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My wonderful husband Scott is turning 39 today!  So in honor of this occasion, I am listing 39 random facts about Scott that show why he is so amazing!

1. 1- Scott is 6’2″ tall but he wishes he were taller.
2. 2-Scott is a great dad! He loves his daughters and is super supportive (Tay may say overly-supportive at times). He takes off work to go to plays, games, and other special events. He wants to know everything they are doing and he does his very best to make sure they know he loves them.
3. Scott is a family man. If there is a choice, Scott will always choose to be home with me and the girls. He loves spending time together, even if it is just sitting home watching each other play on the computer.
4. Scott is very photogenic…not to mention amazingly handsome.
5. Scott was born in St.Paul/Minneapolis, moved with his family to Fargo, ND, and then to SLC.
6. Scott is brilliant. He is super smart and can learn/do just about anything he sets his mind to. I think Taylor inherited this trait from him. I remember in college, he would be facing a challenging programming issue and wake up in the middle of the night with the answer his mega-brain had been processing in his sleep.
7. Scott makes us laugh. If you don’t know this side of him, you don’t know him well enough yet. He has a dry, sharp, sometimes cynical sense of humor, but I just get it! He cracks me up on a regular basis.
8. Scott has never had a cavity!
9. In High School, Scott was in the band, a sports manager, and school mascot. He also worked at AlphaBeta to earn money for college.
10. Scott loves trains! He has a train room full of beautiful works of art and engineering. He picked up this hobby as a boy, but has really started taking it seriously in the past 5 years. He was just recently written up in the paper for his latest Train Show exhibition. He loves to show off his latest and greatest creations. Just ask!!!
11. Scott’s favorite color is BLUE!
12. Scott is loving! One of my favorite things about Scott is that he says “I love you” to me everyday, many times a day. He never leaves the house without saying it in the morning and he never goes to bed without saying it at night. And usually he says it about a hundred times in between.
13. Scott does his own laundry and does dishes almost every day! He (almost) never complains about anything else I ask him to help with around the house either. He is very generous about helping me whenever I ask, and even if I don’t.
14. Scott loves sports and is quite an expert with rules and other nuances of the games. It drives me crazy whenever we’re watching a sporting event and Scott will make a comment about what just happened that is echoed seconds later by the commentators on TV. It justs one of his gifts.
15. Scott’s (not-so) secret dream job is to be a train engineer.
16. Scott hasn’t had a soda-pop in about 10 years. He gave it up when he found out he was diabetic, just before his 30th birthday. I don’t think he’s had one sip since. Amazing will power!
17. Scott loves biking! He biked to work and back for the majority of the past 6 years. One year he even logged over 3000 miles on his bike. He’s been hit by cars twice, I think; and he’s been just about anywhere a bike can go in St. George.
18. Scott’s favorite 80′s band is Def Leppard.
19. Scott is very supportive of me and my crazy stuff! He encourages me to write, to play, to sing–to pretty much do whatever I feel I need to be doing at the moment. He is so great to help drive kids, or stay home while I’m out at Girls Nights or classes or meetings or whatever! He always says when I’m happy, he’s happy. How great is that?
20. Scott has about 5 email addresses.
21. Scott loves his dogs. He never had a pet as a child and he is head over heels in love with our dog Blackberry, and to a lesser extent, with Cricket. He could play fetch with Bubba for hours. They adore him too!
22. Scott is an early bird. He wakes up every day about 5:30 and is always the first one to work in the morning around 6:30 or 7:00 am.
23. Scott is kind of a geek.
24. Scott’s favorite movie is Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back.
25. Scott was once in a TV commercial dressed as Darth Vader.
26. Scott is a closet Twilight fan. He’s just finished reading the book while walking on the treadmill in the morning.
27. Scott is pretty handy. He’s been channeling his inner Tim Taylor in the past few years. He built a wall in the garage, installed a ceiling fan, and repaired our washing machine, and has been mastering the few tools he’s acquired, while constantly wishing he had more.
28. Scott has a great singing voice.
29. Scott is a wonderful friend. He has become friends with several “older gentlemen” in his train club and I love that he thinks nothing of the so-called “generation gap.”
30. Scott loves kids. He really is a natural teacher. Whether with the kids in Primary or at the train shows, or coaching a team, he loves seeing them smile and enjoy something he has created or taught them–most especially if the kids are named Jesienouski.
31. Scott is passionate. When Scott decides to do something, he does it ALL the way. He throws himself into projects and does it the way he wants. This is something I admire very much about him
32. Scott is an Aquarius which means he is shy, with strong convictions, sometimes hiding the depths of his personality under a layer of frivolity. Fits, I think.
33. Scott’s favorite food, among several favorites, is Italian Sausage…or anything with Italian Sausage in it. He especially loves going to Olive Garden for Zuppa Tuscana and salad.
34. Scott is good with money, and by this, I mean he doesn’t really spend any. He has made a great effort to keep us out of debt and is very thrifty, much to his wife’s dismay.
35. Scott cooks the meals at our house about once a week.
36. Besides working for the state, Scott also runs a computer business on the side, is an officer in his train club, and serves in our church.
37. Scott is very creative. Trains, websites, logos, graphics…he has a very creative mind and finds lots of ways to put it to use. I remember in college he made a basketball court out of masking tape in his dorm room. I  never saw it personally, but I heard about it…it was legendary.
38. Scott is a wonderful provider for our family. He works hard and makes sure that his family wants for nothing. He leads out in making sure we are having Family nights, family prayer, and scripture study. He encourages us to be better in every way. He is always the first to suggest improvement projects and fun activities.
39. Scott is the best father, husband, son, brother, friend a person could have. We are so blessed to have this man in our lives. I have known Scott for 18 of his 39 years–that’s about half his life– and he only gets better with each passing year. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with this wonderful man.

