Monday Memories Week 7

My last few days in WA were filled with laughs, smiles, and all around fun :) Well, my whole trip was fun, as hopefully you can see by my previous blog posts.

On my last Sunday, I was able to get a picture with Kate.
She is awesome!
Thank you, Kate, for taking a picture with me!

Ya, this is me being goofy, as always. The hat and wristers (arm warmers) were made for me by Laura, and she is in the process of making a matching scarf. I can't wait to try them all out this winter. THANK YOU LAURA!!

Hopscotch, anyone?

On Wednesday, I was on Facebook goofing off and my cousin started messaging me. As it turns out, we were both in the same city in WA at the same time. He and his girlfriend came over to Laura's to visit me! It was so good to talk with him and get caught up. We haven't seen each other for at least 6 years. Love you, Josh!

If you remember the post with the blankets we made, there was some left over fabric from said blankets, so we decided to make some matching pillows. Since I was flying home the next day, we didn't stuff my pillows, but sewed them so they would fit in my suitcase.

That night, we went to the YW activity which was a baby shower for one of the leaders in YW. The next two pictures were taken by Nancy, the YW President.

The view from her back yard. Yes, she has a river going past her house. Near the beginning of my trip, this river actually flooded and water came up close to her house. Luckily, the river got cleaned out and the water receded.

Leave it to me to set a good example for all the YW there:

Yum. LOL. Wondering what I put in my mouth?

This yummy little fruit treat. In fact, the pictures of me putting this in my mouth are from the second time I did it!

I even got Laura to do it :D

This is my favorite picture:

Thursday morning I packed everything up and got a ride to the airport. My flight home was uneventful. I got picked up at the airport by my sister, then taken to my mom's house where there was a sign up on the house welcoming me home, and a surprise dinner.

Friday I got to go to work for part of the day, then I came home and chilled (watched tv). Friday night I stayed up talking to Laura while she was working on her next workshop projects.
Saturday I ran a few errands and got my hair cut, then went to dinner at my parent's.

I can't remember anymore the order that we saw these movies, but here are the last ones I saw:

Along with watching the Sherlock Holmes movies, we also watched the first season of the tv show Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch. Not movies necessarily, but still good entertainment :)

Overall, I had a wonderful trip to WA. I love going there. It is a time for me to relax, and not worry about life and what is going on in Utah. I made many new friends who I can't wait to see again.

I am very appreciative of Laura and James for letting me into their home for the length of my visit. I am grateful to the Clark's Creek Ward for accepting me with open arms and making me feel a part of their ward.

It's a crazy week.
I haven't forgotten about last week's post.
Can't do it now.
Check back later.
Love ya, Bye ;)

Monday Memories Week 6

Since it has been longer than a week since I posted last (even tho the date doesn't say s0), I will try to remember all that happened. Laura, if you read this and remember something I forgot, let me know so I can add it in :)
We spent the first half of the week hanging out around home and just doing whatever we wanted to do. On Wed, we went to the park, and it was a beautiful day to do so!

Malcolm trying to scare me

It makes me sad that people have no respect for property that is not their own. Someone melted a hole in this slide. Not sure how, but it's sad.

While we were there, the kids found a guy who had these cool whirly-gig toys and he was nice enough to let them play with them. It was fun watching them shoot them up and try to catch them again.

Later that night, I went with Laura to the YM/YW service activity. We cleaned up a yard of a man in the ward. With everyone working together, it did not take very long before it was all done and looking nice.

After we were done, Laura realized she didn't have her keys anymore... so we got to go 'yard waste' diving. We found her keys in a pile of trash after we emptied half of the can back onto a tarp on the grass.
Here we are after finding the keys. I was going to try and use the clippers to cut my toenails... but I still would have had to try and bend over. Haha.

The gentleman who's yard we cleaned, had this on his car, parked out front: Totally awesome!

It seems that when I am visiting in WA, the kids' toys become alive and move around to different 'hiding' places. This is just one of the many places this clone trooper chose to hide out.

