HAPPY FORTH OF JULY!!

 

Stadium of FI-RE!!!

Hey Look at Me! I'm Waving a Flag!

 

WAY TO GO FAMILY!

If you couldn't guess, Joe's oldest sister and her family visited recently - what a blast! Though we didn't really go out and do anything super exciting, it was really nice just to hang out and get to know the kiddo's again :) Hopefully soon I'll have some pics to add from my trip home in May as well! Way to go family! :)

The Flower... Boy?

 

 

SUPER GIRL!

 

Waterboy 2

 

The Waterboy

 

 

Aren't they adorable?!

 

Joe and his baby niece Jes :)

Look at those cutie cheeks!!

 

The BEST Yard Sale EVER! :)

Just in case you didn't already get the memo... :)

The BEST Yard Sale EVER!!!
Ok, so that might be a slight exaggeration, but not by much! We’ll have:
•Furniture from Cushy chairs to desks and Dressers!
•Clothes – Tons of it and most Like NEW!
•A Stove and other appliances!
•Plus all of the other random items that make yard sales so great!
-AND! In addition you’ll have the opportunity to buy a product still new on the market that helps make sure you’ll never lose your keys or cell phone again! Come find out more about FKP’s and get one while I’m selling them for ½ the normal going Sales price
-ALSO-Place orders for CUSTOM art work, or buy an original piece right there!
-PLUS! you can book a photographer to take your next family pictures or to photograph your next big event for only $20 an hour and YOU get the neg.s in hr.s for free!
594 N. 850 W.
Provo
Sat June 24 starting at 8 AM
Call 376-5644 with any ?’s.

FKP

Hey guys!! I'm starting to sell these REALLY cool products and am giving special friends and family deals for the next week or so - Check out the products at http://www.finderskeypurse.com/ Anyway, check them out and let me know if you're interestsed or have questions! Love ya!

Is THIS the picture you guys didn't want me to post on my blog? ;)

 

Our Baby...

Yes'em... our beloved mini-van was involved in an accident about a week and a half ago... Luckly, Joe was ok plus it was totally the other lady's fault so as we speak, our baby is in surgury. It may take all week, but hey! At least she can be saved!

And for those of you who think it's funny we drive a mini-van, let me just tell you! It's a wonderful car with lots of room and it's not that bad on gas milage... so YES! I may look like a soccer mom, but this lean, mean driving machine is a piece of functional art! (also, it was the best deal on a bigger vehical my dad could find after I rolled the SUV I was driving at the time - whoops!)

Insomnia

I'm tellin you guys, when insomnia hits, you can forget about counting sheep, cuz it aint gonna help! Suck! This is the third night in a row that I haven't slept very well at ALL!! Today it was about 4 am on the dot when my body decided it was time to wake-y wake-y! Do you know how much that sucks?! (Sorry - my grandma would be really mad if she knew I kept on saying stuff sucks - SUCK SUCK SUCK! jk grandma)

So now it's about 20 to 7 and my body is saying,.... well, ok, maybe you can go try to take a nap now that you've watched the end of a law and order, the apprentice finally and messed around with your email and various blogs. Oh wait!! But that's right! Your husband should be up any second and you decided to take him to work so you could have the car today!! Well, I guess that means no more sleep for you! Shucks, maybe next time! BLAH!

I know... this is all my body's evil way of getting back at me for sleeping too much last week. Heaven forbid I actually get a NORMAL amount of sleep for once! I've got enough messed up health problems as it is! Why the crap can't I just SLEEP like a normal person! Maybe because no one ever seems to sleep normally anymore... who knows.

Just in case you think this is just an over reaction to a one time occurrence, oh no! There I go, sleeping like a baby for a month or so at a time then WHAM! 2, 3, ... 10 days in a row, and I don't once make it through the night. ... SUCK! (sorry gram)

SAVE MARRIAGE!

Hey friends! PLEASE contact your senators FAST!! They will be voting on an amendment to save marriage on JUNE 6th so we have to act soon!! Thankfully, there is a site you can go to that will send an email to your senators after you fill out some simple information, like your name and address - that's it!! The home pages is: http://www.religiouscoalitionformarriage.org/ and http://www.rcm.org/actionemail-us/step1-a.php should take you directly to the email page. There's some really good information as well. Spread the word!!!

Ya never get sick of 'em - unless they're yours of course ;)

I do have some real thoughts I'd like to post someday... but until I actually get to it, I'll just post cute pictures of relatives instead - this time, it's of one of the only nephews I have - out of 16 nieces and nephews from my husband's family and mine combined, little T-man is only one of 4 boys surrounded by females :) You're a cutie, little T!

