I have been tagged, thank you Tuesdee! At least it's an easy one! These are the rules: Answer these 15 questions about yourself on your blog. 3 Joys, 3 Fears, 3 Goals, 3 Current collections or obsessions and 3 Surprising Facts. Tag five people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. Ok here goes:
3 Joys: Family, Friends and planting something!

3 Fears: Losing a family member, someone hurting my children and bare feet on wet grass!

3 Goals: Lose ALL the baby weight after my next baby, no not pregnant now, just look that way!
3 Current Obsession's: Home Depot, Landscaping and Nordstroms!

3 Surprising Facts: 1)My nickname given to me during my freshmen year at Utah Volleyball is Pickle or Pic, my friends from vball still call me that and it throws me off sometimes when I haven't talked to them for a long time.
2)I've been told that I am missing my Zyphoid process. Not really sure what that is. They say (don't know who they are) it's a piece of bone right below your sternum? Not sure if it has a purpose. So my chest is kind of concave right there, not that it's not concave everywhere else! It doubles as a cereal bowl, it's handy!
3)I red shirted my freshmen year of vball at the U. I was so bad that I really had a talk with my coach about whether or not I was going to stay, hence the red shirt part ( plus knee surgery). Ironically, the next year I was the team MVP, runner up for Mountain West Conference Freshmen of the Year, (dang you Nina, she's really good, and pretty nice from what I hear). I also set quit a few records at Utah and in the Conference . Most were quickly broken by my good friend Kim a few years later ( you're welcome Kim, couldn't break the record if there wasn't one to break, right!) She's way good!
And there you have it! Not to exciting! Now I would like to share this tagging experience with: Kim, Shelly, Becci, Jackie and Brenda.

LOTS OF QUACKS, NOT A REAL DUCK IN SIGHT

Today we went to Lake Pleasant for a D.U.K.W. tour. You pronounce it like Duck. What is a D.U.K.W. you ask? Why it's a 7 ton vehicle that was used in World War II to transport troups on land or water. D is for the year it was made, 1940. U is for Utility vehicle. K is for rear wheel drive. W is for front wheel drive. So we start by driving through the beautiful Arizona desert at a whopping rate of 30 mph! There were gorgeous views of buttes dotted with giant Saguro cacti! We then proceed to drive right into the lake which Crue and Addi thought was awesome! Yes, they had to wear life preservers just in case we sank, we did drive a 7 ton vehicle into a lake, there is a possibility of that happening! The captain of the DUKW even let Crue drive. Crue gave it 2 thumbs up! Except for the whole driving into the water thing, Addi was unimpressed. She hated the life vest and tried to jump over the side a few times. It was a good thing I had a bag of pretzels to keep her occupied! Even though it was overcast and a little rainy, overall it was fun, not rollercoaster fun, more like ferris wheel fun!

This weekend we decided to trim this old Mesquite tree in front of our house. In doing so, poor Addi got a bug in her eye. We were successful in getting the bug out thankful and continued to clean up the trimmed tree branches. Most people would think that a riding lawn mower is good for just mowing the lawn. Not so I say! It has many uses! As you see in this picture, if you hook up a simple wagon from Home Depot, it's good at hauling things. We've also pulled weeds, yes pulled not mowed, weeds. There's this bush that has the longest roots ever and if you cut it, it just comes back so you must pull it out all the way. John Deere does that! Thank you lawn mower. It was a good day!

The other day, Crue had a play date with Isabell. She is his favorite girl friend of which he has many! Isabell's mom Eden and I found them laying in bed, hugging each other and watching Dora the Explorer! They're so cute together. Eden and I get into such deep conversations (about very important things such as poops, boogers and all that go with raising children) and we just assume all is well with our kids in the next room. Most of the time it is but I have learned that it's never too early to have the talk about not getting naked! Yeeeaaahhh! We've now had that talk! That's a perfect example of why Crue's shirt says, "I look like mom, I act like Dad!"

Addison is now 20 months old and she finally had her first hair cut! As you can see, her hair is still really short but it gets all crazy so we went for a trim. She sat so well for the whole thing, barely moved at all. She has beautiful little curls that go wild when her hair gets wet I typically put some product in it and it stays curly for an hour or so. Even the stylist commented on the cute curls and she asked me "How old is HE?" If you will note in her pics she is wearing a pink and white polka dot shirt and she has earrings. I do get it that she doesn't have that typical cute little girl look but that's why she wears the pink and the earrings. Yes, some day she maybe an Olympic weight lifter or shot putter or a sumo wrestler and she'll be great at it. Maybe the NFL will call and want her as a linebacker, you never know but for now she's my cute little girl. If the "He" comments continue I may resort to makeup or even a push up bra, who knows!!

Crue has been such an awesome big brother to Addi! She has learned so much from him and here's the proof! She gets frustrated when nothing comes out of her belly button!

Ok, so this is kind of creepy! Down here in AZ there are these insects that we call tarantula wasps. I don't know if that's their real name or that's just what we call them. We call them this because they prey on tarantulas, not for food but to lay their eggs in them. They sting and paralyze them and then they lay their eggs. I don't know if they die then or when the babies hatch and eat them. Anyways, we had never seen these wasps actually track down a tarantula and do this but in just the past 2 days we've seen it happen 3 times! Now I know why Josh would run like a little boy when he saw one of these wasps, they really freak me out now!