I've been Tagged!

OKAY! I've been tagged a few times now so I guess I should do my list of seven songs.
"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether or not they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal/blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to."
I think video player is a good indication of what I'm into right now though.

1. Held by Natalie Grant
2. 2 sets of Jones' by Big Tent Revival
3. You and Me by Lifehouse
4. 100 Years by Five for Fighting
5. Bless the Broken Road by Selah
6. Remember Me by Mark Schultz
7. Come to Jesus by Kenneth Cope

Now who shall I tag? That hasn't been tagged yet...
1. Elizabeth she has a myspace account.
2. Heidi St. John
3. Tracy
4. Oh I don't know! I'll find 4 more people. All you bloggers out there watch out! here I come. Oh I know! Sandie
5. I think Lisa might have a blog.
6. I don't know I'm really out of names now!

Fractured Fugal Friends

Something I haven't thought of in a long time. That is the Once a Month Cooking gig. I remember when I was a working mom and did this for about a year or maybe it was two. It sure came in handy when Francis started baseball season. I found this link through an ad on the GottaPixel site so I though I would share it.

Why Oh Why?!

Why did I decide to try the Blogger Beta? What a mess this has been. Where I could do almost anything by tweaking the html before now it won't work! The new improved make it a no brainer version is a nightmare! My Photobucket can't post from there now! On the test site I tried to use the new improved template. NOT! I cant' do diddley squat with the test site. Beware of the new templates that Blogger is trying to say is better. They are what you see is what you get don't try to change the header or the background or we will tie you up by your thumbs! I am soooo glad I do the test blog thing or else I would be like really crying right now! So be warned the new Blogger Beta is a bust! Don't Do IT!

I Know!

It's been over a week since I posted anything. My bad, I know. It has been busy and just so much I woul like to write about I don't know where to start. How about I point out that I have made some changes to my blog. What do you think of the changes. Small changes but changes any way. Now I will leave you with my nerd score. heehee

Where Was I?

The question everyone is asking today. Where was I? 5 years ago today? I remember turning on the tv in the hotel room in Hawaii after a phone call from my mom. We were visiting for a week and just 1 day before the end of our stay. We sat there looking on in horror as the second plane appeared and flew into the second tower. It had to be some show it couldn't be real is what we were thinking, but every chanel had the same thing. There were people in the lobby freaking out because they couldn't leave the island and there was now where for them to stay. We spent the day doing our planned activities but when ever we go back and visit Sealife Park we will always remember 9-11-01. Good thing I have family there we spent the next 5 days sleeping on my mothers floor before they allowed anyone to fly. A lot of people, innocent people died that day just because we have the freedoms that we have. It is truely another day that will live in infamy. So never forget the innocent, the Firemen, and Police that gave their lives that day. A day that should have been like any other.
Ok I have to add if ever faced with the situation that those on that last flight did. I pray that I may act so bravely. Click on the title and remember the men, women, children, public servants, and our military today. God Bless AMERICA!

How's my New Blog Topper?

My pal Melany put one together for fun and so I thought I would change the look of my blog. Here's her freebie template.
Also Christy is now selling a set at the Butternug Squash Design Store. For only $3.75! How's that for a deal! I'll be changing my topper again later this week with one of Christy's templates. So come back and check it out next weekend.

What a great Labor Day!

Monday we were invited to a brunch/ bbq. One of the families and the new church we are going to invited us over. Funny the same family that called Qwest about their phone bill and invited us to visit their church when we got here. I tell you God works in mysterious ways. Anyway, we got up kind of late around 9:30am. Then as we got our slow day started, the phone rang. It was Wayne saying hey breakfast is just about ready you had better come on over now. So we threw ourselves together and headed over. You know google maps have roads that have not been put in yet. Well we figured it out anyhow

When we got there, several other church members were already starting breakfast. I finally got to meet Tracy! She was the one that Phil talked to and invited us to this wonderful church to begin with. It was fun getting to know everyone, the pastor and his wife were there too.

