Responding to a tag

My cousin, Kim, tagged me quite awhile ago. I always meant to respond, but I haven't yet. Mason is sleeping in this morning...so here it is:

The rules of the game should be posted at the beginning of the post. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

So here are 6 facts/habits about Kristalyn:

1. Whenever there are brownies, cookies, cake or anything like that in the house in the morning, I have an uncontrollable compulsion to eat them for breakfast. This unfortunate compulsion started when I was very young, I can still remember eating birthday cake for breakfast the day after any birthday in my house. I do this despite the fact that I ALWAYS feel sick afterwards. I usually don't even like to eat donuts too early in the morning 'cuz the sugar just makes me feel so gross. I don't know why I have to have cookies and brownies for breakfast, just 'cuz they are sitting there, old habits die hard, I guess!

2. In high school, a friend and I kept track in the back of our Writer's Ink books how many times we said "hi" to different boys.

3. On my wedding day, after the ceremony in the temple, we took the usual pictures outside on the temple grounds. Because my wedding dress did not have pockets, my mom held on to my recommend and locker key for me. We both forgot about this fact, and when it came time for my mom to go home to prepare for the rest of the day, we didn't think anything of it. Not until it was time for me to go back into the temple and change for the picnic lunch that David's family was hosting. Despite the fact that I had just gotten married in the temple, and David and I was in what was obviously a wedding atire, they would not let me back in without my recommend. My parents were unreachable at that time, so I was taken into the side office and told that I had to call my branch president. All of the emotions of the day and the stress of what was happening made me start to cry. This, apparently, was the right thing to do because as soon as the temple workers saw that, they decided to just let me through. I went back to the changing room and it was obvious that I had been crying...all of the nice ladies back there probably thought I had been left by my groom or something. Luckily there was a master key that let me get into my locker.

4. When I was a couple months pregnant with Mason, I was on a business trip for my work. I still hadn't told anyone at work that I was pregnant, and for the most part, I was feeling fine. The trip was actually a sales trip, and as good salesmen usually do, the one that I was working with took the customers out to a fancy restaurant, and I got to come. I had duck with this really good sauce and I ate the whole thing, plus dessert. On the way home, I immediately regretted that decision. I normally have a tendency to be carsick, but when I'm pregnant, it's magnified by at least 100. Of course, the drive home was not smooth and had a lot of stops and turns. I told the sales guy, who was driving, that I think I was going to be sick and asked if we could pull over. If that wasn't embarrassing enough, it took a while to find a spot to pull over, and so I had to unroll the window to avoid making a mess. When the sales guy saw this...he immediately swerved to the nearest parking lot. In the process, he hit the backside of a big truck and bashed out the headlights of the rental car we were using. He is a nice guy and never mentioned the incident again...but I was soooo embarrassed!

5. In college, I never really watched anything on television. I was nerd and if I had time to watch tv, I would rather use it to study chemistry or something. I thought that since I got through 4 years of not caring about tv, I could do it the rest of my life. I have to admit that I do try never to miss the shows: House, Criminal Minds, Journeyman (newly added this season), and NCIS.

6. Right now, I'm taking a course to become a medical transcriptionist. If all goes well, I'll start early next year helping out with our income by doing this.


OK...I would be interested to know about any one...if you're reading it and feel so inclined, you're tagged....but especially: Penny, Lauren and Alisa. :)

Killer Geese

So today, Mason and I decided to walk around the lake. Seriously, the weather reminded me of summer time. I didn't have a jacket, but I was getting hot! I can't believe this warm weather, but I'm not complaining! Anyways, we hadn't been for awhile and were pretty surprised to see that the water level had gone WAAAAAYYYYY down. At first, I assumed it was because we haven't gotten hardly any moisture in the past couple months, but then I saw a sign that explained that they are draining part of the lake to do improvement projects or something like that.

Well, Mason loves to feed the ducks and even though we hadn't been there in awhile, he totally remembered. This time was a little different than usual though. Here is a picture of us feeding the ducks back in September:

My dear friend Nikki took the last picture for us, so I just have to include a picture of her and Mason. (Lots of my blog readers will recognize her).

Here is the same dock today....

I didn't get a picture from the same angle, but hopefully you can tell. It kind of reminded me of being at the beach. Mason and I saw some other people walking by the shore, so we decided to go too.

It just about made Mason's week to go exploring in this new place.

As soon as we got the bread out, we were swarmed by geese and ducks! I was startled by how close they came. They were not shy at all. I actually got kind of spooked 'cuz it felt like they were going to attack us, so I scooped up an unwilling Mason and we finished feeding them on the dock. :)

Here they are getting closer and closer. I snapped this picture as I was quickly backing away (okay, maybe running away) from them.

Here is Mason looking at the ducks from a safer vantage point. :)

We stayed for a pretty long time, and Mason never got bored of it. When it was finally time to go, he threw the hugest fit! He's been doing that a lot lately. He screamed and cried all of the way back to the car and I had a really hard time putting him in his car seat 'cuz he was arching his back and would sit down. He fell asleep before we got home, so I know part of it was that he was so tired.

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year! Mason was able to carve pumpkins, enjoy two trunk-or-treats, go trick-or-treating with his cousins, and of course, enjoy some candy. Here are some pictures of the festivities:

The past couple of days, we have had a different schedule and so on the day of our ward's trunk-or-treat, it finally caught up with Mason and he took a late nap. He didn't get a chance to eat dinner before it started, so here he is with David, eating a sandwich in the foyer before he stuffed himself with candy.










This was about the only time he would walk, I think all of the hordes of eager children were a little too much for him, so David carried him around to the different trunks.

On Halloween, David's mom called and asked us if we wanted to come to their trunk-or-treat. She is also in Diana's ward, and Diana had invited us before, as well. It was fun to see Mason's cousins and Grandma Ford there! Diana lent me her wagon, which Mason loves, so he got to be pulled around to all of the trunks this time.
















We are so glad that Mason and Levi are so close in age, they already have a fun time playing with each other!






After trunk-or-treat, we went to both Grandma and Grandpas' houses. Here Mason is with Grandpa Barker. He was also able to go around the block with his cousins and do some real live trick-or-treating. Mason enjoyed this immensely more than the crowded, crazy trunk-or-treats!











Unfortunately, David had to work late, so he missed the trick-or-treating. :( When we got home, we found that he was waiting for us and had lit the jack-o-lanterns! Mason was pretty excited about this!















It was so funny, he just kept patting his owl pumpkin.

Here Mason is the next day, surrounded by all of our pumpkins. He has his favorite Halloween treat in his mouth, a dum-dum sucker.