So last night I had a few extra minutes and decided to fix this thing myself. No one mess with it. Dont change the color, layout, nothing. It took me forever to get the colors to half-way match. I can't believe you messed up my colors - I messed around with it forever and still wasn't able to find the previous colors. I'll try and finish up with the pictures tomorrow if I get a little time.
Also, when fixing up the posting mess Brynn created for me I had to erease all the old comments. Sorry, just don't want you to think I was being rude. Also Shannon, It took me literally 5 minutes to rearrange the picture and the header - Maybe I should have worked for HP.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Aug 24th 2008
Hey Guys, Brynn is tired of my blog so she is in the process of rearanging everything so that I'll post more pictures. Sorry about the mess.
All my old posts
Aug 17th 2008
The following are pictures of Kelsey, Emily, and I at the Botanical Gardens in Denver.
I lost my cell phone while I was there but didn't notice it was gone until three days later. I searched the house, car, and even went so far as to climb up onto the large garbage dumpster outside my apt and dug through everyones trash until I found my own. It was disgusting. I found my bag and to my dismay I had not thrown it away. The next process was calling Jama Juice businesses in Denver. There are 14 of them. I finally figured out which one we had gone to only to learn that they had not found a cell phone and no one had turned one in. Finally, I gave up my hunt for the phone and decided that I would just have to buy a new one. Tonight, I called a friend in Denver who just happened to say, "Oh you should be receiving your cell phone on Tuesday." What? I didn't get it. Come to find out I had left the phone at the Jama Juice place. Fortunatly, when I got lost in Denver I had called my friend for directions. When the employees found my phone they dialed the last number I called, my friend realized it was my phone, went and picked it up, and now it's in the mail. The whole thing is just too strange.
Yesterday I finally bought a car. I don't know how I feel about the situation, it's a little bothersome. I couldn't find a deceint deal on the ones I would have preferred to buy, but I did find a half-way deceint deal on a new Ford Focus. It wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but it's a cute car. Silver, two door, new, kindof sporty looking. I eliminated just about everyhing I had in savings so that I could get the monthly payment down to almost nothing. Not too bad. So as I'm waiting for the paperwork to get finished a million things start running through my mind, and I start second guessing my decision. I went through the motions of the process and the next thing I knew I had bought the car and I was at home on the phone with mom crying. I was literally sick the rest of the day, I didn't even want to drive it. I think I called mom at least three times just to be assured that I did the right thing. Today was a little better. I was asked to speak in church so my thought process had to change from the car to the talk. I got my talk finished just as it was time to walk out the door. That's so my life. Anyway, it was nice to hop into a new clean car. After church, when more of my stress was gone, Kelsey and I took it for a drive. It drives really smooth and I started feeling a bit better about the situation. It has satellite radio - weird. There are around 200 different stations which include things like Elvis, Martha Stewart, and even playboy. Isn't that lovely? Needless to say, I would prefer to stick with our two local station and the few that we get out of Denver.Hope your all doing well, we love and miss you!
Some nice guy gave Kelsey some fish and tried to help her feed the stingrays. It was pretty cute.
Mothers Day has been good. Kelsey gave me all kinds of cute little things she made. She's been working on them for about a month, she was really excited about it. It was cute. We also went to a piano concert tonight at the church. It was pretty good. Kelsey and I both enjoyed it.I'm still chugging along with school. I have a big paper due Tuesday so I'll be up all night tomorrow working on it. Kels is almost done with Kindergarten. Three weeks left. It's kindof weird. I finally talked her into missing her last day of school. It kindof cracks me up that I have to talk her into missing a day of school. Anyway, she seems to be excited to hang with all you guys for a week. I wish I could make it. Oh well, that's life. Hope your all doing good we miss ya.
May 4th, 2008
I'm amazed once again. Went to Wal Mart last night to fill Kelsey's antibiotic, an antibiotic, this is nothing major right? They tell me insurance wont cover it because I'm refilling it too early - that's another story. So, I say, "Well I'll just go ahead and pay for enough to get us through until insurance will cover it. The pharmacist then informs me that it costs $500.00 for just one bottle. Are you kidding me! This is an antibiotic! Not to mention a generic one. Needless to say the pharmacist was nice enough to call the insurance comany, they felt bad and covered it. I'm still amazed. It's amazing, $500.00.What else? Oh, last week was stake conference. We had the adult session on Friday night. It was one of the best meetings I've been to in a long time. Next time I chat with ya remind me and I'll tell ya about it. It was awesome. I will try and update pictures soon. I haven't had time. I have them downloaded on fliker but for some reason I can't get them to transfer to the page. This should be easier, but Bynn helped me get the page started and everything is in the wrong place. That is why I make continual notes on the same page and don't have an archive. I'm gonna have to re-do the entire page and I wont have time for a while. Maybe I'll work on it when I'm there for the 4th.
April 27th, 2008
Well I just got through cleaning out my e-mail inbox. I have stuff that has been there for months. I'm still not finished, but I'm down to 47 messages. I think I finally have all your e-mails now, it's amazing! Anyway, lets see. It's been really nice and sunny here lately. Kelsey talked me into getting her summer clothes out. We spent a good couple hours going through the summer clothes and putting the winter clothes up. It snowed the next day.
I finished my class last weekend and started my summer class three days later. This class is on public administration in litature and film. I thought it would be good but it looks like it has the potential to be kindof trashy. Wouldn't ya know it. Anyhow if it becomes too vague the professor is going to let me do my own thing and still get credit for it. I was impressed. I have to read 5 books in 5 weeks write a paper on each including another 15-20pgr. Lovely.
Oh, Happy Birthday Morgan! I've been trying to call you but I can't get through. What's up with you guys and your phones. You all need a land-line!!!
Later
April 11th, 2008
Hey everyone, just thought we'd give you an update as to what we are doing. Kelsey had her procedure done Friday. She still has the reflux problem therefore, we will have to do it again next year. I'm already looking foreward to it!!! Here are some picks of Kels before and after her procedure.
