He's Back!!!

Chris has returned. His flight came in a little early. Was due back at 6:05, but I received a call about 4:55 saying he had arrived. While we were waiting for him to clear customs, the Olson's arrived too from a short trip. So we were there to welcome them home too. So we will have a party soon. Hope you can come.

Family Resemblances

I was going through our photos on our computer trying to find our family photos that Tamee did for us while Ryan was home. I ran across this picture that Chris' mom had drawn of him when he was a kid. As you can tell he comes from a family of artists as you have seen another painting on an eariler post that his brother had done. Anyway, looking at this picture, you can see Kyle and Brandon in there too. Let me know if you can see it too. 

By the way, Chris is an artist too, even if he won't admit to it. And, Kyle and Brandon have also inherited that gene.

Girls Nite Out

Andrea getting her pedicureMe getting my pedicure

Our finished toes, kind of hard to see here, you'll have to look in person now. (If you double click on the picture you should be able to get a close up)
Dinner at Panera's, my broccoli cheddar soup and sandwich and Andrea's Tomato Mozzarella salad and sandwich. We both got the Turkey Artichoke Panini, yum!

Tonight Andrea and I went to get our much needed beginning of the season pedicures. We went all out and got the spa treatment pedicure. Felt sooooo good. Highly recommend it to anyone. It does feel good having someone massaging your feet and soaking them and scrubbing them. The only thing I have a hard time with is the scrubbing of the bottom of the feet since I am very ticklish. I also hate the feeling of filing. But both of these things only last a very short time, so the rest is definitely worth the short torture. Anyway, now are feet are sandal ready. Just need to keep up with them now. 

Afterwards we went to Panera's for dinner. We sat outside since it was so nice out. We saw the Duvall's there, the Harris' drove past us and waved, and Denise and her family drove past us and waved while heading to Chick-fil-a. Later she came over and joined us, and we snagged her from her family and took her to the new Super Target. Lots of fun. Denise was just getting started. But, Andrea was tired. And, I'm glad we went home since I just got over being sick and shouldn't be overdoing it yet, and I have to work in the morning. 

Anyway, it was a great girls nite out. What's better than being with friends, getting pedicures and shopping?

Birthday Wishes

OK I'm not going to post pictures of me growing up. That would take too long. Especially since I would first have to obtain them from my parents.  First they'd have to find them. Then they would have to scan them in the computer and knowing them, they would post them on myfamily.com after touching them all up and then they would send them to me when they would get around to it. So I'll just wait until they do it on their own, or not and I will then inherit them. Anyway, today I had lots of wishes come true. First of all, I have been pretty sick the last few days. This morning I felt well enough to attempt work. Well, while there I kept wishing I could go home because I wasn't feeling well and my boss could tell, so he told me to go home early on him since it was my birthday and I must have looked pathetic. (Especially when he took us to Macaroni Grill for lunch and I couldn't eat much). Then I started driving home, where the storm hadn't started in Woodbridge yet, but was in full force in Manassas. Andrea being the good friend she is, advised me to stop somewhere. But, it was coming my way anyway and I just wanted to get home. So, I wished I would make it home, and I did as it ended. The worst part was on the Parkway, but it was fine, just drive slow with everyone else and turn on your flashers. Then later, Andrea answered my wish for help with my blog. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Andrea for the bloggercoutoure gift. I love it. I'm trying to fix my blog up now, so they have something to work with. Have to pull some things together picturewise too. I don't have any of Chris and myself recently though.  The last wish,  I really wanted Scouts to be cancelled tonight because it was Court of Honor and I felt like I needed to go since Brandon was earning his Life Award. I really was not feeling well. Felt like I needed to be close to the bathroom again. And guess what!! Scouts was cancelled due to power outages!!! Yeah!!! So, I stayed home in bed, relaxing, fixing my blog and drinking my Sprite from McDonald's (because I needed to feed my kids and couldn't think of food, so Kyle drove and I sat in the passenger seat) So there you have it my birthday wishes. How exciting is that?

 Oh, I almost forgot. One more wish. My room has been so hot lately. The fan has been on, I kept waking up in the middle of the night HOT. I tried turning the AC higher, but would just get colder everywhere else, so turned it back. Kyle was hanging out with me tonight and thought it was strange that my thermostat was reading 89 degrees in my room with the fan on and the AC on, so things clicked in his head that the fan was going the wrong direction. So he flipped the switch, and it started snowing in my room. MIRACULOUS!! Oh wait, that was not snow it was dust bunnies flying off the fan. GROSS!! But, the fan now goes faster too AND it is down to 76 in here now. Much better!! Thank you Kyle!

Blog frustrations

So, I've decided I am never changing my template ever again. Someone else is going to have to do it for me. I was sick today, so stayed home from work and thought I would give it a shot. What the heck, you back it up, you can always retrieve it, right??? WRONG!!! I backed it up, but it won't post my links to anything on the side anymore.  So, now I'm sick AND frustrated, AND a year older (tomorrow). How depressing. Any suggestions on how to retrieve my information would be greatly appreciated.

Kunz's for dinner (literally)

We invited the Kunz's over for dinner yesterday. Little did they know we were actually going to be serving Anna. This is where she was the happiest.  She knew what toppings were going to go with her so she put some hamburger bun in with her and then she topped her self off with a cup of water. She was so cute, we couldn't eat her. Evan is the cutest corn on the cob eater too.

Cunningham Falls

Memorial Day has come to be one of my favorite holidays. We started a tradition years ago with the Olson's to go camping. Well, the Kunz's and us had found this campground up in Maryland over Labor Day weekend a year and a half ago. It is a great campground. There's a lake, a short easy hike to the Falls, and a great playground for kids of all ages. Last year I took a group of families from our ward there and it became a hit. the sites are flat and clean and nice. Even the bathrooms are nice, especially for a campground. These are some shots from of the kids doing various activities. We did have a sacrament service there too. That was so awesome. We had speakers that I don't know if I've ever heard at church. (Like Gary Harris). We had a presidential fly by at our sacrament service too. They totally circled us. It was definitely us they were circling too. There was nothing else around there. This was at the beginning, so it didn't take away from the spirit of the meeting, which was very strong. It was strange not having Chris there this time. Hopefully we'll be able to go again this summer when he's back. Anybody want to go with us, let me know.