FRUMPY FRIDAY

Today I am feeling a little frumpy. Huhoney had a difficult time recovering from our Alaskan adventure and was out of sorts for a few days. I so bravely told him I NEVER get sick. That I have a STRONG IMMUNE system and the last time I was sick with a bug was 3 years ago and it lasted 2 days. HA......he reminded me verbally at midnight when I was not in my bed but.....well you get the picture. SORRY! My tummy and I had a huge fight....but I was determined to get up and go to the office today because my boss told me yesterday, that it was "essential" that I be here because...3other people had the day off and there would only be 2 of us in the office. Hmmm what do you do when you are sick and your boss tells you to be here? Especially after being gone for 10 days....well you bring a bowl with you to work, and a blanket and a pillow and pray you don't embarress yourself in front of him. Or pray that you do so that he feels really bad! LOL Don't get me wrong, I like my boss, he looks a little like the Monopoly Man
and is a nice guy, but can be a little "bossy". Well I have made it through the day, so far, and feel like I am going to live. Huhoney went fishing this morning with a friend. If he knew I had gone to work he would be really mad at me! Well fortunately it was a very quiet day in the office, not many phone calls and not many people coming in, so all is well. I am going to take off an hour early because I didn't take a lunch hour. I am either a martyr', stupid, or a great employee (?). Which ever...thank goodness this day is almost over and I can go home and flop into Huhoney's big comfy chair with a blankie and look forward to the weekend. Hopefully I will be up to getting caught up on posting pics of our vacation in the next day or two. Thanks for popping in to check up on me. Sorry I didn't post anything really FUN today lol. Looks like this bug even got the best of Granny!

WACKY WENESDAY

I have returned!
It was a wonderful exhausting 10 days. 10 days I would not have traded for anything in the world. Our visit and adventure to Alaska was everything it was said to be. I only have 334 pictures to sift through before posting them. Stories to tell and miles of smiles to share. My blogger friends, I have missed you and for the last 2 days have been reading and reading and reading trying to catch up. It is very difficult to get back into the swing of going to the office each day, when all I want to do is catch up on a little sleep! So for now my friends, I will just have to say....may another day come my way until then, be well!
The morning we all headed to the airport I took a few pics of the little ones. They were all excited because they were going on their very first airplane ride! There was business to be taken care of and chasing them down outside Mom even handed them all their toothbrushes, that is what they were doing as I took this pic. Here is Huhoney, Ryan, Owen, Lauren and Camille.

All business was taken care of and then we were on our way! More to come...lot's more to come!!!

TWO IN A ROW!

Oh my goodness, what has gotten into me? Two days in a row and a new post to boot! I am writing a little (oh my, I never write a little!) because I am not sure if I will be able to write tomorrow. I seldom have news each day so I try and write every other day. But the time is so short this week and I WILL BE GONE FOR 10 DAYS. YES MY BLOGGER BUDDIES, 10 WONDERFUL, EXCITING, probably EXHAUSTING days on a journey of a life time! (can you tell I don't get out much hehehehe)

Behind the huhoney. Many years ago when our children were very small my husband (Bob) the strong silent man that he is, would make a statement and always look at me and say HUHONEY? as if looking for confimation that I agreed with him. Well weather I agreed or not per say, I would agree. It just became a habit of sort and I also began to pick up on looking for confirmation to statements (especially when the children were around) so that everyone would know that mom and dad were on the same page....HUHONEY started to become a term of endearment and even know that the children are grown and we are empty nesters, HUHONEY (as I refer to him) is still very much a part of our vocabulary! So if you see me refering to HUHONEY it is the "husband", the other half of me who makes me whole!


HUHONEY and I try and keep up with a bicycle ride 2 or 3 times a week, just to keep the ole bones in shape. The town has hundreds of miles of bicycle trails, and even if you don't use the trails the roads are very bike friendly.



