20 YEARS!!

TWENTY YEARS!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

Time for a Parrrtaaayy!!!

Hey, everyone is bailing on the blog--me included. Pretty sad. I do enjoy reading it. So, I guess I'll do my part and post a few times a week.

The kids are back in school. Allie is loving it as usual. None of her friends are in her class, but I think she'll be ok. She's doing so good in piano lessons. I bought a very basic primary song book for her and she can read the music and play almost every song! She doesn't even take that book to lessons with her.

Peyton likes school, but he can't figure out why he has to go "every day!" He'll be ok, though. Pictures were yesterday, so we had to get them all gussied up for that.

I'm going to Bluff tonight to spend a few days at Mom & Dad's house by myself!! This is what I wanted for my birthday. Two or three days ALONE! I went to the library last night and checked out a bunch of books and I'm going to take my computer and scrap book a bit. I'm just going to lay around, read, watch TV, scrap and do whatever with no responsibilities for a few days. I can't wait!

My friend, Jami is probably going to come down Friday night and stay with me. We don't ever get to hang out much, even though she just lives in Blanding. Life gets in the way, I guess.

Work is pretty slow right now. Not a lot going on. How is everyone doing? Are all of your kids liking school this year? What's new in your lives?

Got to go--love you all
Karla

Just me. Again.

Where the heck are you? Oh, yeah, school is starting soon and I'm sure you're busy with that.

Just wanted to let you in on a little secret. If you ever buy green furniture that is green in the store and when you get it home it isn't......try changing your light bulbs before you do anything drastic, like thinking of taking green paint to the yellow furniture.

I bought a nice set of new living room furniture at Sam's and it was a nice light yellowy green. So I get it home and it no longer is green. I begin to wonder if all green furniture bought at Sam's looks some other color when it gets home. Remember Mom's chair? I was a bit flustrated. But we decided to change the light bulbs in our living room to compact flourescent to see if that would make a difference and can you believe it worked? Voila', furniture is green again and Kassie has a smile on her face.

Been busy making strawberry freezer jam (couldn't pass up berries at 3.99 a flat), and making salsa and spaghetti sauce from our own tomatoes. My kitchen was so grotesque, but it's under control again and the freezer is getting full. Gotta love that!

Have a great day and post if you get a minute. I miss hearing from all of you.

Late, Late, Late!

Mom, hope you and Dad had a good anniversary. I thought about you and was going to call after dinner, but it was FHE at the Yorgason's and we celebrated M's birthday after we got back and it just slipped my mind. So here's a VERY belated

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to all of you for coming or wanting to come(wink,wink) to H's baptism. For not being very organized it all went fine. H and I appreciate your love and support.

Trying to get all the stuff done for the boys for school this week. Last night we bought all the school supplies, today we will hit the uniform store and tomorrow it's immunizations. Fun, fun!

After I get them all taken care of I can plow ahead with the girls. So many choices!

Hope you all enjoy the last couple of weeks of summer. I sure am enjoying the drop in temps at night (and during the day, too). Take care!

Hey!

Hannah! Congratulations on your big day. Sorry I couldn't be there. I was going to ride up with Mom but Liz, Kiffy and her kids rode with Mom so there wasn't room for me & my munchkins. I would have driven myself but I wasn't sure I really trusted myself. I had to go get Demoral at the hospital on Thursday and it always leaves me slightly loopy for a few days. I didn't think I dared drive 500 miles like that. Hope it was a great day for you.

Nothing new going on here. I get to take the Jr. Livestock Auction pictures this year. I think I'll make about $400 for doing it. That'll be nice. Work is the same as always. Things have slowed down a bit. We've been getting quite a few monsoon showers which are really nice. I've started going to the fitness center at the high school 2 nights a week. I'm going to try to go 4, but so far, I've made it 2 per week. I'm doing about 15 miles on the bike--that's what it says anyway.

