Because you need to know more about me part 7

Okay today was actually a really nice day and went to the beach but I am sick today so I am going to post about it tomorrow hopefully because I got alot of really good pictures and even though I wasn't feeling well I had fun. I have already decided to take the day off because at the moment I have no voice so obviously cannot do my job very well! so I am going to post my last list of 5 questions.

Todays questions come from Ellie at The Cedar Chest .

1. If you never married and had children what is one thing you would have liked to do with your life?

Honestly Ellie, I have no clue. From the time I was a little girl I wanted to get married and have babies. I know sounds weird doesn't it? Before I married Kelly and had Izzak I wanted to be a Nannie. I'm just a kid person I guess. Thats one of the reasons I hate working so much I just want to be with my kids and be a mom

2. Name a moment that stands out in your mind that defines who you are today.

I don't know if there was any one moment. Although when Izzak was born he was born with a birth defect that required surgery before he turned a year. We had to be more cautious with him as he was more prone to infections. Growing up us kids were all pretty normal no health issues no surgeries, nothing. I had in my perfect little world not thought things would be any different for me and my family. I was very wrong. I beleive from the moment we were told something was wrong with him we grew up a lot quicker (we were only 19). I became a different mother then I had planned as my parenting view did not involve frequent drs visits and specialists. It wasn't a huge thing in the grand scheme of things but it kind of prepared me for what all we have faced with our kids. I learned that my perfect little boy/girl didn't have to be what everyone else deems as "perfect".

3. Favorite comfort food is?

Baked potatoes with lots of cheese and bacon!

4. Do you have a special talent you wish you could use, but there is no time for it right now, if so, what is it and if you had the time, how would you use that special talent?

I don't know if I have a special talent.. I scrapbook and like to put things together and my mother and friends say I am talented there. But honestly I can't put my creativity into use anywhere else. My house definetly is not creative!

5. Country or City Life? Tell me why or why not.

I imagine a country life. Only because at this point I just want some peace in our lives. We have had so many problems with neighbors that I would love to live somewhere I didn't have to see anyone when I walk out my front door.


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Because you need to know more about me part 6

These questions came from Amy at A Family Story. Really I am surprised no one has come up with the same questions!

1. Would you vote for Hilary Clinton because she is
female or because of her views?

This is a hard one. I couldn't vote for her just because she is a female. I don't think there is anything wrong with a female president. And would be all for it if it happened. I just couldn't vote for her just because she was female. Also honestly right now I am not really paying a lot of attention to who is running for president yet. I don't like to listen until it is narrowed down to the two who are running. Before that there are to many people and I don't like to listen to the news anyway. My decision on wether I vote for her when and if she is one of the ones to run when it is time would depend on her views and how she runs her campaign.

2. Are you particular with your brands for toilet
paper or just buy what's on sale?

This is a silly question.. hehe... The funny part is I don't really care as long as it gets the job done! The hubby on the other hand? He is the picky one. He likes it to be soft. He buys it and usually picks between the more expensive brands but whichever one is on sale. I think it is funny but that is my hubby for you. Particular about the t.p.

3. What is your favorite children's book?

My favorite books myself as a child were ther Shel Silverstein books. I didn't have one favorite I like them all. I was into poetry when younger and that fact his poetry is so silly was even better! My favorite book for my kids has always been I'll Love You Forever By Robert N. Munsch. I still say the words to my kids. Izzak knows the words and when Madison was a baby he would sing the words to her I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be!

4. You have to watch a cooking show or Wheel of
Fortune for 12 hours straight. Which would you
choose?

Probably Wheel of Fortune although I would get irritated at the people on the show for not getting the easy ones right! I used to love this show.

5. What is your favorite flower and why?

I love roses! My dad used to have long rows of rose gardens and he had up to 57 different varieties at one time. Roses and Rhodedendrons are the only plants I can keep alive. Everything else dies at the very thought of me coming near them.

