My latest mission

I am on a mission to document the history of my wedding dress.  Recently, I received my dress after it had been stored at my parent's house. So now, it's in my possession and it seems a shame to box it up and put it away to later be discovered.  You see, my dress has a unique history.  It was purchased many years ago by my aunt from ZCMI. Later, another aunt, and then my mother all wore the dress. Not to mention that half of Banida wore the dress. Finally myself and a few of my cousins also wore the dress. I am the last to have worn it.

So, to honor it's memory I am putting together a book, with everyone's love story and their wedding picture.  I also plan on taking some up close and personal pictures of the detail work of the dress.  I would love to receive any ideas, but right now I'm pretty excited about the project.  It should be fun and I hope to have them available to sell at the next reunion this summer.  Wish me luck!

It's time

It's been 3 years and many huge obstacles since my feelings were hurt deeply. And now it's time. Time to forgive, time to make nice, and time to move on.  I know that I will see the person in question this weekend and I would not be telling the truth if I said I wasn't scared.  I have been very cool to her and I have worried about what I would say to her.  I forgive her, so I can move past this. I have no doubt that she will act coolly to me, probably even ignore me. I plan to talk to her and make nice. I don't want to be buddies again. I don't even want to be Facebook friends. I just want to let it go. Lord help me keep it together and move forward.

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She's Back!

I know, I know. You probably thought I dropped off the face of the earth. I mean, my last post was clear back in April. I can't believe that. Well the truth is I just haven't had time, then I got lazy, then I forgot about the blog. But I'm here now and I'm back, better than ever. Let me give you a recap of what you've missed.

• I finished my first year at Marsh Valley, and they actually wanted me back!
• Over the summer we went to the Miles Family Reunion at Cherry Hill during some really rainy weather.
• We also toured Temple Square with the kids, which they loved, and Hogle Zoo, and during one of the really rainy days, we went to the Children's museum in Ogden. Great place!
• I stripped wallpaper off the walls most of the summer, then I textured, and then I painted. I'm actually still not done. I have to do the stairwell and the little hallway by the bedrooms. But I love what I've done so far. I got adventurous and painted a red wall in the kitchen and the brick around the fireplace the same red.
• We planted a garden and harvested many things, but especially 13 pumpkins from our 2 plants. Crazy!
• I went to the IDLA Conference in Boise.
• I taught a summer IDLA class, which was crazy with all the software updates.
• I took pictures of Lindsay and her family, just before they got married.
• I entered some photography in the EISF and actually won! $29 to be exact. I got a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable Mention!
• I became president of IBEA and just recently finished putting on a teacher conference here in Bosie, and I'm sure glad that's over.
• Let's see, Ashlyn turned 5 in July and Kenny turned 8 in September. Just this Saturday he was baptized. We are so proud of him.

I feel bad because any one of these bullets could have been a fantastic post with pictures, but because I am lazy and I have a headache, this is all you'll get. but I can promise you that I will be better in the future with lots of pictures.