(Birthday Dinner}

For Dave and Garrett's birthday, Dave's mom wanted to take them to dinner.

We met his mom, sister (Tara) & Kelly (Tara's boyfriend) at the Myan in Sandy. The food was nothing to brag about, they actually dropped a huge tray of our food while bringing it to us so we got our meal for practically nothing. It was fun getting together, his mom is doing surprisingly well since his dad died, she is living with Tara right now and is very happy.

Dave and Garrett were lucky enough to have Myan head gear put on their heads and a picture taken to prove it. You can just imagine how excited Dave was for this. ha ha

{Birthday Wishes}

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

To my best friend, my soul mate, my husband of 10 years!!

He is the big 3 2 He sure doesn't act like it!

I LOVE YOU SWEETIE!!!!!

{Memory Tuesday}

DESCRIBE ANY EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES THAT YOU WERE INVOLVED WITH AS A YOUTH

I was involved with a lot of church activities. I loved playing softball and volleyball. Our ward did a lot of young women activities that kept us busy and out of trouble :)

I wasn't involved with any school activities but I had a big group of friends that always hung out. We had a BLAST!. Going to the mall, hanging at each others houses and going dancing! Dancing was an every Friday night event at the Palace Dance Club in Provo. I just get a huge grin on my face when I think about it. LOL I miss the good old days.

{Scrapbooking Retreat}

If you wonder why I have been gone for a few days it is because I have been in HEAVEN!! Twice a year the girls go scrapbooking at a 3 day retreat. The local scrapbook store up here in Midway (Memory Box) hosts a retreat at Hidden Springs Ranch in Altamont, Utah. Where is Altamont you ask? In the middle of no where!! It takes about 2 hours to get there and when you drive through town don't blink or you will miss it. No street lights and the Junior High and High School are together.

The company I work for built an ENORMOUS lodge called Hidden Springs Ranch in Altamont and they rent it out. Most groups are family reunions because the place can sleep around 90 people. The company I work for also owns the scrapbook store so why not use this place for the retreats! http://www.hiddenspringsutah.com/the-lodge.php

We arrived on Thursday afternoon and scrapbooked until Saturday afternoon. We only stopped to eat the food that our "wife" made. We called her our wife because she cooked us some AMAZING food! We also stopped scrapbooking once in a while to potty and get a little bit of sleep.

This was the bunkroom that we slept in.

Some really funny conversations happened in this room.

GIRL TALK!!

I am so lucky to be surrounded by and loved by 5 amazing women!

From Left to Right

Teressa (my sis), me, Angie (my cousin), Cindy (my aunt)

Leesa (my good friend of 11 YEARS!), Me, Stephanie (Neighbor and friend)

There were also some other great girls that we have gotten to know through retreats in the past but I didn't get pictures of them. DANG IT!!! I guess I will need to go again.

This is our organized mess.

Each time we have gone something really funny happens that sticks with us forever. Last time we went Angie was talking to her daughter Kylie on the phone. Kylie was a little upset that Angie was leaving for 3 days and finally just got fed up and said "Have fun with your friends mom!!!!" That was our new moto. I had t-shirts made that say have fun with your friends and we wear them everytime we go scrapbooking. This time someone dropped something on the floor and it made a loud sound, immediatley Cindy says "SCRAPPER DOWN!!" That quickly became something we said and laughed a lot about the entire trip. Now I know my next t-shirt!!

{ACDC}

Tonight as I walked past McKay's bedroom (he is 9 years old) I hear him singing an AC DC song. What the crap??? I had to stop and make sure I was hearing him right. I opened his door and said "where on earth did you learn that song?" he said, "my video game." I explained to him that I use to listen to that song and group when I was a teenager. SO FUNNY! What a proud moment, my son knows AC DC. LOL

{Memory Tuesday}

On another blog I read, she picks a question out of her journal jar and posts it with her answer. I thought this was a great idea. Feel free to comment your answer, I would love to read them.

TELL ABOUT A DREAM YOU HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN.

I don't know if this was a dream or a vision. I like to think of it as a vision because it was SO real.

Soon after my mom died I had been going through a lot of emotions, mostly angry that my mom would die so young of such a stupid lung cancer when she never smoked in her life, and of course devastated, I was really starting to get close to my mom and appreciate what a WONDERFUL woman she was. One night while in bed I turned over to see my mom sitting on the floor next to me! She looked healthy, happy and at peace. I remember asking her how she was and telling her how much we missed her. She just smiled and said she was watching over us, watching over my dad and mentioned that Kent (my brother) would talk to her a lot and she was listening.

The next thing I remember she got up and walking out of the room, my eyes followed her the entire way. I looked at Dave and said "did you see that? My mom was here" He was immediately awake which is strange for him, it usually takes me a few times to wake him. He said "I saw that!"

I will never forget that. It helped me mend my anger knowing that my mom was in a happier place and that she was watching over us.

{We Moved, New Job, Birthday Wishes}

Whew....this weekend was so hectic trying to get everything moved. We only moved down the street so I didn't do a lot of packing, just throw stuff on the trailer and hope it doesn't fall off! LOL Now the big job of finding a place for everything. That is going to take a while. I am going to a 3 day scrapbook retreat this weekend and my stuff is all over the place. Needless to say, my scrapbook stuff we be organized before the rest of the house. PRIORITIES!!!

We didn't even have half of the stuff in the house before Garrett decided he needed to meet the neighbors. I told him to wait a few days til we could get settled but it was killing him...so off he went to be the little social bug that he is. Come to find out there are 2 boys (twins) his age. Thank goodness!!!

Dave is LOVING his new job. His supervisor is showing him the ropes, Dave is doing more than guys that have been there for 4 years. I guess that means they like him. Dave IS a hard worker and is good at building anything whether it is a house or a swimming pool. I have a feeling he is going to move up in the company quickly.

Happy Birthday to my brother Kent!! BIG 3 7, almost over the hill!