I haven't had TIME in the last - oh - however many years it's been - to get updated pictures of my brood...between Kris & and her absolutely ADORABLE blog layouts - as well as taking these adorable pictures of Coby and my sweet Bedie I have fully updated pictures of my kids!
We had such a fun day on Friday getting pictures! Bedie went into the John Deere store and asked them if we could take pictures on their tractors! They were quite surprised anyone would want to do such a thing - but gave permission - and this kids had a blast seeing which tractor they fit in best! See this top picture of Howie & Kali - I mean - REALLY - it cracks me up! Bedie, those two are always cracking me up - and I have never quite managed to get it on film (or disc) so THANK YOU for that.
And Thank you for bringing to my attention exactly how mature my baby 12 year old girl is - and protecting her from the men-folk that may flirt with her...the kids had such fun climbing around the trees and I just enjoyed spending the afternoon with you!
My friends are amazing. Not just those two super-talented ladies - but pretty much everyone of them - I love you all for putting up with me - and maybe that's why I love you - because you DO tolerate me!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Ammondomus
(explaination of the following - my brother Ammon is not in the world of finance as his brother-in-law, Ross - and two other brothers, Vince & Pete are all financial advisors - Ammon would like to talk shop sometimes and this is the circumstance at which he finds himself participating in shop talk - the following is taken from the "Book of Ammondomus" in his own words - let us partake...)
The prophecies of Ammondamus, which are among his brethren at the times of the falling of all things near the last days. And behold, now it came to pass that it was in a house, which was in the garden of Ammondamus, which was by the highway of Eagle which led to the red brick building where his brothers worked, which was in the city of Eagle; therefore, Ammondamus had sat himself upon the granite table which was in his house, which table was also near unto the front door by which there was a street which led the highway.
Chapter 1
1. Hear the words of Ammondamus for in the year of our lord 2008 the Dow, for the angel told me in a dream that this should be it’s name, shall have a great rise.
2. The rise thereof shall be exceedingly high even to exceed it’s strength.
3. And when the strength of the limbs shall overgrow the roots it shall break into pieces and great shall be the fall thereof.
4. For behold, it shall be tall even to the height of 12 and ½ cubits. And shall seem to hold strong. And it shall begin to fall even to 11 and ½ cubits.
5. And some shall say that the fall is necessary to grow higher, but do not be deceived for thus shall be their words.
6. Though the fall of 1 cubit shall be slow it shall be followed by another cubit even to 10 and ½ cubits.
7. And some shall say “surly this is the end of the fall, for we are the people of God and a fall much further is not possible for we are strong.
8. And there shall be some sitting in pizza houses, for this is the place they sometimes eat,
for they will be dressed in their fine twined linen, and they will be talking one with another about the marvelous change that has happened to the Dow.
9. Some will say this is the end and the Dow must fall to the earth that it have no more cubits. And thus will be their language.
10. But I say unto you, they know not, for it will fall, but the end is not yet. For it will fall faster to 9 and ½ cubits and faster still to 8 and ½ cubits.
11. Then one shall say to another maybe we goest to take our aggressions on the rock wall, and some shall take their flight to the blue ball court, for this is the name I give unto it for it is very curious to me.
12. Thus will be their manner of speaking one with another.
13. But behold I say unto you the end is not yet for the Dow still stands. It must fall again, for it must fall to 7 and ½ cubits.
14. And then shall their friends who have given them charge over their possessions say “where are our riches?” And they shall answer don’t worry we have hidden it deep in the earth where no man can find it, then they shall say just kidding it is going the way of all the earth, but fear not we are managers of money and we knowest where the Dow goest and it will be safe with us.
The prophecies of Ammondamus, which are among his brethren at the times of the falling of all things near the last days. And behold, now it came to pass that it was in a house, which was in the garden of Ammondamus, which was by the highway of Eagle which led to the red brick building where his brothers worked, which was in the city of Eagle; therefore, Ammondamus had sat himself upon the granite table which was in his house, which table was also near unto the front door by which there was a street which led the highway.
