Sherwi Baggins...Literally

I have debated for a long time if I should blog about this or not, but I figure, why not?! About 95% of my readers are related to me, and the other 5% are dear friends, so why not?! I'm sure I'm not the only female who absolutely hates shaving her legs. It's the worst! So basically, I didn't....for like 3 or 4 months. I didn't keep track, but it had been a long, long time. I wear pants all the time except to the temple and church, and I wear tights to both of those places, so why shave your legs? I don't date anyone...ever...so no need to worry about that angle. When it's all said and done, I'm really the only one who sees my legs in the winter. Call me Amazon woman!
The funniest thing was one night I was doing Tae Bo and doing some kicks, and I could feel the breeze flowing through my leg hairs. That was a first!
I finally broke down and decided to shave. Call it spring fever, but it had to be done! So if you can stomach a very hairy woman leg, scroll down. One leg pre-shave, the other, post-shave. I guess I was starting to take the whole hobbit thing literally!

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P.S. No, that is not a really bad camera angle. I have the HUGEST calves on earth! There is a whole lot of muscle to fit in that compact little space on these short legs! :)

I Love Being an Aunt!

Just for my own journaling purposes, I had to document this somewhere. Since I don't write in my journal ever, it ends up here. Yesterday Amy and Jack came to visit me at work for a few minutes. Usually, Amy will walk in, set Jack down, and I will get up with my arms outstretched toward him. He usually would start a stroll in my general direction and then get distracted by the huge water bottles or by the server room that is full of very fun cords and blinking things. Yesterday they walked in, Amy set Jack down, I caught his eye with my arms outstretched and he ran (as fast as a 17-month-old can run) with a big smile on his face right into my arms. It made my day...maybe even my week! Oh, how I love that kid! He has started saying my name now too. Could there be anything better than being Jack's aunt?

Here is a pic of me and Jack right after he was born, and another pic me Jack, and Deeds a few weeks ago. Time sure flies!

Come What May, and Love It - Part 1

Frustrating and annoying things happen to me all the time. I was inspired by Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin's (miss him so, so much!) talk given in October 2008 entitled "Come What May, and Love It" (http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-947-9,00.html). Whenever one of these frustrating or annoying things happen, I now try to jump back, look at the bigger picture, and then laugh. Elder Wirthlin said, "The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable." I feel like my re-telling of these situations have brightened the days of those I have told them to. So I thought I would start to share them here as they happen.

Part 1: Hansel and Gretel

Just before Christmas, I had made one of my usual jaunts over to Costco. Normally, Costco is the happiest place on earth for me, but not this day. I had purchased a few items, a case of bottled water, little delicious grape tomatoes, a huge pack of toilet paper, etc. I headed out to my car quite satisfied with my purchases and excited to eat the grape tomatoes. Those of you who know me well, know that I LOVE tomatoes and eat romas like apples. Delicious! God bless Costco and whoever grows these little grape tomatoes! You Costco lovers out there know the pieces of heaven that I'm talking about!
Upon arriving at my car and popping my trunk, I found that the carton of tomatoes had toppled off the case of water bottles and now my once heaping amount of grape tomatoes was now nearly non-existent. A moment of rage set in as I thought about the careless, thoughtless, obviously-out-there-to-sabotage-me cashier who had not arranged my cart in a way that could survive a trip over the stupid rain dips in the parking lot. Just as profanities were about to fill my brain (these tomatoes aren't the cheapest), I glanced back to glare at the stupid rain dip that caused the problem only to find that I had left a trail of grape tomatoes from said stupid rain dip to my car. Who could keep from laughing at that?!? If anyone was watching the incident, they had to have been highly entertained. I salvaged what was left in the carton, picked up all the tomatoes that were around the car (thoroughly washed them all and yes, I did eat them), and got in my car and headed home. Afterall, it was just a few bucks down the drain and good story to tell! At least I can find my way back to Costco now by following my trail of grape tomatoes!