I finished my department of labor stuff a couple weeks ago, I'm not even that excited about it, just glad I don't have to think about it again. I am still working on my final paper that is due this Friday. I am now on page 11. It looks like I may have a lot of late nights this week.We got a ton of snow this week, but toady it was warm out. Kels and I are going to go go on a walk here in a few minutes. Kels is getting mad at me right now because she is afraid we wont go on the walk. I better get off before she goes balistic on me. Hope your all doing well.
Later!!!
March 30th 2008
Hey guys, sorry I haven’t kept in touch-life has been busy. We started out our week in Rawlins where I picked up Kelsey. She was tired but seemed fine. We got to the house and I called mom to let her know that we made it home. Mom proceeds to tell me what a sweet girl Kelsey is. I’m feeling pretty good because I feel like Kelsey’s doing well. I get off the phone and not two seconds later Kelsey proceeds to throw the biggest fit I have ever seen. I was completely amazed. The only thing that kept running through my mind is, "Is this sweet girl we were just talking about?" Holy Cow!!!
So on Tuesday Kelsey and I made a trip over to the hospital for Kelsey to have her big test done. Now let me back track about two months. So a couple months ago when I made the appointment I asked the nurse if there is anyway we could give her a local or put her under because it hurt her so bad last time. The nurse tells me they can’t do it and gives me this long spill. Alright, so now we are in the hospital, I’m standing at the head of the x-ray table holding Kelsey’s hands down while three nurses try to do the procedure. Kelsey is screaming at the top of her lungs and I feel like bawling. So this goes on for about 30 min when I finally ask them, "Is there any kind of local we can give her so this isn’t so bad?" They go get a local. What’ya know.So as I stand up to relax while they go to get the local, I start feeling really crazy. "Oh crap!", I’m thinking. I’m in a hospital and something is really not ok and I’m too scared to tell the nurses that something is wrong. I feel like I might pass out and I quickly look at all the equipment that I’m about ready to collapse into. I panic. I still don’t want to tell the nurses something’s wrong. Why? I don’t know. I start walking across the room towards the only chair I see, I can barely see mind you. Then a nurse asks, "Are you ok?" No I finally admit something is wrong and I feel like I’m going to pass out and puke. As I’m saying this the room is spinning and blacking out, it was weird. She throws me a puke bag and has me put my head between my knees. The problem was taken care of within ten minutes and I was back to myself again. Craziest thing I’ve ever experienced. The nurse told me it had something to do with "locked knees." I don’t know, I just know that I thought I might die and for whatever reason I didn’t want to tell the nurses. It’s funny now. So on with the procedure...They get the local, it doesn’t work, they can’t do the procedure. They then proceed to tell me, "We are going to have to re-schedule and give her medicine to put her out". Are you kidding me, I’m thinking. Did I not want this to begin with? I’m amazed. Needless to say we will be rescheduling tomorrow. I’ll let you know how the next appt. goes.
So as far as other things are concerned. Not much. I’m spending every night working on my final paper that has to be between 15-20 pgs long. I’m on pg 7. Eight more to go. I have to wake up bright and early tomorrow and register for class. The class I need only has three seats left so I have to beat everyone to it. If I don’t get into this class I wont be on track to get my masters done by next summer. Although, I still haven’t taken the GRE, I still may not get in, We’ll see. This typing thing is doing weird things, it’s bugging me. Let’s see what else. Went to Harmons house again tonight. It was there son’s first birthday party. It was pretty cute. I got to hear gossip about Joe. Nothing like hearing gossip about your brother-in-law. I love it!!!-love you too Joe!!! I’m rolling. Hope you are all doing well. Love and miss ya.
Oh, you guys have to check out this book Kelsey and I discovered. It’s called "Skippy jon Jones in Mummy Trouble by Judy Schachner. It’s awesome. Kelsey has been repeating our favorite line, "You are steel the beeg Chichuahua dude, the whole enchilada!" Love it!!!
Jan 28. 2008
All right, I am finally doing something with this thing but not much. Don’t have time to update pictures, that would require me to figure out my computer and my camera. So I think that I can handle Shannon’s list of things, a little bit more my speed. So here we go:
10 years ago: have no idea. Let me think...1998. I was attending Western Wyoming Community college in Rock Springs. I was playing around with the idea of getting a teaching degree - never did that.
5 things on my to-do list today: Well let me just pull out my list and write it up for ya.
Sorry guys, I haven't kept in touch with any of you. The past few weeks have been nuts. I'm not quite sure what has even happened but it seems as though things are continually crazy. Last weekend Kelsey, Emily and I all went down to Denver again. This trip we went to the botanical gardens. It took us quite a while to find the place. We got lost for over an hour, one more reason not to live in a big city. Thankfully Emily, who is only 15, has the best memory when it comes to directions. I was so confused at where we were and where we had been but she seemed to be right on. I followed her directions and we somehow got to where we needed to be. I was amazed.
While I was doing a session Kelsey and Emily had fun with my camera. They got some pretty good picks of the Denver Temple and the grounds.
The following are pictures of Kelsey, Emily, and I at the Botanical Gardens in Denver.
I lost my cell phone while I was there but didn't notice it was gone until three days later. I searched the house, car, and even went so far as to climb up onto the large garbage dumpster outside my apt and dug through everyones trash until I found my own. It was disgusting. I found my bag and to my dismay I had not thrown it away. The next process was calling Jama Juice businesses in Denver. There are 14 of them. I finally figured out which one we had gone to only to learn that they had not found a cell phone and no one had turned one in. Finally, I gave up my hunt for the phone and decided that I would just have to buy a new one. Tonight, I called a friend in Denver who just happened to say, "Oh you should be receiving your cell phone on Tuesday." What? I didn't get it. Come to find out I had left the phone at the Jama Juice place. Fortunatly, when I got lost in Denver I had called my friend for directions. When the employees found my phone they dialed the last number I called, my friend realized it was my phone, went and picked it up, and now it's in the mail. The whole thing is just too strange.
