family gathering

tom's side of the family got together on saturday and his cousin addie took a couple pictures of grandma shirley (tom's grandma) with the great-grandkids. as you can imagine, it was sheer chaos! i stole these off of addie's blog to share. shirley's face in the second picture is classic!

i'm officially a creepy stalker...and donny osmond smells good!

now, i know what you're thinking...i've somehow gotten so stalkerish-ly close to donny osmond that i had the privilage of smelling him. actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. however, i DID get to be in the same room with him on sunday! his nephew is in our ward and donny made an appearance for their baby's blessing. he didn't stay long enough for me to get close to him, but word from the kid that held the microphone during the blessing is that he smelled really good. so there you have it!



on to the creepy stalker part...this story will probably go down as one of my most embarassing moments in a REALLY long time! as some of you know, my super fun neighbors who live directly behind us just moved out this weekend. goodbye, airharts! we're going to miss you guys. we'll always treasure the summer evenings sitting on the hill, missy's yummy treats, and jake's compulsive lies (WHAT?! the cottonwood mall DIDN'T get blown up?) i digress...they stopped by after church yesterday to say goodbye, and were telling me that they had peeked into their house and the new owners had painted their living room almost the exact same color as ours. i knew that they weren't moving in until monday, and being the oh, so nosy person that i am, i threw on tom's work boots, along with my multi-colored heart pajama bottoms and grungy t-shirt, and wandered over to take a peek. as i was peering through their back window, i realized that the image looking back at me was not my reflection, but was the new owner inside staring back at me! CRAP!! she opened the back door, and i KNEW i had to have been bright red, and i stammered something stupid about how i was their new neighbor and didn't realize they had moved in yet, blah, blah, blah...knowing the whole time that this girl must think i'm some psycho stalker lady. she was very nice and introduced herself and her husband, and didn't act too creeped out by the fact that i was looking in their windows, but needless to say, that first impression SUCKED! any ideas on how to redeem myself?

flashback friday-little tom

oh, how i love this picture! i'm not quite sure how old tom is in this...(lisa, do you know?) but i'm guessing he's around four. i love the fact that he's shirtless (check out the muscles on that kid!), has a mullet AND a messy face! we had a ward activity last summer where you had to bring a picture of yourself as a child and you had to guess who was who. my friend carrie could not figure tom's out and it was cracking me up because i totally think his big blue eyes should have given it away!

my fedex man delivers!

after being awakend at 5:00 a.m. by a 3 year old who had wet the bed, a morning doctor visit for a possible ear infection for elliot and 10 years of being with the same man, i had all but written off this valentine's day as just any other day. but to my delight, this afternoon i received a knock at the door by a fedex man (not MY fedex man) delivering a pretty bouquet of tulips to me! now, over the years i've received many bouquets of flowers on valentine's day from tom, but they were usually meant for someone else but would wind up being a damaged package, so tom would just bring them home to me. but today this box actually had my name on it! we don't usually buy into the whole commercialism of valentine's day but it sure is nice to get a little token of love from your sweetie once in a while. thanks, babe! LOVE YA

i managed to snap a picture of the fedex truck before the guy left!

i need wire hangers!

if you go back to to my "100 things" post you'll remember that #95 stated that i hate mismatched hangers and that the only hangers i use are wooden ones. well, it pains me to do this, but i'm actually asking anyone out there if they would be willing to donate some wire hangers to me! now before you start panicking and thinking i must be going crazy, let me explain. i'm participating in a consignment sale at the end of the month and they require that clothes be hung on wire hangers only. if anyone has any that they'd be willing to send my way i would greatly appreciate it!