The BIG 100!

This is my 100th post! Woo! To celebrate, I thought I would list 100 random things about ME! Haha-totally kidding-please keep reading. I don't have 100 interesting things about me. SO, I decided to write 100 (short-I promise!) random things about Kaden and Lexi. I will throw in some about Shane and I...just to keep mixing things up. :) Here ya go!

1) Kaden was born Sept. 10, 2007 (so, 9/10/07). I thought it would be awesome to have Lexi on Dec. 13, 2008 (12/13/08) and stick with the continuous numbers thing. She decided to come on 12/12 at 11:29 PM instead, though. (SO CLOSE!) I think 12/12 is still pretty cool, though, right?
2) We decided on Kaden's name (Kaden Shane) on July 4th. I decided on Alexandria's name a year before I met Shane.
3) Kaden is a cuddle bug! I love it! And a momma's boy (which I also love, but Shane gets jealous and wants Kaden to be a daddy's boy...haha).
4) Lexi is ALWAYS happy. Seriously-even during shots she smiles at the mean nurses. When she got her ears pierced, she was sad for all of ten seconds, then pasted that gorgeous smile back on. :D
5) Kaden was 6 lbs. 9 oz. and 19 inches. Lexi was 6 lbs. 5 oz. and 19 1/2 inches. In all fairness, though, she did cook a week and a half longer than her big brother.
6) Kaden's favorite shows (this week) are Cars and Finding Nemo. I don't mind these new obsessions at all!
7) Lexi is getting a touch of stranger anxiety. This is weird for me because Kaden never went through that and I am not sure what to do. So, I just shove her into the arms of different people at church or when friends come over. :)
8) Kaden will be a great dad someday. He has endless amounts of patience with babies.
9) All that Kaden eats is oatmeal, granola bars, brownies, cereal, and occasionally a half of a chicken nugget. Seriously, it is a good day when I can get him to eat an entire chicken nugget with a couple of fries.
10) If you ask Shane or I how we met, we will both very grudgingly tell you "single's ward activity." This is because we both swore we would never, ever meet our significant others at a church function.
11) Both Shane and I are right handed. (I know so many of you have been dying to know.)
12) I hate math with a passion. Shane loves it. I love English with all my heart. Shane hates it with all of his.
13) I always wanted my little girl to have curly, brown hair. Unfortunately for her, she has straight, brown hair that looks like it has some random-not-so-cute waves (at least that is how mine are) throughout it. We will have to buy a straightener for her 2nd birthday. Poor kid.
14) When I found out I was having a boy (Kaden, obviously) I honestly prayed every night that he would have my eyes and Shane's lips. AND HE DOES!! (*joyful squeal*) I don't care who Lexi looks like, I just want her to be drop dead gorgeous and have the exact opposite life that I did in high school.
15) Lexi LOVES to kick! When she feels ANY emotion, she kicks. When she is zoning out and not even thinking about it, she unconsciously kicks her left leg (always her left) over and over.
16) Every time one of my kids wake up (no matter the time of day), I emphatically tell them, "GOOD MORNING!!!" I started this when Kaden was first born and have decided that it really sets the tone for their mood the rest of the day.
17) I am scared when dogs bark. I do love dogs, but when I see those pearly whites yelling at me in dog language, it freaks me out as I imagine those pearly whites sinking into my pasty white skin. If your dog doesn't bark, or gets over it fast, I will love them forever.
18) Speaking of dogs, both Shane and I are opposed to getting one...EVER. We were both raised with dogs, so you would think we would be more open to the idea, especially since Kaden LOVES them. Why not you ask? Hair, poop (seriously, I clean up two kids' poop all day, you think I want to add more into the mix?), smell, hair, cost when they get sick, hair, house training, hair, obedience training, and HAIR! The hair really grosses me out, can you tell? (Just when it is everywhere but on the dog). We will probably get Kaden a goldfish someday....
