PICTURE TAG!

1. Go to your my documents/my pictures
2. Go to your sixth file
3. Go to your sixth picture
4. Blog about it
5. Tag six people



this is mom and dad just as they got in the truck to pull away from my house leaving on there mission!

i tag 1. robyn, 2. lisa lyon, 3. sid, 4. aunt karen, 5. tera, 6. aunt viv

a five way give away

I found this on Shayla's blog and thought it sounded like fun---hope you all agree! I'm excited to see who the first 5 lucky ducks will be!
The first 5 to respond to this win something from me! But...you have to do this:


Repost this to your own blog and offer the same thing to your first 5 responders.
The first 5 who repost it to their own blog will get something made by me! My choice. For you!
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:


1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make
2.What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year-no guarantees on when this year, but sometime in 2009!
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. the possibilities are endless.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.


The first 5 people post this on their blog and leave a me comment telling me they did, win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! Sounds like fun right?!? So let's PLAY!

where does it all come from?!

so as many of you know Matthew and I put our house up for sale in Oct. 2007. (we want to travel the world doing scuba diving.) it took some time but we did find a buyer and they wanted to be in by Christmas. so because we would be traveling light we had a huge estate sale and sold EVERYTHING! we keep about 15 boxes of stuff like Christmas decorations, my floral supplies and some keepsakes. but other then our clothes and bed we sold it ALL. then the buyers asked to extend it until Jan. we were a bit disappointed we didn't get to spend our last Christmas in our house but things happen.(we had moved into a room at mom and dad's until everything was taken care of.) so as all of us do we put off cleaning and taking away the rest of the trash from the house until the last day. just as we were puling out of the driveway at 4pm the day of closing we got "the call" letting us know the sale had fallen thru! i told Matthew just to keep on driving because i was not ready to face our empty house yet.

we stayed away from our house for about 6 weeks. then we thought maybe if we painted some of the rooms it would help it to sell. so we moved our bed (just the mattresses as we had gotten rid of the frame) into the living room so we could paint all the rooms. then as you all know the housing market really dropped! so we took our house off the market. and here we sit until it comes back up. (in two three years?!? maybe?)

so back to my question "where does it all come from?" how come my house gets so messy? we sold almost everything. how can what we do have left take up so much space??!!

we may never know the answer to some of life's questions. =)

why not blog?!?

so i can't tell you how many times as i'm doing something "fun" i think "i should blog about this". but then when i get home it never happens!

like....

december 2nd my birthday dinner. we went out with family to the outback stake house. that would have been fun to blog about but no, i didn't like any of the pictures of me! (i even had a tiara on!)

or how about all the times i have gotten to gather with "the girls" so i could do their toenails. that might have been a good one!? but no i never remember to even take the camera! and who would want to look at our feet anyway?

then there was the time we took the truck out to "play" with it in the snow. but alas i'm not a creative enough writer to make that the lest bit fun for anyone to read.

then on dec. 22nd we all went to dinner for allison's birthday, then went tubing at grandpa & grandma's! but i already put up a video of us doing that! who wants to keep reading and seeing the same thing over and over?!?

but Christmas! now that would be fun to share right? well you would think so but as i sat down to blog about it nothing! i mean all we did was play some christmas trivia (hard to show that in a photo). we opened gifts (wish we would have thought to even get the camera out). we had breakfast over at dode's and to get there we (matt) had to shuttle everyone over from a nearby store parking lot! we (joel, dode & jacob) even had to shovel out sheri and joel's truck just so the could get to the store parking lot (does anyone even know where the camera is?!?). we played games and had a great dinner aunt viv made! (who wants to put that on hold to take any photos?)

but new year eve! AND it's matt's birthday! how could i go wrong with a blog about that?started out the holiday by going out to lunch (me and sheri & joel and viv & dave and g & g). we (matt, janice & joel) went diving then we (matt, janice, joel, sheri & seth) all watched the space needle fireworks across the water. we even had cupcakes for matt's b-day!  but you know how it goes. we got home late, slept in late, went out to lunch (matt, janice, sheri, joel, seth, robyn & her kids), came home and played on the wii. took a nap! we had a great new years eve & day!! and still no blogging was done!

so as you can see i really do think and mean to blog a lot more then i do it just never works out!!! 

so there you have it! THAT is why my blog is not all the blog it could be!

pike place market

today matt and i went to pike place market to be with his sister and her kids. Tiare (matt's niece) is in town from hawaii and this was our chance to see her before she went home. we had lots of fun looking all through the market and visiting with everyone.

while we were there tiare got the chance to be a "fish catcher" at the fish market!

Snow Day Tubing at Grandma and Grandpa's