I've been TAGGED!!

Thanks Val! Ok, here goes...6 Facts about me that you may not know.....

1. I CANNOT wait until Ethan is big enough to sit at the table and be done with his highchair. I seriously do not like cleaning the highchair after my messy, messy child has been in it. When Ethan is done eating I first have to wipe his tray before I can wipe his hands and face because if I wipe his hands first, he bangs on his tray (which is messy) and I have to wipe his hands all over again. Then, when I'm done cleaning his hands and face, I have to wipe the tray again because somehow crumbs and more food fall on it. Next, I grab the dust buster and take it directly to Ethan's clothes. You would be surprised at how much food gets caught in the folds of his clothes. After that, I lift him up, shake him off some more and set him down. At this point I'm still not done. There is usually a TON of food inside the chair. I pick up what I can, then vacuum up the rest. Then I have to sanitize and wipe down the highchair one last time. And I do this 3 times/day!!! It is so tedious and time consuming that sometimes I consider not even bothering!! But now that I think about it, by the time Ethan can sit at the table, there will probably be another baby occupying the highchair. What did I get myself into?!?!

2. I am a big time belly sleeper. That is the only way I can sleep. I don't know how people can fall asleep or get a good night's sleep laying on their backs. I've tried it and it just doesn't work out. Same with side sleepers--I can fall asleep on my side I suppose, but I always wake up on my belly. I don't know how I got through the last 3-4 months of my pregnancy. If I didn't love being a mom so much--that would probably be my reason for not having more....not the pain of childbirth or the crying or late night feedings--but not being able to sleep on my belly!

3. I love baking and DECORATING cakes! I've taken some classes and I'm actually pretty good at it. :-) I've never really considered myself as very artistic or creative-I don't like to do artsy things like scrapbook (I tried and while Ethan's scrapbook turned out cute enough, I just didn't really like doing it) or paint, draw, etc. But I do LOVE to make cakes! I made a Louis Vuitton purse cake for my friend's birthday and it was a lot of fun!!!

4. I do NOT like red sauce (unless it's on my pizza covered with cheese and pepperonis)! I don't think I have ever really cared for red sauce to begin with--I always preferred white sauce-- but I could stand red sauce growing up and I'd eat it if that's what was served. But when I was pregnant with Ethan that was just one thing that I couldn't stand even the sight of. It made me sick. I couldn't even sit next to Skyler if HE was eating red sauce. It was that bad. And I guess it just stayed with me after having Ethan. I still can't stand red sauce, and sorry Skyler--I don't think I ever will......

5. I am a HUGE fan of game shows. I absolutely love watching them. When my mom and I found out Bob Barker was leaving the Price is Right, she flew to Vegas and we drove to LA to be on the show! I was 7 months pregnant and my shirt said "I'll name my firstborn Bob Barker for a chance to play PLINKO!" Everybody thought it was so cute and everyone in line kept telling me that I would HAVE to get called to come on down! Even one of the producers called me out of line to take a picture of my shirt. But no. I didn't get to come on down and I didn't get to play plinko and I didn't get to give Bob Barker a kiss. I waited in line from 2 in the morning till 3 in the afternoon for nothing! (Val, you seriously didn't miss out on anything). Because I didn't get lucky from the Price is Right, I figured I'd give Wheel of Fortune a shot. I don't mean to brag, but I am GOOD at Wheel of Fortune. I can always solve the puzzle waaay before the contestants on the show--and it REALLY bothers me when people buy vowels when they KNOW what the word is. Why waste your money on the vowel? So I was chosen to audition for Wheel of Fortune. There was probably 40 other people there and what we did is run through a couple simulated puzzles--if they called your name you had control of the puzzle. On the very first puzzle they called someone's name and she lost control of the puzzle so they called my name next! I was pretty nervous, but I stood up and spun the "wheel" and ended up solving the 1st puzzle! Food and Drink was the category and I'll never forget GARLIC MASHED POTATOES!!! I'm still waiting to hear back from them........

6. Thanks to my husband, I LOVE almond M&M's. Now, I've always loved M&M's--any kind really. Peanut, plain, peanut butter--you name it. I wasn't the type to discriminate against M&M's. But for some reason, I never tried the almond kind. I liked almonds, and obviously liked M&M's, so it would make sense that I would like them, but I never really noticed them. When Skyler and I started dating, those are the kinds of M&M's he liked (remember how I don't discriminate? Well Sky does--those are the ONLY kind of M&M's he likes). Anyway, I tried them and LOVED them! Now I still don't discriminate--if someone handed me a bag of any kind of M&M's I would like them and eat them (unless they were dark chocolate-yuck), but I only buy the almond ones now! So there you have it!

Ok, so now, thanks to Val--I have to post 6 embarrassing moments in my life. And while I'm sure I have had much more than 6--these are the ones I could think of...here goes nothing!

1. Ok, so I think Jessi may appreciate this one: Back in high school Jessi, me and Trisha (I think) decided to go and TP Lisa Welch's house. I seriously don't remember why we did that--cause we liked Lisa! But anyway, we started doing it and they had really tall trees at their house so we were launching the rolls up and around the trees. I don't know if we were being too loud or what triggered it, but Brother Welch came out and was visibly angry (I guess I don't blame him :-) ) He was not at all happy with us and made us clean up what we had done. It was a pain getting the TP out of the really tall trees I told you about! Anyway that was embarrassing enough, but the real embarrassing moment was seeing him at church the next day!! It was awful.

