Happy Anniversary

May 16th was Mom and Dad's anniversary. Here's a little memorial.

Happy Mother's Day!

These are some of my favorite mothers!

Happy Easter!

I hope everyone has a great spring break and a happy Easter!

Do take a moment to remember the greatest reason to celebrate Easter - the resurrection of our Savior. I love my Savior and am grateful for his sacrifice for me and all of us.

School Pictures

Now that the school year is two thirds over, I finally got all the kids' school pictures scanned into the computer. I know I'm the mom and I'm supposed to think my kids are adorable, but I think this year their pictures turned out particularly good. A mom can brag, right?

Jessica is a senior this year, Jeremy is in 9th grade, and Melissa is in 3rd grade.

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More Braces

Well, it's Melissa's turn - she got braces on today. And just like Jessica did, she has a medieval torture device in her mouth too. It's called a distal jet appliance and it is designed to separate the two banded teeth on the right to make room for a missing permanent molar to come down between them - and so it doesn't come out the side of her mouth. The bar on the right has a spring at the end, and as it expands, it will move the tooth back. The appliance can also widen her palate just like Jessica's, if the need arises later on. And don't worry about the blue gunk - it's just extra glue that will flake off over the next couple of days as she brushes.

Lucky for Jessica, she no longer has that box in her mouth to widen her palate. Somehow she broke it off one of her teeth and since her mouth moved so quickly the "Dontist" decided to leave it off. Now she only has to have a wire to maintain her widened palate. She is so excited to have her teeth looking so much straighter already - her front two teeth don't overlap each other anymore. Yay!

Sterling Scholar Niece!

Congratulations to my niece! She has been nominated for Sterling Scholar in English for her High School this year. Just like her mom (who was also a Sterling Scholar) she is smart and an excellent student. I know it takes a lot of work to make Sterling Scholar, so...

Way to go! and

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Remembering Mom's Birthday

Today is Mom's birthday. I was missing her and thought I'd put up a few pictures in her memory.

Best Deal of the Year (so far)

I'm Scotch - literally and figuratively. My husband says my ancestors invented copper wire by stretching pennies. So it's no surprise that I love the after-Christmas sales. I love it when the sales get to 90% off. I got Melissa a Christmas shirt at Target for 75 cents and was feeling pretty good about my deal. Until I saw Anthony's deal.

Ok, so our toilet seat broke. Not a great subject for a blog entry, but just wait. So Anthony went to the store to get a new one. He went to Smith's Marketplace because it was close. He was looking at the choices and Melissa was begging for the soft cushy pink one or the clear one that looked like it had water and fish in it. THANKFULLY, he resisted her pleadings and went for the normal cheap plastic seat. But they were all gone. He looked above the shelves (he's 6'6" - he can do that) and it just so happened that there was one box up there. He said it looked like the same one as the display, so he took it to the cashier to buy it. She rang it up - and said it would be 4 cents. Yep, that's not a typo - four cents! She then decided that must be a mistake so she called the manager over. The manager found that it was a discontinued model and they weren't even supposed to have any left in inventory - yet there it was. They had to charge something for it and since it rang up at 4 cents - that's how much they had to give it to him for. So he paid the 4 cents and brought the toilet seat home.

When he told me - I could hardly believe it. I was laughing pretty hard until I saw the receipt. Then I laughed even harder. Not only did it cost just 4 cents - but he actually SAVED 3 CENTS! This was so great I just had to share the best deal of the year so far (and it's not even my Christmas left overs at 90% off)!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

My wish is that this year be better than last year for everyone.

My resolution is to love more and holler less.

I pray for more serenety.

I will try to make more happy memories and will try to worry less.

Time is short and so precious, may we all savor it more this new year!

Love to all!

Zoo Lights!

I won tickets to Zoo Lights at Hogle Zoo from the radio!

I had been listening to KOSY 106.5 during the holidays in my car and at work because they played all Christmas all the time during November and December. Well, one day they were talking about how they had a bunch of different versions of "White Christmas" and wondered how many versions there were. Immediately they received tons of calls from people telling how many they had heard, naming their favorite version, how many they had, etc. So the morning DJ decided to make a game out of it. He put together a version of the song cut from 12 different artists and put it on the radio and website to see how many their listeners could guess. As soon as I got to work I started working on it and soon my whole office was helping. Well, we only got 9 out of 12, but it was a lot of fun.

The station was so inundated with calls from people trying to guess and then telling them how much fun it was, that they decided to do it again the next week. I was listening again (it was in the morning on my way to work at 7 am) and quickly had my office helping again. The cut off time was 8:30 and this time there were 15 artist singing "Winter Wonderland". We had all but 1, so I emailed in and got the reply that I was tied for 1st. We still had time, and so we kept trying to figure out the one artist we were missing. Just as time was running out, my boss figured out that it was one of the same artists that had stumped us before. I quickly emailed again with the complete list, but I got it sent at 8:30 on the dot. We hoped that I had made it, but unfortunately someone else beat me to it and my email was received one minute late.

They mentioned my name on the radio as an "almost winner" just missing the deadline, but as the only other person to get all the artists. Then they decided to give me something anyway - two packages of 4 tickets to Zoo Lights at Hogle Zoo!

You can listen and try to guess too (if you don't look at the answers) on KOSY's Fisher & Peggy blog http://www.kosy.com/pages/mornings.html?page=2, the one titled "Another Mish Mash Holiday Song!" and two pages previous titled "Who Hasn't Sung "White Christmas?" By the way, if you go to Wikipedia and search those songs it has a list of an amazing number of artists who have recorded those songs - and their lists are not even complete!

We went to the zoo on Monday night for family night and it was really fun. Unfortunately I didn't take my camcorder, but there is a pretty good video on youtube showing what it's like - http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=69bKDXIHHO4&feature=related. My favorite part was the representation of the 12 days of Christmas in lights choreographed to the music at the bird show stadium. We all sang along (Anthony and Jeremy sang several different versions and had the crowd around us laughing). It was the perfect day to go, no snow, no wind and it wasn't even too awfully cold. We had a lot of fun.