Friends

Tag I'm It

Jere's cousin Charity tagged us to fill out this thingy.

What is your current obsession?
getting the house done


What are you wearing today?
pajamas (white tank and white shorts)


What’s for dinner?
black eyed pea soup

What would you eat for your last meal?
grilled cheese and tomato soup

What’s the last thing you bought?
fruit and a hand held duster

What are you listening to right now?
Jere eating ice cream, now jere breathing while sleeping :)

What is your favorite ice-cream flavour?
pralines & cream or turtle sundae

What do you think of the person who tagged you?
she's great. :)

If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
blois, france - french countryside

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
napping in the gazebo bed on the beach from our honeymoon in cancun with jere

Which language do you want to learn?
french (jere says pig latin)

What’s your favorite quote (for now)?
"bonk my head - all guys like blunt force trauma" -jere

What is your favorite colour?
hmmm right now it's kind of a light turquoise color - varies often.

What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?
my teva flip flops

What is your dream job?
right now - staying home, providing for my family. it's about to come true!

If you had £100 now, what would you spend it on?
I'm gonna keep Charity's answer. It's sounds amazing right now - A massage and spa day…why not, it’s imaginary money, in pounds even!

What is your favorite architectural style?
is "stone cottage" an architectural style? not sure what that would be called, technically.

Describe your personal style?
casual/comfortable

What are you going to do after this?
go to sleep

What are your favourite movies?
can't think of a favorite right now

What’s your favourite fruit?
probably grapes and strawberries

What inspires you?
talking to people

Your favorite book ?
i don't know (man this is interesting...)

Do you collect something ?
i would say that i collect things to do crafts with. nothing that would go in a "collection" though.

What would you name your next child?
billy bob

Polka Dots or checks?
polka dots

What time is it?
10:58 pm

Does your blog have a publishing schedule?
nope

What is your favorite non-required activity?
reading while laying in bed

I'm not gonna tag anyone so copy it if you want!

One Track Mind

In the Jeep dropping Jere off at work...

Jere: "Wanna come in and get a soda? My treeeaat."
Reagan: "Hmmm I don't know, I should probably get going..."
Jere: "Are you sure? You could get a pepsiii or a coooke...I'm paying!"
Reagan: "Okaay."

Inside Jere's work...

He puts his money in the machine and presses the button for a Dr. Pepper.

Jere: "What kind do you want?"
Reagan: "Umm I'll have a coke."

He puts his money in the machine and presses the button for a Dr. Pepper.

Jere: "Gaah! I have to break another dollar now!!" More money goes into the machine. "Okay now YOU press the button so I don't do that again..."


Prime example of my Dr. Pepper loving husband.

Impromtu Photo Shoot

It all started when I laid on the floor.

And then Jodie decided to sit on me, as well as invite Jamie to get on his shoulders. He asked Ruth to get on Jamie's shoulders but she decided to cheese instead.

So we tried to take a picture together and piled onto a loveseat. I said "no way, my double chin is showing". So we moved.

Then we took a normal picture.

And Melodi (the photog) said "okay this is too normal". So Jodie put his arms out saying "I'm in the middle, I'm the coolest".

And then Jodie decided to try to grab my head to pull me down and I decided to choke Ruthie to death. Ruth held onto Rachel. She was our anchor.

Trying to get back to normal.

All together now!

Topeka Rescue Mission Run

Tonight I ran in the "Topeka Rescue Mission Run". My brother Jodie also ran it, although he finished way quicker. His time was something like 30-32 minutes for 4 miles.

Me and thick thighs. Look at those bulging muscles in his thighs!

After Jodie finished, he came to look for me. He found me just as I was going to turn onto Sixth St. from Kansas avenue. I want to say he ran the last quarter mile with me, it was very sweet. At one point I told him to get behind me because it was driving me crazy that he was just slightly ahead of me so he gets behind me and starts lightly pushing my back to go up the hill. It actually felt sooooo nice but I told him to stop because it was cheating! After I got to the top of Sixth St. I saw my sister Rachel waving her arms and jumping around and so I started to goof off and run faster and realized I should probably just keep the pace since the finish line was a block away. I ran really hard and then couldn't quite keep it up at the very end! So in the video I feel like I am running at such a slow pace! I finished in 45 minutes.

