Email Tag from JW

1. What time did you get up this morning? 2x in the night to nurse, annoyed at 4:30am when Owen joined Mike, and finally I got out of bed at 6:30am....
2. How do you like your steak? Medium rare
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Ice Age 2 (or was it 3?) - I took all 3 boys when baby Gavin was just 12 days old

4. What is your favorite TV show? So You Think You Can Dance

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? San Diego is pretty great but I'm a farm/horse girl at heart. Maybe Colorado. If I could afford the farm/horse life in San Diego I'd be pretty darn set =)
6. What did you have for breakfast? None so far, but am thinking about french toast or oatmeal

7. What is your favorite cuisine? I never met one I didn't like!

8. What foods do you dislike? anything with cooked pineapple (aka: pizza! ew)
9. Favorite Place to Eat? I used to enjoy going out A LOT. Especially to sushi. But then I realized it isn't all that healthy and it makes me gain weight. Then I started cooking. Yes, a shocker, I know. Now I really enjoy my own home cooked meals....that is when I'm not yelling at toddlers
10. Favorite dressing? Asian Sesame Ginger, Oil/Vinegar, Ranch
11.What kind of vehicle do you drive? 3 kids in 4 years? A mini-van of course: Toyota Sienna

12. What are your favorite clothes? Jeans, T-shirt or tank, and flippers - the CA style
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? Australia, Swiss Alps in the Winter, and The Tour de France
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? Depends on the day and my mood.
15. Where would you want to retire? Hawaii. But realistically, wherever my kids/grandkids are. And ultimately: with Jesus.
16. Favorite time of day? Mid morning and early eavening - good light for photos
17. Where were you born? Los Angeles, CA - I'm a valley girl

18. What is your favorite sport to watch? Tour de France cycling & Olympic Gymnastics
19. Who do you think will not tag you back? most
20. Person you expect to tag you back first? Katie
21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this? Kat & Taylor
22. Bird watcher? Now that I have huge picture windows and little kids
23. Are you a morning person or a night person? not a good question on a day when my 2 year old wakes up at 4:30am... UGH. Before that little rascal I was a morning person. But in college I was totally a night person.
24. Do you have any pets? 2 dirty toddlers, 1 smelly husband, and 2 cute cats

25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? I'm making my blogging comeback LOL

26. What did you want to be when you were little? A chiropractor
27. What is your best childhood memory? riding my horses
28. Are you a cat or dog person? love them both

29. Are you married? for 7 years as of May 2009
30. Always wear your seat belt? Yes, or else my car beeps at me and it's so annoying!
31. Been in a car accident? a few
32. Any pet peeves? bad drivers, people who don't know how to go thru a 4 way stop, traffic (road rage anyone?), whining kids, my husband poking me in the ribs and thinking it's funny
33. Favorite Pizza Toppings? chicken and veggies w/tons of red pepper
34. Favorite Flower? hibiscus
35. Favorite ice cream? vanilla w/fresh fruit and a little chocolate, mint chip
36. Favorite fast food restaurant? EEEWWWW. In-N-Out is the only one I eat at
37. How many times did you fail your driver's test? I got 100% every time baby! NERD

38. From whom did you get your last email? TAYLOR of course =)
39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? OH MY that is a loaded question....
40. Do anything spontaneous lately? went for a 2.3 mile walk 2 hours before giving birth
41. Like your job? Love it! (Dental Hygienist and mom)
42. Broccoli? Yes, but not in the first 6 months of nursing a newborn

43. What was your favorite vacation? Any vaca where hubby and I don't fight is a good one! We went up the CA coast before kids, Hawaii with a one year old, and a 3 day vaca w/out our 2 boys sky diving and other stuff
44. Last person you went out to dinner with? Dad, sister, niece and nephew, and my newborn
to sushi after picking up Dad from the airport
45. What are you listening to right now? baby sleepy noises on me, Willy Wonka on TV, & kids playing ball w/grandpa in the living room
46. What is your favorite color? blue/green

47. How many tattoos do you have? 2 and I might add a little flair later

48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?all my faithful readers =)

49. What time did you finish this quiz? 5:25 pm
50. Coffee Drinker? Rarely, it's not good for you. Usually on mornings when Owie graces me with his cute self at 4 am

TAG: YOU'RE IT!

