What I've been up to this week...

I got a lot done in the craft arena this week. First, I finished a silly project that I decided to make for my mom. The washcloth says, My Mom My Friend. Pretty cheesy!

Then I made this owl bib for a lady in my ward who just had her third baby named Bridger. I know it's kind of hard to tell it is an owl from the picture.

Tonight I went to a jewelry making party at my boss' house (It was his wife's party). It was a girl's night out and I had a lot of fun! I'm so glad Stacie invited me! So here are the pics of the two necklaces I made. It was so nice to get out of the house!!

I already had the earrings and I saw the pendant thing that matched perfectly so I had to make a necklace!

Joe bought me some earrings for Valentine's day at World Market in Bozeman. He knew these earrings were huge, actually the smallest he could find at that store, but they looked really cool. Anyway, the earrings hung down to my shoulders and were kind of heavy so we both decided I needed to do something different with them. I think its perfect now! The original earrings were like the pendant in the middle but without the green pearly beads. Joe is glad that I can now wear them!

So things are going pretty well for me. I've been trying to get more involved in things. I have the day off on Monday and am going to check out a quilting club to see what its like. Next Saturday I am signed up to learn how to knit socks at a class at the local quilt shop. I'm really excited for the class.

I also just wanted to write this down for my own memory's sake. My dad's father, my Grandpa Bob, passed away about a year ago. Today my dad was able to do his baptism, confirmation, and inititory at the Idaho Falls temple. I think that it is pretty awesome he got to do that. I also read some of my grandpa's papers, that my dad complied and they just really touched me. My grandpa was an awesome man. He had a really great idea called positive potential which involves changing your negative emotions in to positive emotions. I don't think he had everything right with his theory, but I am glad that I can learn from what he learned. Depression was something that ran in his family and I think that he was able to overcome that with his positive potential. I want to be more like that - to see the positive and be happy instead of dwelling on the negative. I am thankful to him for passing his experiences on so that I can benefit from them in my life. I love you Grandpa! There is power in positive thinking!

No more hamsters

I feel kind of bad that I forgot this on my last post, but unfortunately it got kind of forgotten with everything else that happened this weekend. We found our other hamster Pearl dead yesterday. It looked like she died in her sleep which is good. We sent her off down the Lemhi river like her sister. She was over two years old which is old for a hamster and I'm sure she missed her sister after she died.

We will miss having hamsters, but I think we are done with them. They just don't live very long and you can't play with them very well. Also it is easy to forget to feed them. We are glad that we had them, especially when we lived in apartments. Anyway, I just wanted to put this tribute to her on here because she was a good hamster - I know this all sounds very corny and all, but we loved her.

visitors

This weekend my parents, sister Katie, and her husband Adam came to Salmon to visit. I was so glad to see them! We had a good time, or at least I did. We mostly just hung out. We went on a couple of drives. Mom and dad took us out to dinner at the 28 Club which I really like. Dad and I made breakfast scones this morning and "the girls" and I made Fettuccine Verde and cheesecake for lunch. The visit ended too fast, but it was good. We didn't have too many problems with Ginger while they were here. Unfortunately mom and dad were woken up by a mouse in the wall and dad came downstairs to sleep. At least it wasn't crawling on them I guess... Anyway I'm just glad that they came. I love you guys! I wish Abby and Nate could have come too!

I got my first bountiful basket today. It had pineapple, cantaloupe, strawberries, blackberries, apples, bananas, broccaflower, asparagus, green beans, roma tomatoes, and romaine lettuce. I feel like I'm forgetting something... but I really do think this will help with the grocery budget. I had know idea how many people do this either. My basket was #86 and I think there were at least that many more after me. I think I'll keep doing it!

Ginger keeps growing. She is fully recovered from her spay surgery last month. She is teething right now and has no more primary front teeth, which is nice because those things are so sharp and pointy! We have fun figuring out new ways to play with her. He new favorite toy is a piece of Joe's old jeans. We are also trying to step up the training. We have to get the jumping up on people to stop. She is really pretty obedient though. She can catch the toy we throw to her and she likes to play fetch even though she likes to play keep away when she gets over to us with it.

Playing with her new favorite toy

She has fun trying to get it off her neck - its quite hilarious to watch!

I know some of you, well actually probably most of you will think this is weird, but I just have to say that I have a fascination with teeth, which is why I clean people's teeth all week. I just had to take a picture of one of the teeth Ginger lost. They are so cool - way different than people teeth. Anyway, its just a picture - I threw the actual tooth away, so you can think what you want. If you didn't already know I was strange then you don't really know me.

Well, this must be all for now because I need to work on my sunday school lesson for tomorrow and maybe take a nap!