Day 12: Song Challenge

Day 12: a song from a band you hate 

Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man

I know I have different taste in music. At least Dale thinks a lot of my choices are weird... But either way, I cant stand this band. I am not sure why. The sound just bugs me. Or maybe its because they play the guitar with a violin bow... not sure. Either way I have no idea why so many people enjoy them...

Day 11: Song Challenge

Day 11: A song from your favorite band.

Brick By Boring Brick - Paramore

Day 10 Song Challenge

Day 10: A song that makes you fall asleep

Katie Costello - Isn't it Lovely

Just listen to it. I am 100% sure it will make you a little sleepy. And in the studio version there is a saxophone playing in the background... Even more snooze inducing.

Day 9 Song Challenge

Day 9: A song that you can dance to.
The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go

When I first heard this song I couldn't stand it. Then when it was a free download on iTunes either Dale or I got it. Now, I know this probably isn't the best song word wise to dance along with your kids to, with all the "shut-ups" but the girls and I love the beat and we hop and and down and dance around to it all the time! It really settles a grumpy mood to have a good dance session with my girlie's!

Day 8 Song Challenge

Day 8 Song Challenge: A song you know all the words to.

Bare Naked Ladies : one week

I know all the words to a lot of songs but it has taken me a week to figure out a song that's actually impressive that I can sing ll the way through.  Dale cant believe I can sing this fast. He still think I am just slurring noises to sound like I am doing it.

Sure its impressive but I'm not sure I should be proud ;)

Day 7 Song Challenge

Day 7: A song that reminds you of a certain event.
Natasha Bedingfield: These Words (I Love You)

This song reminds me of my honeymoon.
This song had just started playing on the radio and as we drove to and from Flagstaff and around Flagstaff we heard it a lot. Then one day we turned on the tv to MTV and this music video played. Every time we happened to turn the tv on, this music video was on. Dale was in love with it because he had only been home from his mission from Rio De Janeiro for 5 months and this video is shot on the Copacabana Beach! It honestly made him quite homesick to watch it. Still does....

Day 6: Song Challenge

Day 6: Song Challenge- A song that reminds you of somewhere.

I loosely translated this.
I haven't been much of anywhere and really the only song that reminds me of a place I have been is California by Phantom Planet.... I wasn't gonna go there, so this is what I came up with!

The Format- The First Single (you know me)

This song puts me back in time to two different places.
1. Driving around in high school with all my friends blasting this song (or any other Format song for that matter) as loud as we could with our windows down and clapping along with the song!

2. Neds Krazy Sub. I worked there for a couple years in high school and when I worked nights this song seemed to always be in rotation while we were closing up. It kept us active, moving and awake after a long night.

Day 5: Song Challenge

Day 5: A song that reminds you of someone.

Every time I hear this song I think of my best friend Ashley Mortensen that passed away just over 2 years ago. When the song first came out I remember her and I trying to figure out what the song meant. We came up with a lot of things. Most of the things we came up with made no sense. :)  Mostly we just tried to figure out if it was a good love song or otherwise... whatever that meant. 

Gravity: Sara Bareilles

And I am sort of in love with this video. So different.

Day 4: Song Challenge

Day 4: A Song that makes you sad.

The first time I heard this song I cried. More than I think I had with any song before. I think because I could relate so well with it. I heard this song and immediately felt like I was back in jr high. Awkward and hated by almost all those around me. Judged and threatened by anyone who would look at me. I spent those 3 years of my life hiding. There were a select few friends (and by select I mean 3 that I can name personally besides my family) that pulled me out of my slump and allowed me to be who I really was.

Marie Digby: Miss Invisible

Song Challenge- Day 3

Day 3: A song that makes you happy

If there is one song that can put a smile on my face, no matter what my mood, this is it.

Fun and quirky.

Song Challenge- Day 2

Day 2 of the song challenge: Your least favorite song.

"If you cant say nothin' nice, dont say nothin' at all"

Worst song EVER.
Wont post a video.
Wont even make you listen to it.

Just 3 words and I wont say anything else.

"Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"(Trace Adkins)

30 Day song Challenge - Day One

I Have seen this challenge on a few blogs and a little on facebook and I have been wanting to do it for a while so I am just gonna do it. I like the idea of trying to search through songs and trying to find songs that fit my definition of these subjects!

I have always been told that my taste in music is a little all over the place so you might be surprised by a lot of these and you might not. My friends, while I was in high school, would turn the radio on and try to stump me with different music.

Never worked. 

So here we go.

