Reminiscent Tag

Reminiscent Tag

20 Years Ago: I can't believe this one. I had just turned 16 and my best friend and I were driving ourselves to EFY for the first time. I had my license for only a week and my friend Bonnie had it for a month:0 We drove ourselves from Salem Oregon to Provo Utah. Bonnie's younger brother came with us. It was I think a 14-15 hour drive. We drove to Boise the first day where we stayed with Bonnie's grandparents and then went the rest of the way. I remember other adults in the ward were so worried, upset, frantic that we were doing this. My mother was telling me about all the comments that people were saying. I still remember thinking "what is the big deal" I didn't think that this was a scary situation at all. We did the same thing the next year. I remember on the way we were listening to the radio and heard the song "Don't worry be Happy" for the first time.
So now I would NEVER let my child at 16 do that with a friend. NO WAY I am in shock now that my parents let us do that. They were crazy!!!!

5 Years Ago: I was 3 months pregnant with Chase. I still remember the shock of actually being pregnant. I didn't think that I would ever be able to be pregnant. I wasn't sick a day of that pregnancy so I gained a TON of weight! Chase was only 5lb 3 oz who it was all me!

3 Years Ago:
Almost to the weekend I was in California going to a wedding of one of my great friends from College. We were roomies and had a great time together. We had a lot of fun and stayed in touch. Rob and I got to go on one last vacation together before the TWINS came. I was 3 months away from delivering them. The wedding was so great my friend was 34 being married for the first time so it was such a blessing to be able to be there. I loved it! We saw the new batman movie and just loved it!

1 Year Ago: I was depressed missing all of my friends from the Fanno Creek ward. The summer before we spend so many days at the park together. Now I didn't have a lot of friends to go to the park with.

This year so far We have been really blessed. Rob has been working hard so we have been able to pay off a lot of bills buy a home and even get our years supply of food storage. We were lucky enough to get my parents to come and watch the kids while we went to Hawaii for a week. I survived living with my parents for 2 months and I still love them:)

Yesterday: Rob and I were flying back from Washington DC we went to a wedding of a friend. We got to the temple at 10am went to a session. Then Rob was the escort for the groom. Another great love story of 2 older people. After the wedding we stayed for a little put and then had to head to the airport! I was lucky enough to ask (con) my brother and sister in law to watch the kids. I am not sure she will do that again since Zack was up at 5:30am

Today I got things put away from our trip, took Zack to get his glasses fixed then took them all to McDonald's for lunch. Tonight I am going to a baby shower at the Cheesecake factory! YUM YUM

Tomorrow Nothing!!! Just relaxing yeah right with 4 kids home all day long!

In the next year I will have Zack in 4th grade Chase in pre-school for 4 days Jesse and Taylor in pre-school for 2 days. I think I will start going to the gym again. I really am missing it!