I did it.

I voted. I spent a lot of time on factcheck.org and read myself into an oblivion. I just wanted to sort out the propaganda and find the truth about what matters to me. After all that, I still didn't know who I was voting for. The whole drive to the polls I went back and forth. I had an anxiety attack while I was standing in line. WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR?? I finally made a decision. But I still feel sick about it. I don't know if I voted for the right person. I've decided I'm keeping who I voted for to myself, at least for now. I don't want to explain why I voted the way I did. And I know either way, I'm going to dissapoint someone.
I just don't understand how anyone can really get behind either candidate and say Go McCain! or Go Obama! They both suck. They are vague on all the important issues, or at least the details. I swear if I hear any gloating about who won I'm going to puke. We're screwed either way. Ugh. I'm just glad I got it over with.

Who's That Girl??

I found these pictures from a project that I did in High School. I'm not sure of how old I was in any of them. I'll have to ask my mom. This was obviously before I decided I'm not a dog lover.

I believe I was "running away" in this picture. I guess I wasn't in too much of a hurry since I stopped for this photo op. I was rockin' a lot of Mickey Mouse gear and some really rad boots. Who needs pants anyway?? I really knew how to throw an outfit together!

Here's me, Dustin, and Tyler at Disneyland. Check out my bowl cut!

At the beach with a cup full of shells. I had a lot of shells when I was little.

Me and my momma at Disneyland. We went there A LOT when I was a kid.

I told you. I'm totally going scan-crazy!!!

Flashback to 1997!

I just realized that I can scan pictures. (Yeah I know, I'm slow.) So be prepared for lots of posts full of old, fuzzy, not centered photos.

This first flashback post is from July 1997 when we went camping at the beach at San Elijo.There's nothing better than waking up to this view, just a few steps away from your tent.

Julie, you'll enjoy this one. This is (from left to right) Morgan, Devon, and Brandon crashed out in the boy tent. There was always a "special" boy smell in there! haha!

Little Alexa, looking very adorable as always.

Riley striking a pose in a super cool neon bikini. I think she was 8 years old here.

Julie and my dad (with REALLY cool water shoes on) doing some reading at the beach.

Devon with, I think, Mark's surfboard.

Morg and Bran-flake chillin' at the picnic table. Looks like Morgan's got his $1 to spend at the camp store. My Grandpa always gave us grand kids $1 a day to get a treat. Can I get a Woop-Woop for some banana and bubble gum flavored shaved ice!?! We kept them busy at the camp store shavin' that ice! It was Jody's birthday, so everyone decorated the campsite with balloons and such.

Jody and Garrett walking up to her surprise party.

Here's Julie, Alexa, Tiny, Brandon and Grandma hanging out.

You'll have to blow this one up to see everyone in it. I could be wrong, but is that Nate with a PEPSI shirt on??? Hmmm.....I'm going to have to blow this one up and investigate!

"Morgan the Pimp" is what I have written on the back of this picture. Seriously. This guy has been a stud his whole life.

Brandon checking out the surf (or lack there of). Another life long stud.

That's Colby on the left hiding from my camera and Garrett giving me the "get outta here" look.

Here's Grandma, Julie, and Brandon doing some serious thinking.

Lisa with Chad hugging her legs and Cheyne in the background.

Little Cheyne making faces at me!

Here's baby Chad with either Alyssa or Heather.

Cheyne enjoying his shaved ice. What a cute smiley face!

Mark after he was out surfing.

Chad and Cheyne splashing around in the wet sand. This is too cute!

There's Colby, Jody, my dad, Julie, Lisa and Kurt getting their chat on.

I absolutely LOVE old pictures and could sit and look at old albums all day. There are more of these posts to come, so stay tuned.

Pictures...It's All I've Got

I haven't really had much to blog about lately. But I do have a lot of cute pictures so I figured I would put them up. Enjoy! I was watching Kiersten and we had to pick up Bradley from school. She was really into The Wiggles and didn't want to look at me. But she did stop watching long enough to see what Landon was doing. Landon was SO excited to have his cousin with him. Can't you tell by that HUGE smile??

Landon likes to "help" Bradley with his homework. This particular night he was doing his math and Landon kept telling him, "Free (three), four." or "Four, fife (five)". What a helper!

Landon is obsessed with "gapes" (grapes). Anytime he sees them in the fridge he starts yelling for them as if he was going to die if he didn't get them.

My boys sharing some of my bomb guacamole.

We went to my dad's Fall Festival last Friday and had a blast! There was a DJ spinnin' some sweet jams and the kids were loving it! Scotty and Landon have some serious moves!!!

