It was from the Browns!!

The goods are really from a family in our ward named the Browns. You
might know the dad, the sportscaster Steve Brown. Dh actually is
their h t er. Very very nice of them. Neither Dave or I were home when
the Browns came over, this the confusion ; )

Note to self

When faced with shocking or distressing news, sit down and stitch or watch t.v. Anything else you try will have holes in it and will have to be redone. Don't type, write, cook, shop or sew on a machine, sure they are good diversions, but nothing turns out right. Trust me... I have it on good authority. Now if I can only remember this advise :p

When bad things happen

I've been thinking of a recent blog I read on my daily reads. What do we do when bad things happen? "We still love him" is the answer.
adailyscoop.blogspot.com/2008/09/writing-book.html

Something I am watching

Back in August, there was an airplane accident involving the cousin of my brother in law. Three people were involved. One man died, and the married couple involved have been on the long road to recovery in Arizona. They have family in Utah, and are LDS. There are several blogs reporting the progress and fund raising efforts that are on going.
The one I usually follow is http://www.nierecovery.com/

During my reading I found a tiny little way I could try to help. There is going to be a book published with proceeds going to the recovery fund. It is a book of funny things and lifes silly occurances. I decided to submit my whole walmart bathroom ordeal. Check it out.
The recovery story is really something and miracles still happen.

I wondered what I'd write

I saw this on another blog on my recent blog treasure hunt thing.... and wondered what I would write. Don't know if its a "Tag" thing, but you do it too... just for the heck of it and to have something to add to your blog.



Ten Things I Wish I Could Say to Ten Different People Right Now:

1. I love you so much. Please don't ever leave me.
2. I'm sorry you are in pain and life is hard. You've always been so good to me.
3. I pray you will find the answers in your life, and that happiness will be with you
4. I'm so glad your one of the "sisters". You're a good friend to me.
5. Please learn to respect me and see the good things about me.
6. You are such a doll. I love having you in my life.
7. God knew I needed you near, that's why you're in my family
8. Wake up and date my daughters!! (okay, ya, that one is to 100000 guys in Provo and Laie.
9. Having you in my life is the greatest blessing.
10. Thank you for being in my life. I hope I was a good part in your life too.

Nine Things About Myself:

1. I have a quick sense of humor.
2. I have a deep sense of humor.
3. I am incredibly sensitive.
4. I love people easily.
5. I think being nice is very important.
6. I have a great marriage.
7. I'm a crazy family history indexer
8. I've been told I put the F U N in funerals.
9. I am very close to the family I was born to.

Eight Ways To Win My Heart:

1. Listen to what I say
2. Treat me like I am the person I wish I were
3. Love my children
4. Build me up
5. Tell me what I do right
6. care about what I am going through
7. help me accomplish my goals
8. help me to laugh

Seven Things That Cross My Mind a Lot:

1. How many great people are in my life
2. How much I hate politics
3. Ways to side step negative thoughts
4. Why I don't have more pillows in my life
5. When can I start drinking hot chocolate again
6. I wonder how the new great nephews and nieces are
7. Will I ever make it to Scotland/England

Six Things I Do Before I Fall Asleep:

1. Brush teeth
2. Pull my hair back
3. read scriptures or think about reading scriptures
4. Pray
5. Stitch on my applique stitchery (makes family scripture time much better)
6. Tell Dave what a great man he is.

Five People Who Mean a Lot:
1. David
2. My Family I can not cut that down to five, so I include them all. mostly the ones that like me though :)
3. Michelle
4. Lisa
5. Peggy

Four Things You’re Wearing Right Now:

1. Shirt
2. Jeans
3. sun glasses on my head
4. sandals


Three Songs That You Listen to Often (Currently):

1. any early Osmond song makes me happy and pulls me out of a huffy mood. Try it. The costumes and choreography on you tube are very.. um.... fun
2. "Home" from Beauty and the Beast
3. In my daughters eyes

Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die:

1. Be a grandma
2. Go to the land of my ancestors

One Confession:

the only spicy one it that we got a gift pack of coffee and tea the other day.. Dave and I had a little tasting party when the kids were gone.
come on, you really believe that? we were in a coffee tea mail order club somehow, but I cancelled it. weird hua?

What Connie means

Funny little thing here. While I highly disagree with the the communication thing, I will optimisticly hope the rest is very accurate :) check out your name baby!


http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyournameshiddenmeaningquiz/


You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily.
You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind.
A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable.

You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life.
You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you.
At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.
You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.
You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

a few deep thoughts

After reading my friend Alishas blog, I am missing my Kimmie. She is so far away and on her own, and sometimes hurting. I fear she is learning to live without me. When I hug my grown daughters, I think -this was the little girl I held on my hip not too long ago. The one I tickled and comforted and rocked to sleep. It's kinda sad. I know it's the circle of life, and I grew up on my mom too, but it still is sad. I am in a house of boys that need me less and less. It is a totally different mindset then it has been for the last 24 years. Ah, no wonder it's painful. I suppose that the mess of finishing the basement, Cub moving out, and it being a presidential election year is no pic nic on the over all peace either. Back to quilt sewing and the cats I guess...

Sunday at grandmas

A lucky find

what Ive been up to

Two new princesses for the collection, Aub had to put all of them in the origional yet skanky outfits... Mulon and Jasmine joined the party, oh plus Prince Eric Derrick... what ever.. Aubrey did have to fix his one freaky eye with a marker.

Wall of Chocolate

Taste of Home Cooking Show with Laura, I won groceries, and she won a bottle of water. She also chewed much bubble gum while she was with me.

