Christmas lights and getting tagged...

I know, I just never blog on here. I usually wonder if anyone is listening, but I try to psych myself up like every post will be read by all of my family and friends and they will love and cherish it.....

yeahhhhhh....

So, tonight we drove around to look at some Christmas lights... There is this coolest house on this street that always has a lot of houses decked out- two houses that go nuts (I think they're in competition). The first house has their lights set to music this year- you tune your radio into the station to hear the accompaniment! CRAZY! It was cool. Dave got a lil' video... I'm trying to embed it...

So, since no one really reads this, and not many people I know actually blog, I've never been blog-tagged... until now. Thanks to Allison, who only tagged me because she actually gets tagged and has probably already tagged everyone else before.... and who posted some really great pics of us from Girls' Camp like 10 years ago. So I guess in honor of my first tag, I'll actually do it... ;) I'm supposed to write six things about myself and then tag six people... which I will attempt to do, but I don't think I know six bloggers (personally, that is- I stalk plenty of blogs), and Miss Alley is the only one who really blogs reguarly. ha. Hope this doesn't seem out of place, since I usually only write about the kids.... ;)

Let's see....

1. I think I'm lactose intolerant.

Yuck... I've been trying to see what no-dairy does, so I'm off it for a couple weeks. I miss milk. Soy milk is not that good, and soy chocolate milk is just okay (Shannon, I have finally tried it, and it is NOT "soooooo good") And can I just say that EVERYTHING has milk in it. Yeah.

2. I loved girls' camp too.

Allison posted all the stuff she loved about all our years of girls' camp. My favorite years were those years as Stake Leaders, those were so much fun. We had such a great time- the girls were so awesome and the friendships and the spirit there- I'll just never forget thoase experiences.
I can't find my scanner cable (see#4) and can't take a picture of old pics (see#3) but I have these gems hanging around from an old website I had, I think...

Love these girls. We had a fourth girl for the (4 I think) years that I was on the Stake, but these two are the ones I remember most- I think Allison had the most years on the Stake. I miss you girls! Maybe when I come out to Utah next we need to have a Barker's Beauties reunion!

Cute Tiff and Smashley... love my old ward too...

Michelle- one of our other girls from the Stake one year. She is so awesome. I wish I was still in touch with her!

Spitting watermelon seeds- I love to think back on all the silly things. We played this funny game where you stuck three seeds to your forehead and named them names of boys, and the last one to fall off would be the one you married. haha.... Ah, the memories...

Thanks Allison for blogging about the camp days :) It's fun to think back- I'll have to pull out my pictures sometime.

3. My camera is broken.

My poor, poor baby had to fly to Canon and hopefully will come back fixed. I'm supposed to have a repair estimate by tomorrow, and if it's not an arm and a leg, I will hopefully have it back in time for most of the holiday schtuff. I think the problem is kind of a delayed reaction to the time a few months ago when I dropped it and broke my little f1.8 lens and had to get a new one- the focus points have been messed up since then. Luckily, I was taking Christmas sweater pictures that day when the bad error came up, so I had some okay pictures to do a Christmas card, which I am proud to say I finished EARLY! (last night) and if I can reassemble all of my addresses, I hope to get them out early too.

4. I am a horrible housekeeper.

This I may have mentioned before, but I'm just so bad at keeping stuff together. By nature, I just procrastinate and collect, and I'm kind of lazy when it comes to just getting stuff done. I'm terribly unorganized and we have wayyy too much junk around here. PILES of it. We still have never cleaned out our stuff from when we first got married. I need to seriously purge the junk. I need to get the house in order so I can get the Christmas decorations up.

5. I love Christmas.

I just wish I was better at getting things together and organized, because I always have so many things I want to do, and not enough time to do them. This year we are home. Last year was our first Christmas in our house, but we were in Utah, so I'm excited for our first big Christmas at home. We even put some lights up outside. I really want to get everything decked out in the next couple of weeks. I love Christmas music. Dave surprised me with two new Christmas CD's- Josh Groban and Sarah McLachlan, they are so good. I love Christmas music. Oh, and Christmas movies. I love how many TV ones there are. ABC Family and Hallmark channel at night... I'm a junkie.

Since there aren't enough pics in this post, here is last year's Christmas card for your reminiscing pleasure.... can't post this year's, you'll have to wait for that one in the mail ;)

6. This blog needs a new header for Christmas

Sorry, I have nothing else to say. This was a pretty big stretch to have five possibly-interesting things to write about. But a new header, that will be coming soon....

I have no blogging friends. Like three. One would be Allison-the-blog-tagger, so I guess I'm tagging the other two- Shannon and Christi =) Enjoy.