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Reuben went into the Navy reserves in May. He is done with his training and job training. He is home for who knows how long. He thinks he will go to Afghanistan in a year or so, but until then he will just do the one weekend a month and two weeks a year thing for the reserves. We all went to the airport Friday night at 10:00 to see him come in. His luggage of course was lost so we had to wait until the very last bag to make sure it was lost and then report it lost and it did finally come to my house Saturday afternoon. Everyone came back to my house and spent the night Friday. It was really good to have the whole family there. (of course no Dan because he was out of the country on a flight) We had German pancakes with Carmel syrup for breakfast and then went for a run on the track. Reuben had a hard time running because of the higher elevation vs California. He also thought it was SO COLD!!! We teased him so much. Then we went to the park and took photos. Right when we were going to ta...

So I decided to dress Connelly up in his FIRST Halloween costume. It is a giraffe and he looks so cute in it. However, he hates being in it, as you can see, he wasn't having a good time needless to say. Even though he is crying and kicking he is still a very cute giraffe. As an update to one of my earlier posts, I did go to "THRILLER" and it is the best. It is such a great dance/play show. It is dance but they sang in it and made you laugh and have a great time. They really got the audience into it and was very interactive. Kids would LOVE it. I'm going to make sure to take mine. When you go to the play, outside the theatre they have girls all over dressed up and scaring you. They totally freaked me out and I scram like a little school girl several times. Have a very Happy Halloween.

I have never written a spiritual thought of anything like this on my blog, but today I'm feeling very blessed and having a spiritual moment. A really good friend of mine is going through radiation for Type 0 breast cancer. She is very blessed to have found the cancer at such an early stage and being about to deal so well with it and realize how blessed she is. I have thought and thought about her and how my attitude towards giving service is. Last night I had a reminder that if I'm asked to do service for others I need to have a more Christ like attitude and not be so of the natural man and have a grudgeful attitude. Why did I have to find out the reason that someone needed my help before I had the willing attitude. I should have had the willing attitude and if I found out the reason great, but if I never found out the reason then who cares. I should have only had to know that someone, a sister, needed help in the ward and I just do it, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. I was Young Woman...

       

       

I always wonder why kids are so photogenic and then we grow out of it. I have the best looking family. I am the odd ball out because I'm the only one without those beautiful blue eyes. Today we spent the whole day together. It was a Friday but completely felt like a Saturday, which makes tomorrow even a better Saturday, because we get to do it "again".

My friend, Shanna Denver, and I are going to Thriller this Saturday. I'm so excited. I have never been to a dance/Halloween show before. I am hoping it will be something that I do more often. I'm looking forward to becoming more cultured.

So Nate needed, not wanted, a new computer. I have been out a computer for three days and I thought I was going to die. I missed out on blogging and downloading recipes. I doubt that Nate and I use a computer to the max of it's capabilities, but we of course needed a new one. The old one was four years old and according to Nate was "out dated, and too slow". It did the job for me, but I guess Nate does do Peach tree on it for his company and that supposedly slows things down. All I know it that my computer is downstairs now!! Yeah!! I wanted it downstairs because upstairs was too hot and then when the kids start working on it it is in an open environment. I love it. The screen is HUGE and the keyboard is so nice and I type way, way faster!!! The one thing about this new computer is that the computer place didn't transfer my pictures. I have a million pictures and they need to do this so until they transfer I can't update you on my family pix for now. I think, I ...

Connelly was able to have a first hike the other day. I took him up Big Cottonwood canyon and we walked around silver lake. As you can see I was in a tank top and shorts and Connelly didn't have a jacket or anything. We started our little walk, only a mile, and it started to rain, then snow/hail. It was Crazy. Connelly didn't mind though. He had a great time.        

        Connelly was looking so good this day I took some photo's and then worked on them on my newest love, Picasa 2. You can add special effects and play with the pix. It is my favorite site.