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Also please don't forget to check on Elaina and Wendy they still don't have results back yet and poor little Elaina is really upset and irritated and not getting a lot of rest. To much poking for a little 2 year old! She is outputting more then she is taking in even with the iv fluids. I know how frustrating this can be we have been in the hospital with the kids before without knowing what was wrong and thats really hard on everyone. That and you just can't get a good night sleep in a hospital with your kids sick!

Because you need to know more about me part 5

This set of questions came from Nailgirl at cameronscorner . I figured she deserved to be able to ask me questions after the list I gave her. Hopefully I didn't scare anyone off with her questions. I haven't gotten any one else ask for me to question them.... I was impressed by her honesty and hope I didn't ask to much!

1. Why do you want to move to Alaska? How did you pick this state? Will you have to get a job once you get there or will be ble to be a sahm?

I don't know exactly where we first decided we wanted to move to Alaska. We originaly started talking about it a long time ago actually. Kelly was sent there several times by his work to different sites and he really liked it up there. I have always wanted to go to Alaska but don't know exactly why?
Kelly has wanted to move to anywhere actually for several years but knew I didn't want to because of my family being so close by. It finally came down to me deciding I was done with where we live now. I'm not sure I can place exactly what specifically made me decide I didn't care to be here anymore. Probably a whole lot of factors. One thing is the way the economy is here Kelly can't make as much as he could almost anywhere else. The houses are out of this world for what people make and the schools? Well to be honest they just suck! Case in point would be Izzak. I kept telling myself when we would have to move that it had to get better working with the schools but it never has...it just gets worse. I know Alaska has some really good homeschooling programs including one that is a charter school type thing but all homeschooling. This particullar one we would be able to do everything at home but he would also have access to extra help with his IEP (Individualized Education Plan).
I don't know I guess we are justing looking for something new. We feel like we are stuck in a rut here and won't ever get out of where we if we stay here.
I do know that I will miss my family and close friends terribly but I have to choose what we think may be the best for our family. My health before I was working was much better. Since working my depression got really bad, I have terrible anxiety attacks unless taking beta blockers to help. My health is a mess...my kids are a mess. I just can't help but think if I can get back to focusing on my family that we might get better or at least I can spend more time trying to figure things out. I guess that answers the last part of the question. I plan to not work. I want to go back to being a SAHM. I was much happier then even though we were broke most of the time.

2. Did you and the Mr decide before hand to have four kids?

Well, when we discussed having kids Kelly wanted to 2 I wanted 4. We agreed to having 3. About 3 months before we found out Madison was coming Kelly started talking about wanting to maybe have another but wanted to wait till Kenzie was 3 to start trying. Well I have never been able to take birth control, it just really messes me up. Apparently my body decided that was an okay and we found out 3 months later we were having another and she would be here just after Kenzie turned 2. I had a hard pregnancy with her though. Also after having Joshua I can only have c-sections and with Joshua I had a classical incision. The doctors were worried about me having a 3rd pregnancy and c-section so I was watched pretty carefully. Between the doctors worries that my body couldn't handle another c-section and Kelly not wanting to have more then 4 we decided I would get my tubes tied. So no more babies for me. Although if I could get pregnant again I would love to have another baby. No more then that but I do still feel like there was one more out there for us. Does that sound strange??

3. Do you ever feel like you missed out on seeing the world, or spreading your wings so to speak. Since you married and had kids at such a young age?

I was married at 18 just after graduating and before ever moving out of my parents house. I don't really know what I missed. Both Kelly and I have had periods in our marriage where we have gone through wondering what we missed out on. Around our 5th-7th years of our marriage we were having alot of problems, no one ever did anything we just argued alot but we were about 23-25 at the time and most of our friends were still running around having fun and going to parties but we had 4 kids so we couldn't really do that. Sometime into the 7th year we kind of grew up and our marriage got stronger then it was even before our problems.
We both sometimes wonder what we would have been like had we waited to get married until he came home from school but to be honest it was a good experience for us when we first got married so young to be away from our parents. We always say it kept us from running home to mommy and daddy everytime we were upset with each other and it made us have to learn how to live and love each other.
I wouldn't change anything though. I love my husband and my kids to much to think about us having done anything different. If we did would are kids be the same people they are? I like who they are. We don't have any issues of former boyfriends/girlfriends and comparing each other because we were each others first real boyfriend/girlfriend. This may be a little TMI but we were each others first in every way. I like to be able to say that!