It’s amazing how comfortable we feel with these people. It is also amazing how many of them are homeschoolers. That was my connection to this church. Funny how I mentioned it to the woman from the Pocatello Christian Homeschool Association and it turned out to be her church too!

After a tour of the house, we followed everyone else and went home for a nap. (Didn’t happen) Turns out that the Turners had an extra microwave and bold, as my husband is he actually asked for it. (Good thing I wasn’t there when it happened.) So again, God provided a much needed item. Bryce had a one-track mind after that. POPCORN! It’s the only thing he can make on his own. LOL! Thank You Tracy and Wayne! Bryce Loves The Microwave!

We went back around 5:30pm for the Bar-b-q part of the day. I was stuffed! I mean it was hamburgers, sausages, potato salad, pasta salad, chips, and so on but it was soooo good. The kids had fun playing and we adults socialized some more. We were there until dark talking and getting to know each other. Phil had to work early the next day so we had to leave. We gathered up the boys said our good byes and went home to a hot shower and bed. After I went and got Bryce some microwave popcorn. Can you believe the one track mind that boy has!

I know that this is where God wants us. We feel so oh I don’t know familiar with the people here in this church is the only way to describe it. Like God has told us in our hearts about all these wonderful people already.

That is how our Labor Day was in a condensed version. I do still miss my old neighborhood and friends but I now know that God has so much in store for us here too. I can’t wait to see what it is.

What my major should be.

It figures at one time I almost abandoned the business field to go study engineering. Who knows maybe I should have.

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What a Blast!

Well today was kind of a lazy day. I spent most of it fighting with the printer software so I could hook my laptop directly to the printer since we had to use it near a phone jack for a fax. Sooner or later Phil will figure out the server thing.
Then we ran out to Wal Mart for groceries. not to bad most of what we needed for the next 2 weeks. We still need to go out to Freddy's for the rest but not bad. Then we ran to Home Depot for a garden hose left the old one behind. Thought it went in the trailer but I guess it didn't.
Then came the fun part of the night. The Butternug Squash Design Team had a chat in the DST chat room. There sure were a lot of people there, and Christy gave away some great prizes. Of course we got on the subject of her blog and poor Henry. Or should I say poor Christy and her car that smells like old cheese and a goat died in it. LOL! If you haven't visited her blog you really need too. http://www.motherhood-unscripted.com/ Annny way we got on some weird combinations of subjects and it all started sounding just tooo bizaare (spelling?) It was like spam, poop, squid, chocolate, sushi, goats, and cheese and who knows what else. LOL! I sure hope some of the gals who were there show up at the forum so we can get to know them better. Oh and better yet some of the husbands started to read over shoulders. I guess we were just getting too wild.
Now I'm just sooo pooped out.(the tired type of pooped) I think I'm going to take a shower and read alittle then sleep. Got church tomorrow and more going on at the BSD Forum. See you there.

Got the Car Today!

Today we drove Phil to work so we could have the car and run some errands. Did I mention we are now a single car family. Yeah had to leave Phils little puttputt behind. Any how the Pocatello Main Library is like accross the street kitty corner to Phils work. We went in and got Francis a huge! book to read. Gee when did he start reading high school stuff? He's only in 5th grade. Bryce went bonkers and wanted almost every book he could get his hands on. LOL! I need to take advantage of that.
Then we ran around to the dollar stores looking for a toilet bowl brush. Can you belive there was not one to be had! Got a few other cleaning items but nothing really. Can you believe that! At the Dollar Tree at that! I was low on gas and put 10 gallons in. You know that the gas is like 10cents cheaper here than in Washington? It still cost me 30 bucks. OUCH!
The boys were hungry so we stopped at the Eddys Outlet Store to check it out. It is actually the Wonder Bread Outlet. So we got some bread and treats for the boys. We then went home for sandwiches for lunch, and treats after. They actually took naps if you can believe!
Then we ran to Wal-Mart for some things. Yes it is cheaper here for a lot of stuff even at Wal-Mart I could see the price difference. I still didn't get out of there without spending too much money but now I have to take some of the stuff back since they won't work. Can you blelieve that the bathroom has no towl rack! and now shower curtains? I also got the stuff for doing dishes. I'm going to be doing my dishes by hand for awhile again.
At home I made some meatloaf for dinner which turned out delish. I also made mashed potatoes. Mind you I was boiling them spuds when I realized I couldn't find my potato masher. Well female inginuity to the rescue! I used my Pampered Chef mini wisk. Remember that trick now it turned out just perfect! Dinner was soo good that I was going to use leftovers to make a meat sauce for spaghetti well not any more. There wasn't much left we ate so much. Maybe it was all the fast food for the last 3 weeks that made a home cooked meal taste so good. Even Bryce and his finickyness(word?) ate it and talk about how good it tasted. LOL! Remember trick to get kids to appreciate home cooked meals OD them on fast food! Then it was just spending the evening getting our stuff organized. Hooking up my washer and dryer. Working on fixing my desk since the leg broke in the move. That's about it. I'll write more about tomorrow later.

IDAHO OR BUST!

At least that is what the side of the U-Haul truck should have said. None the less for some ironic reason our U-Haul said Idaho Hagarman Fossil Bed. We would be moving to Chubbuck Idaho and passing right through the Fossil Bed area. Go figure… Any way if you heard Phil has been relocated to the Pocatello Qwest Office and he started today(well yesterday now) After our quick jaunt up there for the weekend to rent a house we came home and proceeded to pack. Tuesday we got the truck. Phil had the unreal fantasy that we could have everything packed and loaded by Thursday. BOY! Was he dreaming! By Wednesday he finally understood me and the need to want to take almost everything we owned to Goodwill.

Thus began the massive purging of “stuff”. I now have no bed just the mattress. I also have no dressers. No bedroom furniture at all. (Hmm, I need to go shopping) The boys have just their dressers. We gave away our china hutch, our butcher block, and any large pieces of furniture that we felt couldn’t fit on the truck. I donated all the clothes that we no longer used or didn’t fit. I even went through cookbooks, and school books. I donated a ton of small kitchen appliances’ and even my electric cooker, with the stand that it goes on. Crystal and glassware too! Even then we had to rent the larges trailer that U-Haul has! I took us all week to load the stuff up with just the 2 of us and the new neighbors’ boy Jeff.

Phil’s sister came one evening with Al. He helped Phil load the washer, dryer, and fridge. They even got the storage cabinets loaded. Then Terry came back the next day and helped. It really helped to have someone else tell me you don’t need it send it to Goodwill.

By Friday morning it was crunch time Mike his nephew came by and helped move the last of the stuff to the garage. We worked until 3:30am on Saturday morning. Woke up at 6am Saturday finished loading the trailer. We loaded the kids up and were on the road by 10:30am or there about. We drove, and we drove and we drove, and gave in some where around Bliss Idaho at 1am and slept for 2 hours. We were on the road again by 2:50am. We stopped and got a cup of bad coffee, (yuck!) and were on the road again.

We arrived around 6:30am at the rental house in Chubbuck. We messed around with the truck and trailer for a little while snapped at each other and went in and laid down. That was it for about 2 hours. At 8:30 we started working on unloading the trailer. We hadn’t eaten yet so by 12:30pm Bryce and I ran to Fred Meyers for some “real food”. When we got back the people from the church that we are going to be attending here had arrived after service, and were quickly unloading the truck. The women helped with setting the kitchen up. That’s still not complete but they really helped get me started. What took us a week to load the guys unloaded in less than 4 hours. Are they AWESOME! OR WHAT?!

After they left we ran to the Dollar Tree (did I mention there’s a new one here?) to get a broom and other items that we had to leave behind due to no room on the truck. When we got back we again crashed for about and hour. Then we returned the U-Haul and trailer. After taking a shower we all just slept really hard.

