So.... it's been awhile since I have been able to post. Apparently, my computer at work things blogs are not able to be viewed, and since we don't have the Internet at home, I can't use my lunch hours anymore to post or read people's blogs.... so alas, I'm a slacker. I just tried to play catch up on everyone, and I MISS YOU! I miss all your cute stories and fun pictures, and hearing about all the events in your life from around the country. I promise to be better... I'll try to schedule a "weekly" blog visit time to the library.
Until then, know I'm missing you and posting my own blogs as well :)
2/20/08
2/4/08
The Piano is Here!
Saturday morning at 9am, our new black upright Kawai (not sure if right spelling) piano arrived, with thanks to Ryan and I saving up, my grandma from heaven and my parents helping us with the financing :) bless their souls. The good news is that it only took them 10 minutes to get it inside our house, which is a miracle for our house.
Side view
Front view, minus the bench :)
Side view with bench
Ryan had to do a little rearranging of our living room furniture to make sure everything fit. I definitely think it looks more cozy.
My first "playing" of the piano. I am so excited to have it in our house! And even though over the weekend, I wasn't able to play as much as I wanted to, that will be CHANGING!
Side view
Front view, minus the bench :)
Side view with bench
Ryan had to do a little rearranging of our living room furniture to make sure everything fit. I definitely think it looks more cozy.
My first "playing" of the piano. I am so excited to have it in our house! And even though over the weekend, I wasn't able to play as much as I wanted to, that will be CHANGING! 1/30/08
Lowering my Expectations
This is kind of a random post, but I just wanted to see if anyone else got disappointed due to "high expectations" of something...
Recent example:
Ryan and I recently bought a piano. I can't even TELL you how pumped or how long I have dreamed of playing a piano in my own home... but have never had the space, and the money, etc. Due to some special financing from my grandma from the other side (heaven), and my mom and dad (executive financiers) and Ryan and I saving, we recently bought our first piano. (I tried out the $90,000 grand piano, but decided it was just a little out of our price range :) until we make millions). Anyways, I digress...so, I was so excited because when I bought it on Monday night, I was totally thinking I wouldn't get it delivered for awhile....alas, no! The sales guy told me he should be able to deliver it tonight, Wednesday, from 5-6pm. I was SO excited (thus the high expectations fall into play) to be able to go home and play to my heart's total content. Ryan even got the furniture all moved around so there was space to have the piano.
Sadly enough, in between my all day long meeting, I got voicemails from the piano delivery people that apparently, due to not having enough pianos to deliver, overbooking times, they couldn't deliver it after work today, Wednesday, only during the afternoon. And ironically enough, this was the one day I could NOT break away from work all day long, due to my all day meetings.... so instead of being able to deliver it on Thursday and Friday, when I could break away any time, they can't deliver it until Saturday mid-day. Now, I wish I would have just had my heart set on the original delivery time, sometime within the next couple of weeks, instead of 2 days from buying it.
And I know. There are SO many other people suffering so many problems, that the delivery of a piano is about the lamest excuse to be sad... but I am a bit sad today. Mostly I have reconfirmed, I just need to have LOW expectations of things and then I am always happily surprised.
Okay, well, someday, we may have pictures of our piano on here, but not sure when :)
Recent example:
Ryan and I recently bought a piano. I can't even TELL you how pumped or how long I have dreamed of playing a piano in my own home... but have never had the space, and the money, etc. Due to some special financing from my grandma from the other side (heaven), and my mom and dad (executive financiers) and Ryan and I saving, we recently bought our first piano. (I tried out the $90,000 grand piano, but decided it was just a little out of our price range :) until we make millions). Anyways, I digress...so, I was so excited because when I bought it on Monday night, I was totally thinking I wouldn't get it delivered for awhile....alas, no! The sales guy told me he should be able to deliver it tonight, Wednesday, from 5-6pm. I was SO excited (thus the high expectations fall into play) to be able to go home and play to my heart's total content. Ryan even got the furniture all moved around so there was space to have the piano.
Sadly enough, in between my all day long meeting, I got voicemails from the piano delivery people that apparently, due to not having enough pianos to deliver, overbooking times, they couldn't deliver it after work today, Wednesday, only during the afternoon. And ironically enough, this was the one day I could NOT break away from work all day long, due to my all day meetings.... so instead of being able to deliver it on Thursday and Friday, when I could break away any time, they can't deliver it until Saturday mid-day. Now, I wish I would have just had my heart set on the original delivery time, sometime within the next couple of weeks, instead of 2 days from buying it.
And I know. There are SO many other people suffering so many problems, that the delivery of a piano is about the lamest excuse to be sad... but I am a bit sad today. Mostly I have reconfirmed, I just need to have LOW expectations of things and then I am always happily surprised.
