Dynamic Duo

They have it all! Looks, talent and watch the
fancy footwork on the little one...incredible!

You are my....

It was weak, but for a few moments this morning we had actual sunshine!!!! For the rest of the day I just relied on Dani's sunny smile!

...of champions

The breakfast of heart smart champions...old-fashioned oatmeal and good 'ol orange juice. The question that bears asking is, "How truly healthy is oatmeal that is a definite 50/50 mix with brown sugar?". Ah well, it's the only way you're going to get me to truly enjoy it ( raisins my left foot!). And now we dance to the only breakfast music with true oatmeal references...

Mostly Harmless

I like to create...something once in a while anyway and yet am just lazy enough not to want to devote days to said creation. In beading I think I have found my match. It's very inexpensive ( especially if you like to cannibalize your old stuff) and after you've learned a few techniques it's just ephemerally fun! As you can tell earrings are my strong point. I've a long way to go but it's an interesting and relaxing way to spend an evening.
This is my most complicated effort to date but once I get a few more techniques down ( they involve hammer and anvil!) I hope to graduate to some really exciting wirework...
It's all in my effort to live up to Laura's "fancy" standards ;)

Personal Secretary

I rarely go anywhere anymore. To work, to church, to the temple, to the library...sometimes to the grocery store. Of all those, the grocery store is the only place where I can use my cell phone...and I'm just not there enough to justify having one. So when my contract came due I declined to renew.
I still carry it though, because I find that it does make a very handy little pocket secretary. It keeps all the phone numbers I have not memorized handy, it reminds me of important dates, and it wakes me up in the morning. When I find a good little fire wire ( or whatever it is) I can use it to take little snapshots when needed. All in all still a handy little device...you just can't reach me on it.

New Addition on the 25th

Amazing....This is Maria and Brylee just hours after she gave birth and came home!!
Alese crocheted the darling little hat just a few minutes after she heard that Brylee was born.
Brylee looks like a smaller version of Ellie...both just dolls! Taking a picture of older sister, Tylee was just about impossible because she was so excited she was just a streak of light almost all the time we were there.

It's Gonna Be Big!

The place is huge(this is only one of the three buildings) and I lived slightly in fear of getting lost from my group and never finding my way out! I took a lot of pictures to try to remember it all but there is apparently a limit on what I can include in just one blog. I tried to interest Wynn in the whole deer with Christmas ornaments thing ( heads were really big believe it or not!)but he was a nontaker. Wool ornaments and frames and pillows were huge as are the non-pictured monkeys. Sideways Christmas trees were not actually shown but somehow the picture regressed when I imported it so just cant your head for a better view. Wreaths were always pictured in front of mirrors ( a look I really like)and ,of course, too much was never enough!
I wish I could have shown more because this is one place I would love to go shop with my sisters because it takes in the bizarre to the sublime. My fave was probably the ribbon salesman, "My ribbon dirt cheap! Dirt still on it!"