A funeral and a solo....

As is typically the case, photography has seasons where things are crazy. So last week was one of those crazy times -- I did a wedding on Friday the 17th in Albuquerque and then over the course of the next week I did 5 more shoots with a Young Women in Excellence thrown in there. Consequently, I had well over 700 pictures to edit. I have been crazy with editing and so when Ashley came home and announced that she had a concert that night for Honor Choir I have to admit I was less than enthusiastic.

However, Chelsea, Dad and I (we even took Brooke with us) went over the college for her concert. Many of the songs I had already heard and loved. But as I listened to "Think on Me" one more time I realized this is the song I want sung at my funeral. So let it be written, Chelsea and Ashley are to sing "Think On Me" at my funeral -- and crying is no excuse (although I am afraid everyone might just say, "Ding dong, the witch is dead!" ).

Well I was a little miffed because the guy that was leading the choir was standing RIGHT in front of my little girl on the front row. However, right in the middle of the song, Ashley walked away from the rest of the group. "Oh know, Ashley go back. You are really going to embarrass yourself. Go back, go back." Then much to my excitement and righteous (?) pride, my little girl had a long 'ole solo. She did so well. She didn't even squeak or falter or sound embarrassed at all. Boy-o-boy! I was thrilled.

So that is what is going on at our house? What is going at yours?!

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TEMPLE!!!!!!

So now I am officially 12 and I am so excited! I went to the temple and did baptisms for the dead. The baptisimal font was not what I expected, I don't understand why they put those funny looking cow heads on the side. Also when I first walked in and didnt see the floor I thought it was just sitting there with nothing attaching it to the floor and I thought it was going to break if a really heavy person stood in it. The guy that baptized me was dislexic and he was saying the girl in front of mine's name wrong every time her last name was blixter and he kept calling her blitzen. Sis. Holland was about to pee her pants she was laughing so hard it was pretty funny watching her cause she had her head between her knees. When I went into the font it was so warm it felt so good. I had the most amazing time though it was very fun, also mom got to be in there with me and all that stuff it was very fun. So I hope next time I'll be baptized by dad (hint, hint) live, love, and laugh. I love ya'll see ya next time

Asheybabe

A Zits one too...

Tanner, this jokes for you...

But the rest will enjoy it too.....

The Smoking Power Supply
I used to work in a computer store and one day we had a gentleman call in with a smoking power supply. The service representative was having a bit of trouble convincing this guy that he had a hardware problem.

Service Rep: Sir, something has burned within your power supply.

Customer: I bet that there is some command that I can put into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file that will take care of this.

Service Rep: There is nothing that software can do to help you with this problem.

Customer: I know that there is something I can put in... some command... maybe it should go into the CONFIG.SYS.

[After a few minutes of going round and round]

Service Rep: Okay, I am not supposed to tell anyone this but there is a hidden command in some versions of DOS that you can use. I want you to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the last line as C:DOSNOSMOKE and reboot your computer.

[Customer does this]

Customer: It is still smoking.

Service Rep: I guess you'll need to call Microsoft and ask them for a patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE.

[The customer then hung up. We thought that we had heard the last of this guy. But NO; he calls back four hours later!]

Service Rep: Hello, Sir, how is your computer?

Customer: I called Microsoft and they said that my power supply is incompatible with their NOSMOKE.EXE and that I need to get a new one. I was wondering when I can have that done and how much it will cost.




