random babbling

I haven't posted on here in forever either Les, so I figured I'd give it a go today. At the moment I can't really think of anything exciting to tell you but we'll just see where my rambling takes us . . .


(this is my dad with Christian's daughter, Ella)

My dad got called as a Bishop of a BYU ward!! He got sustained and set apart last night. He doesn't technically start until Fall (just how the BYU wards work) but he's very excited and we're all excited for him. It's a huge job, but I think he's going to be REALLY good at it. We went to his setting apart last night and guess who was there - Adam Rassmussen. His dad, Carl Rassmussen (remember him? He was and STILL IS a Band Dad) is going to be the ward clerk in my dad's bishopric. Adam didn't even acknowledge I was there. Maybe he doesn't remember me. I don't know. I was going to say hi, but he really acted like I wasn't there. So I didn't. There was a cute girl holding a cute baby that looked EXACTLY like him, so I assume it was his wife and baby, but I don't know for sure. Anyway - random huh??

Let's see . . . what else . . .



We're going to Disneyland AGAIN in about 2 and a half weeks. Morgan (my cousin) and her hubby are going on a cruise for their anniversary and they get back on a Saturday and they want to meet us in Disneyland for a day of adult Disneyland fun. They went in December with their little girls but didn't get to ride ANY of the adult thrill rides, so we're going to do all of them in one day! HAHA It should be wild! I am VERY EXCITED! While we are out there we are going to see Josh's grandparents (they live in So. Cal.) Josh is going to go golfing with his grandpa who is like 92 and still golfs a couple times a week! Can you believe that?! He's been wanting to that for a long time, so that'll be good. Should be a fun little weekend getaway.



The weekend of May 1st, is National Scrapbooking Day. I'm REALLY busy getting ready for it. Each of the administrators at ScrapMatters is sort of in charge of one of the big events/sales that we have and NSD is mine. I'm planning lots of fun stuff. Should be fun. Lots of work, but oh well! It'll be great. We have an awesome team there and they are helping me with LOTS of the planning.

Ok . . . let me think of one more tid-bit to tell you and then I'll sign off . . . hmm.



I'm reading an AWESOME book for book club right now. Les I know you are into books, so I'm sure you've heard of it. It's called "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. I'm about 2/3 through it and I'm DYING!!! It's soooo good. I NEVER want to put it down. I want to bag work and go back to reading it right now. If you need a good book to read, check it out. Shan - I bought it so you can borrow mine if you want. I went to see if I could get it at the library before I bought it and there were like 150 holds on it!!!! haha So I decided to just suck it up and buy it. I can't WAIT to see how it ends!!! When I'm done I'll probably do a full review on my Britt-ish Designs blog.

Ok - that's enough ramblings from me!!! Shanny - I think this means its your turn to post!!

Love you girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Generation Gap

Hi ladies...I haven't posted anything on here FOREVER because I don't ever feel like I have anything too exciting to say. Then I realized that I can tell you whatever I want! hehehe

So we got a new computer with some of our tax return-it was time! Our old one was going on five years & could barely handle it when I tried doing any digi scrapping. As soon as the money hit the bank it was good bye old & hello new! The best part is that the "old" computer still runs great for the girls to play all the free online kids games!! I feel a little spoiled though because both computers are set up right next to each other & it looks like we are just greedy people who think they need two computers. Anyway...I was super excited to put my PS4 software on the new computer and start cranking out pages. I popped the disk in, started the download & right at the end got a little message that said something about the install having errors that might affect the performance of the program. I tried to uninstall & reinstall it but had the same problem. I figured I'd try to open it up and see what happened.

SUCCESS! It worked fine and I was able to do 2 pages. There were a couple of things that it wouldn't let me do & I figured that was the errors it had warned of. Then, one day I was doing a speed scrap & decided to do an extraction on a couple of pictures. It took me a while & I finally had everything done & ready to save when the program froze, shutdown, and erased all my work!! I. was. so. pissed. I restarted everything and tried one more time, but my poor old photo shop and my new computer were just having too much of a generation gap to see eye to eye on things.

A few days later I hopped on Adobe's website and signed up for my free trial version of PS8. WOW-it is amazing at how similar it seems, but how different it works. I am having such a hard time learning to work my way around & I have attempted 3 speed scraps & been so frustrated with all of them that I just give up! I was able to re-do the page I had attempted with my old version (the one with photo exctractions), and was really happy with my result. However, it took me twice as long to scrap it than it normally would have. Not knowing how to navigate around makes it so hard to want to scrap & even harder to keep the creative juices flowing! And, to top things off my free trial ended today and I still feel like the new version is so confusing. I started looking around and pricing it out figuring it will just take time and practice to get more comfortable with it and the cheapest I could find is at Costco and it still costs $80.00!!! I am so bummed! I guess I'll have to start saving my pennies. What do you guys scrap with?

LOL!

While I was cleaning up Ethan's toys today the button on my pants popped off! I guess it's time to move into the maternity pants. Or better yet I could try out these Bellyups.

So frustrated!

Being a mom can be so frustrating! Ethan will not eat for me and it's driving me crazy! For about a week now the only meal I can get him to eat is breakfast and he only wants eggs. Most of the time it's hard boiled eggs. When he does get hungry he digs in the pantry and finds some fruit snack or chips or some other kind of non-healthy treat. I soon realized what he was doing so now I'm the big bad mom and will not let him have any kind of treat with out eating his lunch or dinner first. Sad to say this isn't really working. He just doesn't eat. What should I do? He does have a cold and the doctor said that loss of appetite is normal but his loss of appetite is for good food. He'll eat any kind of treat he can get his hands on.

Time Change

Is anyone else totally thrown off by the time change? On Sunday Jared and I were rushing to get ready and Jared left about 5min. before I did. Right as I'm about to go out the door my phone rings. I thought who on earth is calling me at 9:00 am on a Sunday. I look at my phone and it's Jared. I answer and he tells me that it's 10:00 am and I told him no it's not it's only 9:00am. He then say NO it's 10:00am and sacrament is just about over. It must be daylights savings and we slept in. I had no idea the time was changing this week. I always thought it was during conference. So now I'm all messed up and Ethan's sleeping schedule is messed up too. Hopefully soon we'll figure this out soon.

Flashback Friday

I don't have any pictures for this flashback BUT do you remember cruising down State Street in Danica's red car with a Mayberries cup tapped to the top? Do you remember how many people would try to tell us that we had a cup on top of the car? Do you remember one dude getting out of his car at a red light, walking over to Danica's car and then tried to pick up the cup? Only to realize that its was tapped down. And if I remember correctly I think at one point we tapped a pizza box down.

Man did we know how to have a good time or what!

FHE

So this year Jared and I have made a goal to have FHE each week. I'm really struggling coming up with lessons for a 2 year old. I know that most of the time Ethan won't listen but I'm trying to find lessons that might keep his attention...even if it's for 2 minutes. So what do you do to teach your little ones?