all we talk about are old stories of growing up together

16. David sleeps too much when I want to go out and do things....like right now.

17. My mind is too all over the place to do this right now, I have now been thinking of things for almost 2 hours.

18. I sing the 5 dollar foot long subway song almost everyday.

19. I refuse to drink tap water.

20. I wish I could take a nice warm bath, I havnt had one since our wedding anniversary. Dont take your bath tubs for granted because I would kill for one!!

21. My house is at 68 degrees and I am melting.

22. I put chapstick on at least 15 times a day

23. I know nothing about this blogging thing other than where to type and how to post it.

24. My baby shower invitations went out today!

25. I am going to wake up David now!

I dont have 25 people to tag, so everyone who reads this and wants to do it!

Tag from Teresa

1. What song do you sing the most when you're alone?
I dont have a song I sing all the time, usually it is something I heard that day.
2. What is the last thing you remember dreaming about?
Taco bell
3. Do you hate getting muddy?
Usually, but sometimes it is fun to just go jump in puddles
4. Are you self-conscious about the way you eat?
Im trying to eat healthy for the baby, and I was doing really good but once I hit 30 weeks I just craved too much junk to keep up the healthy stuff very good.
5. How many people have a nickname for you?
no one really? Well I guess my family has nicknames for everyone but my grama is the only one who still uses it.
6. Which child are you? (1st, 2nd, last, etc.) 2nd
7. Do you like to be scared? I loved it before I got prego, now it hurts my belly too much to jump at scary things.
8. Does wasting time annoy you? yes, but its all I do anymore.
9. Non-believer or believer? Believer
10. Favorite composer? I dont think I have one.
11. Favorite fabric? for clothes 100% cotton, but blankets and stuff anything soft.
12. Do you like reading out loud? I hate it, I am a pretty fast reader, but when I read out loud it slows me down so I feel like Im slower than I really am.
13. What are people sick of hearing you talk about? Prob me being prego
14. Ergonomic or Standard keyboard? I think the ergonomic one is the one thats cut in half and turned sideways, it hurts my wrist and messes up my typing, so standard.
15. Is your hair naturally curly, wavy or straight? Straight as a bone, its difficult to get it to curl.
16. Do your eyes change color? Nope Im full of poop all the time
17. Do you break the speed limit? Nope I never drive
18. What's your nervous habit? popping my knuckles
19. What's worse: Spiders or Cockroaches? A cockroach if i found it in my own house, but I have never even seen one, so spiders because they can jump and bite me.
20. Most mundane thing in your life? Right now is eating, its pretty much the only guarenteed thing of my day and the food at my house just isnt cutting it for me.
21. Do you like the way you look? Not right now, I am the fattest I have ever been in my life and I keep finding new stretch marks and I think my nose looks bigger.
22. Do you dodge questions like #21? No
23. Are you a 'rubbernecker'? YES I get to be I am always the passenger.
24. Do you get faint when you see blood? Usually, but I am getting better at it.
25. Can you smell your own perfume/cologne? Ever since getting pregnant I cant stomach the smell of perfume or cologne, so I dont wear it and I run when David sprays it
26. Do you like grapefruit? With enough sugar :)
27. Are you good at taking care of plants? No, the sun only shines in one spot in our apt so they dont live very long here.
28. How many people are you comfortable saying "I love you" to? Pretty much anyone in my life at this time.
29. Do you play video games? Not really, occasionally Nintendo with David
30. Which famous person do you most identify with? None of them
31. Do you prefer to be hot or cold? Well I prefer to be a comfortable warm, but my temperature is so high right now the house is at 60 and I am comfortable. Every one else is yelling at me because they are freezing.
32. What do you collect? I dont collect anything, maybe blankets cuz I have a lot of them?
33. How would you spend $100,000? Pay off all our debt, move into a bigger place above ground, and buy Marlee some really sweet stuff. Save the rest or learn how to invest it?
34. Do you remember faces or names better? Faces
35. If you were a different race, what would you choose to be? I like my race, maybe I would just make me 100% instead of 50.
36. Do you worry about politics? I pay attention to the important things, but dont really care for them.
37. If your life were controlled by a steering wheel, how many people's hands are on it? Both of mine, and one of Davids. I am a big girl and can make my own decisions, but include David in the big ones.
38. Do you like your initials? David liked it when I was MC and he is DJ so we were musical, but now mine are MJ. They are just letters.
39. Do you still have guilt about the worst thing you ever did? I have never done anything horrible, so no I dont have guilt, unless I am having a feel sorry for myself day and I will remember a lot of small things I have done and feel bad about it.
40. What superhero are you most like? The prego one the guy on Juno finds.



