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Conference and Car wrecks

October 8, 2007 – 3:19 pm

Wow the wild ride that is my life just doesn’t slow down. We had a wonderfully blissful time watching conference. Believe it or not all my kids behaved themselves for all 4 sessions of conference. Of course due to the wonderful conference bingo game. I love that game and the creative person who came up with it.

On Sunday we went over to my in-laws house for breakfast and conference, and stayed for both sessions. I really needed this conference. I don’t know that I heard anything earth shattering, I just needed the grounding that it gave me. I just needed something to bring me back to center. Life has been crazy for so many months now it was great to do nothing but listen to the apostles teach at conference.

At grandma’s house we cheated a little, and let Cole play blocks quietly during the morning session.

This morning we got up early to get Ash ready to leave for the airport. At about 7:00 I got a phone call that I recognized as being from Iraq. When I answered the phone my brother-in law was asking me what happened to Ben. Ben is his best friend, he’s know him since they were kids. Ben is a very important part of the family, he is just like family. I’ve know the kid since he was 8. I told him I didn’t know, but I would find out. After a little hunting, and a little lying (I had to pretend I was immediate family) I was able to find out that he had been in a car wreck and was at LDS hospital in the ICU. So I took Ash to the airport and ran over to the hospital to see if they would let me in. They did let me in, but I wasn’t ready for what I found. Ben broke his neck and will never walk again. I couldn’t believe it, he is only 25, has 2 step kids and a baby on the way in December, and he will never walk again.

I then had to make the phone call to Iraq and let Corey know what I found. He took it pretty hard, and is on his way home in the next few days. Ben is pretty upbeat about the whole thing, and his sweet wife Megan is holding everything together for now. His mom and sister came to town. (Ben lost his dad a few months ago, so this is just another major blow). It is good to have them here. His mom is handling a lot so Megan can focus on Ben.

I spent the morning at the hospital, and then came home to get my kids from school. I’m going to go back up their as soon as my sister gets here to watch my kids. Oh funny side note, my little sister went in to see Ben and promptly passed out TWICE. What a wimp.

Anyway does anyone have any ideas of how I can be useful? I have often heard stories of service that people have given, and thought “I wish I would have thought of that.” I just don’t know how I can help.

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Party at My House!

September 22, 2007 – 7:49 am

Well Ash is still out of town, and I’m really bored. Not that I don’t have plenty I could be doing, I just don’t feel like it with him gone. So I decided to have a party at my house last night. We had a scrapbook/stamping party from 7:00 until whenever (the last guest left at 2:00 this morning).

So I’m sure you are probably wondering what I’m doing up at 8:00 in the morning after getting to bed at about 2:30. Well my youngest son has an internal clock that goes off at 6:00 every morning and makes him think it’s time to get up. I wish I could find his snooze button.

So check out some of our stuff.

I didn’t really do these, but I’m totally going to steal the idea.

This is going to be my Christmas cards, but there is some blue mittens

that are going to hang from the white strip with twine.

Anyway we had a blast, and I’m definitely doing that again soon.

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Back from Paradise

August 28, 2007 – 11:02 am

We are home finally (2 weeks is a long time to be away from home), and it’s back to reality. We had a great time on our trip, but I’m glad to be home in my own bed. We did and saw so much I don’t know where to start, so I’ll just post some pictures with a little commentary.

Our first stop was Seattle where we hung out with family and friends

This is my nephew, and my best buddy. He calls me everyday, and tells on his mom when she’s being mean ;0)

We had dinner at the most white trash restaurant ever, but the food was good.

Notice the onion rings that you order by the foot. Seriously by the foot. My dad ordered 2 FEET, who can eat 2 feet of onion rings. Come on people.

Then it was on to Hawaii. Of course no trip of ours would be complete without a major disaster. This time it happened to be a natural disaster.
We arrived at the airport to find that not only was their a category 4 hurricane headed for Hawaii, but they had a earthquake earlier that morning.

Our first stop was the USS Arizona

Cole was obviously impressed.

The quit reverence, and calming spirit were amazing.

This is part of the ship that is still sticking out of the water, and oil bubbles out every few minutes.

This is the original anchor for the USS Arizona.

Cole woke up long enough to shoot the guns.

Well this is turning into a novel so I’ll post more later.

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An Ugly Ugly word

July 28, 2007 – 11:47 am

I was reading a blog last night from one of my favorite bloggers, about being envious. Envy is such an ugly word. I think as women we are all envious of someone or something. I like to think of it as appreciating others good qualities, instead of envy. (like my justification)

I envy/appreciate people who have a lot of children, and do it well. (while I struggle with 3) Like Linda, and Adria. Who I met last night for the first time. The story about that is really quit pathetic. My husband got a twitter message while we were on a date that Phil and Adria where at Ikea. Well I’ve been trying to meet Adria for about 6 months now, and since I missed her at Thursday’s Utah blogger dinner because I was in Park City with the kids school shopping, I made him run over to Ikea so we could “bump into them”. Adria is exactly how I pictured her, totally charming and fun. I digress, back to the topic at hand.

I envy/appreciate people who write really well like cjane, and Isabel. These ladies rock! I wish I was as witty.

I envy/appreciate people who’s house is always clean when you drop by unannounced like Jodi, and Jen (who doesn’t have any kids so I don’t know if she counts)

I envy/appreciate people who know the difference between where and were and there and their since I have never been able to keep that straight, or people who don’t have to use spell check every 30 sec. for that matter.

I envy/appreciate people who have the guts to go against a failing system and pull their kids out of school and home school like Loha, Penny, and once again the amazing Adria.

Those that can say what’s on their mind like Lucky Red Hen

Those that are amazingly creative like Dev,Â Cassi, and Tasha

Those who always remember to send “Thank you” cards like Gail, Megan, and Julie

And last but not least anyone who’s husband works 9-5 and isn’t self employed (stressful)

Does this make me a bad person? Is being envious always wrong, or is it ok if I pick the best qualities of others, and strive to make them my own? Or am I totally justifying a bad habit?

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