“Googleing yourself”
November 13, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
Beware gooleing yourself, you might say “ikes” at what you find! I googled a friends name the other day and today thought “I’ll google myself and see what I find. The first two items that came up were from this site, yikes now everyone can see what I look like ! The third article about me was written in a space called “capertree.blogspot .com, a political forum, on an article about “Mitt Romney”, a guy compares me as a mormon to Mitt Romney. Saying I was the first mormon he ever knew and he goes on and on etc. You should read it, it was a very nice thing for someone to say about me , although I don’t remember where he remembered “dimples”. Anyway, I won’t be posting anymore pictures of my self anytime soon, sheesh!! I googled, Bill, and Buddy and Beth and Benny. Bill is the great “structural engineer, Buddy is the song and dance man, Beth and Brenda sell “Ryder-rubs, Benny is the movie and comic book critic and I am “The face of Mormonism”LOL
OK, im here now
November 4, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [3]
ok, I just now got on the website. don’t ask me why I haven’t before? Guess I am a terrible person. I knew about it, but just haven’t done my family duty, but I am here now, so watch out, I will be talking and commenting and posting pictures, cause I love to post pictures. First I got to figure out the digital camera, and you know what I am going to put on there??? hint!hint!
This is going to be great!! Julie, the kids are beautiful, wish I could see them, hope they know who I am.
Alley, you are georgeous, of course!!!!
Love to all!!!
diabetics
November 4, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [2]
I bought a blood testing kit and have tested several mornings and it has been around 90. I think i only tested high because i had just had a rootbeer float. Anyway , i have cut down on carbs, sugar and fat and am trying to lose weight. it is just so hard because i get so hungry. i walk 12 miles a day at work everyday, and that really makes me hungry. (I know, I wore a pedometer for several days to check. I will still keep checking just to be safe.
OUR FLOORING IS BEAUTIFUL
November 4, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
Thanks to Carmen who got the ball rolling, and all of you who contributed, and most of all to my wonderful, talented husband, who spent three days of back-breaking labor putting down our living-room hard wood floor. We picked out the hard wood rather than the laminate. The color that we liked was better in hard wood, and the slats, or slabs, or whatever you call them linked together nicely. Of course, your Dad did a terrific job, as he always does. I just can’t quit looking at it. We’re inspired to move the furniture around. I really didn’t think it could go but one way, but I think it can go another. We’re going to have fun trying it a different way. The bay window had the TV set in front of it, and that wasn’t a good idea at all. We moved it to the corner, but we really need a small corner entertainment center, or at the least, something better than our glass coffee table (which it now sits on). Ah, the material things of life!! It’s just that I love to decorate, if only I knew how!!! The bay window is now free for the Christmas tree, and Dad bought blinds today, which we’ve needed all along. They had to be cut to size. Bill, we’re excited to have you and Nancy coming to take a look-see at the floor.
AND, to spend Merry Christmas with us.
“Alabama Heritage”
November 2, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [1]
Mom, did you and Dad receive your initial issue of Alabama Heritage magazine yet? I got it for you guys as a little gift, I thought it looked like a great publication.
We both love history, after all, and the down-home history of the state we lived in the longest is pretty fascinating.
Liberals take the fun out of Tradition
October 31, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [2]
I had to post this to you all. It’s from my friend Cynthia who works at the University of Evansville in Southern Indiana. She is perhaps the only Mitt Romney supporter on the entire campus:) The liberal academia up there just about drives her stark raving mad. Even simple interactions with them just boil her blood:)… HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
“Last night some professors had their kids out on campus to trick or treat. And two cute little kids came up to Ann and me and gave US candy. Their dad said that was a tradition they’d started with their kids – to give away instead of get candy. I asked if they also got to trick or treat the usual way too and have people give it to them to keep. He said, well, they get candy at other times ….Meaning no. They don’t. I thought that was just criminal. Poor kids. It’s one thing to do reverse trick or treating too but to not also let them get candy to keep on Halloween …
These academics. He probably read some sociological study that recommended this stupid idea. Probably supposed to make them grow up to be do-gooders who join the Peace Corps. 
