Weekend , Steve's b-day and dish rags!

Well, from the stack above you can tell what I have been doing!!! I have been watching a lot of TV. My sister and Patty say if I am knitting while watching TV it is not wasting time, and my sister jokingly said if I was watching the History Channel then I am definitely not wasting my time. I told her that I actually was watching the History Channel part of the time. I actually have been doing less sitting and more doing. But I have definitely caught the knitting bug. Steve's says I look like a grandma when I am knitting in my glasses, I said,"well I am a grandma!"

Yesterday was one of those amazing day's that at the end of the day you feel very tired, but great. I did a little of everything, including working in my greenhouse for 40 min. I washed clothes and actually folded them, did the dishes, cooked meals, read my scriptures, worked on my calling, read out of Jane Eyre (which I am reminded why I always feel a soft spot when I think about it), watched Ellen while I folded clothes, knitted, watched the last Little House the movie with Steve and last but not least watched American Idol.

Speaking of American Idol, it is getting harder and harder to vote people off. I am anxious about tonights show.

Sunday was Steve's b-day. It was just the two of us. I had meetings all day, I felt bad for him, he went to church alone, came home to an empty house until I finally got home at 5:00. I made him cubed steak, mashed potatoes, gravy and salad. I already made the chocolate pie the night before. He ate so much at dinner he never wanted his pie. Finally as he was about to go to sleep, I said I have to sing to you! So I got out a candle, lit it held it up in front of his face, while he was laying on the couch and sang happy birthday to him. He took his sweet time blowing it out. Finally the next day he ate some pie. I had some on his b-day.

Well, that's about it, Saturday was just busy getting ready for Sunday. I did have a neat experience on Saturday. I have been very negligent in my calling. I think fear of the whole scouting thing made me paralyzed. I lost something that was very important to me that had to do with the 11yr. old boy day camp. I had searched the house over. Well, after I had put in several hours on Saturday working on getting ready for my Pres mtg. and brushing up on my handbooks, I found the thing I had been looking for while I was looking for something entirely different. I almost started crying. I knew that HF was displeased with me for ignoring my calling. After putting in just that little bit of time, I felt like he handed me that gift for finally doing my job. He is amazing, I don't think we are quite that quick to forgive!

Well, I am loving Jane Eyre for the 3rd time. If you have never read it, put it on your list. Oh we also watched Dan in Real Life, it was cute, we enjoyed it. Dad would like it mom. Well, hope you are all well!
Love you all!

Beautiful Sunset, new shoes, new hobby

I can't resist a beautiful sunset!!

About a month ago I was watching TV and saw the cutest shoes I had seen in a long time!!!! I had to have them. But I waited too long to get them in Newport. When I went to Danielles, one of her presents was a gift cert. for Payless Shoes. I looked for the shoes and they were there!!! Soooo you know what happened, I HAD TO HAVE THEM! Cute huh?! ( The shadow off the wall makes my legs look bigger than they are! :-( I had a friend teach me to knit thinking I could rationalize my tv watching. Hee Hee. Well here are my first projects. They are looking pretty good, but I am still dropping stitches, so no important projects for me yet. These are dish rags. They were different sizes on purpose! I 'm serious!Well, that's about it. Love you all!!!!

Help!!

Well, Steve and I went out to dinner tonight and started to talk about his b-day and mothers day. We decided what we wanted, I am excited about his present as well as mine. He is going to get another ocean crab cage!!! Yummy, that means big crabs during the off season!!! He told me he will match me dollar for dollar for my new dishes!!!! Yea for me, I will get them a lot faster that way. Sooooo my need of help. I am trying to figure out how many to get. They are going to be my everyday and good dishes. The set comes with the above pieces. Which is way cheaper than buying them separately. The only thing that is near the same price separately is the salad plates. Sooooo as I write this I am thinking I should just get sets even though I don't need the same amount of saucers and cups as the rest or pasta bowels for that matter, or do I? I was thinking that it would be nice to have at least 14 place settings because I have 6 children, and if they all came it would be nice maybe to have nice plates for them at a nice meal. Or would I really use the real dishes or just paper. If that is the case 12 would probably be plenty for when a family or company comes. Or since I am planning on keeping these for a long long time, maybe I should just get 4 sets and the cereal bowls and gt it over with. Ahhhhggggg!!! Tell me what you think! I will have to buy serving bowls and platters from different dishes that coordinate, because they don't have serving pieces, bummer. Well, I am sure I am making much to much of this, but I am not going to do this soon again. So tell me what you think!?