I tag anyone who hasnt done this already

Christmas with the Cardons

My dads side of the family decided to do Christmas the Sunday before, and they were not doing presents this year so all the sister-in-laws and only sister decided to do presents for each other. My dads wife wasnt going to leave me out tho and she bought me an under shirt and a really cute preggo shirt, and some cocoa butter and oil stuff that makes your stretch marks stop itching.




My little cousins decided they wanted every one to play games while they had a lot of people to play them. There was a guess how many marbles are in the jar thing, a foose ball tournament, and whack the cracker. Every one had to tie a cracker to their back belt loop, they were all armed with a paper rolled into a sword. The goal was to try to keep your cracker away from every one else whacking at it. I didnt play, but it was very entertaining to watch!
David and Austin were partners in the foose ball tournament and came in second place. I forgot who won the guessing game, but I was waaay off!

My dad and his wife decided they wanted to play another game and they provided all the prizes. There was a giant box of prizes wrapped up like white elephant gifts. Every one took a turn rolling the dice and if they added up to be a 6 you got to pick a prize. Or if there was a 6 or even 2 6s then you got a prize or two. Then you had to open it in front of every one. If there was some thing you wanted that some one else had you could steal the gift, but each item could only be stolen twice.
My first 2 rolls I got sixes and both prizes were stolen from me, one of them was a small purse with money sticking out the top. My cousin Ashlee stole it from me (we are the exact same age, and she is really competitive) so my dad stole it back from her and snuck it back to me. I ended up stealing food in the end. The best present was a cute stuffed teddy bear, one of my aunts got it, and when it came time to steal it she threw a huge fit in front of every one and wouldnt let anybody steal the teddy bear. It got a few people really upset because my cousin has a baby who is almost 1 and she and her mom wanted the bear for her, and David and I wanted it for Marlee, but no one was able to steal it from her. My dad told me later that they got the bear for a dollar at the dollar store so they were laughing the whole time every one was fighting over it. They ended up going back to get another one for my whiney cousin the next day for Christmas.


My cousins put on a little play and we sang Christmas carols, then David ran off to play with the kids (the oldest is 10 I think) the rest of the adults sat around and listened to Christmas music and danced a little.


It was also Davids b-day party from my family, he had a cake and candles. My dad has a sweater thing just like the one David is wearing in this pic, we saw my dad wearing his at one of Austins football games clear back in October and David really liked it. So when my step mom went to Mexico just recently she bought him his own and that was his b-day present.

New Years Eve

New Years Eve was also slept mostly away. I think David got up before me and cleaned the front room..I dont really remember so maybe I should blog when things happen so I can write them correctly. We hadnt made plans at all yet, I really wanted to go up to my dads friends house for a little bit. She hosts a party every year, they are all latin so they bring their latin foods. She has a dance floor in the basement with a huge stereo so after they eat all they can, they go dance it off all night! Its fun they do the limbo and force people who dont know how to salsa, to learn. Or at least try. The best part I think is to watch all the old people dancing. Ok so they arent that old, but to me they are!
Ryan who was originally planning on coming over, called and said he was going out with some girl he met once. We then decided to ride the bus up to Salt Lake and walk around temple square and the gateway and maybe see a movie. We were too hungry to wait to get to Salt Lake to eat so we decided to walk to Arctic Circle first and then maybe rent a movie. We were about a block away when I started getting really bad pains and cramps. They came and went just like I would imagine contractions would, and they HURT! Instead of turning back I just decided to keep waking, slowing down when they would come. By the time we got there the pains were just about gone and sitting down got rid of them completely!
The redbox is at the Mcdonalds which is even further than Arctic Circle and it was FREEZING but we decided to keep walking anyway. We got there and our card wouldnt work so we walked all the way up there for nothing! When we got home Ryan had called to say he chickened out and wasnt going to meet this girl after all and wanted to come over. So much for a quiet night alone for once.
He came over and we played Apples to Apples with just 3 people instead of the 4 your supposed to have. It worked out just fine and was fun all the same. We decided Mcdonalds breakfast sounded amazing so we stayed up till 6 when they start serving breakfast. David and Ryan went and I got in bed and fell asleep before they got back.
It was still relaxing to just stay home the rest of the night for New Years, even tho we didnt watch the ball drop or anything! I dont even remember looking at a clock in the 11 or 12 o clock hours, so I have no idea what we were even doing when the year switched over. Oh well!

