I love these...

1. What is your current obsession?
Photography....my poor kids.

2. What are you wearing today?
Black sweat pants and my brother-in-law's Sioux T shirt. GO GOPHERS!

3. What’s for dinner?
I made chicken carbonera, thank you very much!

4. What’s the last thing you bought?
Cold medicine.

5. What are you listening to right now?
background music from the wii.

6. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Laguna Beach baby!

7. What is one thing you want to change about yourself?
I wish I had the "cool" mom look.

8. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
A sunny beach.

9. Which language do you want to learn?
sign language.

10. What’s your favorite quote?
This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.

11. Would you cook for me?
of course.

12. What is the right way to avoid people who purposefully hurt you?
by praying for them.

13. What are you afraid of the most?
My children suffering. And vomit. (from Bonnie, but right on!)

14. Who do you want to meet right now?
Sawyer.

15. What is your favorite color?
blue.

16. Give us 3 styling tips that work for you?
Right now a shower is all I'm lucky to get to.

17. What is your dream job?
I would love to be a stay at home mom who had a rich husband. 1 out of 2 isn't bad. :)

18. What’s your favorite magazine?
Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, People.

19. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Groceries.

20. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
Anything I have been wearing for the last 5 years.

21. Who, according to you, is the most over-rated writer?
I haven't read anything I haven't liked lately.

22. What brings a smile on your face instantly?
Boden

23. What is one word that you say a lot?
What?

24. What kind of haircut do you prefer?
Something that is shaped nicely.

25. What are you going to do after this?
Have some tea, channel surf for a half hour and probably go to bed.

26. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
Hide.

27. What makes you go wild?
Listening to Y94 and singing and dancing while making dinner. WHOOO HOOO I'm a wild one!

28. What are your favorite movies?
Gracie, CaddyShack, I don't know, whenever I am forced to name them I always draw a blank. I need to study myself more.

29. What inspires you?
Jesus, unexpected kindness.

30. What do your friends call you most commonly?
Heather

31. Would you prefer coffee or tea?
My coffee in the morning and for most of the day but before bed I love chamomille tea.

32. Which other blogs do you love visiting?
I usually start with Vicky, I AM MOMMY and then click on others from there. I found the pioneer one recently that I really like too. I like learning new things.

33. What is your favorite dessert/sweet?
Cheesecake, frosted cookies, frozen grapes.

34. How many tabs are turned on in your browser right now?
2

35. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
Whatever...

36. What is your favorite season?
Late Spring and the early part of Summer.

37. What is one wish that you really want to see come true?
Winning the powerball.

38. What breaks your heart?
Having my kid's feeling scared, sad, embarrassed or not understood.

39. What's one thing you really want to do in life?
What I'm supposed to do.

Welcome to the 21st Century to me!

Ok, I have spent many, many, many hours on this dang computer trying to upload pictures, blog, facebook what have you and it's not what you think. I have spent about a total of 30 seconds actually doing those things. See, our computer is EXTREMELY slow. I have done everything from removing everything to hitting and screaming and well, you get the picture. I read something on facebook (using my blackberry) that I can use a different web browser. I guess I am a little out of it because I thought Internet Explorer was the only way to go online. Guess what. IT'S NOT! I tried Firefox on the advise of a few facebook friends and it is amazing!!!! What used to get me so frustrated and never got me anywhere except for having to apologize for the not so nice words mommy was using, is now nothing a blissful experience! I can go from site to site to site, boom, boom, boom! I feel like I have a little ADHD after moving around so fast! I can for sure get some blogging and work done now. I only have a few minutes a day to do "my" thing so what a life save Firefox is! Now, if I can only get Boden to sleep for more than an hour during naptime......

The Ice Rink

A fellow blogger just blogged about the black and whiteness of the winter days. With the warmer weather, and spending more time at the park at the ice rink, I too have noticed how everything is so black and white or "blah". SO...I thought we would color it up a little!
Here are my colors!

Boden has so much fun and laughs and laughs as we pull him around in his sled.

Leiton loves his little bro.

Another day done at the rink.

Hali's is 9

Hali Marie Selseth was born November 28th, 2000. She weighed in at a whopping 10.4 pounds. She was a week over due. That last week I took advantage of it being Thanksgiving and I seriously enjoyed pumpkin pie. Now it is 9 years later and I am so proud of the girl my baby has grown into. I love you Hali!

I should also add that my birthday follows Hali's by 3 days. Hali always makes me feel special on my birthday even though I don't celebrate much. This year I felt very special. Hali and Leiton gave me presents and cards before school. I got Eclipse from the Twilight series. Very thoughtful. I got to spend the day with my little buddy Boden. Later that day my dad also brought over a cake for me! Love Love...

Comfy, Cozy Crazy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It is the holiday where I am thankful for so much yet hopeful for the season to come. It just feels so comfy cozy with family. The smell of turkey, the taste of pumpkin pie, the games played, the stories told, the laughter.....the memories made. Our Christmas wish lists are shared and plans are made for the holidays. It seems so weird that this holiday has become overshadowed by black Friday but that also brings excitement to the day.

This year was a first thanksgiving for two in our family. Boden enjoyed the day with his cousin Emma! We went over the river and through the woods (ok, not really the woods) to grandma and grandpa's house. We were lucky that grandpa was still feeling good as he had his second round of chemo on Wednesday and his last chemo left him pretty sick the days following. My sister and her husband and their daughter Emma came from Illinois to stay. Watching two babies is one of the funniest things to do! Everything is just so darn cute! Boden started sitting up! This might be because his elder cousin by 2 months has already mastered this task as well as crawling and getting into EVERYTHING! The food was so good. My favorite is croissants, Hali's is green olives! Leiton loves the turkey and Boden's favorite is sweet potatoes. We all played a game of Apples to Apples which was fun. Games are so much fun with lots of people. The fireplace had a fire going and we all had full tummies. My sister and I had a great time reminiscing of our younger years as always. That makes me feel old. And even the drive home was a blast as I played the Christmas song station and the kids sang the whole way home to all their "favorite" songs. I hope y'all had a wonderful day as well!

Boden

Boden is now 7 months old....I cannot believe it! It seemed like I waited forever for him to arrive and did not know at all what to expect with his arrival as to how it would affect everyone's lives. He has been a blessing to us all. He is so delightful to be around. He has been an extremely content baby from the start. In the hospital I thought something might be wrong with him since he never cried and seemed to sleep so well. That good behavior continued and I am still in awe of how easy it has been. He is now just starting to sit up a bit. He really enjoys standing up. He has stood up by himself while holding onto the couch and will imitate walking as I carry him across the room. He babbles, belly laughs and drools. He is getting his two bottom teeth in at the same time right now. He has been awaking more at night lately (about every hour or so). I blame that on my extreme irritability and lack of patience with my other children, but all is good right? Boden wants to be a big kid like his brother and sissy. He looks up to them with awe and gives them huge smiles which only makes them smile which sometimes is a huge feat! Boden has been a wonderful addition to our family. I am so thankful to get to spend his first Thanksgiving with him this week. A kind of neat note...I found this website while googling his name. It is http://www.miniboden.com/. They have the cutest clothes for kids! Too cool. I also saw on Meritcare's website that there are some other Boden babies being born. I had never heard of that name before I found it in a baby book. :)

Halloween...just to get it out there.

I know it isn't even interesting to see pictures of Halloween costumes anymore but I need to do things in order now! We all had fevers but we managed to put our costumes on and treck out for a good 2 blocks. Note, I said 2 blocks however do you see how full their buckets are of candy?? I am glad the candy is gone...I had a bad habit of eating their candy while they were at school. Oi!