4. what is your favorite childhood memory?

Honestly I don't have any memories of anything before I was 8. Only memories are from pictures and what my family tells me. The only thing I remember was when my sister got pregnant at 16. It was really bad and there was a lot of problems with her. My dad was away on a deployment with the military, my brother was hell on wheels and only 8 himself. Then to end the year a friend of mine who was a little older and was basically my support through all this died suddenly. I had a dream when she died about it the same night and it totally freaked me out. My mom came in to tell me and I said I know.... So much was going on I basically blocked it out and lost a lot of other memories along with it. I also kind of fell into this depression thing for a couple of years but hid it from my parents I was one of those kids who didn't tell my parents things like that because I didn't want them to be upset....
The only other thing I can think of was that when I was 9 we moved to this house that had a huge tree in the back yard. I spent many days in that tree. I felt free from everyone and everything and could just sit back and breath.....

5. Other then the Mr who is your biggest supporter? I never hear you refer to a best friend.

I have 2 really close friends. I don't always talk about them because they are mine and I don't share...haha. No really I don't share and friends? I have always been the type who like to have friends to myself.
My first one though I have known the longest it will be 17 years that I have known her next month. Her name is Hannah she is also Becci's SIL now. She has two beautiful babies now that I love to spoil. I spoil her to though. She is a couple of years younger then me but I have always felt more like she was a sister. I call her kids my neice and nephew. And my kids consider her to be their Aunt. She has always been one of those people I can shar my thoughts with and she knows more about me then anyone other then Kelly (although there are things she knows that he doesn't). She stuck by me through my teen years and to be honest she put up with alot. I consider her family to be part of my family as well. Honestly if there was ever anything I could do for her I would bend over backwards to do it. I love her like a sister and she will probably be the person I miss the most when I move. Both her and Becci keep telling me I need to fly them up to visit and I would probably do that!



The other one would be my friend Cori. I don't know what I would have done without her when we lived in Arizona after Kelly and I got married. He worked and went to school full time during the weekdays he would be gone from 6 am to 9 pm. She was the first person I told that I was pregnant with Izzak and she took me to every drs appt and wic appointment I had. I spent all my time when Kelly was gone with her and she was actually the one who drove me and Izzak home from the hospital after he was born. She lives in Washington now and I still talk to her several times a week. She and Hannah are the first ones I call when I am frustrated. I tell her I wouldn't have made it in Arizona without her. We became friends within a couple of days of our arriving and like I said I owe her a lot for getting me through those times. She was in the same place as we her husband was in school and working full time also and she had a 1 year old when we moved there and was pregnant soon after we arrived.

Both of these people are like sisters to me.

On another note only 1 1/2 weeks till Kelly leaves for Alaska. He is getting so nervous about it, I can tell! He has been great though. He's trying to take care of things and make sure I have things. In the last week he bought me a new computer that he had built up for me for my needs. Part of this was he wanted to take a computer up for himself so he is taking the older one. He also wants to be able to take pictures and so he bought me a brand new digital camera..its so tiny its about the size of a deck of cards and is 7.2 mega pixel so it takes great pictures. Also he fixed my Durango that has been undrivable since my accident in February it needed new brakes, a new sensor and tires and he took care of fixing all this for me this week! I feel bad but I know that he is trying to make sure things are as easy on me as possible before he leaves. Please pray/keep him in your thoughts though. Like I said he is getting really nervous about the trip and getting a job and place to live when he gets there.

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Because you need to know more about me part 4

I offered to take questions from a lot of people it seems to be getting me a lot to post about. I have more to do but I am trying to do them in order of when I received them. Surprisingly though with all the questions I've gotten no one has asked the same questions! So it is still fun for me to answer.