What it’ll really do is fill them with resentment and rage and just wait – they’ll pay dad back for this when they get older.:) “
I’m Back
October 30, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
I have returned to a cash register. After searching far and wide for any job that would fill the $200-$300 dollar lack in my current pay level at Leggett & Platt, I had no choice but to return to the register position at Kum & Go. The good is that I’m avoiding overnights working 4 hour shifts during the week. The bad is that I’m working 4 hour shifts during the week and an 8 hour shift on Saturday’s.
Believe it or not, I miss my kids.
Anyway. Having returned I am reminded once again of the varied and interesting lifestyles people choose to live. Which in turn has solidified my belief in a few truths:
The Lottery, in any form, is evil. It perpetuates poverty, provides false hope, and corrupts goverments.
You’re never to young to be addicted to a substance.
A bad attitude at work really makes things hard for yourself and others. (The ladies I work with have a second job called “bad mouth the other worker(s)”, it’s really annoying)
And convenience store sandwiches are just as addictive as nicotine. I Love’em!
Temple
October 9, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [4]
Dad and I went back to the temple today after one month away. Things happen. A new President and Matron were called. I talked to the Sister who lost her husband last July in the car accident in Alaska for the first time. She burst into tears. We were in the cafeteria. She was surrounded immediately. What angels in the temple!! Luis and I met a man who sang with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for six years. His wife appeared, and said she had five babies, and couldn’t sing. He said the experiences were out of this world.
MOM
BILL, CHECK YOUR EMAIL
September 29, 2007 | Check-in, Travels | Comments [1]
I don’t know if you are just not emailing me back or you just don’t check it very often, but I need you to answer my last email. EVERYONE be sure you don’t have an email from me.
thanks! carmen
My sunday school class
September 20, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [2]
I have been teaching the 6 year olds in Sunday school for the past few months. They are so cute and I just love teaching them. Every sunday they all fight to sit by me in Primary and it really makes me feel good. We gave the program for the young and old Sunday schools last week and my kids did a great job! When I can post some pictures of them I will. I hope everyone has a great week.
Daily Report
September 12, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
Was that my lovely granddaughter, Lainie Beth, that I just viewed, thanks to Buddy’s post? I believe so! Soon to be 16. Everybody put that down on your calendar.
Buddy, thank’s for your report. The children are really busy and I’m glad to hear that Lainie and Bailey’s visits are working out well. The closer all of you grow to each other, the better it is for you, especially the next generation.
Nothing going on here. Carmen painted today down the hall.
Luis has been in a lot of pain. He either has a hernia or prostate trouble. We’ll know when the report on his X-rays come back Friday.
Last night Teyla said the blessing on the food. She blessed everybody in the house (forgot to bless the food) and then said “the end!” and then said “Oh,yes. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen”. Luis said. Did you bless the food, Teyla? She said, “yes”.
Luis and I have to go to Cocoa Beach tomorrow to renew our miliary ID’s.
MOM
OK… the Buddy Clan
September 12, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
We had a great weekend. Lainie and Baily came over on Saturday. We went to the Artwalk woefully sooner than it was open so ended up at the Pepper Place for Ice Cream and fresh tomatoes. Then we went to Brookwood mall where Allie bought a shirt at Wet Seal, Baily bought some webkins charms (she has 17 webkins you know) and Ethan bought a Cork POP rifle at ‘Spots & Dots’. We ate at 5 Brothers Hamburgers and went home so Allie and Baily could get online for a bit.