Yesterday I finally bought a car. I don't know how I feel about the situation, it's a little bothersome. I couldn't find a deceint deal on the ones I would have preferred to buy, but I did find a half-way deceint deal on a new Ford Focus. It wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but it's a cute car. Silver, two door, new, kindof sporty looking. I eliminated just about everyhing I had in savings so that I could get the monthly payment down to almost nothing. Not too bad. So as I'm waiting for the paperwork to get finished a million things start running through my mind, and I start second guessing my decision. I went through the motions of the process and the next thing I knew I had bought the car and I was at home on the phone with mom crying. I was literally sick the rest of the day, I didn't even want to drive it. I think I called mom at least three times just to be assured that I did the right thing. Today was a little better. I was asked to speak in church so my thought process had to change from the car to the talk. I got my talk finished just as it was time to walk out the door. That's so my life. Anyway, it was nice to hop into a new clean car. After church, when more of my stress was gone, Kelsey and I took it for a drive. It drives really smooth and I started feeling a bit better about the situation. It has satellite radio - weird. There are around 200 different stations which include things like Elvis, Martha Stewart, and even playboy. Isn't that lovely? Needless to say, I would prefer to stick with our two local station and the few that we get out of Denver.Hope your all doing well, we love and miss you!
July 30th, 2008
Well Kels is now back. The one week trip somehow turned into three, not quite sure what happened. It was weird having her gone. I had way too much time to think, that's not always a good thing. My car is back up and running after the breakdown in Denver. I've decided that it's time for a new one. I have spent the last week test driving cars. I'm just about over it. If you guys see any great deals let me know. I found this really cute black 08 Hyundai Elantra, I love it, but not the sales guy. I also drove a cute 09 Toyota Corolla. I wasn't wanting a new one but I'm not having much luck finding good used ones with low miles so keep your eyes open for me.Work is still the same.
Kelsey is cracking me up right now. I told her she could have one of her little friends spend the night tomorrow. She has been on the phone for the past 20min. planning the entire night and day. It's funny listening to her plan breakfast, games, etc. It makes you want to be a kid again. It's petty cute.
Shannon, I just looked at your blog. Thanks for putting that cheer thing of Kelsey on there; we enjoyed watching it. Oh, if I were you, I'd get rid of your new deal at the bottom. Those things are weird-it weirds me out and I'm your sister. Oh, the new style looks good, Kelsey was glad to see you had a cut like hers.Later
July
So I was at the park today trying to study and some people come up and start searching everthing that was around me, picnic tables, electrical boxes, trees, etc. Finally as I get up to leave some lady begins to explain what they are doing. They are from back East on their way to Denver and found that Laramie was on geocaching.com as a place that has hidden items. You have to check this out. Basically, someone has gone around the world hiding little containers with little surprises in them. If you go to the website you can get the cordinants and find them with a gps unit. Once you find the treasure you replace it with a new treasure and move on to the next find. It was really cool. They have different levels 1-5 for people of different ages. Basically its like a big treasure hunt throughout the country. I think I'm going to invest in a gps unit and try it out. I think it would be a blast. Kelsey would love it too. You guys should check it out. I was impressed.
July 13th, 2008
This has been a really weird week. Kels has been gone all week and it's probably been a good thing because there has been all kinds of wierd things going on. Tuesday, I spent most of the evening out a Vedawoo. Some people in our ward live out there and so they had an enrichment night out there. Wed, YW's and the rest of the week was busy with who knows what. Finally on Saturday I spent almost all day studying for the GRE. It makes me feel half sick. I finally had to leave the house and went to the park to study. I don't know about this school stuff, it is really stressing me out. Oh, something weird. I work across the street from this very large park with a very large pond/lake in the middle of it. The other day someone noted that there were pelicans in it. I checked it out and sure enough there were. Yesterday when I was there I counted 10 of them. Isn't that bizzare? Anyway spent today trying to finish up with putting dates in my photo ablums, trashing pictures, and writing info on the tabs. It took a lot more time than I thought. Hope all is well, and thanks everyone for helping with Kelsey, I appreciate it. Love you guys!
July 7th, 2008
Hey Morgan, this is for you! Stadium of Fire, the sound was messed up. Kelsey asked, "When do we get to go home?"Brynn and Shannon ended up spending 70 bucks a ticket because they couldn't decide whether they wanted to go. Kels and I made out ok. 50 bucks a ticket from BYU tickets. When all else fails do it yourself!!!! Needless to say, you didn't miss much. The Blue Man Group was good though. I'm glad I got to see them.
Oh funny thing. I read your Payson Chronicles about the stamps. I didn't get it. Brynn had to explain it to me. That is the best stupid thing I have ever heard. What was even better was that I bought 1 centers for the Forevers. I never did understand why they didn't have a number on them. I have been laughing about it all night and day. You'll have to check out Brynn's blog. She is excited to write about our stupidity. You're on Brynn!!!
As for the trip, Brynn hitched a ride with me there and back. We actually did ok. Only two arguements. 1st - Where do we sleep? Gma Silver's or Gma Walkers? Does this really have to be this hard? (Oh Grandma, I know you read this. We broke the basket on your steps. I'm getting you a new one. I'll mail is asap) 2nd - United Health Care. Maybe we should ask you your stance on the subject just to get her a little bit more ralled up. It's the funniest thing ever. She is like, "I can't talk to you about this it makes me mad!!! I'm laughing just thinking about her disgust. Oh, just to add to everything ask mom who she is voting for. Let's all vote Kubuluck????!!!!! I'm sitting here laughing all by myself-I'm so amused.