2. When Skyler and I had just been dating for a few weeks, I was over at his apartment and we were sort of playing that Battle of the Sexes game with a bunch of people. Where girls had to answer guy questions and they guys had to answer questions about girls. Well, the question was "Where are you if you're at the Mile High Stadium?" And I blurt out, "In an airplane bathroom!" Everyone just kind of looked and me and then started laughing hysterically. I had confused Mile High Stadium with the Mile High Club! I was soooo embarrassed that I said that, but luckily was able to redeem myself. After everybody calmed down I was able to say "in Denver watching a Broncos game." Duh.

3. This is another embarrassing moment with Skyler in college....we had only been on a few dates I think--still trying to get to know each other at this point. We had plans for a date one night, but for whatever reason Skyler had to take his car into the shop. So instead of bailing on our date (which I would have totally understood), he borrowed his roommates car. He came to pick me up and when we walked out to the parking lot I couldn't see his car and that's when he explained that he borrowed his roommates car. Well there were tons of parking spaces available right in front of my apartment but we kept walking farther and farther into the parking lot--I didn't understand what was going on until I saw it. It was a VERY old Jeeplike station wagon thing that had no paint but the body of the car was a few different colors of grayish metal. It looked like it had been in an accident or two (or three or four!) and the windows were rolled down because they could not roll up! The interior seats were stained and ripped. I think I was mostly embarrassed to go anywhere in it because Skyler was clearly embarrassed to be driving it (hence parking ALL the way in the back). So we got in and kind of nervously laughed about it--and decided to just drive to the movie store and rent a movie for the night. On the way there we stopped at like every red light!! And people in other cars were like pointing and laughing! I so badly wanted to duck down because I didn't even have a window to "shield" me! When we got to the movie store, Skyler parked so far out I thought I would need some hard candy or something to make the hike to the store. He said he did that so no one saw us get out of the car!!! It was pretty embarrassing that's for sure. Oh and did I mention that the car made a LOT of weird noises too?!?!? Especially at red lights!!!!

4. I like to go tanning--and one day the salon I went to was offering free mystic tans. I had done them before and they weren't too bad, so I decided to do it. The tan turned out great, so I left to go to the gym. I was working out on an elliptical working up a sweat when some lady came up to me and told me that something was wrong--that my white shirt was turning brown!! I totally didn't even think that I shouldn't work out right after doing a mystic--I don't know what I was thinking! I went to the bathroom and sure enough there were streaks of color on my face (from sweating) and my clothes were streaked brown! I wiped my face the best I could--and it was incredibly embarrassing to walk out of the gym looking like that! People were definitely giving me weird looks. When I got home I washed my face a million times to get rid of the streaky look and to this day I have not gotten a mystic tan!

5. I guess I should preface this embarrassing moment by telling you that when I was pregnant with Ethan I was paranoid about having a red headed baby. Not that there's anything wrong with red heads, I just didn't want one. So after I gave birth I think the first question was what color is his hair?! I was relieved to know it was brown...When I was induced to have Ethan I had the most wonderful nurse. She was so funny and easy going. Right after I had Ethan she cleaned him up and gave him to me before taking him to the nursery to bathe him and do the other necessary things. When she came back with the baby she was telling me how Skyler and I make beautiful (perfect) babies and that people like us should procreate. It was such a nice compliment (and I maintain the fact that I was on drugs) and I said, "oh thanks--I'm just so glad he doesn't have red hair." The nurse had RED HAIR!!!! She looked at me and said "Girl do you SEE the color of my hair?!" I was so mortified I didn't even know what to say-I think I was able to stammer out, "You have pretty red hair--and girls look better with red hair..." something to that affect. Luckily she had a good sense of humor and was able to just laugh it off. But I was so embarrassed!

6. This one kind of goes hand in hand with the above embarrassing moment. About a week after I had Ethan I went to get my hair cut and colored and of course my stylist wanted to know everything about the baby and birth etc. My stylist has a private room at the salon and there was one other lady sitting under the blower waiting for color to set. I figured she was a woman and it would be fine to talk about the birth and everything-either that, or I figured she couldn't hear because of the blower or wasn't paying attention because she was reading a magazine. Anyway, so I told my stylist about how I was worried about having a red headed baby and we joked that if I had in fact had a red head, he would be the one sitting in the chair getting his hair colored! Anyway, I told her about what I said to the nurse with red hair and how embarrassing it was. When it was my turn to go under the blower, the lady and I switched places so the stylist could finish her hair. When she washed her hair out and sat her up-- to my horror-- her hair was RED!!! Not only was it red, but it wasn't naturally red--so this lady was CHOOSING to color her hair red! And all the while she could hear me talking about how horrible it would have been if I had had a red headed baby. She looked at me and said, "is this red color awful?" And once again, I think I was lucky to stammer out, "No that's pretty red hair--and girls look better than boys with red hair...." I have stopped talking about having red headed babies...........