Good Air Jordan commercial!!!

features Boise State of course!!! and it is Mitch's FAV!!!

I've been Tagged....

10 years ago: We were living in Maple Valley Washington, Randy was working for King County...I had two kids...Mitch was 6 and Sydney was 3. I had my own business doing the flowers for weddings, which I did from home. Had my own floral cooler and everything. Probably did 4-8 a month. Crazy!!! Sydney was just diagnosed with Celiac Disease....and so was I not long after her. So..we began doing everything "gluten free" Mitch was in Kindergarten. Yikes... I feel soo old all of a sudden!!!

Things on my to-do list today:

1. Go to "Purse" onal enrichment. Mother and Daughter enrichment. Should be interesting!
2. Figure out what Laurie and I are going to do for supper at our Laurel camp out this weekend on Friday night. Fun fun! Any easy ideas???
3. Read another chapter of The BFG to Tyler....stand for the big friendly giant...very cute book
4. Finish reading about Edward....book three...I am dying to know what is going to happen!!!
5. Get some packages ready to mail...one to my Mom and one to my Bro in Korea. ARGH!


What would I do if I were suddenly made a billionaire: Pay off all my debt...and build a sweet house on our property!!! Pay off my parents bills and get them set up to retire. Pay off my inlaws Parma Company loan so they could retire!! Go and travel. Especially to Korea to visit my Brother and his family! Buy a NEW suburban...mine sucks!!! I am ready for a new one!


3 of my bad habits:

1. I love reading on the internet....blogs, newspapers and obituaries! Takes up alot of time!!! But it is fun!!!
2. I love chocolate and Diet Coke (caff free of course) for breakfast. It is such a bad habit!
3. I am very hard on myself. I cut other people lots of slack...but not myself!!!

3 places I have lived:

1. Cardston Alberta Canada
2. Rexburg, Idaho
3. Maple Valley Washington

5 jobs I have had:

1. Stall cleaner at a place called "Universal Semen Services" I will let you do the math!
2. Tour Guide at a place that housed restored carriages....horse drawn vehicles! Very cool!
3. worked for the Dean of Student Special Services at BSU...and my boss called me Damcanuk. He thought it was funny. So...that is where my email addy came from.
4. Worked in a ladies basement...kinda like a sweat shop...assembling floral arrangements that she sold as hers in a store in the Boise Town Square. When she could not pay me...I demanded she give me her scroll saw...which she did...and I quit!!!
5. Professional Decorator for a company in Utah...decorated Christmas Tree's professionally and for a lot of very prominent people in the church! Cool job! I also made A LOT of things that were used when Salt Lake city was making their bid for the Olympics...they liked my "rustic" style...and I spent a ton of time doing that. So...I like to give myself credit for Salt Lake City earning the Olympic Games!!!


5 things people don't know about me:

1. I only see out of one of my eyes!!!
2. I am adopted and found my birth mom in 1995.
3. I hardly smell anything cuz I broke my nose playing softball when I was 15
4. I still hold the record at my elementary school for the fastest rope climb
5. I know how to barrel race, team rope and break away rope!!!

I tag.....Laurie, JeNeale, and Kristy Grabo!!! So there!!!

Wow...I have some catching up to so!

I won't try and do it all in one post!


















First of all, our Nashville Concert was the bomb!!! Those guys really know how to put on a show! The music was AWESOME and the spirit was overflowing. We had about 650-700 there, I wish more would have come but I can't force people there I guess! Sigh..... It was so much fun being around those guys, they bring such a neat spirit with them and they LOVE what they do! Kinda fun to rub shoulders with people like that once in a while! It was a lot of work but well worth it!!! I know the people that attended LOVED it! And or lil singers rocked!!! Sydney and Becca sang a song in the concert called "Somewhere There's a Mountain" and they did soooo good! They had been prepared for about a month and their hard work paid off! They were well prepared and sounded so good! It was very fun to see them prepare for something big like this...and have it
turn out so wonderful! They LOVED it too!

Seems like we have so much going on lately, it will be good for things to slow down a bit! Mitch finished BB by losing their first game at the district tourney. They played really well but couldn't pull it off and were out! It was ok in the long run. Tyler just had his last BB game today so that frees up Tuesday and Thursday nights and Saturday mornings! Our YW Volleyball season if over too...the tourney was last Saturday! Ended a five week season....so that frees up more Saturday morning time! So....phew...all of a sudden it feels like I can breath again! But not for long I guess...track season just started on Friday and we are hot and heavy into the planning of Girls Camp!