Okay, well, someday, we may have pictures of our piano on here, but not sure when :)
1/21/08
Readers Choice
I haven't posted anything and I have been lazy. I have nothing to post with pictures, but for anyone living in Salt Lake County, I want to put a plug in for the Salt Lake County library Readers Choice books. Some of you may know I read a lot of books (like a lot!) and so I'm always up for new books or looking for new things to read. The best thing I have come across in the last few years is my local Park Library (but I know they do it county-library wide) is Readers Choice books. This is what the brochure says about it...
"Twice a year the Salt Lake County Library staff selects a group of recently published books that we enjoyed reading and that we think you'll like reading too. These books are on display at each Salt Lake County Library. After reading any of the books from our list of current nominees, you can let us know what you think of them by voting"
So, there are about 28 books (they do different ones twice a year) and they range from biography to thriller to fantasy to documentary, to just any book you could think of. The thing I love most is most of them are less than 400 pages and true librarians have already read them and recommended them. And they are at very front of the library so no searching!
The funnest thing is voting for the books you like, love, or dislike. They post the results so you can see how your fellow readers like the same books. And last summer, I won the $15 gift card to Barnes and Noble!
So far this go around, I have only read 3 of the 28 books, but hopefully I can read them all.
http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/booklists/readers_choice.pdf
There's the link if you are interested, so even if you don't live in SLC, you can still read some interesting books you never would have thought of!
"Twice a year the Salt Lake County Library staff selects a group of recently published books that we enjoyed reading and that we think you'll like reading too. These books are on display at each Salt Lake County Library. After reading any of the books from our list of current nominees, you can let us know what you think of them by voting"
So, there are about 28 books (they do different ones twice a year) and they range from biography to thriller to fantasy to documentary, to just any book you could think of. The thing I love most is most of them are less than 400 pages and true librarians have already read them and recommended them. And they are at very front of the library so no searching!
The funnest thing is voting for the books you like, love, or dislike. They post the results so you can see how your fellow readers like the same books. And last summer, I won the $15 gift card to Barnes and Noble!
So far this go around, I have only read 3 of the 28 books, but hopefully I can read them all.
http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/booklists/readers_choice.pdf
There's the link if you are interested, so even if you don't live in SLC, you can still read some interesting books you never would have thought of!
1/7/08
Christmas-in January
So, it has only taken me a couple of weeks to post pictures from Christmas, and of course, I didn't really take any of Ryan and I.This picture was TOO funny. Ava and Sadee and their padres came to visit us for Sunday dinner on their way back from visiting Dave's family, this was Ava and her daddy asleep on the couch. I just thought, like father like daughter. They even have their arms crossed the same way!
Sadee had to show me her princess doll that was the same size as her.
Christmas morning was too funny. Ava LOVED these gold shoes she got. Once she put them on, no taking them off of her!
Sadee and her stocking.
Ava also took off her gold shoes for a second to put on her Mickey Mouse slippers and smile :)
I loved Sadee's hair in all these mini pigtails one day after Christmas. And Ava got this cute outfit from Grandpa...she looked so cute.
The best part of the few days we were in Idaho was Ava trying to be Mary. You should have seen her. She stuck the arm cover of the armchair over her head and carried around baby Jesus...and said all the time "Baby Jesus is sleeping. Be quiet!"
This is Sadee being Mary as well, minus the headdress.
This is Sadee being Mary as well, minus the headdress.
Both of the Mary's fighting over baby Jesus.
And of course, when we got home, I realized we didn't take any pictures of Ryan and I. At least we got a picture of our Christmas tree before we left. Yeah for Christmas!
1/3/08
Deep Freeze
Okay, so I haven't posted anything for awhile, and still need to post Christmas stuff, but I had a few extra seconds today to change the colors of the blog...to depressing "deep freeze" colors. That is what the weather is like in Utah right now. I always tend to call January the deep freeze month, because apparently for the last few years, Utah gets some lovely snowy days in December, and then we hit my least favorite part of the year, what I call the deep freeze. This means the air quality is bad, everything is frozen solid, and I just can't stay warm. Although, today, I'm actually doing okay on the warm part. And I do know there are colder parts of the country (thanks to friends that live in the midwest) but this is still deep freeze country for me during this time of year. I'm already excited for spring.
Anyways, I hope to be better about posting things in 2008, but I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.
Anyways, I hope to be better about posting things in 2008, but I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.
12/17/07
Food poisoning
WARNING...may be TMI (too much information)
I believe this weekend I got my first taste of what I think was food poisoning. I am DEFINITELY not anxious to get it anytime again soon. Let's just say at about 1258am on Saturday night/Sunday morning, I rushed to the bathroom with pains to Ryan "my stomach hurts" and collapsed on the bathroom floor. Poor Ryan came running to the bathroom and asked if I was okay and was very concerned. I find it ironic now that at the time I was coherent enough to tell him I didn't want him to see me like this. Bless his poor soul, he shut the door, and went back to bed and kept asking me if I was okay from the bedroom.
