My Aunt sent this to me in an email and I thought about forwarding it to all my family, since this goes around with my friends often. So, instead I decided to blog it. Have fun. Hoepfully I'll see this on my sister's blogs soon.

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:40 am

2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds, but not too many

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Horton Hears a Who

4. What is your favorite TV show? Lost

5. What do you usually have for Breakfast? Raisin Bran cereal

6. What color are your eyes? Blue

7. What is your middle name? Eleanor

8. What food do you dislike the most? Indian

9. Favorite CD at the moment? John Harrigan's MP3

10. What kind of car do you drive? right now the 1997 Saturn, Expedition is still being worked on!!!

11. Favorite sandwich? Chicken Salad

12. What characteristic do you despise? Conceit

13. Favorite item of clothing? Shoes

14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?
Some beach in the South Pacific, Tahiti?

15. What color is your bathroom? Neutral tan

16. Favorite brand of clothing? Ann Taylor, Banana Republic

17. Where would you retire to? Tough call, unsure where we are even gonna be next year!

18. What was your most recent memorable birthday? 30th when Stephen threw a surprise party

19. Favorite sport to watch? baseball

20. Farthest place you are sending this to? The furthest corner of the internet world

21. Who do you least expect to blog this back? Candace

22. Person you expect to send it back first? Karen

23. Favorite saying? Oh man. Shoot. Fiddlesticks! (a grampaw-ism)

24. When is your birthday? September 11

25. Are you a morning person or a night person? Depends on the kids

27. Pets? Verdi and Puccini- dogs

28. What would you like to share with us? Read my blog and you'll see.

29. What did you want to be when you were little? a teacher

30. How are you today? Thankful

31. What is your favorite candy? Chocolate

32. What is your favorite flower? Hydrangea

33. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? End of July-Taking Cavett to Disneyworld

34. What is your full name? Jennifer Eleanor Dent Hill

35. What are you listening to right now? The dryer

36. What was the last thing you ate? York Peppermint Ice Cream

37. Do you wish on stars? Sometimes

38. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Blue

39. What is the weather right now? Wet and cloudy

40. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Nana

41. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Definitely

42. Favorite soft drink? Diet Coke

43. Favorite restaurant? Perry's Steakhouse

44. Hair color? Strawberry blonde

45. Siblings? 2 sisters, 1brother

46. Favorite day of the year? Christmas

48. Summer or winter? Summer

47. What was your favorite toy as a child? Fisher Price Little People

49. Hugs or kisses? Kisses

50. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate

51. Do you want your friends to email you back? Yes

52. When was the last time you cried? March 30 reading Candace's blog

53. What is under your bed? Nothing

54. Who is the friend you have had the longest? Carol Beth Land Ivory, since I was 5. Now we are in the same Sunday School Class!

55. What did you do last night? Out to eat with Nana

56 Favorite smell? Easter Lilies

57. What are you afraid of? Drowning

58. Plain, buttered, or salted Popcorn? Butter and salt

59. How many keys on your key ring? too many

60. How many years at your current job? 2.5 years

61. Favorite day of the week? Any day Stephen is not working

62. How many towns have you lived in? 3- Shreveport, Houston, Sugar Land

A Quick Nana Visit

For the past 2 nights we have had the pleasure of having Nana for dinner. She is in town (literally staying in Houston, near the Galleria) for a conference. So, last night we met her in town for a Mexican dinner and tonight she came to our house for some pasta and "the going place." Of course, if we say that after dinner, it usually means an ice cream parlor. This time it was Baskin Robbins, because we desparately needed new pink spoons. (They are the best for cereal with milk for little ones. Just the right size and deep enough to keep things in place!)

After dinner and putting kiddos to bed, I spent my favorite quality time with Nana--figuring out sewing projects. She is so good at just looking at something and then making up a pattern for it. This time it was a case for the kids new portable DVD player. We are so lucky to have such a talented Mom.

We love you, Nana!