Anyway, not much else interesting happened. There was the usual family fight during Brooklynn's B-day party. I'm not quite sure what happened, I was half-way asleep. Somebody else will have to fill you in. Also, Brynn wanted Kelsey to stay in GR to play with the kids. I wasn't too keen on the idea, but I changed my mind just as I was pulling out of the driveway to leave. She'll be gone for two weeks straight. I'm not quite sure what to think about it. I't seems weird. Can't think of anything else. Hope you guys had a fun 4th. I'll chat with ya later.
June 30, 2008
It's been an interesting week. Last weekend we went to Vedawoo-it was fun. We're going again Wed night with the YM/YW so that should be fun too.
Well Kels is now back. The one week trip somehow turned into three, not quite sure what happened. It was weird having her gone. I had way too much time to think, that's not always a good thing. My car is back up and running after the breakdown in Denver. I've decided that it's time for a new one. I have spent the last week test driving cars. I'm just about over it. If you guys see any great deals let me know. I found this really cute black 08 Hyundai Elantra, I love it, but not the sales guy. I also drove a cute 09 Toyota Corolla. I wasn't wanting a new one but I'm not having much luck finding good used ones with low miles so keep your eyes open for me.Work is still the same.
Kelsey is cracking me up right now. I told her she could have one of her little friends spend the night tomorrow. She has been on the phone for the past 20min. planning the entire night and day. It's funny listening to her plan breakfast, games, etc. It makes you want to be a kid again. It's petty cute.
Shannon, I just looked at your blog. Thanks for putting that cheer thing of Kelsey on there; we enjoyed watching it. Oh, if I were you, I'd get rid of your new deal at the bottom. Those things are weird-it weirds me out and I'm your sister. Oh, the new style looks good, Kelsey was glad to see you had a cut like hers.Later
July
So I was at the park today trying to study and some people come up and start searching everthing that was around me, picnic tables, electrical boxes, trees, etc. Finally as I get up to leave some lady begins to explain what they are doing. They are from back East on their way to Denver and found that Laramie was on geocaching.com as a place that has hidden items. You have to check this out. Basically, someone has gone around the world hiding little containers with little surprises in them. If you go to the website you can get the cordinants and find them with a gps unit. Once you find the treasure you replace it with a new treasure and move on to the next find. It was really cool. They have different levels 1-5 for people of different ages. Basically its like a big treasure hunt throughout the country. I think I'm going to invest in a gps unit and try it out. I think it would be a blast. Kelsey would love it too. You guys should check it out. I was impressed.
July 13th, 2008
This has been a really weird week. Kels has been gone all week and it's probably been a good thing because there has been all kinds of wierd things going on. Tuesday, I spent most of the evening out a Vedawoo. Some people in our ward live out there and so they had an enrichment night out there. Wed, YW's and the rest of the week was busy with who knows what. Finally on Saturday I spent almost all day studying for the GRE. It makes me feel half sick. I finally had to leave the house and went to the park to study. I don't know about this school stuff, it is really stressing me out. Oh, something weird. I work across the street from this very large park with a very large pond/lake in the middle of it. The other day someone noted that there were pelicans in it. I checked it out and sure enough there were. Yesterday when I was there I counted 10 of them. Isn't that bizzare? Anyway spent today trying to finish up with putting dates in my photo ablums, trashing pictures, and writing info on the tabs. It took a lot more time than I thought. Hope all is well, and thanks everyone for helping with Kelsey, I appreciate it. Love you guys!
July 7th, 2008
Hey Morgan, this is for you! Stadium of Fire, the sound was messed up. Kelsey asked, "When do we get to go home?"Brynn and Shannon ended up spending 70 bucks a ticket because they couldn't decide whether they wanted to go. Kels and I made out ok. 50 bucks a ticket from BYU tickets. When all else fails do it yourself!!!! Needless to say, you didn't miss much. The Blue Man Group was good though. I'm glad I got to see them.
Oh funny thing. I read your Payson Chronicles about the stamps. I didn't get it. Brynn had to explain it to me. That is the best stupid thing I have ever heard. What was even better was that I bought 1 centers for the Forevers. I never did understand why they didn't have a number on them. I have been laughing about it all night and day. You'll have to check out Brynn's blog. She is excited to write about our stupidity. You're on Brynn!!!
As for the trip, Brynn hitched a ride with me there and back. We actually did ok. Only two arguements. 1st - Where do we sleep? Gma Silver's or Gma Walkers? Does this really have to be this hard? (Oh Grandma, I know you read this. We broke the basket on your steps. I'm getting you a new one. I'll mail is asap) 2nd - United Health Care. Maybe we should ask you your stance on the subject just to get her a little bit more ralled up. It's the funniest thing ever. She is like, "I can't talk to you about this it makes me mad!!! I'm laughing just thinking about her disgust. Oh, just to add to everything ask mom who she is voting for. Let's all vote Kubuluck????!!!!! I'm sitting here laughing all by myself-I'm so amused.
Anyway, not much else interesting happened. There was the usual family fight during Brooklynn's B-day party. I'm not quite sure what happened, I was half-way asleep. Somebody else will have to fill you in. Also, Brynn wanted Kelsey to stay in GR to play with the kids. I wasn't too keen on the idea, but I changed my mind just as I was pulling out of the driveway to leave. She'll be gone for two weeks straight. I'm not quite sure what to think about it. I't seems weird. Can't think of anything else. Hope you guys had a fun 4th. I'll chat with ya later.
June 30, 2008
It's been an interesting week. Last weekend we went to Vedawoo-it was fun. We're going again Wed night with the YM/YW so that should be fun too.
I had three days in a row where I was up till 2 am working on my papers. Realized that they were due Friday not Sat-Yikes! Got them turned in at 11:30pm Fri night. I was impressed with myself. Saturday Kels and I spent the day in Cheyenne at their town's big party. Kindof like GR's Flaming George Days but not so white-trash. Kesley and I had a blast. Got home that night at 11pm. Needless to say I was anxious to get to bed early last night. Just as I was about to doze off I became aware of my neighbors. They are not quiet, none of my neighbors are, but these guys topped them off. I waited and waited for the yelling to end-it never did. Finally, at 1:30 a.m. I called the cops. The thing that made me laugh was when I put my ear to the wall and listened to the entire conversation between them and the cops. It's amazing what you can learn about your neighbors when you put your ear to the wall. Needless to say they calmed down and I was able to get a few hrs of sleep.