Tagged

I think everyone knows these answers, but maybe not. It been a great weekend. I went to Amy's and helped her get some muffins and bread made to put in the freezer, made dinner for them and Meg and Greg. Went to Penelope definitely worth seeing!! Spent the night, got up went to Stake Women's conf, that was wonderful, then drove home. I am excited to be home and don't want to go anywhere for a while! The weather was gorgeous yesterday, but is gone now. :-( Oh well, someday the sun will shine for more than a couple of days. I am hoping to plant some veggies this week. One of the classes I went to talked about doing more of the thing you love and finding a way to share that as a gift to others- getting rid of things you really don't do and don't really want to do. I am going to ponder those thoughts. Church was great, I hate to admit it, but it felt good just to be loved and with my friends. Well, here goes, hope it's not too boring.

How did you meet your spouse? We met walking home from school at BYU, a bicycler almost ran Steve over behind me and the noise made me turn around. I said something about how annoying the bicycler's were and turned back around. Steve caught up to me and started talking to me. We asked the typical BYU questions, what's your major, where you from, etc. When Steve said Rexburg I immediately look down to see if he was wearing cowboy boots. He was wearing platforms. He looked really young to me so I tried to see if he had garments on and it looked like he did so I asked him about his mission. We started talking about Rexburg and I was whining that all my friends lived there, he then invited me to go with him and his roommates the next weekend. I wanted to go, but was scared to go with a stranger. Long story short, I ended up going alone with him and fell in love on the way up. Steve was much slower, he didn't fall in love with me until 4 months later.

Where did you go on your first date? well, that is tough, I would say our first real date was to the movie, we saw The Strongest Man on Earth, with Kurt Russell. We got popcorn and the works, I had never had the works so it was pretty cool for me.

Who eats more? Steve eats way more! I probably could out eat him in the treat area in one sitting though.

Who's Taller? Steve

Who sings better? I can read music and Steve can't and he would argue with this, but I think we both have nice voices.

How long have you been together? 33 years

Who said I love you first? Steve in a note. He had drawn a flower and wrote in little kids handwriting that he couldn't get me a flower so he drew me one. He then said he loved me and did I love him? I had one of my roommates drive me over and told him the same day that I loved him.

Who is smarter? Steve definitely, although he would argue with that.

Who does the laundry? I do, Steve says he doesn't know how. I always wonder how his clothes got clean when he was at college....

Who does the dishes? We both do, he cleans off the table and sometimes the counters, I do the rest.

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Steve does.

Who pays the bills? Steve, he couldn't handle it if I did it, and I don't want too!!!

Who mows the lawn? Steve

Who cooks dinner? Me, Steve says he doesn't know how to do anything when I am home!

Who drives when you are together? Steve does most of the time around town, I drive most of the time out of town.

Who is more stubborn? I am, I have way more pride, which is no shock to anyone.

Who is the first to admit when they’re wrong? Steve, back to the pride issue. Although, I have greatly improved this year.

Who kissed who first? Steve kissed me.

Who proposed? We lived back in the dinosaur age, so it was definitely Steve at the Provo Temple outside the gate. I hesitated, so he told me I could think about it. I thought about it prayed and fasted about it and said no. He said he couldn't be around me if I wasn't going to marry him, I thought I was going to die. But the next day he came back and said he would wait until I was ready. I say he waited two weeks, he says he waited one week, but anyway, the second time was in the park, I had rollers in my hair. He proposed again, and I said I needed to walk around the park. I realized if I didn't say yes he would never ask me again, so after a twenty min. walk I said yes.

