My friend tagged me, so here goes.........
10 years ago:
- I was 15
- I was in the 10th grade at Memphis Harding Academy
- I highlighted my hair for the first time (see reference below)
- My best friends were Mandi, Emily, Kara, Melissa, and Shannon
- I had a learners permit and drove a tealish Saturn that was my moms
- I went on my first ever date to the Macaroni Grill and to see Titanic (I think I saw it 2 or 3 times in the theater too, Ashley:)
- My favorite stores to shop in were Old Navy and Delia's (catalog), maybe the Gap and AE
- For Spring Break '98-- I can't even remember what I did!!! Highscool is a big blur to me--- sad!
- My summer was spent doing as much Youth Group activities as I could: camp, work camp, VBS downtown every week, devos every week, playing broomball, scavenger hunts-- was anyone else's youth group like total 24-7 there is always something going on?? I mean, I'm kindof dreading when my kids get into 7th grade and we will be driving them to all these places-- btw, thanks Mom!
Things on my "to do" list today:
- Work (check)
- Take a nap (actually, I'm doing this so that probably won't happen)
- Make dinner (have no idea what I will make... these days I throw a bunch of things in a casserole right before David comes home and call it "dinner"-- I'm in a dinner funk)
- Go watch Lost with the Sides'.
What I would do if I suddenly became a billionaire:
- Pay off our debt
- Adopt multiple children (twins or triplets)
- Then I would get my friend Mark Saunders to help me invest a ton of it.
- David and I would have a killer vacation-- in 5 years when he has some time off.
- Start an organization in Fort Collins educating people who are homeless or in need, and educating others on things they can do for these people in their community.
- I have considered buying a neighborhood and doing an experiment on community where it's a bunch of people I know, and a bunch I don't know and we all live in the same place, but we don't use money-- we barter with services etc. I'll get back to you on this when I get my billion:)
- Pay off other's debts
- My husband would probably want me to buy a boat and a lifetime subscription to an apple orchard that delivers to your door so he can have apple crisp every other day!
Three bad habits:
- I throw clothes all over the floor--- really bad about putting things where they go
- When my hair comes out in the shower I put it on the wall and sometimes forget about it-- I lose a lot of hair and the first time I visited my future sister in law's house in Birmingham, I took a shower in their guest shower and totally forgot to get the hair off the wall and so I called to apologize because I felt so bad!
- David would say that me always putting my bare feet on him would be one because they are always ICE cold! Sorry, I know you hate that :)
5 Jobs I've had:
- Sonic America's Drive-In (were you singing the song in your head??-- I do all the time when I wear my Sonic shirts-- I also waited on Vince Gill, Jay-Z, and Kenny Rogers during my career at Sonic)
- I worked for Lipscomb's S.A.C. where I basically checked peoples IDs when they came in to work out. Really fun job! I can't believe I once got paid to talk to my friends, hang out, and do homework!
- Order Entry Manager at Richmond Title Services-- sounds so professional! Really I was the manager of me :) but it looks good on a resume
- Babysitter-- the best paying job in the world!
- Baker at Cafe Columbine and Bakery-- my current job
5 Things people don't know about me:
- I like sleeping with a HUGE mound of pillows all around me; therefore, I take up 3/4 of our King-sized bed
- I am furious at 10th grade me that first got her hair highlighted and started the vicious cycle of never getting my natural hair color back..... if anyone has tips let me know--- right now my hair is half natural half orange brown.
- I own at least 20 pairs of shoes and that is probably less than I have owned in several years.
- I check facebook at least twice a day!
- I'm terrible at taking pictures. On our honeymoon, I remembered to take one picture the whole time. So I'm nervous that when we have kids, I will always forget to take pictures of them, and they will grow up and ask me one day, "Mom, what did I look like when I was 2?" And I will go searching for a picture and maybe find one that is badly taken and fuzzy! Maybe we just need to move to Florida and live close to Melanie so my children will have their picture taken often by a professional:)
I tag Whit and Kristy so she gets back into blogging! (And, of course, anyone else that wants to:-)
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Ode to Child Prodigies and Other YouTube videos
So this first link is for a 6 YEAR OLD GIRL........... her pitch and control of her voice is amazing. I think she was a semi finalist in Brittain's Got Talent.