So I had a funny thing happen at work today. I few weeks ago all the staff I work with, including myself, were interviewed in regards to the program we work in. The program is part of an Italian study, so they were needing feedback. Our interviews were recorded, and today we received written copies of our responses. As I sat and read mine I was completely amazed. I walked into the other room where my fellow employees were reading theirs and asked, "When I speak do I really sound that stupid?" They laughed, we all sounded ridculious. The best response I had was was when I replied, "I like the challengingness." What is that? I can't believe I said that! Especially in an interview. I keep thinking that maybe the person who transcribed the interview had that wrong, but I doubt it. Needless to say, I thought of you guys and your constant nagging about my use of speech. It cracked me up.
June 18th, 2008
Brynn, I just read your stuff. I'm glad you think Scott and I are the only responsible ones in the family. It's nice to know that someone else gets left out of the fun. I would have to say that I was bummed when I read that you guys went and played that chair game with Joe's family. That game rocks. I can't believe I missed it.
So I had a funny thing happen at work today. I few weeks ago all the staff I work with, including myself, were interviewed in regards to the program we work in. The program is part of an Italian study, so they were needing feedback. Our interviews were recorded, and today we received written copies of our responses. As I sat and read mine I was completely amazed. I walked into the other room where my fellow employees were reading theirs and asked, "When I speak do I really sound that stupid?" They laughed, we all sounded ridculious. The best response I had was was when I replied, "I like the challengingness." What is that? I can't believe I said that! Especially in an interview. I keep thinking that maybe the person who transcribed the interview had that wrong, but I doubt it. Needless to say, I thought of you guys and your constant nagging about my use of speech. It cracked me up.
June 18th, 2008
Brynn, I just read your stuff. I'm glad you think Scott and I are the only responsible ones in the family. It's nice to know that someone else gets left out of the fun. I would have to say that I was bummed when I read that you guys went and played that chair game with Joe's family. That game rocks. I can't believe I missed it.
Hope you are all doing good. Brynn, did you get those tickets yet? Kelsey asks me about it all the time. Later!
June 15th,
Not much going on here. Kelsey and I spent the afternoon at the cemetary. We wern't able to make our yearly round on Memorial day because it was too cold, but there was still some interesting things left on the graves. Kelsey had fun picking flowers up from the plots and putting them in her hair, yikes! My leg is still messed up. Everytime I think it's getting better it starts swellling again. It's been interesting watching the change in colors, one minute it looks like the bruising is going away, the next minute it turns purple again. Guess I'm lucky though, eight years working with these guys and this is my first injury. I decided not to go to the Dr.'s, I hope this wasn't a mistake, guess I'll find out in a week or so.
Kelsey says, "we love you.thakyou mom.xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo.
June 1st, 2008
Hope you are all currently having fun without me. I have to admit I'm kindof bugged. It wouldn't be so bad if Brynn hadn't decided to pull that plane move on us at the last minute. Then at least two of us would be sulking together.I had a bunch of funny things to tell ya all but I have forgotten what they were. When I remember I'll let ya know. I can't remember what I was going to write, I'll get back to ya later.OH, I just remembered something. Linsey and Steve, if you read this I need your e-mail address. I wanted to chat with ya. Do any of the rest of you guys have their e-mail? Send it over if you do.
May 23rd, 2008
We had a tornado hit here yesterday. It didn't get our place, but it got our entire ward boundaries. It's kindof weird because our ward is split between two different sections of town and both got hit. I was at work and got to spend two and 1/2 hours in the bathroom with 10 clients and 5 staff. Fortunately 2 of our clients were gone or I think we would have pushed the limits of the bathroom. We were also fortunate because we have two bathrooms with a shower area in between. We opened up the doors on both sides of the shower area and made one big room. It held us all, but there was not much room to move. I guess it's good that we are all used to not having much personal space!
Kelsey was locked down at school. All the kids had to sit in the hall indian style with their heads facing the wall for the two and 1/2 hours. They didn't have power either, so they were sitting in the dark. I can only imagine the situation.
Allison Killpacks' area got hit hard. She will be in GR this weekend so if you see her ask her if you can see her pictures, they're crazy. If I get time I will try and get some pics too. If you don't remember Laramie is mostly comprised of pine trees. You would be amazed to see the number of gigantic pine trees that were lift clear out of the ground. There was also a lot of damage to homes. Up by Allison's there were trampolines stuck in houses. Allison had one in hers and her tramp was stuck in the house across the street.
It looks like the rest of the weekend and into next week is going to be crazy with storms. If you can't reach me it is because the power is out and my phone is run through my internet connection. Bresnan told me when they hooked my internet up that I would be able to call if I used a cord phone on a different jack, but I tried it yesterday and it didn't work. Try and call my cell number. I charged it at work today so hopefully you can get through. Well I'll try and keep in touch but the power thing is going to be a problem. I unplug my computer whenever there is a storm so it doesn't get fried. Basically that means that my phone wont work when I do this and I will probably be doing it a lot within the next few days. Anyway, things are good here and hopefully the worst of the storm is over.
June 15th,
Not much going on here. Kelsey and I spent the afternoon at the cemetary. We wern't able to make our yearly round on Memorial day because it was too cold, but there was still some interesting things left on the graves. Kelsey had fun picking flowers up from the plots and putting them in her hair, yikes! My leg is still messed up. Everytime I think it's getting better it starts swellling again. It's been interesting watching the change in colors, one minute it looks like the bruising is going away, the next minute it turns purple again. Guess I'm lucky though, eight years working with these guys and this is my first injury. I decided not to go to the Dr.'s, I hope this wasn't a mistake, guess I'll find out in a week or so.
