I've been tagged!

My good friend from high school Kathryn tagged me! So here ya go!

First one:Post these rules on your blog.List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.

3 Joys:
1. Brent (even though he is complaining about me hogging the computer at this very moment)
2. Macie and the kitties
3. Seattle weather!

3 fears:
1. Something happening to Brent
2. Snakes
3. Bad guys getting me

3 goals:
1. Try to use our elliptical machine more
2. Have a good attitude more often
3. Try to learn SOME patience since I have none

3 obsessions/collections:
1. Hand washing! I seriously wash my hands at least 35 times a day.
2. Trying to save money. Lately I've been getting into coupon clipping
3. Kashi GoLean cereal. I eat at least 2 bowls a day

Facts about me:
1. I have to tell Brent how to drive. If I don't I start vibrating and turn red and feel like I'm going to explode.
2. I have the three cutest pets on the planet and for now they really are my kids.
3. There is no invention in the world that I hate more than skate shoes.

Second one:Rules:Each player answers the questions themselves.At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names.

Ten years ago:
1. I was on my school's varsity badminton team.
2. I went to the 'N Sync concert for my birthday
3. I had my first boyfriend

5 things to do on today's "to do" list:
1. Take a nap (I love Sunday!)
2. Make stir fry for dinner
3. Help Brent get ready for New York
4. Give Mace her medicine
5. Watch the MTV VMA's.

5 snacks I enjoy:
1. PEANUT BUTTER M&M's!!!
2. Gala apples
3. Kashi cereal with walnuts!
4. Fiber One bars
5. Garbanzo beans

5 things I would do if I was a millionaire:
1. Pay off my house!
2. Travel
3. Go on a shopping spree at Sephora
4. Get the NBA channel so Brent can watch all the Jazz games
5. Save

Five place I have lived:
1. Herminie, Pennsylvania
2. Sammamish, WA
3. Provo, UT
4. Layton, UT
5. Everett, WA

Done! I am tagging Taffee, Brianne, Sharee and Adam/Becka (whoever feels like it :) )

A Night in the Puppy-ER

Yesterday when I woke up from a nap this is what I saw laying next to me: Since this is what I normally see:I knew something was wrong. I watched her throughout the afternoon and around six she threw up and then started throwing up from the other end. She seemed ok after she threw up so I thought she just needed to get something out of her system, but around 9:30 she seemed worse so we made a trip to the Emergency Vet. After getting her termperature taken (sorry Mace!), getting weighed (7.7 lbs!) and the nurse getting a stool sample (sorry Mace!) we thought we were ok. The nurse came back in and had to get another stool sample because they didn't get enough the first time (sorry Mace!!) and then we waited for an hour while they tested it. The highlights of the wait were me seeing a weight chart on the wall that reaffirmed the fact that Maggie is obese and seeing a spider crawl across the floor that was the size of my palm. Seriously, I thought I was going to open the door to the room for that thing to get out.

After waiting patiently for a couple hours we found out that Macie has some bad bacteria in her that made her sick. She is now on puppy amoxicilian and some supplement for her food. She is also taking pro-biotics to help her get good bacteria back in her system. She had a rough night last night after we got back (and I had a rough morning cleaning up after the rough night) but now she seems like she is doing a little better. The doctor said that it should take about five days for her to be all better. Seriously, I can't believe how stressed and worried I was for our puppy, I don't want to know what it's like when we have a baby!!

Macie and a stressed out Dad waiting and waiting and waiting

The look on Macie's face when the Dr. gave her the diagnosis

FPC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After Brent got back from New York for training he found out that he got promoted at work! So now he is a financial planning consultant! I am so proud of him for all the hard work that he has been doing since he's started in Seattle. He also passed his insurance test so now he is licensed to sell insurance stuff (I'm know there's more to it than that, but I always zone out when he starts telling me about work). So if there is anyone that needs financial advisement, Brent is your man! Great job love!!!!!!!

We are alive!

Yes we are alive. It has been a very busy time for us lately. I don't think I've ever had a time in my life that has been as busy as this. I've been working in Seattle now, for over a month. I love my new job! It is the busiest job I've ever had, but I love it. This was something that I had worked for, for about a year. Seattle is awesome. The weather is so nice and cool. In fact it's raining right now. It doesn't rain in the summer as much as you think it would. I love go to the Mariners baseball games. Yes they are horrible, but I love to go to major league baseball. We saw the Tigers and the Ray, and next week we will see my team, the New York Yankees!!!

We found and bought a house that we love. It is north of Seattle which is a little more affordable. We love it, and hope that we have plenty of visitors!! The pets are all very happy especially the kitties. I think they are happy that it isn't so hot. Macie is happy too, just being a creature of habit, she is adjusting to change. She has gone back to her old ways of going to the bathroom in her cage when we are gone for a while. Hopefully she adjusts quickly!

The big news is that Sam has quit her job. With her coming up here, her company wanted her to come into the office and work full time. She loved working at home, but I guess they wouldn't let her continue to do that. Basically, it didn't make sense for us. We wouldn't be able to car pool, and for the extra gas and parking that she would have to pay, it just wouldn't work. So we are going to try the one income scenario for a while. Scary!!!

