AUGUST 18TH 2008

WHERE HAVE THE MONTHS GONE??? HERE IT IS 2 DAYS PAST THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST. NEXT WEEK THE KIDS START SCHOOL SO IT WILL BE SLOW DOWN FOR THE CHILDREN AS WE DRIVE ON SCHOOL STREETS.
THIS HAS BEEN QUITE A SUMMER WITH A FEW SHORT TRIPS TAKEN. DENISSE HAD TO GO TO BOISE FOR HER CITSEN SHIP AND CLAY KAREN LANIE AND I DROVE UP TO BE WITH SHE AND SCOTT. WHAT AN EXCITING THING TO HAVE HER RECIEVE THAT PRECIOUS PIECE OF PAPER. AFTER, WE CELEBRATED BY GOING TO RED LOBSTER IN BOISE. DINNER WAS VERY GOOD AND THE COMPANY MADE IT BETTER. AS YOU WHO READ DENISSE'S BLOG KNOW THEY LEFT THE NEXT DAY FOR WASHINGTON D.C. AND HAVE SETTLED IN VIRGINIA. THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LONG TRIP TO ME. HOPE TO VISIT THEM BEFORE TO LONG A TIME GOES BY. I REALLY MISS THEM AND THE CHILDREN AND THEIR VISITS.
THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY LANIE ANDRA AND I AND A FRIEND FROM THE SINGLES BRANCH THAT ANDRA GOES TO ALL DROVE OVER TO TWIN FALLS FOR THE TEMPLE OPEN HOUSE. ANOTHER SPECIAL DAY WITH FAMILY. AND OF COURSE I ALREADY WROTE ABOUT THE TRIP TO OMAHA. NEXT SUNDAY WILL BE THE DEDICATION OF THE TWIN FALLS TEMPLE AND IT IS BEING BROADCAST TO OUR STAKE BUILDING. THAT SHOOULD BE ANOTHER EVENTFUL DAY IN THE LIFE OF ME.
PENNY WONDERED ABOUT BIRTHDAYS WHEN I WAS LITTLE. I DON'T REMEMBER HAVING A PARTY BUT ONE YEAR I REMEMBER GETTING A CUTE ABOUT 4 INCH TALL CELLULOIDE DOLL. I LOVED THAT GIFT SO MUCH BUT LIKE MANY THINGS SOME THING HAPPENED TO IT WHEN ONE OF MY BROTHERS WAS NOT HAPPY WITH ME. I DO REMEMBER CRYING A LOT ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION. ONE YEAR A GIRL IN SCHOOL INVITED ME TO HER B/D PARTY SLASH HALLOWEEN PARTY. I DON'T REMEBER WHAT GIFT I TOOK BUT WE BOBBED FOR APPLES IN THE TIN WASH TUB OUT IN FRONT OF THEIR HOME. THAT IS THE ONLY REAL PARTY I REMEMBER AND MAYBE THAT WAS BECAUSE HER B/D CAME ON HALLOWEEN. I DON'T REMEMBER OUR AGES BUT STILL IN GRADE SCHOOL. HER MOM HAD MADE A B/D CAKE AND WE HAD OUR EVENING MEAL THERE AS PART OF THE PARTY.
AS I WAS GROWING UP I RESEMMBELED DARLEEN QUITE A BIT I GUESS AND I WOULD GO SOME PLACE AND BE GREETED WITH I THOUGHT YOU WERE DARLEEN. I DON'T REMEBER EVER RESENTING THAT AS I SUPPOSE IT MADE ME FEEL GROWN UP AND BESIDES SHE WAS A GOOD SISTER TO LOOK LIKE. JOSSINE FOLLOWED HER AROUND AS A TINY LITTLE GIRL AND WAS REFERED TO AS DARLEENS SHADOW.
I DON'T REMEBER HOW OLD I WAS BUT I REMEMBER ALBERTA TAKING THE HOE TO THE OLD TURKEY GOBLER THAT SHE THOUGHT WAS ATTACKING ONE OF THE HENS. WHEN MOM FOUND OUT SHE LAUGHED SO HARD I COULDN'T FORGET ABOUT THAT ONE.
WELL ENOUGH FOR THIS TIME MY HANDS ARE GIVING OUT.