Now Go Get a Job! Love Mom

Adventures of Tan in the YI 4

OMG CHELSEA I LOVE YOUR HAIR! haha im not joking, i really loved it. I just thought id through that out there first. Well its been a while so Ill update all of you. First off, to rant about my apartment like normal. So alex and i were hanging out in our living room, i was on my computer and alex was sleeping. Coy was over cooking something and i see out of the corner of my eye a HUGE spark, like our own private sun in our kitchen. Coy starts freakin out and cussing and comes running out of our kitchen. Turns out that there were wires sticking out of the wall and his pan touched both of them together and it blew up! It was hilarious! It didnt do any damage, well at least not to my stuff haha! it burned like 3 of coys pans. But the real bummer was that our lights went out, AGAIN! We got our tv back like 2 days ago and now we cant watch it because it doesnt have any power. Im also back to taking showers in the dark lol. And now Ryan has an excuse to shower with the door open haha. My apartment always stinks thanks to my lovely roomates. My bedroom always stinks thanks to coy. Other than those few things my apartment is still in one piece.
So recently I have noticed how much trouble i am money wise. I have searched and searched for a job. (Tutoring people said no) No luck anywhere. No one really wants to hire me because i dont have a car. So i have to start donating plasma. Ive budgeted myself down to almost nothing. 5 dollars a day but i really try not to spend that because i want to spend that on the weekend. So now i eat one egg in the morning and starve myself for as long as possible till i HAVE to eat, its ussually around 5 or 6 and than i eat 3 packages of ramen. Look what you have to look forward to chelsea. I need a job! I took my first test today, it was in science. I studyed for once and it didnt even help. i got a flippin 65...I was so MAD! So now i gotta pay extra close attention in that class. I also have about 3 hours left on a picture i have to draw for art.
Well now to fill you all in on the social life. Alex has got a girl friend. Laurel. Shes the roomate with Sammi Nicole and Jojo. So like every night were always over there. I ussually hang out with Nicole and Jojo while im there. They are so much fun! Ok heres a good story i forgot to tell you all. One night Jojo and I were going to go to this "haunted house" that is like right across the street to there apartment. So we went there and there was this trap door so we started going down the stairs. We both were like freaking out but we keep going anyway. We go down these really really ghetto stairs and it was really creepy, llike you see in the movies. We get down to the bottom of the stairs and we walk into this really worn out room, it was creepy too. but we keep walking on. We walk into the next room and its got some paint on the wall with a Sonic Cup on the fireplace mantel, so i was like wow thats wierd. We go into the next room and BAM its a completely furnished room that someone was living in. It was painted with a bed and a couch and a kitchen. We were in someones house! We start freakin out and book it out of there! it was hilarious.Me and jodie had a thing for a while but we finally just decided that we were gonna stay friends so i think thats over. I will still hang out with her but just as friends. As all of you probably know Alex Ryan and I are heading down to Utah this weekend, im way excited! I wish you could meet me there. Well i think thats all that i got for now, alex says hi.

Little Bo Peep

Okay so last night Chelsea had a wild notion that she wanted to have curly hair. Her hair is so heavy that normally it will not hold a curl. Consequently, I used very little strands of hair and curled away. Well 67 curlers later (and having to borrow some from the McPheeters), here are the final results. Joe, of course, said she looked like a sheep. She thought she looked more like Bo Peep. I really liked it.


The Night Before...



The Day After...


Tonight is a PV football game so we might be off to that tonight.

