WHAT?!

I logged into my husband's hotmail account (he never checks his email-I do it for him) and saw this;
Mail order Latin Brides! Just click here for the woman of your dreams!
Seriously? People still DO that?!
The Almighty Liz

I Forgot....

.....a picture!! One of Jonni and her teacher. We adore Mrs. H. She is the best teacher that ever lived.

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Jonni's Kindergarten Graduation!

Well, for the record, I think Kindergarten graduation is a little....silly. BUT, Jonni was way excited, and really loved it, so I will say no more except to quote the immortal Mr. Incredible:
"They keep thinking of new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but when a person is genuinely special....!"
So, the ceremony lasted about 45 minutes, so not too painful, as far as these things go. Unfortunately, I was not sitting close, and could not get any good pics. So all of the pics I have that are good, are the ones we took when we got home. In addition to her diploma, she also relieved the Principal's Award, which only 6 kids out of three classes received. Go Jonni!
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Jonni wanted a picture with our cat.

An awwww picture.

Just stunning, isn't she?

They really do like each other!

And their true colors, lol!

My Anniversary Weekend

Hello all! Once again, I apologize for the scarcity of posts and also, once again, the reason is the same; I was sick. Some stupid horrendous head cold. But mostly all better now!
So, John and I had our 7 year anniversary this Monday past! I can't believe it's been that long! Looking back (pardon me whilst I wax philosophical), I do believe our life together has been happy and productive. Two awesome kids, a great job for John, a terrific town to live in, and best of all, a stellar marriage. I sure do love that man. ;) Sorry no pics, we forgot our camera everywhere we went.
We got rid of the kids for the weekend to celebrate, and besides the obvious ;), we did a ton of stuff! It was so fun! We saw Wolverine, we went to the Temple, we went hiking, and to the zoo, and slept in, and stayed up late, and went out to dinner and just had an all around blast. I really feel like we re-connected too. I hadn't realized how distant we had gotten from each other!! Just with the everday mundane things like parenting and running a household. We always do a weekly date, but we need to amp up the quality I think. I would really like to maintain this awesome closeness we recaptured this weekend. It's sublime!
So what do all you experienced married people out there do to maintain your friendships with your spouses? Enquiring minds NEED to know, lol!
The Almighty Liz

Let's Be Healthy!

Okay, I just saw a billboard for Hardee's that was announcing a new salad.
The Frito Chili Pie Salad.
Mmmm, healthy. I can just hear my thighs expanding by merely reading the name!
The Almighty Liz

Catching Up Once Again

Okay, fair warning; this will be a long post, and it will have lots of pictures.
So, the first reason I haven't posted in a hundred years is that I got sick. I've been well for a week and a half now, so the second reason I haven't posted is last week we had some friends stay with us for three days. It was way fun to have them, and we stayed busy busy busy!! So I spent the next few days recovering, lol! We went to the zoo, the St. Louis Mills Mall, a park....tons of things! They wanted the whole St. Louis experience, and they wanted it in three days!! Needless to say, we did our best, but they are coming for a second visit in July. ;)
Okay, so that wasn't that long of a post after all. On to the pics!!

Okay, these first few are from the first day at the park. It was St. Patrick's day, and we spent 2 hours trying to get to the Zoo, and gave up. There was some sort of race, and all the streets around the Zoo were closed off. But we found this really cool park by total accident!

This is Tiffany. She's gorgeous. This is our new ride! Yeah, baby!

Erik of course found the dinosaur almost immediately. He loooooves dinosaurs!

This teeter totter thing was a ton of fun. I'm afraid Tiffany and I hogged it quite a bit. When we got off, a stampede of little kids took it over.

Now we're at the Zoo the next day. It took us about 30 minutes to get there! Here's Erik totally enthralled with the monkeys.

Me and Erik. He hated having his picture taken!
Me doing the mommy thing. Wasn't my outfit cute? John didn't like it.

Me and Tiff.

Here's the one and only pic I got of Nancy. Here she is with her sister, Tiffany.

Here's Tiffany's daughter, Haley. She's adorable!

Haley and Erik. It was not a real great day for pictures.

Here's the only real good shot I got of the next day at the mall. They're such cutie pies.

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My Girl

It was wacky hair day a couple of days ago at school. This is what Jonni wanted to do with her hair. She's so cool.
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