I have a quick story - I was running behind this one really tall guy with long legs who was running like Frankestein! It was driving me crazy watching him and thinking about how he was ahead of me, so I forced myself to get past him. He was about 50 feet in front of me (I'm not a very good judge of distance) and it took me about 6 blocks to get past him! I wish I could show you how he was running!

The video below is me running through to the finish.

Mobile Uploads

On my way to the airport, last weekend to visit my friend Amanda!

On our way to go hiking.

Trying to sneak into Jere's office. I love sending him pictures of what he's doing :)

I think I sent him this pic. (Me sitting at his desk)
And this was the end result. (Him throwing papers over his cubicle wall. I'm impressed that they land like they did and stayed)

Yay it's raining!

Amazing dark versus light against the sky. My phone did not do it justice.

Silo's & Rain in North Topeka

Happy Monday. Hopefully you didn't have to get up at the dreadful time of 5:30am.

This just in...

I just got some new, free sunglasses from my place of employment. Yeeaahh.

Google Search Questionaire

Magen did this on her blog and it looked fun, to me.

1. The age you will be on your next birthday

2. A place to which you'd like to travel

3. Your favorite place

4. Your favorite person

5. Your favorite food

6. Your favorite animal (this guy looks so gross...)

7. The town in which you were born

8. The name of a past pet

9. The first name of a past love. How perfect

10. Your favorite color

11. Your first name

12. Your middle name

13. Your last name

A Study in Taking Pictures

End result "stop taking pictures of me!"

Well, I have learned that he doesn't like a flash while eating his dinner.

Not sure how...

I managed to run 4 miles last night. Without stopping. Without gum. I ran around Washburn and I am convinced that it gets easier after 1.5-2 miles. I'm not sure how it happened.

4 miles
43:25 minutes
10:51 per mile

Good News!

I am in the Nutcracker Ballet and I have TWO roles! I am SO EXCITED! I will dance as part of the "Hungarian Corps" and also the "Sugar Plum Fairy Corps". I am thinking that both these roles dance on pointe. When I took ballet and performed years ago, my last Nutcracker role was as a flower dancing on pointe shoes. I don't recall the Hungarian characters and what their costumes look like or how they dance, (could have been called something else when I danced) but I do remember the Sugar Plum Fairy Corps. I was planning on accepting and being happy with any part that I got and so to have two parts in seemingly good roles is amazing to me.

I AM ECSTATIC!!!

I auditioned on August 23rd and although I did horribly, I am just glad I got a part. I remember the holiday season feeling so much more festive when I was taking ballet and performing in the Nutcracker.

You'll all come watch me, won't you????

Riding Horses

This past weekend my future sister in law Melodi took my sister Rachel and I riding. She has worked with the horses at a camp in the past few years and has permission to ride the horses on occasion. Rachel and I were pretty excited. I haven't ridden in years but I have fond memories of riding lessons when I was a kid....I can't believe I am 25 years old...ahem.

I took these pictures while we were driving out there. The camp in near Manhattan and it really is pretty land out there. It was such a wet day!

It was a dreary day and while I usually love it, we wanted to ride! Melodi was under the impression that we couldn't get the horses out and ride them in the rain and until she was told otherwise, we waited for the rain to stop.



First we had to catch the horses. This involved Melodi carrying a bucket of treats and me watching. I like horses but they have always made me nervous. Rachel on the other hand has always wanted to ride the biggest, tallest horse and is all about riding fast and being crazy. The horse walking towards the camera is Clint. To quote Melodi "Princess is his girl friend". She is the one walking away from the camera.


