Stuff from the last few weeks

Cubby works on her "Anime" for art class. Looking good to me!

Tori has a "dance" recital at school. That some of them were considered dances and that some of the songs were allowed by the teacher are unexplainable. Tori was great and looked like she was having fun, vs most of the others who did not. Tori was in two different ones. The one where she is in the red tights was a "hip hop" type dance. The one where Tori is wearing the purple hoodie and baggie sweats is one that she mostly choreographed, and was done to the song, "I'm a Gummy Bear". It was real fun to watch. Hopefully we will have a CD to show anyone who wants to see the two she was in. It will be much better than having to see the others, just to see her.

Grandma came for a visit. It was so nice to see her again. She came on the train and had a pretty long day because of train delays. Too much time sitting was hard on her, so she chose to fly home. As you can see, she spent a lot of time reading, but she seemed to have a good time.

She also got to see Tori as the narrator in "Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat", with us and enjoyed it too.

And here we are during intermission at Tori's play. We had seats far in the back, which I wasn't real happy with, but it was still fun to watch Tori and the others, who had worked so hard to put on a good production. I really don't think it's because I'm her mom that I say, "she really lit up the stage". Good times!

Here we see a very excited Tori, right after the production. A full house, a standing ovation, 1/2 the ward, family and friends in the audience, and a great performance makes for a night to remember!!!

Here is Noah, very happy to be watching TV and not working. Well, maybe not completely happy, but at least a little jealous because..., yep here it comes, lets put our hands together, and give it up for..MOM!!!!! Oh yeah! I got a job. Thank you, thank you. You can all stop cheering now.

I will be one of the few, and the only new employee at Fiona's Granola. Here is her website.

http://www.fionasgranola.com/about.html

The pretty lady is my boss. I have met with her and her cook. It's a small operation, but it will be perfect for me. Between Oct. and April, things are slower and it picks up from Apr. to Oct. Spring and summer, she does a lot with the Boulder farmers market. Now she has some business picking up a bit because her small bags of granola are being picked up by some of the gift basket/box companies. Anyway, I will be the new packager. I will be bagging the granola in the different sized bags and packaging the power bars. I start on Monday. I love this because it will be very flexible and for now, between 1 and 3 days a week. Perfect for me. I can get some audio books, sit and listen and package my little heart out.

Hi All

Hi All!

Just thought I would pass along my love to you all.

We are enjoying having Grandma here and some nice weather. It's supposed to be getting cold and we have had some cold weather. I'm happy to say that I have even felt it. That's not usual for me. The idea of getting out a sweater or a coat; putting on gloves and socks to take the dogs out. wow! A nice change from being too warm all the time and freezing my poor family out.

Life's good and we're all doing fine. Sure hope you all are too.

Love Ya!!!!

Opening "Joseph"

Last night the cast of Skyline High Schools production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" had their first performance.


Though I took a big crockpot of homemade soup and helped serve it to the cast and crew before the performance, I was not able to stay and watch it. No comp tickets, even if you help feed everybody. Oh well!


One of Tori's friends, Nikki, was able to go to opening night. He said it was good and that Tori did a great job.

After the show, they drove through Dairy Queen and got some celebratory ice cream.

Howdy Ya'll

I know that some of you have been missing me, and I figured I should do a post to all my favorite people, and you know who you are!

Life has been very different for me since my family moved me here from Utah. For one thing, they still haven't put in my door. Can you believe it. This family couldn't be safe and protected or feel truly loved without me and yet they continue to ignore this very important issue. Of course Kricket/Little Dog or as I prefer to think of her, the annoying, ankle biting, food stealing (this one being by far the biggest difficulty about.....her) nap wrecker, is having a very hard time dealing with this. This little.....friend of mine seems to have very little self control. She not only begs our poor family for food all the time, but doesn't seem to think ahead at all. When she needs to be taken outside, she needs to go now. If someone in the family doesn't hurry, she starts to go nuts. Poor dumb thing. I really feel sorry for her. It's a good thing I'm around to help keep her in line.