I got an awesome opportunity to go to New York City for a training for my new position. I was so excited because I've always wanted to go there. Man that is a busy town, but I loved it and saw some way cool things. Here are some pictures.

The ants go marching 3,402 by 3,402....

When Brent got up at 5:30 to let Macie out he noticed the kitties in the front room crouched down staring at something. He figured they found a bug. Well, that is an understatement. Our front room had hundreds of ants WITH WINGS!! So after he bravely killed them with ant spray he looked outside and saw a sea of black. So then he went outside and sprayed all of those until his little can ran out of ant killer. After that we called my new best friend, TNT Exterminators, to come and get rid of the rest of the evil things.

When we swept up the pile in the front room it was seriously the size of a huuuuuge pancake. I wouldn't even look outside because I thought it would give me nightmares. So after the dead ones were swept up Macie and I ran upstairs and hid under the covers until after the exterminator came and left Brent with the task of vacuuming up the ones that were still alive and jumping around our front room.

After my new best friend sprayed our house we thought we were in the clear. I was in our basement in the bathroom when I looked down and saw about 30 more by my feet!!! I guess they figured since we closed off the vent to the upstairs they were going to go down.

Finally after 24 hours of killing ants and itching like CRAZY (I haven't been able to stop feeling itchy) we think (hope) they are gone. I guess they were everywhere in our neighborhood so it wasn't just our house, but man that is sooooooo disgusting. I'm so proud of the kitties for warning us and catching a bunch of them.

This is what I feel like our house looked like:

Our brave little kitties:

Hiding upstairs:

Proud wife moment!

I just want to take a minute and share how proud I am of Brent. Back in February he took the Series 7 exam for work and dominated! Well, ever since he passed we have been wondering what our next step was going to be. Finally we found out that after all his studying, hard work, rolling money, writing leads, and all that other financial stuff that I don't understand (or really care to :) ) that he landed himself a position in Seattle!!!! The manager called yesterday and let him know that he got the job and they want him to start ASAP. So in the next couple weeks Brent is going to be starting his new job with Fidelity!!!!!!

The next few weeks are going to be insane!! We put our house on the market last night and we're flying up to Seattle tomorrow to look at houses. I can't remember the last time I was so excited about something!! I've been running around the house like a crazy woman trying to get stuff done. Basically I do about 8 things at once half way and then remember that I have to finish the other half of what I started and then start that again and remember I still have OTHER stuff that is half done. Needless to say I made a list today of stuff that has to get done so I don't have a house that is VERY 1/2 clean.

Great job baby!! I'm so proud of you!

Santa, Can I have a Dog?

So I've got an hour to kill before the Jazz/Lakers game three. Yes, this is a must win for the Jazz, yes I'm getting the pregame butterflies, and yes I've got my AK47 jersey on, even though DWill is my favorite. I was mentioning to Sam, that she needed to post our pictures from our vacation. Not to be one who is told what to do, she reminded me that I hadn't made a post in a while too. Marriage, you gotta love it!

Sam's post about our animals and their changes took me back to my childhood. I had to reflect on my many Christmas's lists that went like this.

Santa this is my wish list.

1. Dog

2. Wrestling Figures

3. Sega Genesis games

4. Utah Jazz jacket

5. Shares in Google

Ok besides the last one, which would've been awesome if true, those were pretty much samples of my lists from previous years. (Sam better not tell that the wrestling figures was from last year) Pretty much every year I asked for a dog. I wanted a dog so bad growing up. I've always loved animals. Of course, my parents would tease me by getting me dog puzzles or dog stuffed animals or even dog poop! I just always hoped that I would pick up a box and I would hear a little yelp or bark. Sadly, it never came true. Their reasoning was that it would be to big of a responsibility or that they would have to be the ones who took care of it. When pressed further they would throw out things like, "What part of NO don't you understand?" or my favorite, "Because I'm the Mom THAT'S WHY!!!" Seriously, when we become parents will we get a parental cliche book? I hope so. Shoot, I should just make up my own. I put the D in Dad, or No is in your name son! Life is short....and so are you! Exactly, they don't make sense.

I loved how having a dog was a huge responsibility, but yet I never had the chance to prove that I could handle it. I guess it was a good thing. I had some goldfish, and their fishbowl looked like the second home of the swamp thing. Which reminds me, we went to Lake Powell one summer for a week, and I had left behind my two goldfish. Well when I came home, there was only one! Seriously, to this day that stumps me. I searched for bones all around my room thinking that my fish had probably jumped into the blue carpet thinking it was the ocean. I was to naive to think that maybe the surviving fish actually ate the other one. It still seems impossible to me. Did I actually own a pirahna? When we can see a video of our lives that is one I'm def going to replay. Actually why would it be a video? I couldn't imagine viewing my life on a video, that would drive me crazy. I even banned Sam's videos when we got married. Yep, they are in a box!