We love you, Scott! I hope your day is amazing. Thanks for sharing your life with us!!!

Well, I have finally gotten back to work on modules for the T-Trak Modular Layout. These two modules allow us to change directions on the layout so now we can do things with the layout instead of just making an oval. The first one is a mountain with tunnels. The mountain lifts off to deal with possible derailments.  I made the trees a new way this time, I used Caspia for the trees, with green foam glued on.  I believe it looks really good and it wasn’t that hard to make a whole bunch of trees, and it was quite cheap, made over a hundred trees for $17.00.  Lots cheaper than the normal trees I buy and a lot more realistic looking.

The next module is my lake module.  I like the sea serpent on my old layout so much that I had Tonya make me a new for the T-Trak layout.  Tonya made it so that it was looking back, so I put a little girl standing on the shoreline and it looks like the dragon is looking at her.  I have named the Dragon Susan after the character in Monsters vs. Aliens.   Again I used the new trees and used a quite a bit of Woodland Scenics Realistic Water in the lake.  Tonya painted the base of the lake to have a shoreline and look like it gets really deep.

Here is a closeup of the little girl and the serpent. You can’t see it in the picture, but I have three adults running away from where the girl is standing. Also, I put some dead trees around the lake to show that when there are not kids to eat, Susan goes around and eats the leaves off of trees. Also to the side you can see part of the dam. On the other side, it has two culverts where water is coming out, looks pretty neat, but the picture of it was blurry, so you will have to trust me.
Lastly, here is a picture of them together. With these two modules and their sister modules that James is building, we can have four trains running on their own tracks and the layout is shaped like a +. It was very popular at the last show we were at, and it is still very easy to move the layout and setup. Can’t wait to put the big layout together again! Hopefully in January! BTW, if you didn’t notice, you can click on the pictures to see a bigger version.

Click on collage to see bigger version!

Scott and I have been married 17 years today! I guess we are getting to be an old married couple:) To celebrate, we took a day trip to Cedar City and revisited Cascade Falls. This was the location of my would-be proposal but timing and weather thwarted all of Scott’s plans…so we went back up a year later (after we were married) and he recreated his proposal for me. Today, we did the same thing. It was actually very fun and quite romantic.

It’s such a beautiful place! It’s an outlet for Navajo Lake just off Highway 14 in Cedar. Red rock, pine trees, and quakies everywhere. The trail was actually closed because parts had collapsed earlier, but all kinds of people were coming and going and they said it was safe enough, so we decided to chance it. And it was! We’re glad we went.

We came down off the mountain and ate at Applebee’s. I was pretty beat. (I do not recommend hiking on a 500 calorie a day diet!!!) I had my steak and broccoli and felt immensely better.

It was just fun to spend time one on one with my wonderful husband. Too often we get caught up in the craziness of life and forget to remember why we love each other in the first place. I always remember quickly after spending any amount of time with Scott. He has always been a natural fit for me–he is so fun and makes me laugh constantly. He has been a terrific husband and father over the past 17 years and I’m so glad to share my life with him.

Happy Anniversary, my love! I’m looking forward to the next 17 and more!

We are refreshed in Puerto Rico!  After having to sleep in the upright position on the plane, we made it to Charlotte at 5 o’clock mountain time (7:00am here) After a short layover there, we flew to Puerto Rico, it was the first time in my life that all I could ever see out the window was water.  Oh and btw, I never got sick on this flight or was even nervous about it, so that was also a first. Once we got here, we ate and then went to sleep for quite a long time.  Thankfully the NASCAR race was very long as it gave us good nap time.  Tonya is downstairs at the opening meeting.  I will take and put pictures online tomorrow. 

I love you girls, please be good and do what is right, hope you sleep better tonight.  See ya later!

What a Day! It started very early in the morning standing in line with Anissa and Tonya (we left the girls a note and a cellphone if they woke up) waiting to get the book.  We also got me an HO Scale Tony Stewart Race car for my layout. When we got home, Tonya read a couple of chapters while I went to bed.  This morning I went and painted some stuff for my train set.  Tonya read much of the morning.  I could wait so I got my own and started reading. Tonya and I spent the day reading and have finished the last book of Harry Potter and we are letting out the big secret! Darth Vader is Luke’s father.

The other day I was watching GTU (see above) and they were talking about making friends as an adult and I thought, “Hey, I write about that very topic on ClubMom. Why don’t I email them and let them know about my stuff.”  So I did.   And….Today I got a reply from Angie Larsen, one of the co-hosts on the show, saying that she looked at my page and was very impressed. She is going to talk about one of my articles on the show on Monday the 13th!  I’m very excited….so tune in and see what nice things she says about me.  It’s on KTVX Channel 4 at 10:00 a.m.   Unfortunately, my ClubMom contract is up this month and won’t be renewed.  Alas, just when I was getting noticed….But, I’m enjoying my 15 minutes while they last! Yay me!

I have finally added the pictures for Taylor and Tonya’s Girls Scout trip. You can check them out here:

Girl Scout Trip

I am caught up with the pictures that I can find As soon as we get my camera back I will add the rest. You can check them out here

Tonya has been helping Anissa setup her classroom. I’m sure Anissa is excited, a few more days and she is in charge of shaping little kids’ lives. No pressure :-p

Tonya is interviewing today for the computer teaching job at Panorama. I hope she gets it.

My mom is coming down tomorrow, so the family is in clean the house mode

Today is Tonya’s Birthday. Unfortunately, however, she is at Girl Scout camp, so there won’t be any parties today. I hope she and Taylorare having fun up there. Shaylie is in Holden with Anje and Bella. We will probably do something for Tonya on Sunday.

In other news, our Toyota is ready. I wonder how much it is going to cost.