Family Home Evening at the Park

Daniel saw a butterfly in this cloud

We had family home evening at the park. We sort of flew a kite. I "fixed" the pictures to look a bit different.

Rio Grande

We took a walk on the River yesterday. It was really hot.

Isotopes

We went to our minor league baseball team game the other day with Melanie. The blow up people were hilarious. I guess the team is pretty good, they won and even got a home run. here are some pictures.

Melanie is coming

Melanie is coming today and we are so excited! I just need to figure out how to get to the airport now :) Lucky I has a GPS to use.

Tester Projects for fun

So I have two tables for free projects. Ones a kitchen table and one is a little lazy Susan occasional table. These are from a storage unit that are still just in our garage. They are pretty rough but I see some potential so I want to do just a fun who cares project. I plan on doing this with Melanie. Sorry Melanie I didn't tell you but I figure you wont mind learning how to refinish furniture. I think refinishing furniture is fun hopefully you will too. Anyway I am trying to decide what to do. I am wondering if I should sand and refinish the kitchen table (not really what I want to do) or paint it a cool color or paint it white and blue or who knows really. This table doesn't have a function so I am not sure what to do with it.

The occasional table is actually something I like.



I do have to wood glue it because one of the seams or whatever its called is starting to come apart so I plan on getting a clamp to keep it even while it dries and getting a thin piece of wood to stable to the bottom to keep it together while it dries. This is a table I actually like. I plan to just glue it, sand it, and paint it white or black. Not sure which. I want it to go in my bedroom. Anyway some opinions on just fun things to do to these tables would be appreciated. I will post the final pictures when we are done.

Let me know some ideas of what you have seen or imagined or drawn and send it to me and I will do it. Oh and if you live in Utah I can even bring it out there when we go for Memorial day and I will give it to you (the kitchen table). Let me know.

4 Special Rings

Thus far in my years of knowing Daniel I have had 1 ctr ring and 3 wedding bands/ engagement rings. All given to me by Daniel. When we were first married we both thought Daniel would lose his ring in a week because well he doesn't like jewelry and is prone to taking it off. It ended up being me that has lost my rings. I hate to even think about it. It used to make me feel nauseous to think about it but I am getting better at realizing a lot of this stuff is just stuff and we don't really need it in the end.

My first loss happened 2 weeks after we were married. Just my wedding band in California on a beach. Luckily we had decided to go silver on the band.

The second ring I lost was a silver ctr ring Daniel had given to me in 2002. I lost it in our first apartment and have no idea where it went.

These two losses were not that bad. Well some would think they were but I didn't.

The third ring was the big one. I was extremely sad and sick about it. This one was my engagement ring. I really loved the design and the daintiness of it. I lost it the first time I put it on again after Eva was born. We were going out to eat or something in Guam and somehow it got lost in the car or whatever. Its gone forever and that sucks (I guess I am still affected by the loss). Its a black spot on Guam for me that is for sure. I still even have the appraisal documents on it.

Anyway so the 4th ring is one I got yesterday. We decided that I MUST stick with silver (that decision was more on my part) and extremely simple so that it can be replicated when I lose it again. What can I say I am a realist I will lose it again.