i can't stand it any more...

i just can't sit still and read your posts any longer without adding some kind of two cents! i have missed you all a lot! thank you all for your sweet comments. you all are doing so many things i want to comment on, but it's kind of a pain to type, so i just don't. i will play catch up in a week or so when the cast can (hopefully)... come off.
it's just soooo hampering having a cast on, which gets in my way big time! but i am so grateful for two arms. i know two men that each only have one arm. i have thought of them very often these past two and a half weeks. lifes lessons huh.

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i am getting things done, slowly...ha ha ....lol. i had joined a monthly prim ornie swap. and no, of course my ornies weren't done before i broke my arm. i did get them done, with some help from a daughter. (thank heavens for daughters!) ( jessica i borrowered your photo and btw, i love your new bowl that you bought to display yours in!) these are our ornies for this month. they are all so cute. i love prim. mine were the melon slices. our theme for this month was summer. next month is patriotic. i am racking my brain to come up with something. there are just 5 of us in this swap. we had a fun evening. we had a yummy tea party and talked shop.

(jessica, i used your pictures again......i am so glad you posted about this! ) this next picture is as you walk in jessicas front door. the table was a great yard sale find. next month our swap will be in her home. fun fun fun.

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last week end all of my girls and i went to the playmill theatre in west yellowstone mt. yes, we drove alllll day, and went thru utah, idaho and into mt, to see a play! it was a blast! we met my sister there and laughed our way thru the entire production. before the play begins, they do the best pre-shows. they sale fudge . can't go to wrong when you sale fudge. ;-0

this is us eating along the way...we were at a sonic in brigham city utah. they all hate it when they see the camera come out!

this has been a favorite in my family ever since we had moved to idaho. we still try to get back as often as we can. it's just a hour and a half drive north from rexburg, so we went often. if you are planning a trip to yellowstone park , you really should make plans to go see one of the playmill's three plays this summer. it is so fun and well worth going! http://www.playmill.com/ we went to see footloose. it was sooooo good. we had front row seats, and some of us almost got very up close and personal when they were dancing...lol. ( they don't allow any pictures....sorry)

while we were there we took some group photos

afterwards we drove back to last chance.

we stayed the night at the anglers lodge,where my sister cooks. here is the river right out the doors of the lodge. henry's fork of the snake river. i wanted to stay the summer it was so beautiful and calm. oh ya, except for the mosquito's!!!! they were nasty!!!

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sunday was paislee's blessing day. her daddy gave her a beautiful blessing. i don't have any pictures of just the dress, which my daughter kim mostly sewed. we did a combined effort and were both pleased with the outcome. the dress has tiny little three petal flowers with a pearl bead in the centre all over the fabric. she was beautiful of course!♥

dil angie, paislee and son lee

so, i am now madly washing clothes for the next trip, which will begin tomorrow morning at 5:00am, we are going with a group of young men ages 16-18, from our church to illinois. we will be gone a week. i am sooooo excited.

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i wish you all the best in your busy lives and upcoming events. joanne, i wish you the very best in your stay at the "spa". heal fast. when it's all done you will be so glad you did it, and will wish you had done it sooner! :-)

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i will not be gimpy for ever! lol.......... i shall return!

broken...

i did break my wrist. i was floored that it was really broken. truly i was sure they were going to tell me i had mildly sprained it . Hum. i broke the radius bone in a nice clean break, and not all the way through the bone so that is a good thing or they would have had to pin it. what a crazy thing to have happened. how did it happen you ask? well, i was playing with one of my older sons, he was lying on the couch and i was pulling on his arm and he was pulling on mine....you know the old tug of war thing...anyway we slipped apart and i went flying backwards and as near as i can remember, i think i must have tried to catch myself and i landed with my hand under me, on the rocks that surround my wood stove. all of my, hummm, weight on my bent hand....it was to swollen to cast, but is in a hard splint. when it's in a cast, and my thumb is free, i will be able to do a lot more. you should have see the slice of bread i cut for dh's sandwich today...lol. it was a little thick on one end! the break doesn't hurt too much so that's a blessing i think. i am not much good at slowing down! lol. i think i may need to have a brown cast.....maybe it will show the painting, coffee, and wood staining and dirt less! LOL there is the promise of rain later this afternoon, that would be very welcome. have a great day everyone! ♥

crippled......