Adam-Michael had his first football Game on Sept 11. He and his Bengals routed the Panthers 12-0. Adam-Michael is an avid ‘Auburn’ fan (much to his Crimson Tide Mother’s dismay) and plays Wingback and Cornerback. He Assisted on 5 tackles and made 5 himself. As small as he is, (75 lbs, 11 yrs old) he plays on an unlimited weight team where anyone over 105 pounds has to play the line and is ineligible to carry except on a fumble or interception. He has to shuck off some sizeable characters to get to the runner. The Panthers literal had one of Adam’s classmates an 11 yr old 5′6″ 208 lb lineman over Adam on the outside… he says he just ran around him when he needed to make a play:)
Adam also started Saxaphone. Jacob plays Tuba (Souzaphone) in the Spain Park Marching Band and Trumpet in the Jazz Ensemble. Ethan wants to start music this year (4th grade) and is active in his Programmer’s Club at School. Allie is in theater and fashion design classes at school and will be 16 on Oct 2 and is ready to take the highways by storm if she ever gets another copy of her SS card:) Melissa started back to school at UAB, she has 3 more semesters before starting law school in 2009.
That’s it for us…
Bud:)
Daily Report
September 11, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [1]
I think a daily report might be too much to be of interest to everybody, but I’m going to do it until enough interest is generated to get a fire lit under this weblog. It can be such a wonderful way for us to touch each other’s lives, and keep up with the next generations.
They’re growing up faster than we can blink our eyes.
What happened around here today? Not much. I felt too bad to go to the temple. Luis went, of course. I spent the day ironing, and Carmen spent the day getting the walls that go down their side of the house ready to paint. We took all of the pictures down (about 100) and sold the frames in our garage sale, and bought new frames. It’s going to be pretty. Then Jason and me saw a huge, beautiful owl in our yard. He gazed down at me and the cat for a long time. Luis showed up and said that Sister Hansen had returned to the temple. She and her husband went on a trip to Alaska while the temple was closed for two weeks of the summer, and her husband was killed in a car accident. It’s going to be so hard for her, because they worked in the temple together. A fairly young couple in their fifties.
That’s all from here. Now listen…all of you. I want participation. It took me all of ten minutes to do this.
MOM
stake growth map
September 11, 2007 | Check-in, Uncategorized | No Comments
here is the stake growth map . check it out. stop it at any date. mom, stop it at 1966 and look how many stakes were in georgia at the time. www.latterdayblog.com/2005-stake-growth-video.html .
OKAY! THE MATRIARCH IS IN……….
September 9, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
Everybody straighten up now, and watch your language. Bill, thank you so very, very much for all of your hours of work in getting this web set up. I know that when we really get going with it, we’re going to enjoy it. I don’t know how to do anything in the photo gallery, but I have brilliant kids that will figure it out. All of us are loaded with projects.
Maria is here this beautiful Sunday afternoon in Debary on September 9th, which is incidentally Grandparent’s Day, and she’s leaving for Tampa later this afternoon for a week of training on her job. She’s driving a nice government car, and she’ll stay in whatever motel she can find close to the training spot.
Totally forgot Lily’s birthday. I’m so sorry. Carmen and I racked our brains, because we knew somebody else’s birthday was in September and we couldn’t remember whose it was! It was Lily, of course! On Brenda’s birthday. How could we have forgotten all of the hullabaloo over that. We’ll get a belated card in the mail tomorrow.
Dad and I will be leaving for Birmingham on September 20th, with expectations of staying with Beth and Paul for a few days, and then we’ll travel on to Ben’s and Julie’s house in Missouri. We’ll be pulling our Dynasty behind the Townhouse, and parking the Dodge at Ben’s. Ben, we just hope it’ll keep running for you, and not fall apart just as we leave. Be sure to pay your tithing. We’ll stay with Ben and Julie two or three days, and then travel on to Bill’s and Nancy’s house where we’ll put on a party hat and WOO-HOO!! CELEBRATE BILL’S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY!!! Bill is going to treat us to two games between the Astros and the Braves. In further celebration of Bill’s birthday, I hope the Braves beat the leaving daylights out of the Astros, because BILL ALMOST KILLED ME FIFTY YEARS AGO!
Thanx again, Bill. Everybody…let’s make good use of this Site. It’s such a please to have.
Much love to all……Mom
cool
September 6, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [1]
very cool idea. nothing interesting to say right now except happy birthday to my favorite sis! (Shhhh! don’t tell anyone I said that). What? What?! what do you mean I don’t understand how this blog thing works.