That's right, this is happening.

A list of various things:

1. I am officially a crappy blogger.

2. My house is very quiet today. Sometimes when that happens I love it. Sometimes it just makes me tired, cranky and or sad.

3. I am re-addicted to Lost, if that is even a word. We started again from the beginning and I'm pretty sure its the best show that has ever been on television, except for maybe The Big Bang Theory.

4. I am so proud of my husband! I don't have the words to describe how cool he is. :)

5. I love having Wayne and Linda here. We laugh, a lot, and life without them when they go home is going to be difficult.

6. I worry about... well pretty much everything.

7. It's rodeo week in Lehi, which since I grew up here, theoretically I am supposed to love. Don't know when it happened, but mostly I find it noisy, and annoying, & the traffic thru town is ridonkulous.

8. I LOVE SUMMER.

9. I also love the rain.

10. I am surrounded by pregnant women. My head spins with all the crafty things I get to make in the next year......

11. I'm not sure how they do it, but I am really starting to believe that Netflix laces their DVDs with crack or some other addictive substance.

12. Looking forward to an amazing July!

13. Giant cardboard boxes entertain the kids in my life far better than anything I have actually paid money for.

14. A few days ago, Wayne sat down heavily in my office chair and it tipped over backwards dumping him on the floor. H I L A R I O U S.

15. I started test painting my family room walls again. For those keeping track, its been less than 2 years since I last painted it. I wonder if they make some kind of medication for what ever it is that i have....

16. I'm blond again. I don't know why, I guess I just needed a change. But the weirdest part, is that all of a sudden when people say something derogatory about blonds I get all like "hey!" and then I'm like, wait a second, I've only been blond for like a day, why do I care??

17. It's been almost 2 years since we lost Sheri, and I still cry about it at least once a week. Last week I had to go to a family bridal shower without her and I nearly had a meltdown. I really need to be stronger. She would be.

18. I finally admitted out loud that I cannot plant flowers at my house anymore. I kill them. So this year, I filled a pot on my front porch with silk flowers. I'm pretty sure that either means I'm a genius, or an 80 year old woman.

19. I am way too attached to my pets. Plus I'm getting all "baby hungry" and want a new kitten pretty badly. I have no idea why, I'd probably regret it, but come on, kittens are so dang cute.

20. A couple weeks ago I got a package in the mail. I called James to see what he had ordered, and told me he had no idea, and that I should open it. He had surprised me by buying me a kindle. I have always wanted one, and I was so excited. Let me just tell you that I am pretty much in LOVE with this thing. Plus he surprised me further by filling the screen saver file with pictures that I would love. Every time I turn it off some amazing picture pops up and I realize how well he really does know me.

21. I love getting a good deal. I'm pretty sure that I have told at least 12 people about how I got almost 3 yards of Minkie fabric for less than $20. And now I have told a few more people....

22. I hope it's not wrong to use children as slave labor. Every week when my niece picks up her kids they tell her about the laundry they did, or how I taught them how much fun it is to use a swiffer duster. A few weeks ago I texted her a picture of her girls cleaning the toilet. She said she thought it was hilarious, but I think secretly she was jealous that she didn't think of it first.

23. I live for laughter. And with these 2 boys in my house, it is pretty much constant.

24. It took me two days to write this blog.

25. The L.D.S. Church is true. I KNOW THIS. There is nowhere else on this planet where you will find the peace, joy, happiness, and protection that you find there. The older I get, the more the world falls apart, the more I see the people I love struggle with life's problems, the more I know this. There IS a living Prophet. He DOES receive revelation. Jesus Christ IS my savior. I have a quote on my wall that says "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." I love this. It gives me hope, and makes me happy.

That's all I got folks. See ya in 6 months when I come up with some new stuff ;)

nice to see you january, but even nicer to see you go.

So its almost the last day of January. January is the most hated month of the year. I know this, because probably 13 times just in the last week someone has said they hated it, so apparently its not just me.


I usually spend January feel sad for no reason, annoyed at the weather, and with some kind of illness (e.g. bronchitis, flu). However this year there was no time for any of that, and it made this month SO much better.


We spent last week in Arizona for Wayne's wedding, here are just a few highlights of what was a pretty eventful week.


1. Got a flat tire just outside Beaver, Utah. It was cold. And when I say it was cold, I mean it was COLD. But my husband, climbed out of the car, acted like he knew exactly what he was doing to keep me calm, and like a trooper changed the tire in his shorts and tshirt. Did I mention we were dressed for AZ weather?? This event led to..


2. Stopping in Cedar City again for tires.... Wait, did she say again? Why yes, yes she did. Because you see a little less than 3 years ago we were driving to Disneyland and got a nail in one of our tires. So we had to stop in Cedar City and buy new tires. Its kind of becoming a really expensive and annoying tradition.


3. We arrived about 2 hours later than we planned, but it made for good timing as we got to meet Wayne and Linda for dinner after James went to try on his handsome digs for the wedding.


4. Arrived at Roy and Ruth's late, and started to get ready for bed. They have a new dog at their house, her name is Tara, and she is a ginormous German Shepard who lives mostly outside. When we got up in the morning everyone had gone to work, and I was scared to leave the bedroom in case she was in the house and attacked me because she thought I was some kind of intruder. Thankfully she was outside, so I didn't get my face ripped off trying to get to the bathroom.


5. The wedding was amazing, it is always a good time when you hang out with the Mower clan, and this was no different. Wayne and Linda looked amazing, and I'm pretty sure neither one of them stopped smiling all day. We did get lost about 6 times on the way to the reception, but we managed to find it, and I managed to eat about 3 pieces of cheesecake with the most amazing berry topping known to man. We took awkward pictures with Kathy and Jason, and i gave Alexis the camera for half the reception because people seemed genuinely happy to see her and she was small enough to sneak into crowds.


p.s. she is a great photographer.


6. The day after the wedding James and I did what has become one of our favorite AZ traditions, we went to the swap meet. We don't have swap meets in Utah, I think that is what makes them so appealing, well that and Grandma Mower always took us to one when we came to visit her. We took David, Emmy and the kids, who believe it or not, had NEVER been. I had a ball, as I always do. Even though most of the stuff is white trash, for some reason its still pretty dang fun, however, I'm pretty sure David would disagree.


7. James and I haven't had professional pics taken... well since our wedding I believe. So we spent one day out around the town with Emmy the amazing photographer, who took about 700 pictures of us. She actually made us look pretty good, check us out:

8. We had to leave and come home, even though we didn't want to. It was warm there, and entertaining. We laughed till we cried pretty much everyday, and we had so much fun. It went by WAY too fast. Plus Alexis was sad to see us go and she cried :( it pretty much broke my heart to see her sad little face waving goodbye...

9. We got home to two VERY happy to see us dogs, and 12 messages on the answering machine. *sigh* real life.

So now back to real life, where its still cold, and busy. But in one day's time it will be February, and its the shortest month of the year and then we are on to spring!

Goodbye January, I'm pretty sure next year we will be going on vacation to AZ again. It made you much more tolerable.