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Emily called me last night to tell me I had won a Design Mom giveaway. Hot dog! There were over 600 comments, but I won $150 to Zutano Clothing. I am really really excited.
I've been blogging about a year. Sometimes I check people's blogs like it's my job, so I guess you could say I just got my first paycheck. Not even close to minimum wage, but oh well.
Thanks Design Mom! (She is doing four giveaways a day all this week, so go enter!)
Angela tagged me. I am going to list 6 things about Jamie instead of me, though. He's more interesting than I. (Please ignore me in that picture. All of our photos are in a box somewhere.)
1. Jamie swallows every piece of gum he puts in his mouth within 30 seconds of entry. In other words: Don't share your gum with him.
2. If you need a haircut, your car fixed, dinner cooked, the history of WWII explained, a piece of furniture constructed, clothes mended, a picture painted, or a precise budget calculated, Jamie is your man.
3. Jamie is my own personal Survivorman/Bear Grylls. Sometimes he gets teased about it, but if you are stuck in the wilderness you want to be with him. He knows everything about survival. Seriously.
4. He went on an LDS mission to Singapore, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka, learned some Mandarin, and came back in love with Asian culture. When we were first dating I saw that my phone number in his cell phone was labeled "Abby shi mei li." It took me days to figure out that it meant, "Abby is beautiful." He's a keeper.
5. Jamie cannot end a conversation very well. I try to teach him but he thinks it is rude that I'm like, "Ok, bye."
6. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say this, but one of his favorite movies is Pride and Prejudice. We love watching it together and laughing at Mr. Collins. Then his other favorite movie is probably something like Bourne Identity, so it's all good.
Yeah for Jamie!
After months of shopping around and being all-around indecisive, we bought a Canon Elph today in 7 minutes flat. Probably an impulse buy, but I don't care. I am so excited to use this puppy. Emily and Steve, be glad to know that your Christmas pictures will be taken with this, rather than a mid-90s piece of junk.
{photo by kelly mccaleb}which is funny because I don't like Moby at all. We get it Moby, you sing bass. Rufus is wonderful. Sean Lennon is handsome. This song is kind of moving for me. Don't know why.
Jamie and I hate taking pictures. We look at photos and say, "Oh, that's what I look like. Hmm." I guess we think we are better looking than we are. (Is that pride or is that low self-esteem?) But we take lots of pictures in this family anyway, because I love how photographs capture memories so wonderfully and become art too.
The lovely Kelly McCaleb took our photos last weekend and did a fantastic job. The girl's got talent. I'm officially obsessed with some of the pictures of the kids. And I've already made a mental note that the Ramona Quimby, Age 8 haircut isn't working for me. Check.
Here are some of my favorites.
Margaret Thatcher. Prime Minister of England 1979-1990.
I just won this piece by Mark Elliot. I love it. His wife is giving away a ton of his art. I think she'll be doing more. Check it out.
Formula for getting things done (like that laundry all over the floor):
Pearl started laughing for the first time last night!
I am so grateful to know that my daughter hasn't inherited my hated silent laugh.
