Niner Niner

So I have been tagged on one of those list things. I really enjoy reading them on other peoples blogs so here we go...

9 TV shows I watch:
1- Monk
2-The Office
3- Life
4- Eli Stone
5-Private Practice
6-Grey's Anatomy
7-House
8-America's Funniest Home Videos
9- One Tree Hill (Taren, you are not the only one ...)

9 Favorite Restaurants:
1-Olive Garden - love salad, breadsticks, and can always find something good
2-Carinos - love the bread and dip
3-Garcias- bean dip is the best
4-Original Thai -a recent favorite
5-Jimmy Johns -best sandwiches
6- T.G.I.Fridays -brownie obsession is to die for!
7-Wingers -warning: sticky fingers are addicting
8-Burger King -favorite burger joint
9- Del Taco -This one is for Ryan, and it is my favorite taco/ mexican fast food place

9 things I did yesterday:
1-Finished the final copy of our primary program
2-Went swimming at Heise Hot Springs
3-Cooked dinner
4-Laundry
5-Blog surfing - found out I was tagged
6-Visited with Grandma Benson, Marcia & Richard
7-Played with Luke
8-Visited with Aaron, Audra and kids - it was so fun to have them stay with us for the night
9-Watched part of the new Indiana Jones - I fell asleep during the middle

9 things I am looking forward to:
1-Halloween - I have never had a kid to dress up and show off!
2-Going to Europe to visit Liz and return to Germany
3-Getting back in shape and running my first road race in a long time
4-A full nights sleep- still working on the whole "sleep training" thing
5-A white Christmas
6-Seeing our quadruplets again - ...someday, not too soon
7-Our next family gathering
8-Summer
9-Knitting my first article of clothing - I am starting with dish rags

9 things on my wish list:
1-a piano and lessons
2-a chariot stroller w/ all the attachments - and the means and time to use them all
3-More kids
4-A dog that uses the toilet for things other than drinking - I have heard of potty trained cats , why not a dog?
5-A perfect wardrobe that I didn't have to shop for - o.k. maybe just something that fits my constantly changing body shape
6-A landscaped yard - not that dirt, rocks and weeds aren't nice...
7-Trackside ticket to a world championship track meet
8-Electrolysis - how great would it be not to have to shave your legs?
9-To find balance in my life

9 things I am scared of:
1-Losing Ryan and/or Luke
2-Raising a child in our world today
3-Snakes, spiders and rodents - pretty much anything creepy or crawly
4-That I will forget all my German - thinking about a Rosetta stone refresher course
5-Cancer, arthritis and ingrown toenails
6-Not ever getting all my photos organized - since Luke was born I take them way faster then I can organize them
7-Drowning
8-Not living up to my potential
9-That I will never learn to ski well

I am supposed to now tag 9 people. I tag Adriana, Elizabeth, Kellie, Alisha, Sarah Cook, Danielle, Deidre, Natalie, and Sandi.

I was looking at our past posts and saw that I had missed some comments. Thank you for the comments, they are so fun to read. One was from Alisha asking for an updated family picture of the Benson Clan. So all of you who knew my family back in the day here they are as of last February (Emily's wedding) .

Top L to R: Josh, Me, Peter, Liz, Matthew, Deborah, Michael, Aaron. Bottom L to R: Tamy, Mom, Emily, Dad, Angie (In case you don't recognize them all)

I will leave you a picture of Luke. We have been trying to practice sitting up and this was one of his attempts.


As you can probably guess it quickly turned into this: