crazy times......

So I told you how Mike went out at midnight and bought the new book. He actually bought 2 one for each of us. The book has 749 pages and some people finished it in a day! But Erin ordered the book on amazon and was supposed to come on Monday, but they e-mailed her and told her it wouldn't come until the 11th. Well she didn't want to wait that long so she called around looking for it and everybody was sold out. I told Mike that they had some at Costco and Costco was closed on Sunday so if we showed up when it opened maybe there would be some left. We rushed up there ran in with a few other people and grabbed one of the last books. People were grabbing them right and left. One lady told us that her son and daughter-in-law each had one. She worked at the library and they even opened at midnight to let people check out the books. Then we all sat around the house reading Mike, Erin, and myself. Last night we watched Issy and Mike and I traded off. One of us would take care of the baby while the other one read for a while, then that person would relieve the other person and the other one would read. My dishes did not get done until this morning, and everybody had to eat hot pockets for dinner! I did take the princess outside to help me water my garden, she was so funny she kept trying to catch the big water drops that were dripping down.
She was surveying the area. Taking in the vast 4 foot by 4 foot garden that her grandmother was obsessing over.
Then she had to have a bath, she was still really sick. She is running a pretty high fever. So grandma put her in a luke warm bath to help bring it down. But she made up a new game, dropping crayons into the empty lotion bottle, so we brought that into the bath too. Now grandma has crayon marks on her tub:-)

As for my garden, I have a sneaky suspicion that this isn't a beef steak tomato! It is long and skinny like a roma tomato. But the plant said "beefsteak" when I bought it.

I saw this cucumber coming in a week ago. I have been so excited watching it grow all week. But then......
I saw this one on the other cucumber plant it was even bigger, just quietly growing where I didn't notice it. I think it will be my very first vegetable out of my garden. The garden probably ended up costing me $150 by the time I got all of the stuff together with gas and all. So that will be a $150 cucumber, I hope it's tasty!

sick princess....again.....

So I just posted this morning about getting to be with my little princess at her aunts wedding. Well that didn't work out so well. She has been getting red spots on her face for almost a week. But today the spots were big, and at the wedding she started running a very high fever. I really thought it was chicken pox but she had been immunized for them. So I brought her home, took off her party dress, gave her Tylenol, and rocked her to sleep. She had become pretty lethargic at the wedding so we were worried. After the wedding her parents picked her up she got up from her nap pretty happy. But a few hours later she was lethargic again. So off they went to the Urgent Care. The doctor told them he thought she had a skin infection that caused fever. They got her some antibiotics and we are crossing our fingers that it works and she gets better.

a sneaky husbanb......

So the book Breaking Dawn was released last night at midnight. There was a bunch of stuff on the news about it. Even when we were at Desseret Book this week they were going to open for 1 hour between 12:00 and 1:00AM to sell the book. Mike and I went out last night and saw "Swing Vote" it had a really good message, but the language was pretty heavy. Anyway we got home around 10:00 and I started goofing around with Mike saying, "Oh, just 2 hours left!" I am assuming that they have made enough copies of the book that it won't be hard to get it anywhere this week. So I was not worried about being able to get a copy. I was just having fun like a frenzied fan.

I got so tired after we got home that I literally passed out around 10:45. I woke up sometime in the middle of the night and Mike wasn't in bed. I called out to him and here he came with a little surprise. He decided to go to Wal Mart at 11:15 last night. He said he was the 300 person in line. He said there were about 1,000 people by midnight. He said when midnight hit all the girls were screaming, that I should have heard it, it was crazy. He said Wal Mart had 2 people standing there and just handing the books to everybody so it went really fast, plus he said it only cost $13 something . So my sneaky husband was up reading the book. He's so funny! I would be reading it this morning, but I'm off to spend time with my Princess. The son-in-laws sister is getting married this morning right here in our town, so I'm going to help out with my little sweety pie. But when things settle down I'm picking up that book!

Bea is cute again......

So we love this little dog. Issy enjoys her, when she comes over she starts saying "wa wa wa wa" cute little fake barks. that is how she great Beatrice. The funny part is Bea has a bunny toy and loves to play with it. Well Issy would pick it up and start walking away with it and Bea would think she was playing and start chasing her. Issy wouldn't understand that Bea was playing, and she would start tugging. It is fun to watch.
So we have neglected Beatrice, she has needed some grooming for a while. She was cute but shaggy.
She is all cute now! I finally found someone who could fit her in to clip her. She looks a lot smaller with a lot less hair.

Other Worlds......

So I posted a few posts back about reading this book and how good it was. Well the truth is I was at one of the ladies houses that I Visit Teach, we were talking about books. I told her that I had read "A Wrinkle in Time" and I didn't like it. So I guess I don't like fantasy books at all. Well she told me she had a book she wanted me to read. She brought out FableHaven, I took it and said I would read it. She loved this series it is her favorite. I have to admit I was a little bummed because I have over 500 books I need to read (darn that DI addiction!), and she just added one more. So I read it on our trip to Chicago. I really enjoyed it, and told Mike he had to read it. He really enjoyed it and got the other books in the series. I was impressed with this writer. I suppose the first author I really know created a different world was JRR Tolken with the Lord of the Rings Series,. He made a different world with different creatures elves, hobbits, walking talking trees, and so on. Then JK Rolling with Harry Potter and that entire world. All of the names, spells, characters, just blew my mind. She created an entire other world. Then Stephanie Myer she just stepped outside of the box and created her own kind of Vampires and Werewolves. While I was reading her books Mike would tell me they can't go out in the sun or they will burn up. I smiled to myself and thought, she wrote the books she made the rules, her vampires don't burn up in the sun. My point is she had a great imagination and going against all of our preconceived ideas she did her own thing. Now again, here is a guy who has a most amazing imagination. He has also created a different world. He was so creative with the creatures, characters, and his story line is really amazing.
I just finished the second book it was sooooo good. I just kept on thinking as I read all of the excitement this came out of 1 mans imagination. It must be awesome to be a writer and create such stories. This Brandon Mull guy has 2 movie deals in the works from 2 of his books. I hope they do Fablehaven justice it would be as good as Harry Potter if it is done right. Then Stephanie Myer has a movie coming out in Dec. I told Mike I thought it was so cool that 2 LDS people have written such books to capture the countries attention and have movies made.
So this is the third book in the Fable haven series. It just came out in May. Mike is ready for the 4th book but I have no clue when or if Mr. Mull is planning on writing more. The second book left me almost holding my breath! But alas I am preparing to teach a lesson Sunday. I don't have the actual lesson I just have a subject. I decided to have fun with it and make a big hand out for it. I need to finish it up hopefully by tomorrow. I actually ask a few people for ideas and only 1 person answered my plea. Then I am also doing a newsletter to go out this Sunday also. My point is I am to busy to start reading a book I can't put down! So Sunday night you all know what I will be doing, reading! (oh yah, the 4th Vampire book is coming out Saturday)There are to many good books out there! Next week will be a reading week!

You know your a grandma when your excited to read a bunch of books!:-)

Beautiful day.......

The girls got back from their shower late last night, but they decided to have a little more fun. The guys took off for Batman, so they were all up pretty late! They were goofing around for the camera and after I took this picture Erin said, "Oh man, my face looked like this." And I pulled the picture up and it was the exact face that's in this picture, I thought it was funny.
Now on to today.... I love clouds, it probably comes from living in "The Valley of the Sun" for so long and not seeing many clouds, just mostly blue sky's. Anyway on one of my scariest, saddest days as an adult. I walked out into my backyard, I was really down. I looked up and Heavenly Father had sent me some big beautiful fluffy white clouds. I leaned against the trampoline and watched one cloud actually make an elephant head. I watched a perfect trunk blow out, until I had no doubt as to what it was. It gave me peace in my heart. My problems were still there, but I knew Heavenly Father knew I was sad, and sent me a sign that he loved me.

So now that you know how much I LOVE clouds this was the view from my backyard. Click on the picture above and get a good look at those huge fluffy white clouds. They were perfect, I couldn't take my eyes off of them. But behind me were the clouds below. Dark and rainy. I just wonder which clouds are the best dark rain clouds or fluffy white clouds. I love them all!
Then as I was watering my garden I saw this, a tomato!!! A happy little tomato, growing in my garden.

My garden got off to slow start, but it is actually growing. I have some little tiny Roma tomatoes growing in on one of the other tomato plants.
This is basil that I grew from seeds. I have been married over 25 years. I have only had 1 garden and that was about 16 or 17 years ago. So I'm so happy with my little garden.


Then yesterday Mike and Nate and some other members of the ward helped the neighbors put there grass in. So now we only have 2 sides of our yard exposed to massive weeds.

Can you find the doggy in this picture? I thought she was funny she just went to the edge of the grass and sat for a while. It was so nice outside, it makes you never want to come inside!

A week with the Princess......

Well there is some big news around here. I spent an entire week with my little princess. Her mother is pregnant again, and was soooooo sick. She got some medicine that helped a little, but knocked her out, so they all spent the week here. We finally found Erin some medicine, that makes her feel much better, and she can stay awake. Issy gives out her kisses pretty freely. She opens her mouth wide and walks across the room. This is when her mom was so sick in the beginning of the week. She was trying to cheer her up.
Then she acts like she is going to kiss the dog. She gets up really close and at the last minute she shakes her head "no".

Erin was knocked out quite a bit this week and Issy and I had some awesome times. You can see how thrilled she is to be with me in this shot.
Every princess needs a chair, and Issy has a Dora chair she loves. She carries it all over the place.

My little princess has a wild side. I have seen some serious Dare Devil actions in her this week. One of the times was when, I was giving her a bath and she was walking around, she fell and got her face in the water. She popped it out really fast. Then she turned her head and looked at me, then she dipped her face in the water again. She did it 3 time on purpose before I made her try something a little less scary. But I told her mom she is going to have to watch out for this little girl.

They are trying to teach her the baby sign language. She is not very interested in it, but when her dad tosses her up like that she laughs and does the sign for more! That is Jessica and myself in the kitchen. Erin and Jessica were headed out to a shower for a girlfriend from Mesa.

Today Mike bought my ticket to Amsterdam. Yes I get to go again this year, I'm so excited!