19) Before we had kids, Shane and I knew that they would someday need Acutane and braces. Poor kids....
20) Kaden is adorable.
21) Lexi is adorable.
22) Kaden has started doing the car "vrrrr" noises when he is playing with his cars. It is SO CUTE! He is so quiet about it so you really have to listen, but the fact that he is shy about it makes it that much cuter.
23) Someday I WILL have a cute home that a way overpriced interior designer....um...designs.
24) My kids are late teethers. Kaden didn't get his first teeth until he was 11 months old. Lexi is 6 1/2 months old and hasn't even started the signs of teething.
25) I love colors in homes. Blah white walls bug me and I start painting them in my head.
26) A lot of you already know, but for those who don't....Shane has Retinitis pigmentosa (RP). If you are like me before I met Shane and have no idea what that is, check it out here.
27) I don't think I will get to 100...I am boring myself just by doing this-can't imagine how you feel. Thanks to those of you who have hung on this long....
28) Charly (both the movie and the book) makes me cry...ok, bawl like a baby....every single time I watch it (or read the book). Especially since having kids (one of those a boy), my water works goes on overtime. Shane laughs at me since I should be immune to the movie/book after seeing/reading them SO many times. Dumb boys....
29) Kaden is following in his daddy's footsteps with being an electronic nerd. Kaden will go up to a keyboard, VERY gently put his hands on it, then start typing away like a madman. It is hilarious because his face will be so serious the entire time. I need to get a video of it eventually.
30) I love BBQ potato chips. Shane loves cheddar and sour cream. Kaden loves any chips you give him.
31) I like to joke around....a lot. People think I'm joking when I say that I draw like a five year old. I'm not. Sometime I will steal Kaden's crayons and draw my best masterpiece, then post it here for all to see that I am not lying. Maybe even a 3 year old......
32) As soon as Lexi is a year and a half old, we will take her and Kaden to Disneyland (or World, depending on finances) every year. They will live how I always wanted to as a kid.
33) Belle is the best Disney princess EVER. Why? She is the only one (when I was growing up) with brown hair---like ME! WOO!
34) Every morning, Kaden gets up and before breakfast or anything else, grabs his shoes, points to the door and says, "Owside?" One time it was raining (hard) and I took him out to show him he doesn't want to be outside when it is raining. It didn't work-he couldn't have cared less, as long as he is "owside."
35) Slow internet BUGS me. Since marrying Shane, my definition of "slow" is a lot faster than it used to be. If he wasn't so technologically gifted, I would probably still love the speed (snort) of dial up.
36) Shane and I watched every single episode of Prison Break. We were married for 6 months when it first came on TV. The previews looked interesting (not to mention there were a lot of hottie guys) and we were hooked. We also both hated the series finale episode. It was LAME.
37) Wow-not even halfway done...are you hanging in there?
38) I am horrible at scrap booking. I really try to be creative and have spent tons of money buying cute things to use, but it all stays in the packaging because I don't want to ruin my pictures or a perfectly good scrapbook.
39) Lexi will be crawling within the next 2 or 3 months. I am SO excited!! Babies are cute, but I prefer kids that MOVE! I love chasing Kaden around and can't wait until Lexi can run around, too.
40) Kids can start dance classes (meaning BALLET!) at 3 years old. Lexi will be enrolled and WILL love it! :) haha poor girl
41) I love banana cream pie! I had never had it until I met Shane (it is his fav), and now I am so in love with it!
42) I (along with the rest of the world) am in love with anything and everything Twilight related. Shane watched the movie and said it wasn't half bad. He is looking forward to New Moon (but not with gleeful excitement).
43) I look back at pictures of me in high school and have a greater appreciation for the one guy brave enough to date me.
44) Twitter is confusing.
45) Kaden loves standing on his tippy toes. He has some great calf muscles!
46) I have loose joints (which is good because I will never have arthritis, but bad because it has caused knee surgeries) and I think both Kaden and Lexi inherited the same issue.