One ride just around the corner of our home that overlooks the little town we live in, there is a golf course (so beautiful) one of many that this area is so well known for. We went on an approximate 4 mile ride.


On our way back home, going through the golf course it was the beginning of dusk and lights of the small city were beginning to appear. The sprinklers were watering the lawns and we knew that we were going to get a little wet. It was very refreshing...other than my derrière was splattered with water from my bikes rear tire! The evening could not have been more perfect. It was a cool, slightly breezy evening. I did not want it to end! With 96 degree temperatures during the day, we revel in cool evenings when we have them! On the east side of town in the distance, on a hillside you can see the big letter "D" (look at the top of the hill in the center of the picture) which stands for "Dixie".
This town (Saint George, Utah) is known as "Dixie". I have no idea why it is that everywhere that you go in Utah, every town you pass through will mark somewhere on a hillside the letter of their town! I will start taking pictures and post them to let you all see the different letters on hillsides. For all I know it may not be weird at all; do other towns do this in other states and cities? Not all towns light their letters, but ours does. It also signifies the college here "Dixie State College", and "Dixie High School". Know that I have brought this up, I am going to do a little more research as to why we do this!

So...I want you all to know (my wonderful blog-buddies) I am alive and well and will be enjoying a 7 day ALASKAN cruise with my son and his family. We will spend 2 days in beautiful Seattle WA seeing sights there. I will not be looking at any internet or answering any phones for 10 days. Just enjoying the beauty of God's world in another part, other than my own! I am sure that I will have a gazillion pictures when I return on the 15th of June. My dilemma then will be what pictures to post and hours of catching up to do reading all my favorite blog-buddies posts. So until the 15th.....be safe my friends!

HUHONEY has a hard time keeping his peepers open for pictures...I guess the flash is too much! hehehehe
I am SO EXCITED! hugs to everyone......

oh yes...my tiny, tiny, tiny garden,
(of which consists of zuchinni plants, 2 tomatoe plants and some strawberries) I am sure when we return we will have sprouts of zuchinni as they have begun to bloom! This is NO comparison (which I covet my blogger buddies gardens)to freshly plowed dirt, and weeds and endless rows of yummy carrots and other veggies (we use to do the HUGE garden when we had an acre of land to play in) this will have to do .... lol

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT!

We can be dragged kicking and screaming into a future we did not choose, or we can live the change that gives our life passion. The place is here. The time is now. THE SKY'S THE LIMIT


My son Micheal, finally gave into what I think he feared. I remember for many many many years he would tell his dad and I that he always wanted to skydive, so a year ago....yes a year ago on his 35th birthday, we presented him with a gift certificate to go and do a tandem jump. Where he lives (close by there is a little airport) and it is there, he finally decided to DO IT (a year later) on his 36th! Before the gift certificate expired!
Thought he had better since it cost us a penny or two! He said that he wasn't at all afraid, until he was seated in the plane, then the young man (his partner he was strapped to (24 years young) who has been doing this for 4 years, usually 2 or 3 times a day, let him know....they were ready! He said he was fine until that point....then it hit him...his heart started racing and he knew he was in for the time of his life....or his life for a time!
BRAVE Mikie! and his sweet wife and 3 children watched on the ground as hubby and daddy FELL from 13,000 feet! What a go Mikie! Looks like you had a great time, wish I could have been there to witness, but I will see you this week and you can tell us all about it AGAIN! Do you notice that the instructor had a helmet and gloves on? Maybe Mike wanted to feel the wind through his hair lol. He said that at 13,000 feet they would hit pockets of warm and cold air. What an exciting experience. It was all over within just a few minutes but will last him a lifetime! Glad you had an awesome time! Hey....and if my other 2 children think I am playing favorites..well you had better get me some pics so I can also brag about you! LOL, ya know I love you all my awesome, beautiful, funny, "special" other children LOLOLOLOL




Now how are you going to top this one off next year???