Life Happens

I didn't realize it had been so long until I had done the math. I hope I won't have such a lapse next time so just a few highlights for the last 6 months:
Rick finally got his RN
Marcus turned 1. He had no interest in the cake, he wanted to play with the lit candle

Libby was finally brave enough to get on the back with a lot of coaxing

We got rid of our lovely truck (yeah!), it was not fun to ride in while pregnant

Grandma Brown came for a visit

Libby turned 6

I turned, well you can see for yourselves

Marcus got his first haircut

On a final note we no longer have a cat. It really did belong to some one else. But we were glad to give him back to his rightful owner.

We Have A New Pet?!

About Thanksgiving time I put a turkey to defrost on the back porch. It is like my second fridge in the winter time. Any how I noticed that something was trying to get into my turkey and started looking around. This cat starts hissing at me from the bottom of the stairs in the yucky dark basement. So I move my turkey into the house and leave the back door open for a few days hoping that the cat would leave. I didn't hear from it again. Saturday night Jorie goes to get in the shower and she comes running out there is meowing coming from the vents. So I go to check it out and out comes this cat and he is hungry and not hissing at me. So I do what any person would do, I feed it. He was so pretty, I couldn't help it. Jorie kept calling me the crazy cat lady. Call Animal Control Mom! To my defense it was 10 p.m. So I do even better and go buy it cat food. Rick finally called the land lord today and asked if we could keep it and to our surprise she said yes. So this was what we did (b/c I wasn't touching it):


See, isn't he a pretty kitty. I think that someone is actually missing him. He uses a litter box and seemed to be on to us when we went to bathe him. We named him Zorro. We actually don't know his sex. It could be a girl.

On another note this is Marcus' favorite new face to make
And him begging for a drink out of Rick's cup. He seems to know that he will always get something good out of it.

It lives!

I was finally desperate enough for a camera that I dug out my old camera that I used in high school. The only draw back is that it is a film camera. It has been so long since I bought film that I had to research it before I made the plunge. I had to buy batteries, which was also an adventure. The sales woman finally asked me to just bring in my camera. The best part though is if I watch eBay I can find some awesome lenses for cheap (in a sense)!

Rick is finally done with his RN. We still have like 4 more years of school but he now can have a real job that makes decent money. We're just waiting for the school to release his records. I'm just going to go do it myself. I don't understand why it takes 3-4 weeks to be able to post grades and get a transcript. Can you tell, my patience has wore out!!

Scooby , Where Are You?

Rick has worked graves for over a year. You would think that I would be used to sleeping with out him at night. I have not. It took me at least 3 months to be able to go to bed before I fell asleep on the couch watching those murder mystery shows on Discovery channel. Somehow watching about Lizzie Borden before you go to bed doesn't make for a greats night sleep. I have however made progress, I can now sleep with out a light on and I have quit watching Discovery channel before I go to bed.

Is he or isn't he?

Well a few weeks ago I gleefully reported that my son was a new member of the church. I guess it is not so. There was an issue as to whether he went all the way under or not and now they have changed their minds on his covenant making process. Hmmm and President Stevenson is in Ghana until next week. It might be a while till it is official. I'll keep you posted.
You may have noticed that I have changed a few things. Libby was a little upset that she was on the internet naked. I said well then you shouldn't have been so excited to pose. And that is how your private collection of nude pictures end up on the internet. Your mother just it so excited to show what you have done.
Also please take a moment to make your opinion official. With out your vote we won't know where to go. It all depends on you!!

One Step Closer

What a relief, Rick passed one of his major tests so he can move on and be nurse Ricky. That means that we just have boards left in February to take so we can be done with this stage. It just means that he can get a better paying job. But never fear we still have 3 more semesters for our BSN and another year or two for our masters. You like how I say we, I think it only appropriate. So now he's trying to decide were he wants to go. Right now his choices are these: Alaska, California and as always Colorado.
So Halloween was fun and I wished that I had a camera. Alex wanted to be the blue power ranger but I couldn't find anything "cheap" (meaning under $5) so he ended up with superman pajamas. He was a little disappointed but once he realized it had a cape we were all good. Libby's was the best deal she wanted to be a cat and so I found her some cat ears and a tail for $2.00, what a find!!
Gus was mad b/c he wanted to be the grim reaper and he had to be Dracula, I promised him next year he could be the grim reaper.
On other notes of poopiness, I am getting tired of cleaning it up or off of someone. It seems that every time I turn around it is either ooozing out of Marcus or Alex just needs his pants changed. His days are numbered. It is time for him to move on.

Newest Church Member

Congratulations to Gus, he was baptized yesterday. We are so proud of him and the decision he made to be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. He had to go twice though, his elbow kept popping up but we finally got him immersed.