Yogaaah

Smiling while in some of these poses is just hard, unnatural, and cheesy. Well, here are some of the asanas I enjoy doing when working out.
(Thanks to my photographers Jacob and Kade. Wade is supposed to take pics of me doing poses at the beach, but that hasn't happened so far)























































Here is Kyrie with semi-curly hair. And here is how here room has looked for most of the year.

Dodger's Baseball

Here is a picture of Jacob at the game. You can go to www.dodgers.com/fanfoto to see a better view. The game was Sat. April 26th and you go to gallery #4 and click through until you find him. He had a really good time and was thrilled to see the ump get beaned in the neck/head area with a hard pitch. Knocked him out cold and the ambulance had to come take him away. You may have seen it on the news.

Memories

My dad was really into taking pictures, but unfortunately always had them developed as slides. One of our favorite things to do when we all manage to get together is to look at the said slides (well, one of my favorite things to do anyways). A few years ago I spent a small fortune for us and had a number of the slides developed into pictures and I guess John has had some put on a disk. Here are the results. You gotta love/hate those 70's styles. Ughhh!!! In the family camping trip picture I am actually there, just looking like one of the boys as my grandpa Lackey, who was a barber, would always cut my hair when he was visiting and being a barber he always gave me a boy haircut. Why mother would let him do this to me is beyond me?!?! If you look closely at Chet's eye, it is very swollen. I think he burned it or was bitten by a mosquito. Is this the same trip the boys kept stepping too close to the fire while barefoot and burned their feet on the hot rocks around the fire? You may also notice the rocking hairstyles, hehehe. I think mom used to put a bowl around the boys head and cut, then never comb their hair. The baby is actually me. wow. John posted this one on our other family blog trying to pass it off as his new arrival. Janie actually called him out on it. He only wishes his babies were so pretty JUST KIDDING!!!!

You Have Now Entered THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Remember the family on Kade's bb team that pays $14,000 a month in rent for their home in the hills? Well, I asked her today at the game, what her husband does for a living. He is a big time producer so she travels to the Cannes Film Festival and goes to premiers etc. She did mention that she really doesn't like that side of the industry and just enjoys the traveling, hanging at the hotels/spas, and getting to know the town she happens to be at. She was with a lady who was her interior decorator that she had just flown in from Paris. They are working on decorating/furnishing a condo in Montreal that she just purchased. I asked if she rents it out when she isn't there. No. She doesn't like having other people in her homes (not that I blame her). She said they had an apartment in Florida that they never rented out, just visited once or twice a year. She has a charitable foundation fund raiser to go to for lupus and she is supposed to wear all orange. She doesn't want to buy an evening gown that is orange that she will wear only once. She was dishing on some of the celebrities that she knows. It was a fun conversation. Jacob is going to the Dodgers game tonight with the Kings. They sit right behind the third base right by the Dodger's dug out. Apparently they get to interact with the players some ($400 a ticket). I don't know if the kids will sit there or if they have a box office. It should be fun for him. Larry won't be there as he is in DC and Shawn has a fund raiser to attend tonight. She is performing there (singing). So it will be Hector, the nanny, and the kids. Larry Jr. was in town for the game today. He lives in Florida and seems to be a really nice, down to earth guy. We had a a good conversation and he told me all about the gators in Florida and not to worry about them for the most part.

Kurt, Kade's head coach, is Kurt Rappaport, (google him, the results are fun to read, really nice/interesting guy) the top selling real estate self made multi-millionaire in LA. He sales to all of the celebs. He sold his last mansion that he had just totally renovated to TomKat who just finally moved in a year later because they totally re-renovated it for their needs/wants. I asked him today how low we should offer on a home from the asking price. He said to be aggressive and offer at least 20% below the listing price.

I have realized that we are probably the poorest family on the team. Not that it matters, it is just really interesting to rub shoulders with the lifestyles of the rich and famous. For them, their lives are totally normal. For me, a bit overwhelming. I feel like I have entered the Twilight Zone.