Anyway, it's not too bad here.

I know you are wondering what I do with my time. Well, lately I have spent a lot of time trying to relax. It took some time after we got here, making sure the yappy little animals that live behind us to know who is the new boss around here, and a few other little things here and there. Now that they are falling in line, I have been able to keep my surveillance to unfamiliar people and unfamiliar noises.

I also make sure to keep mom and dad protected for any and all intruders at night. I have assigned Kricket to take the downstairs area at night. So far, we have everything in tip top shape.

On another note: I'm happy to say that mom and dad went and voted the other day.

Here is a picture of them with their "I voted" stickers on. Aren't they cute!

Well, I love you all and hope you are fine, without me around. I hear some of you will be coming in a few weeks. Cool! I look forward to sniffing you and giving you some much needed kisses.

So I just have one more thing to say:

I DO!!!

If you want to bring some with you, I'll help you eat them.

Halloween

Only because I love to see cute and clever costumes do I tolerate Halloween.

I figured you all would like to see the clever costumes the kids came up with this year.

You should definitely go to Meg and John's new blog. Timothy is so cute, you don't want to miss the pictures of him. What a doll!

Last week, Tori went to a Young Womens Halloween party and went as a Monster Drink. Yep,..... weird!!

Yesterday, Tori went as: ?

She has told people she was one of two things.

If you can guess both, you win a big prize, if you guess one of the two you get a smaller prize, but a prize never the less. So you don't waist a guess, I will tell you that "hyper psycho" is not it. Try to think like Tori, but not long enough that it hurts your brain.

Nikki, you can only guess one, because I know she told you the other.

Robert Redford look out! Here comes Noah!!!

As the dashing lawman, Noah breaks hearts, but never the law.

He didn't go tricker treating, but waited patiently by the door downstairs while watching "Bite the Bullet", to hand out candy, but no one came to get candy or see his great costume. Oh well! I would imagine he also ate a goodly share of the candy himself. :)

Look out bad guys!

As a lawman of the old west, he's the original "licenced to kill" guy.

Sad? Yes. Pathetic? Most definitely!!!

Here, my beautiful little girl is transformed into a Hobo. She was so convincing that most people thought she was a boy and some gave her extra candy.

Cubby also got 1st prize in her 3rd period class at school for best costume.

Happy Birthday Adam!

Through the air and ethernet, and from our hearts, we send out a big:

Happy Birthday Adam!!!

It's times like these that it's hard not living by all the family.

Adam, we all wish you the very best on you birthday and hope you know how much we love you. Hope you have a great day,
surrounded by the people who love you ,
minus us :(
We look forward to hearing all about
your speical day.
OXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Pitter Pat Goes My Heart

There he was. This handsome man, just standing there. I just couldn't help myself. Swallowing down my timidity, I walked up to him and said, "hey you handsome thing you, how would you like to go to dinner with me". He looked at me for a long moment, his beautiful baby blue eyes looking deep into my soul. Then he answered...., "sure". It was at that moment I realized I had hardly been breathing as I had awaited his answer. A a mixture of excitement and relief washed over me. Emboldened by his response, I brazenly stepped forward, put my arms around his neck and gave his a big slickery kiss.
Awe, such romance for an old married couple of 26 years. :)
Well we did go on a date and it was really fun. We were going to go to the movies, but there really wasn't anything playing worth spending the money on and Cubby needed Steve to help her with her math homework, so it wasn't a late evening, which truth be told, is the way Steve likes it.
We went to Red Lobster. Steak and Shrimp! Doesn't get much better than that!!!!!!!
I also dragged Steve through a craft store while I checked out yarn. He may not have been thrilled, but he was patient and kind about it.
So there you have it. A handsome date, good food and a craft store. Does it for me!!!!!!