Oh did I mention that through all this I had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling so great. After sleeping all night I felt a little better, but then my nose started running. I think exhaustion is what it is. My body just gave out! Right now I’m just so tired I almost didn’t finish this, but I know that there are those out there that are watching the blog to see how the move went. Now I’m going to go get some more sleep.

Good Night!

Real Quick Before...

the internet dies. Yep the truck ran out of room. I have too much c**p. I have donated and given away so much stuff and I still have too much stuff! Pray for us that this doesn't kill us. The cost is way more than QWEST has given us and we still need to sell the house! That's the other thing pray that the house sell fast! It was listed this afternoon so hopefully when we vacate the house it will sell faster. Again Pray! Thanks for all the prayers so far! I know they are working because thinks could have been worse. Hugs till later.

I thought I was tired Sunday

well I was mistaken! Now I really am tired. We have most of the major heavy stuff loaded in the truck. We filled the dumpster a second time with just mainly the junk littering the boys room. There is so much more to go and we still have to shampoo carpets and touch up paint. I just maybe seeing if I can get a cleaning crew in here later. The real estate agent will be here tomorrow afternoon and we will get the house listed. Just pray it sells fast. I can't afford to make another housepayment and pay rent. Qwest paid it for the first month but after that. Lets just say the house has to be sold. I'm so tired I can't think straight or type straight either. I'm really making use of the backspace key tonight. Well it's of to bed and more packing tomorrow. We need to be on the road Thrusday. The truck needs to be turned in on Friday in Pocatello. Again pray for us as we embark on this new journy that God has planned out for us.

We're BACK!

It's been a looooong weekend. I'll tell you more about it. We just got back and cleaned out the car. We left Pocatello at 11am mountain time, and it's now 12:50am pacific time. Tell you how long it was? Just think we will have to do it again on Thursday! At least it will be one way to Pocatello then.

I am so tired.

What a long day today has been. We woke up extra early so we could go to the early service at church today. We actually woke up at like 6:30 so we got there more than early enough for the 8:30 service. It was an emotional day for the kids and us. This was our last service at First Evangelical. The congregation did a prayer for us. I did ok until the end of service then I started to cry. We then went around and said good-bye to all of our close church friends. So when we got home around noon I was already pretty drained.
Phil then tackled the garage, and broke down the two huge warehouse style storage-shelves that he has had for years. Took that to his nephews’ house, and unloaded a bunch of stuff at Good Will. While he did that, I tackled boxing up the last of my cookbooks. So all the books are now pretty, much ready to go.

On top of all that, we had a little planning session and now it looks like instead of leaving on the 26-27^th we may now be moving it up to the 22^nd for packing the truck and driving to Pocatello before the weekend. Why is it every time I open my mouth I end up with less time? I really need to learn to stop asking for a game plan. (Quick I need a swift kick!)

Now I just soooo tired! Both emotionally and physically tired that is. I just hope I can sleep and don’t end up staring at the ceiling again. The boys look tired and act as if they’re on speed or something. I guess it’s a combination of being tired like me and the excitement of moving so far away. So far, God has pretty much arranged the move for us we just seem to be following in some prearranged plan of his. I just wish the move were over already. I miss my friends already, and we haven’t even left yet. There is so much more I could say but I really need to go take a shower and get some rest. Tomorrow I tackle getting a small dumpster and getting my allergy shots early, along with finding another allergist in Pocatello. More later, Toodles!

Taking a break here

while Phil and Mike go get more boxes. Yesterday the official word came "downhill" so to speak. We are going to Pocatello Idaho! Phil needs to report August 28th for orientaion at the Pocatello office. We will have approximatly 5 days prior to that to pack the house. He will fly down and report for work fly back then have 6 days to load the trucks drive everything to Pocatello, unload, help unpack and report for actual work on Tuesday. Looks like it will be a busy month. Sorry if I don't get any layouts posted until after that. Hopefully my computer will be fully set up again by Sept. 5th. Until then I will be mostly on my laptop. I have a lot less on there to work with so layouts will definatly be scarce.