Up close and personal

 

Redo

So here's the almost finished redo - Sarah I hope you still like it!

 

I don't have much time, but I just wanted to announce that Old Blue has gone the way of Nemo... except that he wasn't still alive :( Yesterday I changed the water and he was swimming around like a crazy maniac... followed by periods of irractional vertical and horizontial floating and then more manic swimming... I guess the stress of changing water coupled with last weeks fight were just too much... :( I can't believe I killed him...He died in cold blood... wait...

Whoever wants it...

So I did this painting and don't really want it so... The stuff on the sides is actually kinda light purple and I'll even add some little flowers or something to the branches if you want. So whatdoya say? Free art! One of a kind! Otherwise I'll put it in a closet and pull it out on Holloween. :) 

Murmurando...

I have yet to quejarme or murmurar about my family's recent trip to THAILAND so I thought I would just take that opportunity now :) I mean, REALLY - who would WANT to go anyway! Gorgeous beaches, exotic lands, really cheap food... What a disaster! I mean I really feel sorry for my parents, younger brother, younger sister and niece that all went for a week a little while ago to meet up with my brother who decided to take his R&R from the army in Thailand. I'm sure they were all really sad to be FORCED to take this amazing trip to a mysterious and far off country - Or NOT! I mean, REALLY! They've been to more foreign lands than I have and I'm at LEAST 8.5 years older! And I served a mission! In a far of land! Even 2 slightly younger "niece/nephews" of mine probably could have gone, but for some reason their possibly slightly more sane parents didn't seem to think that a 12 and 15 year old wander around a unfamiliar continent was that good of an idea.
So that's it. I wish I had gotten to go and ride an elephant while talking on a cell phone! - The funny thing is that if I wasn't doing such a dumb thing like trying to finish school and GRADUATE, I probably could have!

HOLY JUMPING BETA-FISH!

For those of you who don't know, I am the proud mother of two little beta fish - aka fighting fish - or so I was told.... It all started in February when Joe was out of town for a group project in Mexico - rough life, I know. Anyway, I was reading this book and it said that it was healthy to have pets so... I got one! Rosie (Vincent) became my first beta. Well, soon after my neighbors found out there was a beta in need of rescuing! Luckly I had a tank that would accomidate 2, so... Well, yesterday as I was cleaning the tank, Old Blue made a break for it! 3 times he jumped the wall and was a bid dazed and confused after the final attempt! You'd think that after that, the sucker would take a break - But no! Today when I left the cover off the tank, Old Blue jumped the the divider! Luckly for him and not so lucky for Rosie, he landed in the other side! When I realized I was horrified! When I evven just allow them to see each other, they go nuts! So I was relieved when I realized they were just poking around! Whew! I guess so much for them being fighters!

Post Script - Apparently things weren't quite as friendly as I thought - poor Blue seems to be a little worse for the wear... Definatly not his best week!

Families can be ...

Just another experiment in photography! :)
Taken April 27, 2006 

Standardized ... SNAKES!!

Actually, Joe doesn't start working until NEXT Monday - I on the other hand started YESTERDAY! Whew! No rest for the .... oh, never mind! Boy, did we have a GREAT weekend last ... well, weekend with our friends and family! What a rush! Wait -what was I talking about? Oh! My job! I'm back at my elementary school of choice tutoring kids in Math and Reading as well as helping with/translating standardized tests for the young'ens!
What else am I supposed to be announcing?...

Well, who knows... but there was a SNAKE in my yard this weekend! YIKES!! It was like 2 feet long!! And was about 6 inches from my hand! I thought my dad had tossed a fake one on the ground near me! I mean, Maddy has fake snakes around all the time! HOWEVER, this one was NOT fake! GET OUT!

Graduate and Workin Away!

As far as the promised announcements... here's one for ya! Joe and I graduated! Well, at least Joe did - I just pretended since I'm not really done till August. But we figured it was probably best I walked NOW, especially since we didn't have a CLUE where we'd be come August...

Which Brings Us to Announcement #2 - As I indicated before, Joe got a job at a Enginering Co. in Springville called Wencor! We ARE happy to be staying here and working on our house! I just have way too many ideas - which is pretty crazy since I've never been really good with the decorating thing! On the other hand, having ideas doesn't really make them GOOD ideas... so I still might not be very good at the decorating thing..... Oh well! I guess I'M the one who has to listen to it, so BLAH! I want to put in more pics and this post doesn't seem to want to let me do that so... on to the next one!

SO this is a pic I took this last weekend as I was messing around with a new camera I got - It's not nessisaraly a super great pic but I still like it - I call it "Heaven and Earth" - cheezey, huh? :) But hey - it's kinda fun :)