Tagged!... "What You Always Wanted To Know About Ryan And Me"

I just got tagged by my sister Becky. I guess I just answer these questions about my husband and Iso you can find out even more annoying stuff about me...

HOW DID WE MEET?: His sister, Lainie, thought we would make a good match so she set us up on a blind date.

WHERE DID YOU GO ON YOUR FIRST DATE?: Matta's (... sniff...sniff.. tear drop.)

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN TOGETHER?: dated/engaged for 6 months, been married for 8 years in Sept.

WHO SAID 'I LOVE YOU' FIRST?: Ryan, in Portugese I think.

WHO IS TALLER?: Hello! have you seen my husband? Ryan is 6'1'' and I'm 5'2"

WHO SINGS BETTER?: We both sing pretty good. Ryan probably would say he sings better :)

WHO IS SMARTER?: I lose brain cells every baby I have so....

WHO DOES THE LAUNDRY?: Ha Ha Ha...

WHO DOES THE DISHES?: It's about 80/20 with us. I usually do it.

WHO SLEEPS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED?: Right or wrong... we sleep wherever our children aren't. : )

WHO PAYS THE BILLS?: Ryan - I'm really bad at that. When we were first married, I wanted to do it, but eventually I got fired.

WHO MOWS THE LAWN?: Ryan. He's tried to show me how, but there's no way I would do that willingly.

WHO COOKS DINNER?: Ryan is great at cooking, it's just I usually do it. Experience has shown that we don't work well together in the kitchen. We are both pretty stubborn.

WHO DRIVES WHEN YOU ARE TOGETHER?: Ryan : ( I like driving, but I don't like passenger-side drivers.

WHO IS MORE STUBBORN?: Like I said, we both are.

WHO KISSED WHO FIRST?t: Ryan STOLE our first kiss! How rude!

WHO IS MORE SENSITIVE?: I don't know.

WHO PROPOSED?: Ryan. (After I told him exactly what ring I wanted and picked a wedding date.) He serenaded me outside my window late at night with his guitar and song he wrote for me. ahhhhh... The funny part was a police helicopter spot lighted him afterwords as he was getting into his car. (I guess he looked suspicious... maybe that was a sign?...) : )

WHO HAS MORE SIBLINGS?: He's the 5th of 6 and I'm the 3rd of 7 - Hence our personalities: a Social Butterfly (Ryan) and a Mother Hen(me).

WHO WEARS THE PANTS?: I get things started and I have the final word! "Oh, Hi, Ryan... I was just, uh... blogging. yeah, I'll get off the computer now. "

Now I tag Nikki, Brittni, and Tami

Thank you Cards

...I'm proud to say I made these myself!

I still need to pick them up from Wal-Mart

Photo Center, but I couldn't wait to post them!

I hope every princess who came to Maren's party 

felt beautiful!

Maren's Princess Party

Here are some of the pictures from the Princess Party... 

like I promised.  

This is what we did:

Read Princess and the Pea & The Frog Prince while 

the princesses sat on royal pillows

Played "Find the Pea" where they sat on all the royal 

pillows trying to find the "pea" (a golf ball) like real 

princesses.

Took pictures of each princess on the "throne" next 

to the frog prince! (Really cute!)

Painted each princess finger nails (pink, of course)

 

Played "stick the tiara on the Princess"

Had delicious cake... made by my friend, Amy Strong!

Opened presents!

It was over before I knew it, and the girls just played 

with Maren's new presents until it was time to go.  

Ahhh, so much planning and preparing for just 75 

minutes of party.... what can you do?  

I think I've convinced myself that it was worth it! :)

THANK YOU to all who helped me with this party...

AMY STRONG for the wonderful cake 

KIM SKINNER for the awesome invitations

MOM ALLRED for the princess pillows

AUNT CHRISTINE for the accessories/decorations

KRISTEN BRINSON for the drawing of the princess

WE MISSED these princesses who couldn't come:

MACKENZIE

CAMI

KAITLYN

SYDNEY

PRESLEY

I'm learning! Here is my second project with photoshop...

Kade's first day of Kindergarten was Aug.6th. He surprised me at how confident he was. He only wanted me to drop him off at the sidewalk. See how he is RUNNING from the car! : ) I think his favorite party is that he gets to play on the playground until school starts.

At his school, Benjamin Franklin Charter School, they have a flag ceremony and recite the pledge of allegiance outside with the whole school before class begins. (That's pretty cool.) Kade is so independant and obedient. He figures out where he's supposed to be and does what he's supposed to do.

Great job, Kade! I love you!!

My First DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING PAGE!!!

I couldn't have done it without my computer savvy/hunk of a husband! I was just wishing for the time, energy and smarts to create something cute with all these free downloads. Ryan stayed up late with me after the kids were asleep and showed me step-by-step how to work photoshop!
He also helped me spruce up my blog. Doesn't it look great?!
THANK YOU SWEETIE!
I LOVE YOU- but you've created a monster! : )