wedding bells!

Congratulations to Tia Graybill and Jared Glover on their recent engagement!!!

They are planning on getting married May 10th.

yay!

"now they can get on with their happy lives" - Mamma D

yesterday afternoon i went sledding with my nephews and Dianne. it was so fun. i can't even remember the last time i went sledding. it snowed probably 8 inches at my house yesterday so it was perfect for sledding. we were the first ones at the park - which surprised me cause we didn't go until like 2:30. where were all of the kiddies hiding out? i remember when i was a kid i couldn't wait to get outside and make tracks in the snow. i guess times have changed.

the best part of sledding was when my nephew Chase came up to me and kept thanking me for being a good aunt and taking them sledding. he's so precious! and the most funny part of the afternoon was when we were leaving. Chase wears glasses and we had hung them on the fence so they wouldn't get broken while he was sledding. when he went to go get them, he couldn't see them hanging on the fence. it was so funny cause he kept walking by them and i thought - man, this poor kid, has to wear glasses, and then can't even find them when they are right in front of him. what a good sport.

not my post...but such a great idea!

*NOTE TO READER*

i stole this blog message from my friend Nells' blog this morning. she did such a great job on this post that i had to steal it. Forgive me, nells!

She wrote:
Have you ever thought about what your eulogy will be like? Or whom you would like to be the narrator of your life? Have you seen The Holiday? There is a point in the movie where Amanda (Cameron Diaz's character) hears a voice narrating her life. I have since decided whom I would like to be MY narrator. Not that I would like to hear a voice giving minute-by-minute details of my actions all day, everyday. But if, and this is a BIG if, my life was being played out on stage, I know exactly whom I would like sitting on the stool in the stage-right front corner, narrating my play: Robert Redford. A River Runs Through It may come to mind. Sundance Film Festival. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. His voice is velvety, soft and like butta! Love it. Really, if he ever just wanted to talk and talk and talk...I would definitely listen.

Chase's Baptism

So - my nephew Chase got baptised this last saturday. It was so much fun. Chase is such a good little guy and is fun to talk to becuase he has a lot of sass in his soul.

This is my oldest brother, Troy, with Chase before the baptsim. Chase's primary teacher, who happened to be the aunt of the other little boy that got baptised, gave a great talk on baptism and why we get baptised. Definitely strengthened my testimony.

After the baptism we all went over to his mom's apartment complex and had lunch in their club house. It was very posh and so fun to be with everyone.

anyone ever heard of liar's dice?
its a pretty fun game that i played last night with my roommate and some of our neighbors. if you've never heard of it - come over and we'll play sometime.
nothing like a little bluffing and trying to figure out if you know who has a good poker face or not.

the new year death march -

well, i ended 2007 on a death march and started 2008 on a death march.

on dec. 31 isaac, his friends pete & anna, and his roommate scott and i hiked 6.something miles into isaac's cabin - mostly in the freezing dark abyss of night.

this is isaac and i at the beginning of the journey - see us smiling? that didn't last long. besides - it was so dark you couldn't see anyone smiling.

we spent the night in his non-heated cabin, woke up, packed up, and hiked the 6.something miles out today. but today the sun was out while we hiked out and that made a HUGE difference in our journey. that and the fact that i knew we were going home and we were passing other outdoor enthusiasts on the way.

Pete and Anna got their new year's kiss in a little early.

my hips are sore, my face is sunburned and i feel dehydrated, but oh well. its 2008, right? and - not many people can say they've survived a new year's eve death march.

happy 2008.

isaac was trying to pick up some radio waves using his cross-country skis as antennas.