Christmas!

We had a wonderful chirstmas full of fun and food and sledding!

Molly Smiles

She's one!

Molly Flynn is a year old! I can't believe it. Time flies when you're counting firsts.

October 22nd 2007


October 22nd 2008

Update

I haven't updated in a while so here it is. I'm back in school and may actually graduate finally in the spring. I'm working as a model every now and then at Minnesota State University.
Liam has started School and is doing really well with his numbers and letters and stuff. And has started reading.
Harry isn't really sure what to do with himself all day without Liam. But he has gymnastics on Thursdays and is loving it. We are still negotiating the potty training thing.
Molly is crawling all over the place and working on standing. She says Dada, Mama, Harry, and Amanda (weird I know) and she thinks she is the funniest thing ever. I can't believe she'll be a year old in a month.

Go to Youtube and search adkinsjm for a handful of videos of us.

Me

Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. Movie theatre
2. Nanny
3. Victoria's Secret
4. Mommy

Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. The Village
2. Toy Story (1 and 2)(Does it have to be by choice)
3. The R.M.
4. Aladdin

Four Places you have (are) lived (ing):
1. Pine Jct. Colorado
2. Las Vegas, Nevada
3. Orem, Utah
4. Frazee, Minnesota

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. CSI
2. The Office
3. Heros
4. America's next top model

Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Disneyland
2. Walt Disney World
3. Utah
4. Las Vegas

Four Notes on the Treble Clef:
1. F#
2. A
3. C
4. Eb

Four websites I visit daily:
1. Mormonchic.com
2. spinoff sisters
3. camfrog
4. craig's list

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Manderine chicken salad
2. waffles
3. cereal
4. hawaiian sweet rolls

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. A nice resturant with my honey
2. A medeocre resturant with my honey
3. A fastfood resturant with my honey
4. I can't say this last one in mixed company (ask me later honey)

Four times of the day:
1. The first scream of the morning (usually around 7:30a.m.)
2. the first time Liam asks if it's lunch time yet (about 5 minutes after breakfast)
3. time to get the kids ready to leave the house
4. time to actually leave the house (around 2 hours later)

Four songs you would want played at your funeral:
1. Night on bald mountain (Moussorgsky)
2. Purple people eater
3. Itsy Bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini
4. The Animaniacs theme song

Four cars you've owned:
1. Chrysler E-class(black)
2. Geo Metro(red)
3. Ford Contour(light blue)
4. Chevy Cavalier(ugly)

Four concerts you've been to:
1. Bryan Adams (with Aaron)
2. Chicago (with Aaron)
3. Rush (with Aaron)
4. Squarrel Nut Zippers (with Aaron)

The Fantastic Four:
1. Jason
2. Liam
3. Harrison
4. And Molly!

Four people of the opposite sex you've kissed:
1. Sean Robertson
2. Jason Adkins
That's it.

Four celebrities you've had (have) crushes on:
1. Heath Ledger
2. Ewan McGregor
3. Alexis Denisof
4. Darkwing Duck

Four favorite breakfast foods:
1. Cookie crisp cereal
2. French Toast
3. Waffles
4. slimfast

Four characters in the Greek Alphabet:
1. Alpha
2. Beta
3. Gamma
4. Delta

Four nicknames you've been called:
1. Amanda-Panda
2. the innocent
3. Snicker -doodle
4. Others I can't say

Four children or teenagers you'd most want to hang out with right now:
1. Julia's girls
2. Tommy
3. Myself as a child
4. Jason as a teenager

Four horsemen of the apocalypse:
1. Teething
2. weaning
3. Potty-Training
4. Bedtime

Four places you'd like to retire to:
1. Ireland
2. New Zealand
3. My own secluded compound in the wilderness
4. My bed

Four things you'd like to change about the world:
1. People's priorities
2. eliminate cars
3. movie prices
4. cost of living

Four things you can't live without:
1. Family
2. blankets
3. a bathtub
4. air

Four jobs you'd like to have:
1. Movie watcher
2. inventor of new math
3. ice cream taster
4. baby washer

We are finally settled

Here we are in beautiful Frazee, Minnesota. We are completely unpacked, pictures on the walls, and most everything has a place to be. We have joined the community center in Detroit lakes (or DL as people here call it) and our branch has welcomed us with open arms.
Jason is loving his job, and the kids are enjoying have a room just for there toys.
As soon as my new camera comes I'll get some pictures up.

Jason is starting his new life

Jason left today for Minnesota. He starts work on Thursday. The kids and I are on our own until June. So, so sad for us. But yay for starting our life. It's about stinkin' time.

Graduation!!!!

He did it! He did it!

Moving

We are moving to Minnesota!
http://www.visitdetroitlakes.com/
So far we have no place to live, but Jason starts work for the Detroit Lakes Tribune on May 1st.
We are going to have to invest in snow boots.

Just like Daddy

Molly likes her Coke!

What candy am I?

Gummy Bears

You may be smooshie and taste unnatural, but you're so darn cute.

What Kind of Candy Are You?

I am kinda Smooshie!

My name

What Amanda Means

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are confident, self assured, and capable. You are not easily intimidated. You master any and all skills easily. You don't have to work hard for what you want. You make your life out to be exactly how you want it. And you'll knock down anyone who gets in your way! You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row. You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace. People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Most of those things are true whith the exeption of knocking people down who get in my way. A polite "excuse me" works just fine.
I'm not sure I'm very confident or aggressive either.

Happy endings, or realistic?

I've been an avid reader since I was a kid, I've read a lot of what would probably be considered "Fairy tales" meaning the story no matter how normal it seems really has no basis in reality. I think it may have messed up my perception of the real world. I always expected to have a passionate romance, that we would overcome all odds to be together etc. etc.

The problem is: realistic endings are totally depressing. When no matter how much the couple loves each other they just aren't able to be together and they wind up heartbroken.
Although, happy endings can also be depressing because it sounds so wonderful and it's sad that the world isn't that way.

Maybe I should just watch some mindless television.

Random thoughts

How cute is a button?
Is it a compliment to be the "Spitting" image of someone?
Why do men say while watching sports "oh, that's it. It's all over" but then they keep watching for 30 minutes?
Why does a football game with only 60 minutes of actual play time take 4 hours to watch?
Why do such small babies take up so much space?!

And finally. How cute are these kids?!