I LOVE Leelou and as soon as I figure it out I'm going to dress up my blog from this plain ol' black. I got the 'I Belong' link from Leelou but I'm still trying to make it work. It's supposed to click to the church's website but it's not working quite right. What happened? I used to be so computer savvy but I got left in the dust somewhere along the way.

Woohoo...It's Friday!

I have today off work and I'm so excited but I have a lot going on! Ashley is here from IF so we are going to hang out and probably go see HSM3 since the girls are out of school. I have a lunch date with my friend Les, which will be fun and then I have to swing by work because it's one of my co-workers last days and he had yesterday off so I didn't get the chance to say goodbye. I'm very sad that they are leaving. It was quite fun working with Robert.



Last night Kendra and I went visiting teaching for the first time in a few months. Grant said that we wouldn't go it we were paired together and so far we're only at 50%. Does that mean that he was right? We got a change of sisters and now we are visiting the Relief Society President so I guess that means we'd better step it up a notch, eh?



Last night's lesson was on Gender as an Essential Characteristic and I realized that we, as children of God were waiting in Heaven for Christ to create Earth for us and that this is not the first time we have waited for Christ's return. As we were in Heaven we waited for him to complete his work both creating the Earth and completing his mortal ministry. Interesting huh? Maybe it's silly but it really struck me as being valid and very important. You can read the article here.

Lindsay has her first basketball game tomorrow and I'm very excited! She is really loving BB. I'll take the camera tomorrow and take some pictures.

Lindsay started Basketball

Tonight was Lindsay's first experience with basketball and she had a great time! The kids learned how to dribble and how to pass the ball and then they started shooting baskets. It took her a little bit to get a hang of it but she made 5 or 6. Not too bad for one lesson. She did get hit in the forehead with a ball and we had a few tears but she recovered quickly. I'm definately going to have to take my camera and record her a bit. She'll love that (the mother says sarcastically)!

I'm getting a cold again. I had one last week and by Friday I felt so much better and thought that I was on the mend but by Sunday afternoon it was clear that the cold was back....darn it!

Tonight someone left some goodies and a Halloween Phantom on our front porch. It was sweet! We got Boo'd a couple of weeks ago so this will be fun to spread around too.

I cannot believe how quickly this month is going by. We still need to get our pumpkins and go to the corn maze. We just haven't had any time to do it and on Saturday the corn mazes are so crowded, plus this weekend I'm on call on Saturday and Sunday. Maybe we can go on Friday?

Geez...Almost 4 months without a peep....

I guess I thought I was better about posting! Ooops!

Life is crazy buzy as ever but we cannot complain. We are very blessed!

We just celebrated Lindsay's 9th birthday. I don't know where the time went but my little bitty baby is growing up so fast. We had lots of family come out for dinner and we had a great time. The weather was horrible and it even snowed! JJ took some video of the weather. As soon as I find the memory stick for the camera, I'll try to remember to post it!

We had a great day at church today and I learned so much. I hope that the sisters learn as least something in Relief Society when I teach. I'm afraid that I'm not a very good teacher but I'm trying. I have to teach next week so I need to get a jump on my lesson rather quickly.

One of my visiting teachers just bought a new house outside of the ward boundaries and I'm so sorry that they'll be leaving. She's been such a wonderful friend to me. She comes every month, almost without fail, and she usually brings me some sort of goody. I'll miss her a lot.

I'm going to try to post at least 3 times this week.....hold me accountable eh?

Here's another page from 2002! I'm determined to get caught up on my scrapbooking! I cannot wait to get enough done to put into a photobook. That will be really exciting! These are some photos that we took a few years ago when we went to Aberdeen to visit with the Simpson family. JJ grew up with Darren and he's always been a very positive influence on JJ. We really need to get together again since it's been about 4 years since we last saw them!

Enjoy your week!

Lots of New Pages and Some Very GOOD News!

Last weekend I managed to get 6 new pages done. I've started working with some of our old photos and plan to work my way forward and continue working on keeping up with the current year. These photos are some of our very first with a digital camera. My babies are getting so big!

Now for the BIG news! After nearly 4 years JJ has been offered a full-time courier position! Woohoo! He works so hard for them and at times he's felt as though they keep passing him over but not anymore! They are even considering working his schedule into four 10-hour shifts. That would be wonderful too! And his schedule will change so he can finally have Saturdays off. I'm so proud of him.

Good Morning!

It's freezing in our house this morning! I have much planned for the day but I'm so tempted to jump back in bed because it's warm in there. We have such a busy day today! We've been working in the backyard trying to get it ready to plant grass (or hydroseed). We rented a rototiller on Wednesday and have been raking out the weeds and rocks the last couple of nights. We're getting there. We're more than 3/4 of the way there. My goal for today is to get the rest of the side yard raked and plant some plants along that side of the house (by the A/C unit). We've got the sprinklers system in and working and we have the garden plots done. We just need to bring in the soil for them now.

So we're off to Lowe's this morning. Rake up the side yard. Plant some plants in the back. Plant some flowers in the front. The girls have a Primary activity at the church at 2:00. We have a birthday party/BBQ for Brandi at 3:30. My mom is coming to town tonight for an early Mother's Day dinner, and I'm on call (cross your fingers that no body needs emergency surgery today). Oh and Sage has a birthday party to go to from 11:00 - 2:00. I highly doubt we are going to get it all done but I'm sure going to try my best.

It's nice outside! A bit chilly still but sunny. Enjoy your day! I'll try to post pictures of the yard later.