I now have a gallery

I have just figured out how to make photo albums so I can share my pictures with everyone too. Ahh, I just realized I don't know how to connectd my albums to my blog page. Maybe cause it's 3:00 in the morning. I'll try again tomorrow after church. That is if I don't loose it out there in www land somewhere .

All those blogs

Wow, I am really impressed with the blogs I am seeing--and hearing. The music is neat, some day I'll figure how to make my blog more interesting.
The first blog I know about was from Lori, so I have to say--look what ya started. It's so neat to see the family chatting and I really have enjoyed all the pictures. Being so far away from everyone I know I miss out on A LOT so it is really great to see everyone in the pictures you have posted. I want to learn how to do that too.
Since I finished my summer classes, I have dug up all my unwanted iris' and gave them away on free cycle. (Again thanks to Lori for the connection with that group) I am in the process of getting rid of all my unwanted lillies. The ultimate goal is to find enough room around my yard to have a garden here instead of 2 miles away in the community plots. It takes too much time to run out there everyday to pick peas, beans and zuccini. I'll probably still use those plots to plan corn and carrots; the things that don't need much attention. So far I have found 198 square feet. I'm hoping my raspberries and asparagas will produce next year. My rhubarb did great and this is only the first full year it has been in the ground.
I found someone to rebuild the porch on the rental side of my house. It became an immediate must do when a friend's foot went through the floor! This handyman is also going to scrape and paint the house. I might even be able to get him to finish the repairs IN the apartment so I can get it rented out this year. The rent will sure be nice. I have been fore warned, the handyman is a drinker and doesn't always show up when he says he will and he seems to always need a little more of his pay--to buy gas. He does good work when he works. He rebuilt the porch in one day. Then he got "sick" for the next 2 days.
Next Tuesday, Stephanie, me, my assistant camp director and ten girls from our ward are going to girls camp. The theme for this year is Step forward and take your place: Spiritual bootcamp. I found some green camaflauge with silver sparkles for the camp shorts. So, the assistant camp directer and I made shorts for all the girls for "ward spirit day." I'll have to post a picture of us all in our shorts, sparkles, decals and all. Steph is a fourth year camper so she is doing the special overnight. The fourth year girls paddle out to the island and spend the night doing some reflecting and testimony building.

Feels so good

Yesterday was a great day for us. Stuart was ordained an Elder, and, of course, given the Melchezideck Priesthood. It feels so good to have the Priesthood in my home again.
Patrick was ordained an Elder the Sunday before he went to the hospital the first time back in May.
It is so good to see them progressing in the gospel after all the ups and downs they have gone through with the gospel in their lifes.
Patrick also got his Patriarchal Blessing last fast sunday. I know he felt the spirit witness things to him a couple of times during the blessing because of the things we talked about on the way home from his appointment with the Patriarch. All I can really say is -I am going to be a grandma. (NOT IN THE NEAR FUTURE) He has things to do first.
During our talk on the way home he said he felt for a long time that Paul was not the only one I would marry. That surprised me because I don't think he has ever read my blessing, and that is something I have felt for many many years. Right now I am pondering how I can head the admonition to "remember [my] first and primary responsibility rests in the home as a mother" and still go to school because now I need to provide for my kids. Somethings are so confusing.
As for the relax/don't work so hard...The kids and I went camping for the fourth of July. It was really nice, I could have spent another day or so. I didn't get any of the things done that I should have (homework). I just sat around the camp site and visited with a friend. Today I should have spent the day studying for tomorrow's test. Instead I spent 2 hours in my garden, did some home work at that same friend's (I needed to play some phonics games with her kids) then I tried to study but spent the last few hours weeding my flowerbeds. I don't know if it was relaxing or not. The gardening should have been but I kept thinking about the test I should have been studying for. Like I have heard it said, everything gets more important than finals. Oh well, I have all night. hehehe

So what do you think it is?

