Mother's Day

Another Mother's Day and another day full of wonderful memories. It all started yesterday actually when Cortney and Michelle brought me a beautiful pot full of flowers for my patio. They BBQ Tri-tip steaks and they hung out with me all evening. Today we got up early and went to church. Yes! Cort too! We all met at Dave and Sharyl for photos then over to the church we went. Although I am not a big church going person, it was a nice feeling sitting in church with Jason and Cortney sitting next to each other and the two of them entertaining Stella during Sacrament Meeting.

After church with Jason and Tawni, I did my favorite thing to do with Cortney. We went for a Harley ride over to Snow Canyon and back. It was about 94 degrees out and a perfect day for a motorcycle ride. I even left my helmet at home I was so excited to have the wind blowing in my hair again!



We got home just in time for everyone to show up to my house for dinner. Dave, Sharyl, Andrea, Jason, Tawni, Stella and I had dinner together and later Jared showed up after a weekend in Vegas.



After dinner Sharyl and I opened our presents from Jason and Tawni. I got a gift card for a Spa Pedicure and Sharyl and I both got this adorable black and white picture of Little Stella's little derrier' waiting to get into the bath. It is such an adorable little photograph!



After dinner an ddessert we played a rousing game of Scrabble. Tawni kicked butt. When Henrik was here last we played International Scrabble so he could put a Danish word on the board, but tonight it was just plain old American Scrabble.



Everyone left around 9:00 pm. and I am crashing after a long and wonderful day. Now, the focus becomes the trip again...Henrik and I won't talk to each until I land in Billund, DK on Friday of this week as he is working in Sweden until Thursday, returning to DK on Friday early a.m.. I am so excited to see him again and start our fabulous drive through South Europe.



I love you all, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

The Other Stella!

So, Tawni stopped by with Stella today looking all cute in her little green skirt and white shirt. Cort and Michelle decided to turn on the back sprinklers and run through them with Stella. We didn't have a swimming suit or a hat for her so I took my Kasey Kahne scarf and we made a Do-Rag hat for her to protect her head from burning. Before we took her outside, we dressed her up with all my old Kasey Kahne NASCAR stuff just to make her dad mad, after-all, he's a Jeff Gordon/Jimmy Johnson fan! She loved the little red die-cast Kasey Kahne car and would push it along making a car noise like an engine revving! Once outside, she played on the ghetto lawn chair, removed everything she could from the patio to the lawn, including the bag of mesquite BBQ chips you'll see her handing to her daddy. Cort taught her how to use the squirt bottle as a weapon which she loved. Before it was over, she was covered in grass, had mud between her toes, and my backyard looked like a train wreck! She had so much fun!

Already Missing This Perfect Little Face

It was Grammie night tonight. We changed from Thursdays to Wednesday's so I could give my undivided attention to the people I love most in my life! She and I walked down to a ladies house who lives in Coral Canyon and does some alterations and clothing repairs. On our way back, we stopped at the little "pocket park" and played on the playground. All dressed in yellow, she looked so summer like. We had so much fun and then it hit me...I am going to be gone for almost 3-weeks! I will miss you so much Stella! I know I will have a wonderful time in Europe and Henrik and I have been apart more than 2 months so I'm very excited to see him, but, my heart will miss this little house mouse so much!

So much fun...

Insanity has taken over...

I have never been so busy in my life. Moving across the country seemed more calm and organized than my life has been the last few months! Don't get me wrong, I love every minute of it! However, keeping up with my Blog and Facebook seem to be falling by the wayside...I had a HUGE, GINORMOUS, GARGANTUA slide show that was downloading so I could share with you all that has been going on and POOF! It's somewhere in the black hole of lost Internet data...I'll try again another night but here are some highlights:
Craig, Mei, and Kaden came over Wednesday while I was watching Stella so the kids could play together. When Jason and Tawni came to get her, we all just hung out with the kids.

I had Stella again on Friday night and she and I went on a little nature walk in the neighborhood. She is so dang cute, cars were stopping to watch her march along the sidewalk like a little Diva checking out the flowers. Check out the picture where she's wearing my old glasses..Ha!

Saturday was Andrea's Post College Graduation celebration. They had it at the Coral Canyon club house so it was nice and close. Right now she is staying with Dave and Sharyl and she'll be heading to Salt Lake in a few weeks to hopefully get her first job as a real Teacher!

Today I went for a fabulous hike at the Chuckwalla Trailhead. The desert flowers were in bloom and so pretty. There were rock climbers, big lizards, an aerial dog-fight between a Raven and a Hawk which was amazing (the Raven won), and squirrels. It was the first time I had hiked that trail and wasn't disappointed at all. After the hike in the desert, I drove up to Silver Reef which is just North of where I live to check out a camp ground called Oak Grove. It was 9 miles on a dirt road...you should see my car!!

I got alot of things done today to prepare for my trip. Trying to make sure I have all the necessary electrical components for my laptop, Blackberry and hair appliances has bordered on hysterical. Thanks Scott for helping me sort through all of the pieces, parts, and gadgets that we had accumulated over the years but wasn't sure what all of them went too! I'm in good shape now, and happy I don't have a thing I have to buy!

So here's at least some of pics from the last week. They actually start from today and work backwards...another sign that I'm losing it! I'll try to stop in here to say goodbye before I leave on May 14th...
Love you all!

Girlfriends, Family and 85 Degrees This Weekend!

Sunday was such a gorgeous summer day! It was Jarod's Birthday (Tawni's brother) so everyone went to Dave and Sharyl's for dinner and pie. We all sat around the pool watching Jason drive Stella around in her little car that Santa left at Grammie LaLa's house last Christmas. She was laughing so hard and having so much fun. And, just in case you hadn't heard, Michelle and Cort are now seeing each other! Jason's favorite joke is that if they hit if off and there's a wedding I'll be both the Mother of the Groom and the Maid Of Honor, HaHa. Thanks again Sharyl for serving such a great meal and including us in the festivities.






























Saturday it was a GNO Sleepover at my house! Michelle, Heidi and Heather came with pillows, pj's, movies, margaritas, pedicure/manicure kits and TONS of food. We laughed, talked, watched 3 movies and painted toenails. Heather and I were the last ones awake and at 3:30 a.m. we finally went to bed!! Heidi made the BEST artichoke dip I have ever had and I HATE ARTICHOKES!! It was too die for. I made baked potato skins and we had shrimp, chips and cookies! We were filling our faces until all hours of the morning. We definately will be doing this again.




















Last Friday Night Tawni and her neighbor/girlfriend Joelle planned a GNO for the two of them, me and Joelle's Mom Karen. We went to Karens amazingly beautiful home and enjoyed snacks and a 4 hour game of Phase 10. I am so lucky to now have two more wonderful ladies I can add to my list of friends here in St. George. We all had so much fun together and can't wait to do it again soon. Jason watched Stella so Tawni had the night off...We didn't get home until 1:30 in the morning. It was awesome, thanks Tawni!!