CJane Turned Me On

by Lucky Red Hen on August 14, 2006

…to this artist
Even my kids say they like to listen to it.
My KIDS!
Above the upper right corner of the square you can listen to
(by pressing >) a snippet of each lovely mellow song on her latest album.
An exquisite way to send summer away & welcome fall!
i heart cjane for LOTS more
than turning me on to cbr

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My New License – it's OFFICIAL

by Lucky Red Hen on August 12, 2006

I propose that everyone owning a viral shirt wears it for their next driver license picture. Then everyone will know you are an official member of the viral club. Hear, hear.

I wish on the “weight” portion we could put “fluctuates.”

After 29, I wish women’s licenses could read “old enough to know better.”

Under “hair”, I wish it could read BLONDE instead of BLD because that looks like blood or bald.

For “height”, I wish they could list in inches instead of feet; I’d be 69“.

Like our license plates, I wish we had a choice of background picture; I’d have the SLC temple.

I’m not sure what CLASS means but I wish I weren’t rated a “D”; how about A or B?

I wish everyone else in blogland would post their driver license picture.

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Jeff FINALLY Got Hitched

by Lucky Red Hen on August 10, 2006

Today has been a long time comin’ (is that the expression?). One of my missionaries (I had 4) finally got married. Out of the 4 I was for SURE this one would be married within 6 months of returning home. Well, about 8 years later he’s found his everlasting Gobbstopper. Wait. That’s not what I meant but it just fell onto the keyboard. This gal is just absolutely darling – they’re both lucky to have each other. I am thrilled that I was able to attend their wedding ceremony (a sealing, for those of you who know the lingo) just as he did mine 8+ years ago and couldn’t help but bring my camera to catch some moments (luckily their hired photographer was super-dooper-way-cool and didn’t mind me tagging along). Here are a few of my favorites from today.
Caught this little one playing on the temple steps.

This should be at the end of their album.

These are the moments I am thrilled to catch.

I heart this broach/sash combo.

This wasn’t planned – I heart capturing these moments.

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New Baby Party

by Lucky Red Hen on August 8, 2006



After fighting with the computer all day, I had to settle for these teenie tiny pictures from the fabulous party we were at to welcome a new baby to the world. I hope you can see the fun we had (this is the same party the Secksy Friends pictures came from). It was a blast and the new baby is delicious (so was that vegetable dip)!
Click here to view ALL the party pictures (you can also order through this link).

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Soul 2 Soul II – Tim & Faith concert Friday

by Lucky Red Hen on August 6, 2006



My best friend, Lisa, and our friend, Karen, flew down from Seattle so we could go to the Tim & Faith concert together and it was a blast! I love them both but I’m not stalker-like with all their songs memorized. AND… we didn’t go out and buy a dorky cowgirl hats to wear for the night. Now, I’d wear my regular cowgirl hat that I’ve worn before but not INDOORS – dorks – and would only wear it if I need to keep out the sun. Like, I’ll be wearing it at Swiss Days, most likely, because it’s dang sunny Labor Day weekend out in Midway, Utah. And when I wear sunglasses I can’t see the real colors of all the art there. Plus, I don’t like looking people in the sunglasses. Anyway, that’s my soapbox on cowboy hat wearing.

Oh, and I’m a crier. I cry. At the concert I cried when Faith winked at a 10 year old girl; the little girl’s face lit up, she glanced back at her mom in disbelief then turned back to Faith who confirmed the wink with a sweet little flitter-wave. I’m a wuss. I cry. I care. I’ll beat you up if you make fun of me too – so don’t try it.

So, we all had fun hanging and giggling; eating ice cream, watching silly movies (Bride & Prejudice — we don’t recommend it), So You Think You Can Dance show, taking the girls for rides on the Harley, pedicures, shopping and all the silly things girls do together.

Oh, and I finished my motorcycle training class with flying colors (whatever flying colors means) on Sunday then passed my test on Tuesday (Monday’s are the busiest at the DMV and I couldn’t wait until Wednesday when it’s the lightest traffic). I have a paper license until the permanent one is mailed to me within 3 weeks. I’ll post it so you can see my picture. Honestly, you’ll want to come back and take a look. Seriously.

Seriously.

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A Few of My Secksy Friends

by Lucky Red Hen on July 28, 2006







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Took My Kids to Temple Square

by Lucky Red Hen on July 26, 2006


Monday daddy was sick so the kids and I took off for a day of whatever came our way. We had a few errands to run (pick up the disc Holly left at a local boutique because she was late for a wedding out of town, meet Angie at South Towne Mall to deliver said disc, plus mine, so she could choose favorites from her engagement session, drop off pictures to Matt from Lisa as a surprise – I love GOOD surprises).

Gardner Village was our next stop. We went to wander and found these…

I almost can’t stand how cute my boy is!!!
Inside these cups are Baboa Tea thingys – not too sure what they’re made out of but they’re an Asian version of a smoothy that was VERY refreshing.
Our families favorite holiday is Halloween.
These boots aren’t made for walkin’.

We ended up at Temple Square (got a sweet parking spot in the SHADE) so the kids could just run around and look. The Assembly Hall was open so we walked in to take a look – just a little chapel inside with the organ against the back wall so we turned back around since that’s not the funnest place for kids. Took a look at a couple of statues then a sister missionary told us about the new family exhibit in the north visitor’s building that the kids might like. Alright, let’s head that way. Inside that building there’s a mock-up Jeruselem, huge paintings depicting stories in the scriptures and the Christus.

Ah the Christus. Jack asked me to come with him to the 11′ statue of Christ to show me something he learned. He pointed out the holes in His hands and in His feet. Very nice! We were having a lovely time when Piper pointed out something too. “Mom,” looking at Jesus’ face, “he’s so CUTE!” Thanks for the buzz kill. :o)

Then we went through the little family exhibit and the kids were so well-behaved. The sister missionaries asked them (mostly Jack) questions and they answered politely. The guy acting as the dad is CJane’s husband, so that was fun to point out to the kids that he was at our house for dinner recently. He did a FABULOUS job ;o)

On our way home we stopped by Karen & Heather’s for a little visiting and ended up home about 8pm (after getting Wendy’s on the way).

Lovely day.

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Emma Just Turned 3

by Lucky Red Hen on July 23, 2006









Fun was had by all at Emma’s 3yr old birthday party Friday. I got these fun pics at the festive event. The girls got makeovers, nails painted and blew a plethera of bubbles (those are my favs).

The cake was especially cool. Christine is quite the gourmet cook (she’ll deny it but we all believe it to be true). Emma chose rice-krispie-treat as her cake so Christine colored it pink, pressed it into a star-shaped bundt pan, sprinkled sprinkles on top and placed it on a beautiful cake plate. It was a little oozy, moved a bit when taken out of the bundt pan but it turned out so cute and extremely tasty!

Hope everyone’s summer is going as well as 3yr old girls at a birthday party!

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