Word Game Tag

SCATTERGORIES

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things. nothing made up!

Try to use different answers if the person tagging you had the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. And you cannot use the same word twice.

WHAT IS YOUR NAME:	ROBIN
BOY NAME:	ROBERT
4 LETTER WORD:	READ
GIRL NAME	ROSIE
OCCUPATION:	RDH (REGISTERED DENTAL HYGIENIST - THAT'S ME)
A COLOR:	RED
SOMETHING YOU WEAR:	RING
BEVERAGE:	RASPBERRY TEA
FOOD:	RADISH
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM:	ROUGE
A PLACE :	RIO DE JANEIRO
REASON FOR BEING LATE:	RUDENESS (MIKE SAYS THERE IS NO REASON TO BE LATE)
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT:	REALLY?!

8 Tag

Rules:
1) Post rules on your blog
2)Answer the six "8" items
3)Let each person know they've been tagged by leaving them a comment

8 Favorite TV shows:
1. CSI
2. One Tree Hill (I know, I know... but I can't help it!)
3. House MD (I love trying to figure out the disease!)
4. House of Babies (discovery health channel - midwives delivering babies in a birth center in florida)
5. So You Think You Can Dance (I seriously cry every show)
6. American Idol (some seasons I don't watch)
7. I love Lucy (we all need a good laugh)
8. the reality shows where the families have TONS of kids. Like 8-16 kids. Craziness.

8 Things I did yesterday (Sunday):
1. Church (lazy girl didn't get there until the 10:30 service and poor Jackson was so bummed the 3 year old preschool class was canceled and he had to go with the toddlers)
2. Bargain shopping for Christmas. I used my 40% off coupon at Michaels and hit the sale at CVS
3. Read a magazine (Mothering) or two
4. Stopped by my work to pick up my phone charger (phone was dead for 36 hours)
5. Talked to the LDS home teacher that came for a visit (Shauna Wolf's husband) - wondered why no one actually ever gives us a "lesson" - chatting is always fun though
6. Had friends over for dinner (Mike's business partner and his wife)
7. held a little 6 month old baby girl and hoped that would be me next year! the boys were smitten with her and smothered her with hugs, kisses, and drove cars all over her
8. Read my Bible until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer... and drifted off to sleep

8 Things I look forward to:
1. The Blessed Hope (see Titus 2:13)
2. Hearing "well done good and faithful servant... enter into the joy of your Lord" (see Mathew 25)
3. meeting my babies that are already with Jesus
4. seeing my parents when they come to visit from out of state
5. having play dates with friends and family
6. possibly going to Mammoth this winter (maybe this should be on the wish list)
7. Thanksgiving at the Baker house - yummy food and mad chaos of kids... so fun!
8. Christmas - I love the church services, hymns, and the excitement on Christmas morning

8 Favorite Restaurants: this one is hard for me! I guess we don't go out as much as we used to....
1. The Beach House (on the coast)
2. Jake's (on the coast)
3. Donovan's (yummy steak but very pricey)
4. most all nice Japanese places
5. Bucca di Bepo
6. most all nice and even ghetto Mexican places - best one is in Orange County: Taqueria!
7. Fast Foodish: In-n-Out, ROCK-N-JENNY's, Rubios
8. does Happy Yogurt count?

8 Things on my wish list:
1. being a mom to a girl or 2
2. breast augmentation (just to get back to normal!)
3. snowboarding in the near future (almost non existent since the boys were born)
4. a professional digital camera
5. a new house (I'd settle for a new HVAC and new windows/doors on this old one though)
6. a water birth
7. midwifery degree or L&D nursing degree
8. salvation for all my friends/family

8 people to tag:
Anyone who hasn't already done it yet =)

Photo Tag

Me and Owen in Encinitas, July 07. He was 3 months old =)

1. Go to your pics
2. Upload the 4th pic of the 4th folder
3. Post it
4. Now it's your turn! (Nicole W, Jaime W, Mom)

Random Tag

Random tag from Katie

3 joys:
* the blessing that comes from reading the Word...then I want more, more, more!
* hearing my boys laugh
* good food

3 fears:
* being a bad parent
* not having my entire family in Heaven with me
* being fat (I know, I know, but it is the truth! I'm deathly afraid)

3 goals:
* return to my 115 lbs/ size 2 body (ugh!)
* run a half marathon in less than 2 hours
* return to Jesus and hear, "well done thy good and faithful servent...enter into the joy of your Lord" (Matt 25:23)

3 current obsessions/collections:
* electronic, hand held Yahtzee (great for waiting rooms!)
* huge bowl of popcorn with hot spices and lemon
* taking pictures of my boys

3 random surprising facts:
* I love the smell of scotch tape
* I used to be very shy
* I would be a professional student if they'd pay me - I love school!

