The Tag Thing...

I've been tagged. Here goes:

Name Five Things You were doing Ten years ago:

1. Living in Ft.Collins, Colorado
2. doing home health care
3. went to Cayman Islands with my sisters, Bev and Renee (thanks, Bev!)
4. driving a leased '97 Nissan Altima (another one of our dumb financial decisions)
5. hanging out with Anne, Crystal, and Eric most of the time.

Name Five Things you were doing FIVE years ago:

1. living in West Des Moines, Iowa
2. getting excited for my parents to come help celebrate Brooks' TWO year birthday!
3. living in Sun Prairie Apts. (ick)
4. working part-time at Mercy Hospital in the PACU
5. driving a 95 Honda Passport that we bought from Geoff's mom (notice it's five years later..and we're driving a car SEVEN years old..we're learning!)

Name Five things you were doing ONE year ago:

1. Just finding out I was pregnant with Greyson.
2. pondering ways to break it to the fam!
3. getting excited for my parents to come celebrate Brooks' SIX year, and Reagan's THREE year birthdays from Montana.
4. volunteering in Brooks' kindergarten class
5. painting my kitchen for the fourth time

Name five jobs you've held:

1. Very first job was at TCBY (we got one free small yogurt per shift...yummy White Chocolate Mousse!)
2. worked as a dietary aid in a nursing home with my highschool buddies
3. Parkview Nursing home as an activities assistant for the Alzheimer's patients in their locked unit....interesting.
4. ER and PACU tech
5. massage therapist

Name Five of your favorite snacks:

1. Baked Cheetos
2. 94% fat free microwave popcorn....100 cal bags
3. fat free vanilla pudding snacks
4. bananas
5. Diet A&W Rootbeer (we're both addicts as of late...it's a sickness around here...don't get started on it!)

Name Five things you did yesterday:

1. went to a mom's prayer thingy for the kids/staff at Brooks' school.
2. ran (more like trotted) 3 miles on the trail in the cool air a through some leaves
3. bought groceries at Fareway
4. two loads of laundry.....grr...
5. talked on the phone to friends/(and Bev, and my mom)

Name Five things you'd do with a million dollars:

1. pay off student loans/medical school loans
2. buy a house for my mom and dad..and pay Geoff's mom's house off.
3. do some serious upgrades to the sorry wardrobes of Geoff and I (the kids get all the cool stuff around here)
4. take a vacation with just Geoff and I sans kids (never been done)
5. bless random strangers with buying their dinner, paying for their groceries/gas...stuff like that...

Name Five things I hate doing:

1. when I don't control my tongue and give in to gossiping/complaining.
2. loosing my temper with my kids
3. moving
4. emptying the dishwasher
5. waking up in the night and not be able to fall back asleep

Name Five shows I like:

1. The Office
2. Grey's Anatomy (now on at the same time as the Office...conspiracy!)
3. almost anything on HGTV
4. Oprah..usually
5. When Beth Moore comes on Wednesday mornings

Name Five of the Biggest joys of my life:

1. being married to Geoffrey...it just keeps getting better and better...really!
2. being close to God
3. being a mom to Brooks, Reagan, and Greyson...and being able to stay home with them full-time
4. decorating the house
5. shopping/getting my hair done/massages/getting my nails done/being DONE with exercise for the day/eating out/my great girlfriends.....I could go on!

Name Five People to "Tag"

1. Christie Wall
2. Rebecca Cannon
3. Athena Grady
4. Laura McCarragher
5. Corey Ward