Blessed Beyond Belief

please don't take my computer.

I have an idea for a documentary /60 minutes /experiment type thing. Film the day of an ordinary person using their computer for all the things we do throught the day. I realize that some use theirs more than others. It's incredible to think about what our life was like 10 years ago before the internet and home PC's were part of daily life. Part two of the day in a life of an ordinary person - take away their computer. Now, have them complete these tasks - check their bank balance, get the news, respond to an email from a long lost friend, get directions to a new doctors office, find the correct spelling of a word that you always stumble on, get movie times, have your pictures from your digital camera printed, book your airline tickets for the holidays, and get enough information on the influenza virus for 5th grade homework. Weird, huh? Some of you may say, I don't use the computer for some/all of those things. But I guarentee that when my kids are adults, it will be very difficult (if not impossible) for them to do any of those tasks without internet access.

Well, I still have my computer and internet connection, but our website has been down for two days now. Which causes our email to be down. I'm anxious thinking about all the emails I might be losing. Everything from reports from teachers, scheduling of a dr appt, ebay business, party rsvps, ect. If they were sent in the last couple of days, there's a good chance they are lost. Oh well. The other day I told my mom that I wanted to live with the amish. Do the amish have computers?

the fun never stops

Well, I just read two of the funniest blog posts ever by my awesome multi talented sister in laws! So I figured I'd better do some updating of my own.

We had a great time with M&C and Jeremy. Got around quite a bit - I'm sure Marshall could tell you all about the trees here. Let's see - we did the Tuna Kure, hung out in boise, went to Russell's last football game that they won!, made a full on turkey dinner, Watched Catalina get a little too friendly with Casey, went on a train ride pumpkin patch deal, witnessed catalina contort her body into seemingly impossible positions for the sake of the baby's belly and discovered Jeremy's first tooth! Those were just the highlights - we really are so happy that they came to stay.

Once they left we had to get right back into day to day stuff. It was nice though to have that weekend off from pizza making. With the amount of business we are doing, it's hard to keep enough stock. At this very moment, we have more sold than are available. But we are taking card of that this weekend. This is a very exciting time for the business and lots of different things will need happen very soon if we are to move ahead.

Tonight we hand delivered invitations to six girls who Autumn is inviting to her slumber party next friday. She has never had a slumber party so I figured for her 10th birthday we would go for it. Russell has had a few sleepover parties. I remember one where there were about 10 boys out in the tent trailer. Tim waited out in the yard for them to go to sleep. He finally got tired of waiting, I think the dew was settling in, and he made them stop the madness and go to sleep. or at least quiet down so the people on the freeway could drive in peace. Well, this time there is no outdoor option for sleeping and these are girls. It can't be that painful, right....? I'll report back on this next weekend.

Please pray for me.

I will miss him.

I have a bunch to write, but not tonight. For now - just know that I'm soooo happy that M&C brought Jeremy here. He reminds me a bunch of Marshall when he was a baby. And I will miss him a lot.

Real quick...

I've got a million and two things on my list this week.

Excited to see Marshall and Catalina and most of all Jeremy!!! They come on Wednesday.

On saturday Tim bought some insulated heavy duty roll around in the snow and still not freeze anything off overalls. They slip over his clothes and are for the below freezing mornings in the yard since he's at work at 6am. toto - we're not in southern california anymore....

Yesterday we did 6 batches of crusts. Dude, that's like 350 pizza crusts - ALL handmade!

Oh, and this weekend Russell taught Tim how to 'Lean like a Cholo'! :) Except it comes out more like - a white boy flapping his wings in the chicken dance.

We are driving - Will out of the blue says to Tim - 'dad, if you really love mom, you will let her go'. UHH??
I asked him where he heard that and he said - 'Shrek 2'. So I said, Will-where would I go? He said, 'shopping for groceries'. Yep, that's about as far as I get.

We don't need to catch a flu virus, we make our own! Autumn is part of a 'clinic' in school for science. She is the infectious disease specialist. This is her virus model. It even has antibodies on it. Scary thing is, we only had to buy the ball for this. The rest was already here.

See that little world map in the right hand column?

It's very interesting if in fact it is right. Seems to be. The most amount of hits comes from SoCal and where I live. Rightly so. I expected that. But there are some that really make me rack my brain to try and figure who the heck I know (or knows me) in some of the areas pinpointed.

Let's see - I'll start at the west and head east. - i think- (don't laugh mike)! The first is Hawaii, then Anchorage, Vancouver, then, skipping the US we head on over to what looks like the UK, Sweden or Denmark, and finally, Australia. *and yes, I do know that alaska and hawaii are part of the US* :p

So um, I KNOW I haven't gotten any comments from those places, nor have I had those close to me tell me that they've forwarded my link onto anyone in a far far away land.

So PLEASE come out and let me know who you are, if you know me or whatever! :) I would love to know how my blog is making it's way around the globe! You don't even have to do the whole fancy comment section if you don't want to. email me! [email protected]