What to say

There has been so much going on around here. But when you ask me what's going on I am hard pressed to really say. Again this week I have been brought to a realization that life goes by way too fast, and that it can all change in the blink of an eye. My aunt passed away last week and we laid her to rest on Friday. She suffered from cancer and in the end lost her battle. During her funeral, something happened to my Dad. My poor cousin had to keep talking while several people in the audience were rushing out and in. We ended up with an ambulance and a long day in the hospital. Since I am writing this, I could leave out the fact that once I left the chapel, I had a moment of hyperventilation and tears where I wasn't good for anything. I completely fell apart. My mother, cool as a cucumber had to tell me to get a grip. I cannot share what it was too look at my dad, and think that he was actually going to die. I was already at a funeral, and I couldn't imagine having to do another. In a word it was horrifying. In the end he is ok, and really there wasn't much to worry about, that they can find. Life is short. To celebrate the life I have lived I want to share some photos. We finally have everything loaded onto our new computer. Enjoy a little look back into the past.

Juliana and Kathryn 6 months

Kathryn

Juliana

Divas

Leaving Nashville

Still In Love

Growing Up

Another Week

Well here we are at the end of another week. Still no new computer, and thus no pictures. Steve has been gone since Wednesday, he's in Philadelphia for a conference. The girls and I have been keeping busy to pass the time. I think this has probably been the easiest time for me that Steven has been gone. The highlight of our time has been attending the ballet of Cinderella at BYU with some friends. We went Thursday night and had a blast. It didn't start until 7:30 pm so we even had time to get ice cream before the show. The girls really loved it, and had no problems paying attention for two hours. It was my first time to see a live ballet and I thoroughly enjoyed it. One funny thing that Kathryn said, we were about 1 hr and 20 min. in and she asked, "Why aren't they talking?" I thought it was funny that it took her that long to ask. It was really fun to see a different version of Cinderella than the Disney one. Juliana did ask if there was going to be mice. :) It was a great evening.

A BIG sigh of relief.

This post was supposed to happen yesterday, but it didn't. The big sigh was heard by me in the morning when I woke. January was over. I felt like doing a little dance, but I had to be at the dentist at 8:00 am so there was no time for dancing. I had a good feeling in my bones, the day was slated to be very busy, but I knew things were going to roll smoothly. At the dentist, I got another big sigh, my teeth passed inspection and no work is needed at this time!!! So nice. Many of you may be used to hearing this, but after several years with no insurance, it took a while to get everything tip top in the old mouth again. The rest of the day sailed along. I got the grocery shopping done, things dropped off at DI and in the end even made a successful trip to the library with the girls after school. February is so much better than January. Am I the only one who feels this way????

While you are reading, and probably wondering, where are the pictures??? Well our computer, we call it "Old Faithful" has not died yet. But it is starting. We got a camera from Santa, isn't he a nice guy? It takes pictures that are 10 megapixles larger than our last camera did. On a side note, we actually paid less for the new camera than we did for our old one. So over Christmas we enjoyed having enough space on the memory card to actually take as many pictures as we wanted without running out of space. So back to Old Faithful, it has met it's match with the 200+ pictures that are now on the camera. It will not upload them. There a lot of great ones I could share, but alas they are stuck on the camera. I would do something like e-mail them all to myself a few at a time, except that we just finally ordered a new computer. So don't worry, you just need to wait a few more weeks until pictures return to the blog. Good night, and good luck.