Anyways fast forward a few years, and I'm married. I promised Sam, that if we lived in Utah we would get a puppy. I also promised a hot tub.....errr...... Anyways we had just moved into our new house, and she sent me this picture of a puppy in an email. She wanted to go and "check it out." Of course, by now I had realized that when Sam wants to go and check something out, she has $$ in her eyes and she wants to buy it! When we met Macie she was so tiny!! She walked over to me and rolled on her back, wanting a belly rub. My heart melted and I was hooked. Needless to say that was the first of a million belly rubs.

Now this blog isn't going to be about our pets, but I have loved having Macie. It's been hard work, but I think it will help us be great parents. She makes you feel so loved. There is nothing like having Macie waiting for me when I get home....well except my wife! I've enjoyed the puppy classes, playing in the backyard, the first time she jumped on the couch, even the memories of potty training in the snow, and even the dreaded night after she lost her lady parts. Some might think she is spoiled or even sometimes demanding, but we just think she is loved a ton. She is playing well with other dogs now, in fact we are dog sitting Duchess, our neighbor's dog right now. She is even doing well with kids which is nice.

So there you have it, I finally got my puppy. Now, I'm going to have to wait and see what my kids have on their Christmas lists.

New glasses and those kids of ours!

So Brent and I decided to take advantage of our insurance and get our yearly free eye exams! We both got new glasses and I got contacts. Here are a few pictures of us with our new glasses:

When we were at our exam they numbed our eyes instead of using the air puff thing that makes everyone jump. The only negative to this was that it made our eyes feel VERY sleepy for a couple hours. After they numbed us up they dilated our pupils. This would have been fine if they had done it to me OR Brent, but they did it to BOTH of us and then sent us on our merry way. Needless to say, when we got out into the sun we were wandering around like two old fogies not being able to see where our car was or being able to open our eyes. Then we went to IHop. Between our pupils being the size of dimes and our eyes being heavy from the numbing stuff so we couldn't open them very wide, I swear the waitress thought we smoked a ton of pot and then the munchies hit us so we came to eat a bunch of pancakes.

And since there is no Baby Anderson our pets are our babies so I thought I would post a few current pictures of them.

Speaking of looking high...

Sleepy kitties

How fast they grow up...

I was looking through pictures the other day and I found some from when the pets were little. It's crazy how much they have changed! I especially love how they have developed little personalities of their own!

This is baby Emma. You can't tell TOO well in this picture, but man, did she have a funky shaped head.

Emma is our little sweetheart now. She's the smallest at 7 lbs. so she can fit into places the others can't (like our cooler). She also LOVES watching the Jazz. She will sit there for thirty minutes sometimes watching the game.

This is baby Maggie. This is probably the only time in her life she was called a baby.

Because she turned into THIS!! Now she's 13.5 lbs. and is also known as "Moo". You can't really tell how large she is in these pictures, but let me tell you, she's a whole lotta cat. She also has a pretty big attitude.

Last is baby Macie. She was 2 lbs. when we got her and VERY spoiled. Mostly by Brent.

Now that she's a 'big girl' (at 7.5 lbs) her eyebrows have turned brown and she thinks she is a model. She also smiles when she gets really happy. I know it looks like she's going to bite me, but that is really a smile. Oh, and she is still extremely spoiled. Again, mostly by Brent.

I love our little family!!

Can I Do This Again?

When Sam told me that she had created a blog for our family, I felt like I was on the hit game show, "A Moment of Truth."

Question: "Are you excited about returning to the blogging world?"

Answer: "Yes"

(Crazy, intense "Moment of Truth" music)

THAT ANSWER IS FALSE!!!

I know blogging is the next big thing. Everyone is doing it. So yes, we will be like sheep and follow along. I agree it is a good thing. Our friends and family can be able to see more of us. It allows us to finally follow the instructions of writing in a journal, and I know Sam has a lot of cute ideas as well.

The hard thing for me is that I burned myself out a few years ago with my blog, www.tigrenation.blogspot.com. Don't get me wrong, I loved it. I had invented this blog, where I developed this character based on Bill Simmon's Sports guy. I blogged about our work softball season, but mainly American Idol. I spent an insane amount of work time doing it. A lot of it was stretched out truth. It reminded me of my high school newspaper. Somehow I was on the staff, and all of my stories were completely fabricated. I would write articles about my friends and just make up facts about them. Surprisingly, I still haven't been served with any libel papers. I even came up with the Batchelor of the Year story, where supposedly there were boxes around the school where people could vote. Then I preceded to just put pictures of my friends in. I would say the blog was a success. My co-workers loved to read it, and some of the family. My goal was to make people laugh.

Now I have more of a real job, so my time at work is spent working. Imagine that! I will be involved with the blog, and maybe the tigrenation will come back into some of my postings. Sam will be keeping everyone updated with pictures of our lives and adventures, and I will be doing my own commentaries on life. I do love that people can post comments now. Before I made up this email address so people could write to the nation. The only person who really did was my sister Karin. So if you go back and read on that blog and it does mention an email from a fan, that fan was me!