Phew!!!

Wears me out even typing it!

Well, I am tired and ready for bed...so more catching up tomorrow!!!

Night all!

I'm soo excited...and I just can't hide it!!!

We are only 2 days away from our "Nashville Tribute to the Pioneers"....and I just can't wait. I have had this in the works since July of last year. The group is on their way to Ontario Oregan right now. Just heard from Tony and they are in Mountain Home. So....yahoo, they are close! They have a show in Ontario tonight then a Young Single Adult one at our Stake Center tomorrow and our Stake show on Friday. Things are working out pretty good. I just hope we fill the house. With our Snow Sunday...I was worried that we didn't advertise enough....we'll see. Should be fun either way!

Sydney and Becca are singing a song in the show on Friday, so that might be part of the reason I am so excited. They sound pretty good....and I know they will do an excellant job!

After the show on Friday, we are having a Priest/Laurel meet and greet with the group and that should be fun too. Hopefully they come out and support it like I think they
Better go and finish cleaning my house. ARGH! I hate cleaning!!!

Edited to add....just got home from setting up!!! We got 1000 chairs to fit in the Stake Center gym!!! Wahoo...now I just hope we fill them!!!

Glenn Beck on the passing of President Gordon B. Hinckley

What an emotional Sunday....

Wow...what a day. We have had a roller coaster of a day....Randy got a new calling in the church today....he is the Stake Membership Clerk. He is pretty excited as he gets to work with the Stake Presidency as a member of their Presidency. I have been serving in the Stake as Young Women's President for a little over 4 years now and I LOVE how much I have learned and how much I have grown...and I am excited that he will now have the chance for that same growth!





Then tonight...we received the sad news that our beloved Prophet President Gordan B. Hinckley has passed away. He was 97 years old. He has lead the church in so many wonderful ways, it will be hard to imagine him not being there anymore. I was pretty saddened as were my kids. We all loved and looked up to him! I was about the same age that Mitch is now when President Spencer W. Kimball passed away and I still remember the details of his passing...and how it impacted me as a youth. I have encouraged my kids to write in their journals their feelings and testimonies about President Hinckley....hopefully it will be something they will always treasure! (Thanks again Laur for the call...I was so glad to hear from someone I know and love, and not from the news at 10. )





He was a GREAT man...and the world will miss him. As will I!!!

Gordon B. Hinckley 1910-2008

As I listened to these words from his last conference talk to the whole church this week, I felt his blessing and thought that if that was the last time he spoke, I would always feel that blessing! "I leave with you my testimony of the truth of these things, and I invoke the blessings of heaven upon you. May the windows of heaven be opened and blessings showered upon you as the Lord has promised. Never forget that this was His promise and that He has the power and the capacity to see that it is fulfilled. I so pray as I leave my blessing and love with you in the sacred name of our Redeemer, even the Lord Jesus Christ, amen."

Holy Moly

First off...it has been forever since I blogged! Sheesh, the holidays. They came and went so fast I can't believe it!



Second...can't believe it is 2008. I am still writing 2007 on my checks....hopefully soon I will catch on! Yikes!



We had a FAB Christmas and a very fun New Years! We went to Canada for Christmas and had way to much fun....ate way to much good food, and played way to much. It was hard to come home! We went up in the hills and got a real Christmas tree....was pretty fun...very cold so we were not that picky. Ended up being a really pretty tree!!! We took Randy's brother Jeff with us to Canada for Christmas. He just moved back to the big island from Hawaii and has been taking care of the folks place whilst they are on their mission. It was fun to have him along...I think he is sick of us for awhile! Poor guy!!!





We had a fun New Years party. I am still the Stake Young Women's President so my New Years was spent at the church preparing for and carrying out a two Stake Youth party, for kids age 12-18. It was a lot of work to get it ready. We did all kinds of fun stuff...had these huge inflatable toys, Sumo wrestling suits, lots of video games, had a DJ and karaoke, played Fear Factor....and had a TON of raffle stuff that we gave away all night long! The night was topped of by a balloon drop (that took about 5 hours to prepare....phew) and just after midnight we drew for the Ipod Nano. We had about 300 kids there and they had a blast!!!! It was very successful and my own kids had a very fun time!!!



Since then...just been busy with Mitch and basketball, Sydney and piano/voice lessons and Tyler and basketball. Phew. Being a Mom is a busy job!!! I have also been subbing at a couple different elementary schools to bring in some extra $$$. Fun fun!



Here's to a happy and healthy 2008 to all my blogging friends!!!!



Cheers!!!!