Time Passes Quickly

I just realized that it has been a month since I made my resolve to blog more often. Stay tune to our cruise, Dale's graduation, our trip to Washington State to send the troops off and our little Kitten who is now a 10 pound 7 month old kitten... stay tune for more!!! promise...

Finally

I think I am ready to start writing in my blog. I will try to post something starting once a week. I have a whole lot to catch up with and not sure I will get there to it all however I am going to give it the ole' cowgirl try. So until then...

Weird Dream

I rarely dream and when I do its really vivid and strange. This dream was vivid and humerous, so I just had to share.

The dream went like this.... dale had bought a hummer from the military. Dale thought that was a great way to teach my sister Maren how to drive stick. We gathered up mar and her husband and myself and dale to go out to the desert. dale hopped into the hummer with mar and they took off for a lesson. They came back and mar was all excited because she was doing such a good job at it. dale said it was time she could take it down the road a little. mar drove off by herself and all of a sudden we saw the hummer fall off the edge of the cliff... We all ran over to see if she was ok and looked down the cliff and saw her standing there looking at the little pieces of the hummer around her. apparently when she drove off the cliff, the hummer broke into such small pieces. dale was like... you broke my hummer and now you and debbie are in timeout and told us to go stay in the hotel and not to come out for 2 hours. dale and mikey went to their own room with all the pieces of the hummer. i walked into their room and was watching them put the pieces together... it was so funny i woke up laughing.....

Happy Anniversary to the one I love!

On September 11th 2003 I married my friend and love of my life. It has been a marriage with lots of battles and good times. I love my husband more today than I ever did back when I married him. I think that is what marriage and troubles do is it makes you bond closer. Dale is the most kind and caring husband. There is not a week that goes by without him calling me his angel or telling me that he is doing everything he can so that I won't have to work, because I deserve it. Our life is about to change with getting a foster daughter, however we are bonding more because of it and our life will become better.

I know this post is not something that you normally see, however I wanted put this in writing for my records. Happy Anniversary Baby! Love you PUP!

ok..i know...i need to update...

update...on life...

Wow!!! life has a way of passing by and fast. Our family has been going through a lot lately. Mary, my sister in law. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and a lot of thought and prayers has been going in her behalf. She had a mastecomy and is going to be starting chemo soon. I believe that things will be going really well and she will beat this thing. I am amazed how this cancer word sends sharp pains into every soul. Our family has been hit hard in the last few years, but our family is strong and we will make it over this.

As for Dale and I. We are getting ready to do a foster adopt little girl. We have this room ready and it just seems the thing we need to do. Call it inspiration, or craziness it is what we are doing. It will be a challenge and we are trying to figure out the child care thing. That in itself is a hard thing. It will be good and we will grow stronger as a family for sure.

I have so much to blog and am hoping to start updating my blog... my guess I will start this weekend.

hum...

I am loving my new notebook. It allows me to go anywhere in the house and play on the computer. My goal is to get my blog completely updated by next week. ThenI will be updating my cooking blog. I have so many fun recipees to enter with photos!!! Stay tune...

Yippeee... a new notebook computerd

Boy, I have set that goal to update my blog and wouldn't you know my laptop pretty much blows up and so I try another used one and it just was not going to happen. So I purchased a Toshiba nbj205. It was on sale for 349 and orginally it went for over 400. I just happen to have been there at the right time since the sale ended tomorrow. So I will be learning all the ins and outs of this new windows system and see how to download pictures and so forth, then I will be updating like a mad woman....

Yikes!!! I am so behind...

I can't believe it has been so long since I have wrote anything. I have a summer of activities to write about include the finishing about our camping trip. I starting anew and will be adding more each week. My goal is to having 2 new things a week on my blog. We will see how life will go...stay tune for more!

Camping Trip to Jordanelle

Dale, Dan and I decided that we needed to do a mini camping trip. Dale rented a little trailer from the Guard and Dan slept in Dales Cabelas cot ten by the fire. The trailer was tiny however we had so much fun fishing, sitting around the camp fire talking and cooking great food. It was a fun relaxing time. We will have to do this yearly. The following pictures are of the inside of the trailer.

Like I said the trailer was really small... Dale decided that he would take naps in the little bunk above the bed. I tried however and it was just too tight. Don't understand how he slept there.