Clint kept sticking his head out of the stable to make sure Princess was still around. She followed us over to the stable and it was so cute watching them. After loading the horses into the stable all we could do was wait until the rain cleared out. So we ate a picnic lunch...In the car. Melodi brought everything to put in the sandwiches, Rachel made bread and cookies and I brought mustard and chex mix.

Rachel just stared out into the rain, depressed because we weren't riding yet. And I took pictures.

After sitting in the car for a while, Melodi got a call from her friend who let us know that we could ride the horses in the rain. Rachel was ecstatic to get going. Along our ride we saw Rascal at the front of the camp. He is an old blind horse that wanders around eating grass. I loved his spots.

Out on the riding trail.

On the way out to the trail to ride for a while I took some pictures while riding. It was nice being out in the country taking in the views. After being out on the trail for about 15 minutes Rachel's horse Clint tripped and fell to his front knees. It was a little scary but Rachel hung on and waited for him to get back up again. We kept going since his legs looked good. After going for another 10 minutes, we decided to turn around because he was obviously limping due to his left back leg really lagging.

This is where the fun started for me.

My horse, Rego realized that we were turning around to head back home and because he's a trail horse and knows the paths, decided to start trotting. This was fine although it was REALLY bumpy. At the point where we had turned around we were on an asphalt road that was abandoned. By the time we got back to the path in the woods I was having a hard time controlling Rego. Do you ever really "control" animals? Anyways to get back on the path in the woods, there is a steep incline. Rego decided to run down this little incline and bank sharply around the fence that was in the way to get to the more open area of the path. At this point he decided to canter. Now I was a little nervous at first but cantering is way more smooth than trotting and so it felt okay. I tried to slow him down and he finally did when we reached an embankment to climb back onto the gravel road we had originally come down. Once on the road we waited for Rachel and Melodi since I had gotten ahead of them. We walked up the gravel road, but it was hard to stay so slow since the horses knew where we were going.

Rachel decided to have Clint trot ahead and so they were about half a mile ahead of Melodi and I when I thought "maybe I could let Rego canter again"..."We'll just catch up to Rachel". Melodi thought it would be okay so I let Rego go. And GO he did. We took off and quickly started galloping and possibly something faster than galloping (is there something faster than galloping?). I started calling out "wooaahhh" and pulling back on the reins when Rachel was becoming larger in view but Rego wouldn't have it. We blew past Rachel and shot to the entrance of the camp. The road to the camp was perpendicular to the road we were on and so Rego made a sharp turn to the right wherein I almost fell off. My leg muscles felt that turn the next day...So after flying through the front entrance I started to really panic. I realized that Rachel and Melodi were in no position to help me and I was going to have to do it on my own! I am pretty sure I screamed "heeeelllpp" and "WOOOAHHHH" several times but it didn't help. I was leaning all the way back in my saddle and pulling with both hands on the reins to no avail. Finally I pushed my stirrups out in front of me to get more leverage. I furiously thought about what I could do to help the situation and thought about just grabbing his neck and hanging on. I knew that wasn't the best decision and I also pondered jumping off for about 1 second. I just kpt leaning back and the last thing I yelled was "Lord HELP me!". The horse actually started to slow down! I was amazed. We went a little farther for him to come to a complete stop and when we finally did stop, I was shaking. The muscles in my hands were sore and I was ready to be done riding for the day.

It felt like 45 seconds of shaking scariness but Melodi tells me it last for a couple minutes and a couple miles. After stopping I made sure that Rego knew I didn't want to go anywhere. I waited for a couple minutes so that Rachel and Melodi could catch up. On the way back I had to struggle to keep him walking.

Needless to say, I was done for the day. I was shaky and tired and my allergies and asthma were affecting me. Melodi decided to stay with me while Rachel went back out with Melodi's friend even though all I did was sleep!

I think I am ready to go back out riding sometime but I'll be relying on the Lord to keep me safe the whole time...

This is the butthead that took off with me...After he's done riding he likes to give who ever is nearest a rub with his head. Melodi is used to this and so she took my place, thankfully!