i'm LOST

I have been watching LOST from the beginning. Now it's a little ridiculous. Am I right? For every answer, you get five more questions. Not to mention my biggest question,"Who is waxing their eyebrows?" Poor island dwellers with their perfect perfect eyebrows and their 2008 trendy clothing that happened to be in the luggage of a 2004 plane crash. I liked seeing Walt at the window last night. They probably had to have him kneel so he wouldn't look like he was now six feet tall. Maybe not a good idea to put a kid as a main character in a show where it takes 4 years to tell us about 4 months on an island. Perfect eyebrows. That's just stupid.

Another thing I like to do is "liken" tv to my daily life. So here is what I do: whenever I fly anywhere, I look around the plane and play "this is who would be on my island". So far I haven't seen any Sawyers, Kates, Claires... any of them. I definitely haven't seen anyone baby-carry a John Locke on to any of my flights - and I watch for it! I might have seen a Hurley or two. But mostly pudgy bald business men. Old ladies. Scruffy teenagers with loud iPods. Hardly a good cast for our crash. Who would save me from the black cloud? Or the polar bears? Nobody. At least I won't have to worry about cancer coming back though, hey?

Alex Passed Away

Our friend Alex passed away early yesterday morning. He was blessed enough to fall asleep Sunday morning and slip away peacefully. He had started having seizures on Saturday and we all prayed he wouldn't have to linger. Jaymeson went to say goodbye Sunday night and said there was a sweet spirit there. He told Alex we'd never forget him and I know that we won't. He was one of those guys that didn't go with the flow. He let himself be who he truly was. Those are my favorite people. He had such a strong testimony and knew the Lord had work for him to do. I'm so happy that he is is with his Savior now and can rest from the yuckiness that is cancer.

It is so strange that even though we have known since late last spring this would happen - even though we have prayed that he wouldn't have to suffer long - even though we know he is so much happier now - my heart is heavy and sad. I am being bombarded by emotions from all sides. From memories of my dad's last days that I didn't know I had to even more gratitude for the enormous blessings I have received this past year. Not to mention the reality of cancer and what it's capable of. Emotional times, my friends.

Please keep his family in your prayers!

a blue dress

So the other day Mason was practicing his ballet while watching Little Einsteins. He turned to me and said,"I want you to go to the store and get me a blue dress." That made me laugh. A nervous laugh. But my smile widened when I thought of telling Jaymeson about it later that night. Ha ha. His only boy. Actually, I thought Mason would just forget about it and move on. Nope. He has asked me for three days for a blue dress. I was telling our friends about it at a wedding luncheon on Saturday and they said, "Maybe that's the bribe you've been waiting for. Tell him you'll buy him a blue dress if he goes in the potty!" We all laughed - Jaymeson's was a nervous laugh. I figured I'd try it. Why not? I have already offered him a million dollars and he didn't care. In fact, I have already offered him a horse, a tractor, a ladder that goes all the way to the moon and even a spoon that would be only his - one his sisters could only dream of using. It didn't matter what I offered. He didn't care about being in diapers forever (ever! ever! ...that's an echo) So I said,"Mason, if you go pee pee and poopoo in the potty, I'll buy you a blue dress!" He went in the potty EIGHT times today.

Of course, the way I see it, we'll just deal with one problem at a time...

visuals - for karen

The kids at Hogwarts... or MoyeElementary




This is Hedwig. She was the belle of the ball. Strangers took pictures of her. It was really funny to watch her walk in that costume because she flaps her little wings. SHe likes dressing up.





This is our new house!




This is Jaymeson, Preslie and a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach. Gross. They had a bunch of weird animals in the "care of magical beasts" area at the Harry Potter night.

I fixed your blog

Now super tech savvy girl - you can have this unlovely ocher color if that was what all this was about - but I personally hate it.

I broke my blog

i'm so sad about it. I lost the good quotes and all the prettiness. I have to go back and re-add all the links and stuff again. I shouldn't have tried to do anything with it. I shoulda left it to Mel. Shoulda coulda woulda.

Oh, also...

I will pay you $200 to potty train Mason. That is what it is worth to me today. I don't want him going on his mission wearing diapers. Your house, my house - whatever. Just do it.

Thanks in advance.