what a week!

Thank you for the many emails about Kelly yesterday.  We're feeling quite confident about how we'll be dealing with things.  More to come on that but not yet.  Life is good.

Last night, Doug and I had a double date with Liza and Buddy.  We hadhad the opportunity to hear the performance of a great friend at Utah State University Student Center.  He was a favorite missionary from Indiana and now, married, expeciting a baby, working in the music industry, he and his band, Checkpoint Charley, performed as a little run down of the performance that they'll do tonight, opening for Jon Schmidt at Thanksgiving Point! (That was an awful sentence, but I'm in a huge rush out the door!)  My photos were awful!  dang!

Kevin is like a son to us and has been for almost twenty years now.  We also finally got to meet his most gorgeous wife, Emily, who we hadn't met because I had pneumonia when they were married!  They are expecting their first child in October.  It was a fun-filled night and soooooooo great to visit with Kevin between his busyness!  As we were leaving, there was an older couple who'd been at the other end of the student center for a semi-formal type production that was taking place.  They peeked their head into the auditorium where Kevin was jumping and dancing around on the stage in all of his energy, and they said, "Wow!  That's quite different than what we were just listening to!"  We walked out with the couple, telling them about what a great guy Kevin is and they were just impressed with him.  They had to be close to 80!  I love people with open minds!

A quick ten list today:

Ten things that I loved about this week:

1. Every minute with Jim and Karen
2. Kayaking down the river
3. Getting to visit with Kevin and meet Em
4. Date-night with Doug
5. The cool weather (I wore socks for the first time in months this week!)
6. Lunch with my sweet friend, Katie, from Bountiful
7. The tow truck ride home from Layton with two very kind guys who'd just returned from interesting missions and who had both lost their dad's to cancer recently
8. An epiphany about a situation I've been wrestling with
9. Doug walked in, grabbed me in the hallway, hugged me tight and said, "There's my best friend!"

10. Reading "A Dog's Life" by Ann Martin

Nine songs I've listened to this morning (Saturday is our morning to lie in bed and listen to music while we gab)

1. Lonely No More by Rob Thomas
2. Keep Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis
3. Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
4. You Want to Make a Memory by Bon Jovi
5. What a Wonderful World by Stevie Wonder and Rod Stewart
6. You Had me from Hello by Bon Jovi
7. Crush by David Archeleta
8. Mercy by Duffy
9. Angel of the Morning by Merilee Rush

Eight things that I have GOT to get done before the weather changes:

1. refinish the armoire that I bought in June just before the surgery
2. Plant some bulbs
3. Break down the pool and store it
4. Paint the kids bathroom
5. Clean out the garage
6. Walk 100 miles!  (It's only 3 miles a day, that's doable!)
7. Make more zucchini bread
8. Hike to the waterfall/pool up Smithfield Canyon!

Seven things I purchased this past week:

1. Wheat
2. Rice
3. Sugar
4. Tiny light bulbs
5. A tiny light (I had a Hobby Lobby Gift Card!)
6. 2 Books from the Scholastic Book Order for ZJ
7. Grapes (that's my snack of choice these days!)

Six things that I'm praying for these days:

1. Kelly to be rational about life
2. Dale and Jenn and Willow's well-being
3. My three nephews who are on LDS missions
4. A huge event that is about to take place in our lives (I'll write about it on Monday)
5. My mother's recovery as she finishes up these chemo treatments
6. An old friend who's dealing with some issues

Five movies I saw this past summer and how I feel about them in five words or less:

1. Mamma Mia (five times... need I say more?)
2. Kung Fu Panda (great nap for me)
3. Get Smart (Doug's still laughing)
4. Hancock (not my favorite, but action-packed!)
5. Indiana Jones (Oops! We never got there!)

Four things that I accomplished this week:

1. made amazing memories with my cousin, Jim and his wife, Karen
2. kayaked and loved it!
3. came to a huge awakening about a situation in our lives
4. met with our attorney

Three places that I loved spending time at this week:

1. The American Heritage C
2. Tony Grove Lake
3. Olive Garden with Katie yesterday!

Two things that I need to cook today:

1. Zucchini Bread
2. Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

One thing that made me laugh this week:

1. When ZJ was waiting and hoping for one last turn on the kayaks, she figured out a way to assure herself that turn.  She said, "Mommy, when Daddy gets back, I think that you and Daddy should just stay here and tell each other that you love each other. Aunt Karen and I will go out on the kayaks while you do it.

There is no real excellence in the world which can be separated from right living.

Comments

[Deb Wisker]

Love your lists! It's always such a treat to see what you're up to!LOL! Is the zucchini bread recipe on the recipe blog?