Congratulations!!

To my cute cousin Kristan and her adorable baby girl. Love you guys! :) (is it okay for me to post a pic?)

Also - congrats to this family expecting a baby girl in September 2008. Love you guys! And so very excited for you!

And last but not least . . . It's Dustyn's first day of School! (although he might not be that excited!) Have a fabulous day Dust!

More random thoughts be me.

~Tonight I was in charge of Personal Progress in Young Womens.   It went pretty well.  I have a hard time coming up with activities to pass off goals.  I'm pretty much a crappy Personal Progress Leader.  By the way - if anyone was wondering. . . Personal Progress is a program in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) for the Young Women (ages 12-18).  It helps them learn valuable life lessons and keeps them thinking about their spirituality in hopes that when the time comes to make a decision they will have guidelines in place to help them make the best decision.  

~It seems like there is always someone turning around right in front of our house.  It kinda weird.  I don't know if it is the widest part on the street or what.  But it is right where everyone chooses to either turn around or park and look at their map (I guess).  Weird.  

~Verizon is irritating me.  :P  I am so ready to cancel our plan.  So ready.  We bought new phones.  Dustyn's broke within a week.  We called and they were going to send a replacement.   We got the replacement and they had sent it for my number.  My phone sucks and I don't really like it (it is SOOOO slow and freezes all the time), so I didn't really want another one.  :)  Anyways we call Verizon to see if they could change the phone to Dustyn's number and of course they said they couldn't.  (Which turns out is a lie).  So they tell us to send it back.  But the phone is out of stock.  Well they upgraded him to a Palm of some type.  Well that is great.  But now they are not sending it to him.  They just want him to use another phone.  No one will call us back.  We asked to not be charged all the plan fees for Dustyn's phone for the month (yes, he has been without a phone for almost a month) and they thought they were SO nice and gave us a $10.00 credit.  Oh.  Thanks.  Lame.  It's all just a huge mess.  If there were another good service provider around here, I'd switch.  But of course, there's not.  

~Seems like everyone around here is getting cold.  Even me.  Grrr....  I can't be sick yet.  I mean I still have another week of summer left.  Hello?  

~I can not find anywhere in my living room to hang the picture that Dustyn got me for my birthday.  I want it in my living room, but I don't know where.  For now it's sitting on my mantle and might be there for some time.  

~Our house has been so hot lately.  Luckily tonight it has cooled off a lot.  It did rain a little bit so that helped a lot.  I don't know if I can handle another summer without central air or a swamp cooler.  Guess I better start saving up.  

~Does anyone watch Big Brother.  I have been quite entertained in this season.  I still haven't picked out a favorite to win.  It changes weekly.  But I think if the house was smart, they would get rid of Memphis this week, otherwise he has a good chance to win it.  But Jessie does drive me crazy.  He seriously only thinks about himself.  And I am so tired of looking at his muscles.  Blah.  I wonder which it will be.  Oh and Michelle.  Was she mad or what?  She for sure does not like the Leotard as much as Jenn from Season 8.  Ha ha ha.  Speaking of season 8.  Michelle reminds me so much of Amber, except she cries a LOT less.  Keesha reminds me of Danielle in a way.  There are so many similar people in the two seasons.  I am totally loving it.  I loved season 8.  I know, I am easily entertained.

~I am so excited for the adoption conference.  Yay!  There are going to be some great workshops.  We are leaving Thursday afternoon.  If anyone wants to hang out Thursday night, we'll be around.  Email me and I will send you my phone number.  Of course Dustyn won't have a phone by then.  Grrr.....

~I finally found Breaking Dawn.  It was the last one on the shelf at our local Wal-Mart.  There weren't any last time we went.  I have heard a lot of mixed reviews about this book.  I am excited to read it to see what I think.  But I don't know when I will actually read it.  I might save it for when school starts so I have something to read while I am subbing.  I want to read a lot more books this year.  I read quite a few last year, but I stopped after the Twilight series.  I just couldn't find anything to capture my attention.  I hope to keep my library a little more busy this year.  

~I so need to scrub my kitchen floors.  I want to do it, but I am stalling because our house is so hot.  When I clean I get so so hot and sweat to death.  But it has to be done.  I just need to clean up the kitchen and the bathroom and my house will be clean for school to start.  I wanted to get everything caught up so that I wouldn't get behind when I started working more.  

~I can not believe school starts in two weeks from today.  Dustyn starts next week.  Of course we will be spending a lot of time at the school trying to get everything ready.  We have 20 something computers to get set up and posters to hang.  Plus a million other things!  :)  Time to get busy I guess.

~I so need to get to running/exercising.  Usually I lose weight during the summer.  I think I have gained 10 pounds in the past few weeks.  (I had been around the same weight for 2 years, until now.  :P) I don't even feel like I am eating too bad or too much, but apparently I am not doing something right.  I just wanna lose 30 pounds!  That would get me to my pre-marriage weight.  Wouldn't that be awesome?  :)  Now I just need to do it.  I have been getting some healthy recipes lately through a program that my Insurance Company does.  If you wanna see them, I have been posting them on the Anything Cooking blog.  I need to start riding my bike again!

~Well I think that is enough random thoughts for the moment.  Have a fabulous evening.  (Or afternoon for Heather.)

Giving it Back

So I was telling you all before about what the High School that Dustyn teaches at does to raise money. They have a program called "Giving it Back". Well it has come to an end and I guess they ended up raising about $5,000.00 (if I am guessing correctly). They had the giving it back assembly yesterday. Dustyn usually dresses up (in a costume the students provide) and sings a song (if they raise like $2,000.00 or so).

Well they raised enough money - so yesterday he stood in front of the student body dressed like this:

And sang "Popcorn Popping". Why does he always tell me the day AFTER! Come on. It wouldn't hurt to let me be there just once!

Go SSHS Rams!

Dustyn was beaming with school spirit today! He went to a Pep Assembly, Walked in a Homecoming Parade, attended a Volley Ball Game and the Homecoming football game... And I tell you what... it must of paid off. South Sevier beat North Sevier tonight! Woohooo!

Poor Dustyn.

The summer has officially come to a close. Dustyn started back to school today. It was a good summer. Not only was this the first year we have ever spent a summer together.... we spent 45 days straight 24/7 together. Man... could there have been a better summer?