The Socks

OK, See this rolled up pair of socks? Here they are on my (new) rug

in the downstairs bathroom. I found them here when I arrived home

from the gym this morning. But before I had left...

They were here. See them? There in the middle.

On the dining room table with other stuff

waiting to be sent home to Tanner .

You may have heard my stories about my kitty (I suspect Skittles)

and how she drags items around the house when no one is looking.

This is my first official documentation of such a deed.

"Who Me?" Yes. You.

Christmas photo

We had to promise these girls a spot in our photo to get

them to come and spend time with us at Christmas. It was worth the sacrifice!

Aahhh, just us girls.


Our little Christmas bunch.

Little Christmas Visitors

We had some adorable little visitors for Christmas. We welcomed Maddie, Jaren, Tanner and Taelyn with open arms and hearts! They kept the place hoppin'!

Little Christmas House

Here is our Little Christmas House in the Big Woods

No more Wisdom Teeth for Kimi

Kimi had her Wisdom teeth yanked out by Dr. Petersen on Wednesday.

Last night she was up for going to little Zack and Max Pond's birthday party with me, although she was a little "out of it".

But today she has been suffering a little more. Poor thing. She's not too miserable to text though! I know she would love some condolences :) Doesn't she just look so pitiful?

Finally! Just a little from Thanksgiving.

It was great to be with 4 daughters and their families. Being together is my favorite thing with my favorite people!

Annettie! Thank you for coming so far!






Christinie the beautiful hostess and her lovely little Missy

Jen and Kimi with help from Jazz

Jen and Kimi trying to be beautifuler. (it took them 6 tries...)

Me and the lovely Natalie

Kimi preparing for her super awesome board-breaking feat!

(and a peek from Tae)

Maddie... Like mother, like daughter...

Sophie feasting on her chocolate pilgrim

Dad and his new little buddy, Mandie

Some happy, scowling and puzzled faces of a few participants.

And last of all, the grown-ups of the gathering plus Sophie.

I'm so happy we could all be together! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

Christine's preparation and everyone chipping in to help, made it quite fun. I wonder who will be hosting next year.....

Christmas Tree

Skittles helped Dad and I set up the Christmas tree :)

The tree in it's final Glory

Just another Sunday morning....

This morning in the newpaper there is an article about Prop 102 (Marriage only between a man and a woman), (which DID pass, by the way - thank goodness!) and those who gave money in support of it. The reason it is in the paper is because the newspeople got the list from the government of who gave how much money and they want to let the city know who they are. The total from our city was about $350,000. (that's huge) Our stake president, Mark Frost, had met with specific couples he thought of and asked them if they would give generously to this cause by way of request from the prophet. Each decided on their own how much to give. Then this past week he gave an interview with the paper so he could answer their questions and they would quit bothering others who weren't really comfortable with defending the whole church for it's huge involvement in the work to pass the Proposition. We have been concerned about the article and worried that it would somehow make the church or people seem stupid or wrong or something because the paper has a very liberal editor and newsroom in general. Well the article came out this morning on the front page and was a very good and well done article. Whew! It had a nice quote from Pres. Frost about marriage and making families and such. I would quote some of it but Don took it to his stake meetings this morning. It also quoted another preacher in town in favor of the prop so that was good too. Then it said that the opposition raised a whopping $1,338 here in Flag for their side. hmmm. Most of that came from a fund raiser.
Now for a funny ending. After Don left for his meetings this morning he called and asked me to check if he really closed the garage door. It's so natural to do it that he doesn't remember doing it sometimes. And he also teased I make sure the front door was locked just in case someone put something on the porch. I teased back that I would put on my asbestos suit. And he said "Well, it's Sunday so we should always wear our "as-BEST-os" clothes. Hahahaha. He's so punny!

OK. How do you do this?

Hmmm, this is probably all of me you will see.
You said 1/2 face photo, right?

"My One Beauty"

Someone photoshop some more bangs in for me.

Why do I fix my hair like that?

Wierdo.

This is SO fun.

WHAT did you SAY?????

Will I ever get it??? Last night at my sign language class we had two visitors. One was deaf and the other is not but signs very well and I thought he was deaf. My problem was that I had SUCH a hard time getting what they were saying!!! AAArrggghhh!! It was SO frustrating! They each introduced themselves giving a little background and what they do now. I felt like I couldn't get any of it and I felt embarrassed just sitting there with the rest of the class watching them. I have even talked to the woman before and should have been a little familiar with what she was saying. Well I guess I actually was and did get lots of her info but missed so much still. And then I didn't even get that the man was NOT deaf! So I asked, How long have you been deaf? Who? Me? I 'm not deaf> What???? My teacher clarified for me. I just hope that someone else didn't know that either. The people are both tutors. I think I need to go meet with him and try to figure out what all that stuff was that he said. I do need to do outside class chatting with deaf people so this one's for me. Here I come. Probably another thing that I HOPE will help is if I make time to watch at least half an hour of the sign language videos each day. Maybe it will eventually click in.