Getting to Know You

Basics

1. Who is your man? David Thomas Eastman

2. How long have you been together? We met spring of 1997, kind of dated on and off for 5 years and have been married for almost six. Wow it's been so long, it's hard to imagine eternity (in a good way).

3. How old is your man? 32

You or your man?

1. Who eats more? Probably me, I love to eat. Where Dave forgets to eat lunch a lot of days. I would never "forget" to eat.

2. Who said "I love you" first? This is a little foggy. I think he did, he thinks I did. He chased after me for 4 years then finally gave up and said forget it, then I had to beg him to come back and marry me the last year that we dated. (you always want what you can't have)

3. Who weighs more? Dave, just barely though, which is sad since he's about 7 inches taller than me.

4. Who sings better? Definitely Dave, I can't carry a tune for the life of me.

5. Who's older? Dave by a year and 4 months.

6. Who's smarter? Well I like to think I am in most things, but Dave was in school for almost 30 years so book wise he probably is:)

7. Who's temper is worse? It's about equal, neither one of us have bad tempers. Dave can definitely lose it every now and then and I'm all about just being emotional.

8. Who does the laundry? I do. Dave will help fold every so often.

9. Who does the dishes? I do mostly, Dave helps quite often. To be fare to Dave he does clean all the bathrooms every week and dusts. (I don't think I've cleaned a bathroom since we've been married)

10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me. Dave tries to sometimes because it's closer to the TV, but I have to. In hotels I have to sleep on which ever side is closer to the bathroom.

11. Who's feet are bigger? Dave's! He has a gigantic big toe!, which unfortunately our girls have inherited

12. Who hair is longer? Mine, although Dave did have hair down to his shoulders the first year we were married.

13. Who's better with the computer? Dave, I'm not very good.

14. Who mows the lawn? Dave. I did once thought when Dave hurt his back. He didn't think I could do it and it was a peice of cake.

15. Who pays the bills? I do, I'm more on top of it and like to know how much money we have, or don't.

16. Who cooks dinner? Me. Dave will every blue moon. Neither of us enjoy cooking.

17. Who drives when you are together? Mostly Dave, but I like to drive a lot too.

18. Who pays when you go out to dinner? Whoever feels like getting their wallet out. I usaully always leave the tip though.

19. Who's the most stubborn? Dave would say me, but we are both very stubborn. Not a good thing and does not make for a fast make up when we get in a fight.

20. Who is the first to admit when they're wrong? We both think we're right most the time so it's just whoever gets sick of not talking first.

21. Who's parents do you see more? Mine, almost every week. Dave's live in Oregon.

22. Who named your dog? Dave. He first named her Makita then that too long to say so we changed to to Meeka.

23. Who kissed who first? Dave kissed me, on our couch in Hawaii.

24. Who asked who out? We didn't really go on a "date" for a long time, we always just "hung out" with a bunch of friends.

25. What did you do? Well the first time we actually hung out, was in Hawaii, me, Dawn and Nancy were out on the town and decided we didn't want to drive back to the north shore so we got a hotel room. Four guys decided to come and join us, one of them being Dave. So all seven of us slept in one bed (2 queens pushed together), and the next day we rented mopeds and went to Hanama Bay. Awesome first date, if you can call it that.

26. Who's more sensitive? For sure me!! Maybe a bit too much.

27. Who's taller? Dave's 6'4", I'm 5'9"

28. Who has more friends? I do. Dave's not very social. He wouln't mind if he sat at home by himself every weekend.

29. Who has more siblings? Dave has 6, I have 4

30. Who wears the pants in the relationship? That's a hard one, we're pretty equal.

It would be interesting to have Dave fill out the same questions and see how he would answer them. We have our hard times, but I wouldn't trade Dave for the world. He is seriously the best husband ever and is always trying so hard. We have our differences but thats what makes our family perfect.

Beloved Church President, Gordon B. Hinkley, Dies at 97

We will miss him sooo much, he will always be one of my favorite Presidents, what a great example to the world he's been.

What a wonderful reunion it must have been back with his sweet wife.

SALT LAKE CITY 27 January 2008 President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.
President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.
The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from causes incident to age. Members of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/

Sick Sick Sick

Poor little Madix

As if we haven't had enough sickness this winter now Madix has RSV (a respiratory virus). Poor baby has RSV, a double ear infection and her 4 top teeth coming in!! Man can you imagine. Still as long as someone is in the room with her she is always smiling. We will be sooo glad when this winter is over and pray we never have another one like it. We pretty much have been stuck in our house the whole time (or in the hospital with Tyler for 9 days), you can't do too much with really sick kids:(

On The News

Here I am on TV! You can click and see the video of me that they aired. I was famous for 2 minutes, kind of fun.

http://www.azfamily.com/video/index.html?nvid=210358&shu=1

She Does Love Meeka

Tyler 15 mo's

Ty 12 mo's

Ty 4 mo's

Ty 16 mo's

Ty 12 mo's

Ty 2 yrs



You know I'm not a dog person and I've tried to get rid of Meeka a few times but I have to give some props to our dog Meeka. Besides her hair everywhere she really is the best dog. She'll never go near the baby (or when they were "babies") but once they start moving Meeka is their best friend. I don't understand why Tyler doesn't like playing with Madix but adores Meeka. She is always cuddling with Meeka and whe will bring all her toys and sit right next to Meeka and just play. She sometimes likes to poke Meeka's eyes and nose and jump on her and pull her tail, but Meeka will never move she just lays there and takes it. Even Madix is always trying to get her and nothing will make Madix smile more than Meeka.

Potty Training

I decided to give potty training a try last night and oh boy, do you need a lot of patience. I had Tyler drink 2 full cups of juice then sat her on her little toilet in front of a movie and told her "don't get up until you go potty". And I expected her to listen and understand?, what was I thinking, she's not even 2 yet. So anyways, I leave her there and go down stairs to start dinner and about 5 minutes later she comes walking down the stairs and pees all over the tile. So I yell at her and say "no on the toilet". I sit with her on the toilet for a couple minutes, nothing. So I sit her on her chair to feed her diner and she pees everywhere. Again I yell at her, sit her on the toilet and nothing. Back to her chair to finish dinner and pees everwhere again!! I'm about ready to loose it, so no more dinner, upstairs to sit on her little toilet and "not get up". So I go down stairs to clean up more pee and I hear her upstairs saying,"on toilet". She had stood up off the toilet to go pee on the carpet!! So then I do loose it. Put her back on her toilet and I start scrubbing the carpet, the whole time yelling at her, then all the sudden I hear her peeing in the toilet!! So I go from totally yelling at her to totally praising her!! Poor Tyler probably had no idea what was going on, but I was soooo excited she finally went in the toilet after all of that.

Then she woke up this morning with the worst diarhea and diaper rash, I think I gave her too much juice :( I am so horrible for yelling at her so much when she didn't even know what she was doing, I definently need to learn more patience. So maybe I'll let her rash go away and try again, with more understanding this time. She'll be 2 next month, so my goal is to have her potty trained sometime around then.

On the News

Gary Harper
3 On Your Side
3TV
Gary Harper heads up 3 On Your Side, the investigative unit of 3TV.
I'm gonna be on the news next week. Gary Harper from 3 on your side came to my house this morning to do a story. We're thinking about renting our house for the superbowl so I listed it on craigs list yesterday just to see what would come from it and my first call was Gary Harper. They're doing a story on renting your house out, what all needs to be done, what you should think about and different tips. He thinks he'll air the story next Mon. around 5:30 pm, watch for me.