Bikes are fun, but you can still crash on them

So I wrecked yesterday on my bike. It wasn't a little accident it was a full on face plant in front of rush hour traffic. I now have a silver dollar size bruise on my chin. I was in 6th grade last time I had one of these. I am really thankful I hit the pavement out of traffic. I can't wait to get out and do some more "road taming". Man did I get a good work out. The best part is when I stood up after and felt like I was 7 years old, bless my inner child :) Kelton kissed it better though so I will be fine. Love, Mimi

Today is good, Remember?

I have a list of things why today is not going as planned:
Couldn't sleep last night
late to work
no breakfast
hair sucks
no makeup
slight headache
etc.....

BUT THEN I realized...
HECK YES FOR BEING ALIVE TODAY!

Thinks I a grateful for:
Batman
Kelton
180 energy drinks
My sweet loving husband
tofu
family
motorcycles
rain!
my phone
nerds
pasta
calorie counters
mini stickie notes
true friends
cds
baseball
windmills
my house
subi shark
grape flavor
being married to my best friend
paychecks
brothers and sisters
moms
Disney movies
the safety kids
black ties
bottled watter
avocados with hot sauce
miniature toiletries
good coffee
Alaska
octopuses
Ella Fitzgerald
bass drums
umbrellas
card games
sage
Mason West
fluffy puppies
beans
pirate monkeys
cuddling
excellent mattresses
coconut
my dad
lilies
honesty

:)

does it get any better?

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne

Smile... because you can.



Love, Mimi

Today is a Tuesday

I am feeling one with what is today.

I have a goal of being 125 pounds by the end of this year. I am kind of scared to put that out there and say it out loud but I am gonna do it.
I have been riding my bike lots and I need to get a helmet so I can ride it to work.
We had a fun Father's day at our house. Kelton is the official "orange juice maker" when we make breakfast.

I just won my bid on ebay and snagged a pair off puma sneakers for just 12$.

Yeah this is what is on my mind right now :)

Another graditude list

It is that time again to remind myself why I absolutely am grateful for life.

Gratitude list:
My sweet loving husband
my AWESOME friends
mushrooms
apples
German chocolate cake
coconut frosting!
mom's
my mom
Kelton!
sunglasses
preschool teachers
puppies
new bathing suits :)
business cards
pulm sauce
sunflowers
the color green
hoodies!
family
airplanes
puzzles
joy
peace
love
vinyl records
neighbors
garages
toothpicks!
noodles
fuzzy sweaters
violins
quotes
math tests
babysitters!!!!!!
notebooks
poetry
paint
wings
bird nests
backyards
new shoes
shoes
BBQs
golfing
sunshine
rain
vampire books
paychecks
peppermint taffy
Portland
Brothers
sisters
Cousins
camping
WEDDINGS!
bananas
email
tarts
red vines
movie theater popcorn
showers
Greek mythology
cool rocks
curry
my car
bikes
helmets
my phone
trees
pumpkins
sunflower seeds
spray air
canyons
favorite underwear

Better :)

"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky!" - Budda
Love, Mimi

Obama-tastic

Barack Obama has effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates.



The tally put Obama over the top Tuesday, ahead of the results from the day's final primaries in Montana and South Dakota. The Illinois senator becomes the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.



Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic contest and now faces Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona for the presidency.



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And may I just be the first to say: w00t!!

Whitney reunion 2008

We are on the road right now headed back from Panaca Nevada. Luckly I have a super-sweet phone that let's me get on the internet in mid-utah. Dad just blew a tire on the pop-up camper which doesn't surprise me because he was going 90mph and those tires are kinda old. It is a good thing John and Eddie were there to help him get the new tire on.
The reunion itself was really fun. It is nice to see Kelton run around with cousins and get muddy. I can't wait till him and Maya are having a ball at Moon Lake. In Panaca, we stayed at this place called Cathedral Gorge. It is the bottom of a prehistoric lake so the rock structures were AWESOME.(I will post pictures later) Kelton is part spider monkey it think because he was climbing everything he could. He scales mountains faster then me :) He is so tall that sometimes I forget he is only three when he is playing with the other kids. I feel so blessed to have a family that is so close knit and sincerely love each other. Even now we are caravanning with Brenda, Laurie, Mason, Eddie, Erin, mom, dad and my family. I am not gonna lie when I say I missed my brothers and sisters. You all missed out on sweet t-shirt tie-dye and yummy banana boats. Also, I talked Uncle Clark into letting me drive his giant horn-wielding yellow truck named Big Bird. It took me a day but after him testing me in his off-roading '76 jeep (manual) I was approved to drive the big truck. Little cousins piled in the back and Dad, John, Laurie and Clark were in the cab. I learned all about the air brakes and the chair suspension and there was a sweet camera to help me back it out. Once we got out onto the desert road and there was a straight away Clark told me to floor it. Talk about power! I had kinda forgotten about the children in the back until I heard squealing, it got me to slow down. On the way back to camp I wore Clark's hat, it was awesome. It just gets me pumped to see my family next :)

A little bit about a lot o bit

So this last little while with my family is:
Kelton got to go to the Dr. and get his ear checked and it is healing nicely. He had a ruptured ear drum and it was really sad. The Dr. said if he get sick at all we should go take him in since he has such narrow ear canals, poor kid.
John went to the Dr. this week for his back. He has been having intense upper back pain and the knot is slowly working it's way out. Today he feels better then he has in a week and a half. Since our mattress was kinda crappy we decided to buy a new one and I added a new frame in there too :) I have never bought a bed before and it was lots of fun.
Having John out of commission was really awful, especially trying to move a bed without him. I am really grateful he is getting better.
Kelton is growing and learning so much. Lately, at night I lay out his clothes for him so he can dress himself in the mornings. It is so cute to see him cry and whine about every piece of clothing he has to put on in the morning but it is worth it when he has that satisfied grin on his face after. After playing late in grandma's sprinklers this week I didn't have time to layout clothes, it was just straight to bed. In the morning after I got out of the shower Kelton was awake running around the house with his sword in his muddy shirt and pants from the day before and it really was sad to make him take them off and put on new ones.
I got promoted at work this month. I have been making a lot of changes in my company to create order and clarity for everyone. I guess the CEO noticed and after months of me working hard and showing up with lists of things to do to improve my department and employee task tracking. It is nice to be a Manager now but also a little stressful. Before I got promoted it was like I was doing extra, now it seems like, am I doing enough? Another strange thing is I seem to want to be in dress up clothes all the time because I always have some board meeting at the GL Foundation or what if I am introduced as a manager to a client, or what if I have to meet with my personal clients? I miss not caring if I am just in a hoodie or if my pink hair is touched up.

Last night John asked me what my most favorite 3 things were that I did in 2007. I would have to say my number one was Going to Alaska with John And hanging out with Jessie, Sarah, Maya, Sophie and Mom. Seeing Sophie get born was crazy awesome. Second would have to be going up to Portland and seeing Preston and Holly and going to an Alias concert and meeting him (I walked down the isle to an Alias song). Third is last summer when John and I went to Fish lake with his socially challenged dad and ended up getting ditched so I just hung with John in the lake jumping off little cliffs and floating on tubes till it was almost dark.

I am pretty excited about this year so far. Especial the rally we are gonna have at Moon Lake!