Chapter 1
1. Hear the words of Ammondamus for in the year of our lord 2008 the Dow, for the angel told me in a dream that this should be it’s name, shall have a great rise.
2. The rise thereof shall be exceedingly high even to exceed it’s strength.
3. And when the strength of the limbs shall overgrow the roots it shall break into pieces and great shall be the fall thereof.
4. For behold, it shall be tall even to the height of 12 and ½ cubits. And shall seem to hold strong. And it shall begin to fall even to 11 and ½ cubits.
5. And some shall say that the fall is necessary to grow higher, but do not be deceived for thus shall be their words.
6. Though the fall of 1 cubit shall be slow it shall be followed by another cubit even to 10 and ½ cubits.
7. And some shall say “surly this is the end of the fall, for we are the people of God and a fall much further is not possible for we are strong.
8. And there shall be some sitting in pizza houses, for this is the place they sometimes eat,
for they will be dressed in their fine twined linen, and they will be talking one with another about the marvelous change that has happened to the Dow.
9. Some will say this is the end and the Dow must fall to the earth that it have no more cubits. And thus will be their language.
10. But I say unto you, they know not, for it will fall, but the end is not yet. For it will fall faster to 9 and ½ cubits and faster still to 8 and ½ cubits.
11. Then one shall say to another maybe we goest to take our aggressions on the rock wall, and some shall take their flight to the blue ball court, for this is the name I give unto it for it is very curious to me.
12. Thus will be their manner of speaking one with another.
13. But behold I say unto you the end is not yet for the Dow still stands. It must fall again, for it must fall to 7 and ½ cubits.
14. And then shall their friends who have given them charge over their possessions say “where are our riches?” And they shall answer don’t worry we have hidden it deep in the earth where no man can find it, then they shall say just kidding it is going the way of all the earth, but fear not we are managers of money and we knowest where the Dow goest and it will be safe with us.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Running errands
I hate to "bump" my last blog & those cute pictures of the cutest baby in the city down - so please scroll down and take a gander at them!
BUT - I was out and about today. We went to a nearby city park - Rossi is putting some pictures together for his eagle project - and I saw a few calming nature pictures!
Here's a turtle sunbathing. CHECK OUT THAT NECK!! Have you EVER??!!!
Here are a few ducks. Just perfect white with some down feathers splashed across the pond. I think they're sleeping - they're eyes appear to be closed...?
BUT THE COOLEST PART OF TODAY was when I went down to the district office to turn in the money for Ross' swim-a-thon.
I handed it to the lady - who said "Luekenga? I think we have a picture here by one of your kids?" So she took me around the corner to this wall, where there are 10 pictures.
Look at this...one. "Starry Night" is what VanGogh called it. And Kiersten copied it - her art teacher thought it was pretty good & forwarded it on to the district office for them to display! 17 schools in the district. 10 pictures displayed. Kiersten's was one of them!
WAY TO GO KIERSTEN! That was SO fun to see! I happened to have the camera - I'm so glad!
BUT - I was out and about today. We went to a nearby city park - Rossi is putting some pictures together for his eagle project - and I saw a few calming nature pictures!
Here's a turtle sunbathing. CHECK OUT THAT NECK!! Have you EVER??!!!
Here are a few ducks. Just perfect white with some down feathers splashed across the pond. I think they're sleeping - they're eyes appear to be closed...?
BUT THE COOLEST PART OF TODAY was when I went down to the district office to turn in the money for Ross' swim-a-thon.
I handed it to the lady - who said "Luekenga? I think we have a picture here by one of your kids?" So she took me around the corner to this wall, where there are 10 pictures.
Look at this...one. "Starry Night" is what VanGogh called it. And Kiersten copied it - her art teacher thought it was pretty good & forwarded it on to the district office for them to display! 17 schools in the district. 10 pictures displayed. Kiersten's was one of them!
WAY TO GO KIERSTEN! That was SO fun to see! I happened to have the camera - I'm so glad!
