Sugar, Spice, and everything nice...

Having a girl is the most fun and I am excited that I get to do it twice! G and I have been talking about having her start ballet and she ran and got her ballet outfit on and flitted about the house! I've called around and found a class that does tap, ballet, and tumbling, so let's hope she won't shy away from it once we get there. I can't imagine how fun it would be to watch a little dance recital!

I've been tagged, so here it is!

A: Five things about each question, please.
The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.B: Each player answers the questions about themselves.C: At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
10 years ago:
1. (at least as of June) I was getting married to JR! Weird that time has gone so fast! 2. I was at least 5 pregnancies the lesser, and much thinner!
3. I was a songleader-(ya know, one of the dancers at half time and the cheerleader during the games. Kind of fun)
4. I thought I was going to be a teacher or a writer.
5. Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it is almost time for my ten year high school reunion-and do you know what? I think I gained a few new wrinkles this evening!
On my to-do list:
1. Tour all of Europe, and visit many places in the world such as Greece, Australia, etc.
2. Visit the Bolt castle on the New York/Canadian Border.
3. Become a teacher or a writer.
4. Refinish the basement.
5. Sing in something that requires some guts-such as a play, etc.
5 places that I've lived:
1. Salt Lake City, UT
2. Lake Oswego, OR
3. Portland, OR
4. Victor, ID
5. Bolt Castle (ok, ok…that was just in a dream)
5 jobs I have had:
1. Painting Fish for my pops business
2. Waitressing
3. First Aid (mainly requiring High School Musical bandaids)
4. Professional mediator (between some serious 4 and 9 year old squabbling)
5. Taxi driver (and I’m good-oh so good at dodging various cars and curbs as I turn my head backward while maintaining my other job of Professional mediation.)
6. Can anyone tell I haven’t had many “real” jobs? I married a little young.
What I would do if I became a billionaire:
1. I would pay off all JR’s loans, and take all of our extended family on a giant trip to thank them for all the goodness they’ve shown us!
2. Donate to several important charities-especially those that help kids.
3. Travel, travel, travel.
4. Fun things for the kids, fun things for JR-oh how I’d love to get him so many things, and fun things for my friends and fam. Ok, though, I like fun things myself as well.
5. What the heck couldn’t you get with a billion dollars?
Bad habits:
I have a hard time saying no.
Biting my nails.
Not studying my scriptures enough.
Eating sweets.
Too many to name.

Things I enjoy:
My family.
Sunshine.
Singing, dancing, listening to music.
Flyfishing!!!
Decorating.
Things people don't know about me:
I really really really swear when I flyfish, or sew. I just can’t help myself.
I am obsessed with vanilla pudding with graham crackers crushed into it.
I am a closet…wannabe broadway lover, but not in the sense that I only want to see it…I actually want to be in it. Yeah, I just admitted that.
I love watching soccer.
But, mostly I just love watching David Beckham play soccer.

Ok, now...I have to pick people to be tagged. It says five, but this is my blog, and what I say goes, goes, right?
SO-Jen, Phoebe, Kristen, Erin, Nancy, Raina (only if you have time new mommy), Abby, Geneva-you're all it! Thanks Joce for tagging me...it was fun!

President Hinckley was a good and honorable man. He stood for all that was good and all that was kind on this earth. I will miss him, but as JR pointed out, he lived his entire life for that moment in which he could see his Heavenly Father again. I just feel thankful to have heard his words and seen his example. He was there at Grace's baby blessing. He was the voice I most looked forward to hearing every six months at conference. He was there when, at a trying time in my life I had to let the sacrament pass by me, untaken, and he just smiled compassionately down at me from the front pews-as my Savior would have done. The world will ache at the loss of such a good man. But, perhaps it will be a little kinder for having known him.

Among the many reasons I love JR....

Besides the fact that he came home from working late and ran me a bath just to be thoughtful, or that he sat side by side with me and stitched tier curtains for our kitchen windows (and ended up doing most of the work-he'd probably die knowing that went out into cyberspace)....he also enjoys fabulous literature. Which brings me to a new poem he pointed out and that we now LOVE. We're going to hang it in our house because it embodies all of the things a person could want for their children, or really to strive for yourself.

If:
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! "
--Rudyard Kipling

I will miss you Sassy Massey!