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9.12.10

Virginia Day 1

Here begins the blog posts of my Virginia trip. Day one: I flew to Virginia on a Wednesday. I changed planes in Chicago where I met Barbara, a blind white trash woman in a normal persons disguise. I saw her wandering around the terminal waiting area looking a little lost. I offered to help her find a seat to wait for our plane, I ended up escorting her to the restroom, and then sitting with her while we waited. She asked me to help her onto the plane and so we ended up sitting next to each other on the flight. She liked to talk about her dead beat son, and all of her ex husbands, and how she doesn't drink or smoke but told me stories about when she was drunk and offered to buy me a drink on the plane. She told me all about her dysfunctional brothers and sisters. I helped her get her bags and escorted her to her sisters car. It was a long flight and all I really wanted was to listen to Harry Potter on audiobook. I don't know how I end up in these kinds of situations... oh well...

Anna picked me up at the airport with Carla Sue. We went to Target to get some wrapping paper for Lucy's birthday. While we were there Anna saw a darling little moo moo on sale for Clarabelle. When we got home, she wanted to put it on immediately and then asked that I take some pictures of her in her beautiful new dress. She donned her indian garb along with the moo moo and re-enacted her thankful Indian song and dance. The kids came home from school and we had a great dinner of Kung Pao Chicken. There was visiting, planning, laughing, and then bed. It was a great first day!

Oh lovely!

Anna wanted to show me some of her cute poses

Carla Sue eating her snack of pretzels from a bowl, with a spoon.

I'll never eat pretzels the same way again.

6.12.10

Triple Threat

Alison, Katie Whipple and I decided that we would like to start going on triple dates. This naturally led to us naming ourselves "The Triple Threat" with the hope that boys in the ward would figure out that we were going on lots of fun dates with them and that they would coin the phrase "Being hit up by the triple threat." (Or something equally as cool and awesome.) Our aims are to plan and execute amazing dates, to gain the reputation as an exclusive, non-exclusive good time while keeping it clean, and to find and marry the men of our dreams (I'm still holding out for Eomer, fingers crossed!) Its been a long time coming, and there has only been one triple threat date so far, but I'm sure there will be more to come.

Alison asked Cordell, I asked Keegan (Katie's brother), and Katie asked Mike from the Brays Bayou ward. We started off the evening by cutting up the fresh toppings and making our own pizza dough. While we were waiting for the dough to rise, we played a rousing game of croquet outside in the cold wet dark. I decided to live my life out in the service of others by wearing the head lamp to light the way for everyone as they hit their balls. (Titter titter)

Mike and Katie

Alison and Cordell

Keegan

It was a lot of fun and overall a great success as Katie and Mike started dating that night. Mission accomplished.

Haul Out The Holly...

Before I left for Virginia, we hauled out the Christmas decorations and went to town! (Not literally, Debby already had all of the decorations and so we didn't need to go to town to get any more. It was just a figure of speech.) Jason Sweeney was nice enough to come lend support and, much more important, his man power. We had a swell time and by the end we were all covered in glitter (the herpes of crafts.) Let the Christmas festivities begin!!!

5.12.10

Dewberry Farm

On November 6th some friends from the ward and I set out to visit Dewberry Farm. It is essentially the same as Cornbellys as it includes a pumpkin patch, a corn maze, hay rides, etc. They also grow Christmas trees where you are able to go in and cut down your own tree when the time is right. Dewberry Farm's main source of revenue however, comes from the production of honey. They are bee farmers. It was a lot of fun and made me think back to last year when we were all together at Cornbellys.

Hiding in the corn maze

Feeling peckish

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The hairstyle I hope to emulate next

Hanging out

Hog ridin'

Fun on the slide

Dressing up

A very happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas, from all of us at Dewberry Farm to all of you wherever you might be.

(Me, Cordell, Nikki, Eric, Boqueesha)

4.12.10

Happen Yalloweh!

Yes, its December and I am posting about Halloween. Get over it please. I was Mrs. White and Alison was Miss Piggy and together we were very fun tonight. As it turned out, the majority of people I came in contact with that evening hadn't seen Clue the movie and had only played the board-game, consequently, people thought I should have been dressed up like an old maid. C'est la vie. I like to think that Madeline Kahn was with me that night and together we hated Yvette so much that there were flames on the side of our faces, heaving, breathless....

Wendy, Katherine, and Julie

Soldiers from Toy Story (Hands down one of the best costumes I have ever seen!!)

Hehehe, us

Getting de costumeized

Apparently, if you wear a feather boa all night, you start growing feathers out your armpits. (Just a heads up for those of you considering bringing back the feather boa. )

3.12.10

Layne's Last Supper

My friend Layne from Molen and Associates recently moved to Dallas. This was sad because we love Layne a lot. We went out to dinner for an intimate farewell where I presented her with the cape she'd been requesting since I met her. I bought pink satin and faux leopard fur at Hobby Lobby and asked Sandy Tolman to help me sew it. It turned out PERFECTLY! Layne believes that with a crown and cape she can rule the world. It was a nice dinner and we all had a good time. We made her run around in front of the restaurant in her cape with her arms stretched out behind her. It was pretty hilarious. We will miss you Layners!

Layne and Robyn

Me and Susan

This is the fab four from Molen and Associates and Layne will be greatly missed!

2.12.10

Home Grown Cantaloupe

Here comes some back logged blog posts that are well over due. This first post is a little something that is near and dear to my heart.

Last year, when I was living at home, Mom and Dad didn't have fresh home grown cantaloupe; they just had store bought stuff. You can imagine my rage and jealousy when Dad started blogging about his overabundance of tomatoes and melons knowing full well I was missing out on the abundance. I knew that in order to be truly happy, I must get my hands on said melons, (and tomatoes) and enjoy the fruit of my parents labor. (Plus how delicious and mouthwateringly good do home grown cantaloupes sound and taste?)

I recognized my opportunity when Debby Gibbs made her trip to Provo to visit the folks. I hinted that it would be nice for her to bring back some fresh produce. I also hinted to my mummy and deaddy that it would be really great if they could send Debby home with some tomatoes and melons. One trip to Utah, and many many subtle hints later, I had my very own home grown cantaloupe!

The Melon

The Cutting

The Fragrance

The De-gutting

The Presentation

The Tasting

The sheer delight and ecstasy of a home grown melon!

I would personally like to thank all those who made it possible for me to enjoy this moment.

10.10.10

YSA Conference

Bering building where the conference was held

Check in at 4:00

Girl from Louisiana, Ryan Williams, Aaron Baker, Aaron Baker's girlfriend, Wendy Thompson

4:30 was the start of the meet and greet, aka speed dating which I did not participate in, I just documented instead. The first guy in the white shirt using his Jedi powers on his date is Loren, as in the Loren that Alison went on a few dates with who I think is a butt face for not getting a clue... anyway, and the red head pulling the goofy face is Elder Sam Morrill from the Spokane Washington mission. We served together in Othello. He was English speaking while I was Spanish so we don't really know each other, just enough to have said hello.

Girl smiling is Kristin Howe, a new friend who is lots of fun

Alison is participating and featured in this picture is Jeff, the guy in the black shirt, who she ended up dancing with and giving her number to at the end of the night.