Like mother, like daughter!
Thank you KRIS, for spending some time with my offspring! And my NIECE! I love these pictures you took!
IT was so hard to pick out my "favorites" because even the ones that were snapped with dried boogers on her nose were cute! haa!
So here's a few...
Amy & Coby - both just cracking up.
Amy being cute, and Coby taking after her mom...in the process of putting her foot in her mouth...
and yep, from these views, as you can tell, plenty of room for even BOTH feet if she needed.
And some other non-narrative necessary pictures of the sweet baby & her ruby red lips!
IT was so hard to pick out my "favorites" because even the ones that were snapped with dried boogers on her nose were cute! haa!
So here's a few...
Amy & Coby - both just cracking up.
Amy being cute, and Coby taking after her mom...in the process of putting her foot in her mouth...
and yep, from these views, as you can tell, plenty of room for even BOTH feet if she needed.
And some other non-narrative necessary pictures of the sweet baby & her ruby red lips!
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
I'm on a political kick, maybe...
A guy from our ward came by tonight...while I was home...and dropped off a sign on my front porch then called me to tell me he put a proposition sign there and if we wanted, we could put it in our yard. Uh. okay. Coulda knocked & told me w/out calling? Weird. But okay? Whatever floats your boat.
Then Ross went out immediately and hammered it up in the front lawn. He is excited to say how proud he is to have this sign up front. Fine. Whatever floats his boat.
But then I got to thinking...what kind of person actually pays heed to that kind of political advertisement.
I mean - This proposition is pretty popular. Kind of like the presidential options. Everyone knows and has pretty much already made a decision on who they will be voting for. So my question is...ya think my sign's gonna sway the vote?
Really?
Like this....I saw a 1977 Chevy Nova - it was beat UP, the paint clearly got frightened away along with the hubcaps and rear view mirrors and ONE of the windows ran away with a lug nut...but it had nice spinners on the tires...and it had an "Obama" bumper sticker duct taped on it. So here's what I'm thinking. "Dang, nice spinners, I think I'll vote for Obama." But then, I saw the same sticker on a Hummer. And thought again to myself - "People who drive hummers are dumb" so clearly I cannot vote for Obama. I'm so torn, what ever will I do?
Know why? Know why? Cause campaign bumper stickers and poster signs are STUPID. Why even waste campaign money on that sort of nonsense? The poster in my front yard is NOT going to convince anyone to vote my way...what it WILL do - is make some fella driving down the main road or freeway - that can see my house from there - get REALLY passive-aggressive toward me and throw lime green pompoms on my roof - just out of my reach. And there they will sit long after my campaign poster has been taken down.
I guess to the ill-informed, if they see more "yes" proposition signs than "no" signs, they'll vote yes? I know there's a psychological name for that sort of nonsense...I just can't remember it.
I think putting posters up in my neighborhood is against my HOA rules anyway. Guess we'll find out when we're fined?
Then Ross went out immediately and hammered it up in the front lawn. He is excited to say how proud he is to have this sign up front. Fine. Whatever floats his boat.
But then I got to thinking...what kind of person actually pays heed to that kind of political advertisement.
I mean - This proposition is pretty popular. Kind of like the presidential options. Everyone knows and has pretty much already made a decision on who they will be voting for. So my question is...ya think my sign's gonna sway the vote?
Really?
Like this....I saw a 1977 Chevy Nova - it was beat UP, the paint clearly got frightened away along with the hubcaps and rear view mirrors and ONE of the windows ran away with a lug nut...but it had nice spinners on the tires...and it had an "Obama" bumper sticker duct taped on it. So here's what I'm thinking. "Dang, nice spinners, I think I'll vote for Obama." But then, I saw the same sticker on a Hummer. And thought again to myself - "People who drive hummers are dumb" so clearly I cannot vote for Obama. I'm so torn, what ever will I do?
