Kristie's 8 Things

8 TV shows/movies I like to watch...
1. Reading Rainbow
2. Desperate Landscapes
3. Dog Whisperer
4. American Idol
5. General Conference every 6 months
6. Anne of Green Gables...it was on every Monday as a kid, and we'd watch it for family night as a family
7. ?? I don't watch much tv
movies:
1. Little Women--best ever, I watch it for comfort, I love sisters (and I love you, too, Ryan, but that movie would be like Rocky or something)
2. Ichabod and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow cartoon at Halloween
3. Charlie Brown the Mayflower Voyagers at Thanksgiving
4. Mickey's Christmas Carol at Christmas
5. Fried Green Tomatoes--I love good stories about lives of people
6. A Beautiful Mind -music is great, because of Todd's mom, how the wife stayed with him through it all
7. The Village at Halloween- i love the "time period" (fake, I know), and the scene of the two of them on the porch at night
8. Harry Potter--my favorite is number 5, then 3
9. Les Miserable--the one with Claire Danes and Liam Neeson


8 Favorite Books:
1. Harry Potter-still dream about it. I can't believe what a good writer she is, and how I was so...hmm...what's the wording...drawn in like it was real
2. Organic Gardening (my gardening Bible)
3. Vineyard Seasons by Susan Branch that Nana in CA gave Kathy, who gave to me
4. The de Roque Family book
5. The Story of my Life by Helen Keller
6. A Christmas Carol
7. You are Special by Max lucado
That's all the books I've read in my whole life

8 Things that happened Yesterday....
1. Went to dinner with mom, todd and the kids, Ryan and Shannon and David at Sundance Ski Resort--very nice!
2. Got a flat tire in the van and listen to the Onstar idiot call Todd (who was already very mad) "ma'am" every time he talked to him (about 3 or 4 times)
3. took a nap
4. took Rocket on a car walk
5. got Katherine dressed-my favorite part of the day
6. looked for Katherine's bag of bows for a long time, never found them
7. helped mom and todd put away the stuff from our trip and clean up
8. ate Halloween candy

8 Favorite Places to Eat...
1. Where Todd is cooking
2. Tsing Tao in Payson
3. PF Chang's
4. The Roof
5. The restaurant we ate at yesterday at Sundance was very good
6. Kerry's 7. Allison's... they are both great cooks
8. anywhere there is great food and good atmosphere

8 Things I'm Looking Forward to...
1. Thanksgiving Day and doing activities to celebrate all month
2. Day after Thanksgiving shopping
3. California trip...seeing my family and doing fun things
4. Christmas Day and doing activities to celebrate all month
5. my family updating their blogs
6. updates about the Neilsons
7. Todd's dinner tonight-- salmon with a peach sauce that's SO good and ECLAIRS for dessert!
8. People emailing me-- I love to get emails!

8 Things on my Wish List...
1. new carpet
2. unlimited money to do my backyard into a beautiful garden sanctuary, then unlimited money to make my house a beautiful, cozy, indoor sanctuary
3. unlimited money for traveling (while I'm wishing, I might as well wish for unlimited money for everything...)
4. Rocket didn't shed and Todd liked Rocket
5. It turned to spring the end of January
6. No one worried about their weight or beauty... everyone was pretty and the perfect weight
7. Really bad things didn't happen to people
8. Todd didn't have to work and could be home with us all day
8 1/2. That I lived on a farm with a lot of land in a 100 year old beautiful house that had no problems ever

8 Things I'm happy about right now
1. It's raining and lightening right now and I'm inside my warm house watching it
2. I was just snuggling with Baby Katherine and she fell asleep
3. My kids are the perfect age and say such cute things and I get to teach them every day
4. I'm happy and healthy
5. I have the best husband in the world
6. I own a house, Todd has a good job
7. Nathan is talking to me ("the guy that doesn't have a ponytail is 10 cents, and this (in his hand) is a quater and is 25 cents" the rain stopped--"Great. I farted. No more rain")
8. I live in the USA

8 People I tag...
1. Todd
2. Allison
3. Kerry
4. Mom
5. Dad
6. Tawnya
7. Alex
8. Nathan