another tag

YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)-cookie caravan

YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)-Strawberry Shortbread.

YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) -NPAI

YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)-. PINK BUNNY

YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)-Anita Gulfport

YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)- PAI NI


. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)-THE Yellow Shirley Temple

NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)- Ervin William

STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)-

Citrus Twizzlers


. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names )- Lynn August


. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)- Schecterle Seattle

SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)- Spring Hydrangea


. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)-

Orange Undie


HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)- Muffin Oak

YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)- The Drawing Rain

tagged

tagged by Niki...
How to play this game. Post these rules on your blog; List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5-6 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.



**Three Joys**

1. of course FAMILY

2. gospel

3. creating

nothing made me happier than Strawberry Shortcake dolls as a child so much that I have bought all the new ones for my girls and I like to play with them



**Three Fears**

1. tornadoes

2. losing my children (physically, emotionally, etc)

3. not enjoying my life as it is, regrets

When I was little my parents went a way to the temple and our babysitter let us watch HALLOWEEN, I am still afraid of Michael Meyers and used to think when I was taking a bath that sharks were going to break through and get me.



**Three Goals**

1. to have a happy family

2. find out who I am (not as a mother/wife) I think I have lost some of who I am b/c I have not put much effort into in the last 10 years of being a mommy

3. as always loose the 70 pounds I gained when pregnant with Anna



**Three Current Obsessions/Collections**

1. OCD of organizing and reorganizing the 5 million rubbermaid totes in my basement full of clothing/ and keepsakes

2. LOVE licorice and jalapenos(not together) my current cravings

3. baby girl clothes!!!

I do not like a lot of stuff in my house so do not collect anything!!



**Three Surprising Facts**

1. In Seminary I only missed 2 days for being in the hospital (10th grade), but had perfect attendance for all the other years (even when moving in 11th grade had to go that morning) and was a crazy scripture chase champion, this is surprising because I have no recollection of those scriptures and do not ever get out of bed that early.

2. I don't really like chocolate

3. I can still put my leg behind my head, very flexible


Since I do nto have sufficient bloggy buddies to tag the said quota feel free to do this, I'd love to read them!

more random stuff

In order to have joy, you need to understand that, as a child of your Heavenly Father, you inherited divine traits and spiritual needs—and just like a fish needs water, you need the gospel and the companionship of the Holy Ghost to be truly, deeply happy. Because you are the offspring of God (see Acts 17:28), it is incompatible with your eternal nature to do wrong and feel right. It cannot be done. It is part of your spiritual DNA, as it were, that peace, joy, and happiness will be yours only to the degree you live the gospel.
Marcus B. Nash

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Found these two quotes on some blog & really liked them for various reasons, and am posting them for myself b/c I cannot find a pen to write them down.

Not much excitement going on in the Painter household lately...we went to my least favorite place today Wal*Mart, I needed a few things but No granny Smith apples, and they were out of the diapers I needed??!!! Nope, no Pampers size 4's anywhere to be found.Good thing I did not just have the diapers that were on my children's bodies as usual, or else I may have gone crazy! and then I of course get upset because Sam is not potty trained, and I make he and Nolan wear the same size diaper, and think if I do not get this together I will have THREE kids in diapers at the same time...that is not their fault. I usually have this problem of not finding things in stock when buying Sam's formula, I may go to 3-4 stores until I find it in stock and I do tend to get a bit flustered when this happens. Wal*Mart serves it's purpose for me as it is a bunch cheaper , I was somewhat impressed that they gave the store a "makeover" in what seemed like overnight, but now when I go, I do not know where anything is which adds to my growing contempt of the place!!!

I would prefer to get necessities at Target, and grocery shop at the best grocery in the whole wide world WEGMANS. When we lived in Erie and lived off the government for 4 years it was the only place I would shop and thought I was so cool and elite (kind of a contridiction when you get gov't assistance). So now I am back to the yellow smiley face sticker pushers and the one I am closest to is a bit well, the people that shopped at my Wegmans are certainly not shopping at this Wal*Mart.

I would almost prefer to not shop at all because I may have all my kids with my and it takes forever, Or I am by myself (rarely) and feel like I need to rush, & along with the crowds, missing stock, rude people, lines, etc. it is not always so enjoyable.

So you'd think with my feel good quotes I would be over somethings, but no I have to get the mindless nonsense out of my head and I have nobody to talk to since Chris took the kids to the movies. I think I sometimes prefer to do nothing when left alone, but feel I should be doing something productive. I think I will take a bath and go to bed early, it won't be long before I am back to sleepless nights.

Road Side Stand

the first "fruits" from our garden...and some chicken eggs too. We have since beat the previous zucchini record with a 16 incher. Apparently we are waiting too long to pick them. Anyone have any good zucchini recipes? All I have made is bread/muffins. and all the cucumber salad you can eat, so what else can you do with cucumbers? I am going to try canning some dill pickles this week with our pickling cukes. We are not Amish, but have toyed around with the idea of the kids selling stuff.

Discovery Museum

Emma on the train

I see everyone is taking a break, except Sam still hard at work

Shrimp Boat

While in Mississippi we went to the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center...kids pretend to fly on a plane, arrive in Mexico (last time it was China), work and dress up in an old fashioned hotel, shop in a grocery store, work at a news station, ride a train, go on a shrimp boat, etc. etc. They always have so much fun

some Florida highlights

Nollie, the crazy water baby. he tans so well too.

Only the sand for Sam

Jakob's sleep over with cousin Blake, they loved watching t.v. in the room

Jakob preferred the pool to the beach

at the marine life gift shop

found this restaurant in Panama City

she still hasn't caught up on this!

pretty ladies

all tuckered out!

view from the balcony in our room

the beach house at Grayton Beach FL

No place like home

Happy to be back in our own home, finally cleaned the house today...the plane ride was okay. I was stressed about being late and thanks to jessica for the ride!!!, we got to the gate with about 20 minutes because checking in a ton of luggage (thanks to the stangers who helped me out), getting through security (and took me awhile to fold up our new stroller) and such takes awhile! There was no plane, we got on about 20 minutes after scheduled take off time and fianlly we pulled out, only what is the plane doing it is going back!!??? a light came on, that is a bit scary so that had to get checked out and then a lightning storm came so we sat on the plane for an hour+++ until we took off. all the kids were good, except Nolan who cried for about 45 minutes, he did fall asleep though and nobody was rude or anything. Thank you to Chris who got out of the hospital a few hours before picking us up.
I am now needing to get to the grocery store because the cupboards are bare!!