June 27, 2009 · Posted by rick
Grape Juice 25¢
Cali and Friends having her very first 'lemonade stand'... but there was no lemonade to be had... grape juice anyone? :) 
June 9, 2009 · Posted by shelley
Falling Down on The Blog Job
I have other great photos and Moore4 moments to post and I have just not gotten any of our little blog/archiving done! Ack!
Above is our Memorial Day trip to Ogden to the Dinosaur Museum. And I should go in to detail here about our excursion, but it is after midnight and dishes are calling to me so I can be an 'on top of it' Mommy... yeah, right. But it does help to have sippy cups in place and ret' to go.
As said, there are many more moments to share and cement in cyberspace and someday (hopefully) I can get it all done.
P.S. the dinosaur didn't catch us... 'phew'!
May 17, 2009 · Posted by shelley
The Green in Me
Today's post is not about 'green livin'... eco-friendly stuff and things. I kinda dig all that and have been gradually incorporating that way of living over the last few years or so for me and the Moore4. Well, as much as I can and as much as the $budget$ will allow. Unfortunately, I now have a new shade of green to add.
I had my annual check up with the eye doctor this last week and I mentioned about a new 'floater' I had. Only this floater wasn't the stringy, gray looking things I've had for years. This one is gray, but circle-shaped. He checked the computer copy-picture of my eye; taken from some giant fancy machine that I had to sit in a chair and literally smoosh my face/eye into so that it could take a picture of my eye. The technician said only 12 doctors in Utah have this machine. I was happy he was one of them.
Dr. Fellows found a 'freckle' on my retina. That's what he called it. He asked if I had macular degeneration in my family. I talked to him about my mom with her cataracts and some sort of surgery she had on her eye to alleviate a blind spot. I couldn't look at the computer screen as he was looking at the innards of my eye. That kind of thing makes me a little weak in the knees.
So, he talked of prevention of macular degeneration via vitamins enriched with Lutein and Zeaxanthin as well as eating dark colors: spinach, broccoli.
If my blood pressure wasn't enough of a scare to be eating better, this certainly is 10 times over. I had a spinach/romain lettuce/ broccoli salad with extra things like carrots, strawberry's, mandarin organces and roasted almonds on top for lunch today. And included a smaller version with dinner.
I just hope I can keep all these greens goin' in the ol' pie hole since a person can get sick of eating salads so often. But it will be dang worth it, if I can reverse any signs of macular degeneration. I don't think I was diagnosed, per say, with it now, but I think it is a possibility in the future (?) I am going back on Friday to get my contacts decided on and ordered, so maybe I can ask him more questions.
So, I embark at almost the age of 38.5 years to eat my eye and heart happy servings of fruits and veggies and kick old eating habits goodbye. I need to anyway for my blood pressure. As well as add to my pill regime with my new vitamins.
I'm pretty scared and stressed out of my mind about now. How in the heck did I get in such bad shape yet being so young?
April 27, 2009 · Posted by shelley
We ♡ the Northwest
Rick flew into Seattle this late afternoon without me. Waa! He is there for a fast one day conference for work and will return to his crazee girls late tomorrow night. I was just about to e-mail him and tell him how jealous I am that he is in the Northwest (or something along those lines) when I opened an additional e-mail he sent with this note attatched...
Hey baby! Here is a shot of the skyline as we passed by. I wish you
were here...although had you come with me we might have wanted to stay
forever!!!
Love you!
Huzzzzzzz
*sigh*
If we could only have a home here in the mountains and one in the trees.
I ask you, wouldn't that just be paradise?
April 16, 2009 · Posted by shelley
Easter in Farmington
Church at 8:30 am. Murderous. Absolutely murderous. We have to be there, though, because we teach the CTR 6 class (one of them, anyway) which also happens to be Cali's class of (whenever everybody comes) 9 chirpy children. And when I say 'there' it includes our many tardy entrances. In other words, I could probably passively hold up a couple fingers and that would be the total of 'on time' debuts. But we try. And I also would like to add that when I say 'have to be there', I am not all dissin' our calling as teachers. I actually like being there right now instead of with the adults for the first 2 hours of church. So, it is a blessing. And where else can you get the basics down pat of the Gospel other than in Primary? In Martha's words: "It's a good thing."
Easter Sunday was another late arrival, unfortunately. However, girls of the class were so pretty in their new Easter Best. I scored big time at Gymboree for my girls on their Easter dresses. Even shopping on the Saturday before! Each dress (with an appreciated 20% coupon from my Parenting mag) was $9.59! Sweet! And I bought a few hair decorations while we were there.
We tried to get pictures after Church at home in their pretty Easter dresses. Here is the best we could do!
So, much for the classic, glamorous Easter photo. At least one was being cooperative! Thanks, Cal :)
It's a good thing Easter isn't all about dresses, eggs and the like (which we still do for the girls, but like to do on Saturday). We are grateful to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. And hopefully, even with our tardiness, the children in our Primary class were able to understand the true meaning of this wonderful holiday.
Please click here for a special Easter gift...
p.s. photos to come.. i can't get them loaded! grr...
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