Who is more sensitive? Me! But Steve says he has emotionals now, so who's to say!

Who has more friends? Wow, that depends on the kind of friends you are talking about. Steve is way more friendly than I am, everyone in Rays, the bank, and the Post office knows him.

Who has more siblings? Steve has a 4 and I have 3.

Who wears the pants? We both do, it depends on the issue.

Grandma's in the hospital, Danielles and Gracies b-days

Well, I am sitting in my bedroom watching Idol Gives Back, it is very humbling, and I wonder when Heavenly Father is going to ask us to go on a mission. I realize it will never be convenient, I really do want to go, that in itself is very scary, I didn't want to go before but wanted to be obedient.

Well, my mom is in the hospital. She has been there since Monday night. I wanted to find out what was wrong before I worried everyone. She started to faint, and her pressure was really low, so they took her to the hospital. They did tests on Tuesday and Today. It is interesting they don't really know what is wrong, but they think it will help to put a defibrillator on her that also has a tiny pacemaker in it. That is the simple explanation, Darin you ought to call her you would find it very interesting. It is a new thing. It shocks her heart if it stops beating. The pacemaker part helps regulate her heartbeat. They think that is what her heart is stopping temporarily. The doctor is only 35 years old, but amazing they say. They are moving her to Sacred Heart tomorrow, I will post the phone # when I get it. In the meantime, my dad seems to be at the hospital most of the time so you could call his phone,541-554-4175. The surgery should be Friday, but may be next week. She is actually very good right now, but they don't want to take a chance that these episodes will continue. One cool thing is if it works, she will be able to walk without getting out of breath as easily, so therefore she could exercise more and make her heart stronger. Pretty cool. I don't want you to worry about her, but obviously keep her in your prayers. I will let you know when I know when the surgery is. She will be in the hospital until next week sometime, so those of you in the valley might want to take turns going into see her so she won't go berserk with boredom. I will be in town on Friday. I am going to help Amy with some cooking for her freezer and hopefully if Meg has time, get my hair cut.

While I was in Idaho, I got to spend Danielle's b-day with her, first time since she turned 17. I was really glad it worked out coincidently to be coming home from Disneyland just in time for her b-day. I got cheated in having her home for her 18th b-day, so it was nice to be with her this year. We had a lot of fun. Rebecca for the 3rd year in a row fixed her dinner and a cheesecake. I am so grateful to have the wonderful children that I have. If I say I need one of you, you are there. That means more to me than you know. I brought Gracie's b-day presents also, so the pics of her are her opening her b-day presents. Her b-day is the day after Danielle's.

Beautiful DanielleClays family came, it was so nice to be able to spend some time with them.Clay's beautiful sistersGorgeous Clay and DanielleCute GracieGracie loves Aliese and Anna's "Baby Alive" so I got her things for Baby AliveI got her preemie size disposable diapers, same brand as hers, she was pretty excitedHere she is feeding baby alive a drinkIt was a great night. I loved every minute of my trip. I appreciated Steve being so willing for me to have that experience, he's the GREATEST!

Message from Dad's Bed & Breakfast Resort

Megan,
I enjoyed reading your post about your's and Greg's time out here with me at the coast. I have a question. Don't all bed and breakfast resorts make sure their guests have buttery popcorn and a bowl of chocolate chips? And this after they have dined on a halibut steak, tuna steak, or salmon steak? What can I say, I offer a full service program out here and I believe in providing only a complete quality experience.
I loved having you guys and Amy and Mike out here while your Mom was gone. Thanks for the very good company.
Dad

Conference

Yesterday and Today was amazing. Pres. Monson was so wonderful. It is amazing how you can see the difference of him being the prophet. You truly could see the mantle! If you didn't get to hear Elder Ballard's talk about women, READ IT!!! I love you all, I have seminary tomorrow, so gotta go!