I Got Tagged

First of all, let me say too bad about the Wildcats and the Tarheels--two of my favorite teams are eliminated from the NCAA MBB tournament. Shucks...but great games to watch!

Becca asked me about THE FOURS

4 Jobs I’ve Had:
donut finisher (I hate donuts)
copy girl at quick printer
bra fitter and sales girl at lingerie store
copy writer /editor

4 Movies I Can Watch Over & Over
Raising Arizona
A Room With A View
Cinema Paradiso
Sixteen Candles

4 Places I Have Lived
Tucson, Arizona
Weatherford, Oklahoma
Provo, Utah
Pinehurst, North Carolina

4 Places I Want to Live
Paradise Valley, Montana
Tucson or Summerhaven, Arizona
A small town on Oahu
??? (I like where I live now and I would never leave the states)

4 TV Shows I Watch Regularly
(and by regularly, I mean “Shows I Tivo and then fast forward to get the story because I watch for an hour at night”)
The Daily Show (rarely miss it)
Scrubs (never miss it, thanks to tivo)
My Name is Earl
Biography

4 Highly-Regarded TV shows I have never watched a minute of
Desperate Housewives
West Wing
Lost
Gray’s Anatomy

4 Places I Have Vacationed
Washington, DC (Disneyland for nerds)
Disneyland
San Carlos, Mexico
San Diego

4 Places I would Like to Vacation
Europe by Rail
Scandinavia by Cruise
Every fall in Mexico somewhere on the Sea of Cortez
New England

4 Favorite Dishes
Grilled Hawaiian Kebabs with Chili & Rice
Any Fresh Mex with lime, cilantro & fresh corn tortillas
Montana’s Rib & Chop House Baseball cut steak with sides of mushroom stuffing and squash casserole
Chili’s Caribbean Salad

4 Sites I visit daily
All the links to your right…
Joh
Becca
Google Maps

4 Places I Would Rather Be
Tucson
A Mexican Beach (especially when it’s snowing here)
Asleep
Nowhere (I like where I live)

4 People I am Tagging
Jill
Brent
Lacy
Brooks

Winter's Last Hurrah

Tomorrow evening, spring begins...celebrate accordingly! For me, I'm just hoping this snowstorm brings water for my flowers and doesn't get too terribly cold. The storm is supposed to blow out tomorrow (right on time!) and hopefully we won't get too much more snow this spring!

Even though it's snowing, it sounds like the Posts and the Petersens got home to Utah alright. Will's family visited MAtt in Helena this weekend, and Jill was here with me all week. They met in Helena last night to caravan home, which, considering the weather, was a rather good idea. It was a very peaceful Sunday here, but we miss the cousins already! We're so glad they came.

We don't have a lot of news over here...the girls keep saying and doing really cute things that are hard to transfer to the blog. Heid's vocabulary and singing reportoire are amazing, but her expressions and personality are the things that really get to people. She is a hoot and a handful; although she gets into way too much trouble, I am having a lot of fun with her. Addie is growing up and becoming more and more helpful , communicative, and independent. She loves to help me do my "mom jobs" and tonight, she even made herself a baked potato in the microwave (it has a "baked potato" button") and put cheese and bacon bits on top! Tomorrow she has a play date with her friend Scott-- he's coming over for lunch. Last night after we visited Scott's family and made the arrangements, she told her daddy, "Dad, I have a date with a boy, and it's not you!" (whoa, there, sister...) Her dad thought that was pretty funny.

Enjoy the pictures of the past week (mostly taken by Jill--we were both so busy, we forgot to take very many) and leave us a comment or email! Have a happy Monday!

Heidi, Belle, Ally, Addie (& Jack behind her) eating pizza Friday night
Nothin' says "I'm Irish" like eating a big piece of pizza ;)
All the kids loved the pizza & Uncle Rich was (again) our hero!

On Friday it was almost 50 degrees outside, so at 4pm, we took the kids out to play and draw on the drive way with sidewalk chalk. They had so much fun! Here's Ally & Addie...see Ad writing her name?

PS: I have about 6 more pix to post, but Blogger is freaking out, so I'll post them when I can.

Addie, Ally, Heidi, Jack, & Belle with sidewalk chalk
Me helping the kids make a rainbow for St. Pat's Day

Ally
Heidi (& Jack behind her) running around like wild kids
Deceptively Darling Isabelle

We have no infant chairs or toys at our house, so sometimes we had to make do for Baby Ben. He liked sitting in Heidi's High Chair...
One night, Uncle Rich had to set Ben down in this canvas box. Creative, but kinda sad.

Top O' The Mornin' To Ya...

Update: Arizona beat Wisconsin in the first round of the tourney (YAY!) and you would not believe the weather today! It's 49 degreesF and the wind is 10mph (that's like NO WIND in Livingston)--I got the mail in bare feet and it was so sunny and warm! So it's been a happy St. Patty's afterall!!!

We kicked off our big St. Patty's celebration this morning with...morning sickness!! Yay, my favorite! So the green pancakes I planned fell through and now the kids are just having a normal day, except Addie & Ally wore green (Ally is wearing Addie's Flogging Molly shirt--I should make them all learn a Flogging Molly song today, huh?). I think I will make green eggs and ham omelets for lunch and Shamrock shakes...if we didn't have 6 crazy kids, we'd get a babysitter and go out to O'Ryan's pub here in Livingston--it's the coolest old school pub with yummy Irish food and music.

So yeah, my sister has been here all week with her 4 cute kids and it has actually been pretty fun--just a little crazy! You can read some details here. I have to go see what the 23-month-old tasmanian devils are doing.

More later! PS: BEAR DOWN, ARIZONA!!!

More Idol Thoughts

Looks like I have my finger on the pulse of pop culture afterall... (heh, heh)!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11751511/

May Melissa and Kevin go home this week before my entire sense of justice gets tweaked!

Happy Happy Birthday, Dana Dear!

Dana & Jill hanging out at Utah Lake in 1992

My sister Dana, left, turned 28 yesterday (March12th). Even though she had kind of a sucky weekend, we hope she feels our LOVE and GOOD WISHES over the 1500-miles to Texas! Dana, we love and miss you!

Sam Post's Blessing Day

Baby Sam on 3/5 Post Family on Blessing Day: Jake, Matt, Sam & Amie
More Posties

PS: doesn't Jake look like a ventriloquist's dummy in this photo (& Matt is the ventriloquist)?
Petersen Family on Blessing Day: Isabelle, Jill, Ben, Jack, Ally, & Drew

Papa Post was there, too, but I didn't get a picture of him on my camera (I hope Matt did). Amie made us a yummy baked potato bar lunch and the kids had so much fun playing. Poor Uncle Drew and Papa had to head back home after only 22 hours of visiting so they could work on Monday, but it was well worth the trip!