47) I always joke that it took a blind man to marry me. :) (See #26 if this confuses you)
48) Shane hates when I talk about him on here (he says he feels dumb), so I try to do it at least once in every post. haha
49) Barbies were my favorite growing up-I think I had about 50. I used to cut their hair, then be mad when it wouldn't grow back. I don't think we will get Lexi any Barbies, though. These days Barbie has turned into a skank with a barely there wardrobe!
50) After Phantom of the Opera came out, I had a newfound love for Gerard Butler (then came P.S. I Love You and that cemented him in my heart).
51) Over halfway done! You're really still reading?! You are awesome...or bored...haha.
52) Kaden is the only boy grandchild on both sides of our families. Well, he and Lexi are the only grandchildren at all on Shane's side.
53) I love that Lexi will have a protective big brother (and father....and mother...).
54) A friend of mine from England always teases me that I am constantly using phrases like, "...the best EVER in the whole world!" I never realized it until he pointed it out one time when he was here visiting, but now I catch myself all the time saying, "Red Robin has the BEST fries in Utah!" or "you have to go here, they have the BEST milkshakes in the world!" I think I just don't see saying "Yeah their milkshakes are good" gets the point across. I am glad my friend finds it funny, because it has been bugging me. I am trying to stop, so if you catch me saying things like that....punch me.
55) The first 50 took me four days to come up with....let's see how fast I can do the last fifty.
56) Kaden is wearing a cute blue outfit right now. Lexi is wearing a pink shirt with blue trim and khaki shorts. (Random, remember?)
57) Miley Cyrus's song "The Climb" is the BEST EVER. (haha-did ya catch it?)
58) Lexi LOVES Kaden. I hope they will be best friends all their lives.
59) My 24th birthday is in 53 days!!
60) When Lexi graduates from high school, I will be 41 years old. Shane will be 43 (actually, he probably will have just turned 44). HAHA OLD man! (totally kidding-don't shoot me if you are over 40!)
61) I would love to get a professional camera. Not to turn into a business or anything, just so that it will take FAST pictures!
62) Kaden's teeth are very spaced apart on the top, but squished together on the bottom. Like I said, braces are in this kid's future.
63) The one time in my life I have been hit on (no joke), I had been married for a year. If you missed that story, click here.
64) Going along with #63, I was pretty much born with a foot in my mouth. I usually never mean to offend anyone (if you have an invite to my blog, then I really have never meant to offend you), so if I ever had said something offensive just know it's a condition with no cure. Often my mouth is down the freeway while my brain is still backing out of the garage. I think (hope) it's gotten a little better with old age, though.
65) Lexi had her ears pierced May 27th, 2009. (My little brother's 16th birthday-actually.)
66) I was never a Patrick Dempsey fan until Made of Honor and Enchanted came out. He is on my Top 10 list now.
67) My favorite thing to do after watching a movie is watch every. single. special feature on it. I love the behind the scenes and making of stuff and am obsessed with IMDB.
68) Kaden is not big on eating. He just has a lot of playing to squeeze into one day and eating takes time away from his precious playtime. I have learned that Kaden will eat more if a) I put some on his plate, then leave the room. He doesn't like to be watched I guess. and b) if I put some food off to the side on my own plate, he tries to sneakily (is that a word?) steal "my" food. He likes getting away with it since I don't let him get away with stealing anything else. :)
69) Kaden's hair grows fast! He has had more haircuts in the last year than I have in the last three. But we keep his hair a lot shorter than mine....haha.
70) Kaden wanted to type one: hkktghbjhjk489rej934mknsd6thjy fdjky kj (He likes pushing control and alt., which do weird things to the computer that I can't fix, so he doesn't get to type very long).
71) Kaden dances to the music at the end of every movie as the credits roll. Doesn't matter if it is slow or fast, he LOVES to shake his groove thang.
