Mckinlay's

2008-12-30T02:59:00.000-08:00

Bold the ones that you have done!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a Praying Mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Been to the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping (nobody tell my parents)
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
4. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie (Home videos.)
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (i've bought girl scout cookies)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Tied a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Visited Italy

Man I live a boring life, I really need to get out more.
I'm tagging: anyone who wants to do this, it was kind of fun

Rough and tough "little Max"!

2008-12-28T23:57:00.000-08:00

Max turned one on the fifth, I cant believe how fast this year has gone. He was born a little over a month early, and life has just been a whirlwind ever since. We all love him so much. He has fit in with our little family so well, its hard to remember how things were before he was around.

He gets into things more than I ever remember the girls getting into. Just over these last few days he has started walking more and more. His big sister's have so much fun with them, and he loves them so much. If him and I go down stairs during the day for anything, he crawls back and forth between their rooms looking for them.

Today before I came to work he threw himself down the stairs (scared me to death). Hell-o I am a nurse, I think. I swear when it is your own kids all complete rationale goes out the window. Instead of assessing him for any type of injury, I just picked him right up and held him tight. When he finally settled down, I settled down, and the girls settled down (they were crying too). I then looked him over to find two small goose eggs, and one rather large goose egg all on his head. Along with a couple of lacerations, that probably could have used a staple or two (but I think he will be just fine). I hope he makes it to age two :)

We had a great Christmas. Everyone got what they pretty much wanted. Except,Jacey did ask Santa for some "ril dimond 's", I pretty sure big dimond earing's that she got arnt the real thing. But heck what she doesnt know won't hurt her. Kodi got what she wanted as well. What other nine year old ask's for chapter books for Christmas. Jacey also got and eletric scooter and Kodi got a bike and a camera. Max got a little care that we can push him around in, and he loves it.

2008-11-17T01:35:00.000-08:00

Thanks a lot Linda for the tag! Even though it took me a while to finally finish, it was kind of fun.

ABOUT MY HUSBAND
1.What is his name? Christopher Jaymes Mckinlay
2.Who eats more? Depends what where eating.
3.Who said I love you first? He did
4.Who's taller? He is
5.Who is smarter? Depends on what the subject is!
6.Who is more sensitive? Me- he thinks I am dramatic, too (I'll admit that I am)!
7.Who does the laundry? I do it 95% of the time. I really don't like him to help with the laundry he doesn't iron, and he folds things retarded.
8.Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Chris does!
9.Who does the bills? I do!
10.Who cooks more? I do. But, if there is not leftovers on the nights that I work Chris is excellent at roman noodles, frozen pizza, and eggs.
11.What meals do you cook together? We usually cook together when were camping, Chris things he is the professions on the grill.
12.Who is more stubborn? Since I'm the one answering this question I would have to say he is. If you were asking him he would say I was.
13.Who is the first to admit they're wrong? We both can admit we are wrong. But, I'm usually the first one to say sorry.
14.Who has more siblings? Chris does
15.Who wears the pants in the relationship? Toss up? Probably me though.
16.What do you like to do together? Pretty much anything, that we can do as a family.
17.Who eats more sweets? I think that I probably do.
18.Guilty pleasures? Those stupid energy drinks. Ya know the heart attacks in a can.
19.How did you meet? I was friends with his sisters since elementary. The earliest memory I have of him was when I was at their house for a sleepover, and he was pushing us down the stairs in our sleeping bags. We were probably in fourth or fifth grade.
20.Who asked who out first? Not really sure. We both kind of did I guess ?? (long time ago) We had a lot of the same friends so we both just kind of kept showing up at the same places.
21.Who kissed who first? He did!
22.Who proposed? He did. On Christmas day, 1998
23.His best features? His smile, his eye, his dedications to us!

6 interesting things about yourself!
(gosh this is hard)
1. I love Christmas shopping! Some of you might think that I am crazy but, I love to go to the early morning sales the day after Thanksgiving. Last year I even got Chris to go with me.
2. I have a vacuum fetish. I love to open the canister and see how much I collected (kind of grouse I know), I even have my girls doing it now.
3. I iron just about everything when I do laundry.
4. I work two different jobs right now. At the hospital, and for a home health company out of Salt Lake.
5. I have double first cousins. My mom and her sister married brothers. I used to think it was really cool growing up. I didn't know anyone else that had double cousins.
6. I grew up in the same house that I'm living in now. I few years ago we sold our house in Centerfield. The people that said that they would sale us their house changed their minds. So one night my Mom said that we could by their house. We took her up on her offer, to her surprise. We love it in Aurora now. I feel so grateful that my kids get to grow up next door to their Grandma and Grandpa great.

Tagged by 5's....
5 things I was doing 10 years ago:
1. Senior in high school
2. Planning on getting married
3. Working at the dentist office
4. Hanging out with friends
5. Trying to decide what I was going to do with the rest of my life.