This particular set of questions came from Beccy at Peppermint Tea.

Here are your questions, hope you like them!

1) What is the first thing you are planning to do when you arrive in Alaska?

Let's see the first thing? Sleep! haha. It will take us about 4 days to get there in two vehicles on pulling another vehicle and the other pulling a trailer. We will also have all 4 kids with us 2 cats and a hamster. We are still trying to figure out what to do with the cats and the fact they will need to use the bathroom at some point in time on the way up or they will be some uncomfortable kitties!

After that? Hmm I don't really know. I think we will be pretty busy moving things in. Getting the kids ready for school, finding new doctors because as you know we see several different ones and certain parts of the family can't go long without seeing a doctor to get procedures in place such as my iron transfusions.

I also want to figure in some time to look around and see the scenery before the winter sets in and it gets dark all the time and we get snowed in!

2) You have 24 hours where money is no object, describe your day.

Hmm I'd probably start looking for a house if money was no object! Besides that we would take the kids and buy a lot of clothes. Cause we are going to need stuff in Alaska. I am boring I guess when it comes to this one. I don't really know of any places I would want to go with only 24 hours although we may also decide to use money to fly the kids up to Alaska with the cats instead of driving with them all! Honestly I like to shop though. Usually not for myself though. I can see a lot of spoiling going on!

3) What is the most embarrassing thing you have ever done?

Honestly my life is an embarrasment! I do things on a daily basis leaving other people in tears! The most emabarrasing one that I can think of right now was the day I took all the kids to the mall during Christmas when they were little and lost Joshua twice! It was not fun to have the same security gaurd to bring him back and have this child security guard telling me how to watch my child better. If only Joshua would have paid attention it would have been much better. I don't want to tell you how many times that boy has been lost! He is so distracted by things he wants to see that all I had to do when he was little was reach down to grab something for one of the other kids and he was gone. hmm I'm sure if I thought really hard I could think of something better but people keep reminding me of that one....It was awhile before I took all the kids to the mall by myself again. Especially during the holidays.

4) Do you think you spend too much time in the blogging world?

Yes definetly. When I first started this thing it wasn't so bad. I posted occasionally but did really have any other readers besides Becci at miraclebabyb. I looked at some of her other readers sometimes but didn't always have the nerve to comment. I finally did on a couple and pretty soon I had others commenting on my blog, I would comment back and it just went up from there. Now I spend so much time on blogs reading others and posting much, much more on my own. Its a lot more fun to post blogs when I know some one else appreciates them!

Problem is now I tend to read at work whenever I'm not to busy and I get a little to distracted. I can sometimes stay up to late at night writing my own posts and reading others....so yes I spend to much time!

5) Where do you see yourself in 40 years?

40 years? I don't want to think about it....Really.
I do still see myself with Kelly maybe sitting in our rocking chairs enjoying watching our great grandchildren playing.

I don't know if we will still be in Alaska that all really depends on how our health is and if our children stay in Alaska. I always have had this hope my children stay close enough so we can watch their families grown up.

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Because you need to know more about me part 3

So Alpha Dude sent me 5 questions for the interview theme going around. The first question....well I think he is trying to get me to tell a story I told him previously on his blog....

Its a good question and probably will take the most of this post! Also I am working on my wedding story post and will have it out tomorrow or Tuesday but I am trying to get something to work for the post so as soon as it works I will post it.

1) You have four children. How did you choose each of their names? With 4 kids you can imagine it can be difficult to come up with names especially when you are into the meaning of names and trying to prevent any embarassing initial problems such as my initials once marrying Kelly which I will reveal to you now TRD, hmm looks okay until you sound it out. There is a story about that and it took me awhile for that to set in.

