'Live long and perspire'

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I Amaze Myself!

I amaze myself with my mental abilities.  Saturday I was cleaning house to get ready for VT interviews hosted at our home Sunday.  I was admiring the new carpet downstairs and for the hundredth time thinking how similar it looked to the upstairs carpet.  Both are sort of a tan frieze style.  I had wondered how similar the colors were to each other so, I found the sample from downstairs and set it on the upstairs carpet.  Yes, I had done this before I am sure, and thought they were pretty close...but it never occurred to me that maybe they were in fact THE SAME CARPET!!  I pulled out my old bill and my new bill and wonder of wonders, it was the same style number on both of them.

Just set that carpet style aside to line my casket with because obviously I have only one color and style of carpet in my brain...I wonder what color I will choose for the living room in a couple of years????  

Notice any similarities??? Hmmm!  Well, we will get Breanna to blog about her new room.  It is SO CUTE with her new twig headboard from Amish country that turned out so cool.

Here's to OLDER AGE and amazing mental faculty!!  Don't ask me to go with you to choose carpet unless you like THIS STYLE ONLY!!

Yes, I took a wasp to church!!

I entertained myself in church and made myself take myself out of church DURING THE PRAYER...because I brought a wasp with me to church.

Well, I did not know that I brought him...or her...but I figured it out later.  I was sitting by myself because Scott was on the stand and Braden was passing sacrament and I felt something in my hair.  At first I wondered if I had my earring caught or something, then the sensation moved somewhere else and I suspected it was a SPIDER so I started brushing at my head to get it off.  This was probably vastly entertaining to people sitting behind me, which would have been the entire congregation since I was on the front row.  Anyways, finally I brushed my hand and felt something fall down so I looked to find the supposed spider only to find a wasp...actually less terrifying than a spider to me...but a wasp in sacrament meeting nonetheless.  At this point the opening prayer was started and I had a wasp climbing across the top of my church bag.  I knew I did not want it to fly into the congregation so I just got up and left the meeting and no one knew because their EYES WERE SHUT!  I took the wasp towards the outside doors, but before I could get there it flew to the ground so I had no other choice than to SQUISH IT!  

I then went back to the chapel, waited for the prayer to end, and walked back to my seat without anyone knowing what had happened.  Oh, and I do not remember what the prayer-giver said in his prayer.  Sorry!

When I looked at my church bag, I remembered that I had picked up the mail from the mailbox before coming to church and I also remembered that there were wasps trying to build a home in our mailbox...for about the third time this spring...we keep knocking them down and they keep coming back for more.  But, I had squished another wasp in the mailbox door by accident...maybe...so yes, I am sure that this wasp hitched a ride to church with me in my bag with the mail.  Not a very good fellowshipper am I?

HAPPY GRADUATION ETC!

Thursday and Friday April 23-24 were the graduation days for Austin and Laura.  
It was wonderful that her family could come up from California to be with them for the special occasion, and sort of a flashback to last year with her sister and brother-in-law's graduation, Jenna and Ty's graduation, and of course, THEIR WEDDING!  

So, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY...HAPPY GRADUATION...and HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!!  We love you both so much and are very proud (in a humble way) of all your accomplishments!

EAST COAST IS THE MOST!!

We have started what we hope becomes a family tradition...LADIES WEEK!  Lori and I have traveled with Scott on several trips and really have become good "shopping buddies" among other things :)   So, a trip to visit Jenna was just the thing to get both of us out of town for some much needed girl time with Jenna...oh and some good times with Tyrel too:)

Jenna was the perfect tour guide to take us into the big NYCity for a day full of travel from the bottom to the top of the city...literally...and then to a fantastic broadway play WICKED.  It was Soooo Good!!!  We just loved it!
The next day, Lynette(Jenna's Mother in law, and an amazing person) gave us the royal tour of Pennsylvania Amish country.  We fell in love with it as well!  We saw a covered bridge and the most beautiful country and people.  (See Jenna's blog for more pictures)  I could go back again and again to this part of the country and we really hope Lynette gets her dream of opening a bed and breakfast out there someday!!!
We were put up in style in the mansion Jenna and Tyrel house-sit at.  It was amazing!
We love our Jenna and Tyrel and our little baby grandson that is starting to really make his appearance!!  Jenna is looking SO CUTE!!!

Thank you Lori for being the best traveling, shopping buddy, and to Jenna, Ty and Lynette for hosting us!  We had a wonderful time and can't wait to see you again!

RESUSCI-WHAT???

OK, so you've all heard of "Rescusi-Annie"  You know, the not even lifelike doll they use for teaching "mouth-to mouth" in CPR type classes.

But have you heard of Resusci-Grover?????

Breanna, our swim-teacher, lifeguard daughter was signed up (By Mom) to be a Swimming Merit Badge Counselor for the boy scouts in our ward and she has been working with a high school senior, Austin Holden before he gets his eagle scout rank in a couple weeks. 

I come into the kitchen one day to find Breanna teaching mouth-to-mouth using none other than our stuffed Grover puppet.  She thought it was GENIUS...
I thought it was HILARIOUS!!!  Talk about some creative last minute thinking...it was either Grover or a stuffed puppy puppet...they were the only ones with mouths that opened, although I think Grover's mouth was a little large...try covering a 9 inch spread and sealing off a huge pink nose at the same time!!!  KUDOS to Breanna for creativity at it's finest, and thank goodness we had a puppet she could practice on instead of having to resort to the "real thing!"

Ladies Night April

OK, it was not the same without having Jenna or Amanda here with us, but we celebrated "Ladies Night" with a little bit of style during priesthood session on Saturday.

Breanna, Laura and I started out doing a little taxes (Laura) and painting (Breanna and Mom). 

 Then we got together and dipped some strawberries in chocolate...yes, there HAD TO BE CHOCOLATE somewhere during the evening!!!

Then we put together some lovely French Bread pizzas for dinner, and while they cooked, we finished putting together our cool metal washer/epoxy necklaces that we started at Christmas...OK, we are slow finishing projects...but they really turned out so fun.

We finished the evening by running over to Roberts right before they closed, wearing our painting clothes...to try to find Breanna a husband!  After all, she was Twitchy McTwitchter (see her blog) and looking SO FINE in Braden's old Jr. Jazz shorts and her 10K shirt.  Any eligible, athletic man should have been duly impressed...but alas, there were few males in Roberts at 9:00 p.m. and the one we met was engaged and picking up paper with his fiance.  Oh well, there is always next ladies night!  Cheers!

My Fair Lady

On the "street where we live" a little flower shop appeared this Saturday.  Our "fair lady," Breanna, brought over bunches of flowers to play with during afternoon conference...hopefully she will blog and show her creations.  She made and gave away several beautiful arrangements, including one to her dear mother:)

We are so glad she has flower arranging for a hobby...it could be so much worse, she could be interested in raising tarantulas or something!

Thanks for the flowers Breanna!!!