72) I think Ashton Kutcher is HILARIOUS in Open Season! I mean, I know it's the writers, but seriously, his delivery of those lines is perfect! "I'm a unihorn! Don't look at me! Don't look at me!" Lol If you haven't seen it-GO RENT IT!
73) Speaking of hilarious people, if you don't know who Brian Regan is, what hole have you been in? Click here for some laughs. :D P.S. We have all three of his movies and are always open to having a Brian Regan movie night if you live close to us.
74) Kaden always makes sure to do "knuckles" after giving a high five (you know, the fist hit thing). I was so excited to teach him this because I think it is adorable when little kids do this. Hence, me teaching him a 6 months old when he had no idea what was going on...lol.
75) Shane laughs at me when I use big words......like....hence.
76) Shane only laughs at me for using big words because he has no idea what they mean. (*Mwahahahaha* evil laughter)
77) You are over 3/4 of the way done! Holy cow! You are amazing for sticking through this. Even I want to give up!
78) More of these are about myself than I originally thought. Sorry about that.
79) I can't tan. Seriously-it's sad. I can burn to a crisp, then it will fade (not even peel) a couple of days later back to my pasty whiteness. I have pictures to prove it. Shane, of course, tans beautifully. I hope our kids have inherited his skin.
80) For those of you who keep asking, YES I am 23 and YES I really, truly am done having kids (barring some huge miracle). So, stop asking!!
81) Cookie Cutters is the BEST EVER haircuts for kids place. :D I tried another place closer called Snip It's, but they were awful!!! And now they just built a Cookie Cutters close to my house! Before I was driving 30 minutes, but now it's like 2!
82) I am running out of ideas, so I just asked Shane, "What is a random fact about you?" (He didn't know I am doing this) and he thought for a minute, then said, "I don't want to be a part of any blog crap." lol
83) If you haven't been with me (on the blog) from the beginning, here is my very first post. It's not that exciting (I was still learning the ropes), but the pictures after it on the next few posts are adorable!
84) I feel like I am always worried about something with my kids. I never wanted to be one of those parents who worries ALL the time, but I am. :( I just WORRY about my kids!!
85) I want to be the kind of mom my mom was and is.
86) Shane likes Sudoku and those Rubik's cubes. I hate them. I have no patience and get frustrated easily, then give up after two minutes. BO-RING!
87) Kaden's favorite thing is to be flipped around like a rag doll by his daddy.
88) Kaden used to be afraid of the lawnmower, so Shane held him while he mowed the front yard, then had Kaden hold his hand while they mowed the back yard together. Now he isn't sacred anymore! Woo!
89) 11 more random things to go!! YAY!
90) Um....really running out of things now.......
91) My dog growing up was a German Shepard/Black Lab mix. She was gorgeous and a great dog.
92) Shane likes saltine crackers with frosting on top. Ew.
93) I don't like root beer floats. Seriously. I usually just drink my root beer, then eat my ice cream after. I love both, but for some reason, not combined. It makes me gag.
94) If you have hung on this long, I will love you for always.
95) I have to hurry and get this post done because I have more posts to do that can't happen until AFTER this one. :)
96) I don't mind watching sports-except golf. I think golf is the single most boring thing (not a game or sport) in the whole wide world. I golfed at Pebble Beach in Monterrey, CA and I still think golf is boring. There are some gorgeous golf places, though! And I am a golf cart pro.
97) Shane went on his mission to British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (Pretty sad when I have to resort to mission stuff.)
98) While Shane was on his mission, the first year I was graduating from high school, then second year I was in California.......um.......flirting with missionaries from Canada (ok, just one from Canada).
99) I am pretty sure Kaden thinks another one of his names is "handsome" and Lexi thinks her name is "sis" or "pretty girl."
100) I MADE IT!! WOO HOO!! And YOU made it! For the 100th one, I want you to comment on one random thing about YOU! Thanks for sticking through the whole entire thing!