One of those Lists........

***********FOODOLOGY***************

1. What is your salad dressing of choice? Italian

2. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? The Sawmill

3. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? fresh veggies!!!

4. What are your pizza toppings of choice? mushrooms, onions, sausage

5. What do you like to put on your toast? Freshly sliced tomatoes, onions and cheddar cheese.

***********TECHNOLOGY***************

1. How many televisions are in your house? 2

2. What is the color of your cell phone? Black

3. Have any idea how many Megahertz your computer has? not at the moment but I could look it up.

***************BIOLOGY******************

1. Are you right-handed or left-handed? right

2. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? bahahaha.....do I have anything left? lets just say I'm an official eunuch.
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3. What is the last heavy item you lifted? furniture

4. Have you ever been knocked unconscious? only intentionally not accidentally

************BULLCRAPOLOGY**************

1. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Sure

2. If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Veronica maybe

3. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? uh yup!! I love it!

************DUMBOLOGY******************

1. How many pairs of flip flops do you own? 3

2. Last time you had a run-in with the cops? Hmmmm...October 1993

3. Last person you talked to? the boy of the house.

4. Last person you hugged? Hubby

**************FAVORITOLOGY****************

1. Season? Spring....the colors of the Alberta blue sky and the green, green fields.

2. Holiday? Easter.

3. Day of the week? Any day I can do something besides work.

4. Month? June

***********CURRENTOLOGY*****************

1. Missing someone? Nope

2. Mood? Frustrated

3. What are you listening to? Get Your Kicks on Route 66

4. Watching? Cars!

***************RANDOMOLOGY****************

1. First place you went this morning? The registry office to get the car done.

2. What's the last movie you saw? In the movie theatre... The Help!!!!!
At home ... Cars

3. Do you smile often? From what I am told.

4. Sleeping Alone Tonight? Not unless something drastic happens.

***************OTHER-OLOGY*****************

1. Do you always answer your phone? no LOL I have a phobia of the phone... be prepared to leave a msg

2. Its four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it? Sierra.

3. If you could change your eye color what would it be? I wouldn't. I have the coolest eyes ever. Blue with one quarter of the left eye brown.

4. Do you own a digital camera? What a silly question. Duh!!

5. Have you ever had a pet fish? Yes.

6. Favorite Christmas song(s): Up on the Housetop

7. What's on your wish list for your birthday? A new digital camera

8. Can you do push ups? maybe....haven't tried lately

9. Can you do a chin up? no way!!!

10. Does the future make you more nervous or excited? don't worry about it.

11. Do you have any saved texts? nope.

12. Ever been in a car wreck? unfortunately..

13. Do you have an accent? Who me? Depends on what I'm saying with whom I am speaking.

14. What is the last song to make you cry? Brad Paisley : "That's When You Find Yourself"

15. Plans tonight? Hopefully dinner and sleeping.

16. Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? well ya.

17. Name 3 things you bought yesterday. apps for my iphone.

18. Have you ever been given roses? Yes

19. Current worry? That I will never be able to retire.

20. Current hate right now? Not owning my own home.

21. Met someone who changed your life? yes

22. How will you bring in the New Year? asleep.

23. What song represents you? You Can't Always Get What You Want.

24. Name three people who might complete this? I have no idea

25. Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? Totally :)

27. Do you have any tattoos/piercings? Do ears count?

28. Will you be in a relationship 4 months from now? Yes

29. Does anyone love you? Yes

30. Ever had someone sing to you? Yes

31. When did you last cry? monday

32. Do you like to cuddle? yes -of course

33. Have you held hands with anyone today? No

34. What kind of music did you listen to in elementary school? Classical

35. Are most of the friends in your life new or old? both

36. Do you like pulpy orange juice? The only kind!!!!

Latest Photo Shoot

Here's a link, PICTURES, to the latest portrait session I've done. See the pics on the work blog.

Nothing Pithy to Say

I've been on vacation for 10 days now. We haven't done anything really special except to visit family. That's been great. I've missed them all so much. The one thing I have realized while away from work was just how much I actually liked being a stay at home mom. I miss having time to coupon and work the sales flyers to save a few dollars. I miss having time to take kids to the pool or hang out in the yard. I never thought I would feel this way. It always seems to be a case of "the grass is always greener" syndrome in my life. I like my job fairly well. I enjoy the people I work with but I love my family more, of course. I wish we had the income for me to do that for the last few years of the boy's at home time. I don't want him to go off into the world thinking that I didn't have enough time for him. It's not just that. I really do like making my home a nice, comfortable place and I just don't have the time or the energy to do it well while I work these insane hours. No, I'm not complaining.....just voicing my thoughts over the last few days.