This next link is for David Archuleta-- amazing! Here is the full video of him singing "I'm Not Going" to the season one finalists.
Also, here is a funny experiment in Grand Central Station. It's pretty neat
Another fun thing: Go to google and type in "find Chuck Norris" and click on the "I'm feeling lucky" button..........hilarious:)
Friday, February 29, 2008
The Retirement of the Cake Bussiness :(
Colorado law is about the strictest when it comes to health department regulations on food for the public. I talked to the Health Dept a couple weeks ago and they said that we needed to rent kitchen space from a commercial kitchen somewhere or we could build a new kitchen onto our home. I didn't think Granada Heights (our apt complex) would appreciate me building a whole other kitchen onto our small apartment, so I decided to call local churches. There are only a handful of churches that have a commercial coded kitchen, and the ones I have found won't rent to us! I mean I guess they have to have a pretty firm policy, but you would think they would want more money for their church ministries! Anywho, even if they did, it wouldn't be as profitable for us if we kept our cheap cake prices. Basically we would become like every other high priced cake shop/ bakery. So we decided that the Lord was leading us to a hiatus for now. It may come back sometime in the future, but for now we have one more cake this fall and we are done. So in tribute here is one last picture..........
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
A Quick Update on Us
A lot has happened in the past month, and I have not blogged.....partly because I am terrible at taking pictures and I have no pictures to show for what has happened:( Anywho, here is what has been going on with the Joneses:
1. Buddy and Maurine came for a visit. We enjoyed some Fort Collins dives and Buddy's favorite coffe stop here in town (The BeanCycle). We also gave tours of our work places and got to eat at The Olive Street Bakery (a Belguim couple own this place and it is AMAZING!) where they all had a conversation with "Lut" the owner's wife and I just smiled and nodded and picked up on the words "13" and "weather"-- impressive, I know :)
2. We also got to go down and visit with Anna, Don, the boys, and David's parents again in Castle Rock. We got to go to a service at the Castle Rock Vinyard (the church Anna and Don came here to help start). We really enjoyed getting to go to church there and see how they have grown over time.
3. David is really, really, really busy with preparing for orals. They are in one month and he has to write a paper and prepare a slide show presentation that he has to sort of defend/ show he has a plan. Apparently this can be a big deal--if you don't convice the board you have been doing enough research/will be able to make your molecule, then you don 't pass and you have to drop out. BUT we know David won't be in that category :), but still keep him in your prayers. And me to, we don't see each other much these days!
4. We have started the "Truth Project" at church, a Focus on the Family thing. That's two nights a week. We babysit for one half of the team on Sun and the other half meets on Wed.
5. David has taken up rock climbing again. He is getting back into being "spiderman" on the climbing wall :)
6. We just had a really fun sortof Valentine's Day date......it was really a "hey we haven't seen each other in a week and need to spend time together date"! We went to see Definately, Maybe-- a little wierd but we decided we liked it......lot's of things we didn't like about it though for sure. Then we went to Loveland, C0 (20 min away) to Barnes and Noble to look at Books and go to PF Changs for dinner. We both decided that even though we only went 20 min away we needed the get-away! It felt like a mini vacation becasue we hung out for several hours in a row and we were away from home :)
That's about it. Just thought I would let you all know what has been happening with us-- again sorry for the no pictures..... I really need to get better at that!
