Today's Miracle

With my life so busy wrapped around crop I haven't had much time to just listen to my kids talking. Yesterday Johnny finally let Erik pull out his tooth that has been nearing the falling out stage for three days now. It was so loose it didn't even bleed when it finally came out. He was so freaked about loosing this tooth. He has lost two before now so why this one was such a big deal I don't know. Anyway, I was laying in bed this morning and I heard Johnny go into Kimmie's room and say, "Kimmie wake up there has been a miracle. The tooth fairy left me a dollar, she really came." Kimmie much to Johhny's sadness says, "I know she has come for me too." Then she proceeds to fall back asleep. Johnny continues, "But Kimmie wake up she came to see ME!" So today's miracle is the tooth fairy came to see Johnny!!!

Getting to know you

Welcome to the 2009 edition of getting to know your friends and family. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to your friends/family INCLUDING the person who sent it too you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about them that you might not have known!
1. What time did you get up this morning 7:15
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema: It has been way to long to remember
4. What's your favorite TV show? lipstick jungle is my new favorite
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? nothing
6. What is your middle name? Joy
7. What food do you dislike? squash
8. What kind of car do you drive? Dodge Grandcaravan
9. Favorite sandwich? Turkey
10. What characteristic do you despise? liars
11. Favorite item of clothing? my stretchy cumfy pants
12. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Hawaii or Paris
13. Are you an organized person? I try to be
14. Where would you retire to? Probably in Utah boring I know
15. What was your most recent memorable birthday? Good memories or bad?
16. What are you going to do when you finish this? Finish reading all my e-mails
17. Furthest place you are sending this? Tennessee
18. Person you think will send back? Everyone hopefully
19. When is your birthday? Dec 24
20. Morning person or a night person? A night person
21. What is you shoe size? 10
22. Pets? A few fish
23. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? Crop is almost here!
24. What did you want to be when you were little? a Dancer or ice skater
25. How are you today? Wishing I was some where else.
26. What is your favorite flower? anything my husband buys for me
27. What are you listening to right now? some co-workers talking
28. What day on the calendar are you looking forward to? February 1st when crop is over for this year
29. The last thing you ate? A chocolate donut on the way to work (yes I had breakfast today despite the answer to #5)
30. Do you wish on stars? Yes
31. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Pink or Green
32. How is the weather right now? COLD!
33. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Bethany
34. Favorite soft drink? Diet Coke
35. What is your favorite thing to do outside? watch my kids play on the playground
36. Hair color? Blonde
37. What was your favorite toy as a child? Barbies
38. Summer or Winter? Summer
39. Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla
40. Coffee or tea? Neither
41. Do you want your friends to email you back? sure
42. When was the last time you cried? I don't know I cry way to often.
43. What is under your bed? A whole bunch of stuff
44. What did you do last night Worked on crop stuff and went out to eat for dinner
45. What are you afraid of? Heights
46. Salty or sweet? Always Sweets!
47. How many years at your current job? 4 1/2 years
48. Favorite day of the week? Saturday
49. Do you make friends easily? Sure
50. How many people will you send this too? I'm not sure
51. How many will respond? Don't know
52. Do you like finding out all this stuff about your friends/family? Yes

A New President

I have to admit I have not been the biggest Obama supporter. Okay, that is an understatement. The short of it is I am behind our president. I don't always agree with the positions he has taken in the past and I don't know that he is prepared for the job although he is our president and I will support him. I hope that he is able to inspire the country into fixing some of the major problems that we have and are headed for in the future. I have enjoyed the historic nature of this week and how far our country has come. Best of luck Barack Obama and our prayers are with you.

Crop Because You Care

I am really hopeful that one day my life will calm down. For now this is what I have been spending every spare minute of the day on. So please come and join me.

8th Annual

Crop Because You Care

Utah's Premier Scrapbook Event for Charity

Crop the day away and enjoy food, games and prizes. There will be gift bags for the first 300 registrants. Enter the raffle for a chance to win a get-away-weekend, bid for custom projects in our silent auction, as well as lots of other fabulous prizes!

Cost is $29.00 pre-registered -or- $35.00 at the door

Saturday, January 31st

10am to 10pm

South Towne Exposition Center

9575 South State Street, Sandy

You can register or print out forms on-line at www.epilepsyut.org.

Registration will close at 5:00pm on January 30th.

All proceeds benefit the Epilepsy Association of Utah

Thought for the day

I just was watching the movie Return to Me. So I am taking my thought for the day from that movie.

Hairly legs are your only link to reality.

Christmas Recap

I have been a little busy working on things for Crop and I haven't updated about our Christmas fun! We were so excited to have Erik's sister Lara come and stay with us for a couple days during the holidays. Christmas eve has always been a nightmare were our families are concerned. I love both families and both of them have their traditional dinners on Christmas Eve. Well with it being my birthday I feel really torn. A few years ago I determined that I was not going anywhere and they were going to have to come and see me. So this year my Mom did the Palmer party at her house the Saturday before Christmas (see Nativity post). That was really nice. On my birthday we had my traditional birthday breakfast with my family. Then we went to Hansen's for a Danish traditional Christmas dinner. I have to laugh at how cute Finn (my father-in-law) was about the whole thing. I can't believe how much he got into making sure that everything was just right. My kids enjoyed dancing around the Christmas tree the most. I am sure that this will be a Christmas they will remember for a long time. Then off to home and bed. First thing in the morning Santa had been to our home and brought lots of presents. Thank you to the extra Santa's for the extra goodies. My kids were really spoiled! The funny thing is that when Kimmie sat on Santa's knee this year she made sure to tell him that Grandpa, Grandma, and Aunt Lara would be at our house Christmas morning so he needed to make sure to bring stocking gifts for them too. Thank you to Mervyns sale I found really cute new stockings for the extra family to ensure that Santa could bring them something too! She is so cute to think of everyone. That is until Christmas morning. She torn through everything like a little tasmanian devil. Anything that had a letter K somewhere on the tag had to be for her. So she ended up unwraping my gifts. We braved the elements and took the normally 45 minute drive to Grandpa and Grandma's house in about an hour and a half. I was really relieved to actually arrive there. I felt a little guilty unwrapping presents and leaving only a little while after we got there but the roads were so bad getting there I didn't want to get stuck. Although we did a little of that too. We got stuck coming out of my parents house we couldn't get up the street. So thank you Erik, Mike and Dad for pushing my heavy minivan up the hill. I was really grateful to get home and spend a quiet evening just to our little family. Thank you everyone for making this a really nice and calm holiday.

Photos: The Palmer Grandchildren (minus Scott and Laurie) , Kimmie in her Tutu made by Grandma Marijo, Erik in Kimmie's tutu, Johnny with a few of his gifts Christmas morning.