did i mention how much i love her....

"family time"

okay, so i haven't written in some time for several reasons, one of them being that the computer was taken, and another being that there has been a seemingly endless amount of "family" time over the last few weeks which has occupied most of my time and ALL of my thoughts. And while you would assume that "family time" would be enjoyable and entertaining and a favorable switch from the typically mundane, the truth is that it completely stresses me out. i'm not sure if it is because i have incredibly set expectations, or if families are retarded, or if i am just the one that is has no ability to see past my own desires. which ever one of these aspects is true, does not change the fact that "family time" actually means stressed out, over emotional, completely out of control time. mostly from lil old me, but i tend to be triggered by others. anyhow, there were moments of fun and laughter, sprinkled with words of bitterness and tears of anger. ya, it was a memorable time. is it just me or are families harder to deal with the old that everyone gets? i watch these movies (like Dan in Real Life, for example) where loving grandparents, friendly siblings and adoring children come together in one little house and seem to abound in happiness and good cheer. and then i attempt to do the same thing with my family and the only thing that is abounding is pissy-ness and resentment. don't get me wrong, we all love each other dearly, we just really don't like each other dearly as well!! let's just say i am praying that the next "family time" event will be in the far away future! (some fake happiness photos on the way)

sky's going outta town and takin' the comp with him!! grrrr!!

skyler works at a boarding school for boys (and loves it) and one of the boys is amazing at tennis. so sky is taking him to a tournament in vegas this week. and i was gonna go, and long long story short, im not anymore. and for a moment i was thinking that i could finally post some of the pics of z and the family that i wanted to post and say a few things besides how much i love alanis. but as it turns out he is taking the computer with him. and just to complain a little more, he is also taking the good car (for obvious reasons, but i feel entitled to bitch about it. especially since z HATES the car and the only way i can get her to even get in is to promise to let her watch NEMO.)(did i mention that the good car has a dvd player...?) so not only am i stuck in the house with no tv, no computer, no good weather, i am also forced to take a screaming toddler in the tiny lil beater. yeah, it's true, i needed to complain. life goes on. even without blogging...

My humps (Black Eyed Peas)

Just so you can compare.... and then so you can see why alanis rocks

Alanis Morissette "my humps"

so i am TOTALLY on an alanis kick right now, so i think all of you should be too and this is why!!!

Alanis kicks some serious booty

a few months ago i mentioned that katie got me tix for the alanis/ matchbox twenty concert. well, i was literally counting down the days because i LOVE alanis. yeah, i know that most of you are laughing right now, but seriously, the chic is kick ass. not only is she a "lyrical genius", she also is just freakin' rad!!! when she speaks you can tell that she is very articulate and that she is well educated. and for many other reasons, i just like her. anyway, the point being that we went to the concert and it was FABULOUS. she is completely crazy on stage, almost like the girl has turrets syndrome (is that how you spell it). and it is GREAT to watch, so entertaining. much to my disappointment she didn't play for as long as i would have liked, but it was still amazing. and i was not particularly stoked about the matchbox 20 thing, but actually they were good, and fun!! it was definitely a strange combo because alanis mostly sang songs from "jagged lil pill" and matchbox 20 mostly sang songs from their new album which has A LOT of songs from their 1st album... away all this to say that both of those albums were popular during my junior and senior years of high school. so listening to them with katie was a strange blast from the past. lots of memories from 10 years ago came spilling back!! dances, and hi-lo's, and zuka, and friends... strange that it was 10 years ago... time goes by fast. anyhow, the concert was GREAT (thanks k8s, it really was SOOO fun), the company was great (when you are away from a good friend for a long period of time, you forget how great it is to be around them...) and well, it was just great!!! and if you don't listen to alanis, at least occasionally, you should. especially "so called choas" & "under rug swept". im serious!

sometimes i just need a project

sky's aunt has me do random project for her now and then and this is the most recent one....

it was dr. suess day so they decorated the teachers doors. so i decided that i would take the class picture and put each of the children's heads on one of the characters. it was fun!!! and it turned out pretty good! what do you think?

our back yard

for those of you who don't know, the house that sky, z and i live in is sky's dad's old house. sky's dad owns a large piece of property in the heart of North ogden and sold some off several years ago to a housing development. well, long story short, tom got one of the condo's that were built on the edge of his property. and we bought it from him. so all of the windows in our house, minus the front two, face the ranch, or part of the property that tom still owes. it has a beautiful pond and lots of big trees, and incidentally tons of ducks and geese, which of course z LOVES. her second word was duck. anyhow, a few weeks ago we found out that tom has sold off the portion of the ranch that is behind our house. so the beautiful pond, trees, and ducks will all be gone. i am SO sad about it. it is so much fun, and truly so beautiful, and i will miss looking at the windows at this wonderful view. i took this picture last night during the sun set..... AMAZING HUH!???!?!?!