And my stitching!!! cool hua? next month is the last month of the club and I will finish the top of my Thanksgiving wall hanging.

Labor Day 2008

Today we took a leap and had a party with dh's side of the family. We always have fun with that group but don't get together really often. An hour or so into the party our youngest female guest, 4 yrs old, asked if I had any games. Oh boy... I quickly remembered my new fascination with collecting disney princess dolls. They are the rubbery plastic ones meant to be played with. No one had played with them, they were just posing beautifully on my shelf. So I got them for my niece and she started playing with them. The older group played the really-cool-steve-knows-how-to-play-card-game. Eventually Dave was called to the task of helping our little niece match shoes and outfits. He was surprisingly very good at his skills. After our guests left, Cub and I started playing with the dolls. She told me she had two of her own.. and bequeathed me Cinderella's furniture from her set. SWEET! So now I am looking for more play sets like this. I do need the prince guy.. with interchangeable heads, so he can be any prince we need. Heres what I do have. Let me know if you are at Disneyland and I will ask you to help in my new obsession. I will pay :)

Monday night we met at SubZero for a goodbye FHE for Kim. She is off to Hawaii. She traveled all day yesterday and spent the night in Honolulu. Her car actually beat her there, but wont be ready to pick up until today, so she just stayed overnight in the big city. It saves her a little bit of money and time and hassle. She called last night saying it was really humid. I guess it would be :) Glad she made it there.

The View from my house

Monday I was in Provo. When I got on the freeway to come home I saw smoke coming from the mountains. It looked like it was just past the Mt. Timp temple. As I got closer to home, I realized that there must be a fire on the other side of the point-of-the-mountain. Sure enough. It was a brush fire and a little out of control. Some houses had been evacuated. Later that night it rained some. (I thought it was soley because I washed the car. Joseph told me I was wrong, it was because of the fire)
Yesterday as Dave and I came back from the airport, we saw some low smoke right where the fire actually was. It was such a shock to see it.
Well all is well now, but I did take a picture on Monday. Heres the view from right by the Westovers old home.. I know, so sad they moved

Labor pains dont end when the baby is born

Ahhh... milestones and decisions of my people keep coming my way.
Yesterday we dropped Cub off at her provo apartment. Weird stange and a little sad. She is so ready for this step and I know it will be a great adventure for her.
Tomorrow Kim leaves for Hawaii. Wow!! I am so excited for her, yet sad for me. It would make it so much easier if she had a web cam on her at all times.
Mrs Laura has had her own set of disappointments that have hurt me too.
I realize its all a matter of opposition. The good stuff only is good cause there is not-so-good.
I suppose its all good though, just different.

Our 25th

Well the day did not go as well as we hoped. I got a headache from eating too many reeses p b cups, (5 of the tiny ones) so we stayed in and watched the olympics. It was kinda a downer, but I am still so thankful I am married to my dh.
Reminds me of our wedding reception actually.

We planned on a outdoor reception. Right as the last pre reception pictures were snapped, the big ole rain drops started falling. You know, the typical August storm raindrops. Everyone moved the things into the church. It worked just fine. I was a little disappointed by the change, but I was still married, and the rain had no effect on the love I recieved or the love I gave to all the people that came to our party. I still had my boyfriend turned husband. The rain didnt matter at all really.

Such art from Annika! A friend I've known for a LONG time

check these out! so cute. Years ago, we lived next to a family that had twos daughters about the same age as our two girls. The mama was such fun and became a kindred spirit bosom friend. Sadly they moved out of state and we kinda lost track of them. Fast forward to dd #1 buying books at byu bookstore her freshman year, and who should she meet up with? yep, Annika Such fun!!!
So! Our grown up Annika has started her own business on Etsy. I have ordered one of her patterns and am looking at that cake dish and tea set pattern now. hummmm.... that would certainly keep my little hands busy :) check out her cute cute art work and etsy shop.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5652976

dont know if its cool for me to post one of her pictures or not, sorry if you didnt want me to post it Annika. Give your mama a hug for me

My first youtube upload

check it out... its a video of one of my favorite littles, a baby!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRdJrQ7fI4

Imagine this

howd ya like to live here? We will be seeing this place before a years up I predict

my latest weapon

in efforts to keep our kitties off the new couch we have thought of using several devices. After so thought and trial it is evident that the "Scat" product is the best for us. It is a motion sensor on a can of pressurized air. When anyone or any kitty passes past it blows a short blast of air at them. The top offender, Oz, is very scared of it and now leaves the new couch alone. Sweetie kitty also leaves the couch alone (but she is de-clawed and I tell Dave she doesn't scratch with her back paws-- hes not so sure) but she always sniffs around after the air has blown her way, trying to figure that thing out. Stinky.. I have not seen him near the couch or the canned air. But so far so good. Dave wanted to de-claw Oz, but I couldn't stand having him in the house that much- I mean Oz, not Dave.
By the way, David is the best.. we get closer and closer to anniversary 25! WOW. How can that be? I will save my adoration for him for my anniversary post in a few days. I know, I know... you can hardly wait

Fill in Friday.. this one was tough

Here we go:

1. You know you're old when _____bedtime looks good at 8:00 at night_____.

2. My heart is divided between ___sleeping in_ and ___eating breakfast_.

3. __A hair lady, to do my hair__ is what I need RIGHT NOW!

4. I have felt the __joys of motherhood__, I have known the depths of _discouragement in not knowing what to do__.

5. Gah, won't these people _ go away___. (Im not a crowd or line kind of girl)

6. __Eat breakfast_ as soon as you can!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to _big family pic nic____, tomorrow my plans include ___working on the basement mess____ and Sunday, I want to _see friends at church__!