Funny Story

I can't figure out how to put the pictures anywhere I want in my blog. If you know how please tell me. This picture goes with a story at the end of this blog.



Ok this is a funny story that may only be really funny to those who know or understand Japanese. Sorry I will try to explain so those that don't will get the humor as well. On Sunday during Relief Society the lesson is what distracts us from spending quality time with our children. One lady (about mid 40's) rose her hand and said that she loved those sedocow (sew dew cow) puzzles. It took me a few minutes to figure out that she was talking about Sudoku (sah dough coo). Granted I know that it shouldn't be that funny because not everyone understands Japanese ennunciation but Sudoku is a popular puzzle and the pronunciation is widely known. It still cracks me up.

We had a family egg hunt last Saturday. Each child had to find 6 eggs hidden outside mostly in the backyard. I was surprised at some of the eggs that Emily found, some were harder that were hidden with the boys in mind. Jared was really funny, we have a swing set that is currently on a hill of dirt we have by the back fence in our yard, we put it there early last summer when we were putting in our sprinkler system. Anyway we put a light orange egg on a yellow swing and Jared looked all around that swing set with in inches of that orange egg and didn't see the egg. Duaine and I tried hard not to laugh. They also had a beanie baby that was hidden for them to find. Emily found everyone else's before she found her own. Emily's is a pink flamingo named Pinkie (name on the tag seriously we didn't name it that). Jared's was a rhino named Spike and Cayden's was a chameleon named Rainbow again names we didn't chose.

Speaking of rainbows while I was at work on Tuesday a saw a teenage girl wearing a gray t-shirt with a rainbow on it and under the rainbow it said "Have a Gay day!" I didn't quite know what to think. I didn't know if I should comment to her about her shirt or not so I just pretended I hadn't seen it. Seriously I didn't know if it was a statement about her preferences or if she just thought it was a funny t-shirt. Since working I have seen and met some of the most interesting people. One girl has removed her eyebrows either by waxing them or by a laser, anyway she draws her eyebrows on and seriously the ones she draws on with a black eyebrow pencil are shaped like a clown eyebrows, just like the ones in the picture above. She doesn't use all of the rest of the clown make up and they aren't as thick as the ones pictured, they are a lot closer like 1/2 inch apart at above the bridge of her nose, the rest is about the same however. Don't want to stare when I see her but I can't help but think what she finds attractive about them. She kind of looks bizarre and maybe that is the intention. Just one more thing I won't be adding to my beauty regimen any time soon.

New Quilt Block

I got the material for my next block for the quilt exchange. It is going to be done in blues and whites, I think it has an Asian flair. Odd for me to go with an Asian flair huh. Anyway, I am hoping to go to my sister Raylyn's house next week to cut the material so I can start sewing the block together. When I get this block done I will post it like the last block I did.

This is the block I made for my family quilt block exchange we are doing tomorrow. I finished all 6 yesterday. It has been a busy week to finish the blocks but I did it. I have been watching two kids of a lady in my ward from 9-1. One is a 2 year old girl the other one is a 5 year old boy. I pick him up from the bus at 11:20 and then their mom picks them up at 1 or 1:30. Anyway the block looks a lot better than shown it got wrinkled and shifted some when scanning, also there is thread I just saw that I need to remove, but you will get the idea. I really like the way they turned out.

Quilts

My mom has set up a quilt block exchange or whatever among the women in our family. We meet once a month and can either make our block during that time or like quite a few of us are doing, making it before hand. We make one for each person, a total of 6. After I get a block finished I will post it for your viewing pleasure. The pattern I am using is called Cross-Country and I am doing it in greens and a splash of pink. I thought I wouldn't go with the color I am sure a lot of my family was expecting, my favorite color blue. Anyway keep checking back for that pic of my finished quilt block.

Birthday

I am sure most of you know Saturday was my birthday. As I get older I can't help but wonder what all of the excitement is about birthdays, maybe it is because I am becoming old.

Duaine and I had an activities committee meeting at 10:00. We have been on the activities committe since the first part of December. The chairman is PJ Maughan (for those of you from Monticello) so Duaine likes going to these meetings because something or someone from Monticello is brought up and they talk about it for a while. PJ has a son that is Jared's age named Peyton and they have become good friends. We took the kids with us to the meeting because PJ said that she had kids that our kids could play with. Emily played with her 9 year old daughter they played barbies and I am not sure what all else. Jared played with Peyton and Cayden played with her almost 13 year old son. They had such a good time that when the meeting was over. My kids didn't want to leave so PJ said they could stay and play for an hour.

While the kids played at the Maughan's Duaine and I went to Reams to get some bread because of a sale on Grandma Sycamore white bread. A friend of mine Mary was working (as a side note she is also the one I go to the gym with) as we came in the door she said "There is the birthday girl. Happy Birthday" and then another manager started singing Happy Birthday. Not super embarrassing by any means although I am one that hates stuff like that on my birthday I don't like big scenes. I thought that would be the end of it I was sorely mistaken. We had no sooner gotten to the meat department where we were talking to a former Primary President from a ward we lived in when we were first married when Mary made an announcement over the PA system "Attention all Reams customers today is the birthday of one of our employees her name is Rashele and she is wearing a yellow shirt so if you see her be sure to wish her a happy birthday." I about died. About a minute after her announcement the store manager said "Happy Birthday Rashele" on the PA system. I went up to the front of the store and pretended to throttle Mary.

Yesterday was the 19th birthday of one of my co-workers. To celebrate her birthday she came through my check stand and bought her first legal ciggaretts. I told her I wasn't going to sell them to her and she said check my ID I am legal. I just thought it was sad that she was so excited to buy ciggaretts. I thought what a waste.

Anyway Happy Birthday to my fellow March Birthday people! Wendy (16th) My Mom (18th) Leanne (10th) PJ (16th) Samie (31st) Hope your birthdays are Wonderful!