Cannery

OK, so I know that I just said that I wasn't going to the cannery to buy anymore food storage until I get all the bags that I already have canned.  Well, I went to the cannery today.  Initially, I was just going to get info on storing food in 5 gallon buckets and buy the oxygen absorbers, but then I saw all the lonely cans up on the shelf.  How could I just leave them there when I had driven all this way just to come back with one thing?  So I couldn't help myself, I had to go to the shelf and load 5 boxes with miscellaneous food.  Oh yeah, did I mention that I was also carrying my diaper bag and my 30 pound baby while trying to make sure that Aubryn didn't somehow get into a food fight or some other mischief?  But HOLY COW!  I don't think I could ever can the food myself again!  That was so much faster!  Not to mention it really didn't seem that much more expensive.  FYI- powdered milk has gone WAY down while some other products have increased.

Randy Pausch

I don't know if any of you all of heard of Randy Pausch??  Unfortunately, he passed last Friday.  He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon fighting pancreatic cancer.  I think part of the reason I really like him is because he reminds me so much of my father in law, but also he is just a really great person.  If anyone gets a chance, you should listen to "The Last Lecture."  It was intended for his three little children, but it has caught the attention of people across the nation (over 6 million people have viewed  just online).  For me, it has inspired me to be a happier, more optimistic, and just a better person.   

Since I pretty much have no clue what to write about I am going to participate in Haley's "no pressure" tag extravaganza just to see some writing on my new awesome blog:)

JOYS-

1.  Watching my kids and husband wrestle and laugh 

2.  Being in the outdoors.  Mountains, water, aspen trees just make me feel happy.

3.  Feeling a sense of accomplishment (rare feeling)

4.  Hearing about loved ones accomplishments

FEARS-

1.  Death 

2.  People that go boo in the night

3.  Screwing up with my kids

4.  I am very protective of my achilles tendons (Kel insists that the whole greek thing is just a myth, but you never know!)

GOALS-

1.  I am a bit of a pessimist (ok, a lot) and I would love to be a full fledged optimist

2.  To travel the world

3.  To be Shauna

CURRENT OBSESSIONS-

1.  Food (wait, I guess that's not only currently) Potbelly

2.  Alone time

3.  Date night

3.  I am going to stop there because Kel is trying to throw in a few other inappropriate obsessions.

SURPRISING (weird) FACTS ABOUT ME

1.  Olive oil is my staple beauty product.  I freak if I run out.  I use it as a moisturizer and also to remove my eye makeup.  Weird, I know.

2.  Um...my husband and I love to beat each other up.  Is that abnormal?  Our main entertainment is to take each other down.  Hmm, maybe there is something wrong with us.

3.  

4 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ME

1.  I was the only member in my high school growing up in the Midwest

2.  I have a B.S in Management 

3.  I take a nap every single day (that's probably why I never feel that sense of accomplishment)

4.  I have backpacked for days through the Palisades, snow-shoed through the Tetons, and snowmobiled through Yellowstone, to name a few of my outdoor adventures

PLACES I GO OVER AND OVER

1.  Gym pool

2.  This one is boring I'm going to skip it

PEOPLE THAT EMAIL ME

1.  Kel

2.  My mom

3.  Sisters

4.  Lisa

4 OF MY FAVORITE FOODS

1.  Peanut butter

2.  Ice cream

3.  Potbelly ham sandwich

4. IHOP stuffed french toast

4 OF MY FAVORITE PLACES TO  BE

1.  Temple

2.  In bed 

3.  In the mountains

4.  On a boat

4 MOVIES I COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER

1.  Batman Begins (I love Christian Bale!)

2.  It's a Wonderful Life

3.  Napoleon Dynamite 

4.  Return to Me

Ok.  So I am slowly making the transition from facebook to here, but I have no idea what the crap I'm doing.  Thanks Haley for making my blog super cute!  Now I just have to figure out how to work it.