Kelsey says, "we love you.thakyou mom.xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo.
June 1st, 2008
Hope you are all currently having fun without me. I have to admit I'm kindof bugged. It wouldn't be so bad if Brynn hadn't decided to pull that plane move on us at the last minute. Then at least two of us would be sulking together.I had a bunch of funny things to tell ya all but I have forgotten what they were. When I remember I'll let ya know. I can't remember what I was going to write, I'll get back to ya later.OH, I just remembered something. Linsey and Steve, if you read this I need your e-mail address. I wanted to chat with ya. Do any of the rest of you guys have their e-mail? Send it over if you do.
May 23rd, 2008
We had a tornado hit here yesterday. It didn't get our place, but it got our entire ward boundaries. It's kindof weird because our ward is split between two different sections of town and both got hit. I was at work and got to spend two and 1/2 hours in the bathroom with 10 clients and 5 staff. Fortunately 2 of our clients were gone or I think we would have pushed the limits of the bathroom. We were also fortunate because we have two bathrooms with a shower area in between. We opened up the doors on both sides of the shower area and made one big room. It held us all, but there was not much room to move. I guess it's good that we are all used to not having much personal space!
Kelsey was locked down at school. All the kids had to sit in the hall indian style with their heads facing the wall for the two and 1/2 hours. They didn't have power either, so they were sitting in the dark. I can only imagine the situation.
Allison Killpacks' area got hit hard. She will be in GR this weekend so if you see her ask her if you can see her pictures, they're crazy. If I get time I will try and get some pics too. If you don't remember Laramie is mostly comprised of pine trees. You would be amazed to see the number of gigantic pine trees that were lift clear out of the ground. There was also a lot of damage to homes. Up by Allison's there were trampolines stuck in houses. Allison had one in hers and her tramp was stuck in the house across the street.
It looks like the rest of the weekend and into next week is going to be crazy with storms. If you can't reach me it is because the power is out and my phone is run through my internet connection. Bresnan told me when they hooked my internet up that I would be able to call if I used a cord phone on a different jack, but I tried it yesterday and it didn't work. Try and call my cell number. I charged it at work today so hopefully you can get through. Well I'll try and keep in touch but the power thing is going to be a problem. I unplug my computer whenever there is a storm so it doesn't get fried. Basically that means that my phone wont work when I do this and I will probably be doing it a lot within the next few days. Anyway, things are good here and hopefully the worst of the storm is over.
I was able to get a few pictures of the tornado damage before they cleaned everything up.
Hope you are all doing well, we'll chat with ya later!
May 11th, 2008
Kels and I went to Denver yesterday with one of my YW girls, Emily. She watched Kels while I went to the temple then I took them to the Aquarium. We had a lot of fun. They've added some new stuff. We got some good pictures.
Hope you are all doing well, we'll chat with ya later!
May 11th, 2008
Kels and I went to Denver yesterday with one of my YW girls, Emily. She watched Kels while I went to the temple then I took them to the Aquarium. We had a lot of fun. They've added some new stuff. We got some good pictures.
Some nice guy gave Kelsey some fish and tried to help her feed the stingrays. It was pretty cute.Mothers Day has been good. Kelsey gave me all kinds of cute little things she made. She's been working on them for about a month, she was really excited about it. It was cute. We also went to a piano concert tonight at the church. It was pretty good. Kelsey and I both enjoyed it.I'm still chugging along with school. I have a big paper due Tuesday so I'll be up all night tomorrow working on it. Kels is almost done with Kindergarten. Three weeks left. It's kindof weird. I finally talked her into missing her last day of school. It kindof cracks me up that I have to talk her into missing a day of school. Anyway, she seems to be excited to hang with all you guys for a week. I wish I could make it. Oh well, that's life. Hope your all doing good we miss ya.
May 4th, 2008
I'm amazed once again. Went to Wal Mart last night to fill Kelsey's antibiotic, an antibiotic, this is nothing major right? They tell me insurance wont cover it because I'm refilling it too early - that's another story. So, I say, "Well I'll just go ahead and pay for enough to get us through until insurance will cover it. The pharmacist then informs me that it costs $500.00 for just one bottle. Are you kidding me! This is an antibiotic! Not to mention a generic one. Needless to say the pharmacist was nice enough to call the insurance comany, they felt bad and covered it. I'm still amazed. It's amazing, $500.00.What else? Oh, last week was stake conference. We had the adult session on Friday night. It was one of the best meetings I've been to in a long time. Next time I chat with ya remind me and I'll tell ya about it. It was awesome. I will try and update pictures soon. I haven't had time. I have them downloaded on fliker but for some reason I can't get them to transfer to the page. This should be easier, but Bynn helped me get the page started and everything is in the wrong place. That is why I make continual notes on the same page and don't have an archive. I'm gonna have to re-do the entire page and I wont have time for a while. Maybe I'll work on it when I'm there for the 4th.
April 27th, 2008
Well I just got through cleaning out my e-mail inbox. I have stuff that has been there for months. I'm still not finished, but I'm down to 47 messages. I think I finally have all your e-mails now, it's amazing! Anyway, lets see. It's been really nice and sunny here lately. Kelsey talked me into getting her summer clothes out. We spent a good couple hours going through the summer clothes and putting the winter clothes up. It snowed the next day.
I finished my class last weekend and started my summer class three days later. This class is on public administration in litature and film. I thought it would be good but it looks like it has the potential to be kindof trashy. Wouldn't ya know it. Anyhow if it becomes too vague the professor is going to let me do my own thing and still get credit for it. I was impressed. I have to read 5 books in 5 weeks write a paper on each including another 15-20pgr. Lovely.