New pics

on vacation but did a little work. See it HERE

Seriously? You thought I what?

It just amazes me sometimes how misconstrued some things become. No matter how good your intentions someone will always find a way to take offense or think the worst of you.

A few years ago we had a large family trip (cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents) to an historic area that was meaningful to the family. I had a nice time for the most part even though things didn't always go as planned and sometimes people got upset by the little stuff. Over all it was a good experience. However, I apparently made the biggest boo boo of all and didn't even know it. I think most of you know that I do a little professional photography as a side job. While there I found a lot of enjoyment shooting family and the scenery. I even made friends with a fellow photographer. When the trip was done I posted all the pics to my professional site so that the entire family could see what I had done and could either let me know they wanted a copy or even purchase professional prints (not Walmart quality) to hang in their home. This was before I had blogs and had become proficient with facebook. I knew no other way to let everyone see the pics. Well, unfortunately my price list (discounted from what I charge normally) is included on the professional site and this upset family members. They thought I was trying to make money off of them. That was never my intention. No one called to say they were upset. No one emailed. I thought I was doing people a favor by shooting their pics professionally and by giving them a way to get professional prints. I guess I was wrong and it took years for me to find out. Why can't people just let you know if you've offended them in some way? I don't know anybody who intentionally goes about their day trying to cause offense. I would never be like that but now I have family (inlaws) who have barely spoken to me since and I had no idea why. I guess this may be one of the reasons. Who knows? I probably did something else offensive and have no idea what.

What's Your Earliest Memory?

I've been reading another blog lately that focuses on the author's memories and it got me pondering my early memories. A lot of those memories happened in the same field; the one up the lane from the house. When I was really small and we were running a lot of cattle we used to do the branding in the corral on the hill. I was much to young to participate but that didn't mean I didn't want to join in on what looked like loads of fun (I still think it's the most fun of anything, ever). So I would park myself on the top rung of the corral opposite the action to get the best view. As I sat my 3 yr old self there I distinctly remember eating maple walnut ice cream (Grandpa's favorite) out of one of Grandma's blue bowls. It's not much of a memory. Nothing significant happened but to this day I love that field, maple anything, and branding cattle.

Divine Comedy

Have you ever seen BYU's Divine Comedy group? The daughter claims to be their biggest fan and I can see why! They are hilarious!! Check out the next couple of videos for some good clean funny.

Thick as Pea Soup!!

And I don't mean the foggy mornings either! Yes,the weather this summer has been abysmal! Wet, rainy, chilly!! Yuck!! Unfortunately the mosquitoes seem to love it. I've never seen so many nasty buzzing creatures before. You can't go anywhere without a cloud of them around you. We've even been bombarded with them inside the store, if you can imagine that. I think it's pretty sad when you have to wear insect repellent while at work, indoors. Those nasty critters have been sneaking into the house and car too. You've probably seen me as I commute each day slapping away at the infestation. I'm worried I'll end up breaking a window, I'm hitting it so often.

Sierra's Bridal Shots

I've added a few of the pics from the daughter's bridal photo shoot on the other blog. Click HERE to see!!

Grizzly Bear Update

I don't know why but this subject of this animal's supposed immanent demise is stuck in my craw but it is and it's really causing a raw patch. I was doing some reading and happened upon this statistic "In May 2002, the Canadian Species at Risk Act listed the Prairie population (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba range) of grizzly bears as being wiped out in Canada. As of 2002, grizzly bears were listed as Special Concern under the COSEWIC registry." Wiped out huh? I guess those bears from the mountain regions must have been loving up on each other something fierce to cause something of a population boom in the last few years. Check out what the Cardston County website says as of June 20th. "We have seen the greatest increase in bear activity south of Cardston in a line from Police Lake east as far as Del Bonita. These Grizzly Bears are using the St. Mary River and Milk River as travel lanes and can often be found in close association with these rivers. It would appear that we have at least three family groups operating in this area along with at least one large boar and a couple of sub-adults." Police Lake to Del Bonita? Well if that ain't prairie somebody better pay for me to go back to school and get a better education. You can't even call that area foothills. Rolling prairie? Maybe. Another statement by the Canadian Government stated that the recovery of the Plains Grizzly was not feasible. "Some species have already disappeared completely from Canada. For example, we used to have Grizzly Bears on the prairies but they no longer exist. They disappeared in the 1800’s with the advancement of European settlers and the advent of firearms." I think these folks must get out of their offices a little more often. It might be a good idea to quit discounting the local human population's knowledge of their own surroundings and listen to that annecdotal evidence they report.
UPDATE!!!! July 12