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5 Senses

Here are the rules: 5 Senses TagList 4 things you love, and one thing you hate, for each category. Then tag 5 people; leave them a note on their blog so they know.Also, let the person who tagged you know when you post yours.

I haven't been tagged with one of these thingies yet and I liked this one.

SMELL:

1. Bread baking at home.  You'd think I'd bake bread everyday because I like the smell so much but I'm just lazy.

2. Super clean laundry.  Right now my favorite detergent is GAIN.

3. Lacoste, Juicy Viva, and Hugo Red perfume.  YUMMY!

4. The oceanside. Not to be confused with the "puget sound side"...The warm sunny sandy oceanside.

5. I HATE the smell of sponge. NASTY! I buy the big packs of sponges at costco and throw them out after a short time of using them in my kitchen if I even use them.  I try to just stick to lysol wipes.

TASTE:

1. Anything that is chocolate and peanut butter. The best choc/PB icecream is made by Tillamook. So yummy.

2. Lemon water. Nothing is more refreshing!

3. Cilantro and lime in mexican food.  I love mexican food but it's just not complete without some fresh cilantro and lime juice.

4. Slurpees. yum yum yummy.

5. I love milk but I hate the taste of milk after fruit loops or some cereal like that. And I can't drink milk when it's not really cold....gross.

SOUND:

1. Waking up in the morning to quiet...on my own. No alarms, no babies crying, nothing but the birds outside and the breeze through the trees.

2. Cooper saying "La doo!" (Love you)

3. Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Live)....it's moving.

4. Walking into a volleyball tourney and hearing "volleyball chatter" and whistles. 

5. Scraping, whether it's nails on a chalkboard, teeth grinding, anything that scrapes on something it shouldn't makes my elbows hurt.

TOUCH:

1. A hot shower/bath. I've wasted many a gallon of hot water in my own self indulgence.

2. Hugging Jake. We seriously fit together so perfectly.

3. The warm sun on my skin. (or hot, that's good too)

4. A super soft massage, awesome.

5. Getting into a cold bed at night. I just can't recover from the shock.

SIGHT:

1. City life. the cityscape, day or night. The people watching, the colors and variety.

2. My smiling babies.

3. The temple. Driving by it on the freeway, stepping inside, sitting in a quiet room. It's all an amazing sight.

4. The ocean at dusk.  My favorite time of day in the summer. The way the sky looks over an ocean as the sun goes down whether you're facing east or west.

5. The actual moment of injury. You know when you see a video of a skateboarder eating pavement and their arm snapping and bending the opposite way of which it should bend? Yeah, I feel it, but I can't help but watch....it hurts.

I'm not going to tag anyone for this but it would be cool to see what others responses are.  It's fun to think of what makes your senses come alive!

Pacific Science Center

Yesterday when we woke up we decided on the fly to go to seattle and take Cooper to the Pacific Science Center. Jake's dad wanted to come so we told him to meet us at the ferry so we could take the boat across and then drive back. Well the decision was made at 9:30 and the ferry left at 10:15. We missed it by about 60 seconds exactly. So we all crammed into our lil' honda and drove instead. We got there and had lunch at the seattle center place by the space needle where there were lots of St. Paddy's Day festivities going on including some not so pleasing to the ear gaelic singers. Don't get me wrong, I love irish stuff but that was hard to sit through with out laughing. The people at the table next to us were even complaining that their tax dollars had to pay these people to perform at this thing. It was funny to overhear. By the time we got into the science center, it was just about time for Cooper to take a nap. Needless to say, he was a little grumpy throughout the rest of our adventure but I think he had fun none the less.

Our "wee little" family

Caught him smiling!

Coops 'wow' face.

Sleeping on the way home....who needs botox with lips like that?!

Famous last words

I told him, "Don't get injured," as he walked out the door headed to a stake basketball game......

That night

One week after

Grandma and Aunt Rhonda's visit

My mom's mom and sis came to visit a couple of weeks ago for what was supposed to be a week but ended up being two.  It was under crummy circumstances but I was really happy to have them  here for the extra time.  My aunt Rhonda was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer this past summer and has been battling ever since.  When they got here she had just had a chemo treatment the week before which makes you feel like crap about a week after the treatment.  That's right about the time they got to WA.  Rhonda had to go and stay in the hospital for a few days to get up to par for the trip home to Utah.  I loved having them here and seeing them again. The last time we saw them was back in October (Rhonda) and in June (G-ma). Jack was just starting to smile here and there around the time they came...but it was always a guaranteed smile when G-ma talked to him in her little goo goo voice.  Very cute to watch :) The pictures are from the day they got here and met Jack for the first time.

Quote of the decade

So last night Jake and I were on our way home from the adult session of stake conference and we just HAD to stop for gas and there HAPPENED to be a Dairy Queen right there.  As we were making our way through the drive through we saw the Thompsons inside getting a little treat too.  My thought was, hey, she's pregnant, I'm nursing, and our husbands are just really supportive of our extra calorie needs :)

We ordered our blizzards and when the girl handed them out to us, Jake's first words were, "holy crap, these are smaller than the smalls I remember." I think his hungry eyes were playing tricks on him.  We went on our way and I ate mine while I was driving so obviously Jake would finish his before me....But boy was I surprised at how fast he ate it.  When I made fun of him for scarfing the thing down, his reply was, "Hey back off, I take bigger bites and my mouth is hotter." I laughed the whole way home.