SERIOUSLY? Six months?

I SWEAR that it was just December. Wow! That went by quickly.
(sheepish grin)

There is a really good...well, somewhat good...okay, marginally good reason for my long absence: My friend BLOGGER and I have been fighting.!! He had all these little annoying quirks that were driving me crazy! Like not showing exactly what I typed and how I typed it. And making me drag photos around very slowly to put them where I want only to move them when I asked him to post. Is it too much to ask for spaces where I want them and pictures where I want them? I thought not. I decided the best thing for our friendship was for me to ignore him for a while. We were, you could say, "on a break!"

And now I am back. Will he have changed? Chances are, NO! But perhaps my patience has increased to the point where I can deal with his annoying quirks and just appreciate the little things he does do right....like letting me talk with all of you lovelies!

Even though Blogger and I were on the outs...NEVER FEAR! I have been watching for those little packets of sunlight and noting them in my adorable-little-lime-green-polka-dotted-notebook on my bedside table.

So here are a few from the past six months (hey, just thinking about them again makes me smile! Thank you Blogger...I guess I forgive you.) :

* Electric Blankets

* 4-wheel drive in a blizzard (glad I had Dad's truck!)

* SUSHI:


*Comfy sweat pants

*Cell phone charms (for assisting me in catching the cell phone before it fell into the toilet because I forgot it was tucked in said comfy sweat pants)

*Doing baptisms at the temple with Alyx (one baptism was for a girl named Lovejoy...what a happy name!):

*Jane Fonda Workouts - loving the 90's spandex ("Keep stepping! We're still aerobic...we're halfway there though!" I think I have that one memorized.):

*Suprise! Gluten Free Cupcakes waiting on the counter when I get home....mmm!:

*Pink Polka Dotted Envelopes

*"A Party on the Ceiling" (the ceiling of Red Robin was covered in helium balloons...joy!):

*Creme Brulee

*Tulips:

*Sunshine and puffy clouds in a blue sky:

(Eagle Mountain, City Center...pretty)

*Alice's entire wardrobe in the new Alice in Wonderland movie! Glorious costumes!!!:

*Indian food, a book store and good company

*Kaytee's LOUD(!!), infectious laughter:

*Balloons and streamers and little notes stuck everywhere to suprise me on my birthday eve when I arrived home late at night. "Goodnight! We will see you tomorrow morning. Hope you had fun tonight!", "Mom's Birthday Cake - don't eat", "We love you!!", "Coke for Mom" (on the cold Coke in the fridge). There was even a note on the bananas "hmm...we may need new (& more) bananas. Maybe?". Awesome.

*A GIANT new book

*Sharing

*Perfect Pyramids of Oranges at the Grocery Store (hee hee!):

*Children happily squealing "MOMMY!!!" and jumping up and down when I pull into the circle

*A visit from one of my all time favorite people on the planet...love you Jamela!:

*Post-It-Note-Thank-You-Note-Message from Jamela on the pantry door (we left it there for weeks after she left)

*A good game of Twister

*Clothing swaps

*Dressing up like a clown!! Silly, happy, FUN! (I need to learn how to juggle...)

*All of us SINGING OUT LOUD in the car, kitchen, yard, shower...let's face it, if we aren't singing along to actual music we make up little tunes to sing about...um...pretty much everything! Our life is very near to a musical on most days.:

"I cannot find my shoooooeeess!!!" "I loooovvveee itt soooo muuuuch!" "I have to peeeeee!" Basically, any random information set to a made up tune and belted out at the top of our lungs. Tony quality performance.

*Standing around the island to eat dinner. We don't even notice it's weird until a friend is over and then we realize normal people might want to sit down to eat their food.

*Family prayer

*A really good batch of homemade Pad Thai

So there you have it...a few highlights from my long absence. More to come........eventually. (wink-wink)