You Are An ISFJ

The Nurturer You have a strong need to belong, and you very loyal. A good listener, you excel at helping others in practical ways. In your spare time, you enjoy engaging your senses through art, cooking, and music. You find it easy to be devoted to one person... a partner who you do special things for. In love, you express your emotions through actions. Taking care of someone is how you love them. And you do it well! At work, you do well in a structured environment. You complete tasks well and on time. You would make a good interior designer, chef, or child psychologist. How you see yourself: Competent, dependable, and detail oriented When other people don't get you, they see you as: Boring, dominant, and stuck in a rut

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November & December 2007

In November one of the "girls" that was in my Laurel class when I taught in 2005-2006 got married. I got to go to the sealing, it was awesome, the sealing room was bursting at the seams there were so many people there that love Jill and Brad. The kids and I got to go to the reception later that night, it was beautiful...and let's just say Lauren was in love with the chocolate fountain. LOL!! Thankfully she didn't stick her fingers in it!! Or maybe she just didn't get caught!! I guess we'll never know!! LOL!!

December flew by, as it always does with Christmas looming. We went up to my parents house and surprised the kids Christmas morning with a scavenger hunt that lead them around the house to find different clues, at the final clue there was the "Disney" movie "Underdog", to go with the "Disney" theme...and we made a poster board with a phrase to figure out, the kids had to unscramble some letters and figure out what it said....well, the finished product was "We're going to Disneyland!" The kids were shocked, surprised, and excited...so were Jeremy and I. Lauren's face is priceless. :O) It was a great Christmas....Disneyland...here we come!!!

October 2007

In mid October Jeremy and I got to have a weekend to ourselves, my parents took the kids and we rented a cute, little cabin in Sumpter, OR. It was the CUTEST, one bedroom cabin. It's called the Lazy Moose Cabin and it's decorated in all, you guessed it, Moose stuff...it was SOOO cute!! The BEST part, other than my man cooking incredible food for us....there were deer EVERYWHERE!! AND they would eat out of your hand!! If you had the right food, of course, they LOVED our apples, and even ate a few dog biscuits. LOL, It was really nice to have that time with my man and to have such an awesome experience!!

Then the Saturday before Halloween, it was Boo at the Zoo, it's something the Boise Zoo has every year where the kids can wear their costumes and different vendors and people hand out candy and you can also enjoy the animals. I went with my girlfriend, Birdeena, (from High school) and her 2 kids, it was really fun!! And the kids looked super cute!!

Then on Halloween, Jeremy painted a beard on Chase, it was stinkin' cute!! And the girls, of course, looked beautiful, even Megan, who was a witch, pretty sure I think she's the cutest witch I've ever seen. :O) And Lauren the movie star...yeah, I learned it will be a LONG time before I let her wear make-up for real. :O) Not that she needs it at all though.

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Late August 2007 the kids started school, Lauren in 5th grade (yeah, holy cow, I know!!), Megan in 3rd, and Chase in Kindergarten. They were the usual excited/nervous/anxious on the first day. I got a couple pics:

In September, we went to the Discovery Center in Boise on a rainy Saturday, it was really cool, they had all sorts of science-like exhibits and hands-on things to do, but I would have to say, by far, the kids favorite things were the little "Grocery Store" and the "Vet Clinic", they played at both of those stations for quite a while, it was fun watching them organize the grocery store and check out. Then at the Vet Clinic they had lab coats and stethescopes and REAL x-rays of different animals, even a SNAKE!! It was so fun!!

