My 10 year high school reunion was a couple of weeks ago. The small town where I went did a four year reunion, graduating classes of 96-99. I had 83 people in my graduating class. So they combined four years so there would actually be people to see. It was good taking the kids to see where I grew up. It hasn't changed much in 11 years. The biggest draw for me was the Okeefenokee Festival was the same weekend, otherwise I wouldn't have gone. But I had been wanting to take the fam down for that sometime so we did. We actually went to the beach the day before and the kids loved it. I wanted to look for sharks teeth (we used to find them all the time growing up) but the tide was up and that made it impossible. On Sat. we went to the parade in folkston for the festival and my favorite part was still the band. The kids got tons of candy and Shay was in awe at the floats (most of which were just people driving their dumpy cars in the parade). He didn't get it and I thought it was super funny, because thats just how they roll in S. Georgia. I should have taken pictures. Then the girls rode the pony and we got some gator on a stick, Elly kept saying "mmm that gator sure is good, lets get some more". Then we went to the swamp. We saw a few gators but not many and ran out of time so we didn't get to take the boat ride to see more. Then we went to the reunion and had dinner, it was good to see a couple of people and I won the award for the most kids, with our 5th on the way. The highlight of the trip would be Shay getting in trouble by the lady we stayed with for using a teflon pan she had because if you scratch it, it will kill you and she called Shay a theif for using it! Very weird. We left shortly after that. But overall I think the kids had a good time and I had enough of S. Georgia to last another 10 years.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
For the love of General Conference
As much as I love to look forward to General Conference, I am so glad it is over. My brother, his wife their baby (17m), My sister, her two boys, 14 and 5, and my dad came for conference weekend. I am way too pregnant to be hosting family and not so pregnant that I should feel this way. My grumpies took over a couple of times. And I think they could see relief in my eyes when they left. It isn't that I don't love them, I do, but I am hormonal and I really like my house clean. When you have a house this size and that many people it makes it really tough. Then you have conference stresses, where I want to listen but everyone else wants to talk or have lunch or talk about having lunch. I think the truth is I am way too anal and should plan on not listening and just buying the cds later. I would probably be much happier then. But really it wasn't as bad as I make it sound, the kids were overall good and it was nice to send the men off to priesthood and send the kids to bed and watch a girl movie, we also went to yard sales without kids and I got to sleep in my own bed. I also beat them all in Settlers both times we played, they just don't have a chance. So as you see, you just can't win with a pregnant woman, and that is all I can say about that.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Shays fault
all of the pics from our adventure are on shays work computer, and he has been gone alot.... So soon, I am sure of it!
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