Babies, Cheesecake, and Nordstrom

This little bundle of joy is my newest neice Adalyn Hertig. She is a doll, only weighing in at 6 lbs 14 ozs when born. She now weighs one pound heavier then she did at birth. In this picture she is about 2 weeks old. She is darling. I am glad she has joined our family.

As her proud Aunt!!!

This little tyke, is Olive!! Hasn't she just gotten so big. She will be one, on the 24th of November. She now says dada, and she claps if you say yeah and clap as well. She has a very cute smile, this is only half of it. She is a little leary of me with the camera, I rarely see her living in Logan, and then when I do. I always have my camera.

As you can see, the bag says Nordstrom on it. That is because I took this picture in the bathroom there. I had a little mishap with a piece of cheesecake and my purse.

My friend Stephanie (pictured below with me), and I went to the Olive Garden for the Soup, Salad and Breadsticks! As a dessert I got a peice of heaven. pumpkin cheesecake to go.

I not thinking anything of it, since my purse is big, (the black bag with the purple lining), I put the cheesecake into the bag. We went into nordstrom to look at something. Then we needed a pit stop. I reached into my purse, to grab some lipstick, and I my handcame out sticky and wet!!

The whip cream from the cheesecake, had melted out of the container and into my purse. That is why you see everything out of the purse on the couch.


During the mishap, our feet were both aching since we had on nice shoes, as you can see in the background. So yes, we took our shoes off in the restroom, thinking it wasn't the worst place to do it, would you do this in a Walmart? I had a nice lady take our picture with my camera, after I cleaned it from all the whipped cream.

Some people were probably mortified by this. If it hadn't been the fact that everytime Stephanie and I get together, something unusal happens, I would have been mortified at what we were doing. But then again, Stephanie and I, have always had great fun, and things like melted whipped cream in purses, is one of the least of the things that have happened to us.

The problem with relying on the things of the 21st century.....

Not so long ago, cell phones were as big as bricks, we all thought it was funny, a phone you could take with you? Now we text more then call. Not so long ago, no one really had the internet ( I remember the time, you had to pay by the hour, my dad was mad because I was on forever), or home computers, and if you did, you used a floppy disc and not a thumb drive. Not so long ago, there was only atari and ms pacman. no wii fit, or guitar hero. Not so long ago microwaves were really heavy to move and they had dials and only the start button to push. (my family got the microwave when I was a baby, they used it to heat my bottles- they gave classes on how to use them as well)

Not so long ago, my little laptop contracted several virus', a couple of spyware things, and it couldn't do anything. The place I took it to, only could get half of the problem fixed. So I need to reinstall windows on my computer. SCARY!!!! I could lose everything. Of course I will take precautions and copy everything to a thumbdrive. But still.

Most people now have a cell phone, as thier only phone. I am one of those. When service goes down, I have no contact with the world outside of Logan, this is a scary thought what happens if I fall and can't call 911? unliss I buy a phone card, and go into work to use the phone.

Yes, they are all nice to have, but..... when they all come crashing down, do we really survive? I have gone crazy not able to check email and facebook, and other sites I use on a daily basis, yes this does include school stuff as well. I do have wifi on my cell phone, so I can check facebook, and myspace, but I can't check email, or get online to do my internet classes. But what happens if my cell contracts a virus??? What then???

The world is getting scary. We all depend on the things that we used to live without. Cell phones, dishwashers, microwaves, computers, the internet, digital cameras, and the like. Don't get me wrong, I love them as much as the next person, and I can't wait to be in a place that has a dishwasher. That has a laundry room either in the place I live, or at least on the premises. But we seem to all take it for granted, until they break, or worse, go up in smoke.

So we should give thanks, when they are working, not just when we get them back from the shop.

I See the Light

I have really good news. I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, and no I am not talking about me dying! I am graduating in Dec. of 2009!!!!

For those of you that have known me since I have started, can you believe it? Some of you I met along the way. Some of you have cheered me on. I want to thank everyone that has been apart of my support through the long and treacherous journey through school. It has been long, it has been hard. But I know it is worth it.

I do not yet know what I will be doing, or where it will take me, so do not ask. I will let you all know.

I have been tagged!

Thanks Dana! Seven random things about me:

1: I have a stuffed pig, that I named Wilbur, I got the pig from Christmas from my dad. The reason it is a big and not a cat. One day, my dad, came down stairs and told us girls we lived like pigs. Enter pig things in my life.

2: I have been signing (ASL) since I was 10 because I learned one song as a girl scout.

3: I once was stung by over 50 yellowjackets at Jenny Evans house. The hive was on the 2nd floor of her playhouse. Her dad saved my life by risking his (he is deathly allergic) I froze in place and they attacked me. I was stung over 200 times. They don't die when they sting you. They followed us to the back door of their kitchin.

4: I fell four floors from that very same playhouse about 2 months later. It is amazing that I didn't die. The first floor was kitchen, a grown up could stand in it. The second floor where I was stung had two stairs to a third level which had a ladder to the fourth where it was really a platform for a slide. I fell from it landing on my back on rocks.

5: I fell in love with doing ceramics last summer, and in the process ran into someone I had a crush on in grade school. Don't figure, who would guess that I would actually get to know him, and that he actually knew my name! He also majored in ceramics.

6: I have taught jr. high math in ASL. For those who know me well. I really did it, and I finally understood it as well!

7: I don't know how to do the linking thing and I don't know 7 people who blog, so the person who sent this to me is: The Spear Clan

The people I will send it to is: McKinstry Clan

The Bryd Lady

The Brown Family

The Hertigs

Things on my Mind

My Mother

My sister posted a lovely blog about our mother. I really try to block out this week, not think about what happened 7 years ago, when she was taken from us. It still makes me cry. But I want to thank my sister for posting what she did. So to share with you what my sister did, I will just direct you to her blog. http://ryanandanjilleen.blogspot.com/ Thanks sis. I love you.

Mom, I love you. Miss you. Can't wait to see you.