I tag: Nicole W, Brooke B, & Taylor P.

The FIVE tag

10 Years Ago:

<1998>

I turned 21. I was working full time at a law firm in Newport Beach from 8-5 and taking a full load of college classes at night from 7-10pm at Orange Coast College. I was a clean freak - vacuumed every day. I was in great shape - taking aerobics and weight training classes at my college. I was living with Becky (met her in speech class!) in a 2 bdrm 2bth apartment in HB and had 2 cats (Jewels & Scooter). I was 'dating' Joe Prado, father of Andrew. I bought my first new car all by myself - the black Jetta - I loved those seat warmers! I constantly changed my hair at the hair dresser - from very dark to blonde to dark w/blonde streaks. Wait, has that changed? Nope! ha ha.

My dad and mom at OCC graduation for my general A.A.

5 Years Ago:
<2003>

I graduated from Cypress Dental Hygiene School. I am still friends with these girls today!We were SO HAPPY on grad night!
We moved to Oceanside. I was baptized for the second time as I rededicated my life to the Lord. I was pregnant and miscarried - twice. I got my first digital camera and a new computer. Mike bought his first new truck. I weighed 10 more pounds than when I got married the year before. I watched "they sold their souls for rock and roll" video series and was never the same. I handed out witnessing tracts and toothbrushes to trick-or-treaters on Halloween. We didn't have kids yet so we went snowboarding a lot - we could afford it! I got fired from a dental office for being pregnant. I thought the end was near when SD was on fire. I wanted the Lord to take me to heaven if I couldn't have babies... I cried myself to sleep every night for a few weeks. I learned to mountain bike (sort of!). I lost Zoe kitty to a coyote. I ran in the morning before work with my sister who lived only 3 miles away. I had a great job as a Dental Hygienist just 1 mile away from my home in Oceanside... and became good friends with the receptionist, Jennifer.

5 Months Ago:

We celebrated our first Hanukkah. I almost got a divorce...December is always very stressful for us. I was happy again when the new year came. I only got 3 hours of sleep at a time - sometimes less if both kids woke up - and only 6 hours total sleep if I was lucky. We were scheming on how to go away next year for Christmas. I was so stressed out I couldn't even look at one of my scrapbook magazines. I was waiting patiently for Christy Beckman to give birth. I weighed over 10 pounds more than I do now! I started to BLOG...now maybe that's my problem - hmmm... I LOVED MY BOYS LIKE CRAZY but wished they would just sleep a little more! Jackson taught Owen how to skate on his new Tony Hawk.I gave our babysitter a 2 page scrapbook layout ("Thankful for you, Beth") inside a book as a gift - and will continue to fill it for her.

I WANTED THE RAPTURE MORE THAN ANYTHING and prayed for it daily.

5 Things on my to-do-list today:
1. Clean...mainly LAUNDRY! The maid is coming tomorrow - yippee!
2. Workout - class at the gym and run
3. Park play date canceled, so I scanned in old photos instead
4. Thank the Lord for digital photography!
5. Have fun with my boys on my "day off" and finish this post already!

5 Snacks I enjoy:
1. Protein shakes
2. Yogurt w/granola
3. FRUIT - especially berries
4. Almonds
5. Cheese (when I'm naughty I melt the cheese and eat it with chips/salsa!)

5Things I would do if I were suddenly a billionaire:
1st: Consult w/Mike on how to spend it (DUH)
1. Get my plastic surgery! My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps!
2. Buy a new home near the beach and a vacation home in the mountains
3. Buy homes for my parents so they could move back to CA and retire!
4. Pay off debt and invest wisely
5. Donate to Calvary Chapel (mine and others)

5 of my BAD habits:
1. Too much time on the computer and not enough time cleaning
2. Short fuse with my husband
3. Interrupting people and talking when I should be listening
4. Spending money I should be tithing/donating
5. Being too busy to do more of the things that matter - read, pray, sleep!