These are pictures from our campsite...it was beautiful and I was a sneezing fool.

These are of our boy Shadow, he had a great time, a little worried he would find a skunk but he didn't.

Oh My!!!

I cannot believe how long it has been since I have posted anything on my blog. I have so much to tell you and pictures to post. I have this yummy soup recipee that I will be posting also. I just got a new lap top, faster and so I will be working my fingers to the bone this weekend to get everything entered...

Scary Dream

It's so unusual for me to dream and when I have dreams they are so vivid. Well last night I had another dream. Here is the setting....

Dale, Dan, I and another person which I could not identify went to a beach to boogy board or surf. It was an different type of beach, but it was fun. All of a sudden I look back at Dale standing on the beach and he is in full combat gear, including his armor. He was motioning me, with some urgency, to come in. I looked around for Dan and the other person and could not find them. I took a huge wave and came flying in to the beach. I began to run to Dale and he grabbed my hand and started running. I looked out to the beach one more time to check for Dan. I saw an island and a bunch of guys with 50 cals. They started shooting at us as we were running. Bullets were hitting Dales armor but they weren't hurting him... I woke up in a panic, checked to see if Dale was ok and looked at my cell phone and it said 3:30. I went and got a drink of water and tried to fall back to sleep... I was so scared. I am glad it was not real life.

My husband at work

This is a clip talking about soldier suicide... They are working hard at this subject, during this clip however, it shows dale and his buddies playing volleyball...enjoy
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=7790081

Temple Usher Experience

I had the most awesome experience yesterday. I was able to be an usher at the Oquirrh Mountain LDS Temple. I arrived at the stake center behind the temple at 2pm. I had to take some leave for work, however we were told that we would be blessed for doing so. I walked into the chapel at the Stake center and I was greeted by the happiest group of people I have ever met. They gave me my number and a usher badge and told me to go find my number on these maps in the wall. I went to the map and was looking at this huge space and my number right in the center of it. One of the sisters told me I must have done something right because I was going to be in the celestial room. My heart soared and my eyes got teary. I have heard so much about the chandelier in there and I thought, oh good I have 4 or 5 hours of piece and looking at every inch of the room. I was not prepared for the intensive spiritual experience I had however. I started walking to the temple, not sure how to get to my station, I climbed stairs, went down stairs and looking at everything i could possibly do. It was beautiful. I finally arrived at the celestial room and my jaw dropped, air escaped me and I thought I was going to pass out. For some reason the spirit was just pounding in me (even though the temple has not been dedicated, I believe that heavenly father was there). I asked the current usher if there was anything I needed to do, received my instruction and was beaming from ear to ear. For about the first 1/2 hour, I am not sure if I saw one person, my head was cocked upward toward the star chandelier and the stars on the windows. (side thought: it cost over 250 thousand dollars, the chairs are back so when you sit you stare up) Then it happened... tears flowed... and flowed... Most of the night I had tears in my eyes. Not just me however... i had a little girl in a wheelchair, the minute she was rolled into the room, she told her mom that this is what heaven will be like when she gets there, she got the chills... tears again... I had non members ask me to bear my testimony on the celestial room and the temple, members that had not been through the temple ask what I do in there.. again tears...watery eyes... It was interesting that you could feel the spirit leave when people who didn't believe and didn't care or feel what most people felt walking into the room. It was lost and then once they left it was back again. All the little kids had to feel the carpet, I thought it was cute, the adults just asked me questions, not all I could answer. I remember a few people coming in and just wanted to stay there because they could feel something and they weren't members. I was asked several times what I did to get the celestial room to usher, my answer was .... I am feeling very blessed. Several times I had this intense smell of strong rosees. I asked if anyone could smell the roses and they told me they could not smell anything. I believe my mom was there (I always smell roses when she is near). I was happy to have her there for those moments she could. We were suppose to be quiet sentinels, however in this room it was hard to not share how I believed and I think that was why I was there. I just am so thankful I had this opportunity to share in this open house. My testimony of temples has been strengthened more than I can share. I love my heavenly father and am sure that this was an experience I needed to have. All I can say is...WOW!!!

P.S. My cheeks are so sore from smiling. I could not keep from smiling, again it believe it was the spirit.