Day 01 – Your favorite song

Day 02 – Your least favorite song

Day 03 – A song that makes you happy

Day 04 – A song that makes you sad

Day 05 – A song that reminds you of someone

Day 06 – A song that reminds of you of somewhere

Day 07 – A song that reminds you of a certain event

Day 08 – A song that you know all the words to

Day 09 – A song that you can dance to

Day 10 – A song that makes you fall asleep

Day 11 – A song from your favorite band

Day 12 – A song from a band you hate

Day 13 – A song that is a guilty pleasure

Day 14 – A song that no one would expect you to love

Day 15 – A song that describes you

Day 16 – A song that you used to love but now hate

Day 17 – A song that you hear often on the radio

Day 18 – A song that you wish you heard on the radio

Day 19 – A song from your favorite album

Day 20 – A song that you listen to when you’re angry

Day 21 – A song that you listen to when you're driving

Day 22 – A song that you work out to

Day 23 – A song that you want to play at your wedding

Day 24 – A song that you want to play at your funeral

Day 25 – A song that makes you laugh

Day 26 – A song that you can play on an instrument

Day 27 – A song that you wish you could play

Day 28 – A song that makes you feel guilty

Day 29 – A song from your childhood

Day 30 – Your favorite song at this time last year

Day One:

My favorite song.

I have SERIOUS trouble trying to pin point my favorite song ever. Whenever someone asks me this question I always say "It depends." And that's true, it depends on the day it depends on at what point in my life you are asking me about but the other day I heard a song that I hadn't heard in a LONG time and I thought "I could listen to this song over and over again."

It sort-of surprised me.

And the original music video is sort-of really a tear jerker....

A Hole In A Rock

This post is so delayed.

I have been meaning to post this since..... well the day it happened.

Man, I stink at this.

The Saturday before Valentines Day, Dale took me to lunch then he took me on a hike to the Hole In The Rock. 

Its a small trail in Papago Park that leads you to a fun view from a..... hole in a rock. 

Self Explanatory.

Its a really easy hike and pretty short but it was still really fun to sit in it and look over the landscape and see part of the zoo. 

Its funny how everything looks so ground level from up high.

I didn't get a picture of it but from one angle you can see the flight tower, at the airport, stick out like a sore thumb while the rest of the airport looks like a tiny one story building. Then if you drive through the airport (like we do almost everyday) you feel so tiny compared to the huge buildings. I love to experience different vantage points.  

I look at these pictures and I notice how much my hair has grown since then. 

It makes me happy. Maybe my hair isn't growing as slow as I think it is...

This is about the first series of pictures Dale and I have of each other... ever. Dale and I are pretty good at taking pictures of the girls but when it comes to us, unless its family pictures, we prefer to stay out of them... We are getting better at taking the camera and hopefully we will be able to have record that Dale and I actually participated in our life. Haha 

We had a lot of fun on this date and we decided that we wanted to hike a lot more. On trails that actually pose some challenges as well! ;)

The weather was so nice that weekend and I am so glad we went.

The root of the problem

If you are a parent of a child who speaks, specifically a parent to the female gender, you know how often they are quiet: NEVER.

Riley is a girl and she is almost 5 and she has an amazing vocabulary for an almost 5 year old. The downside to this, like I said, she NEVER is quiet.

Whenever Dale and I even attempt to talk she starts calling Dale.

"DADDY! DADDY! DADDY!..." And once she finally gets his attention she will start making nonsense sentences up just so that she has something to say. Something like this....

"Well, Daddy! It was just the time that it was, don't you remember? or...
"Um, Daddy do you know what it was like all times ago? Ya. Ya you do."

or she will find something she isn't supposed to be doing and do it loud and proud. Today it was grabbing the pizza cutter off the table and running the blade INTO the table while Dale was talking to me and standing right in front of her cleaning off the table.

She has to be noticed. We thought it was a cry for attention from both Dale and I. Turns out it was just to get attention from one of us. Here's how that was proven.

"Daddy, why do you talk to Mommy?

Dale: "Because I want to"

Riley: No, you need to just talk to me.

There we go.....

"They" say that how children act, around the age Riley Bug is now, is a mirror image of how they act in their teenage years...

I wonder how much she will hate me then? ;)

Cant wait.

Case of the Cutes

This little girl has got a case of the cutes!

I just sneezed and she said

"Bess a Mommy"

With a HUGE smile on her cute little face!

She knew what she was saying smart little girl!

I cant believe how well she speaks sometimes! Its a little ridiculous for an 18month old!