Who I am

I think I should introduce myself. I have a husband, who I adore. He really is awesome. He is funny and kind and witty and a very hard worker. He knows how to put people at ease, therefore he is usually well liked. He is a great dad, the kids love him, (although they love me more-just ask them, I do on a regular basis (I need the self esteem boost)). He is my best friend, I could go on and on but will undoubtedly write more about him later. We like things to be orderly so we decided on the 2 year plan for family expansion. We have 5 kids 10, 8,6,4,2. 3 of which are boys and 2 girls. My children are my whole life ( I am actually crying now thinking about how to describe them) they truly are wonderful. I have been blessed beyond belief. I live in a smallish town in Utah. My husband works at some computer type of job that fascinates him and bores me. He likes it and is very good at it. I stay home. My job is to take care of the kids and the house - sometimes I do it sometimes I don't. We have never had a major catastrophe on my watch so I guess I do a passable job. As for how I feel about it, I love it. I wouldn't trade it for anything. If I had to have a job I think I would be a cpa or a nurse or a travel agent. But I hope never to have a job. I love staying home with my kids and have enough to do that I linger on the edge of insanity, adding a job would probably push me over that edge. Also I don't like to be told what to do, (Unfortunately this is one of the few traits my children have inherited from me.) so having a boss wouldn't work well for me. So for those reasons my chosen profession is a stay at home mom. I have 4 brothers, 1 sister, 5 sister in laws, 1 brother-in-law and two of the best parents ever. I was mostly raised in Oregon, lived in Arizona for about 18months, then moved on to go to school at BYU. My plan was to graduate, get married and move away from Utah. Accomplished the first 2, still working on the third. I think I should clarify this. I really like Utah. The mountains are beautiful, there are lots of great outdoorish things to do here. I have wonderful neighbors and friends. I have liked my kids school experiences so far. Except for a couple little things like the ocean is far away and it is- Utah - I really like living here. I am going to have to ponder the topic of why Utah isn't my the place I want to spend my entire life and get back to you on that one because in all sincerity I don't know - I just know it is not. My family is spread out all over the country, this is one of the parts of my life I regret the most I love each of them and would love to be near them all - but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I teach the CTR 6 class at church, which I like, and am the bear den leader, which I love. As for hobbies and talents, I have some hobbies and since I believe God blessed us all with talents I haven't given up searching for mine. I love to run. I am not good at it at all, but I really enjoy it. It makes me feel free, and strong and happy. Last year I ran a marathon - it was a very long ways but I finished it and am very proud to have done so. I also like to read, travel, camp, hike, swim, snorkel, and pretty anything done outside I enjoy. Except skiing - I don't do anything where I put myself on a slippery surface. With this list of hobbies you could assume I am a reasonably healthy, trim woman - which might be true if I didn't have such a passion for food. I love to eat, when it comes to food I have absolutely zero self control. Someday I might be brave enough to post a picture of me, I probably should because I have often heard that peoples imaginations tend to be worse than the real thing. Like when a scary movie never shows the monster, it is always just lurking right out of view forcing the viewer to imagine what it looks like. And usually the imagination comes up with something far more hideous than it really is. So I think I will post a picture of myself. I will have to get my husband to take one of me (he is a photographer - kind of) I am not really all that old, but not that young either. That is about it.

I decided to post the scariest most unflattering picture I could find of myself. I have learned that to avoid disappointment you should always set your expectations low. This way if you ever actually see me you may be pleasantly surprised.