So to get to the names.....Izzak who some may know his full name is Kelly Izzak Dunn. His first name obviously comes from his dad and his dads name is Kelly also. Personally I am not a big fan of the name Kelly mostly because like my own name it can go either way but more often people think of Kelly as a girls name. We agreed that we would have his first name Kelly because I couldn't take that away from my husband it was a family name and I understood that. We made the agreement though that he would have a different middle name. Partially because I like Gene for my baby boy even less then Kelly! I really like the name Izzak which is normally spelled Isaac and I knew the meaning of the name Izzak was laughter and this was when we were going through all the possible diagnosis of possible down syndrome and he had a heart murmer. The doctors were giving us a lot of bad statistics and I told them that one day he would laugh in their faces for it. When he was born he came out with a smile on his face and his heart was perfect and no downs. I felt the smile was his way of laughing at them. The name Kelly means warrior so Izzak is a laughing warrior! The spelling came from the fact Kelly can't spell and never felt he would be able to spell it the correct way. Incidentaly his initials if you notice spell out KID!

Joshua's name is the one I think Alpha Dude was trying to get me to tell....

We actually didn't choose his name...We knew what his name would be before he was even conceived. Just before that I had a dream and in the dream I was told that we would have a baby boy and his name would be Joshua Robert. Sounds strange to some but its true. It was a very vivid dream and it was like an angel that told me. To bad he didn't tell me how hard it would be to get him here. But if you know his whole story and the fact he really shouldn't be here after all we went through. I almost lost him at 16 weeks and 24 weeks due to severe blood loss. He was born at 32 but had a lot of problems. Joshua means Jehova saves or Jesus saves. I had litteraly hundreds of people praying for both of us and even the doctors said it was a miracle he did as well as he did and that we both survived. It was a scary time but I always had this peace in me that he would be okay after all he was given his name by God as far as I'm concerned and he must have some special purpose for being here. His first year was not fun but like I said I always knew inside he would be okay. Robert also happens to be his Grandfathers name so that part went over well. Joshua Robert means Jehova saves and bright fame! He likes it. So there we have Joshua Robert Dunn....although he would tell you he wants to change his last name so it starts with a K because JRK sounds like jerk! His words honest he told this to us when he was about 7.

McKenzie....I chose her first name when I was 13. I just really liked the name and when Kelly and I were dating I told him that when we got married our first girl would be McKenzie. Originally her middle name was supposed to be Nicole but my sis in law gave her daughter the middle name Nicole and since they were only 9 days apart I didn't want them to have the same middle name. Besides at the time I was irritated at her for getting pregnant on purpose when she was 15! We didn't decide on her middle name until about 6 weeks before she was born. Her middle name is Tamsen. McKenzie means the fair one. Tamsen is actually derived from Thomas which means twin. I was really big with her very early on and people kept teasing me about her being a twin. We got the name from my mother who suggested it because she had seen it in a book. So Kenzies full name is McKenzie Tamsen Dunn. I like the way it sounds and I like that her first name means fair one. I think it fits.

There are several meanings out there for the name Madison bu the one I knew when I named her was "Gods mighty warrior" and her middle name is Torrie which comes from Victoria and it means triumphant. Kelly actually chose her name completely. I always thought he did a good job on it. He really struggled with the middle name for her also and then one day he heard the name Tori somewhere and decided Madison Torrie sounded perfect. So her name means Gods mighty warrior, Triumphant. How is that for a name to try to live up to? Of course she goes by the nickname Maddie and when occasionally Mad which to be honest really fits her sometimes! So she is Madison Torrie Dunn. If you click on her picture you can see better that she is smiling. This is her newborn photo. Honestly I jok we should have known from this photo and her smiling at 5 days that she would have an interesting personality!

Have you noticed something about the girls names? They have the same initials MTD for both. Can you believe we didn't do that on purpose? Honestly we didn't even realize it for awhile after Madison was born....we can be a little slow sometimes.

2) You have just taken office as the first woman US President. What is the first "presidential" thing you will do?

