6.19.2009
Sorry Nicole, but you asked for it!
This is what remains un-eaten as of 3:52 p.m., Mountain Standard Time, Friday, June 19th. The size of the pile changes every 1-2 minutes. Can I just say.....the Star Bar IS. THE. BOMB! Actually everything you see is the BOMB (except maybe the Turkish Delight - that one is a little questionable). Once you sink your teeth into English/European chocolate you will forever shun the thought of a nasty Hershey's Kiss. Ew.
6.17.2009
6.09.2009
time
Time is such a perplexing notion. The future always seems so far away but before we can even realize it, the future is here. But only briefly, for in a blink of an eye the future quickly becomes the past.
18 years ago we welcomed our second daughter into our family. I can't say it seems like it happened yesterday because it really does seem like it was a long time ago. But back then, to think of her graduating from high school and going away to college, well, it seemed something that was just so far in the future. That time would surely never arrive.
Yesterday, as I sat next to Raegan on the sofa of a sister I visit teach, I looked over at her and with amazement could not believe that my own daughter, my baby girl, The Nerf Baby as she was so affectionately called, is now my visiting teaching partner. It seemed surreal. She looked different to me - I saw a woman - a woman who was just starting on the journey of the rest of her life. A journey that will be quite different than the one that she has known up until now. One that I hope will be everything she has hope for.
*sniffle, sniffle*
Okay, on to the next subject....I have a new blog - one that I set up so that I would have some place to stick some of the millions of photos I take! I've posted some more of Raegan's Senior pics. You can check it out if you are ever really, really bored.
(You can also click the link at the top right with the pic of the Sacred Grove.)
6.08.2009
6.04.2009
6.02.2009
5.21.2009
happy birthday, four years apart
Fourteen years ago we were living in Brampton, England. I was 9 months pregnant with Haylie who was due on May 23rd. It was the 20th and I was visiting my doctor for my weekly check-up. I strictly told him that under no circumstances was I to have this baby two days early on the 21st. That was Raegan's birthday and I did not want two of my children to have to share the same birthday. He laughed and said that there was no chance this baby was coming early as my body was definitely not ready to give her up yet. I went home and later that night, as I was watching ER, I started into labor. I thought, "Okay, this had better be a quick labor so that she is born before midnight!" Needless to say, my labor was much longer than I had ordered it to be, and low and behold Haylie was born at 2:30 p.m. on May 21, 1995 - Raegan's 4th birthday.
As the years have past I don't know why I was so worried about them sharing a birthday. It has worked out just fine. In fact, it was a bonus for me the first several years as I only had to throw ONE birthday party for the two of them. Haylie was too young to know the difference!
As they've gotten older, it has ended up being a wonderful thing for these two sisters to share.
I remember when my girls were little, people would say to me, "Enjoy it now because the time goes by so fast and before you know it they'll be moving out." I didn't really believe it, that time could go that fast. It just seemed so far away to me!
Raegan is now 18, officially an adult. She will be moving out and going to BYU in the fall. So it's true, before I knew it she was "all grown up and moving out." We will miss Raegan terribly (and not just for her impeccable cleaning abilities!).
Haylie is now 14. She is such a sweetheart - I just want to bottle her up and keep her this way forever! She is a friend to all and the most tolerant and forgiving person I know.
Raegan is now 18, officially an adult. She will be moving out and going to BYU in the fall. So it's true, before I knew it she was "all grown up and moving out." We will miss Raegan terribly (and not just for her impeccable cleaning abilities!).
Haylie is now 14. She is such a sweetheart - I just want to bottle her up and keep her this way forever! She is a friend to all and the most tolerant and forgiving person I know.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our beautiful daughters!
5.05.2009
now that's what I call TIRED!
Apparently, Adam dropped the remote while watching t.v. and on his way down out of the chair to retrieve it, he fell asleep. He stayed like this for about 30 minutes until we could stop laughing long enough to pick him up and put him in bed.
Poor little guy - his socks don't even match (ah yes, last week was a baaaad laundry week).
4.25.2009
brooke's adventure begins
Yesterday morning Brooke left to spend the next 2 months in Jolly 'ol England. She is there for the Study Abroad program through BYU. I believe she only has two classes a week, and the rest of the time the students are taken on field trips all over England and Scotland (Wales too, I think). She will also spend a week in Ireland.
We lived in England for 3 years when Brooke was little. We were there from the time she was 3 until she was 6 1/2. She went to British school and developed the most perfect British accent you have ever heard! All the teachers and parents at her school would always be shocked to learn that she was American. They would hear me talk with my 'rough and lazy' American accent, then hear her talk and the look of confusion on their faces was always a great sight to see! Too bad she lost it about 2 days after we moved back to the States! She has been looking forward to this Study Abroad for months and was SO excited to go back to England. It's amazing the things she remembers from when we lived there.
When I woke up this morning I was anxious to get to my email to see if she had emailed me yet. Luckily she had, and the title of her email was, "I'M STAYING HERE FOREVER!" :o) She had arrived safely, had just unpacked her bags, and was looking out the window of her "flat" in London. She even took a picture out her window so that we could see the rather sad view she will be forced to look at every day. We are weeping for you, Brooke, really hard.
We lived in England for 3 years when Brooke was little. We were there from the time she was 3 until she was 6 1/2. She went to British school and developed the most perfect British accent you have ever heard! All the teachers and parents at her school would always be shocked to learn that she was American. They would hear me talk with my 'rough and lazy' American accent, then hear her talk and the look of confusion on their faces was always a great sight to see! Too bad she lost it about 2 days after we moved back to the States! She has been looking forward to this Study Abroad for months and was SO excited to go back to England. It's amazing the things she remembers from when we lived there.
When I woke up this morning I was anxious to get to my email to see if she had emailed me yet. Luckily she had, and the title of her email was, "I'M STAYING HERE FOREVER!" :o) She had arrived safely, had just unpacked her bags, and was looking out the window of her "flat" in London. She even took a picture out her window so that we could see the rather sad view she will be forced to look at every day. We are weeping for you, Brooke, really hard.
Psssht *insert eye-roll*.
Here is the darling view out her window:
Here is the darling view out her window:
I thought I'd also post a few pictures of Brooke from when we lived in England.....
Brooke on her bike in front of our tiny house which was in Ramsay, England. We lived here for a year before moving to a bigger house (one that actually had a closet!) in the village of Brampton.
On "Brooke Avenue" in Chester, England.
In front of her school, Brampton Infant School . The grade schools are called Infant Schools rather than Elementary Schools. And instead of calling the grades 1st grade, 2nd grade, etc., they are called "Year 1", "Year 2" ..... Children start school when they are 4-years-old. They go to "Reception" which is Kindergarten. (Brooke really IS wearing shorts under this shirt although it appears that she isn't!)
Raegan and Brooke standing by the sign of our cute little village of Brampton.
....and eating a snack at the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey in Yorkshire.
Me, Brooke, and Raegan at Stonehenge.
Brooke has set up a blog to document her England adventures:
(Just a little FYI -if you read her first post you may need some explanation...a "fag" in England is a cigarette. Just thought I should make that clear.)
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