Lunch with friends

Once a year some of my high school friends and I try to have lunch together. This is quite a big thing. Three of us live in the Valley, one in Farmington, and one in Logan. We usually try to meet in Ogden. We figure that is half way. The problem arises first in finding a date that fits all schedules. That in itself is no easy task. We have all grown into incredibly busy people. The real fun comes in driving and finding the way. I will be the first to say I am not a good direction person. Unfortunately, the others are just as bad. But it ends up fun anyway. We usually end up taking an unexpected tour of the city of Ogden.
It is very interesting that someone can go a whole year without seeing someone, but when you get together with true friends the years drop away. You find yourself falling into step with your friendship once more.
So here is to old, true friends. I am grateful to have them.

I do believe that learning takes time.

For anyone who may be checking my blog this week, I appoligize. I have wanted a new look for the page. Unfortunatly I do not have knowledge of HTML. So I go about it the same way that I do everything I do. I learn by trial and error. And mostly there is error! Some days my blog dissappeared. Some days it looked funky. Quite a few times I couldn't find the way to change templates or make changes. What you see now is by no way the completed version. I will continue to try and try to learn how to do different things. Thank goodness for Google. I always tell my friends I am only Google smart.
See you around.

Oh what a day I had!

What a wonderful mothers day I had!
These cute people here were the ones that were responsible. Kristy bought me a new crock pot. I had a very small one, and a very large one. The small one was good for just Robert and me. The large one was great for big family dinners. The problem was when I just wanted to cook a roast or something like that. The big one cooked it up too fast and turned it into shoe leather. The small one was too small for the roast. I tried to put tin foil over it to kind of extend the capacity of the cooker. All this did was let the juice escape and run down the sides. Woe is me. The new one Kristy gave me is perfect. She then cooked a marvelous dinner of some chicken stuff that was made into tortilla things. Who knew she could cook so well?
The little girls made fabulous cards. The wrote the messages and spelled them themselves. Allie's card had these tricky paper envelopes built into the card. Sarah gave me her favorite saying to put on my wall. I must say it looks nice. She also treated me to a gift card from Kneaders Bakery.
Jill's gift was very creative. She made an accordion photo album. Inside of it were the kids pictures and their reasons why they like their grammy. I have to say a lot of the reasons evolved around the way I spoil them! It's paying off.
Lauri the sweet thing bought me a classy outfit. I loved it and it fit perfectly. All in all no mom could have asked for a better day. I hope they enjoyed their day half as much. I wonder though. Wes was coming down with a cold and Audrey found the permanent red magic marker. Her new dress and shoes will never be the same.