Oh wow that is a hard question. I don't really know. I am so not the person who like to make decisions. Just ask the hubby. I do the same thing the same way all the time. I am a creature of habit! Decisions don't come to me well so I would be a horible president. I would say things like so what do you think we should do?? Its funny the only thing I am any good at deciding on is things that involve my kids. There are a lot of things I would do but the thing that affects our family the most is my kids education. I would love to figure out how to change a lot of things including making in easier for parents to have their kids evaluated for learning problems earlier on. As you all know I had to fight for it for Izzak and it shouldn't be that way.

3) You get to spend the entire day with anyone you choose, famous or non-famous, past, present or future. Who will it be and why?

This is going to sound really corny. But if I had the entire day to spend with anyone I choose it would be my hubby. Hopefully it could be a little more then a day. Doing anything we like together not worrying about anything. Like I've said he is my only true love! We never had a honey moon so being able to do something together and not worry about money or anything else even for a day would be fabulous! See I warned you, corny....but its me!

4) If you could choose what each of your children will be when they grow up, what will they each become?

Okay another corny answer one for me. I want my kids to do or be anything they want to be without wondering if they can make it. Izzak wants to go into the military when he grows up (which would be scary for me) but the way he is right now he wouldn't be able to. Being able to understand what someone is telling you and following directions is very important and with his problems he would have a hard time doing that. I would love for him to be healed of his disabilities so he can do what he wants and be safe. Honestly though I just want my kids to be happy and to not struggle in life when they grow up like we have.

5) Everyone has their favorite pet peeve. What is yours?

Lying. It really bothers me. Wether its out and out lying or skirting around the truth to make things sound better. I just want to know it straight. There are a lot of things people can do to me that I can get over easy but lying is one of those things that I have a hard time with. I feel like I can never beleive them again and it makes me sad to think that of anyone. Mostly because I am a very trusting person when I meet them and just assume they will be honest. Once that trust is lost it hard to get back.

If you wanna play, here’s what you do.

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.” If I don’t have your email address, leave it for me in the comments.

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3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Because you need to know more about me part 2

So today Frannie did the 5 question interview and I agreed to answer her questions.

1. Which Friend's character are you most like? (gender not an issue)
Honestly I wasn't a big Friends watcher but I did watch it enough to know about it. Sometimes Joey because I can be really clueless sometimes. Sometimes Rachel and I don't know why just because I could always relate to her when I watched the show.

2. Which blog buddies would you most like to meet in real life?
Hmm thats a hard one. All of them really. I would love to meet Beccy, well because she lives in Ireland and I'd love to go there and its probably the only place I could get the hubby to go out of the country because he is all into his Irish roots! I would also like to meet Peter because then I could figure him out. I think he keeps alot to himself and he hasn't revealed much to us so far...hint hint. Also I want to meet Frannie because I think she is awesome and we have stuff in common like we are the same age. I'm going to meet Heather this summer when we drive to Alaska because she is practically on the way, and I am really excited about that. And I plan on meeting Scribbit soon after we get to Alaska because she will be so close and I really need someone to tell me how to get around! Honestly I would love to meet everyone somehow but I don't see it in the budget anytime soon. Everyone seems like someone I would love to meet otherwise I probably wouldn't be reading your blogs so much....spending time at work where I could get in trouble.

3. If you could take a trip anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Hmm I don't know if I could choose! I have been everywhere on west coast of the US and a little inland but I have never been to the East coast and would love to go. Also I would love to visit Europe and visit England, Ireland, Scotland and of course Germany because while Kelly has a lot of Irish roots I am mostly German and took German in high school for 3 years so that is probably the only foreign speaking country I could go to and have any idea what people would say, although my ability to speak it is not so good anymore

4. Would it just be you and hubby or would you take the little ones?
I probably would bring the kids only because I would love for them to see different cultures instead of just seeing their own little world and how things are where they come from. I would probably bring someone along with us though to help watch them so we could have a little mommy and daddy time though!

5. What is your favorite leisure activity?
Leisure?? Whats that? I don't know this word??
But when I can do something without to much interuption I like to read my blogs and scrapbook. I am very crafty with my scrapbooking and should figure out how to show you some of my work just cause people tell me I'm good at it.