Bradley had to get in on the action too. Here he is doing the robot. What can I say, my boys were blessed with rhythm??

There was a "time out" booth where you can use tickets to get a sticker and whoever you tag with it has to go to "time out" for 2 minutes. You can tell my dad was THRILLED to be in "time out" for the 100th time that night. So Landon joined him. Seriously, my dad is a great sport. I think next year there should only be a half hour window to send Principal Darrington to time out so he doesn't spend the whole evening there!

Landon still gettin' down.

Angelina, Landon, and Scotty. I love the look on Landon's face. He did NOT want to be in his stroller.

Another reason my dad is a great principal (there are MANY reasons): the students got to throw pies at him! Bradley even got him twice, I think, but I didn't get a picture of it. You should've seen the line for this one! Notice his body language saying, "Bring it on!"

And they did! hahahahaha!

This is what he looked like when it was almost over.

After the festival we went over to my in laws. I came downstairs to this. I guess Frankie put Angelina's shirt on Landon and then she wanted to wear his shirt. I think it's hilarious! The headband is just an extra touch of fabulous-ness!

Bradley and I went to Creative Pottery (I think that's what it's called) and painted some ceramic pieces. We LOVE doing this, and hadn't done it in a long time. We had lots of fun spending time with each other.

Landon likes to be a big boy and use a fork by himself. And I enjoy watching. Sometimes it takes him awhile. It amazes me that he's always so patient. (I'm so not a patient person.)

Ta-da! He did it!

I told him to make a funny face and this is what I got.

So Bradley had to make a funny face too.

I'm sure that was super boring for some of you, but it's all I've got so....deal with it!

Random List

I haven't posted in a long time due to nothing being blogworthy, so I'll just make a list of what's going on with me right now.

- Tomorrow is Bradley's picture day and I was already worried because he has 2 scratches on his face from Landon. They get wrestling and next thing you know Landon is squeezing Brad's face so hard he gets scratched up. We call him Scarface because seriously he always is scratched up from Landon. So I told him to be careful and don't give him the opportunity to scratch him. Instead of a scratch Landon smacked Bradley in the head with a go-go bike (motorcycle) and now he has a huge bruise/bump. Aargh! Of course this has to happen the night before picture day.

- Neither of my children ate their dinner tonight. That does not make me happy.

- I still don't have my Halloween decorations up. I love to decorate for Halloween with lights and webs and black lights, I just feel like it's snuck up on me this year.

- I am still undecided as far as who I am voting for. I'm actually so sick of all the political crap out there. I've done lots of research and I still don't like either candidate. But here's the funny thing. Bradley is a McCain supporter. I don't know how, or why but he's always talking about McCain and how he better win. I find this funny because I am not a supporter of either candidate so the fact that he is so into him is very funny to me. Yesterday on the way home I asked how school was. He said it was fine and then confessed that he got in trouble. I asked what for. He said they were waiting in line outside the bathroom and he started reading a pamphlet about McCain and Obama (I'm guessing aloud). And he got in trouble for it. He said, "What the heck?! I didn't even do anything wrong, I was just reading about McCain and Obama!"

- I have to get a wisdom tooth pulled tomorrow. Yuck. I hate the dentist, well not personally, he's really nice. I just hate having dental work done, and being numb. Wish me luck.

- The Project Runway finale is on tonight. Woop woop!

- My best friend Amanda just had her 2nd baby, Cash Austin, on Sept. 29th. He is SO STINKIN' CUTE!!! I got to see him in the hospital but a couple days later caught a cold and haven't been able to see him since. I'm DYING to go snuggle him!

- Frankie's off the next two days, yay! Maybe I'll get some decorating done??

- I'm totally obsessed with Cafe Rio. I have to go once a week or I think I might die!

- Landon is becoming such a big boy. One of his new thing's that he does lately is say, "Watch dis!" and does something funny. Watch dis, watch dis, that's what I hear all day. It's pretty dang cute.

- Landon peed on the potty! I'm sure it was just a lucky moment, but I made a big deal about it. Now he's always running to the bathroom yelling "Go potty, go potty!"

- Bradley is signed up for basketball. He's never played before, so this is new to us. He's really excited and hoping he'll be on his friend's team. He did really good at try outs. Frankie said he sunk his first free throw. We'll see how it goes.

- I helped out in Brad's class last week and loved it! I always wanted to be a elementary teacher so I love going and working with the kids. They are so cute!

So those are the random things going on around here. Hopefully I'll have something better to post about soon!