WestWOOD!

We took a quick trip (Mmm, crunchy ice) home this weekend for Brian's 10 year high school reunion. It was fun to see old friends and to find out we aren't the only ones still in school mode. As you can see, it's about as hard to get 7 grown men to pose for a picture as 7 toddlers.

Since I've decided to make this more of a journaling blog, I'll include a little story...

11 years ago, I was a 15 year-old sophomore and Brian was an 18 year-old senior at Westwood High School. I developed a bit of a crush on him but only admired from afar. Come to find out later, one day as Brian was walking through campus with his friend, Sumo Wilstead, he asked, "Sumo, who's that girl?" Sumo: "That's Celynda Pew, she's in my ward." Brian: "I could see myself marrying her someday." Later that year, Brian was permanently "excused" from his jewelry class and decided to spend his free time in Sister Gillins seminary class. He sat next to me there and we became friends. On the last day of school, he asked me to sign his yearbook. Knowing I would probably never see him again, I wrote this in his yearbook, "Give me a call sometime, maybe we'll get married or something." Well he did call me and now look at us. Crazy.

Nice

Well, being the curious 3 (almost 4) year old that he is, Lukas was wondering why we had to take Brookie to the doctor today. I was pretty certain that she had a bladder infection so I told him "Brookie has 'ouwies' on her cha cha and we need to get medicine from the doctor." He then felt a strong obligation to explain to everyone in the waiting room - including the receptionist - that "Brookie has 'ouwies' on her cha cha." Nice.

Cheese Alert

Well, today in church, one of my new best friends, Kami Bowler, gave a great lesson on journaling. It was especially touching because one of the young women, Kimmie, lost her mother a few years ago and was able to talk about the comfort and joy that she gets from reading her mother's journal. Anyway, I've determined that even though it's uncomfortable for me to share personal or spiritual feelings on my blog for all to see, if I'm going to use the blog as my excuse for not journaling then I'll need to start. Plus, let's face it, I'm sure there's very few followers to annoy with this anyway. But for those few, I apologize in advance for you having to see the cheesy, mushy, entries that will certainly come as a result of today's revelation.