I love C.S. Lewis!

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth and you get neither."

'nuff said.

Head's Up

Things are getting pretty hilarious over on the recipe blog, thanks to Ms. Brady, so you better take a little trip over there too!

I hope this doesn't present a dilemma for me about which blog I love more.
Then I might get into a custody battle with myself.
I'm not sure I'll be able to spend equal time with each of them.

Oh dear...

Clouds

2 minutes 38 seconds.
that was the duration of my phone call (skype) from Mally and the UK gang.

evidentally the ability for signals to get from their computer, out of their house, through the sky, across, the ocean, over the mountains, into the valley, and to my computer is dependant on there being no clouds...above their house???
above my house???
everywhere from their house to my house???

I still don't really grasp the idea of technology.
It honestly still seems mostly like magic to me.
Seriously.
I'm conflicted.
I'm still very thankful to be able to talk to them at all.
They're fine, in their new house, now they're just waiting for their furniture and belongings to arrive (also by magic, as far as I can understand).

I'm gonna need to learn to think and converse quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
Maybe if I keep a list??? Oh no. Lists are a topic for another day.

Today is about clouds.
And magic.
And being thankful.

When I put it like that, it doesn't sound so frustrating after all, does it?

I'm gonna try this again....really.

Well, it's only been a couple of years, it's still not too late for me to start blogging again, right?



I hope that's right



It's just that with me and my extended family being so busy and all over the place (literally),

I thought this might help us all to feel a little closer. I'm also gonna try to re-vamp the

recipe blog: http://www.rememberthoserecipes.blogspot.com/



So.....we've got that going for us.



Have patience with me. Even though I wanna stay in touch and all that, technology is still

pretty much my arch-enemy. My kryptonite. My vegetables.



OK. That's all for now.

Word Verifications

You know those little boxes at the bottom of the page when you leave a comment
on someone's blog? It says, 'Word Verification' and there are about
7 or 8 random letters you are supposed to type in the little box,
and somehow that gives you
(top- secret- agent- spy-type) clearance, and your comment is magically published.

I want that job. I want to be the person who comes up with those random letters.

(OK people, don't shoot me a comment telling me that a computer somewhere generates those letters and it's not a real people job. I already know that.
I just want to THINK that it is a job that I could have one day, you know, if I wanted to.)

Sometimes the letters spell something so great that I want to use it as my pseudo name.
I want to go to a restaurant where they ask for my name so they can call me
when my table is ready. Today I saw one that said:
"GREGHIR"
and later one that said:
"LENFRISH".
I'm serious, I'm gonna use one of those the next time I go to Olive Garden.
"Table for Greghir Lenfrish...party of one...Greghir Lenfrish..."

Want to come with me?

Can You Believe Your Eyes?

One of these things is not like the other...

No, No, I know I accidentally got a picture of Drew and Sadie on here too, but I couldn't figure out how to remove it, and I just couldn't wait any longer to post the rest of these. See the little girl in the sailor suit down there? Doesn't she bear a striking resemblance to the rest of the pictures of baby Brinlee? That's because little 'sailor girl' is Brinlee's mommy Claire when she was also about 9 months old. Can you believe how alike they look? Or is it just me?

I wish I could make this pic bigger, but I can't. Oh well, a less than perfect post is better than none at all, right? Better luck next time. So will somebody out there in blogland please leave me a comment and let me know what you think?

HAVE A HAPPY DAY!

Who says you can't have fun in little old Lehi, Utah? Well you can if Lisa and Paula are in town! We always have so much fun when we get together for our "sister visits". This is both of them drinking to our health (and let me tell you, our health needs some drinking to!) with homemade root beer in frosty mugs at "Emmett and Ethel's" a little greasy spoon here in town. Reminds me of the olden days when we went to A&W's and you could get a little baby frosted mug of root beer about 2 inches tall. For free! (now you know how old I am) Does anyone remember those? Matt once downed a whole (baby) mug when he was about 18 months old, and let out a burp so long that I swear we had started the car, thrown the car side tray on the ground, and were heading for the nearest ER before he stopped! One morning when we were getting ready, Paula brought this

piece of cinnamon toast to my attention

(and NO we DID NOT retouch, enhance, or in anyway manipulate

his features...see? I can read your mind)

His name is, "Mr. Happy-Smiley-Face". Can you see the 2 eyes, the curvy nose,

and lop-sided smile? It even looks like he has 2 REALLY high set ears

if you squint.

Perhaps his ears are like that because he's from the cat family...hmmm.

I almost saved it to try to sell on E-Bay.

Anyway, it's pretty hard NOT to have a happy day when Lisa and Paula are here to play...

...and when you are greeted by a breakfast pastry that smiles back at you!

That's all I have to say about that...