I DID IT!

So, I just walked down the mountain and back up again. Down wasn't bad, but back up....it feels like my heart is beating out of my chest! Maybe, my heart rate is a little above what it should be! However, it only took us (Marquie and I) 2 more minutes to go up then it did to go down! WAHOO!!! The last 5 feet of the driveway were definitely the hardest! I am sweating, but happy:)! Marquie will follow up with scenery pictures.....(32 minute walk, by the way)! Much harder than the treadmill!

Farm Day!

Today we went to the MU South Farms Showcase and enjoyed a plethora of activities including wagon rides, animal petting, fish feeding, corn mazes, cockroach races, Border Collie training (for sheep herding) and wool spinning.  It was wonderful beautiful, and free.  This photo is from our edible insects stop on the tour.  One of the big time entomologists from MU (and a member of our Stake) had a great booth on edible bugs and Jacob, Joshua and I all had one.  They were meal worms, purchased from our local pet store.  They are nutritious, high in iron, and pack a healthier calorie punch than wheat or corn.  Mine were also coated in cinnamon and sugar.  The queasier members of our group abstained.  Michael likes to be with animals, not eat bugs.  Here's a couple of bug eating shots for you.

photos mom promised

well here they are: marquie is doing this....and took the pictures....but mom did tell me where to go.... i'm sorry they are so bad....i'm not sure why.... ????? but you get the general idea.. if you click on them, they are better!!!

Baby Julia and Children

New Home

Well, after a week of unpacking boxes, our home is nearly put together. It is a beautiful thing, and...may I say, a beautiful home. Surprisingly, all our stuff has fit in rather nicely in this lovely huge home. There is a little more space between things, but it still looks lovely.

There are a few things we are missing to make it complete, a few large area rugs, a dining room table (our former dining room table looks incredible in the huge kitchen and our former kitchen table has been relegated, in a broken down form, to the basement, for now--it may enjoy another life as a large coffee table in the third floor media room) and a couple of sets of bunkbeds for grandkids.

There are random boxes stacked here and there (and a whole mess of them in the basement, full and empty), but we (I unpack and Dad takes care of the empty boxes) can keep working on that.
Oh, I almost forgot, the garage is totally unusable as a garage. Maybe at some point Dad will have time to take care of that (but until we have to scrape frost from our car windows, it just doesn't seem to be a priority).

Dad, Marquie and I have officially been put to work in the ward. As the YM/YW Presidents. (Even now it makes me laugh, just to write it down.) and Marquie as the seminary class president.

Even though we anticipate being very busy in our lives, we feel that big empty of this beautiful home and beg you all...COME VISIT!!!!!!

Decorating

We've decided that we refuse to live in our house if it doesn't feel like home, so yesterday we hauled out our photos, made some selections and proceeded to hang all over the place.  It was awesome.  I even purchased a little something for our entry.

Maybe after I get the headboard hung I'll consider another video tour.  Or, as a second option, everyone could come visit after Christmas?  I like that idea . . .

oh my gosh

i had a downfall.

no really...

it was BAD!!!

i have sunk to the southern pits...

here goes:

I was talking to my friend, and i'm letting her borrow my dress for homecoming, and we were talking, and i was joking around, and this is what i said:



"you can't borrow my dress no more"


I have sunk low....
i just can't even tell you. It was a VERY sad moment in my life.
I'm still sad
I just can't even believe it.
oh my.....

please still love me!

mom's acting like i swore horridly or something! (although, it's almost like i did, i guess....) I just had bad grammar for a minute, okay? (and one other time, but not quite that bad! I said nothin' instead of anything.)

Anyways, i love you all...or if you would prefer...ya'll. i'm startin' to say it alot now. oh my.... :D