1. Buddy and Maurine came for a visit. We enjoyed some Fort Collins dives and Buddy's favorite coffe stop here in town (The BeanCycle). We also gave tours of our work places and got to eat at The Olive Street Bakery (a Belguim couple own this place and it is AMAZING!) where they all had a conversation with "Lut" the owner's wife and I just smiled and nodded and picked up on the words "13" and "weather"-- impressive, I know :)
2. We also got to go down and visit with Anna, Don, the boys, and David's parents again in Castle Rock. We got to go to a service at the Castle Rock Vinyard (the church Anna and Don came here to help start). We really enjoyed getting to go to church there and see how they have grown over time.
3. David is really, really, really busy with preparing for orals. They are in one month and he has to write a paper and prepare a slide show presentation that he has to sort of defend/ show he has a plan. Apparently this can be a big deal--if you don't convice the board you have been doing enough research/will be able to make your molecule, then you don 't pass and you have to drop out. BUT we know David won't be in that category :), but still keep him in your prayers. And me to, we don't see each other much these days!
4. We have started the "Truth Project" at church, a Focus on the Family thing. That's two nights a week. We babysit for one half of the team on Sun and the other half meets on Wed.
5. David has taken up rock climbing again. He is getting back into being "spiderman" on the climbing wall :)
6. We just had a really fun sortof Valentine's Day date......it was really a "hey we haven't seen each other in a week and need to spend time together date"! We went to see Definately, Maybe-- a little wierd but we decided we liked it......lot's of things we didn't like about it though for sure. Then we went to Loveland, C0 (20 min away) to Barnes and Noble to look at Books and go to PF Changs for dinner. We both decided that even though we only went 20 min away we needed the get-away! It felt like a mini vacation becasue we hung out for several hours in a row and we were away from home :)
That's about it. Just thought I would let you all know what has been happening with us-- again sorry for the no pictures..... I really need to get better at that!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Christmas 2007 and 2 Year Anniversary
This Christmas was with my family in Memphis and Trenton. We had a great time with family and enjoyed being pampered:)
Here are some pics...............
Yes, Santa still comes to see us
Here is what David got from Santa
Some pics of the tree and presents
Grandpa in his new UT Santa hat :)
Us, Lindsey, and Lauren
Don't we look festive?
Granny and Papa
Me, Cody, and Caitlin
Anniversary
We have now been married two years. We decided to celebrate with a gift card to our favorite restaraunt in Old Town. We got the two person private room, so it was like our own little restaraunt. Thank you Saunders for seeing us off and taking pics :) Here we are.......
On the way out, we saw a guy with only a tee shirt on in the middle of the winter. Now I know we all know somebody who continually wears t-shirts or shorts no matter what the temp outside. David, in the pic below, was ranting about how he "just doesn't get it". If you do get it, please comment. We came up with some theories.....1) They are more "hot-natured" people (to which David decided that their 35 degrees could only be our 55 degrees, which is still not t-shirt wearin weather. 2) They could all have a club, like wearing a t-shirt is a members only thing and when they get together, they are allowed to wear warm clothes. 3) Maybe they think it's cool??? Any thoughts :)?
Here are some pics...............
Yes, Santa still comes to see us
Here is what David got from Santa
Some pics of the tree and presents
Grandpa in his new UT Santa hat :)
Us, Lindsey, and Lauren
Don't we look festive?
Granny and Papa
Me, Cody, and Caitlin
Anniversary
We have now been married two years. We decided to celebrate with a gift card to our favorite restaraunt in Old Town. We got the two person private room, so it was like our own little restaraunt. Thank you Saunders for seeing us off and taking pics :) Here we are.......
On the way out, we saw a guy with only a tee shirt on in the middle of the winter. Now I know we all know somebody who continually wears t-shirts or shorts no matter what the temp outside. David, in the pic below, was ranting about how he "just doesn't get it". If you do get it, please comment. We came up with some theories.....1) They are more "hot-natured" people (to which David decided that their 35 degrees could only be our 55 degrees, which is still not t-shirt wearin weather. 2) They could all have a club, like wearing a t-shirt is a members only thing and when they get together, they are allowed to wear warm clothes. 3) Maybe they think it's cool??? Any thoughts :)?
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