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Friday, August 29, 2008

1st Day of School...

The 1st Day of School... I was so happy to get the traditional 1st day picture.

It was a monumental day since it was also his 1st time driving himself to school!
A very long way from catching the bus on the 1st day of Kindergarten.

Look at that 1st step on the bus, it goes up to like his waist, he was just a baby! I shed so many tears that day, it was one of the hardest days of my life!! He has needed me just a little less every day since, and I am okay with it... but it doesn't make it any easier on the heart.

He had a great day and came home pretty happy with all of his teachers and classes. What a jabber jaw! Just when I thought he might be out of words and stories to tell me about his day... he would have more! It was very cool to see him so happy and alive and positive, smiling and laughing and sharing with me.

But the rest of the house didn't fair as well...

Morgan threw up! I don't know if she was just so lonely, or worried when he didn't come home and didn't come home and didn't come home. This was the happiest she looked all day until he finally came home. It was breaking my heart!

Taylor cried and whined and whimpered all day... and while she was able to keep her food down, and not look nearly as sad as Morgan did; I knew something was going on when I kept finding her in the middle of his bed... the taboo area she never goes when he is home, even if he bribes her with a treat.
Rudy... well he is older and wiser and knew it would all be okay, so he spent most of his day worshiping the sun... so happy the sun was out to warm his little short legs.
Morgan did perk up a little today and hasn't thrown up anymore... and learning to cope in the sun, like Rudy showed her.

I struggled all day trying to find my routine and groove... I may have had too high of expectations for the wonderful peace and quiet. It was sooooo quiet!!!!

We all just might make it through, now that the 1st week of school is finally over.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Last Day of Summer...

Yesterday was the last day of summer for the teenager... back to school today!

I wanted to send off summer in some fun way the teenager would remember... but he was just not into it. All of my fun and exciting suggestions were shot down. So we drove out and had lunch with his Dad during his lunch hour...

It's a really small town pretty far off the beaten path, where my Strong Silent Mysterious Man's Dad went to school.

We stopped a the local pizza joint and you would think their specialty was pizza... but no, everyone in town knows them for their finger steaks and chicken wings, and onion rings. They just happen to have pizza too.

I love my chauffeur, it is pretty neat not to have to drive everywhere... but he doesn't stroll anywhere! It's always at "Mach V"!!! So here are my quick photos out the window of this cute little town!

(oh dear look at all the little bug corpses on the window... or I should be saying, don't look at them!)

Some really neat buildings and architecture, but you have to look fast or you will miss them. It is one of those little towns that hang their holiday decor from the light posts going down main street. Some old places that have been around forever, but have a new face lift.

( I love the old faded coca-cola sign)

And I love that right on main street there are homes. Just past the businesses there is the residential section of town displaying proudly their rose gardens and flowers and the old trees that hang over the street and shade everything keeping it from feeling like the hot dry dessert.

So cute, and Mayberry'ish.

It wasn't too awful exciting, but it was fun. And we really enjoyed being able to see my Strong Silent Mysterious Man in the middle of the day, it made me miss how he used to come home for lunches and take naps in the middle of the day.

A good time was had by all!

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

My Hero...

Yesterday, I was busy working, on the phone allot, and trying to multi-task and get much done in what seemed to be a very short time.
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I think my early mornings up to go walking (5:15am) are starting to catch up with me because by 4pm I am running out of steam. Last night was my worst yet... by the time my Strong Silent Mysterious Man called me on his way home from work... I was too pooped out to think about dinner.
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In the back of my head I was thinking cereal, or at the very most, If I really tried, I might be able to stand long enough to get a grilled cheese sammy toasted up... if I had help!
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And my knight in shining armor comes to the rescue again... he decided it was a good night for dinner date and took me out to eat. Nothing fancy, but I didn't have to cook!!
I love this guy! He is my Hero!!

I should really look in the mirror before we go out... we look like we are going to go rob a bank or something! Yikes!!!!

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Sea of Photography...

