Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Give Away!
Check out this new site! It features a give away every day. Pretty cool. Sorry I haven't posted since Sept... oops.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
NEW JOB!
Well, here we are. I was all geared up to substitute teach and I spent a lot of time getting all of that in order, and now I'm doing something completely different... anyone surprised? I got hired on at Marpac Construction LLC. I am actually going to be re-doing their website... ooo, I know huh!! All by myself! ;) So be sure to check out their website right now and then I'll tell you when I'm finished so you can see the amazing transformation (haha). I am working in the office here in Seattle until the job I'm working on starts. I'll be in the office at the job site pretty much being the good ol' attendance lady that I am... except with adults. I have to check in all of the construction workers and make sure I know where they are and that they come back after lunch, etc. So I am a tracker! :) I'll do some office work when I'm not hunting people down. Sounds like fun, right? It was a great opportunity for me to get consistent work in and good pay while also being given flexibility as they know I can only work until March, but they hired me anyway! I'm excited to see how this goes and am very thankful to be an employed, contributing member of society after my 3 month sabbatical from reality.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Attack of the spiders
Okay, it didn't attack me, but this thing was so huge and gross! Seriously... SICK! I just had to share. I swear, I have been killing a few spiders a day, it is so icky.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Pictures!
I've updated my Picasa albums... I had to delete some albums to make room for the new one, so if you are slow on the uptake, sorry, better luck next time. ;)
We (mom, Kaya, Elizabeth and I) just got back from our one week visit to Grangeville, ID to visit Tod, Annatha, Fox, and Axel. It was so much fun and so great to see everyone! Enjoy the pictures and random videos!!
AND... by the way... mom's a senior citizen! WOO HOO!!! :) Denny's here we come. :)
Monday, August 04, 2008
New Pics
Make sure you check out my picasa albums: http://picasaweb.google.com/rach3vb
I just added a bunch of photos from my visit to UT in June.
Knee report, in case anyone really cares... haha, j/k, of course you're dying to know I'm sure! I am doing great, energy is comin back... my knee is doing well and my PT doc gives me two thumbs up and 5 gold stars on my progress... :) (I might have stretched that a bit, but no joke, he really did say he was impressed with my knee doing so well so early on!)
Love you all, miss you too! (and that probably means YOU too since I don't live with anyone!)
I just added a bunch of photos from my visit to UT in June.
Knee report, in case anyone really cares... haha, j/k, of course you're dying to know I'm sure! I am doing great, energy is comin back... my knee is doing well and my PT doc gives me two thumbs up and 5 gold stars on my progress... :) (I might have stretched that a bit, but no joke, he really did say he was impressed with my knee doing so well so early on!)
Love you all, miss you too! (and that probably means YOU too since I don't live with anyone!)
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Kaya's Birthday
WOW... I know I haven't posted pretty much anything for a really long time. Sorry about that... this is just a preview of things to come. With my knee surgery, I figure I will blog to make up for lost time and inform you of past events. :) To start off, here's the most recent event in the family, my niece Kaya turned 10.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Pre-Christmas
Here we are enjoying the lights that Stoney took months to put up. There were soooo many! It was so beautiful! This place is off of 520 in east Bellevue. Koll really just cared most about the cookies.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Baby sex determiner...
The results are in... everyone of mom's kids ended up being the sex they were supposed to be except for Troy. Sorry, Troy. You always have looked good in a headband. :)(hahaha... Melissa- remember when we dressed him up like a girl with a headband and put makeup on him? One of my fondest memories from childhood...)
Just thought I'd share this with the rest of the class. Clearly, 65% means, well, not so much... but it's fun!
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Two Wolves
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Addendum
Okay, so, an explanation is in order... the draw backs are more than a few...
