My Best Little Pal

On our computer we have a slideshow of all our pictures as our screen saver...Today I was cleaning and got distracted looking at all the pictures and remembering funny things about them.

I especially love looking at our wedding pictures and there were some of Addy(this is mostly for my sis Sara)...she has changed so much. But one picture in particular made me think about how much I just love her. I think we have had a strange connection since she was tiny and I felt it again looking at this picture. Her eyes always seem to be telling you something important that she can 't express with words. I'm glad to get to be her aunt even from so far away.

God Be With You Till We Meet Again

I am having a hard time putting into words what my heart feels inside. President Hinckley was such a sweet man and will always remain close to my heart.

Death never seems real to me, maybe that's because it isn't, not really, not with what we know about the Gospel. I had the strangest feeling thinking about what must be going on in Heaven right now, I feel like I got to see or feel a little glimpse of it and it gives me hope and joy. I feel like a little part of me is there rejoicing with them all. He is whole, healthy and reunited with his love. Amazing. What a blessing it is to die with such peace and excitement for what is greeting you on the other side.

WE HAVE STRIPES!

Matt and Molly have been hard at work today. I have been banished from this family activity because Matt says me just being in the room is "stressing him out". I can't imagine why. I've only dropped the roller on the floor once...and it was covered by a tarp. He really is quite bossy about painting! Jeez.

Onto other topics. Matt told me this was gross and not to post it on our blog ( you have been for- warned) but I decided that if Margaret could talk about throw up towels and Sara could put pictures up of her goopy eye then I can post my own grossness.

Yep that's right I have strep. This does make me gag a little but mostly I think it's rad. Can you see the pus?

LET THE PAINTING BEGIN

Matt is busy taping away in Molly's room. We are going to paint green and white stripes on ALL her walls. Yikes. I think it will be cute, but we shall see. Matt decided that taping the walls off and prepping the room is a perfectly acceptable Sunday activity, but painting is not(I have no idea how all that works out in his head but whatever). I will post tomorrow to show our progress.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE?

Matt and I decided to make up a dance and send it into SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. Pretty rad isn't it?

PINK

I really love Valentines Day because my favorite colors are EVERYWHERE(I am really into using my CAPS lock for those of you who haven't noticed)

Our Weekend Update:
1. we had a garage sale...yes I know it's the middle of winter and yes I know I live in Oregon for those of you who were tempted to tell me that...I do know. Here are some things I learned.

• we had a wide variety of people show up for this amazing event...I never new I would be so popular!
• my new friend john, a professional yard saler, he's been in the business for 6 years now, helped us out a lot on the organizing and pricing bright and early.
• people are desperate for other people's junk...one guy was outside our house by 7:30 in the morning...Matt came in our room and said someone had been sitting outside our house for a while now so he went out to ask if he needed something...no he just wanted to get the early bird special
• after the age of...I'd say 10 you should no longer wear stretchy pants without a proper covering on your behind, especially when your sixty and ESPECIALLY not when you are wearing inappropriate underwear.
• you should not wear stretchy pants tucked into ankle boots, ever.

2. Matt and I saw Juno. We asked our friends if it was okay to take Molly to since it looked like it might be a little inappropriate. Oh no they assured us. Well it was, a little, but I think it did the job of making her never want to be alone with a boy...way to go Juno.

3. Since I am forever obsessed now with teenage fiction books and am dying waiting for more twilight to come out, I decided to read Blue Bloods...another vampire book. Really cheesy, waste of time, but of course it gave me my fix. Now I am reading a book called a Great and Terrible Beauty(I think) and I like it so far...I've only read a few chapters but it seems intense!

That's all for now.

ONE MORE THING

Sally reminded me that I've never mentioned what happened to Reggie...it's a long story but in the end we gave him to my little brother. I decided to put Reggie on craigslist just to see if anyone would even be interested in him(many people have told me how terrible I am for doing that...) Well it turns out that EVERYONE wants a Reggie, which I was not prepared for. So Matt and I finially decided on a family to give him to...I hung up the phone with the man who was addopting him and right then Wil(my 13 year old brother) came bursting through my door saying that his mom said he could have Reggie and wanted to take him home. I said I already promised him to someone else, Wil cried(and I mean he REALLY cried), then I cried. So I called Matt and he said too bad that Wil wanted him because we already gave him away to someone else and what was Wil going to do with a dog....then I said he was a jerk and I cried again. Matt came home I told him the story again while we were packing up Reggie's things then Matt got teary because he was going to miss Reggie and he was feeling bad for Wil. I made Matt call the other man back and say we changed our minds and then we bought a big red bow and took Reggie over to Wil's house to surprise him. They are now best friends and we are all happy. I said it was a long story.....