33 and Counting......

(I stole this idea from Amanda A.)
33 Things About ME

1.)I love brocilee cooked, fresh, steamed, or any other way.
2.)Navy Blue is my favorite color but some greens are starting to push their way in.
3.)As a kid I wanted to grow up and be an Oceanographer but I found out Utah was landlocked and gave up that dream. (No one told me that I could move)
4.)I love Seafood
5.)I love my family
6.)I've donated a major body organ.
7.)I hate running (I suck at it!)
8.)I love to swim (I go to another place when I swim)
9.)I looovvvveeeee the Beach.
10.)My parents call me Babe and have done it for as long as I can remember.
11.)I hate making lists.....Billy is Mr. List maker (ask anyone they know what I'm talking about)
12.)When I was little I told people I was going to have 10 kids just like my mom. After having Broc I didn't ever want to be pregnant again.
13.)I can't lie.....Seriously I've tried but I always get caught so I stop doing it a long, long time ago. Even the little lies like, "Oh No your butt doesn't look big in those pants". I can't make people believe I'm saying the truth.
14.)I love making people laugh.
15.)When I was about 5-6 I pretend to be a beautician and chopped all 3 of my little brother's hair. I remember thinking I had done the best job in all the world.....until I saw the look on my mom's face.
16.)My sisters our the best sisters in the whole world.
17.)My brothers are funny and I wouldn't trade them for the world.
18.)In high school my friends and I were known to have water fights in grocery stores. We also loved to roll Crisco down the aisles and race each other.
19.)You know how some people say their parents were the worst....Well I can't say that, my parents were/are the greatest. I seriously don't know how I got so blessed to grow up in their home with all my brothers and sisters.
20.)I suck at math! Big Time!
21.)I'm 1 credit away from getting my Associates Degree (It's that DARN Math class).
22.)I have a secret that I'm not telling anyone.......yet!
23.)I love to dip cream cheese bagels into hot chocolate.
24.)I love to travel.....but only by plane.
25.)I had a dog when I was little named Napoleon.
26.)I have an addiction to snicker candy bars.
27.)This is my favorite joke, "Okay so there was these two guys that walked into a bar, the first one turns to the second one and says, "You didn't see it either?"
28.)My oldest brother Trent called me Punky Brewster when I was little (I looked a lot like her).
29.)I secretly drink Dr. Pepper with cherry when I've had a bad day.
30.)I'm addicted to watching the show Hoarders (I don't know why I just am).
31.)My second toe is bigger than my first toe. Billy calls it freakish!
32.)I'm a total home body but yet I'm a social butterfly.
33.)I love to eat olives right out of the can.

Ireland Wanted a Haircut

Before



After


We cut about 8 inches off her hair. She loves it!!!! I see her flinging her head back and forth, like it is the greatest feeling ever!

Which Day Should Halloween Be Celebrated On?????

Since I've moved from Utah I've had a couple of things come up that have confused me.
1.)Why don't other states grow mountains?
2.)Why do my neighbors look at me weird when I say, "Hi Brother or Sister (So-n-So)?"
3.)Why do people keep asking my husband how many wives he has? (He better only have one dangit!)
and for my latest one:
4.)When do you Trick or Treat when Halloween falls on a Sunday? (Growing up in Utah it has always been celebrated the day before, Saturday October 30th. ALWAYS! The whole State does it.)

So now that I'm living here in North Carolina I wasn't sure what NC does for this type of situation. I asked some friends from church and they said the newspaper said Saturday. But then I heard that each town is making up their own mind about it. So I thought I would google it for my town (my friends live in the town next to us). I found our local newspaper had printed a story on Trick or Treating being on October 30th.
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2010/10/09/1037951?sac=Home
Check out the comments people made about changing the date to Saturday. I was really quite surprised that this hasn't come up before. One of the comments said they switched the Trick or Treating back in 2004 (the last time the 31st fell on a Sunday) to Saturday then too. So why are all these people so upset? When I was a kid I thought that we were tricking someone (or damning the Man however you want to look at it) by having Halloween a day earlier. So again why is it that people are so upset about having it a day earlier?

I must tell you that I am a little bias about having it on Saturday. My birthday happens to be October 30th. So every 7 years I get to be special and have Halloween on my birthday (and I am special because my Mom told me so!).

So tell me what your town is doing for this Halloween's Trick or Treating, Sunday or Saturday? And tell me what your view is about changing it?

Raising Ireland

Ireland said, "Mommy before you were a mom you were a kid Tara, huh?"
(Me) "Yes I was!"
(Ireland) "And they called you Tara Toilet Paper didn't they!"
(Me) "Yes they did! Thanks for that you stinker."

Ireland also had a joke, "Mom I can walk through walls! Mom your supposed to ask me how."
(Me) "Oh sorry! How do you walk through walls?"
(Ireland) "I use the door!"
(This really made me laugh I wasn't expecting that answer.)

*Sidenote: We had a talk about bullying this past week for Family Home Evening. I told the kids that when I was little they called me Tara Toilet Paper when ever I got on the bus to and from school.
But hey don't feel bad for me though I grew up and became the well adjust person I am today (No laughing from the peanut gallery). Oh and one of those kids is one of my best friends to this day (I won't tell you her name because that's just mean but it starts with R and ends with osa she also called me Arat-my name backwards). So turn lemons into lemonade I say!

Thank You Tracey

So my sister Tracey made this PRIDDIS sign/picture frame about 3 Christmases ago. I have moved 2 times from Utah to Georgia to North Carolina. I have kept this way cute gift rapped up and hidden until a day I could put it up in a fun place. So here you have it!
Thanks Trace I love it!

Raising Parker

So this little guy keeps me on my toes. Seriously while I'm cleaning up
the smashed blueberry muffin on the couch (thank Heaven for leather or pleather or whatever our couch is made of) Parker climbs up and does this.

I was pretty lucky that Sadie (the dog) likes Cheerios to so it didn't take much to clean up.

It's October

Yeah it's been awhile sorry. October is my crazy hectic pull out all the fall/winter stuff and put away all summer stuff month. So my house looks like this


and this


but hopefully by the end of the month it can look more like this again.