Know why? Know why? Cause campaign bumper stickers and poster signs are STUPID. Why even waste campaign money on that sort of nonsense? The poster in my front yard is NOT going to convince anyone to vote my way...what it WILL do - is make some fella driving down the main road or freeway - that can see my house from there - get REALLY passive-aggressive toward me and throw lime green pompoms on my roof - just out of my reach. And there they will sit long after my campaign poster has been taken down.
I guess to the ill-informed, if they see more "yes" proposition signs than "no" signs, they'll vote yes? I know there's a psychological name for that sort of nonsense...I just can't remember it.
I think putting posters up in my neighborhood is against my HOA rules anyway. Guess we'll find out when we're fined?
Monday, October 06, 2008
Magically Delicious? And another thought....
Brynn told me my meatloaf was magically delicious tonight. She loves me, she really really loves me!
I'm also wondering about the upcoming election, I truly think both sides settled for their candidates. And I wonder, do we want an old man whose been in Washington too long to run the country with a new kid whose never been to Washington and doesn't even know the ropes to back him up, or do we want a new kid whose never been to Washington and doesn't know the ropes to run the country with an old man whose been there too long backing him up? I mean - really - it's times like these that I think we need Jack Palance back here on earth - just to take a stab at the white house...that would be magically delicious.
I'm also wondering about the upcoming election, I truly think both sides settled for their candidates. And I wonder, do we want an old man whose been in Washington too long to run the country with a new kid whose never been to Washington and doesn't even know the ropes to back him up, or do we want a new kid whose never been to Washington and doesn't know the ropes to run the country with an old man whose been there too long backing him up? I mean - really - it's times like these that I think we need Jack Palance back here on earth - just to take a stab at the white house...that would be magically delicious.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
A few weeks ago
My friend came up to me with a pretty cute idea she wanted to make tutus for her nieces for Christmas. She wanted to measure them against my girls to see how they fit. As you know - you can't put a tutu on a 3 year old and NOT let her keep it...Well, one thing led to another and we sort of became addicted to making them! And decided, in order to support our habit, we needed to sell a few!
In buying the material, we also decided it would be pretty fun to make a bunch of headbands.
SOOOO - yah - went crazy there, too. So if you want a tutu or a headband - you know - sort of help me support my creative habit, PU-LEASE let me know!
The tutus will be $10-$15 depending on the amount of extras added, each one is "standard" with a matching flower on the waistline - you can order any color - these are just examples...Just tell me the colors you want!
The headbands range from $1.50 to $3 - again, depending on the size of the flower/elastic! The headbands fit from newborn up through your typical 3 year old - just to help pull the hair away from her face!
In buying the material, we also decided it would be pretty fun to make a bunch of headbands.
SOOOO - yah - went crazy there, too. So if you want a tutu or a headband - you know - sort of help me support my creative habit, PU-LEASE let me know!
The tutus will be $10-$15 depending on the amount of extras added, each one is "standard" with a matching flower on the waistline - you can order any color - these are just examples...Just tell me the colors you want!
The headbands range from $1.50 to $3 - again, depending on the size of the flower/elastic! The headbands fit from newborn up through your typical 3 year old - just to help pull the hair away from her face!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
October Conference Packets
in case you haven't already found something to keep the kids interested in conference this upcoming weekend (you know - adequate chains & locks to keep them in a chair in front of the TV?) here's a site with printable conference packets! Thanks, Amie!
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Why do you do it?
Take the music off your blogs. I've posted about it before. I haven't started the overwhelming exodus of music from blogs yet, but I'm on a mission - and I'm quite the salesman...
I don't like your music in my speakers. I'm not going to be on your blog long enough to hear all 40 songs you have on your list, just the first 10 seconds of whatever song you have playing on there - or even 2 seconds, enough to have the blaring speakers (that my children turned all the way up to listen to their music or play their games) that will THEN wake my sleeping-by-the-speakers baby UP.
If I want to hear music, I want to hear music that I pick...I want to hear music when *I* want to hear it - and not the same song every time I visit your blog.
