Pi Day

Zach has proclaimed our family as the ultimate Nerd Family. We talked about square root day on 03/03/09 and today we celebrated 3/14 or pi day by having pie. We ate two kinds of pie at dinner time. One was our main course which was taco pie.

Then for dessert we had fudge sundae pie.

No More Excuses!

I use to have so many excuses for not adding to my blog. First - it took quite a few weeks before we had phone or internet or satellite service. It seems that along with the post office and the school district and UPS, there is no such place as Jacobs Lane. Even now, we still aren't on Google Maps. We ordered the three previously listed services and the companies would assure us that someone would be out on a certain day. That day came and went. I had stayed home for nothing (unpacking boxes - so I guess it isn't exactly nothing). I waited a few more days and then went to our old house and called since we still didn't have phone service and thus hadn't disconnected the other phone yet, and the various companies said they couldn't find us. I once again gave specific directions as to our location and set up another date the following week. By now it is after Thanksgiving and we have been in our home for more than two weeks. Finally, after having the various technicians and installers call us for directions we finally got all set up. Then after a couple of weeks, our modem went bad and we had to send for another one. Of course, they said they will be sending it overnight, but since UPS couldn't find us, it took a week. Second - Christmas came upon us then and all the kids were here, including Erin and her boyfriend. It was a great time for all. Third - Tons of boxes to unpack and sort out and throw out, etc. Fourth - now I am out of excuses, so I guess I had better get back to keeping up this blog, so my kids can know what is going on with our life.

First Five

First Five......
The first FIVE people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!2- What I create will be just for you.3- It'll be done this year. (might be a little while)4- You have no clue what it's going to be.It may be a story. It may be poetry, shoes, bags, or a little invention of my own! I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. Believe me... it may blow your mind!The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!Sounds like fun, right? So, let's play!

MOVING DAY!

Yesterday was moving day. I can't believe how many people showed up to help us move! People we know and love from both 2nd and 8th ward, and people from the 8th ward that I am sure will be our new friends. I asked Kylee to write down everyone's name so we could send thank you's but she and I didn't know them all. Brother Ashton brought over his huge trailer and loaded up the entire storage unit and brought it over to our new house. Of course, he had tons of help, but the huge trailer made for only one trip instead of many. Brother Empey and Steven made many trips and hooked up the washing machine and then came back and hooked up the stove and frig. They also helped with our food storage last week too. Sister Ashton brought over scones and Sister Hall brought over cookies. Everything was at our new house by about 10:30. Can you believe that??? We started around 8:30. So that was amazing.

Zach is having a crummy time. He is pretty depressed about having to change wards and Priest quorums and the funny little inside jokes they all have. I didn't think he was really close to many of them as he never hangs out with them, but apparently he just likes the fun they have together shoveling people's snow as a surprise, or going camping together, or scripture time by the Bishop during Sunday quorum meeting...

And then today is Kylee's birthday. The house is all in a jumble so I think we will be celebrating later. Oh well! Kaitlin was and still is stuck with that as her birthday was on November 1st and we were in CA then. We did go to Old Country Buffet and have cake and ice cream, but no presents as I did really shop while I was there other than to take David grocery shopping. So we owe a couple of girl's a birthday celebration. Perhaps we will have to surprise them with something. I don't know. I guess we will have to figure something out.

Kind of a Sad Day

We all got released from our callings at church yesterday. I guess that's it then. Time to move on. We haven't figured exactly when we are moving - still have cleaning to do and selling our house so... But it will be weird for everyone to just go to church and have no responsibility.

Look What We Got Today!

I met our builder, Ken Gale, out at our house this morning and received this from him as well as our new house keys. All of the inspections have been done, and we are ready to go. And all less than four months! There are a few things that Ken is going to still do like the tiles on the tub in the master bedroom haven't been installed yet, nor have the mirrors in the bathrooms gone up or the shower door. That is about it, except the parts that we need to do. We have clean-up and finish painting the girls bedroom are the things we have to do before moving in, and then some things we will do after we move in. Pretty exciting!

TAGGED!

Well that was a pain in the neck! I am an incompetent blogger and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get this tag image onto my blog. I tried what I thought was the most logical quickest way to do it, but noooo... I had to make it into a jpeg and copy it into a folder and then find it on my computer and... And then I didn't like the way it looked so I had to do it again...So you can see I am pretty incompetent in this area. Plus I am not very successful in making links yet either, so we will see what happens when I go to try that at the end of this posting when I attempt to tag other people. I really need lessons - where is that enrichment class? And I have short term memory as now I can't remember what I am supposed to talk about in this tagging. What a way to start my day - already feel like a dork!

Okay - so step one says I am supposed to link to the person who tagged me. Well, my first attempt didn't work. And my second - and the help center told me it couldn't help me with my request, so now lets see. Hmmm. I have done this once before, so I should remember how this works. My friend who is making me struggle and work hard at something I am not good at, is actually appreciated as hopefully I will remember all about how to make links, since I have to make quite a few with this tagging.

The Next Day - finally to step two - I will get there yet. I almost forgot what I was supposed to do here since I got so sidetracked with my first sentence for the day. But I know - seven random or weird facts about myself. That is hard as I try hard not to be random or weird...unsuccessfully of course, but I do try to kid myself and my kids (and especially other people) that I am very stuffy and straight-laced and serious, and usually it works. So I guess that would count as my random fact number one, especially since there are only few people that know I am really super casual and laid-back and even weird.

Almost Day Number 3 - It will be in 30 minutes. Six more random facts.
- President Faust sat at my desk in my bedroom and conducted temple recommend interviews when we lived overseas.
- I would love to learn how to paint. My kids took a class and it looked like a lot of fun and some of my kids were very good at it too. Conner was just a toddler and I knew it wasn't practical at the time for me to take the class along with them, but I would like to some day.
- I bruise super easy. Practically if anyone looks at me cross-eyed I get a bruise.
- I very rarely get the hiccups. I usually swallow them and they are gone. This makes my kids and husband very mad as they get the hiccups rather frequently.
- I used to have an embalmed baby shark. We had dissected sharks when I was in seventh grade and the mother shark had four babies inside of her. I got to keep one, and my dad stuck it in embalming fluid. I had that shark in a jar for about 15 years or so.
- I am extremely afraid of heights. It even makes me nervous when someone else gets close to an edge and I can feel myself go into panic mode.

So that is it. Now I will have to see if I know enough people to tag that haven't been tagged. Looking at my list - I guess not, sorry guys, I haven't been blogging for very long so I really don't know that many people yet. I guess I will tag Rochelle. I had a few more people on my list, but the links weren't working and I am tired of playing so I am going to post this and be done.