Here is the cross stitch I worked on after the frog one. Can you tell what it is? This is all of the cross stitching I had to do, the rest was back stitching.

Here it is after all the back stitching

and in the frame. It's going to hang in my bathroom :)

I know there were movies we watched, but I can't remember which ones anymore. I do have a list of movies, so I will just post about the rest of the movies in my next post.

Monday Memories Week 5

Among other things, this week we have spent a lot of time in front of the t.v. watching the Olympics. I forgot how much I enjoy watching the events. I thought I really only liked the winter Olympics, but I was wrong. My favorites to watch are the gymnastics (women and men), beach volleyball, water polo, and diving. All of it is cool to watch, and watching makes me feel lazy and fat. LOL.



For our "end of July" party, we started making blankets. Here is one side of the blanket (it's upside down, so the bumps go the other way)

and here's the other side. Put them both together and you get...

A nice, warm, fuzzy blanket that is fun to cuddle with!!

What do you do with the left over pieces?? You work on your Blanket Ninja skills :)

Here is Laura's blanket (silky purple with a pink bubble like my green one)

Last week, the kids were at their grandparent's house for the week, so we had a quiet house (which is why we did blankets). We decided to check out the Boeing Museum of Flight. As we were pulling into the parking lot, we were greeted by the Blue Angels. I wish we could have seen them in flight, but seeing them sitting there was cool too.

We got to walk on and take a tour of this "Air Force One" jet.

Sleeping arrangements

Former laptop (er... desktop)

at least they have seat belts to keep them safe

who knew?!

cockpit

nose of the plane from the exit door

Inside the museum there were tons of planes everywhere. Here is a shot of a family member of my favorite plane (SR-71 Blackbird). This is the M-21 Blackbird. Smaller than the SR-71, but just as fast and just as cool.

This is the nose section of a downed SR-71 Blackbird that you could sit in the cockpit of. There was a line that was not moving fast, so I didn't sit in it... but there's always next time :)

a side view of the M-21 Blackbird

I even went to space!!

Closer look at the Blue Angels

The original Boeing Barn

On our way out, we stopped and got a tour of the inside of the Concorde

It was very narrow inside and I didn't get any pictures... it was just like a passenger plane, without any isle space to walk in. Haha. Did you know that, when in flight, the plane expands 10 inches!! Super crazy to think about.

While the kids were gone, I was able to finish my dolphin cross stitch.

On Saturday, Laura, James, and I were able to help make sack lunches for the YSA conference that was going on. We made just short of 600 lunches; with sandwich (which we had to make), cookie (which we had to bag), chips, drink, apple, napkin and condiments.

Here is a shot of one of two assembly lines we had going.

This is the assembly line I was working on; tho it doesn't look like much is going on. Ha.

Here are all the ham sandwiches

and all the turkey sandwiches

It was kind of fun, tho tiring. We started just after 9 and got done just before noon.

Since I got my dolphin cross stitch done, I started another one: can you guess what it is?

To make it easy, here's the finished product:

I started it on the 2nd and finished it on the 6th.

Since that one got done so quick, I started another one, but that's for next week's post.

Also last week, we watched Captain America,

The Avengers (awesome movie!)

and the Amazing Spider-Man

We actually went to two different theaters on the same day to watch the Avengers and Spider-Man. We ate dinner in between shows, and it was a fun day out. I really liked the Avengers. Spider-Man?? Eh. The effects were awesome, but I felt the story line was too slow and dragged on forever. Maybe seeing it after the Avengers wasn't fair, because of the difference in the action going on. Who knows. It is a movie I would watch again, tho... so no worries. Heehee.

I am down to one more blog post while I'm here. I will finish off my posts about my trip after I'm back in Utah. People in the ward keep telling me I need to move here. I keep telling them that I feel the same way and that when it's supposed to happen, it will.

Thanks for following my adventures!!! Check back next week to see what other craziness I get myself into ;)