LITTLE LEAGUE!
My nephew Michael is 11 and played his first season of little league this year. The tournament started this week and they won their first game wednesday and then lost last night

Michael struck out with three pitches that doesn't happen in little league! and the umpire sucked, he was 16.

Michael was a little bummed...

but he rehydrated and got over it...

Michael's best bud and neighbor Austin was up and got a great hit! GO AUSTIN!

Michael cheering Austin on!

The last batter was up and they had 2 outs. I saw Michael on the bench like this and asked him if he was nervous and he just nodded...

He kept peeking through the holes in his mit to watch the last batter.

TJ struck out too and we lost. The boys are so funny listen to their dugout talk. I love the coach too, he's way too optimistic and encouraging for me! :)

MISS MYA TRICKS

Julie and I like to keep Mya entertained at Michael's baseball games Mya is so smart here is what we have been teaching her

Julie of course is teaching her to talk on her phone constantly and listen to good music. Mya has learned the Mya Wiggle dance all on her own

I have taught her "puppy" which is sometimes used when appropriate but usually everything is a "puppy".

I have taught her to blow kisses, every time she leaves the office she says goodbye so we have been working on kisses.

Jamaica is teaching her where her belly button is!

Jamaica has of course taught her "Patty Cake" and "This Little Piggy"

The crowd has taught her how to scream for Michael's little league baseball team! Go Angels!

The house that Daniel....put some electricity into... My brother-in-law has been working on the electricity for his boss's son's house. It's huge. He has a Ferrari garage that matches his HOT yellow Ferrari. It of course has a mother-in-law apartment that is connected by a bridge!

This is the grand entrance of the house with staircases going up each side. It's built like a castle with dark dark wood and rock. Reminds me of Harry Potter sorta of. He has a fire pole nook that goes from his wife's sewing wing down to his office :)

Hard to imagine with the dry wall but this is their two story library.


This is one of the guest room bathroom.

All the bathrooms had really cool tile.

The bathroom floor tile had rainbow tile!

This is their dining HALL!

Upstairs kitchen ette - the kitchens in the house sucked. BUT they did have an indoor trampoline that goes between two levels, a slide that goes from the 1st level to the basement (it's like a cave slide that goes through all the walls and stuff), a climbing wall, theater room in the basement with built in bomb shelter/food storage room that all has a sealed door and everything. I am thinking about telling him that I could just live in their bomb shelter (it has a kitchen, bathroom, bunks) and prepare all their food storage!

The kids tree house...another living option for me...

Oh and don't forget the helicopter pad in the big area off to the left of the tree house...

These metal pipes are water pipes to form a waterfall coming down from the house down to the pool area...

This is the pool "area" it is going to be made into falls that run down to the actual pool somewhere over to the left of the picture.

The pictures don't do it justice but it took us almost an hour and a half just to walk through the house.

THANKS FOR THE TOUR DANIEL IT WAS AWESOME!!...OH AND GOOD JOB ON THE ELECTRICAL STUFF!!!

yep i'm still here...it has been a really crazy month for me... it started with a week in april after my birthday that i taught relief society two weeks in a row then taught fhe monday and our enrichment wednesday. then that weekend i had my 15 hours of pre-licensing class training to teach life insurance agents after a 45 hour work week. i think i caught an ear infection from miss mya and i have allergies from hades that has turned to a head cold. it's 100 degrees here already and i started my period for the first time in 5 years. all fun and games here. this weekend I had m & h sleep over since colls and jules were gone. we ate at "marvs" and played mall madness, kings corners and watched "transformers" and "lady and the tramp" - they each got to pick one. in the morning we ate at "village inn" and went and hung out at "barnes and noble". on memorial day i watched jamaica's kids for them as it was their anniversary and they went to zion's to hike keyhole. we had a ton of fun cleaning their house and then going to the water park. i squeezed a shower in and the kids were back for pizza while j & d went to dinner. i did get some me time with my buddies warren, bart, kara, keena, etc at "angels and demons" that night. tom hanks really does work for satan. monday was followed by tuesday which was michael's 11th birthday. we went to "night at the museum 2" which I think I saw most of it between keeping an eye on mya who kept screaming "puppy" at ever quiet part of the movie - it's the only word she knows. we had pizza and opened presents and sang the song.

sent them to the opening roadrunner baseball game. i went home and passed out and haven't done a darn thing since. michael's little league team plays in the semi-finals of their championship tournament tonight so i'm sure that will have a story or two to tell. go michael #8. other than that...i'm just hanging in there.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM!

VIVA LAS VEGAS!