David turns 21!

David has "been waiting his whole life for this day" so he says. He again worked a graveyard Sat night so he slept most of his birthday away. But when he finally woke up and watched the Eagles win their way into the playoffs he decided we could finally go out! Ever since we moved back to Utah last year I have been begging him to take me to eat at Famous Daves. Since I was agreeing to let him and Ryan go out later that week, he let me choose where to eat on his b-day. So Ryan, David and I headed up to Salt Lake to THE best bbq place on this planet! The ribs are amazing!! and I love the different lemonaid type of drinks they have.
After dinner, we went across the street to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It is a great movie, 3 hours long but very good. Kinda sad, but I still loved it. That was all we did for his bday, but what does he expect 3 days after Christmas!?

Christmas!

So I have not posted anything new for quite a while, just because I have not been in a very picture taking mood lately. So now you just get to read everything!! YAY!

David had to work graveyard Christmas Eve, AND Christmas day! I was so mad!! but of course, he just works when ever they want him without any complaint. We had enough to spend $100 on each other this year, I got my shopping done the first week, Braxton and Maren even helped pick out some of his stuff! David on the other hand, finished his shopping I think a day or two before Christmas. My favorite present was the necklace up there (minus the diamonds) every time the commercial would come on for them I would say how much I liked them, but him and Ryan would say oh they look like t & a.

I got David a nintendo 64 with 4 paddles and lots of games. but my favorite that I bought him is a pair of pants that he cant sag!! YAAY!! Now when he wears his new pants he cant show off his butt!!
SO the plan for Christmas was, I sleep all night till he got home from work. He would then wake me up at 6 we would open presents and maybe take a nap till 10 when we were to head off to start the festivities of the day. Did that happen??? NO!
I bought his 64 off craigslist from a little boy in salt lake, but the cords that plug it into the tv were broken. My friend was supposed to order one online for me and it didnt show up till Christmas Eve!! So Ryan took me up to her house to get it, and we just had to test it out to make sure it worked, then we wrapped it. We didnt get home till around 1 or 2 and it was snowing really bad, so Ryan decided to stay the night. We sat up with David at work for a while, I wanted to go to bed but Ryan kept me awake till 530 and I just stayed awake the rest of the time.
David came home at 6, we opened presents and stockings and played with his games for a while. When 8 came around I was a zombie!! So we took a little 2 hour nap, luckily my mom was running behind so we had a little extra time to get ready. By 11 we were out the door and on our way to brunch with my moms side of the family.
My uncle David makes scrabble every year. It is something that unless you were raised on, you wont like! Its pretty much liver, corn meal and something else I dont know I dont make it. But there were eggs and bacon and that was it! Usually they also make pancakes and french toast and the works...not this year. My grandma passed out her regiftable gifts to everyone. Mine was pretty good this year, she bought us a new waffle maker! We ended up staying there FOREVER!!
I took about an hour nap, but everyone else sat around talking and joking and just being my weird family.
We went straight from that party to my other grandmas house to see my dad. We did drop David off to take a nap tho it was around 4 I think. My grama usually does a full dinner on Christmas, but we did our Christmas party the sunday before, so no food :( My dad spoils me every year. I got new pajamas which I have prob been wearing every day since! Slippers, the game Apples to Apples. And a card with some cash in it. I was still running on 3 hours of naps so I left a little early and came home and went to bed. There was another dinner planned at 6 with my moms extended family and all the amazing food I missed at Thanksgiving...but David and I were so tired we canceled and ate frozen barritos and went to bed. He went to work and I slept the rest of the night.

Oh I forgot to put first that Christmas Eve my mom did a family dinner. She stuffed a stocking for all of us, we all got a movie. She has been saving my baby clothes from when I was little so all my Christmas presents were bags full of stuff that I wore. My favorites are my old petty coats to put under the millions of dresses she forced me into, and my blessing blanket. My great grandma crocheted it for me, so it is very special!

The day after Christmas we just sat around home and relaxed and did nothing! It was great!!