I thought tag was for 10 year olds!!

Okay, I've been tagged four times since Tuesday....so I am going to make up my own rules and combine my tags.

5 Things I hate to admit about myself:

1. I love Civil War reenactments. Gone with the Wind is one of my favorite movies, and when I was little I secretly wanted to be like Scarlet O'Hara when I grew up.

2. I also like Motown music...I love Aretha Franklin and can sing most of her songs. When I am in the car by myself, I will throw in her greatest hits CD and sing R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

3. My daughter at 5, has memorized more Bible versus than myself. I know a lot of versus just not which books they can be found in. Bob and I have both started working on our memorization skills.

4. I am very bad speller, and am totally spoiled by spell check.

5. I miss not being home with my kids everyday (most days), but at the same time I really like my job. I find it satisfying to know that Iowans are receiving good health care in part by my job.

7 Things you don't know about me:

1. I am left handed.

2. I helped my high school golf team win the State Championship my senior year in high school. In fact, Bob has never beaten me in golf....I secretly love it and I know it drives him crazy.

3. I hate to clean toilets and showers and fold laundry. I have a wonderful husband who usually cleans the toilets and showers for me and folds 75% of our laundry.

4. Fall is my favorite time of the year. I absolutely love fall colors...red, orange, yellow and brown.

5. It drive me crazy that I have white hair, and that they stick straight up when I pull my hair back in a pony tail...so EVERY TIME I pull my hair back I use a tweezers to pull the white hairs out!

6. I am the only one in my house who knows how to fill the dishwasher!

7. Finally, I love being with my entire family. I am very thankful that God gave me such a loving husband, children, parents, sister, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. I love playing games with my Grandmas, they crack me up. I secretly get excited when my kids to something bad because I know it will make a good story and put a smile on some one's face.

So I'm not linked to anyone blog. (In fact I usually use everyone else's blog to blog hop!) I barely have time to put pictures up of my family, so no one gets tagged from me. Have a good weekend.

Kent Park

This was a beautiful day in
September, so we decided to take advantage of it. After church we loaded the kids and went to Kent park with the Gradys. We had a picnic lunch and then let the kids throw rocks in the lake. After that we took them to the park. At the time we didn't know that the Gradys would be moving to Waterloo in a few months. I am so thankful for their friendship and the fun times that we have got to spend together while they have been in Iowa City. They will be missed!!

Birthday in Marshalltown

Kalin had her last birthday party in Marshalltown. We got to spend time with family and play a few games. It was a lot of fun!

Kalin's 5th Birthday

Kalin got to choose what she wanted to eat for her special birthday meal. We had Kraft Mac-n-cheese, strawberries and grapes, Doritos, and chocolate milk.
I also made her a giant M&M cookie!
Kalin's birthday present was a John Deere Gator, which she needs to share with her brother.
She also got some tools. Here Kalin is building a house and Andrew is reading the directions.

Kalin and Addison's 5th Birthday

Kalin and Addison celebrated their 5th birthday together this year. For those of you who don't know Kalin and Addison are about 12 hours apart. Her Mom and I were literally next to each other in the delivery room at the hospital, so these two have been best friends since day one.

Bank robber at the Rotzoll house?

Okay....no bank robber was actually in our house, but we had a very interesting afternoon yesterday and I thought you guys might in joy the story.

Anyway here goes....Around 2:30 yesterday afternoon I was checking the local paper internet site for the news and I noticed that there was a bank robbery in North Liberty. I thought it was funny b/c the suspect was a white male, 5'10", and was wearing a blue plaid shirt and brown shoes. Bob totally fit the discription b/c he had on his blue plaid but no brown shoes. At the time I didn't realize that we were going to be in the middle of all the action.

Then around 3:15 Bob comes charging in my office saying that the sheriff was on the phone and that local police dog followed the robber's scent and it lead to our front door! The police had our house surrounded and they needed us to come home right away so they could search our house. (One way to get out of work early). So Bob and I practically run to our car and head home. We get there and the whole street is lined with police cars and unmarked cars and there are police literally walking around our house. In addition to the police cars, two local news stations are there with cameras! So Bob opens the garage door using the key pad thing and I am kind of just standing there and the policeman says, "You may want to step aside" and I look down and he has his weapon drawn! So of course I quickly go over to the empty lot next door. They went through our entire house and found nothing, praise the Lord....but needless to say it was quite exciting.

So we watched the 5:00 news and it was the lead story. They showed the bank and a security picture of the guy and then they were like, "The dogs traced him to this house"...and there was a picture of our house on tv. (Luckily I trimmed the bushes a couple of weeks ago so it was looking pretty good.)

You know how I like to tell stories and make people laugh...this is going to be retold a lot of times!