I don't want to have three blogs open at once competing for my attention while playing punk songs, church songs, rap songs, country songs or songs I haven't even heard before - Just take the songs off your blog, it's not popular any more. Its SOOOO "last month"
I love to blog stalk my friends and family, but at the expense of clashing down-beats and poor choice in faves combined with the fact that my children have to listen to everything at full sound volume - it's just easier to change the world than it is to get my kids to keep the volume on the speakers down.
so please. help in an effort to maintain my sanity and delete your music thingy's from your blogs.
>>>^^~~~insert cricket sound effect here~~~^^<<<
Emo is hard.
I don't like your music in my speakers. I'm not going to be on your blog long enough to hear all 40 songs you have on your list, just the first 10 seconds of whatever song you have playing on there - or even 2 seconds, enough to have the blaring speakers (that my children turned all the way up to listen to their music or play their games) that will THEN wake my sleeping-by-the-speakers baby UP.
If I want to hear music, I want to hear music that I pick...I want to hear music when *I* want to hear it - and not the same song every time I visit your blog.
I don't want to have three blogs open at once competing for my attention while playing punk songs, church songs, rap songs, country songs or songs I haven't even heard before - Just take the songs off your blog, it's not popular any more. Its SOOOO "last month"
I love to blog stalk my friends and family, but at the expense of clashing down-beats and poor choice in faves combined with the fact that my children have to listen to everything at full sound volume - it's just easier to change the world than it is to get my kids to keep the volume on the speakers down.
so please. help in an effort to maintain my sanity and delete your music thingy's from your blogs.
>>>^^~~~insert cricket sound effect here~~~^^<<<
Emo is hard.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Brushing shoulders
Just a quick update. We were in Tucson this morning and into the afternoon at Nike's high school invitational swim meet. Ross was entered in 2 events. Of course, being a freshman, he's not as experienced as a lot of the swimmers, he swam 74th of 129 (and others who registered no time, so they were DQ'd or no-shows) in the 100 yard breast stroke with a time of 1:23.10 - the first place guy came in under a minute. And he also chose to be in the 200 individual medley race. His time was not his best, it was 2:45.32 (best is 2:42) but he ranked 64th (also several DQs - sadly a teammate of his was DQ'd with a time of 2:35.
It was really very fun to be at, but the best part of it, Ross was smitten by Olympic Silver medalist, Lacey Nymeyer who he got her to sign his invitational t-shirt and swim cap, and went back again for her to sign his swim bag! He wanted her to sign his bare chest for good luck in the IM but I told him NO WAY! Stinker! But I did get this photo without the help of my camera who is currently suffering from stupid camera-card syndrome. (it's my cell phone camera that came through with the picture! So sorry about the quality!)
Lacey is just a cute girl with a neat personality - poor thing sat & signed autographs for 4 hours and posed for pictures, and the whole time keeping up friendly conversation with everyone - I'm sure the same "stupid" questions over and over again "did you bring the medal?" (Yah, I asked that, and while I was still standing waiting for her to sign all Ross' paraphernalia, two other people asked it...she answered politely - at this point I was ready to make a sign that said "No, she didn't bring the medal, DUH!" but didn't.)
It was really very fun to be at, but the best part of it, Ross was smitten by Olympic Silver medalist, Lacey Nymeyer who he got her to sign his invitational t-shirt and swim cap, and went back again for her to sign his swim bag! He wanted her to sign his bare chest for good luck in the IM but I told him NO WAY! Stinker! But I did get this photo without the help of my camera who is currently suffering from stupid camera-card syndrome. (it's my cell phone camera that came through with the picture! So sorry about the quality!)
Lacey is just a cute girl with a neat personality - poor thing sat & signed autographs for 4 hours and posed for pictures, and the whole time keeping up friendly conversation with everyone - I'm sure the same "stupid" questions over and over again "did you bring the medal?" (Yah, I asked that, and while I was still standing waiting for her to sign all Ross' paraphernalia, two other people asked it...she answered politely - at this point I was ready to make a sign that said "No, she didn't bring the medal, DUH!" but didn't.)
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