I Love Conference!

I just have to write quickly how much I love General Conference. I love the wonderful spirit of happiness, hope and joy it brings into my life after just 2 days. I think it sould be quarterly. Although I quess that is the purpose of the Ensign each month.

Still Waiting for Pictures

It has been a week since I lost my hard drive. We got a new one. But no one has been able to find my pictures on our hard drive. It is frustrating. But if they were able to retrieve 98% of the hard drives from 9/11 someone has to be able to find my pictures. So hopefully someday I can post about the rest of our spring break.

I want to Cry

I am afraid that my computer has crashed:((((((((((( (I'm on Vern's work one right now). I was going to go and update everything from our spring break and it says something is wrong with a disc...hit ctrl, alt, del and reboot. I do that and it comes back to the same thing. I am so sad. All of my pictures are on it. UGHHHHHH!

Spring Break - Day 1

For the first day of Spring Break we headed to the YMCA and their rock wall. Each of the girls got their chance to tackle their different walls.

Meghan got about 10 feet,

Natalie got half way to the top

Elena got to the top twice on two different walls. They had fun.

We then went to a park for a picnic and more time to play on a playground.

We returned home for naps for the young ones and the older two went and played at friends.

Tonight for FHE we planted our garden.

A fun-filled Spring Break Day!

Nice Car

One of these things just doesn't belong in the picture.

No it's not the cute blond. It is the fabulous Cadillac car in the driveway. Those of you who drive by often usually see a F-250 truck. Well, due to truck problems, it is in the shop and we are borrowing Vern's dad's Cadillac. We are very grateful for the car, but it sure is a funny thing to see Vern driving around town. He has been asked if he has lowered his seat low and pumped up the music while he drives one handed. Very funny. So if you see Vern driving by in is pimped out Cadillac, just wave, laugh and realize that soon he will be back in his Tough Ford Truck.

A Fun Time at Usary Park

On Saturday (3/14) we met up with the Marchese family at Usery Park in Mesa. Cherylann Marchese and I met years ago at the Hill Cumorah Pageant as two silly teenage girls that liked boys. Fortunately, for me, we have kept in touch over the years and we get along great! They moved to the Phoenix valley a few years ago and we've gotten together a few times.

Cherylann and Kindy

(tried to scan in a picture from 1989 Pageant

to see the changes, but it was to blurry)

We had planned to go hiking with the family, but the boys thought it would be great fun to go to a shooting range. So Vern, Mike and the older kids went shooting. Cherylann and I and my three youngest went to a park and played. I sure enjoyed my time (after cleaning up a major blowout from Benjamin) chatting with Cherylann. I think I talked too much, sorry.

Katie and Elena after the shooting range at the park.

The weather was great and I could actually say that the scenery was beautiful. (hard for me to admit that about the desert).

Our men, Mike and Vern!

They had fun shooting and I'll post the pictures soon. Elena had a shell casing pop up and get her by her eye! Yikes. But she is fine. They all hit the target so it was a success.

I Hate Spiders!

I hate spiders. Growing up in Upstate NY, the only spider I saw was a daddy long leg. In school, we learned about all the spiders in the southwest US andI thought, I am so glad I live so far away from there. Little did I know that one day I would live among these furry legged animals.


One summer we were camping in Deleware and everyone wanted to watch the thriller, "Arachnaphobia". My friend, Lissa, and I did not. We went and hid in the campground so we couldn't go. We were successful that night. But we went the next day. There are two scenes that stood out in my mind. One was a shower scene where the spider shows up in her shower and another when someone was using the restroom, the spider comes out. Last spring I had the horrible shower incident when a large spider was crawling up my leg. This morning I had the second experience. I screamed so loud when I saw it...and then promptly killed it. Time to spray!


I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!