Yet another round of reasons to laugh at Co and Mo

This picture is screaming for a "then-me, now-me" do over.

The "Return of the Norway" cruise. Feel free to insert Norway cruise jokes here. At least there was no "Norwalk virus" on this cruise.

Kirtland temple. Man it looks different in Kirtland now.
Here is proof that my hair has gotten darker with each kid:

More Pictures from the olden days

More oldies:

Conal graduating from the Salt Lake County Sherriff's academy.

Conal and me at the Palmyra temple. Con, did we get married when you were in high school or something.........because you look like a kid in this photo. Niagra Falls 2000. Can you guess which temple this is? BTW--Conal informed me that he wore this shirt to work the other day. ha ha.

Our first apartment and my college car: Nice sideways pic of me before my work Christmas party. Thanks for the snazzy hairdo Rach!

Stay tuned for more........if.........you............aren't........bored..........out............of..........your.......mind........yet.

Buried Treasure part 1

Before we moved, the moving dude came to estimate how much our personal belongings weighed so they knew how big of a truck they needed. He told us that we were over the amount the the Bureau would move us without charging us. So we started going through things to see what we could get rid of.

We found 8 undeveloped rolls of film and we didn't know what was on them.

So I took them all over to Walmart.

FYI: Walmart doesn't develop film in-store anymore. They send them out to a lab and it takes awhile to get them back. It's pretty pricy too.

I forgot that when we used to take pictures the "old school" way, we used to get a lot of bad pics. Ok, so maybe I'm the only one that got a bunch of bad pics............but there were a few treasures here and there:

Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic games. Oh yeah! Garrison reminds me so much of Sienna in this picture. The male version of course. =)
And this is a classic. Way to run with the torch Con.

And I may or may not have shed a tear when I saw this picture of my eldest child.

And dang I forgot how little Garrison was when Hailey was born.

Stay tuned for more...............

Back in the West Texas town........

Back in El Paso and hopefully back to blogging a little more.

So the question is--where do I start? Do I try to catch up on the last couple of months or do I bag it and go on from here. Maybe a little bit of both. But who wanted to listen to me thinking out loud anyway?????

No one? I thought so. Moving on.

So my parents, my sister and her kids came down last week. Man we had a good time (more on the fun stuff in another post.) They drove the big white van down here (aka the Burton Party Bus) loaded with tools and stuff. Why anyone would want to come to my house to help me do projects is beyond me. I guess they love me THAT much. (insert the super-gooey-sweet-Halmark card message here).

Ok, that probably isn't it. They just feel THAT sorry for me that I don't have the slightest clue as to what I am doing when it comes to this stuff.
Anyhow, I really didn't care for my kitchen island................but after the mini-makeover, I love it. Just add a pretty color of paint and some fluted trim and ................

ta da!!

Next we (and I use that term loosely since I really don't know what am I doing) made this beautitful table for outdoor eating.

Eating on this beauty may even make one forget how bad my cooking is. Um, probably not.
Also, my sweet/over-protective father (just kidding about the over-protective part Dad!) brought me this as my belated birthday present. They weren't allowed to give it to me in Illinois since its.........well.......illegal there, but its not here, where you can buy your gun in Walmart.

Oh yeah. A stun-gun for my morning run. oooooooooo. That rhymes! Get back doggies! Yeehaw!

And another gift for me (what? Moi? You shouldn't have.......but I'm glad you did =)). My awesomely creative and talented sister made this birth announcement/shadow box for me. I love it!


I think my sister and Dad should teach a class together.........with one student...........me. ha ha.

Thanks so much Mandi and Dad! You guys are the best!

Love, Your #1 fan

P.S. THANKS Mom, for hanging around bored while Dad and Mandi were spoiling me!

Christmas 2010---Yep, I'm that far behind

Oh boy have we been busy around here! We found out that we are moving right before Christmas and it has been a madhouse around here ever since.

Early today I came across a couple of pictures from Christmas..........and here ya go.

It's official

Long time no post.

And no time for a long post.

The long and short of it is that we are moving..............back to the Sun City. We are so very happy, yet so very sad at the same time. While we have enjoyed our time out here in the midwest, we are also excited to become reaquainted with the sunshine. While we can't wait to see our friends in El Paso, we will miss our Plainfield friends so much!

We have begun jumping through all of the hoops so to speak (why does everything gov't related have to be SO difficult?!?!). We'll be heading out sometime in March. It's Deja vous (or Deja vu if you prefer the alternative spelling). We moved to El Paso in March the first time around too.

The Waiting Game

Limbo: an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.

I really hate the waiting game. Particularly when neither of the available options are desirable. You see I have a kidney stone. It either needs to come out or be removed. Neither option is particularly enticing to me.

So my friends, I'm afraid we are at an impasse (pun intended). I'll continue wondering, waiting, anticipating, perfecting patience, and truthfully, dreading.

In between all of that, I'll remember how grateful I am that it is just a kidney stone and not a kidney tumor like my doctor suspected.

Yep, it's been an awesome week over here. (sarcasm intended)