It's in her blood.....

Yesterday Hannah was to give a talk in Primary.  I wrote out her talk on blank piece of white paper and left it on the piano.  I told her I wanted her to practice it while I was doing her hair up in my room.  I told her to grab a brush and meet me upstairs.....she called out "Should I bring my script?"  What can I say.....Drama runs in our family....

Flatiron Woes (like woe is me)

The good side

The burned hair

the bad side

So, I burned my hair with the new flat iron Aaron bought for Megan and me.  We've been using the old one for so long that I guess it just wasn't as hot as the new one and I just burned the heck out of the section right in the front on the left side of my face. I was mortified.....thinking now I'm going to have a Anne Hathaway hairstyle and I didn't even get to be in a movie to get that pretty doo....nor do I have a nice skinny face to support that style.  I got on the internet (what did we ever do without it) and saw that many recommended this product.....

I got some and feel that it has worked wonders with the rest of my hair but the burned part is still burned.  I used to blow dry my hair and it would be a giant fluff ball....now it's all nice and smooth.  The pictures above are just a blow dry, no flat iron and no product.  Maybe eventually the burned part will be better and I won't have to get a pixie cut.....like pretty Ginnifer Goodwin or Anne Hathaway....though I'd like to think that someday I'll be brave enough to just go for it.

A post about Bon Jovi

Josh was lucky enough to get to go see Bon Jovi in concert.  He was telling us about it at dinner one night last week and I mentioned that I got to see Bon Jovi in the 80's, back when their hair was really big and their spandex pants were really tight.....and that's when Joe yelled out, really loudly.....YOU WERE ALIVE IN THE 80'S!!!!?????

yeah.....feeling pretty old.

The Oldest Comes Home

Zack came home for a week.  It went by way too fast....like speed lightening.  I'm sad he had to go back so soon.  I really miss having him around.  He was gone so much of the time visiting with friends that I feel like I didn't get to spend much time with him.  He did go to Church with us to a friends ward for their baby's blessing.  We also did family pictures and then went out to dinner.  I just wish we had more time.....  I remember when they were all little and hoping for the day when they would grow up and not need me so much...but now I realize I was foolish to wish for those days because they came all too quickly and now I miss all the times they needed me....boo hoo....  Hopefully we will somehow fit in a trip to Utah this summer...fingers and toes crossed!

 

Josh, Lexi (one of Zack's best friends) and Zack playing around at my work.  We went to visit one night....

At Ivanna Cone

Zacharoni!

Another one from when we were at Ivanna Cone

Zack!

Zack's home for a visit and we are all so happy to see him again.  It's been too long.  I can't stop hugging him and neither can Hannah!

Joe woke up Sunday covered in hives.  Aaron and I were trying to get to the bottom of where they came from, we haven't changed detergents recently, no new meds lately, so we asked him what he ate at the birthday party he attended the night before...Wendys burgers and fries...that shouldn't of caused it.  Then we had this conversation......

Aaron:  What did you eat for breakfast? 

Joe:  (long pause)....Do you want me to tell the truth?

Aaron and Me:  (after exchanging a "look" between each other)  YES

Joe:  ice cream

Aaron:  Who gave you ice cream??

Joe:  No one....I snuck it. 

Aaron and I really had a hard time containing our laughter....at least he told the truth...maybe he had the hives because he was keeping that secret, they were gone the next day ...the hives, I mean, not the ice cream......

Au revoir!

Last school year Megan told me she really wanted to go on the school trip to France.  Each year LPS (Lincoln Public Schools) works with ISE (International Student Exchange) to take kids on trips abroad.  Megan really loves the French language and is in her 3rd year of high school French.  She wrote down each step she needed to take to go on the trip.  She worked hard, filling out all financial aide forms and applied for a scholarship.  She wrote an essay for part of the application to get a scholarship.  She saved her money and had enough for the down payment for the trip.  It was a super happy day when I received a phone call telling me that she did indeed get the scholarship for the trip....she ended up having to pay $200.00 for a $3000.00 trip!!  I just can't even say how excited I am for her to be able to have this opportunity!  She worked so hard, setting goals and achieving them.  I'm just so proud of her!!  

She will spend 5 nights with a host family in a town called Evruex.  The family has 1 daughter, who is around Megan's age.  She gets to go to school with her host "sister".  After her 5 nights there she will spend 3 nights in Paris with her group.  I absolutely can't wait to hear all about her trip!  These are going to be memories she will cherish for her whole life!

 

Getting ready to check in

I told her it was blurry but she refused to take another one

standing in line to check her bags

Group shot

Overheard Conversations

We were in the car picking up kids and dropping off kids...you know, the usual.

Hannah:  I can't get out of the car cause I'm wearing my flippers

Joe:  They're called SLIPPERS!!!

Hannah:  Each time I go to put them on they are upside down and I have to flip them over so I call them Flippers. 

Conversations

Hannah (while watching Harry Potter):  I know magic isn't real.

Me:  Nope, but it would be cool if it was.

Hannah: Well, I'm not 11 yet......

(She is really hoping she will get a letter inviting her to Hogwarts when she turns 11)

Time to "Unconvalesce"

Today I slept away the day.  I could not fall asleep until 930 or 1000 and then ended up sleeping until 7pm!  I got up...got a bowl of cereal, went back up to my room and turned on the TV.  These past weeks since my surgery have been spent mostly in my room....in my comfy bed, with my remote close by.  I really couldn't do much reading as the pain meds made me feel almost carsick if I tried to read.  I'm feeling so much better...but still tired, too tired.  I have got to get up and do something.  My body has gotten used to doing alot of nothing.  My biggest "wake up" call came tonight as I  sat in my bed, eating my bowl of cereal.  Hannah came up to snuggle with me and she looks at me with her cute little face "you kinda live up here don't you mom...you eat up here, you sleep up here and you watch TV up here."........can you say EMBARRASSMENT and SHAME....those were the two things I felt.  Out of the mouths of babes.