Montana Skies

I used to love when my brother would play Malaguena on the piano. I just love that song. I stumbled across "Montana Skies" as I was looking up some cello music (I adore cello music). Their webpage had a link to YouTube so I thought I'd share.

Homeless

Okay, most of you know I don't like talking about politics...This story is actually my friend speaking...I just thought it was pretty funny.

I was talking to a friend of mine's little girl, and she said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do? She replied, "I'd give houses to all the homeless people." "Wow - what a worthy goal," I told her, "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I 'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward a new house." She thought that over for a few seconds 'cause she's only 6. And while her Mom glared at me, she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?" And I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party." Her folks still aren't talking to me.

Snip, snip...snip, snip...and off it goes!

Okay...I'm reluctantly posting this picture I took yesterday of my hair AFTER I did some adjustments to it (thinning out the sides so it's not quite so mushroom-like). It doesn't take 30 minutes JUST to WASH my hair anymore (because of all the knots I would get). It's more like 3 now! A friend of mine told me that it makes me look older. I'm good with that because whenever people find out I have 2 kids they ask if I had them when I was 13...now they can see that I was clearly 15 when I had them ;) Just kidding!

It actually looks a lot like a haircut I had in high school (that I did myself) if I would've styled it differently. This is my freshman year I believe. Look at those pencil thin eyebrows and butterfly clips!

20 Years Ago...[Thanks...several of you :)]

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:20 years ago:

20 years ago: 1988- This is a well known story amongst my family: I was 4 years old and living in Sheridan, Montana. My mom would lay down with us for naptime and she'd fall asleep. We would sneak out and go to the store across the street where they had "Need a penny? Take one" cups and we'd take those and buy penny candies. I remember army crawling/sneaking to get them. I blame my older siblings...they are bad examples :) (just kidding guys!)



We also had a dog we named Jungle Bear that I would go exploring with. I remember crossing paths with a snake one time and Jungle Bear was barking to warn me. He let me get on his back and he carried me away. He was my protector.



I also remember there was a stream that pooled by the fence next to our house in Sheridan that some kind of greenery would grow on top of. I wanted to get across and I thought if I stepped on the greenery it would hold me up but I was wrong. I stepped in and almost fell in. Luckily the fence was there for me to hold on to.


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10 years ago: 1998-I was a freshman and still pretty innocent. Most of you know that the outdoor sports are very important to me and I love & miss having mountains. I loved going rapelling with my parents and teaching friends & scouts. I was probably a freshman when I went "aussie style" for the first time (head first). *see photo above of my sister Brenda and me


I had 2 "boyfriends" that only lasted about a week. The first: we both mutually decided that we'd rather be friends and the second: asked me to go out with him...I am not good at saying no so I said yes. I tried to avoid him wherever I was and then when he called I told him that my Dad wouldn't let me have a boyfriend-lame excuse even though I did know that he wouldn't want me to have one.

I tried out and qualified to make Chamber Choir & had higher scores than most of the upperclassmen (along with my friend Jamie Kern) but our choir teacher told us she had decided not to put us in until the next year because she didn't want to have to kick out the older kids. The next year a freshman or two got in and we were mad. There was more room after all the seniors from the previous year had left.

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5 years ago: 2003-I had just graduated from Myotherapy College of Utah. I consider it the one thing I am actually very good at and I accept that. I have a lot of talents that I'm pretty good at or I may not be very good at but enjoy. Massage is my one pure talent. I also had family that had cancer- I shaved my hair and donated it to locks of love in their honor.

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:1 year ago:

1 year ago: 2007- Just after Baer was born we went to Montana to show him off to the grandparents and so Spencer could go on his annual father-son motorcycle trip. I was there for over a month. Everyday life, I was pretty much doing what I am now...staying at home with the boys and trying to keep up with motherhood responsibilites. James was 2 and Baer was a little over a month old.

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1 month ago: Beginning of August 2008-I was on my girl's trip-which I still need to post pictures of. My mom shared some great journal entries from when she was our age and going through motherhood. It was really cool. We also threw a bridal shower for my newest sister-in-law Mindy.

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^The ONLY picture I made it into last week...lol. At least it's my good side (haha...totally not).

1 week ago: End of August 2008- My mother-in-law was here and was helping me organize my basement.

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1 day ago: September 2nd, 2008- I got my hair cut and it turned out shorter than I wanted it to be. I think I look like a mushroom!! I also gave a friend of mine a massage.

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James's B-day Party!

While Spencer's parents came into town and we celebrated James's birthday on Saturday. He was SO ready! He was telling me all week that he wanted his soccer ball cake and I kept telling him that he had to wait until Grandma and Grandpa were here so he could share it with them. He of course made the cake (with a little help) and I decorated it.

Here it is! I ran out of green and didn't want to mix any more so I just put brown on the edges for mud/dirt.

Not 10 minutes after I finished the cake (Grandma & Grandpa had just arrived) James was too quiet. I asked what he was doing and he said "Um...Just eating cake" in his sing-song voice. He had been waiting long enough!

Grandma is a little camera shy. I wanted a picture of James & Grandma and this is what I got.

This is pretty cool, it's a motorcycle with wheels but it's a BOOK. Cool, huh? James loves motorcycles.

Cake is after gifts...he's waiting so patiently!

Gift from Grandma & Grandpa Bassett

It's a Lightning McQueen bag with all sorts of games in it like dominos, 3 different cards, bingo, and a few more. He loves it.
My Mom is very musically inclined and she has a tradition of giving harmonicas to her grandchildren. I wasn't sure what age she did that at but I was pleasantly surprised to see that he got one. He loves it.
Already a pro...
...and lovin' it!

I told James he could put the candles on wherever he wanted to. Look how straight he put them...and right on the top. I thought they'd be scattered.
Grandpa Jones playing the harmonica...he's got talent!
We lit the candles so that we could sing to him...before we got started he'd blown them out so we lit them again and told him he had to wait until we sing. Here his is waiting so patiently.
Make a wish!
(I bet I can guess what his wish was)
Finally!!! His wish comming true (if I assume correctly).
Check out that bite!

He has one more present that wasn't quite ready (charged) so it waited until Sunday.