Star Struck!

Ok, so maybe you know maybe you don't but a lot of famous people fly on Southwest. I think if they are flying on the studio's money they fly someone with a first class section but if they are flying on their own dime they want to save a few bucks just like everyone else. Plus we have good frequency and are on time mostly so it makes sense. I've had a lot of celebrities on my flights, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Paula Abdul, Smokey Robinson,David Spade,Joe Nichols,Courtney Gaines, these are just off the top of my head. I had a list going for awhile but not sure where it went. Anyway, most of the time I say hello and smile and go about my business. I mean they're just regular folks who do an irregular job and get paid a ridiculous amount of money for doing it. Whatever!!
Well today I made an exception to my rule. I am not a die hard, gotta watch every game kinda football fan. Heck I can't even tell ya who plays for what team any more. But there was a time... I grew up in AZ with no team and so when I moved to the Bay Area back in 1988 I watched the 49ers and got to know that team and Joe Montana and Jerry Rice! Wow talk about some talented guys! I brought my love for the Niner's with me when I moved back to AZ and years later met and married a guy from San Francisco who loved them as well.
Which brings me to today and the reason I broke my so called rule and asked the man if he'd mind having his picture taken with me. He was kind and gracious, not only to me but others on the flight who recognized him and asked for a picture or autograph as well. Plus he can move on the dance floor as well as the football field, who knew??


Me and Jerry Rice

The Hills Are Alive...

Last weekend "The Sound of Music" was on t.v. and even though we have it on DVD and can watch it anytime Katelyn's heart was broken since it was not over before bedtime came along. I had to promise we could watch it the very next day and so off to bed she went. Well, little miss "never forgets a thing"(gotta be careful with that!) was up way too early, ready to sit down to some serious t.v. watching. From the beginning. Twice. I absolutely love this movie, and like her will sit and watch it on tv every time, even though we own it and have seen it a million times. It's a long movie though for such a wee one to sit all the way through. Twice.
So that brings me to today, as I'm mopping away I hear her in the other room playing with her dolls..."I am 16 going on 17 la la la as a rose, mumble mumble mmmmmm those!" LOL!!!! over and over never getting any closer to the real words and not even caring! By the way, so not ready for 16 much less 17! aye yay yay =)

Reset Your Countdowns!

P.S. turn off music at bottom before playing

'Twilight' Teaser Trailer No.2 @ Yahoo! Video

Oh My Gosh! Soooo Excited! As if Breaking Dawn wasn't great enough(read it in 27 hours) I just found out that the studio pulled the release date on the new Harry Potter movie that was coming out at Thanksgiving, and will release it next summer instead. I love Harry don't get me wrong, that would be sad news. But the great, most exciting part of that is the theaters will have open slots with no movie to show. Unless..... That's right! Twilight's new release date is

November 21, 2008!!!!!!!!!!

3 whole weeks earlier than originally scheduled =)

So reset your countdown clocks and let the waiting begin

My pictures

I am so excited! It's been a little while since we went to Utah to get our pics done and it was so worth the wait cause they are awesome. I was so anti Sears, kiddie kandids,etc... no offense if you use them. I have before too, but it's so random on whether they turn out cute or with any creativity. This time I wanted something way different. Skye Johansen is her name and she rocks! Thanks to Chira for turning me on to her. She has more pics of my cuties at http://skyejohansen.com/blog. Go check em out!

Gonna need some braces!

Brody's teeth have sprung up overnight! Oh no wait, just our fist bite of cottage cheese silly Mommy!

It's official!

We have a kindergartener in the house!! Katelyn started school on Thursday. My little girl is growing up and I have such mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I have great memories of kindergarten myself and I know she is going to really enjoy the interaction with kids her age and she needs the challenges she'll be given. The thought of her out of my control for 4+ hours a day kinda scares me though. And I just want the other kids to be nice, cuz we know they can not be and she hopefully isn't one of those ones. The other hand is way excited to have 4+ hours to do what I want to do and only one child to have to do it with! I'm not even sure what to do with that time, I just know the possibilities are exciting. Nap? time with Dave? shopping without someone asking for everything they see? who knows... So the other bit of drama with the school thing is she has a "boy teacher" and she's not too sure about that. The first day when she got home I asked her how she liked school and her response was " I don't like it at all, it's boring!" and "all the other kids had fun but it's just boring". I hope that was only because they couldn't play on the playground because of the heat advisory, poor Mr. M he's got his work cut out for him! He said she did much better on Friday so maybe there is hope . I'm crossing my fingers!!!!!!

Another quick trip

Monday I came back into town from working and had Dave meet me with the kids so we could catch a quick flight up to Salt Lake before I passed out- I was scheduled to be at work before 5am every morning which I can't function well at that hour. We made the flight fine and dandy, kids were great. Rental car whole other story... 1 1/2 hours and 3 cars later we were off to my family's place in Salem. We went up to have some family pictures taken hopefully I'll have some to post in about another week. The kiddos were much more aggreable than I expected so I'm hoping Skye got some good shots

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We also went up to my cousin's in-laws property in the mountains and went 4 wheelin' for the afternoon. It rained on and off thruout the day, we had planned on swimming in the pond but it wasn't really warm enough, that did not stop my cousin Todd from jumping in! Katelyn tried too but decided it was much too chilly for her =0 (that's the pond way down there in 2nd pic)

We picked up some fireworks at the grocery store, must've been left over from the 4th. If you know Katelyn at all, you know she was in hog heaven. She lives for the 4th of July and the entire month of October too since Schnepf Farms has fireworks for the pumpkin and chili party every thurs-sun evening. Her birthday being October 30th she always assumes the fireworks are for HER since after her birthday they stop. I know crazy, huh?

The last day we ventured over to Park City for a drive and they have some summer activities on the mountain which were alot of fun. Katelyn was too little/light for alot of the things like the bungee trampoline or the zip line but she did go on the arctic slide. You take the ski lift up and then bobsled down. Too bad it was like 96 degrees out!

We were seriously baking at that altitude so we went and had some Gelato to cool down and then raced off to the airport to head home.

Short but sweet trip and as always a lot of fun.