I am totally supposed to be cleaning up my office. (can anyone find my desk?????) But here I am having such a wonderful time reading everyone's blog. (Ryan, it's time for a new post....) It is so fun to catch up on what everyone is doing on a day-to-day basis. (Brandon, let us know what you are actually doing.....)

I was so successful in getting that last photo, that I think I will try it again. I may even get brave enough to try taking some out of my camera and putting them onto my computer, WITHOUT help from Kevin. (Kevin and Jen, it's time to make a blog.....) Thanks, Sarah and Mindy and Melissa for your fun blogs. It always brightens my day to see them. Wendy, it's so nice to keep up with your family. (Hello, Mandi, where are you????)

Ok, now it is really time to try to find my desk (and office room floor...).

Ok, here's the tag item. Fourth folder, fourth picture. (If I can get the picture to post.... It usually goes into a weird area.) Ok, I cheated, I went to my oldest picture photo and picked the best picture of me. I am the one in the middle.

Yippee For Me!

Ok, so yesterday I was going to drive to Provo to go to a BIG Scrapbook Warehouse Sale and then hit all my favorite scrapbook places down south, and I DIDN'T. I realized that I really had no money or place to put one more thing and it would have cost a ton in gas. So, I am proud of me that I didn't go.

And tonight I didn't go to the "Women's Night Out" places that I usually go. I stayed home and scrapbooked all of the past year's wedding announcements. (Yes, I keep them all....) And I scrapbooked our extended family's pictures for the past year (including a really cute little note from Kayla Horton).

I know this doesn't sound like a very BIG accomplishment, but when you are a shopoholic, it was a GIANT step in the right direction. (I can't tell you how many times I have bought a stamp or a stamp set that I already have and then had to return it...). I'm not so much of a shopaholic as a bargain hunter and to let a 40% off coupon go unused is really a hard thing for me to do.
(Just see my basement....)

So wish me well in my new endeavor to cut down on my addiction to scrapbook shopping. My kids will undoubtedly appreciate this when I die.

Things That Really Bug Me

I get so frustrated when I am driving the speed limit on the freeway and people are passing me by right and left and giving me dirty looks. Yesterday, a girl even gave me a dirty finger..... So why don't the police pull them over? If we're going to have limits, why aren't they enforced?????

I also think the new bridges on I-215 have such beautiful artwork. But WHO can enjoy it??? You can't see it at 65 mph and there is no place to pull over and look at it, or anywhere off the freeway to view it. I kinda think it was a waste of our taxpayer money. (or federal money--whoever pays for these kind of things.) I wish it (the art work) was on a downtown park or somewhere else where we could really check it out and enjoy it or at least SEE it. ( I feel the same way about the Olympic Artwork under the bridges on I-15.)

So, what bugs you????

Catch Up Time

I love reading everyone else's blogs, but never seem to have time to write on mine. So, here is a little catch-up information.

We had fun with our Japanese girl, Kimi. She went with us and our entire family to Zion Ponderosa Camp. I think she was a little overwhelmed with all of the people and children, but she seemed to fit in well. She went with her professor and the other 5 girls from Japan on a 3-day trip. While she was gone, I did the fastest ever scrapbook for her. It had about 30 pages and turned out quite well for as fast as I had to work on it.

I was also teaching at the U of U for that week. (I teach english to 14-year-old boys from Japan and then we go on field trips in the afternoon.) This was my 3rd year teaching. I had the highest ability group and the best classroom, so it went very well.

I also spent 2 wonderful days at the Scrapbook Expo here in Salt Lake. (I also spent way too much money.....) I wasn't going to go this year, but it just kept calling my name. It is my favorite thing to do. Rows and rows of scrapbooking stuff--most of it at amazingly low prices.

My grand daughter, Jasmine, had surgery to put a rod into her back to help with her scoliosis. I tended little sister Nyah for 2 days. I took her shopping. You can never start too young.....

I have spent the rest of September trying to undo all of the piles that have accumulated through-out my house (mostly scrapbooking piles). Mike trades product with a house-cleaning company and lucky me gets my house cleaned about twice a month. The best thing about it is that it makes us clean up for the housecleaners to be able to do their thing. I'm never quite sure what to do with myself when they come. I sort of hole up in my office and check out my emails or read the paper or try to find my desk...

And I can't believe that it is already October. Wow! Where did that summer go???