Ok, so, back in December around finals time, I took an hour out of my day to go to the dr. to find out what the bumpy patch of skin on my temple was. He diagnosed and treated it as a fungus. It imediately went away with one application of the med. Then during christmas break I got a similar but VERY itchy patch on my wrist. I went back to the dr's office, saw a new dr. and he diagnosed it as something I needed to see my family dr about. So I made the appointment, an my family dr. made a maybe diagnosis of scabies or dry skin; and treated both. The rash got worse, but I continued to treat the dry skin with the awful goo he perscribed, which didn't seem to make much difference. Yesterday I saw another dr, the fourth, a dermitologist this time, he diagnosed it as hives and gave me a year perscription for claritan and samples of the "new and refined zertec." Seems like they are all guessing. Anyone else want to take a guess. It is extreemly itcy-like flea bites-especially first thing in the morning and when I get hot or stressed. The itchy feeling comes before the little white bumps. They come after I start scratching and look like headless zits. The "zits" go away within 15 minutes of me not sctrathcing.
All this started after I took the moldy insulation out of my bedroom ceiling. The second dr. said the rash was not from the insulation since I was so covered up when I took it out. (Hood, gogles, gloves, cover-up suit, breathing mask...) Soooo, any guesses/diagnosis?

linking?

Can anyone help me with linking your blogs to my blogsite? I want to be able to go to your blogsites from mine, like on Randon and Lori's sites.

What's new

I have really been enjoying everyone's blogs. I have spent way too much time scanning through the Marutz's pictures, but enjoyed every one of them. It was fun to see Jacob walking and Belle with Belle.
Asside from spending way too much time on the computer, I have been revamping the apartment in hopes of attracting a better pool of renters. One couple came high on something! I have been doing the painting, stripping, and tub surround myself, so it's s-l-o-w going. A ward member/carpenter is helping me with suggestions for fixing the renter's porch.
I am also planting a garden this year. Stuart actually went out and helped me put in half of it. I had to quit when he suggested it or I fear he will never go out in the garden again. He planted the cantalopes-cause he loves cantalope. He got really excited when we were planting the corn because he thought the pink corn seeds would produce pink corn! he he. Then he wanted to plant popcorn! (He LOVES popcorn) I think he'd plant pizza too if he could.
Nathan came home Monday afternoon from a sleep-over and announced in a proud voice that he had just done his first all nighter; about 10 minutes later he was asleep.
My summer classes started yesterday. It's a good thing I started reading the text last month. The pace is soooo fast. We are discussing behavior and behavior modification methods. From what I understand we will be selecting a behavior in ourselves to monitor and a supposed behavior in a pretend student to modify. If this were during the semester, I think there is an actual student for each university class member to work with.
I'll see if the kids can put some pictures this week on during all their free time.

Spring Break

Well, it is supposed to be Spring Break. Monday we got about an inch and a half of snow, and Friday we got about two more inches. At this point in the season I am not shoveling it off the driveway though. It all melts within a day or two so I figure why kill my back when it's going to melt so soon. I'm so sick of snow. I am ready to plant my garden. I took a walk around my yard, cleaning up roofing debris from the re-roof job, and noticed I have a bunch of tulips and daylilies comming up. I couldn't tell if my apple tree made it through the winter or not.
I had all kinds of things planned for this week. Breakfast at 8:00, catch up on homework in the morning, free time in the afternoon to complete some of the projects around here, dinner together and a little more homework in the evening. Well, so much for the plan. We had breakfast the first two days. Then the plan fell to pieces. No one wanted to get up. Nathan got sick so he didn't feel like doing anything. Stuart spent the night at a friends and everyday on the computer. Stephanie slept in till noon or went babysitting.
The carpets didn't get cleaned, the table didn't get stripped, and the apartment didn't get rented, and my bedroom ceiling still has a big hole in it from where I took out the moldy insulation. Oh ya, and the homework is nowhere near being up to date. I did spend a day trying to fix the computer, after Patrick had already spent 2 days on it. It is definately faster but it still isn't right.
I have today and Monday to get the homework and projects done. I believe I am going to have to hire a handyman. I don't have the time or the know-how for the bedroom, the plumbing or the broken windows.
I did get my taxes taken care of though. So the whole week isn't a total wash.
Stephanie got her hair cut yesterday. She had enough cut off to donate to Locks of Love; and her hair is still shoulder length. I took some before and after pictures. She really likes her hair cut, just ask her. And "it smells so good."