Books! (Not about Babies)

Totally stole this from a friend but it seemed pretty fun since I love to read but NEVER have time to anymore. So I thought I'd test how I've done so far. 

 

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC really actually never said that it believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here, but it's still fun to fill this out and show everyone how smart YOU are compared to them.

Instructions: Copy this.

• Bold those books you've read in their entirety.

• BLUE the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

ME HERE: And the ones in GREEN are what I want and intend to read!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4. Harry Potter Series- JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Some of these I'd like to read I'm sure and would be green if I did a little research to find out more about them, but didn't have time for that today. Glad to see though that I've read 18. Whoo-hoo!

Pigtails

Really this is just a blog post to show off the adorable new hairstyle that Libby-loo is rocking. It's too cute for me not to share. ;)

Watching Big Bird and Elmo

Just reading...

Playing some instruments

After being told to put bum down.

Loves her boots so much, she just wants to eat them up!

It's been a long time, but we're still here

So I know that I've really been terrible about blogging and such but I have some awesome excuses:

-I have the oldest most ANGRY laptop in all the world and it hates to even turn on

-I am now an almost full-time student for the second time, working on yet another degree and pile of debt

-It's always the last thing on my list of things to do and even though it's something I want to do, those things always fall into the last or never category

-Zombie apocalypse is coming and I had to prepare?

-I have this super cute fella who I rarely spend enough quality time with (lately it's mostly time spent with me freaking out over the latest assignment or addition to my to-do list that I have zero time for) 

See isn't he adorable?

But anyways.... at the very least I figured I should really try and be better about this because Elizabeth is just so adorable and growing so quick and I feel as though I am really not doing her cute face justice by not sharing it with you. So here goes.

Lots has happened with Elizabeth in the past few months. She's walking and talking and just as fun as can be lately. I love playing with her and literally watching as her mind grows and figures out new things. It's also fun to have conversations with her now because she'll try talking to me and I only catch like one word out of 10 that she's trying to say. It'll go something like, "ga, blah, nana, ba, ta, BALL, la, buh ba, ta, na" and although I know in her mind that sentence makes perfect sense; I wish in my ears it did too. But it's still fun to talk to her and see her try and communicate what's in her thoughts. 

She also loves to play in her bed when she wakes up!

  Let's see..... we've gone on lots of adventures lately. We've been to the zoo which was quite fun despite the spurts of rain that happened while we were there. I've never seen Elizabeth so happy and active as at the zoo. She wanted to run all over and explore and see all the animals. She also made the noises for elephants, sheep, pig, cow (her favorite), and birds. It really was a lot of fun and I wish that I had more opportunities to do things like this with her. 

Watching the polar bears

Having so much fun running around the zoo!

The park is also our new fun place to be and as long as there isn't any rain we are there! If it's cold its not a problem cause we just bundle up and have fun! Libby is such a daredevil and from day one at the park would climb up the structure herself, get situated at the top of the closest slide and SWOOSH downs she goes, all by herself, no fear. She'd do this for hours if I'd let her too. But the swings have really been the area of hesitation. She'll want to get in them and swing for about 3 seconds and then she wants back out again. Although there is a big swing at our normal park that she's sort of ok with and I think she likes it better because it's like a big chair. (see below) 

This is her preparing to go down

Checking out the beautiful leaves

SO pretty girl

And DOWN she goes!

The BIG swing!

 The other big thing that has happened recently is Halloween and of course Elizabeth was a cow because that's the animal noise she can consistently do and because it was too freaking adorable. So I'll end today with the little cow girl and also a pic of her in my favorite outfit (that she owns of course!). 

Ha Ha...Moo!

Just LOVE that skirt! She also has a black top with a pink skull on it that I got her but couldn't find that picture~

Playing Catch Up

There's been a lot going on in the past week and I haven't had a chance to sit down and write about any of it! Last Saturday my favorite family down in Corvallis (I watched all 3 of their children and continue to visit them frequently) invited my man and I down for a visit. We were excited because at our last get together we did an 'adults only' night out and it's been awhile since I've seen the kids. They have three kids: oldest is a 5-year old boy (M), then 2-year old girl (A) and finally the newest boy(L) is one. They are the most amazing kids and I've always had a most special relationship with the entire family. 

So we drove down Saturday evening and unfortunately A. wasn't feeling well and went straight to bed and L. being young still heads to bed early as well. So it was just M with Cole and I all to himself (and Max the dog). M. is at this age where he's really becoming a boy and is less interested in playing with any girls and will choose the dude if the choice is given. So needless to say he and Cole were like peas in a pod or something. :)

They spent the remainder of the evening building lego castles while Max and I hung out and watched. It was pretty adorable seeing them interact and for once getting to sit back and enjoy someone else playing. And at the end of the night, M. wanted Cole to put him to bed. It was heartbreaking for me but adorable that he loved Cole so much. 

Elizabeth and I had a pretty fun day today as Fridays are "Tiny Tots" group at the library. It's like a giant playgroup where we sing, read, play with toys and have a great time together. Elizabeth loves to go and although she is usually shy and just hangs out with me; today she was all over the place. She loves the teacher "Jane" and was making friends left and right leaving no time to hang out and sing songs with me! I think I was the one having a harder time with the separation than she.

Here are a few pictures of her fun......

Want to play ball with me?

Making new friends

Peek-a-boo! Can you see me?

Girl's Gotta have her Shoes

Another day, another adventure. Today we traveled to the mall. This isn't typically somewhere that we would go except that Elizabeth's mom had bought her these great new jelly sandals from GAPkids and I decided we should get another pair as I can see they are going to be used a lot! PLUS, they were on sale! So we packed up around 9:45am and headed to the mall with snacks and the stroller and had a great time. We found the shoes.....

....and I found some things at Bath and Body to buy with this giftcard I've had in my wallet for far too long. It was a good trip for us. Plus it's always fun to do something outside of the house and we got back just in time for nap so I'm hoping she'll sleep well today. Didn't sleep great yesterday as she woke up after only about an hour (unusual for the girl who sleeps about 2 hours) and although visibly tired; wouldn't go back to sleep. I guess it just happens sometimes. Although if it were me, I'd have slept the whole day. But unfortunately in life we only get naps at the beginning and end of things. The part in the middle where we work till we want to die is when we never have time to rest. Oh well. 

I thought I'd share a few more pictures today of Elizabeth that her grandma sent me and I just love. 

Didn't I tell you that she loves DORA? In fact while we were at GAP today she was reading a Dora book in her stroller and loving life. "Do-da" is her way of saying Dora and it's adorable. She used to say "Ra-ra" which for the longest time I always thought was me (Ta-ra..... unfortunately just like Do-ra) Oh well. ;)

And here's one last one of the little angel girl. I just love her. 

 AND who couldn't love those curls with those big eyes!