New Era September 2009

CHECK IT OUT!
l.d.bell band is represented ON THE STINKIN COVER!
ryan pegram is on the cover of the september issue of my church's teen-focus magazine "New Era"....he was IN THE BAND....we've known ryan since his family moved into our ward the same day we moved in....um.....20 years ago!
ryan's article is on page 10..... http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=65171a01e8d43210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=024644f8f206c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD
HELLO!

musings on a thursday morning

musings......
hear i sit...listening to "Breaking Dawn" on my Itouch....9:19 a.m.....Milo is sound asleep next to me...lyric is sound asleep in her room....ben is at work....i leave to go home tomorrow....so i ponder a bit...

• teaching seminary this year....co-teaching (one week i teach---the next she does)....Book of Mormon....I am excited....i love the age-group and love the topic.
  
  
• after a busy summer of shows...i still love it....the travel is hard on david and ace....they have been great to make it easy for me...my baby boy has grown up this summer.
  
  
• got to see Ben, Cannon & Milo all within one month.....bliss.




• i love to baby my babies....and their babies....this makes me happy.
  
  
• i need to stay home and clean closets.
  
  
• i need to go to pennington field to watch band at 7 a.m. on a friday morning
  
  
• ready for friday night football games.
  
  
• i love facebook...friend me.

• i miss my puppies and want another
  
  
• i'm lucky to like my babies' men...most of the time ;)

i'm the clunker...no cash

so....if you know my husband, he likes a deal....nay...he LOVES a deal...so when our lovely government offered to give us $4500 towards our 10 yr old van with transmission problems and us get a new 0% financed car....yeah...he jumped all over it......
then i stepped in....
I got home on a late friday evening from a gig in Arkansas to see this lovely 2009 black malibu in our driveway...with a balloon attached...i knew dave had bought a car. we drove it to band practice...gave ace a fun surprise.
saturday I jetted down to orlando to greet my new g-baby Milo...see previous post.
got a call from david saying that since my name was on the title for the van (along with his)...i needed to sign the title over to the dealership.....okay.....so they were overnighting the paperwork to me (really? after 30 years of marriage he cant sign my name? really?).....so tuesday morning a knock at the door showed a Fed-Ex guy.....i opened up the material and signed away.
then i messed up....
did you know that if you put papers....important papers...in a Fed-Ex return envelope....and...gasp....NOT TAKE IT TO A FED-EX ACCEPTED PLACE...but, yes, instead....put it in the mailbox...A US POSTAL SERVICE mailbox....hmmmm....why wouldnt fed-ex get that?
SO WE LOST THE CAR!
yes....we had to return the car.
the cash for clunkers program ran out on monday the 24th...and we didnt get the title to them in time...so dave drove the beautiful black malibu back to the dealership....sad day...he was so nice about it....but i totally clunkered.

first day of school

....and i'm not there!
what a pull.....i'm here in Orlando with a beautiful grandson and my baby girl....but my baby boy is starting 10th grade! my last one at Bell High School....gulp...and hooray!....and gulp...and hooray!

I love the starting of a new school year...the smell of new paper....new folders....new locker numbers....loved it for me...love it for my kids...new adventures....now, boys dont share about adventures as easily as girls...but...ace will answer questions....

but i'm not there....does he care? probably more than he is willing to admit....
will he survive? probably...but only for a few more days.

you always need your mom.

under the florida sky.....

chillin with mickey? nope
epcot touring? nope
beach? hmmm....nope
sittin inside....with mr Ethan Milo Webb. He is a doll of a baby...small-boned...has a cute raspy gravelly voice. Lyric did a great job delivering him....i was there within 11 hours of his birth. One more baby boy to add to the list.

btw...florida.....
rains every day.....but it cools off as it rains
rains even when the sky is blue
lizards...yeah...everywhere
sauna when its not raining
florida medicaid STINKS

btw...milo
is the poopiest pee-ingest baby i've ever seen
he pees while you change his diaper...spraying himself and you and the changing table
he poops while you change his diaper...one diaper change means 2 or 3 diapers for this kid
he poops in multiples....and you can always hear it.

sorry...didnt mean to get side-tracked by milo's poop....and if you are offended by that word....well then you shoulda stopped reading a few lines ago!

merf & meryl

• no...this has nothing to do with meryl streep being my muse or mentor
• yes...i did just see Julie & Julia...okay?
• i love amy adams
• i love meryl streep...altho i am still trying to get over that whole mamma mia thang.
• i love cooking shows
• i love to read cookbooks....well cookmags...cookazines?
• i love to blog

all of those lovely little bullets give me pause to write this post....the best part of the movie?

when julia child found out her sister was having a baby...and she cried...

you never forget that pain....and i cried...

so here is to all of us that share....we cry for the joy of others...and we cry at the pain in our heart....

now i'm off to cook something amazing

i will

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