My kids are awesome.
—————–So, randomness… let’s see. I sometimes wonder if there is any such thing as “Nocturnal Tourettes.” If so, Liv has it. She yells, fights, spits, cusses… everything during the nite. The other nite she kept telling me, “Go away Mom!” Too bad she was in MY bed.
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My husband is hot. I know I say that all the time, but he is. And I love him. A lot. And I am really, really spazzy and he doesn’t care. I had 2 people tell me I’m a nut all in one day and I am. But he finds that endearing, I guess.
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I’ve been doing pretty good with Atkins. But yesterday I broke down and ate a bowl of POPS! cereal. I was craving it sooooo bad. But then I ate it and felt guilty.
“Great. Now I have GUILT!”
(What movie? If you get it right you win 6000 cool points.)
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Stay tuned for my post about the baby in the bubble…
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Guess what made my nite last nite? Well, actually it probably wouldn’t be appropriate to talk about it on my blog, so I’ll tell you the OTHER thing that made my nite last nite. I’m walkin’ in to Kroger grocery store with Tristan when I see HIM. I see “Go Conner!” Remember “Go Conner!” from this post (a must read if you missed it)??? I was totally staring at him trying to figure out where I knew him from when I saw his sweat shirt- with his school’s name. I said, “Tristan it’s the whiny kid!!” And T said, “I know Mom. Please don’t say anything. Please don’t say anything…” as I said, “Amen Brutha!” I couldn’t help myself. Tristan just kept his head down like he was mortified.
I was like, “Come on Tristan. Did you really think I was gonna say anything to him?”
“You DID say something!”
“All I said was ‘Amen Brutha!’”
“And he LOOKED at you!”
“He did? Ah man. If I had known that I would have said more like ‘Hey there’s that whiny baby from H______. Remember when y’all totally won that game? Or, ‘hey kid. I blogged about you.’ Or I could have just waved my hand in front of my face and said ‘Boo ya!‘”
“Yeah, but then he would have just thought ‘That kid has to bring his retarded mom to the store.‘”
“True…”
GO CONNER!!
*I want to give a big SHOUT OUT and CONGRATS to Casey and Ethan today. They know what I’m talking about. I dedicate this to the happy couple:
* Tristan wouldn’t let me take a picture of his newfound armpit hair. Not that I’d really take a pic of his armpit hair and post it, but he thinks I would which is totally funny to me and means I am doing my job as a mom- embarrassing him.
* Sky High is such a good movie. Have y’all seen it? So many people haven’t seen it and it is just so fun. I love Kurt Russell. He makes me laugh! Warren Peace is hot and should have played “Jacob” in Twilight, but whatev. I’ve seen Sky High probably 50 times and it never gets old.
* Another movie, much like Sky High, that I was pleasantly surprised with? -Holes with Shia LeBeouf.
* I’ve bought 2 cds in my life that I only bought for 1 song but ended up LOVING the entire cd. I mean, I’ve bought other cds that I loved, but these 2 cds I was totally NOT expecting to love them- I just wanted to hear the one song. (This was before downloading was so easy.) Wanna know the cds? Lit: Place in the Sun from 1999 totally rocks. I still have a ton of their songs on my iPod.
The other cd was Ashley Parker Angel: Soundtrack to Your Life. He was in the Mtv group O-Town and this was his 1st try at as a solo artist. He’s now starring on Broadway as Link Larkin. Watch out Zac Gayfron!! What are some cds you bought and were pleasantly surprised with?
* You know what article of clothing REALLY bugs me? Sleeveless shirts on guys. Idk why, but they bug. My ex buys a lot of them for the boys and they’ll come home from his house wearing them and I’m like, “Go put on a shirt with sleeves. Now.” It’s one thing if you’re workin’ out or something, but just wearing sleeveless to wear sleeveless BUGS me SO bad- especially if you have no muscle tone. I don’t know- they just kinda look skank to me. I’m sorry if I just offended any sleeveless shirt wearing guys out there. If you are exercising, it’s ok. If you are wearing it to show off your tattoo on your flab- it’s not ok.
* Does anyone else think this is just… wrong??
* Can you believe they voted Dane off The Biggest Loser?? And what’s up with all the product placement? “Ziplocs are a great way to store your food…” or “Chew some sugar-free Extra to cut the cravings between meals...”
So, Seiuli is working today and one of his fellow officers gets a call. A woman has called 911 because there is something suspicious on her porch. It’s broad daylite, so she can see clearly what is it, but still… she thinks it is “suspicious” and wants an officer to come check it out- STAT.
Wanna know what it was?
Go ahead…. guess.
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Yep. One very suspicious empty egg carton… WTHeck???
* I am feeling somewhat better. I still have a nagging cough and it sounds like I’m hacking up a lung, but I feel a lot better. No fever. Thanks for y’alls well-wishes!!
* I went to Alec and Isabel’s games even though I felt like crap and couldn’t yell. Alec lost his 1st but won his 2nd. He’s in the consolation championship next Saturday. Isabel won. She has a game tonite and then if they win they play for 1st place on Saturday as well.
* My dad said he would coach Izzy’s team next year. Thank goodness. I was going to, but I realize I am so NOT a coach. I’m the loud, obnoxious daughter sitting next to the coach. I can play. I know the rules, but that doesn’t make me a coach. So, YAY for my dad!!
* I am still working on the medical transcriptionist program I told y’all about. I am not very far into it. Apparently I have a ton of kids and it’s hard to get more than 20 minutes in at a time- especially during basketball season. It’s my goal to finish it by our vacation July 23, but we’ll see… Either way in the next year I’d like to be working from home, but not watching kids or working jobs in sales- because I would suck at that. 