Sooo this is Wednesday night and Shane, Whitney, and Koll are scheduled to fly in. The plan was that mom was supposed to pick them up (something like 5:20) and bring them to my house where I would have purchased papa murphy's pizza... yes, my alma mater... haha, and Melissa would at that point also be at my house with her three children. We could then have some pizza together and then head to the sonics game with tickets already purchased for a pretty good deal ($14/ea when the seats were normally $42/ea). Sooo, I have also offered to have a missionary lesson at my house for a female investigator (for the church) and that was at 4... which should work out fine considering people weren't coming over until like 5:30 or 6pm. So I pick up the pizza and the missionary lesson commences when my phone starts ringing at 5 something... when I went back to my room to check on it (lesson still going on without me of course in the other room), I had 4 or so missed calls. Most from Melissa and the most recent from mom, so I call mom back. She is panicked... "Shane hasn't answered his phone, they aren't at the airport, what am I supposed to do... what's Whitney's number... ETC..." pretty much yelling in complete freak out mode... (mom, sorry, don't take offense to this post, it's just the reality of the situation)... sooo I try to calm her down, tell her there's nothing she can do and that eventually Shane will call her because he will most likely want to leave the airport at some point. So now to Melissa... I call her back and apparently her car is overheating... but she also needed directions to my house. Soooo... for some odd reason I am trying to help her get to my house via Kaya (her 9 year old daughter)... this by the way, proved to be very ineffective... pretty much everything I said was ignored and Kaya would inform me of the new street they were on and it was always a street even further away from my house. So eventually Melissa wises up and talks to me herself (I'm leaving out all the fun and frustrating details of trying to help someone and give them directions all the while as they are doing exactly the opposite of what I tell them to do). Sooo... of course, I'm talking on the phone helping family emergencies and I'm embarrassed that I, the host, has completely abandoned the missionary lesson. They actually left, yes, left, before I even came out. A friend, Ryan, was still here... but nonetheless, I was a little flustered and embarrassed that I was hiding in my room on the phone. So eventually Melissa and the kids get here. I had turned on the oven to preheat it between some of the phone calls so I go to put the pizza in... however, the oven is stone cold. Perfect. Oh also, in between a conversation with Melissa, or Kaya, rather, I talked to mom who was still freaking out and I had to call the airline for her and find out if Shane and Whit's flight was delayed... which it was (until 6:35) so they were definitely going to show up to my house well after the game had already started. But really who cares because the pizza won't even be ready anyway! So Ryan lives really close, so we take the pizza over there and bake a pizza and bring it to my house while the next one is cooking. Melissa is at my house by this point and they are able to start eating while we finish baking all of it. Shane and Whit and Koll and mom show up and by that time all three pizza's are finally done. So we eat, leave, park and get into the game with 4 or 5 minutes left in the third quarter. Hahaha... very funny to look back at but it was quite the evening... BUT, all worth it, 'cause my family's the BEST! :)
Sooo this is Wednesday night and Shane, Whitney, and Koll are scheduled to fly in. The plan was that mom was supposed to pick them up (something like 5:20) and bring them to my house where I would have purchased papa murphy's pizza... yes, my alma mater... haha, and Melissa would at that point also be at my house with her three children. We could then have some pizza together and then head to the sonics game with tickets already purchased for a pretty good deal ($14/ea when the seats were normally $42/ea). Sooo, I have also offered to have a missionary lesson at my house for a female investigator (for the church) and that was at 4... which should work out fine considering people weren't coming over until like 5:30 or 6pm. So I pick up the pizza and the missionary lesson commences when my phone starts ringing at 5 something... when I went back to my room to check on it (lesson still going on without me of course in the other room), I had 4 or so missed calls. Most from Melissa and the most recent from mom, so I call mom back. She is panicked... "Shane hasn't answered his phone, they aren't at the airport, what am I supposed to do... what's Whitney's number... ETC..." pretty much yelling in complete freak out mode... (mom, sorry, don't take offense to this post, it's just the reality of the situation)... sooo I try to calm her down, tell her there's nothing she can do and that eventually Shane will call her because he will most likely want to leave the airport at some point. So now to Melissa... I call her back and apparently her car is overheating... but she also needed directions to my house. Soooo... for some odd reason I am trying to help her get to my house via Kaya (her 9 year old daughter)... this by the way, proved to be very ineffective... pretty much everything I said was ignored and Kaya would inform me of the new street they were on and it was always a street even further away from my house. So eventually Melissa wises up and talks to me herself (I'm leaving out all the fun and frustrating details of trying to help someone and give them directions all the while as they are doing exactly the opposite of what I tell them to do). Sooo... of course, I'm talking on the phone helping family emergencies and I'm embarrassed that I, the host, has completely abandoned the missionary lesson. They actually left, yes, left, before I even came out. A friend, Ryan, was still here... but nonetheless, I was a little flustered and embarrassed that I was hiding in my room on the phone. So eventually Melissa and the kids get here. I had turned on the oven to preheat it between some of the phone calls so I go to put the pizza in... however, the oven is stone cold. Perfect. Oh also, in between a conversation with Melissa, or Kaya, rather, I talked to mom who was still freaking out and I had to call the airline for her and find out if Shane and Whit's flight was delayed... which it was (until 6:35) so they were definitely going to show up to my house well after the game had already started. But really who cares because the pizza won't even be ready anyway! So Ryan lives really close, so we take the pizza over there and bake a pizza and bring it to my house while the next one is cooking. Melissa is at my house by this point and they are able to start eating while we finish baking all of it. Shane and Whit and Koll and mom show up and by that time all three pizza's are finally done. So we eat, leave, park and get into the game with 4 or 5 minutes left in the third quarter. Hahaha... very funny to look back at but it was quite the evening... BUT, all worth it, 'cause my family's the BEST! :)
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Late posts... sonics game with fam
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