I'm ready for school. Allie & Peyton are excited. Allie is really tired of having to play with Peyton every day and going and watching Jim work on his tractor--that's not much fun for her-

Well, it's time to go home--take care. Love you all.

Can I get off this crazy ride?

Wow, what a summer! I'm thinking we bit off way more than we wanted to chew. We've just finished up 6 days of welch/yorgason family fun. Spent two days at Nate's place in Fairview, then Lagoon on Fri, parks on Sat, Church/family meeting and dinner on Sunday, and FHE last night. I think all the out of town people have gone home by now.

We will have Rodney's daughter, L, living with us for the next month, until she can get into her aprt. She will be attending BYU in Sept. It ought to be fun, but she's a really nice girl and we look forward to getting to know her better.

Does anyone have any objections to pizza and salad in the park for dinner on Sat after H's baptism? I'm thinking that will be a very easy thing. No vacuuming! And a playground for kiddo's. And the time got changed from 5 pm to 4:30 pm because there are so many kids being baptized this month....Hope that is not a logistics problem for any of you.

Mom, so excited about your Bluff house. Can't wait to go see it. Hope you had a nice ride to NM.

Well, I need to go shower and make a shopping list.....My fridge is pretty bare.

Talk to you soon!

are we all dead?

Hi Everyone,

I have a few minutes to say Hi. I am going to Farmington NM for a funeral for my cousins's husband. I will ride down with a couple of cousins from Blanding. I thought I should go and represent Mom's side of the family. I guess that is the perk of being retired. I can go and do what I please. I think I am going to Bluff tomorrow with Karl and stay while he does a run or two. Ed Booher will be there on Thursday to move his things, so I think Karl and I will go again so that we can talk to him about the Jacuzzi and the watering system and timer for outside and things like that. We need to get all the utlities put into our name.
We had a pretty good rain last night. Smelled and sounded so good.

I need to go gas up my car and get to Blanding. Talk to you later. LaRue

Dog Daze of Summer--

Yes, I know it's supposed to be Days, but right now I feel like I'm in a daze. It's so hot!! I'm tired of feeling sticky and icky all the time. I'm ready for fall. I wish that fall would last for 6 months of the year.

Apparently we're all too busy to blog, or in my case, too lazy. Things at work have slowed down enough that I can finally take a breather every now and again. Nothing new going on in my world--same old same old. Wendy took Peyton with her girls to swimming lessons today. THANK YOU!!! You're a life saver. Allie started her piano lessons. I think she'll like it. I hope so. I've actually really enjoyed having the piano there. I play it quite a bit. A few primary songs before bed each night.

Well, I have to go, work's about over and I dropped my computer off at the repair place. It's been running sooo slow and gluggy that I finally caved and decided to pay the money and have it degunked and have new spyware and virus protection. Should be done tomorrow.

Take care--love you all!
Karla

Hi,

I think it is time to connect again. It is quite hard to blog when everyone has just been together, but we need to anyway. I just got a call from Corbin saying he was coming up, but it is 10:30 and I am about ready for bed. I guess I can just leave the door open and the light on.
I worked at the temple today. I didn't cough while I was there and haven't coughed much since then. I hope I am about over this stuff (again)
We have had enough hot weather, but I guess we will just keep on going. We surely do need to get some rain. It is hard to find the energy to work outside in the heat, as I guess you already know that. I did shampoo the sewing room and living room carpet and they look much better. I need to do it every couple of weeks. I even washed a few windows, but I have a bunch left to do. I think that I will not plan to walk in the race on the 21st,. I'm sure that is not a surprise to anyone.
Well, I am very tired and am going to hit the sack. We love you all and hope all is well with you.
Love Mom

Hellooooooooooo???????????????????

Is anyone out there?????????????????there????????????????????there?????????????????

All I'm getting is an echo................echo.......................echo.............................

Hope you're all well. I think we finally are and so we are planning to zip down for Thursday's happenings.

I'll call you Mom, when I know my itinerary for sure......



Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!