It Has Begun

It's official. I have started the packing. I managed 5 boxes of books (that doesn't even make a dent in the book column. I think I'll need about 10 more book boxes) and 3 medium boxes of miscellaneous stuff. Daniel has walked around sobbing. He was excited at first and even helped by packing his own box, but became quite upset when I took his "things" out and started putting other stuff in there. I had to reassure him that we will take everything and everyone with us and that we will go to Idaho and Utah and see Sarah and Paige and Kate. That was what finally settled him down. It's funny. For the past month or so he will walk around the house and say "I want to go home." I'm not sure where he associated home as being.

I woke up at 3:00am this morning to find him lying butt naked in the bed. Somehow he had taken his diaper off and laid back down, uncovered. Thankfully he didn't wet as I haven't put the the waterproof mattress cover back on after my purging of the lice.

The Wall Street Journal has published an article suggesting that Americans start stockpile food as the costs globally are going to continue to drive up the costs for the US. That and Al Gore's brilliant idea of fuels from our food source. Isn't he such a genius? Just imagine if he had won the election. Well, back to food storage. If you haven't heard already Walmart, Costco, Sams club and the like are starting to limit the amount of rice a customer can purchase per visit. I'm sure others will follow, so my suggestion, get with your ward specialist, or call my MIL as she is an expert on this subject, and get your stuff together. Don't put it off any longer. Start each shopping trip with purchasing $10 or $20 in food storage stuff and rotate your food storage so you are using it and replenishing it. Okay, enough of that lecture.

You Won't Believe It

Yep, went out to get Kade's shirt out of the dryer and low and behold, the washer had done the same thing!!!! Sigh....at least I just had to sweep all of the water out without the cleanup part. It can only get better right?

Count Your Many Blessings

This is the only thing and thought that is keeping me sane. Kade couldn't find his PE shirt today. On the way out the door to school I found it in a pile of wet, smelly clothes. So I threw the load in the wash before we left. I promised him I would bring it to school when it was done. After I dropped the boys at school I ran to Walgreens in search of tape and super glue to fix the vacuum hose. A few weeks ago I gave the boys the job of vacuuming up the front room. Jacob managed to vacuum up a sock and it was stuck in the hose. The hose is designed in such a horrible way that I couldn't even stick the broom handle down it (curved on one end, skinny on the other). I even tried a wire hanger, no luck. I resorted to cutting open a slit at the clog and pulling the sock out. I only had packing tape to tape up the hole which was working. When the boys had lice I buzzed their hair and sat there with the vacuum sucking up the hair as I went. I noticed last week that the hose wasn't sucking anything up anymore and decided that it was probably the tape. I put the vacuum on the back porch just in case it had any live critters in it and it has sat there for about 4 days now, which is a good thing, because when I got home with my tape and glue to fix it, I found the hose clogged with hair thanks to a bent straw stuck in it. I mean CLOGGED with hair. I'm sure there had to be lice in it so thank heavens it was sitting outside for the duration. As I am cleaning the hose out I get a call from Michelle in Alabama saying that the young women in our old ward who are Kyrie's friends were freaking out saying I was leaving Wade and we were getting a divorce. Not sure how that rumor came to be or what Kyrie told them to make them jump to that conclusion. Had a good laugh over that, and Michelle told me she reassured them all that I wasn't leaving Wade, just LA a few weeks before him if that. I washed the hose out and went to go throw the load of laundry into the dryer. OH NO!!!! The laundry room was flooded. This has happened to us twice before when someone has left a rag or clothes in the basin the washer drains into. This time it happened because the drain hose somehow flipped out of the basin. I spent an hour sweeping all of the water out, moving the 2 washers and 2 dryers and 3 bikes and the four drawer file cabinet back and forth to sweep under each item. Did I mention I still had some blankets and throw rugs on the floor waiting to be washed? (You're supposed to smile here. It's okay, you can even laugh) While I was grumbling under my breath to myself I had to stop and smile and laugh. You know what? It has been a really trying week for me, but I am so blessed. I have a healthy family. I have a home and food and clothes. I have the gospel in my life and a testimony of the truthfulness of it. I know I have challenges, but they pale in comparison to the many things others go through. I think this past week is God's way of reminding me of that.