"You fixin' to pick that thing up? What flavor is it?"

On the way home from church meetings Randy saw this huge snake in the road. So did he just leave it there? No he brought it home for me and danielle to see. When he was picking it up, a tatooed man in a beat up truck stopped and asked,"you fixin to pick that thing up? What flavor is it?" Randy said, "I don't know but I guess I find out when I take it home and cook it up." I was actually glad he brought it home because we hadn't gone to the store this week and we didn't have any meat for sunday dinner. Tasted like chick'n. Danielle thought it was way cool.

Things I love about the places I've lived

Utah:
The mountains
The people
All the beautiful temples everywhere
Family
Friends

Nebraska:
The Botanical Gardens behind my house
The big metal slides that if you rode on wax paper sheets you would go soooo fast
The Zoo
The Zoo
The Zoo
Village Green (The coolest neighborhood ever)
Fireflies
Warm night walks to Bucky's to get softserve ice cream
Shopping in the Old Market

Washington:
The Beach (I love the smell)
Baby Crabs
Summer (the summers there are so beautiful)
Sailboats
The San Juan Islands
Strawberry picking
Lavendar Picking
Floating Bridges
Pikes Place Market
Mount Rainer
The Wild Blackberries
Walking on the Green River trail
Driving Down to Portland Oregon

Oklahoma:
The people
our ward
The huge golden wheat fields
The crazy storms (not the tornadoes)
Owning my own home
The sunsets
The school system
The slow pace of life
The Orr Family Farm
Finding Turtles, Toads and Frogs in your backyard

I feel blessed to have lived all these places. I think that no matter where you live there are beautiful things to enjoy and love!!

Kids say the darndest things

Thank goodness randy has such a good sense of humor. A couple days ago Danielle said "Dad, you are the most boring person in the whole world." I tried to quickly reassure Danielle that her dad was not the most boring person in the world but the more I tried the worse it got. She kept trying to convince me she was right. Randy just laughed about it. Then on the way home from the store Danielle says,"mom I want my carseat behing your seat.(She sits behind the drivers side and randy was driving). I told her no because that side was the safest. She wanted to know why it was safer on that side so I explained it was because the driver will instinctively protect his own side and that a car would be more likely to hit the other side. She said, "so it would hit your side." I said, "probably." She thought for a minute and then said,"Mom, I think you should switch Dad seats."
We call Danielle a "skinny minnie" because she is so thin and has such long skinny legs. Danielle said to me, "mom, I'm a skinny minnie, huh." I said, "ya totally." So then she said,"mom, you are a skinny minnie too!" I felt so happy and told her thank you. She then added,"Yeah, you are the Biggest skinny minnie Ive ever seen."