I've been tagged!

Yes, unfortunately the title is true. I had hoped to escape this tagging game, but my sister finally tagged me to say 6 interesting things about myself. I feel like I am back in high school or EFY where you have to say your name and then one interesting thing. I never knew what to say, I think I always said something lame like, "I like to travel." Everybody likes to travel, that's not interesting! Well I don't know if I will be able to make it all the way to 6 but I will give it my best shot.

1. I really do like to travel, but the interesting part about this is I can say I have been an interesting place. I went on a trip to Hong Kong with my Dad as a graduation present from High School. It was definitely one of the coolest experiences in my life. I still think it's funny that I had to have my Dad translate even when the people were speaking English to me. I am also amazed at how good at eating with chopsticks the people are, I was always so embarrassed when waitresses would ask me if I wanted a fork. Being stubborn I would always say no, but it would take me forever to eat some things. How do you eat lobster tail with chopsticks, I am still puzzled.

2. Growing up I always planned on working for the CIA and there is still a possibility it might happen :) You never know how life is going to turn out. I had my life planned out in High School and I was going to work go on a mission after college, then work for the CIA for a few years, and eventually get married around the age of 27. Definitely did not even come close to following my life plan, which I think is a good thing. Life often turns out better than you can plan.

3. I have been hit by a Ford Truck, filled with sand, going 50 mph on my bike when not wearing a helmet and survived with no broken bones, concussion, or stitches. Let's be honest, that's pretty sweet. How many people can say that? I would post a picture of my totally messed up bike, but at the moment I can't find where I saved it on the computer.

4. Sheldon and I LOVE to play board games or any type of game. We have a almost a whole closet filled with just games. Sheldon and I are both pretty competitive, but I think I am more competitive, which is probably not a good thing. I am usually not very nice to Sheldon when we play, but luckily he is pretty nice to me so our relationship survives. Some of our favorite games: Settlers of Cataan with Cities and Knights expansion, Scotland Yard, Shadows over Camelot (this is one of my favorites because you can be a traitor), Pirates Cove, Scum, and Chess (when I win).

This post is turning into a novel, so I think I am going to stop at 4.
I tag My Parents, Dahlia B., and Carrie C to say 6 interesting things about themselves.

Pictures!

I finally received access to view my pictures online that I had taken at Target. If you want to view all of the pictures go to this website https://www.thesmilestation.com/home.asp?AC=LTTT0890104779TAR and enter ELAINE MILLS as the customer name. These are some of my favorite pictures, I love the first one because it looks like he is planning a conspiracy. The second picture I also love, because even though I hate to see him sad, he really does look so cute.

Tucker's Morning Jog

This past week we have started taking Tucker out for runs with us in his jogging stroller. He loves it and will either sleep or just sit there contently. It is starting to get cool here in the mornings so we always bundle him up and he looks so cute with his hat and blanket. I love in the last picture it looks like he is waving at the camera. We also took him to Target to get pictures taken this week. We got some pretty good ones, so in a week I will be able to access them online and post them here. He is a pretty wiggly little boy so it was hard to get a good picture. I would have to hold his pacifier in to keep him calm and then take it out when the photographer was ready. Tucker has really started to smile this week. It is cool because he is actually looking at you and focusing on your face when he smiles. He doesn't do it very often, but it is so exciting when he does.

Getting back in shape

Sheldon and I went shopping the other day for new running shoes. Last year we had a gym membership to a small gym and unfortunately they went out of business. We had signed up for a year membership and since we only had a membership for 4 months, they gave us a refund on our money. We have been saving that money to buy new shoes for when Tucker was born to help us get back in shape. I was able to get 2 new pairs and they are definitely the nicest running shoes I have ever owned. They are so comfortable. We went to this great running store in Orem that looks at your old pair of running shoes to see how you run and then gives you shoes for your specific type of foot and running style. They also let you take the shoes out for a run to test them out. The plan is for Sheldon and me to run a half marathon sometime next spring. Sheldon has run a marathon before, but I have never run anywhere near that far. So I am a little bit nervous, but I am sure with the right training I will be able to do it.

All dressed up

We got Tucker all dressed up for church on Sunday and he looked so cute in his little vest and black pants. Church is definitely a lot harder to pay attention to when you are trying to take care of a little baby and I only listened to about one of the talks. Sheldon listened to the other talk though so if we share what we learned then it is like we listened through the whole meeting. Having one child has definitely changed my perspective a little on how big a family I want to have. Sheldon and I used to talk about having a good size family, around 5 kids, now I think that number has decreased a little. We look at families with 4 kids and realize how much work they are to take care of, especially if you have them close together. We will probably have at least one more kid... probably ;)

Trip to the Fair

Last Saturday Sheldon and I went with his family to the Utah State Fair. It is a tradition in their family to go every year. I was worried Tucker would be fussy but we just kept him in his sling and he was pretty content the whole time. I pumped so I could feed him with less hassle and he did pretty good at taking a bottle. The milk comes out a little fast for him, since he is used to breastfeeding and he usually ends up with milk running down his chin. In the picture below it looks like he is wearing a bonnet, but it is actually just his sling we carry him in. I didn't take too many pictures of things at the fair because there usually isn't a ton of things to see. There's lots of big pigs, cows, and sheep, and many weird things that you can buy. I was tempted to try a deep fried snickers or twinkie, but I decided I did not want to cut 5 years off my life.


Tucker mainly just squinted his eyes the whole time. He did not like the bright sun.

Our big headed little boy

Tucker went to his two week doctor's appointment on Wednesday and they said he is a healthy and very happy boy (except when he is hungry). He weighed 8 pounds exactly and was 20.25 inches long, he has already grown a quarter of an inch. It made me feel better to know that he has grown quite a bit, because he is eating a ton and I am glad it is doing something. For height and weight he is in about the 25th percentile, and his head is the 60th percentile. He is a little kid with a big head, but I'm sure he will grow into it. It has been fun to watch how much he is changing already. His legs are starting to chunk up and he is really starting to move his head around a lot. Tucker loves tummy time everyday and I can't wait until he really starts smiling at us. He is smiling every now and then, but it's not really at you. Sometimes it seems like he even laughs, but I'm not sure it is a laugh. It makes me wonder what is going on in his head.