Hey family,
So Tan I’m mostly writing this for you. So you better like it. I’m still not enjoying high school very much, I just don’t like some people they make me so mad cause I’m not in the "smart" classes so I got stuck with the stupid people who don’t care about their education, and I even find myself at their level sometimes and it makes me so mad I don’t know what to do. Also all my friends think I hate them because I don’t hang out with them at the games and bonfires and stuff. I try to hang out with them but there just no fun! So I go and hang out with people who are and then they think I’m ditching them I kinda am but I still love them and they just don’t know it I just don’t know! So yeah I went to the bonfire and the game it was so much fun! Those are the times that high school is fun. When I don’t have to put up with being cool or not cool. It so hard to not care... but I think I can live with it lol. So tanner get this Derek is reading the twilight books he on the third one lol I laughed so hard when I found out. Last night we had the Hollands over for the annual Sunday games, and Matthew was being hilarious it was just like you Tan, it was nice having you around again. So my music is in a jam because I cant seem to find time to find any good music I’m always so busy I hate it I want to be able to stay home and work then go to school. So tanner keep the music coming.
Tan thoughs stories in the second adventure were so funny and the third was too the peeing thing made mom laugh an cry a little bit (and yes mom I did notice). Well homecoming weekend was crazy Caroline went through the "getting ready stages" it was so funny like she was in the "I don’t want to go" stage for a long time and then the day came and she was waaay excited then the time came to get ready and she was like freaking out! She didn’t think she was, but, oh my, she was so bad she was like hyper ventilating, but not as bad as Tanner was lol (man tan yours was the best) Tan are you getting any better at that? We just got ding-donged ditched and it scared me ashley out of our panties! Today we went shopping for ashley but some how I can always find a way to get mom to get me something haha I love you mom. I really love rain.
Today our volleyball team sucked! (Pardon my french to mom and to anyone else who cares). So on the 1st game was against FHS and we lost in to flippin games it makes me so mad! Then we played Aztec and we won the 1st game but lost in the second one and that was 23 to 25 then it was 13 to 15 gosh dang it! I can’t believe we lost and then we played Cortez oh my goodness we just gave up. The 1st game they changed our rotation so no one had any idea of what was going on. So it was like 11 to 25 but then the second game was 5 to flippin 25!! We got killed! I don’t know what happened. Then I rode home on the bus from cortez (where we played) with Ron and Amanda, these are my coaches tan you need to meet Ron he’s just like Herman Munster he is so funny and Amanda graduated with Joe so yeah she is really cool, and they are so funny they made me laugh the whole way home.
My ears always hurt now. So getting back to complaining about high school. I don’t really hate it I just don’t like the people there sometimes like everyone has to worry about everyone’s else’s buisness and no one shuts up! The one person who bugs me the most is this stupid kid named Kevin (and not quiet kevin form track Tan) he calls him self "superfresh" (dumb name huh?) and in the 1st week he asked me out and of course I said heck no! But before I said no he kept telling colby that I was "his girl" and I was told him that he needed to back off and relax, and after I said no he said that it was a bet to try and cover it up and so from then on he always tries to talk to me and he just throws things at me during class and is like now obbessed with my white friends (he’s not white im not quite sure what he is but he’s not white) and I just want to beat him up cause no one likes him and his stupid friends! Also he always thinks I’m stoned cause my pupils are so big or some stupid thing like that. Man I hate dumb people.
Mom has latley been reading the family Kristi’s blog and she is an amazing writer. She is so funny. Dad is just same old same old, but he is loving his new calling lol. Every Wednesday he plans something for the scouts that I would love to do, like last time he took them swimming and he dove off the high dive head first and hurt his neck haha. Your getting old dad face it. Joe... is always hanging out with Derek and Matt. Ashely has been good. Her b-day I hope was fun the beehies kidnapped her in the day time which is really dumb but hey whatever. And I’m trying out for all state I don’t think im going to make it actually but hey I just need to get out there this year so that I can be in PVC pipes next year. And not get yelled at everyday cause we suck. Well I have to go everyone I’m leaving until next time (if there is one)
Chel-c

Never overestimate birthdays you'll just end up being sad

So i am now officially 12! Woo hoo!! before i go into the details i want to say i went to mutual and it was pretty fun. So on my birthday i totally forgot until i went in to say hi to mom in the morning. So my birthday was pretty much like a regular day. I got home and found our mom hadn't gotten me any presents. Then i went to mutual and it was so much fun, i loved it!! Yesterday we watched the football game with BYU and USU and we kicked there buttox!!! 34 to 14 BYU won. Brooke came over and we were playing volleyball out in the front yard when it started raining. We went and layed out in the middle of the street and talked for like 20 mins, but it started to get cold and when we got up you could see exactly where we were laying. It looks like when they draw dead bodies in chalk before they move them. We came inside and watched what was remaining of the game. It was so much fun!! Hey Tanner did you watch the game? Well it was so cool cause one time we tackled the other team and they fumbled the ball and we recovered it and scored a touchdown! Well today it General Conference and we are in between sessions, and i'd just like to say tanner you are a hypocrit! you told us not to talk during sacrament meetings since that's what they told us, but yet there you were texting when they told us not to!!!!! Tanner i heard you are having a break down cause your archos broke well just get a cheap ipod and youll be fine. Joe you need to do go camping with dad, before it gets too cold. Chelsea how was you Cortez game did you win? Mom keep up the photography and don't be discouraged. So i love y'all see ya next time bye!

While you listened to Conference, I lost weight...

Okay, during conference we ate cake, drank milk (albeit white water), finished off our yummy hash browns that Dad / Kent made for us for breakfast, with eggs and bacon.  Yum-yummy!  Oh yeah, I also lost about 50 pounds and cleared my skin flaws... See below for proof...

Before Conference

After Conference