New Friends

We have been going to our Sunday School class, the Lamplighters, since August. But last night was the first time that we have really hung out with several of them at the same time socially. Carol Beth had us all over for Gumbo and Strawberry Cake. A good time was had by all, especially the new babies. Kendrick got a kick out of chewing on Mary Katherine's feet. We are so blessed to have found this wonderful, supportive, and caring class and look forward to the many years of growth of new friendships and in Christ ahead of us.

FYI- Please say a prayer for Ella, Carol Beth's daughter. Monday morning she will have surgery to remove a bronchial remnent in her chest. Nothing major, day surgery, but she will be put under complete anesthesia.

Addendum: Unfortunately, there was no memory card in my camera and no one else got a pic. Oh, well, until next time. Ella is out of surgery and doing very well.

A Little Lecture

Last night I was reminded of one of the reasons I fell in love with Stephen.

This week the UTMB Dental School called and asked him to come do a lecture today for one of their elective classes on Neuromuscular Dentistry. It was a lot of work to prepare a lecture with a power point on such short notice, but I told him he should do it anyway. Thursday night he worked diligently on it and a bit more at work on Friday. Last night I got to hear the presentation.

It brought back memories from our time in dental school. Nights when I would quiz him on different parts of the skull, or when he taught me the numbers of the teeth or the names of the surfaces. I felt like I was in school along with him. Since we had no kids we really got to talk about what he was doing at school.

As most of you know for the past 3 years Stephen has been going to Las Vegas to LVI, a dental institute for Neuromuscular Dentistry. Since I wasn't watching him study and we didn't really talk about what kinds of things he was leartning out there, I didn't realize how much he had learned.

His presentation was excellent and I even learned a few things. He is well spoken, and just funny enough to keep it interesting. He makes a fantastic teacher. He is so smart not only in the actual field of dentistry but in the other areas it takes to run a business and deal with people. Obviously the folks at the dental school agree with me or else they wouldn't have asked him. I am so proud of him. Maybe this is God's plan for Stephen.

The pictures are actual before and afters of one of Stephen's patients. This man had severe pain associated with his TMJ. After correcting his bite, pain was gone.

No nap

Cavett didn't take a nap today which is really strange because last night he was up until about 10:30 since we had church choir. So this after laying in his bed for an hour and a half, I told him he could get up and play or read quietly until Kendrick woke up.

I sewed on a baby blanket as I listened to John Harrigan's (a missionary for IHOP, International House of Prayer) MP3 of the Western Worldview. (Mind blowing stuff!) Cavett read several books in a laundry basket. It brought back so many memories of childhood afternoons. Mom was quite the seamstress. If she wasn't cooking, cleaning, doing laundry or refereeing fights, she was sewing. I can remember sitting at her feet playing with my Fisher Price Little People. Just being in the same room was comforting. Good times. I hope that Cavett will look back on these times when Mommy is "busy" and think the same.

Second Day

Wednesday is the day that Kendrick and I get to spend together, the majority of it without big brother. It's Cavett's long day at school- we drop him off at 9:30 and pick up at 2:00. He doesn't take a nap at school, so most of the time he crashes at home for 2 1/2 hours before we rush to church.

So, today Kendrick and I ran a couple of errands and then headed home for his nap. He slept about an hour while I made his baby food. We ate lunch together and laughed. He got a book read to just him and we even had our first game of catch. He's a sweet one.

P.S.- For the record for those of you who haven't seen him lately, 2 top teeth have come in. However, they aren't the front 2. He has fangs! Dentist Dad was a bit nervous, but Nana said it's ok. Aunt KK's came in that way.

Crawling Transmission

Today we caught Kendrick really crawling. He started thinking about it this weekend and I think he has about mastered it. This morning while I was ironing his outfit, he was eyeing the cord and immediately I thought, "I am in trouble! Here it comes." His poor little knees are so red.

On another subject, we are thanking God we got home safely yesterday. When we pulled in our driveway, the Expedition didn't sound very good. Stephen drove around the neighborhood a bit more and decided it was the transmission. So, we dropped it off at the shop last night. This morning they called and confirmed. I guess we are due. We are at 100,000 miles and it's a 2003. There goes the dividend.