5 things on today's to-do list:
1. Well I'm at work right now and it about 0315 A.M. So I'm hoping and praying that Max will take a good nap sometime today so that I can at least get an hour or two of sleep.
2. Go to the grocery store.
3. Set up my Grandma and Grandpa's meds for the week.
4. Do homework with the kids, help them complete their chores, home health paperwork, pay a couple of bills, clean the house all before 4:30
5. Be back to work again by 5:00

5 treats I enjoy:
1. Diet coke
2. Chocolate
3. Popcorn (Chris can't believe that I will still eat it. When I was pregnant with Max I vomited every time I ate it. After I would vomit I would tell him I was never going to be able to eat popcorn again. A few days would pass and I would eat it again.)
4. Diet coke
5. Diet coke

5 things I would do if I was a millionaire:
1. Build a new house
2. Pay off my journey
3. Buy a new boat
4. Go on lots and lots of vacations
5. Work once a month

5 places I have lived:
1. Aurora
2. Salina
3. Centerfield
4. Salina
5. Aurora,

5 places I have worked:
1. Drive inn
2. Burger king. I worked their in High School. Chris used to call me his "Burger Queen"!
3. Richfield Care and Rehabilitation Center (longest 6 months of my life).
4. Gunnison Valley Hospital
5. Accredo Therapeutics

6 Quirks:
1. I like to fold the clothes when I do laundry. If Chris or the girls help me I secretly unfold what they have folded and redo it. Silly I know, I just can't help it.
2. I usually don't like it when someone else does Kodi and Jacey's hair. Kodi it starting to do her hair herself, I might need to get on some type of anti-anxiety medication before to long.
3. I always feel better when I have a clean house. But, I enjoy it when it's clean "my way". When Chris or the girl's wipe off the counter, I always do it again behind them. I like vacuum lines a certain way in the carpet. Ya know the usual stuff.
4. I don't like to eat any type of meat that is on a bone.
5. At work, or when I'm paying bills I can't hardly function if I don't have certain kind of pen. Its not really the pen its the gel ink that I like.
6. When I was still in school, I got really obsessed about note taking. I would write down notes during class. I would re-write the notes again after class, and then I would write them again sometime during the week before I had that class again. If I was to have an error on the page, I would start over again on that page. The positive things was that I pretty much would have my notes memorized.

Now I'm tagging - Janell, Mayra, Shayla, Nona, Kelly, Cheryl, Maghan, and any other hospital girls I forgot!

Kodi Can See Again!!

2008-11-10T22:42:00.000-08:00

Kodi Jo lost her glasses a couple of months ago. We had looked high and low for those dang glasses. I called the school, and even went over to look at the ones they had in the lost and found. It seemed liked we had looked everywhere, and asked everyone we could think to ask.

She would beg me every night not to tell her Dad that she had lost them. Well Chris realized that they were missing a few weeks ago, and was not very happy with her at all (they were not cheap). He had told her that all she would be getting for Christmas was a new pair of glasses. Well needless to say Kodi has been very upset about her glasses (or not having a Christmas).

I had to pick the kids up on Saturday at Chris' Mom and Dads after work. When I walked in Kodi Jumped up out of the corner and yelled surprise. She had the biggest smile, but that was not all that was on her face. She had found her glasses!! I guess she had left them at her Grandma Mckinlay's. Jane had put them behind something on the counter and completely forgot about them being there.

On the way back home she wouldn't quite talking about how happy she was to have found her glasses. Then Jacey said "Now Kodi are you going to start taking better care of them? Because I don't want to have to look for them again!" Needless to say Kodi's smile disappeared and the fighting between the girls started up for the night.

Yeah Kodi gets a Christmas now!! When I got home from work on Sunday the girls had each wrote letters to Santa. Gee thanks Mom for bringing up that JC Penny Christmas wish book !!

2008-10-27T23:52:00.000-07:00

Well it has been a few weeks since I created my blog, and its not going so well. I swear I barely get the things done that I need to do. Forget doing anything that I want to do. I worked yesterday, I'm working tonight, and I work again tomorrow night. Its my week car pool to gymnastics. Not to mention laundry, clean house, help the girls with their homework, dance lessons, piano lessons, and I really need to try and mow the lawn sometime before it snows. The girls both have their Halloween parties this week, and somehow I got on the committee for both classes. And to top it off Chris is gone again all this week, and poor little Max has been sick!!

Last night before Chris left for work we carved pumpkins with the kids, they had so much fun. Hopefully I will be able to post some pictures soon.

Welcome blog world !!

2008-10-04T17:55:00.000-07:00

Well I guess I should finally start a blog of my own. I feel like I have been spying on everyone over the last few months! So I guess you all can start stalking me and my family. I'm new at this so be kind.