Katelyn's Yearbook Ad

Today I wrote out the ad for the yearbook. The ad that will try and sum up 18 years worth of feelings in 300 characters or less. This is what I wrote:

Katie B,

We love you and are so proud of you. The work ethic you have developed will bless you in all your endeavors. We have no doubt you will accomplish many good things.

Love, Mom and Dad

I should probably change the Katie B  to Katelyn. Other than that, what do you think?

Now I just need to pick out a picture.

From the "Love List"

Yes I have a love list. I make it the last day of January so I can have  omething to reference in case I wind up with completele brain block during the month of February. It only helps if I actually blog, which for some reason has not been a daily occurrence this year as it was last year during February. Anyway, I have a lot of things left on the list so...

Tonight's installment is about my love of trip planning.

Actually I love trip planning because it helps me deal with the stress of the trip, particularly if there is flying involved. I really don't like to fly. So planning helps me not think so much about the flying part.

And guess what!

 I have a trip to plan for this summer. Dave, Carson and I are going to Germany and France for about 10 days. Don't worry that Katelyn is getting left out. She will already be over there. We are meeting her in Paris.

I have two guide books for France.

I have been all over tripadvisor.com, raileurope.com and several town tourism websites. I don't have the itineraries worked all the way out, but I have several months to obsess about this. My family can vouch for me when I say that I don't go into any trip unprepared & not  planned out.

I get giddy when planning for a trip. I also really enjoy helping other people plan their trips--especially if they are going some place that I have been before & absolutely love, like DisneyWorld or Yellowstone.

Gross, But Fascinating at the Same Time

I spent most of my day checking kiddos for head lice.

It's a pretty mundane and monotonous task.

But...

As I was checking a head today I found something that I don't see every day. And it totally made my day.

I found two lice really busy in the process of making new baby lice.

I caught them in the act on a piece of scotch tape.

Interesting enough, there wasn't one teacher who found my discovery fascinating. But there were plenty who found it disgusting.

On a Binge

Since January I have been on a serious binge.

On books.

I have lost track of the number of books I have read.

I have read the Hunger Game series; Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World; Two Part Invention; Flunking Sainthood; Run Less Run Faster; Stupid Fast; and  Before the Dawn.

Those are most of them, I think.

Some of them were fiction and some of them were non-fiction.

I enjoyed most of them.

I found Lords of Finance fascinating and eerily similar to what is happening today.
But I read so many in such a short amount of time that I feel like I just binged and didn't really enjoy.

I really need to learn how to pace myself and enjoy the book; to take it in, savor it and digest all that I have learned before I move on to the next one.

Love 'Em

Last night, this girl

And this boy

Came to play with Katelyn, Carson, and Uncle Dave while I went to the temple with their mom & dad.

They had a great time playing. Unfortunately they were so busy having a good time that nobody noticed that the dishwasher wasn't filling with water.

When I got up this morning this morning at 4:30 I couldn't figure out what smelled so hot--like it was on fire. Fortuntately there was no fire, but the dishwasher's motor ran all night with no water in the dishwasher. The motor may be toast.

But there was no fire.

Josie II

Katelyn is enjoying putting my homework pictures through photo editing and making them look better.

Would it be cheating if I had Katelyn photoshop my photos before I took them to class?

Josie Girl

This week's homework for my photography class was to learn to adjust depth of field. The goal was to have the subject in the front in sharp focus & the background blurred. Josie got to be my model. I think I did a pretty good job.

I'm really enjoying learning how to use my new camera.