The sun and the Scooby-Snack

Hi all of you sun-worshiping family of mine. Yes, I know it is winter but, spring has sprung (at least here in California) and I just thought all of you should know that I had another mole excised today. Not melanoma this time, but only because they caught it early. It came back atypical so they had to go back in and cut out more, only to leave me with a wonderful 1/2 scar on my calf! So, unless you want to follow suit, you better start wearing your sunscreen - you are all considered high risk because of me!

So, last weekend John took Tristan to a birthday party for a friend from preschool. I was upstairs changing when they came home. Tristan came up to talk to me and offered me a piece of his scooby snack. I took a piece, not bad, and I assumed it had been a "Scooby-do" themed birthday party. He asked me if I liked it and turned to leave. Almost as an afterthought, he turned back and asked me if I wanted the rest. "Sure", I said as I popped it in my mouth and enjoyed the last of the frosted cookie. Well, guess what? Low and behold, a scooby snack is not a cookie from a kid's birthday party, it is actually a scooby snack - a DOG TREAT! Needless to say, John and Tristan got a kick out of that and I couldn't stomach my lunch. (John swears he didn't put Tristan up to it, either)!

Family Birthday Calendar

Hi. I feel lately as if I need a blog, facebook, gmail, etc. tutor! So, here are the family birthdays, but Allan might have to play with the calendar on our blog to add these dates.

Jan 21 - Michelle
Feb 15 - Olivia
Feb 19 - Justin
Feb 20 - Todd
Mar 20 - Tristan
Mar 28 - Kim
May 15 - Dad
May 26 - Megan
May 28 - Mom
June 7 - Jocelyn
July 15 - Julie
Aug 5 - John
Sept 11 - Margie
Sept 19 - Ryan
Oct 5 - Allan

Now there are no excuses!

shift happens

Dear Family,
View this video and you'll know what has been taking up all of my time.
I'll contribute again after I finish this dang degree.
Love, Mom

Todd's 30th Birthday!

I posted more pics on our blog from his bday. He had a great time :-)!

My life and Justin's life

So I don't know who has it better? Me with all my snow shoveling and everything going wrong with the house or Justin sitting in the cold wondering if an IED is near by.......I guess his is a little more scary :)
We are good though. Nothing too exciting going on with the both of us. I am just going to school every morning, then to work, then home for homework, the gym, young womans, and cleaning. Justin is kept very busy and said that the one thing he wants to do when he gets home is SLEEP. Poor guy! They go on a lot of trips, but as far as I am aware nothing scary has happened.
We are on the count down to when he will be back in utah!

By the way I put 2 pictures of the snow cause the one with me doesn't do it justice