A message in the sky!

On Memorial Day we went to the cemetary. They had balloons and markers and you could write a message to a loved one and then all at the same time we let them go. It was very neat and touching.

Holding the balloons until the man said, "let them go."
We love you mom and dad.

It was a little windy, but that just made for better balloon flying when we let them go.

It looked very cool.

Beautiful with the flags surrounding the headstone

Halloween Party 2010....

I yam what I
yam.



















Superman and Wonder woman looked great.


Big strong Popeye and wimpy Charlie Chaplin.






Paul Blartt, mall cop, and Sherlock Holmes, I presume.

We had a lot of "TURTLE POWER"



















I'm not lion, Bobby and Beth's costumes were grrrrrreat.

Doing the dishes or unwrapping Star Bursts.

Minute to win it, picking up m & m's with a straw and putting them in a cup.

There's Marn always clowning around.

27 Years

On October 7th Brian and I celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary. I have now been married longer than I was single. Brian made reservations at the Anniversary Inn in Logan (with some help from his secretary, thanks Robyn). We have done this for the last 4 years. Heather and Adam got us started on this great tradition of going somewhere for our anniversary when they sent us to Orem the year they got married as a thank you. It is so relaxing just doing what we want with no schedule other than asking, "do you want to do this or go here or go there".

Brian, thanks for 27 wonderful years. You're the best, don't know what I did to deserve you, but I sure am glad I'm married to you! Love Nae

Glad to be Back to Part-time

I just finished two months of working full time, I have just two letters for this, PU. Working full time stinks. I did like the extra money but my house is a mess. I had flashbacks of when I worked full time when the kids were little and the kitchen cabinet never got cleaned off. Which is kind of surprising since I don't know how the cabinet could have had anything on it since every dish we own was in the sink. I had to resort to using the good utensils if we wanted to eat. Which brings me to another thing about working full time. You're so tired when you get home from work that you spend all the extra money you made on eating out. I hope I can remember how to work the stove, not that I was so good at working it before.

I did like everything I learned though when all the responsibility fell directly on me. For 6 weeks I was on my own in payroll then for two weeks I was doing accounts payable on my own. When Tracey came back I told her not to shred anything I had put in the shred box, until all my mistakes have time to surface and we can see if we need to go fishing for anything I threw away that I should have kept.

All in all it was a good experience, but not one I want to repeat anytime soon. I like my part-time work schedule that lets me make some money but also try to keep my house and church duties under control. In my opinion, the prophets knew what they were talking about when they said the wife's place is in the home because everytime I work full time everything gets turned topsy turvy!

By the way Bry thanks for the weekend away for our anniversary, I don't think I could have made it through the last week without that to look forward to.

BeautyandtheBeast

Here we go, more blogging, no pictures. Maybe someday though.

Friday Addi came to spend the night. When she got here she said "Oh I should have brought some movies to watch." I said, "Grandpa has two new videos we can watch, Snow White and Beauty and the Beast; which one do you want to watch?" Her answer made me laugh, not the answer itself but how she said it. She said it so fast (about as fast as she tells the olive joke if you've heard her tell that, if you haven't you need to ask her to tell you it too.) but anyway, she was talking so fast and she clapped her hands together and was so excited as she said, "Beauty and the Beast, Diamond edition from Amy's little big world." I asked her where heard that and she said, "On Amy's little big world." ( Dah grandma, obviously, I should have known that.) I think she might have a future in infomercials.

We sat down to watch the movie, after about 20 minutes of me trying to work the blueray. About halfway through the movie it froze and nothing I did would make it work so I put in the regular DVD copy, after about 20 more minutes of trying to get the t.v. on the right input thing. (old people and modern technology, humph). Anyway, I finally got it going and we watched for a little while and Addi said, "Let's go to bed grandma." Well, after working so hard to get the movie going I wasn't about to stop watching it after only a few minutes so I told her she could lay on my lap and I would cuddle her while she slept and I watched the end of the movie. she said, "I'm not comfortable grandma." I said just lay here and rest, at which point she decided to take matters in to her own hands. She climbed down from my lap walked over and shut off the t.v. Well, what was I going to do, I could get up and turn the t.v. back on and in about 20 minutes have the movie going again or just give up and go to bed. I decided to take the easy way out so we went to bed.

I really had a great time with her, she is so cute. I had more fun watching her watch the movie than watching it myself. At one point in the movie when the wolves were chasing Belle's dad through the forest Addi got scared and grabbed my neck and climbed right up the side of me and buried her face in my neck. I kind of forget how scary some of those parts can be for a little one.

We had a great time. I can't wait until Oakley is big enough to come sleep over too and we can have twice the fun.

whoo who look at me I blogged all by myself. Yea I know I didn't put pictures on myself, but baby steps.

Fiesta Mexicana, Oh Yea! Today Linda, Ann and I got together with an old friend Diane (Jonesie) Fenn. We went and had the best Mexican Pizza in the world. If you haven't tried them you should. The Fiesta Mexicana is just north across the street from the Marriott Hotel in Ogden. We were there for about 2 and a half hours just eating and talking and laughing our heads off. Then when it was time for them to close (they are only open for lunch). We moved outside and talked on the sidewalk for about half an hour. The owner of the restaurant was laughing and made the yak yak yak movement to us with her hand. It was funny, we just laughed and waved and kept talking (she is really nice and even took a picture for us so we could all be in it). Good food and good friends! It doesn't get better than that.