Oh, have any of you found Stadium of Fire tickets yet? If you find some let me know and I'll give you my cc # to order them. Make sure it's la-git. I don't want to get burned! Also, I need to make my Mary Kay order in a couple weeks. I'm hoping to make it the end of this week or the beginning of next. Brynn, you either need to give me a call and let me know what you want or e-mail it to me. I wont have time to chase ya all down. Shannon, do you want any more Elige? I have a bottle of it from my last order. I don't remember why. Anyhow, I want to make this order quickly so make sure you know what you want. Brynn, I'll mail yours with your valentines package that is still sitting here, or I will give it to you when you come back. Whatever you want. Gee, maybe I'll just hang onto a years worth of stuff and send it all back at once. Valentines, Easter, Christmas and all. One box and I'll have it done!!! That's more like it!
Anyway, everthing is going well. I can't think of anything more to write.
Oh, Happy Birthday Morgan! I've been trying to call you but I can't get through. What's up with you guys and your phones. You all need a land-line!!!
Later
April 11th, 2008
Hey everyone, just thought we'd give you an update as to what we are doing. Kelsey had her procedure done Friday. She still has the reflux problem therefore, we will have to do it again next year. I'm already looking foreward to it!!! Here are some picks of Kels before and after her procedure.
I finished my department of labor stuff a couple weeks ago, I'm not even that excited about it, just glad I don't have to think about it again. I am still working on my final paper that is due this Friday. I am now on page 11. It looks like I may have a lot of late nights this week.We got a ton of snow this week, but toady it was warm out. Kels and I are going to go go on a walk here in a few minutes. Kels is getting mad at me right now because she is afraid we wont go on the walk. I better get off before she goes balistic on me. Hope your all doing well.
Later!!!
March 30th 2008
Hey guys, sorry I haven’t kept in touch-life has been busy. We started out our week in Rawlins where I picked up Kelsey. She was tired but seemed fine. We got to the house and I called mom to let her know that we made it home. Mom proceeds to tell me what a sweet girl Kelsey is. I’m feeling pretty good because I feel like Kelsey’s doing well. I get off the phone and not two seconds later Kelsey proceeds to throw the biggest fit I have ever seen. I was completely amazed. The only thing that kept running through my mind is, "Is this sweet girl we were just talking about?" Holy Cow!!!
So on Tuesday Kelsey and I made a trip over to the hospital for Kelsey to have her big test done. Now let me back track about two months. So a couple months ago when I made the appointment I asked the nurse if there is anyway we could give her a local or put her under because it hurt her so bad last time. The nurse tells me they can’t do it and gives me this long spill. Alright, so now we are in the hospital, I’m standing at the head of the x-ray table holding Kelsey’s hands down while three nurses try to do the procedure. Kelsey is screaming at the top of her lungs and I feel like bawling. So this goes on for about 30 min when I finally ask them, "Is there any kind of local we can give her so this isn’t so bad?" They go get a local. What’ya know.So as I stand up to relax while they go to get the local, I start feeling really crazy. "Oh crap!", I’m thinking. I’m in a hospital and something is really not ok and I’m too scared to tell the nurses that something is wrong. I feel like I might pass out and I quickly look at all the equipment that I’m about ready to collapse into. I panic. I still don’t want to tell the nurses something’s wrong. Why? I don’t know. I start walking across the room towards the only chair I see, I can barely see mind you. Then a nurse asks, "Are you ok?" No I finally admit something is wrong and I feel like I’m going to pass out and puke. As I’m saying this the room is spinning and blacking out, it was weird. She throws me a puke bag and has me put my head between my knees. The problem was taken care of within ten minutes and I was back to myself again. Craziest thing I’ve ever experienced. The nurse told me it had something to do with "locked knees." I don’t know, I just know that I thought I might die and for whatever reason I didn’t want to tell the nurses. It’s funny now. So on with the procedure...They get the local, it doesn’t work, they can’t do the procedure. They then proceed to tell me, "We are going to have to re-schedule and give her medicine to put her out". Are you kidding me, I’m thinking. Did I not want this to begin with? I’m amazed. Needless to say we will be rescheduling tomorrow. I’ll let you know how the next appt. goes.
So as far as other things are concerned. Not much. I’m spending every night working on my final paper that has to be between 15-20 pgs long. I’m on pg 7. Eight more to go. I have to wake up bright and early tomorrow and register for class. The class I need only has three seats left so I have to beat everyone to it. If I don’t get into this class I wont be on track to get my masters done by next summer. Although, I still haven’t taken the GRE, I still may not get in, We’ll see. This typing thing is doing weird things, it’s bugging me. Let’s see what else. Went to Harmons house again tonight. It was there son’s first birthday party. It was pretty cute. I got to hear gossip about Joe. Nothing like hearing gossip about your brother-in-law. I love it!!!-love you too Joe!!! I’m rolling. Hope you are all doing well. Love and miss ya.
Oh, you guys have to check out this book Kelsey and I discovered. It’s called "Skippy jon Jones in Mummy Trouble by Judy Schachner. It’s awesome. Kelsey has been repeating our favorite line, "You are steel the beeg Chichuahua dude, the whole enchilada!" Love it!!!
Jan 28. 2008
All right, I am finally doing something with this thing but not much. Don’t have time to update pictures, that would require me to figure out my computer and my camera. So I think that I can handle Shannon’s list of things, a little bit more my speed. So here we go:
10 years ago: have no idea. Let me think...1998. I was attending Western Wyoming Community college in Rock Springs. I was playing around with the idea of getting a teaching degree - never did that.
5 things on my to-do list today: Well let me just pull out my list and write it up for ya.
1. Return books to the institute. I checked them out this last Summer. Good thing they don’t keep track of stuff. Still haven’t finished reading them.
