Journal November 20, 2015

This is just a random journal entry for my own personal use. Read at your own risk! Jude has been so cute lately. I love that boy so much. He has been swearing a little. "What the hell?" He even said "What the f***?" Oh dear. Now when he says words like hell or butt or boob or whatever he says, "That's a bad word. I'm just telling you so you won't say it." The other day he said he wanted to wear a dress (after I told Drew to put one on for a YW thing) and then he asked what I dress was. I told him and he said, "I obviously don't have a dress." I think that's the first time I've heard him say the word obviously. My mom and I saw Mockingjay Part II today. It was good. A little slow, but nice to see the story come to an end. So glad my mom was up for it. She made me laugh when she called me back after she got my text. I answered and said "Hey!" and she said "Hey" back, kind of a little more drawn out--kind of like teasing me for being so casual. We both laughed. I'm still super torn up about the Mormon church taking such a hard line against gay members and their children. So sad and depressed. This has been a very hard two weeks. Very hard. In mourning. Now I'm going to go watch something on TV. Jude is in bed and Dave is down watching Mockingjay Part 1 so he can take the girls to Part 2 on Tuesday.

Cute son

The other day my five-year-old saw a Curious George where he buries things! He got a grape from my mom's house and went home and buried it in our garden box. He is SO cute.

Fall 2015

I'm no writer, but I figure I'll just dive right back in. Facebook kind of took over right as I was getting my groove with my blog, and I've discovered I kind of miss it. I feel like my mind is fracturing with FB and my newish cell phone. I have had a smart phone for about a year now. I flit from email (hardly ever anything interesting) to FB (nice to see friends' updates but there is also a lot of garbage in the trending portion, and sometimes I get sucked in to reading about popular culture things I truly have no interest in). Then I flit over to Words with Friends, and if I remember that I am trying to achieve more focus and end this self-inflicted ADD, I settle in to read from my Kindle App. Right now I am reading Dracula. I love it! I want to watch a good version of it once I finish the book. If I decide I have the energy and where-with-all, I will try to be Dracula for Halloween. I saw some little flies at Zurcher's today and thought how cute it would be to make a Dracula-themed Halloween box. Maybe I will try to do that for Jude. I'm off to teach now--I have the worst teaching schedule ever. I don't get done till 9:40 on M/W nights--too late for me.

Hello there

I posted earlier today and it didn't take, so this is more of a test than anything.


Jude will be one on Saturday!!

I can't believe it!

Moab 2010

We took Parker and Drew to Moab. We had a fabulous time. I'm more than 20 weeks pregnant. We're having a boy!! He's been kicking up a storm today. His ultrasound pictures are so cute. I'll try to scan one soon!!

Moab 2010

We took Parker and Drew to Moab. We had a fabulous time. I'm more than 20 weeks pregnant. We're having a boy!! He's been kicking up a storm today. His ultrasound pictures are so cute. I'll try to scan one soon!!

Pregnancy

I'm almost 18 weeks pregnant! I have been feeling the baby move. It is so amazing. I have my ultrasound May 26.

Fundraising Bears

Yesterday Dave asked me if the company that makes the bears manufactures only for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I said no and started listing all the charities they include. He then asked me about PETSA (pronounced pizza). I asked him what that was and he said "People for the Ethical Treatment of Stuffed Animals". My husband is sooo funny. So now we are going to tell people they can adopt a bear for $10 from PETSA. All proceeds will still go to the LLS!!

Quilts

My sisters and mom made me a lovely wedding quilt, and Danae made a lovely one for me as well! I am so honored and touched by their hard work and love! Dave likes the quilts too :).

Our Marriage Ceremony

Oh yes!!!

I just remembered I have a blog. Don't give up hope. I may just create a real post sometime soon.

My birthday and other exciting things

First things first!! I'm engaged to David Scott! I'm marrying him August 3rd!!! I'll write more about that later. I quickly want to post this picture of cake. I came home with two pieces yesterday. Kelly made it for me and my class for my birthday. Delicious lemon pound cake. Just today, I was in Kelly's class telling everyone I was so excited to come home and eat the cake. They didn't know this, but I didn't come home last night, so I wasn't around to feed Mario breakfast. He took matters into his own hands and raided my cake!!

More later. I'm in a hurry to go clean up my house!!

Countess Dracula

Caroline and I were at a concert at a church where her nephews were performing. We sat down for an informal photo session. When I saw this one I said, "I look like Dracula!" That was my immediate thought, but I didn't know why!!!! Upon more careful observation, we noticed my coat collar. My severe hairdo doesn't help either. Now I just need to photoshop the collar on the other side.

St. George and Las Vegas

I can't believe that spring break is over. Three days is not enough! I went to Las Vegas. We stopped in St. George and stayed with Kim and Jason on the way. Highlights of the trip were going to Trader Joes, seeing the Beatles Cirque du Soleil, and finding a diamond pendant on the sidewalk. Oh, and the warm weather was nice too. :)

Here are some random pictures from today. Edie gave me a lovely cookie that she got at Backer's Bakery in Salt Lake. I gave Mario a bath today (he climbed up onto my back and would not get off! I still had my clothes on and they got soaked because I had to pour water over my back to rinse him off) then we went to Mi Rancherito. El Mexsal, that is. My mom and dad came too. My dad brought the cat food that he had picked up for me the other day. Thanks Dad!

Hello again

I haven't been blogging because I've been spending my time on facebook. I have to admit, I really miss the blogging world. I like knowing that either people who really care about me are checking out my blog for the most part, or no one is. Either way I don't have to worry that practical strangers are reading about me. I suppose that's my fault because I added too many "friends" on facebook. Blogging is also better for keeping a personal history, I think. Don't give up on me. I'll be back.

Mario, My Superhero

Press play to see my cute and crazy cat.

New Year's Eve

On New Year's Eve I went to the Spaghetti Factory with one of my good friends then met Edie, Naui, Laura and all kids and my mom and Ken at the Provo Towne Center. The Zambranos got mohawks. Laura had Ollie and we couldn't find them so I didn't get to see much of him. I went home and had a lovely midnight dance. We missed watching Anderson Cooper but I saw the recaps the next day.

Christmas Eve

I was just kidding about the form letter :). On Christmas Eve, Edie, Naui, Addy, Ollie, Elena, Paolo, Ken, Cynthia and I ate dinner with my mom and dad at their house. Ollie said during dinner, "I would just like to announce that this is the best food ever!" I spent the night here at my mom and dad's, then on Christmas I gave my mom and dad each a bar of soap and they gave me the most beautiful Turkish Evil Eye bracelet. (My mom had already shown it to me because she was so excited about it.) Here's more information about the Nazar. http://www.nazarboncugu.com/default.htm. My mom and I went to the movie theaters and saw Doubt and Valkyrie, then my dad joined us for Yes Man. I met up with my friend Tina and her mom at JC Penney this morning and bought a sweater to wear to the party I'm going to tonight. I'm exchanging gifts with my "friend" tonight. I got him a lift ticket to Sundance, a book, and a $10 i-tunes card. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! To my loyal readership, THANK YOU!!!

Christmas Letter

Stay tuned for my online Christmas form letter.