Spiders, bathrooms and me.

Need I say more??? This is humours to me but also is freaking me out, so I thought I would share so you all could laugh with me or at me, I really don't care.

When I was a child, Katie and I had a bad night with a couple of spiders, I have never really liked them, but now I am really scared of them.

Yesterday morning when I was getting ready for church I opened my bathroom cupboard to rab my toothbrush and I saw a spider that was pretty big, about the size of a nicole, with a white dot on its back. I jumped grabbed a shoe and killed it. Then as I reached up to turn of the bathroom light (its a pull light just a little to where the shower curtain rod is) I saw another one. I also tried to kill that one, but all I did was knock it off its purch. I jumped back because it started to swing on its thread. Then it climbed back up.

I know a person, my visiting teacher, who is not afriad of spiders, so I asked her to come kill it. We could not find it. Well this morning, I was shaking out everything in the bathroom so I could get into the shower, when I saw it. I ran and grabbed something to kill it with but its a fast bugger, and I had to move the litter box, and the cat litter and so forth, then it was gone.

Lets just say I took the fastest shower I ever have, and I now have my toothbrush and hair brush in the kitchen. I am going to go buy bug and spider spray today, so I can spray the house tomorrow, so bye bye black spider.

Then I can breathe again, and take longer showers and not be so jumpy every time, I feel a thread of string on me.

Life since my last post

Everyone, I have been so busy. I have finished this semester with the best grades I have ever gotten, in the hardest semester I have had. 2 B's and 2 A-'s. I am very proud and happy with these grades. But I am so blessed, if it had not been for the Lord's help, Becky's writing skills, and everyone's constant love and support and prayers, I would not have made it.

The cats are all doing well, we had a scare with Spike, but I was able to sell some movies and was able to take him to the vet, he is back to his oldself.

I am still at Sam's Club. This is may not really a big surprise to some, but my new manager likes to fire people. I have actually been there for 8 years. This is actully a scary thought, at least to me.

Next semester I am graduating with my BA degree, and so is Anna, my cousin, we are thinking about doing a joint grad party.

Well, thats all I can think of at the moment, my sleeping schedule is way off, and my brain is starting to turn off, so I think I will hit the sack.

Love and hugs, and thanks again for all your prayers, thoughts, and love, and support

Mi Vida Loca!!!!

Well, that is about how my life has been for the last couple of months. Let me just catch everyone up on what I have been doing.

Christmas was very quiet this year. Bud was on vacation, Becky and Tim were in San Diego as well as Chelsea and Danny. Anne and Katie were at home with their families. So it was only my dad and I. Until about 7 then Becky, Tim and Adalyn showed up for dinner.

School started on the 5th of Jan. This semester, I am working on my senior thesis. The topic of my senior thesis is "Bilingual Bicultural Approach to the Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children, For Doctors Parents and Teachers."

I have the head of the Deaf Education Department working as my supervisor, Dr. King. He is very supportive and is impressed by what I choose to do, but for some of you who know him, he can be very blunt and really brutally honest, ok, he is mean, to a point or aka "tough love". He is pushing to get the best out of me, on this project, because after I write this, I will be putting together a pamphlet to give to the Drs. and teachers. Don't get me wrong, I want to give my best, but if I am confused by some of what he is saying, we have miscommunications and then it is harder.

My other classes are going very well, though they are just as busy. I am in ASL 3, which has about 25 projects for us to do, ok I am exaggerating, its more like 12. But this means you need to reserve time to go and sign the projects. I am in an Infancy and toddler class which is so much fun, my teacher is actually pregnant, and she will hopefully have her baby around spring break. She will continue to have class after she has her baby boy, she will just bring him along.

My other class is Psychology of the Deaf, which is a stupid name, because they are just like everyone else, except that they can't hear. I am teaching one class period in this class, and my subject is quite depressing. I am teaching on grief. I have come up with a really good object lesson, which I think is hilarious. I am bringing in donuts, which I will start to pass out, then I won't let them have any. they will be dissappointed, which fits in with the grieving process. This might seem rude, espaecailly since my class is at 9:00am, and I am teaching on Monday.

All my cats are doing fine, Danny and Chelsea had my name for Christmas, where are family draws names. I also had their names as well. They sent me a really nice scarf, and a 30 dollar gift card to Barnes and Noble. I bought five books with it. Oliver Twist, The Road, The Brothers Kosomovao (or something like that) and Count of Monte Cristo, I can't think of the other one.

They also sent my cats some treats and toys. They bought thier favorite treat too. Its interesting they perfer that flavor over the others. The toys were a big hit, they actually fought over them. I will post pictures later since I am at school, waiting to see Dr. King.

Katie and Brian and her family surprized me with a $50.00 gift card from lane Bryant, since I have lost 60lbs, since June, and all my clothes are starting to fall off. Thanks for that Katie and Brain, I got new shirts that are cute and in a smaller size!!!

I am also in the process of getting ready to take the MAT aka Millers Analogy Test to apply for grad school in the SEIMs program aka Sensory Empairment Intervention Masters. With this I will be certified to work with Deaf children to the age of three, I will also get a teaching license as well so I can teach preschool.

I also want you to know that I am grateful for the support and friendship I have had from each of you. You have been there for me, and have encouraged me when I could go no further. On that note, I am very grateful to Heavenly Father for all the blessings He has given me, which is each one of you. I am very blessed. I am happy with my life, and have accepted me as me.

As a side note, if you get this far in reading this. My other blog, Recipes to Share, needs recipes. I have been asked by family members for some of my moms recipes, and other family favorites. I have thought that the best way to go about this is doing it on a blog, so everyone can contribute. If you want to contribute, please email me and I will add your name to the contributers list. Then we can all have access to tried and true great recipes.

Thanks again everyone.

Adalyn at Mickee's Christmas Dinner

This is Adalyn's show. The Many faces of Adalyn.

I think how cute the picture is. All the guys around her, with only Dad, aware of the camera. Grandpa and Uncle Bud only see Adalyn.

After a while she only looked at the camera.

I don't think that Adalyn is too impressed with the camera all night long

Mickee's turn with Adalyn after dinner.

But when you get her to smile just look at that grin.

Mickee and Grandpa at the dinner table.

You can tell Grandpa is a proud grandpa.

Becky helping out in the kitchen

Can't forget pictures of me and my newest niece.

The food was great. The company was marvelous. It was sad to see it end.

Tim and Becky and Bud.

How adorable is that?

Mickee had a Christmas dinner that was not only delicious but a lot of fun. But as you can see from the pictures. Adalyn stole the show. She is two months old and is quite the little character.

Here dad and daughter are playing. It is so cute.

Bud cleaning up in the kitchen.

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.