I saw this photo taken of photographers covering the Olympics in Beijing and was totally amazed!
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The caption broke it down...
In this image alone I can count 23 cameras. I can see loads of Canon L-Series EF and Nikkor AF-S 500mm super telephoto lenses—each around $5,800 a pop—, a few 400mm, 600mm, 700mm, 800mm here and there. Let's assume a conservative average of $6,000 per telephoto lens. That's $138,000 total just on lenses. Most of them are probably using the biggest and baddest Canon and Nikon cameras, so we can assume an average $5,000 price tag per camera, which brings the grand total to about a quarter of a million dollars.
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A waste of resources? Or really cool?
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Was it one of the best covered Olympics by far (okay that's just my opinion) because of these resources?
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I read a press photog's blog showing him packing his equipment before he set off to the games...he had 5 1ds bodies, and another Canon dSLR body, a couple of Peli cases and rucksacks full of lenses and a load of other gear including laptops and such...
He got up late on the first day and missed everything.... Can you imagine???
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Over a quarter of a million dollars in digital photography equipment firing at full speed! Just imagining the shutters clicking away gives me goosebumps!
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I think, very cool!!!

Monday, August 25, 2008

Weekend full of blessings...

This weekend was full of blessings!, we enjoyed listening to Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi from the First Quorum of the Seventy of our Church speak at our Stake Conference, and he had his sweet wife share her testimony. He told some stories from his life of experiences that helped him grow in his testimony of the Gospel and it was so cool. It really helped to get to know him in such a very personal way.


In addition, we were double blessed this weekend... they dedicated the Twin Falls, Idaho Temple and broadcast the ceremony to all of the Stakes within the Idaho borders... so we were able to be part of that dedication ceremony in our own building. What a wonderful spirit to complete our weekend!

I thought this was blog worthy, not because of my attempt to display them (by the way I am not sure it is even worthy yet... still contemplating other ways to use these awesome pieces) but because of the amazing beautiful talent that my Sis has but is so humble and doesn't think she possesses.

She went to a glass blowers studio who is renting space in one of the buildings her company owns and manages (I might have the details wrong, the story escaped me the very second I opened the box when these arrived, just after my jaw dropped to the floor and my eyes welled up with tears of gratitude and joy and love for her thoughtfulness).

She made these in his studio. I love everything about them... the beautiful bright colors and how she put them together. The shapes the copper hangers she thought to put inside them ahead of time, so they could be turned into something cool. And her thoughtfulness to send them to me, believing I could do something cool with them (she always believes in me, even when I don't believe in myself).

Like I said, I am not sure the copper hanging I put them into does them justice, but I do love having them hang where I can see them over my kitchen sink and they make me think of her (even more, if that is possible) every day!! Thanks Sis! I love them!!!

Apricots!

I went visiting teaching last week. This is an area I am trying to be more perfect in... I am not there yet, not because I don't have the very best ladies to go visiting to... but mostly because I have much bigger intentions than I actually follow up with. If I could do everything I think of in my head, I would be an awesome visiting teacher. I am working on that balance somewhere between my visions and my reality.

One of my sweet ladies was dehydrating apricot fruit leather when I arrived (oh yeah, just to show how not perfect I am... I actually came a day earlier than we had written on the calendar... duh! which is why I caught her working... she always stops everything for me when I come and I totally caught her off guard. But like I said, wonderful ladies, and I will add forgiving too!!).

My mistake turned into such a blessing for me, because my MIL had given me her dehydrator before she moved to UT and I have been wanting to learn to use it ever since, really bad... but had so many fears and insecurities about it I hadn't done a thing with it yet! So this dearest friend, taught me the basics of making fruit leather, gave me a sample of hers, and sent me home with apricots to come home and make it with! How awesome was that!!! This bad boy dehydrator had so many layers I didn't think I would ever make enough of anything to fill it up... but guess what, I used all but two shelves on half of the apricots I brought home. This was exciting!
I was also blessed with this mini food processor (also from my MIL several years ago... it has made so many batches of salsa and guacamole I have lost count), just the exact right size for a batch of fruit leather.

And get this... the recipe is apricots... thats it, no sugar no nothing else!

I also dried some apricot halves, but they just took allot longer than the leather. And I had enough left over to freeze some for smoothies too!

What huge blessings from just going out and doing my visiting teaching... I always hope I can bring something into the homes that I visit that will bless or enhance their day in someway, and I always end up walking away with much more from them than I ever feel like I take (and not just material things like the apricots, most always it is something from their hearts that is not material). So when I am obedient and do what I am supposed to be doing (even when it isn't perfect) I am blessed, and those blessings come to my family as well!

This is a great lesson for me to learn to put those things that are most important first and not just try and work them in!

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