Warm Fuzzies!

Got this from my friend Christys blog. She got this from PajamaMama. This is what she had posted on her site.

We’re so quick to point fingers, place blame and criticize the people in our lives. It’s easier to point out a fault than it is to praise a strength. It’s easier to mention something that needs to be done better than it is to acknowledge something that’s been done well.

Therefore, I christen today (and the next few days) “Bloggin’ Good Blogger Days” in the blogging community. Your mission, shall you choose to accept it (and you will), is to go to as many blogs as you can and point out at least one good thing about the author of that blog. Do your best to give them a warm fuzzy feeling. Show your appreciation, admiration or plain old joy.

Tell them why something they did touched you, why a choice they made shows the true fabric of their moral being. Just go BE NICE to every blogger who’s blog you read today. And don’t be shy, either!!

Plus, post an entry similar to this one on YOUR blog and ask people to leave warm fuzzies in your comments. Spread the love, people!

Maybe if we take a week to engage in warm fuzzies, they will become a more permanent part of our daily lives, both on and off the computer.

In review:

1. Leave me a warm fuzzy in my comments.

2. Post a similar entry (or copy and paste this one, giving credit) on your own blog.

3. Leave a warm fuzzy on every blog you visit today.

4. Sit back, read your own warm fuzzies and feel, well, warm and fuzzy!

My turn to push my favorite site.

Yep! That's right it's my turn. My friend Christy has completely revamped her site at Butternug Squash Designs. She has redesigned her forum, it is soo pretty. On top of that she has added a gallery there too. You have got to go check it out. The forum when it's hopping can be a real blast. It can get a little crazy sometimes. Especially if we don't get enough sleep becuase we're too busy chatting. Oh! That reminds me she also added a chat room in there too. She has done so much work you reeeeeally have to go check it out.

As a matter of fact right now she has a Sketch Challenge that just started. The prize is a $20 Gift Certificate to her store! How awesome is that!

On top of all that she is also going to move her release date for new kits to Wednesday. Gives you a chance to stop and shop since then you don't have to try to hit all the new release sales at once on Friday. So stop by and visit us and check out my gallery there. I'm going to try to finish moving all my layouts over there by the end of September. See the moving to Pocatello is going to slow me down alittle but I will get it all moved eventually. Later I will try to post my latest layouts here. Maybe later tonight. Toodles!

Here I am again

another night of not being able to sleep. Tonight Phil signed the papers saying what his preferences are for the layoff. We are going to request Pocatello as our first choice, and Boise as our second choice. I called the real-estate agent today to get the ball rolling there. I am now getting the nerve up to tell my friends that we will be gone in like a month. As soon as Phil gets the up front money to go looking for a new place we will probably go and look for a place to live. Of course our real-estate agent is really an awesome agent. We've seen her at work so we know this for a fact! I'll have her line up some places for us to go see when we go to Idaho, in the mean time she can work on selling the house. I tell you a forced move is no fun. I will probably be lucky to make my one layout a week commitment right now, but that's just the way it will be. I just hope we can pull if off by Labor Day weekend. Well I'm going to take some Advil and head off to bed to stare at the ceiling.

I guess it's not Salt Lake City that we're going to be looking at but Pocatello Idaho.  It's a scary thing trying to figure if we really want to up root our family to move.  I have just spent too many nights laying and thinking.  I just need to stop thinking.  But it looks like that's what we're going to be doing.

Over at Rossi Farm

they have an area for kids complete with mini tractors.  At the time Francis was obsessed with

tractors and such.  Before we left

Francis had to try out the little John Deer tractors.  I happened across this photo and am not sure

what we used to photograph it with.  I

scrapped this with the kit Delightful Daisies by Christy Sturm at Butternug

Squash Designs.  The Word art is from the

kit Joy by Vera Lim at Vera Lim Designs. 

The Date stamp was a freebie from Jen Star Designs.