I can't believe it has been a week!

Make sure you scroll down. There are some fun things towards the end of the blog.

After the little Arnold's left I nursed myself back to health and then we went to Idaho! It was great fun. I am so mad at myself, I didn't dump my pics from my cards before I left, and never got around to it while we were there so I didn't take pics! That is a first for me! Soooo I will always get my cards emptied before I go!

We went first to Boise to see Robin and Don. I am glad we went there first before we went to Tim's. We got to take Robin and Don out to dinner all by ourselves. It was much nicer that way to be able to not have so many people around. Robin is doing amazing. She is so determined, so she can talk, walk without a cane and has feeling in her right arm. I enjoyed talking to her very much. We always have talked easily so we didn't have problems communicating. I am very optimistic that the girls will have her zipping around the house and using that arm before Don comes back from Iraq. Plus I think the girls are more stubborn about making her talk, so she will just get better and better at that. We stayed at Tim's, Penny and Walt were there also. We had a blast talking to all of them, and went out to dinner the next day with Robin and Don and the rest of us.

Then on to the Leslie's. We had so much fun in Firth/Rexburg. The girls were home because Rebecca is going to home learn them. I am so excited for them. Rebecca will be the pioneer for our family. It will be fun to watch and see if it turns out that all or most of my grand kids become home learners. The Jonas Brothers movie was out and I took the girls and Rebecca to it. It was SO MUCH FUN!!!! It was in 3-d so we all had our cool glasses on and got to pretend we were at a concert and back stage. I had a smile on the entire movie. They are amazing performers and unless they are liers, they are amazing people. They are clean dancers and dressers, athletic, cute and decent singers. At the end of the movie it was the Jonas Brothers at the movie theatre watching their movie. They asked their body guard if they had any popcorn left, they didn't, so one of them leaned forward (3d remember) pointed at us and said "you there with the red shirt on, can I have some of your popcorn?". Well, we went while all the other kids were in school, so there were literally about 10 people in the theater. I had on a red sweater and had the popcorn bucket, the girls loved that, the part of you that loves to pretend felt like he was talking to me. It was a great time. We went to Sub Zero ice cream before it started, Nummmmmyyyyyyyy! Better than Cold stone.

Because the girls were home I cooked a little with Gracie, and helped the girls do blogs. Anna and I didn't finish hers, we didn't start until a couple of days before I left, and the last day we spent at Danielle's, so it didn't leave much time to finish Anna's. So I told Aliese she needs to help Anna, are you reading this Aliese? We watched Kit Kiterage, that was good. Just being together was fun.

Steve and I went to Rexburg to see Clay and Danielle. I went shopping with Danielle, we went to DownEast, or whatever it is called, Payless Shoes, and Walmart-the expensive stores! I got one shirt, and Danielle got a couple of bargains at Walmart. We then went back home, visited with Clay. Steve came back from visiting a best friend from High School and then we went to dinner. Chinese, so Steve and Danielle were in Heaven. Then home for LOST!!!! It was so much fun for me to watch it with someone else that loves it. Steve has never let himself watch it, so I always watch it by myself, and until this Wednesday, on the computer. So it was fun to watch it with Daneille and Clay. Then we came back to the Leslie's, went to bed. Then next morning we got up and Rebecca made us German Pancakes, nummy! Then on the road back to Boise, saw Robin and her fam again, then back to Oregon. We got home about 11:00 pm. Exhausting! But nice to sleep in our own bed.

The next day, Steve got up and shaved his beard! Yes for those of you that didn't know he had a beard. I tried to like it, but I married a clean shaven man. Here are the bearded pics.After he shaved his beard Steve jumped into my car and drove to Philomath to get our new gun! I have to say it was hard at first, but I feel it is a good thing. We live out in the sticks where there isn't a police or sheriff's dept. We share the police with the county. We are going to go out and practice so we can both (me mostly) can become comfortable with it.

The big news is I am going to EUROPE!!!! I am going to visit Greg and Megan. Steve is staying home and taking care of the beach house, I get to leave the laptop home! Yea!! It will be the first time since the Internet became our main mode of advertising (word of mouth and return customers being the other) that I will have a day off. Of course I get Sunday's off. I am so excited. I will teach Steve all the computer stuff and just go and play! It will be fun to shop with Megan and just hang out. I bought some new tennis shoes (why do we call them tennis shoes?) and am going to start wearing them in the house to get used to them. I am going to fix a few of my clothes to make them pick pocket proof for when we are traveling in Milan. I might make some new shirts, we'll see. I am hoping to get down to my normal weight so I can buy a couple of classy outfits! I live in a branch with older people and there are some that are older than me that really love clothes, so I have no hope of ever not wanting beautiful classy clothes.

We have had crazy weather lately, sun, rain, hail, snow and wind. I went to Costco yesterday that is always fun.

Oh and another cool thing in our lives is that we are getting direct TV on Wednesday! Just in time for Lost! We have always had dish, but they don't have ABC here so we are switching, which means we get new receivers!!! that will be DVR!!! Yes the Arnold's are becoming modern! I will now get to watch Lost on TV and tape and pause live TV. I am so excited! Well, this has been long. Hope you all made it! Love you all!