Let the Summer BEGIN!

First Dunk of the Season

First Time ever swimming at Grandma's pool

Summertime is when we:

Wear as little as legally possible and

Go barefoot 24 hours a day.

She's Baaaack

Judging from the smile and the cute pink nose-I think camp was a success. Suddenly the decibel level in our home rose a few notches.

Colour du Jour

I love Red.


Red exercise ball.

Red pillows (they look nasty and dirty to me-ug-I think it's just feathers)

Red bed (ooh-rhyming)

Cool red platter-gift from Jessica

My cool red chaise.

Red scrapbooks.

It may seem that my whole house is red....it's not.

There is a shocking lack of red in my..

Closet.

I love red. I don't wear red. Note to self-ponder this fact.

Challenge to family & friends: What is your colour du jour? Post immediately.....

**Edited-post on your blog......

Update on Elder Steve

I'm having major issues with my computer. It was in the computer hospital yesterday afternoon up until this morning and Blogger is being weird too-so here goes:
This is where he is......sort of.....Nashville TN

There seems to be a lot of this type of photo....guess they're deciding whose turn it is to clean the apartment.

It's really cold in Nashville in the winter.......

Glad to know he is learning some skilz-like leaping tall buildings on a single bound. Who says Mormon missionaries aren't supermen???

Men In Black

A good GQ pose.

Birthday Boy in March.

WHAT?

Oh-it's a BOY! (his new greenie)

Glad to know he is working hard....

(He mentions this market in his tape-the owner is a member and they love to go there and get free food!)

She's Off!

It's that time of year again....

And she's off....to enjoy another year of the highs and lows of girls camp, hopefully to strengthen her testimony and have a little fun.

I want to take a moment to give thanks and appreciation for all the Young Women's leaders out there who manage to take a bunch of hormone-laden teenage girls and make girls camp a wonderful experience. I admire you-I thank you-and I'm glad I'm not you!!! (I already gave my heartfelt thanks to the leaders this morning)

As I'm reflecting on girl's camp, I realize that I have never been to girls camp. Not once-ever-as a young woman. I went once when I was a stake YW leader and 7.8 months pregnant with Miss Liss above but that's the extent of my girl's camp experience. It seemed like my dad always planned our family vacation to coincide exactly with the date of girl's camp so inside of singing camp songs and toilet papering the neighbor's tent, we were trekking through Utah in the family camper or somewhere else in the western U.S. And I don't think I'm really unhappy about that.

Manana: Elder Steve's latest photos......postponed due to the meningitis intermission.

MFF and Macho-ness

My Saturday project.......in the spirit of preparedness.....

From this:

To this:

To this:

I know, I know-some people out there may think I'm really weird but this just really lights my fire....frosts my cookies.....floats my boat....or whatever you want to call it. Going from garden to bottle to my chicken pot pie-well, it's just really cool. MFF: Mom's Fast Food. I have bottled chicken and I whipped that pot pie out in no time at all......Who needs Taco Bell??

Macho Silliness:

Why is it whenever guys get together-

They have to participate in some sort of macho competition???

Guess who won? Hint-not Bubba D.

He ain't heavy, he's my brother

(Comment from one son-this is probably going to end up on mom's blog......you're absolutely right sonny!)

Breaking News!

President Monson just announced another temple for AZ! To be built in Phoenix, AZ