Finish this sentence: "I'm going to have..."

So I thought I would do another one of these posts because that was something I wanted to obviously do a bit ago (but again, I am a lazy blogger). So I thought in honor of my baby-to-be I would start the sentence that I was going to have a baby. So here is how Google finished those sentence in reverse order (for suspense of course!):

"I'm going to have..."

4. ...a bf

3. ...a coronary

2. ...to block you

1. ...tacos for dinner

Can I just say wow? I really thought baby would be in there somewhere. But I guess what really takes the cake is number one.

To understand why this is so popular you need to be up on current events and it all has to do with a pesky PR problem for one Mayor Joe Maturo of East Haven, Conn. I don't think the best response for what he was doing for the Latin American community was eating tacos for dinner. This incident did happen back in January, so I am surprised it is still that popular, but there you have it.

*My favorite is "to block you," I think we all think that when we have some relative who posts way too much personal information on Facebook.

I guess since it's New Year's day I should post...

This isn't a resolution or any indication I will blog more, but I wanted to write a little update so when I finally get around to blogging seriously I won't have so much to write.

Here are a few things that happened in 2011:

1. Kyle got an internship at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratory in May. He loves it and is doing very well there.
2. We found out in Sept that we were expecting a baby and found out it was a baby girl on Dec. 20. We are very excited and she is due to arrive on May 3.
3. In August we adopted the cutest dog on the planet named Charlie (well we named him Charlie), he is a mix between a long and short haired dachshund. We don't know his actual birthday, so we are saying he is two years old today :).
4. We've actually lived in a place for a full year now, very nice to not have to move.
5. We went to Cancun, Mexico, for Thanksgiving as a last big vacation before children join our family.

As you can see we have been very busy but mostly blessed this past year. 2012 is going to bring a lot of changes to our lives, but we are excited for the upcoming adventure.

I will try to blog more, but again no promises!

Finish this sentence..."How to make"

I've decided that with my newly expressed love for Google I would have a little fun with a reoccuring post (not sure how often) of "Finish this sentence" Basically I will start to type a phrase into Google's instant search and write down the top things...pretty simple and pretty darn hilarious!
And of course what fun is writing them down in order, they will instead be a countdown!

4. How to make a toga
3. " paper snowflakes
2. " pumpkin seeds
1. How to make Jello Shots!

So obivously I added the exclamation point, but isn't that funny, so there are thousands of people out there looking on Google how to make jello shots. Glad that Google was even there to help finish there sentence :)

Can I just SAY....I love the internet!

GOOGLE is amazing! So here I am just typing into my favorite search engine, Google (of course) that is what Edward uses *gush*) how to make my blog cute and yada yada and am like what is special in this day according to Google who has this nifty little picture




And I would like to think that my Humanities 101 class (thank you crazy Dr. Burns) has taught me at least to appreciate the more famous artists but looking at this picture I am just stumped as to who they might be alluding to. So of course I click on it and it is....Paul Cézanne! He is a French Impressionist artist that lead to an important art movement in the 19th century and that lead to something else artistically important.

So obviously art appreciation isn't my point, though I must point out that my knowledge of art is better than those who don't know Jackson Pollock (if you don't know any modern artist you should at the very least know who he is so you sound educated) but I find it just amazing that I was probably going to finish my night out watching Dr. Who (brilliant British television) and looking up tips on beautifying my blog and this little nugget of information literally falls on my lap in the form of electronic/internet digitalness.

What a glorious world we are living in that I can learn something new everyday of the year and not really have to pay anything for it and honestly not be looking for it but it finds me. I honestly feel so blessed to be born into a world that allows me to turn on a laptop and find information about Paul Cezanne and whoever else I feel like stalking or whoever feels like stalking me :)

First Entry and flying babies

Wow, I can't believe it has taken me this long to get on the blogging bandwagon. I guess I never really thought I needed one, but felt blog envy and so decided to start my own. If my blog looks ridiculous sometimes it's because I'm just trying out new things. I honestly never thought making my blog cute was going to be something hard, but then again I thought online classes were going to be easy.

But those are almost done so...maybe there is hope after all!


So the biggest thing on my mind today was child safety on airplanes. I know this may sound weird since I don't have children, but I do ride on planes and therefore have an opinion. As I was embarking on my long journey from Salt Lake City to Lewiston via Delta Connections I noticed a woman with a small child (probably 1 1/2 years old) sitting in a section that had to move her little boy onto her lap because she had only purchased one ticket because her child was "young enough" to sit on her lap for the entire flight. Luckily there were enough open seats that this woman could move and have two seats.

But this incident got me thinking about what would happen if a seat was not available for her child? If the child sat on her lap then it would not have a seat belt (which i don't think he was ever in) to protect him nor if something happened and we were to lose pressure, the child would not have one of those ceiling masks. To me it just didn't make sense.

It seems all of the laws we have in this country aim to protect our children, such as seat belt laws in automobiles before everyone had to buckle up it was just children. I mean what if the mother was holding her child and she was hit in the head and became unconscious? The baby would surely be thrown around, assuming the mother had been able to hold on to their child while remaining consciousness. Once I couldn't get on a plane that had a broken seat belt when I was 12, why would having a baby not in a seat belt any different?

Therefore I propose that airplanes should have to make it mandatory that one seat to every person (babies are people and usually more liked than most people, another reason they should be better protected). I understand that airlines are trying to win business in whatever way they can, and people are used to going to amusement parks and sporting events for free with children under a certain age. But in the airline business they are transporting things and people, and the child is still being transporting. I mean why do I have to pay to take a dog? I could probably have a dog sit on my lap the whole flight, have it be more content and be way less annoying.

I am going to see what I can do on this issue because though I had never thought about it before, it is so obvious now that I wouldn't be able to live with myself knowing I could have tried to protect the babies of America.