BITTER SWEET

May 25th is a bitter sweet day for me. Let's start with the bitter because who doesn't like getting the yucky part over with first.

May 25th is my brother MICHAELS birthday. He would have been 40 years old. Quite a milestone. I can't believe 40 - that's just nuts! I paid a visit to him & took a pic for my mom who couldn't come with me..

I brought the orange flowers, but the yellow ones were already their. It's nice to know that others remember him & care. That others remember the goodness of him is very comforting to me. He is deeply loved & missed!

Now for the sweet! Yesterday was our 14th wedding anniversary! HOLY COW!! 14 years! If I didn't feel old already - that will do it. We've gone from this...

To this...

So what if we're a little bit older & bigger! Overall - we're happy! I love Erik dearly & he is a wonderful man. After all of the hard times we've been through I feel like we can make it through anything. And the good times are just the icing on the cake!

NUI

We entered Nui into a contest & now we need everyone's help to win! ;) Follow this LINK to Mix 96.9 & vote for Nui please! You can vote once a day!!

(Just in case - He's in Gallery 6 pic #33)

APRIL MISC

Here's a little catch up post since April just seemed to come & go when I blinked. I can't believe it's already the middle of May & school's almost out. YIKES!! Although, it will be a JOYOUS day when school's out & yearbooks are really done! YAY!!! Anyway, here's a couple of things that happened in April.

Good 'ol Gilbert HIgh had an Alumni Dance Concert. They invited alumni to come perform at their concert to celebrate 30 years of dance at Gilbert. EmmaLee talked me into it & I'm glad she did. It was fun! Despite the fact that I was EXTREMELY nervous! I coulnd't believe how unsure I was. My brain definitely didn't keep it's dance learning edge like I thought it would. Oh well - it was fun & turned out ok.

Here's our group...

Our group consisted of dancers graduating from the '90's & one girl graduated in '87. There was another group that was people graduating from the '00's. They had about 16 people. Ours was a scarce showing. A lot of people backed out at the last minute. I almost was one of them. Right up to the preformance!

EmmaLee & I...{It had to be done! :)}


EmmaLee & I with Mrs. Gierke....

She's been @ Gilbert running the dance program from day 1. 30 years!! She wanted to do this Alumni concert because she feels this will be here last year with all of the budget cuts.

OK - another thing that happened this month to our family is that we have inherited the son we never had...

Really, I'm not one of those people that considers him a child, but he is pretty dang cute! His name is NUI. My sister Robin named him - it's Hawaiian for good. He was originally my parents, but once they decided they couldn't take care of him the way they thought they would my husband volunteered our home for him to come to. I was shocked & not excited at first! But, he's grown on us & fits right in! The girls think he's the greatest thing EVER!! And I enjoy the fact that he's tiny & not a huge dog. (He's a Toy Yorkie.)

Just for kicks here's a pic of him before his first haircut.... (He's only 3 1/2 months old.)

Here's what he looks like after...

He's one spoiled DUDE already!

JADYNISMS

Here are some more "Jadynisms". Not sure where she comes up with some of this stuff!

Last night she was sitting at the table playing some games & I said something was stinky. To which, of course, led into the Nacho Libre line of, "My robe is in the wash, it's astinky." (Something to that effect.) I said it right in her ear with my attempt at a Nacho voice. She giggled & said, "Oh mom, you're HISTORICAL!" Not hysterical - historical! HAHA! I hope she wasn't referring to the fact that I'm getting old.

My Mom & Alan were in town this weekend & we had a lot of fun. Jadyn had the talk in church on Sunday for Primary & Alan was helping her. They were discussing the 4th article of Faith & Jadyn was talking about each principle. He had her talking as if she were giving her talk. When she came to the principle of baptism she said that everyone should be baptised. Then she paused for a second & said...
"But, if you don't it's ok. Because when you die someone will just do it for you!"
Well, at least she understands!! It's amazing to me what that girl picks up!

HIP HOP

Random Jadyn thoughts:

Today Jay-Bird & I were in the car talking about how she likes to do flips on the bars at school. I told her how I use to do that, too & pretend that I was a gymnast. She then remembered how much she loved gymnastics & stated she needed to go back. Then she says, out of the blue...

"I don't like ballet. (Which, of course, made me a little sad.) I've grown up & am now a hip hop girl!"

Well, there ya have it. Who knew?!