Happy Birthday Mike!

Where I Was...

I'm copying this idea from my friend Jenna's blog. I hope she doesn't mind, but I thought it was a cute idea.

One year ago (April, 2007): Very Pregnant (7 months). Very impatient. Very hot in the record-high Las Vegas heat...as a pregnant lady. Hanging out with my friend Heather (who was also miserably pregnant with me) and her daughter Hailey at the park every day. Babysitting two of Elaina's friends, Chris & James, every day. We decided this month to move to Texas for Mike's graduate school at A&M!!!

Five years ago (April, 2003): Engaged!!! I probably seemed to think the world revolved around us and our upcoming wedding. We went to California for me to meet my future in-laws, then a trip to Argentina for Mike to meet his future in-laws. Also preparing to graduate from BYU at the end of the summer.

Ten years (April, 1998): Grade 11. First boyfriend. First kiss. First Prom. I was living in Caracas, Venezuela and spending weekends at the beach. My friend Krista came down from Canada to visit and we went to Merida in Eastern Venezuela - they have an ice cream shop with more flavors than anywhere else in the world!!

Fifteen years ago (April, 1993): Oh dear. Sixth grade. I fell in love for the first time...with Michael Jackson. One memory I have of that year was that my friend and I wrote him a love letter and sprayed it with so much perfume that the words smudged. We still sent it though. Then my family went on a trip to California and took a picture of my sisters and I in front of his house.

Twenty years ago (April, 1988): This was soon after the Winter Olympics were in Calgary, and I had seen Elizabeth Manley win gold (maybe silver?) in figure skating. She was my hero. And since my middle name is Elizabeth, anyone with the name Elizabeth also became my hero that year: Elizabeth Manley & Queen Elizabeth were the only ones I knew of :)

Twenty-five years ago (April, 1983): Living in Calgary, getting ready for my new baby sister, Heather, to be born in May. I was a year and a half old, and since I now have kids of my own...I know I probably ruled the house :)

She's Crawling!!!

Erin's latest trick: crawling!!!! The first video was a couple weeks ago, when she still couldn't move...but was trying, with Elaina's help - if you listen, you can hear Elaina saying "come here...come on..." And I couldn't get her to crawl in the last video, but I thought it was cute enough to post anyway :)

Obsessed with owies

Two years old is a funny age. Elaina cracks me up every day with the funny things that come to her mind. The latest thing is her owies. She has a million of them and everyone in Bryan knows about all of them! We went to the mall the other day and since she's not the least bit shy, she confronted every person that passed us and told them "I got an owie" and then she tried to show them her two owies - one on each knee (and the scabs are almost gone because she fell more than a week ago!). I also found her at music makers a while ago with a crowd of toddlers surrounding her and she was walking up to them one by one and showing each person the (invisible) owie that she had on her finger. Somehow, they were all fascinated by it. She compares owies with each friend that comes over, and talks about them nonstop. I don't understand the obsession! Below is a funny picture I took - about a month ago, I walked into the bathroom to find band-aid wrappers scattered across the bathroom floor and then Elaina showed me her hands - apparently she had an owie on almost all her fingers! I just can't believe she was able to put these on by herself...but she did waste many band-aids trying too :)

Happy April Fools

So, since I have a prankster husband, I am smart enough to remind myself in advance: "tomorrow is April Fool's...don't get fooled!" But of course this morning when I started up my computer tried to open the internet, I got a warning saying that my computer had encountered a malicious virus (TROJ 143.ck.66) and that it was in the process of deleting all my files. And then an MS DOS window popped up which, to me, appeared to be deleting the files one by one. I was totally freaking out!! But then my internet opened as usual, which I thought was weird. So I googled the virus and couldn't find anything on this particular one (obviously) and so started reading about the Trojan Horse virus on Wikipedia. Of course it talked about how certain types of this virus can go in and get Credit Card numbers, bank account information, and all your passwords. So, I immediately had all my saved passwords deleted and began changing all my passwords on my different accounts. This is when Mike came in and yelled "April Fool's" and I of course am left feeling like an idiot. Fooled again!!!!

Happy April Fool's everyone! I hope you are all less gullible than I am.