5 Places I have lived:
1. Escondido, CA
2. Huntington Beach, CA
3. Santa Barbara, CA
4. Boulder, CO
5. Los Angeles, CA (I was born a valley girl!)

5 Jobs I have had:

1. Cashier at Penguins & Dairy Queen in Escondido - first jobs!

2. Bank Teller at Bank of America in OC - not a good company!

3. Receptionist at a Law Firm in Newport Beach - and went to college!
4. Dental Hygienist - best paying!

5. WIFE/MOTHER- hardest thus far!

5 Things people don't know about me:
I think they pretty much know everything...
1. My first son (Andrew) was born June 5, 1997 and lives in Pennsylvania with the mom that adopted him
2. I love to LAUGH, especially with my sister Erika
3. I always wanted to be a professional photographer (I'll settle for Micah's assistant!)
4. My passion is pregnancy/labor/birth and will return to school to be a L&D Nurse when my kids are in school
5. I love pajamas - wearing them and buying them. I especially love dressing my boys in matchy matchy PJ's!

5 People to tag:
1. Jaime W.
2. Vanessa E.
3. Mom
4. Katie S.
5. Nicole W.

Engagement tag

Mike and I have known eachother since 7th grade. In 8th grade we were "boyfriend-girlfriend" for 2 entire weeks (long time in those days!) and even though I was the one to break up with him, I've had a crush on him ever since. I always encouraged my friends to date him in high school (2 of them did!) and I dated his. We lost track of eachother in college and then met up again at Christmas time in 2001. I reluctantly went to PB Bar and Grill with friends to see "people from high school" that were in town. When I saw Mike I talked to him all night long and started calling him. I remembered that he was shy and that if I wanted to hang with him I better make the calls... so I did. I talked him into going snowboarding with me and I think this sparked the flame for him. We had our first kiss (since 8th grade, ha ha) on New Year's Eve and were married May 17- just 5 1/2 months later. The actual engagement? Ha ha, there wasn't one and I tease him all the time - "you never proposed!" On sunday night we were talking about how lame it was that we lived an hour apart (me in Huntington Beach and he in Encinitas) and how much we spent on gas... and won't it be nice to save money when we're married and we can consolidate bills by living together. Then he says, "well, how about friday? let's get married on friday." I ask him if he is serious and then say, OK! So I got a dress and some rings, called my sister to take our pictures and be our witness, and we got married on Friday May 17, 2002. We spent three hours (after we got home from going out to eat) calling our family and friends telling them what we'd done. I had a great time calling people and saying, "Hi, this is Mrs. Baker!" and Mike said, "Hey, guess what we did today? Dude, I got married!" Everyone was happy for us and Mike's parents threw us a reception at their house a few weeks later. Best part: total cost of dress, rings, and ceremony was less than $800! We plan to renew our vows and have a "real" wedding on our 10 year anniversary.... this was way before digital pics, so I'll have to dig some out, scan them in and then post. What a pain =)
I tag: Mom, Vanessa, Micah, Christine, and Brooke.

Book Tagged

This is what you do:
1. Pick up the nearest book (at least 123 pages).
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Find the 5th sentence
4. Post the 5th sentence on your blog.
5. Tag 5 people.

I don't know how all you moms find time to read... but I try. I have way too much reading material. There were 3 books in my reach (yes, on my desk!), so I picked the most interesting one.

From: The Mentoring Mom, 11 ways to model Christ for your Child by Jackie Kendall

'I whispered, "I'm getting ready to deliver a new spiritual baby."

She is sharing a story about witnessing to someone over a 3 hour dinner. Her husband called her cell phone right before they were about to pray and the 5th sentence is her response to him.
I hope that someday soon I have 3 hours to witness to someone over dinner...

I don't know very many people with blogs... and the people I do know have already posted this. So... I tag: Jaime, Barry & Lee (aka Katie), Jay & Colleen, Mike, & the anonymous bloggers that read my blog w/out commenting - you know who you are!