Cruise

Damian's siblings/spouses are going on a cruise together mid-May. . .I am re-committing to workout ALL THE TIME, because goodness knows, I don't want to change my eating habits. . .but this FRIDAY I am going running, I have to up my cardio workouts to loose this weight. Jared is planning to wear his g-string bikini bottom, and Tiffany will be 5 mos. pregnant, so I might actually look alright!! My cousin has a little scale ticker on her blog that shows her weight loss goal and how much she's lost. . .if I loose ANYTHING, I'll put one of those on the blog.

Keepin' Up with JONES-IE!!

I try not to keep up with the Jones's, but find that I must. . .
My "JONES-IE" is Kari, a dear friend from college, and here are my reasons:

1. She has a hilareous blog that I check everyday http://www.yourprettytoo.blogspot.com/ . . . she even has cool music on it from WICKED. I still can't figure out how to upload pictures, but in her honor, the first picture I upload will be of her and I. She is the REASON I started blogging.

2. She just ran her second 1/2 marathon, and looks great in a swimsuit (after 4 kids). I'm going on a cruise in May and don't want to scare all my in-laws (more on this topic later)

3. She and I used to tease our cheesy friend, Damian Idiart, before he left on his mission, about how romantically, goofy he was. . . and then, one night, Kari KISSED him. . . and obviously, I kept up with JONES-IE on this one pretty well. I kiss him ALL THE TIME!!

So . . . I am going to do better with my blog, I am going to start running and I am going to go wake up Damian and kiss him s'more . . .

Out to Lunch

Today I had the privilege of taking a sweet girl from the Spanish Branch to lunch. It was great to just spend some time listening and getting to know her better. She had completed a Personal Progress challenge I gave the girls in her Branch, and that was her reward. . .lunch with moi! I know, I'm like a celebrity!!! OK, who am I trying to kid, it's about the free food. . .I know.

ELDER Uncle

My poor missionary brother, we haven't written since before Christmas. We talked to him on Christmas Day and promised him we'd start. . .Today we finally wrote, he'll get a LOAD of letters in a few weeks. . . I printed each kid a sheet with a few pictures of themselves and they each wrote him, stapled it shut, and stamped them. . . that's the new way to do the POUCH, no envelopes. Hopefully I'll do better about writing, when my two sons go on missions!

"Hey, where's President Hinckley?"

Today we took the kids to Pres. Hinckley's funeral broadcast. We all watched solemly, as the casket was wheeled in, and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles filed in behind Pres. Hinckley's family. My baby, Benjamin (3) was studying the men intently and noticed something wrong. He piped in, "Hey, where's President Hinckley?" It took the whole rest of the funeral to explain death and the concept of Heaven to his little three year old mind. My oldest, Emma (10) sat reverently, listening the whole time and I was very proud of how grown up she has become.