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I'm posting these in blocks because I can't seem to make them look right and adding pictures makes it even harder....yeah, apparently I'm a little slow. LOL :O)

Anywhoo...in May 2007, Lauren turned the ripe old age of 10 and we decided that was a good age to have her first sleepover. And surprisingly enough, the next day, after everyone went home Jeremy ACTUALLY said "That was the perfect age, I wouldn't mind doing that again." :oO Yeah, I almost fell over when he said that!! It was really fun for the girls, ok, and me too...they played the candy bar game, that was a big hit (candy bar game: buy a BIG candy bar and wrap it with many layers of newspaper. Then get a dice, a pair of gloves (or socks, in our case), a hat, a scarf, and a spoon and butter knife. Each person takes a turn rolling the dice, trying to roll a specific number that is pre-decided, when someone rolls that number they QUICKLY put all the clothing on and then try to open the candy bar with the spoon and butter knife, all the while everyone ELSE is continuing to roll the dice for THEIR turn at the chocolate.) This game is SUPER fun and not the LEAST bit quiet, I haven't heard that much shrieking, screaming, and giggling in a long time, well since the last time we played it. LOL :O) Megan can't WAIT to turn 10 to get HER first sleepover. ;O)

In June 2007 we went down to Utah to visit Jeremy's sister Amy and her husband Brian and on one of the days we went to a remote area (just the local kid-filled park....NOT!!) lol and shot them. Lauren LOVES shooting the "Cricket" which is a smaller-sized 22. It's so fun! J and I love to shoot it too, we just look like giants with a toy gun. LOL Amy was also pregnant at this time with their first baby after having 5 miscarriages, we were SOOOO happy for her!!

Subsequently, at the end of July 2007, Amy and Brian came up to OUR house and we LOVE when they come over, they are a lot like J and I (in the fact that we are ALL kind of juvenile tee hee) and well, I had the bright idea to play Hide-n-seek with the kids (a family favorite) and well, I personally LOVE the thrill of hiding and someone coming to FIND me.....unfortunately, Amy, gets really anxious and almost ill when that happens, that and the fact that she was having a hard time finding hiding places with a pregnant belly in the way (hiding under the bed?? didn't work so well. lol), well, she got a really upset stomach and didn't end up feeling too great (I felt SOOO bad!!). Well, the next day or so they went home.....yeah, well less than a week later she had their beautiful, healthy, baby girl, Elizabeth Marie.........a month EARLY on August 2nd!! Yeah, I know, we SOOO put her into pre-term labor!! Way to go, Aunt Sara!! LOL THANKFULLY she was completely healthy, aside from a slight case of jaundice. Whew!! We were and are so happy for them!!

In the middle of August I took the kids up to Spokane for a visit but we first spent some time in the Tri-Cities with my family for my brother, Jason's birthday and my beautiful neice, Caitlin. It was a short visit but we had a lot of fun, the cousins LOVE being together.

In Spokane, we stayed with one of my best friends and we had a BLAST!! Every time we go up there we ALWAYS go to Manito Park, it is my FAVORITE!!! It is like a SUPER park, it has a bunch of smaller parks in one big one, there's a pond with ducks and swans to feed bread, there are play toys, a lilac garden, a japanese garden, a rose garden, a conservatory, and my personal favorite, the Alice in Wonderland garden....no, it's not really called that, but it LOOKS like it is from Alice in Wonderland!! It has all these cute little cut-out flower beds with flowers of every color in them, potted plants, a fountain, a gazebo, tall hedges on all sides, it is the COOLEST!! Well, the COOLEST part of that particular area is the tall, grass hill at one end....it has become a tradition for my kids, (yes, and on occasion, me) to roll down this hill over and over again, the kids LOVE this and I LOVE that they love it. We also got to eat at our most favorite, and sorely missed, Italian Restaurant, Tomato Street. YUM!! I really do miss Spokane and I love to visit anytime I can.

More catching up...

Where were we......Oh yeah, in April 2007 I cut the girls hair, they loved it so we took some pics...and no, I'm not changing my profession. LOL :O) Also in April we rented an awesome condo in McCall (a small town up north) for a few days and had a blast. We brought our dogs and one of them ended up falling through some ice so our brave daddy had to rescue her and we all had to hurry back to fight off frost bite. Fun fun!!

In May of 2007 the kids and I did the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Breast Cancer Walk, it took on even MORE meaning because one of my best friends that worked where I work had been diagnosed with breast cancer the previous February. The people at my work all got hats that said "We Walk With Holly" so I made shirts for my kids so they would feel like part of the group. It was a tiring walk but well worth the cause. We love Holly!!

Pre Race With Holly :O) After the race with Holly