I eventually was able to leave the bathroom and attempt to come and sleep. I didn't go to church, nor anything else, because I could literally, only stand or sit up for about 5 minutes at a time. But, I decided having food poisoning isn't worth it. Even though I bet I have lost a few pounds from not really eating the last couple of days, and also removing a lot of food from my body, I was SO bored out of my mind just sitting around. I couldn't even have the energy to read so poor Ryan read to my basically the entire story of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, some articles from General Conference, and I watched Mr. Krueger's Christmas. He had to make his own Sunday dinner, and take care of me, and I'm not a very good sick patient.
Anyways, I'm feeling better today, but let's just say most foods are NOT even calling my name. Anyone else have stories have food poisoning they want to share?
I believe this weekend I got my first taste of what I think was food poisoning. I am DEFINITELY not anxious to get it anytime again soon. Let's just say at about 1258am on Saturday night/Sunday morning, I rushed to the bathroom with pains to Ryan "my stomach hurts" and collapsed on the bathroom floor. Poor Ryan came running to the bathroom and asked if I was okay and was very concerned. I find it ironic now that at the time I was coherent enough to tell him I didn't want him to see me like this. Bless his poor soul, he shut the door, and went back to bed and kept asking me if I was okay from the bedroom.
I eventually was able to leave the bathroom and attempt to come and sleep. I didn't go to church, nor anything else, because I could literally, only stand or sit up for about 5 minutes at a time. But, I decided having food poisoning isn't worth it. Even though I bet I have lost a few pounds from not really eating the last couple of days, and also removing a lot of food from my body, I was SO bored out of my mind just sitting around. I couldn't even have the energy to read so poor Ryan read to my basically the entire story of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, some articles from General Conference, and I watched Mr. Krueger's Christmas. He had to make his own Sunday dinner, and take care of me, and I'm not a very good sick patient.
Anyways, I'm feeling better today, but let's just say most foods are NOT even calling my name. Anyone else have stories have food poisoning they want to share?
12/5/07
December 1st
DECEMBER is here! This is the first time so many perfectly wonderfully holiday things happened EXACTLY on December 1st. 
I have an advent calendar that I do every year counting down the 24 days until Christmas. Day 1 was "start using Christmas plates". Aren't they so cute? And the pancakes that Ryan made me were yummy!
We have a wooden stove in our living room, so Ryan made our first "fire" of the season. YEAH!
We also put up a new mailbox. Our old one, that Ryan called "topless" had totally no top and fallen completely off our house... we look GQ now.
The best part of the day was seeing our Christmas wreath...
in the middle of one of the BIGGEST snowstorms.
Our house totally looks winter wonderland, at least on December 1st! Happy holidays everyone!
Our house totally looks winter wonderland, at least on December 1st! Happy holidays everyone!
11/29/07
O'Berry Thanksgiving
For Thanksgiving this year, we had an O'Berry Thanksgiving... Ryan's oldest sister Kathleen and her family drove the treacherous route down from Montanta to visit and stay at our house and Ryan's dad flew in from Colorado.
Here is a picture Thanksgiving morning of the Walker family at breakfast. Ryan and I were so excited to have them stay at our house. Ed and Kathleen have a GREAT family (kids Kelly, 13, Grant, 11, Craig, 7, Grace 6, Audrey 4).
Thanksgiving morning, Kelly TOTALLY saved me on peeling and cutting up the mashed potatoes for part of my assignment. She was SO much faster than me. Even Audrey and Grace helped me wash the potatoes! My assignment was made SO much easier by the hands that helped!
Late on Friday night (the day before they left to go back to Montana), all the kids helped us put up our decorations for Christmas. Man, were they FAST! It was SO fun! I especially liked all the tinsel that Grace and Audrey helped me put up in the basement.
Grant and Kelly standing in front of our tree. Grant is one smart kid.
Who said girls couldn't play with toy guns?
But, we had SUCH a fun time with the Walkers; come back and visit us again soon!
Here is a picture Thanksgiving morning of the Walker family at breakfast. Ryan and I were so excited to have them stay at our house. Ed and Kathleen have a GREAT family (kids Kelly, 13, Grant, 11, Craig, 7, Grace 6, Audrey 4).
Thanksgiving morning, Kelly TOTALLY saved me on peeling and cutting up the mashed potatoes for part of my assignment. She was SO much faster than me. Even Audrey and Grace helped me wash the potatoes! My assignment was made SO much easier by the hands that helped!
Late on Friday night (the day before they left to go back to Montana), all the kids helped us put up our decorations for Christmas. Man, were they FAST! It was SO fun! I especially liked all the tinsel that Grace and Audrey helped me put up in the basement.
YEAH! More decorations! Craig was SO funny. He was a 30 year old voice and talker in a 7 year old body. He was HILARIOUS!
Grant and Kelly standing in front of our tree. Grant is one smart kid.
This is a very cute picture of the three Walker girls when we went to Ryan's grandma's house for pie on Thanksgiving night.
Who said girls couldn't play with toy guns?
But, we had SUCH a fun time with the Walkers; come back and visit us again soon!
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