.My Dad was in Vegas this weekend and actually until Wednesday so the girls met him down to hang out a little on his days off of his work seminars. Dad got about an hour at the pool which is where I should have gotten off the train too. BUT no I was out for 3 hours and am a complete raspberry now!

We ate at PF Chang's the first night and are all looking for a pirated recipe for their lettuce wraps now! We then went to this really funny comedy club with three comedians (one of them was pretty funny). By the end of the third one I was laughing mostly because I was so loopy and tired!
.

.

Dad took us to dinner at "Lawry's" for PRIME rib and it was UNBELIEVABLE! They served this salad that was out of this world, prime rib and a lobster tale and they served the prime rib with these incredible mashed potatoes! The dining room was very classy and our "waitress" Miss Murray was so great! Dad surprised me with a birthday strawberry shortcake dessert and he's more of a chocolate guy so he got a chocolate sundae!!!

THANKS DAD I LOVE YOU!

LET'S DO THAT AGAIN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARRIE!

Our great friend Carrie had her birthday yesterday while we were in Vegas, so we got to celebrate with her tonight. She wanted to take Cafe Rio up on the Dixie cliff and watch an episode of "Dr Quinn"! It was great! The birds were soaring in the wind and the sun set was amazing! We laughed so hard at "Dr Quinn" mostly because we relate SO well!

THE DIXIE CHICKS!

.

THANK YOU!

I want to thank all my very giving friends and family for all my gifts this birthday season! I sort of challenged everyone to get me something practical for self-preparedness or food storage since I seem really unprepared for any sort of disaster or pandemic. Everyone did awesome! I'm really impressed with the creativity!

Click on the present to find out more about preparedness!

EMERGENCY POD-E ~My own creation thought you would be interested~

EMERGENCY WASHING MACHINE ~Thanks to Trish my preparedness cohort~

KAITO VOYAGER KA-500 SOLAR & CRANK RADIO (AM/FM/NOAA weather, SW-MultiBand Radio with Cell Phone/iPod Charger) ~Thanks Hansen Fam~

FOOD SAVER WITH JAR SEALERS ~Thanks Mom and Dad~

MORE MASON JARS and CANNING UTENSILS ~Thanks Jules~

STOCK POT ~Thanks Carrie~

I also received MARVELOUS gifts from Bath and Body from my roommate Colleen and my great friend Andrea.

BIRFDAY GIFT REGISTRY!

Ya so me and Hitler's birthday is coming up so I thought I would post my wish list. I'm just way into food storage and canning and preparedness ETC... be creative OR here are a few items on my wish list...

For ordering convenience click on the picture to take you to the website! :) For all of you very un prepared people :) These are those stinkin crazy vacuum food sealers that your mom might have shoved in the back of her pantry after she only used it once. What I REALLY want (they are out of stock on the website so whoever can find one wins) is a jar sealer to go along with the sealer. It allows you to reseal jars with food in them so that they last longer after you open them! They also preserve dry food from the air making them last longer! A lady demonstrated that you can keep chocolate chips this way for 10 years and they won't go all white and chalky! YEAH!

I'M OFFICIALLY A CANNER!

Last October I went for a life altering job on a Saturday morning. I went at the time with the intention of missing our Stake Preparedness Event. I was jogging back home and had to pass the Stake Center and all of a sudden I had a strong urge to just go in so you can say you went. SO I did and sat in the back on the stage and ended up being there for over an hour! It was amazing! The booklet that they handed out is available to print online called EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN by Wendy DeWitt. They also showed the VIDEO of her going over the booklet and what she has experienced. This made SO much sense to me and it helped me wrap my brain around food storage and how I can do it while I'm single too. Totally amazing please check it out!!! Check out her BLOG too!

I went straight home after the Event and called my mom and told her that I wanted a Pressure Canner for Christmas! That's exactly what I got too! Santa picked it up from the CANNING PANTRY online. It looks completely scientific and sorta freaked me out so I haven't really tackled the sucker UNTIL this weekend!

What better to do on General Conference weekend but some canning! One of the most motivating things on the video is that she encourages that we can our own meat. The meat will last with all the nutritional value on the SHELF, not frozen or refrigerated for one YEAR! She also said that the meat is more tender because it is pressure cooked! She has tried her chicken that she had canned in jars for 10 years and said it was fantastic! I thought it was genius, so chicken was on sale at Harmon's last week so I bought 5 packages of it and canned the little guys! I now have 8 jars of chicken breasts, that is 14 breasts :)

The jars look like those jars from 7th grade science that have pigs feet in phermeldahyde but I was still very proud and my roommates were encouraging and supportive of the venture! One of the jars didn't make it, it didn't seal right so Colleen took our chances to see how it tasted! It was so tender and tasted amazing!!