Hi and good morning.

I had big plans this morning to wish my oldest daughter a very happy birthday on my post, but I met with a small accident yesterday in the comfort of my own home, and I have sprained my wrist or broken it. I'm off to the doc this afternoon to see what the prognosis is. Either way, I feel dooooomed. Oh course it's my right hand..............I have a blessing dress to sew........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

(I know it'll all work out, just a minute of panic!) :-) So,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!!!! (yesterday)

I love you so very much. You are just an incredible woman in my eyes! I'm so amazed and proud that you were born to me. What a blessing in my life to have you for a daughter!

♥I love you! ♥

In Hymn Of Praise......

There Is A green Hill Far Away

Words by: Cecil Frances Alexander 1818-1895

Music by: John H. Gower 1855-1922

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There is a green hill far away without a city wall,

Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

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We may not know, we cannot tell, What pains he had to bear,

But we believe it was for us he hung and suffered there.

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There was no other good enough to pay the price for sin.

He only could unlocks the gate of heav'n and let us in.

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Oh dearly, dearly has he loved! And we must love him too,

And trust in his redeeming blood, and try his works to do.

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Once again this beautiful arrangement of this hymn is done by

http://www.paulcardall.com/ Paul Cardall

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Have a restful Sabbath Day.♥

mammograms.....................

mammograms.....................
My Sister sent this to me, and I thought it was a hoot. I sent it to all most everyone I could think of, including my SonIL, and decided I had to share it here! My DH did not enjoy it nearly as much as I did....lol....... Enjoy a laugh!

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Many women are afraid of their first mammogram, but there is no need to worry. By taking a few minutes each day for a week preceding the exam and doing the following exercises, you will be totally prepared for the test and best of all, you can do these simple exercises right in and around your home.

EXERCISE ONE:
Open your refrigerator door and insert one breast in door. Shut the door as hard as possible and lean on the door for good measure. Hold that position for five seconds. Repeat again in case the first time wasn't effective enough.

EXERCISE TWO:
Visit your garage at 3AM when the temperature of the cement floor is just perfect. Take off all your clothes and lie comfortably on the floor with one breast wedged under the rear tire of the car. Ask a friend to slowly back the car up until your breast is sufficiently flattened and chilled. Turn over and repeat with the other breast.

EXERCISE THREE:

Freeze two metal bookends overnight. Strip to the waist. Invite a stranger into the room. Press the bookends against one of your breasts. Smash the bookends together as hard as you can. Set up an appointment with the stranger to meet next year and do it again.

YOU ARE TOTALLY PREPARED!

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don't you feel comforted now???

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For you who asked, the flowers were so easy to make. Here's a fast tutorial...

I used two circles the same size, about 4 inches, and and then a smaller circle half the size of the larger one, so about 2 inches. I used unbleached muslin, for the large circles, and brown, red, and green prints, plaids, and dots, for the smaller circles. Layer two large circles on top of each other, and set a smaller circle on top and in the middle of the two larger ones, and sew it on, using embroidery floss. Leave a spot open to fill with stuffing, stuffing your center fairly tight then finish sewing it the rest of the way up. Now cut all the way around your circles almost to the centers. Coffee stain and bake on cookie sheet lined with foil, till dry. Sand the edges to help them fray some more. My DIL has made some that are about 6 or 8 ". I know they are cute.....

With this nasty, dang, disgusting, miserable, annoying, energy consuming cold I've had, I have gotten a cold sore....don't you hate them? ( I know hate is a strong word, can you think of a better one here?) Anyway, have your tried L-Lysine. It works very good for clearing up a cold sore in just a couple of days. Of course, I over dose myself and don't take just the required daily amount.... which is one a day ......you need to take three or four or so and the next day do the same.... So if you get cold sores, and haven't tried L-Lysine, you might try it. You can find it with the vitamins in most places. It works wonders!

BTW......If you need me to come help you with the frozen bookends, give me a shout out! LOL (smiling here......)