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4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Because you need to know more about me *updated*

*I forgot something, I was supposed to add instructions to play along at the bottom, they are down there now. I forget things at night ya know*

That Chick sent the following questions to me for an interview. She did it on her blog and I thought it would be fun to answer questions someone else might have for me. Also it gives me something else to post about beside complaining about my job. Actually I have a lot to post about but I will hold that for later!


1) What do you think is the main difference between raising boys and raising girls?
Hmm this is a good question and with 2 of each I have alot of experience with both I suppose. The biggest thing I notice with my kids anyway is the way they treat each other. The girls are each others best friends. The don't know what to do when the other isn't there and enjoy doing things together, usually having the same friends outside of school. They play with each other and when one is upset even if the other caused that upset like in this post they are quick to consol (I can't spell) each other even if it means giving up something for the other. My girls anyway even sleep together on most nights. Its easy to get pictures like this.....

The boys on the other hand.....well thats a whole different story. The way they interact is completly different even when they were the girls age. They fight with each other both verbally and physically. Neither one generally cares to make the other happy really. The girls? They never fight physically and they are each others best friend 10 minutes later.

Also the boys are into more physical activities they taught themselves to ride their bikes at 5, Kenzie was 7 1/2 and Maddie still doesn't ride without training wheels.

There are a lot of differences at least in the sense of my boys and girls. I don't know if they all are that way and I'm sure its different with some peoples kids but that is how it is in my house.

A picture like the above of the boys? Well it wouldn't happen. If I get them that close to each other they are usually decking each other :)


2) If you could be someone (anyone!) else for a day, who would you be and why?

I don't know if I would be someone different. I like who I am. If I could have things different. I would be a bit of a stronger person who knew a little better how to fight for her kids. I don't think I would change them or their struggles even though they are hard but it makes them the people that they are. It makes me the person I am. I am a much different person now with my kids then I would be if they were different. I don't think I would want to be someone different because I wouldn't want to have someone elses struggles because no one has the perfect life they all have their own problems.

3) How many different states have you lived in? Which was your favorite and why?

I've commented before that I am a Navy brat. I lived in only 4 states though (soon to be 5). When I was born I was born here in Portland, Or where I live now. When I was 6 weeks old my mother took me my 15 month old brother and 7 year old sister on a Navy plane to an Atole (small island) in the middle of the Pacific Ocean called Midway Island. It was a Navy base and had no cars only a runway straight down the center of the Island. When I was a little over 2 we moved again to Oahu, Hawaii near Pearl Harbor for 3 1/2 years. Then when I was 5 1/2 we moved to San Diego, California which is where I spent the most time. We lived in several houses their including a 5 month stay in Long Beach by the Navy base there. Then back to San Diego. When I was 12 we moved to Oregon but lived in Bay City for about a year and then finally made it back to Portland where I stayed in a couple of houses. When Kelly and I married we moved to Pheonix, Arizona for two very hot years. I longed to come back to Portland the whole time and even missed the rain! We have been back in Portland for 11 years now. Soon we will be moving to Alaska and that is the one I am really looking forward to! I went to 14 different schools growing up by the way!

Which one has been my favorite? Hmm.... I would have to say San Diego. That is where I have the most of my childhood memories. I had a lot of fun experiences and it make me miss those years and the kind of life I had a child. It seemed safer to me. I was allowed to do so many things that I couldn't imagine letting my kids do now.

4) How old were you the first time you fell in love (real love)?

Kelly has been my only true love! We met when we were 17 and new we would be married from the start....Now that blogger is behaving I hope to get our wedding post up tomorrow!

5) If you could have one superpower, what would it be?Have fun! :)

Superpower huh? Hmm....another thinker I guess. I think I would like to be able to fly! Then I could go visit my friends that are now scattered all over the US whenever I wanted to.

If you wanna play, here’s what you do.

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.” If I don’t have your email address, leave it for me in the comments.

2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.(Insert, "Muwahahahaahah!")

3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.