2. Buy a camera for my computer so that we can chat with the Kubulocks??? in England!!!
3. Memorize 3,500 words for the GRE. Yes, I am going to update my vocabulary a little. This should make ya all happy.
4. Sign up to take the GRE. I have to get a score of 900 on it. If I can get this score I’ll be on cloud nine.
5. Get letter of Recommendation forms to people. I have started the application process for grad school. Yes, Morgan I did decide to get an MPA. I am going to try and do this in record time. I hope to be done with grad school in one year. I want to have all my classes done by May of 09 and then I will do an internship that summer and be done!!!!!
Snacks I enjoy: Chocolate and potato chips. Can’t have them around the house.
Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Weird, but I can’t think of much. I guess I would eventually buy a new car and possibly travel a bit. Don’t know, I’m pretty cheap.
3 bad habits:
1. I bite off the edges around my fingernails when I’m bored.
2. I roll pieces of tape and paper when I’m bored.
3. As you all know. Kelsey and I both forget to flush the toilet!!!! The funny things is, I still don’t care!!!
5 places I have lived:
1. Green River with my parents
2. Rock Springs in a scary little house on McCabe St.
3. Small little University apartment in Laramie. It used to be a military thing. I loved that little place. It was so cute. It was right across the street from the football stadium.
4. Another University apartment in Laramie. This one was across the street from the soccer and baseball fields. Kelsey loved it. We would walk across many times to watch the games. She loved the music and noise. Oh, how could I forget. It was also next to the gigantic metal garbage can that woke us up almost daily and next to the bus stop too. Kelsey loved to ride on the bus. Her and I spent hundreds of hours riding the bus around campus. We never got off, we just rode and rode. Kind of therapeutic.
5. The Apartment I’m in now. It’s a handi-capped place. I have a gigantic shower and no lower cupboards, but I like it. It’s clean and new. I was the first one to rent it after it was built. I know what’s been on the floors!!!
5 jobs I’ve had:
1. Stuffed newspapers for the Rocket Miner
2. Worked in the gift shop at Little America
3. Worked at Owlfies Flowers. I learned a lot, but I would have to say I would never do that again.
4. Work with the developmentally disabled at the Ark.
5. I guess I didn’t have 5 main jobs but we can’t forget the countless hours of babysitting in jr. high and high school. Oh, and how can we forget my Mary Kay days. I’ll be placing an order in May if any of you need anything. Remember you now get it at cost. That’s 50% off!!!
5 things people don’t know about me:You guys know just about every thing about me, but just in case someone else reads this I’ll write something.
1. I have never been skiing
2. I have never eaten Chinese food and never will
3. I don’t know how to cook rice (or much of anything else for that matter). Oh, by the way Brynn, could you please e-mail me the directions on how you cooked that rice last time you came here. And also how you cooked the chicken. That was good stuff and I need to start using all that rice I have. I still have that gigantic bag sitting nicely on my counter. I want to get rid of it.
4. I’m late for just about everything in my life. It makes me nuts.
5. I find it very difficult to get to bed at a normal time. Right now it’s 11:00 pm. Beautiful.
Well I hope you all are happy. This took up time I didn’t have. I should be memorizing words. Maybe next time you see me I will sound professional. Doubt it! Anyway, I’ll get some pictures posted later, like in four months. Sorry if there is a lot of grammatical errors. It’s late and I’m tired. Now, I have to figure out how to move this old stuff.
Snacks I enjoy: Chocolate and potato chips. Can’t have them around the house.
Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Weird, but I can’t think of much. I guess I would eventually buy a new car and possibly travel a bit. Don’t know, I’m pretty cheap.
3 bad habits:
1. I bite off the edges around my fingernails when I’m bored.
2. I roll pieces of tape and paper when I’m bored.
3. As you all know. Kelsey and I both forget to flush the toilet!!!! The funny things is, I still don’t care!!!
5 places I have lived:
1. Green River with my parents
2. Rock Springs in a scary little house on McCabe St.
3. Small little University apartment in Laramie. It used to be a military thing. I loved that little place. It was so cute. It was right across the street from the football stadium.
4. Another University apartment in Laramie. This one was across the street from the soccer and baseball fields. Kelsey loved it. We would walk across many times to watch the games. She loved the music and noise. Oh, how could I forget. It was also next to the gigantic metal garbage can that woke us up almost daily and next to the bus stop too. Kelsey loved to ride on the bus. Her and I spent hundreds of hours riding the bus around campus. We never got off, we just rode and rode. Kind of therapeutic.
5. The Apartment I’m in now. It’s a handi-capped place. I have a gigantic shower and no lower cupboards, but I like it. It’s clean and new. I was the first one to rent it after it was built. I know what’s been on the floors!!!
5 jobs I’ve had:
1. Stuffed newspapers for the Rocket Miner
2. Worked in the gift shop at Little America
3. Worked at Owlfies Flowers. I learned a lot, but I would have to say I would never do that again.
4. Work with the developmentally disabled at the Ark.
5. I guess I didn’t have 5 main jobs but we can’t forget the countless hours of babysitting in jr. high and high school. Oh, and how can we forget my Mary Kay days. I’ll be placing an order in May if any of you need anything. Remember you now get it at cost. That’s 50% off!!!
5 things people don’t know about me:You guys know just about every thing about me, but just in case someone else reads this I’ll write something.
1. I have never been skiing
2. I have never eaten Chinese food and never will
3. I don’t know how to cook rice (or much of anything else for that matter). Oh, by the way Brynn, could you please e-mail me the directions on how you cooked that rice last time you came here. And also how you cooked the chicken. That was good stuff and I need to start using all that rice I have. I still have that gigantic bag sitting nicely on my counter. I want to get rid of it.
4. I’m late for just about everything in my life. It makes me nuts.
5. I find it very difficult to get to bed at a normal time. Right now it’s 11:00 pm. Beautiful.
Well I hope you all are happy. This took up time I didn’t have. I should be memorizing words. Maybe next time you see me I will sound professional. Doubt it! Anyway, I’ll get some pictures posted later, like in four months. Sorry if there is a lot of grammatical errors. It’s late and I’m tired. Now, I have to figure out how to move this old stuff.
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