My sister and her husband and 3 little boys got an offer on their house!

And will be moving down to Utah County in the next month hopefully. So exciting. I can see my 3 nephews a lot more and one of my sisters more too! And my fun brother-in-law who makes us all laugh. We are so happy for them. The offer came in today. More of Ander, Baby Wyatt, and Ben! How fun!

Memories of Childhood...

I was thinking about this today...and I wanted to put the question out there...so I am tagging whoever wants to post it on their blog...

Things I remember when I was a kid:

1) Growing up in "Rain World" in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, everyone had raincoats. Mine kind of looked like a secret agent coat...a more dressy kind. So once in a while, my older sister and older brother and younger brother used to pretend to be spies. Sneaking around the house. Funny!

2) When we stayed in a hotel, waiting to move back to Vancouver (we moved to Penticton, B.C. from when I was 4-8 years old), I was almost 8 years old and me and those same siblings played super heroes...I was Robin, my younger brother was Batman, and my older siblings were the villains. Pretty funny. I also had this cool superball that I would bounce into the pool that had no water in it. I remember that too. I probably lost that superball doing that!

3) My brother Gary and I used to pretend that mom and dad were giants...any adult was a giant. We would hide under the dining room table and watch their feet go by.

4) Gary doesn't remember this but I used to make him hang out with me and we would speak garbly no-nonsense words and pretend we were speaking a foreign language. HaHa.

Just fun to remember those childhood memories...what are yours?

Happy birthday to my sweet sister Karen.

She is such a sweet sister. I was just thinking of her. I am very lucky to have my sisters. They listen to me and care about me so much. They have more faith in me and in my future than I do a lot of times. I am really grateful to have my sisters in my life. 

My mom only has a brother and sometimes I wonder how fun it would have been for her to have a sister. You just can't compare having sisters. My dad was an only child. I guess my parents made up for it by having 7 children!

I also have 3 brothers. They are good guys and a couple of them are still figuring out things in their lives and it is fun to see them accomplish things in their lives...just as it is with my sweet sisters. 

Our whole family tends to be interested in the creative side of life...we can all draw and design and we enjoy writing too.

Growing up in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, in a family of 7 children, we did tend to raise eyebrows I guess. All I know is that I always had someone to play with and we had fantastic times playing down in the creek. I was never bored.

Draper Temple Fire Insurance paid up!

Okay this is kind of hard to see, but there was a fire today just north of the new Draper Temple. This is looking at Redwood Road. I was at the light on Bangerter. At about 4:10pm today. The little image in the pink circle is the temple. Almost under the street light , on the far right, you can see the edge of the fire. Luckily the smoke and fire blew to the north instead of possibly blowing to the south towards the temple. It was kind of cool! And who knows, maybe the wind doesn't blow to the south normally up there...all I know is that it was really cool to see it totally staying away from the temple. Sorry the photo is so small.

True That!

Okay, I have to admit that I laugh at this saying. "True that"  Just makes me wonder why you can't say, "That is true." Ah well. I have heard it a couple of times in the last while and it just cracks me up each time. The english language and correct sentence structure is flying out the proverbial window...

Oh well..at least it provides me with humor!

The Busy-ness continued this weekend

So I reported on my busy Friday...well, the busy stuff continued throughout the whole weekend... 

So Saturday came, clear and sunny, and I was off again...

7am-track

8:30-went to BYU to pick up the family friend (yes, I got to at least rest a little Friday night since the friend didn't need to be picked up till Saturday morning. I was grateful.)

9:15 or so-stop at McDonalds for the friend's breakfast then dropped off my mom and her friend at my mom's house.

10am to 12noon- a break and I stopped quickly at Costco for some things and then went home and worked on a mailing card for the www.signbabies.com products.

12noon to 5:15pm-running my mom and her friend to the postoffice, store, and then visiting a family friend in Alpine who had surgery on her ankle.

6pm-dropped mom and her friend off at mom's house.

6:15-ran home and got jeans on and a long sleeved shirt and blanket and a bottle of water.

6:25-ran out the door to the outdoor scera shell for "Dancing Under The Stars". That was fun to see. Lots of dance groups and some Utah talent that performed on Dancing With The Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. That ended at 10:30.

10:45-got home and quickly got to bed. Can't remember my head hitting the pillow.

Sunday:

5:30am-up again to get ready and eat breakfast

6:30am-ran out the door for temple training that went till 9:45am. (for trainers and coordinators)

10am-walked in the door, drew a couple of little bday cards for my sister Karen and her husband whose bdays are in the next few days.

-tried to rest a little since I had a bit of a headache. (tired I think)

11am-hometeachers. They stayed about 45  minutes.

-tried to get a little catnap in but it didn't happen.

1pm-church. only stayed for Sacrament meeting cuz we had a family get-together in slc at 4pm.

2:30-tried to grab a quick nap...maybe 10 minutes tops. Just so tired!

3pm- headed out the door to get my mom and her friend and a brother.

4pm-mom's friend hadn't packed yet so we waited about a half hour at my mom's. stopped in AF to have my sister Tracey and her boys follow us.

4:20- traffic at standstill on the freeway. oh great!  finally it started moving about 4:35 or so. A trailer came off of a truck.

5pm- got to my other sister's house where we were all meeting...in Cottonwood Heights.

-ate dinner and visited. I had a slight headache. a couple of nieces and nephews were playing with my iphone.

8:20-got home and next thing I knew I was hitting the pillow again and now it is Monday morning! What happened?

I think I would enjoy a less event-packed weekend. It is a little quiet here at work...maybe I can close my eyes for a bit...

OOps- I guess i only typed "a bush"

Ignore that I typed "a new bush"

I was trying to post a comment from my iphone and it didn't quite work...

how embarrassing!

Though I bet I could come up with some text about a bush...

Anyway, today was my day off from work...I went to the track, got my car's oil changed, went for an eye appointment, got my chimney trim fixed though the guy said it needs more work so he will be back the end of next week, went grocery shopping, went to find a piece of glass or plexiglass for my outside porch light holder-thingy (that is the technical name..haha), also bought some bug spray since the spiders of the world think that they can run rampant in a bush of mine. I gratefully don't see the spiders but the webs are there... and I am now drawing. Or am after I post this. And as soon as my mom's friend from our street in Vancouver finishes with Education Week, I will go pick her up to take her to my mom's. So that was my day off. I got a lot done but not the day of leisure I had hoped for.

By the way, the temple went okay last night even though I was running like crazy to keep up with my 7 trainees! 

A bush

This is a fun video! I hope this works...

This is a very cute video from youtube.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW58Kj822Rc