* We bought ceiling fans this weekend with our tax refund. That’s why we have so many kids- we like our refunds. haha
* My brother wrote a good post about the war.
* Livie is still pooping in the potty. YAY! She’s had one or 2 accidents, but they truly were accidents. She is very proud of herself for pooping in the potty!
* Seiuli gave me a journal for Valentines day. It’s going to be “our” journal. He filled the first 2 pages with reasons he loves me. I did the same. The other day I wrote about an incident that moved him up on the cool-o-meter to me. He totally went off on my ex, but then felt bad even though my ex deserved it. So, Sei, being a real man, called to apologize. I laughed at him and called him an “amateur” (I was kidding) but he really is an awesome example to me.
* I also went ice skating with Sei on Vday. I let go of the wall this time. The only other time I went I was 15 and never let go. This time was exciting and I had a great time! Sei also took me out to Costa Vida. I know that doesn’t sound fancy, but I haven’t been to Costa Vida in over a year and recently found that there is one about 35 minutes from our house. YAY!!! Best sweet pork salad evah!
* What kind of deoderant do y’all use?
“I’m not happy, Bob. Not happy.”
This post is about poop- fair warning…
See this picture!? See the new baby doll with baby doll potty?? This was Livie’s “Poop in the Potty” prize. And YES- IT IS OPENED!!! 
Finally today she did it!! I had thought in the past about just having her run around barebum because I didn’t think she’d poop on the floor intentionally. So today she had on a gown and got that look like she needed to poop and I told her, “Nope. You aren’t pooping in your pants.” and I took her panties. I also put her basket of panties that is in the laundry room up on a high shelf so she couldn’t just run get a new one. She was SO mad. MAD. MAD. MAD. Like screamed “NO!!!” at the top of her lungs for an hour. I finally gave in to get her to shut up and gave her her panties. Then I told her, “If you poop in your pants I am taking your panties again.” This seemed to work. After attempting to hold it for an hour or 2 she finally cried and said, “I need to go potty!!” She pooped a little, crying the whole time, and jumped off as quickly as possible. 5 minutes later she did the same thing. 5 minutes later she did it again and I think she got it all out that time. She was still VERY mad at me. Didn’t even want to open her gift. Didn’t want candy. Didn’t want to call Daddy. Nada. 1/2 an hour later she told me, “Mom, I pooped in the potty. But don’t poop in your pants or NO panties!” YAY!!!
Finally she decided to open her gift and has been playing happily with it for an hour. She was even telling her doll, “I’m here. I’ll hold your hand. It’s ok…” while it sat on the toilet. Wonder where she heard that?? Let’s just hope the “no panties” threat continues to work, because nothing else did.
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In other news… my brother has a blog now. He writes about stuff that goes over my head, so I’m just here to promote him and leave dorky comments. He’s a good writer, so go visit him.
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Here are the 1st 2 emails between Sei and I when we first met online. We laugh so hard when we read them because we were the biggest dorks in the world!! Neither one of us sound like ourselves, yet, for some reason we knew we were suppose to continue to write each other…
From Sei (the little words in parenthesis are just me being a dork.):
How are ya? I’m pretty new to this whole online thing also. Still feels kinda weird. Anyways, I was just browsing through the profiles and your picture caught my eye. (Because I was HOT!!;) Hope everything is going well for you as you adjust to the whole single thing again.. You appear to be a very beautiful person and seem to have a lot going for you.. Keep your head up (quote from a Tupac song!) and things will work out for you I’m sure.
I just signed up yesterday and don’t have a picture up yet (if that matters) but I promise you I’m not some freak of nature. I work a lot of hours and don’t have much time to get out so I thought I’d give this a shot and see if I could meet some cool peoples. Hope this message finds you doing well. Take care.
Max5
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My reply:
Hey- thanks for writing. A picture will help you get more hits on your profile, so you may wanna get one up. (Because I need to know if you’re gross…) I am doing really well & I appreciate you asking. (Who talks like that?? DORK!)
How old are your little girls? My only daughter is 2. I also have 4 & 6 year old boys. Do your girls live near you? Are you in Provo? I have a sister in Provo, that’s why I’m asking.
Thank you for writing me a normal message- some guys on here seem to think that proposing marriage or writing me sappy lines will work for me & it doesn’t. (Yes it does.) So, THANK YOU for being normal. I hope you are well & hope to hear from you again.
Swampbrat
So, there you have it. Where it all began. It’s fun to read thru our old emails and laugh at the exaggerations and dorkiness. For example- Sei never owned the “Best of Friends” dvd as he claimed to in an email. We still joke about it. LOL
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Tori and Seiuli timeline:
1st email/online contact: June 21, 2001
1st online chat: June 25, 2001
1st phone call: June 27-28, 2001
1st real life meeting: July 5, 2001
Tori moved to Utah: Aug. 4, 2001
Sei and Tori eloped to Vegas: Sept. 14, 2001
WILL I REALLY HAVE MORE FUN??
What do y’all think?
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Why I love Livie… This is my attempt to take her picture with my camera (that I found to be the best buy on buy.com) for some Valentine picture frames we were making:
My personal fave:
Tomorrow, in honor of Vday which is on Saturday, I will post an email from when Sei and I met online. It won’t be as hot as Aubrey’s advice. THAT is hot. Scandalous! We’re WaaaaaaaY beyond waffle recipes now! I think I am blushing…
