100 things (I have or haven't done)

I copied this from my sister Tovi's blog, I thought that it was a very fun thing to do, and I decided to highlight the things that I have done, I have done 55 of the 100. I also decided to add some other things on to the end which I have done that I think are just as cool. Try it yourself and see what you have done, I know that my friends Kriss A and Crystal would have amazing lists of their own (Crystal has lived in Antarctica for starters... how cool is that!), I bet everyone has a cool list of things that they have done.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa (Do The Seychelles count? Or seeing Somalia and Egypt on radar and through helicopter camera feeds from mere miles away count?)
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie (my husband was an extra in Pearl Harbor... but I think his scenes got clipped...)
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching (I saw whales on a radar but never got out on deck in time to see them with my own eyes...)
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter (again my lucky husband got to do this one!)
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible (not all straight through, but here a little there a little and eventually it ended up being the entire Bible)
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Totally copied a post from someone else's blog to your own
Now these to follow are a list of my own conjuring:
101. Kissed the Blarney Stone
102. Seen a missile launch
103. Snuck into a castle (remember in Cardiff Cami? tee hee)
104. Received a college degree (which I don't use)
105. Been lost in London
106. Been held for questioning by police in Singapore
107. Been hit by a car
108. Been on the road to Hana (very beautiful)
109. Seen a purple cow (true story)
110. Driven past a rainbow (again true story)
111. Eaten snail (tastes like chicken)
112. Seen Loche Ness (but not Nessy... unfortunately)
113. Been cliff diving
114. Climbed the Stairway to Heaven
115. Swam in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
116. Been stung by jelly fish
117. Rebuilt a school in a wartorn country
118. Come in dead last in a race
119. Been through Boot Camp
120. Got a gold tooth
121. Found a four leaf clover
122. Gone swimming in the rain
123. Hiked in a rain forest
124. Been vaccinated for smallpox
125. Fed a giraffe

I will probably think of others while lying awake tonight...
Tovi could have listed seening the "No Fire Zone" in Korea, and being in Mongolia which I think are also pretty cool. My mom has been to all 50 states which I also think is pretty cool.

Updating this blog at long last

So, if anyone was wondering if we dropped off the face of the planet, sorry to disappoint... we were just being lazy and distracted.

Here is what will hopefully not be too long of an update... James came home from deployment in September. We were all very happy to have him home. Eden didn't take very long to get used to him, and soon they were both in Love with each other, just like Daddy and Princess ought to be. We had counted 144 days from when he left to when he returned by making a paper chain which we had hanging in the living room of our little apartment:




In October we moved (7th time in 5 years) to Great Lakes Illlinois. We drove from Logan with our two vehicles and Grandma's wonderful company. We had planned on going to Adam-ondi-ahman, Nauvoo and Carthage on our road trip... but providentially one of our cars broke down in Maryville MO. It could have been a disaster, and we are gratefull the Lord blessed us to breakdown where and how we did, we ended up staying there an extra night waiting for parts and postponed our church history tour for another time, opting instead to take a more direct route to Chicago. In all we spent 4 nights on the road. The kids were wonderful throughout the whole trip, and I attribute that to Grandma's ministrations and to their own wonderful spirits.

Here are some pictures of us playing dress up with our old pirate costumes, a couple of days before Halloween. Eden looks beautiful with long hair... I can't wait 'til she actually has some!





Next came Halloween itself...

Isaac was Batman, very intimidating...


Jeremiah was Black Spiderman, he is shooting you with his web...


Eden was a pink bunny (and of course, in her mouth is her favorite toy the legs from Zoomorph animals)


Since babies are so adorable and Eden is no exception, here are a couple more cute pictures of her that her daddy took.

This one, she is in a jacket and hat that were mine when I was a baby.


And here Eden is blowing a kiss to her daddy, in a dress she got from Aunt Tovi (Thank you Tovi, it is so beautiful).


Here is Isaac with his Super powered smile!


And Jeremiah with his pet black panther


And here Grandma is a video of Eden and her new found talent of walking, with the bucket hat that she likes to wear and the inevitable Zoomorph legs in her hands.