Random thoughts

How about this pretty day lily that was in our garden last week?!?  It was a huge bloom.  I'm particularly fond of day lilies because they are hardy, varied and beautiful. 

The YM/YW go to the Oquirrh Temple open house tomorrow.  It will be eight hours of driving, round trip, with cars loaded with kids--all cars filled to capacity.  I hope all goes well.  I'm beginning to have last minute jitters.  I hope by evening tomorrow, once it is all over, that it was worth it,  that we had no mishaps, and that my sanity is in tact (as much as it ever was to begin with). 

I find that the longer I have this blog, the more and more difficult it becomes for me to figure out things I am willing to write about.  Note I said "willing."  It is not that I can't think of things to write.  I'm just stopped short, wondering whether I should write about this or that.  But what's the point of blogging if I don't write?!  So I keep sifting through my ideas until I hit on something that seems OK.  Maybe I just need to get out more!  ;-)  

Puppykins

When talking about missing L, I left out one of our family members who missed L, too.  So I'm making that up by including a few photos of her.

I was taking some photos of my cute hound when B opened a door.  This somehow caused the puppy to move toward the camera and this was the result.

Here is J trying to help me get a good shot of the pup.  (Of course, she's a full-grown dog but she'll always seem like a pup to us.)

And here she is, Miss Cavalier King Charles Spaniel of America, aka L's "sister," who missed L when L was gone and who is glad L is back home.

Sunday evening

Sundays are always busy.  Today felt extra busy.  However, my sister, her daughter and husband and I went to visit my mother.  My sister and I got into a picture snapping mood that had us all laughing (I should call it the battle of the cameras).  My sister and I got out our cameras to get pictures of C & D.  What a cute picture of a cute couple.

Then we had Mom sit between C & D for a picture.  Mom is wearing the cute pajamas that I gave her for Christmas (can't see the pajama pants I made except just barely).  We'd had to wake Mom up to visit her.  In the following picture, it looks like she is sleepy but she really didn't seem sleepy at all when we were visiting her. 

Then, I began snapping pictures of my cute sister who loathes to have her picture taken.  The more I snapped, the more she told me to quit and began to retaliate by taking pictures of me.  We were all laughing and laughing.  In the following picture of my sis, this was just before she rolled her eyes about my taking pictures of her.  However, C & D agreed with me that this is a cute picture, although I know I'll pay for posting this with her posting the shots of me she took when I was hamming it up for the camera.

Ah well.  Here she is (below) taking those pictures she is going to post on her blog to get her revenge.  :-)  However, she should know that I'm trying to remember "Individual Worth" and letting my true self shine through like Jamie Lee Curtis did a few years ago in a magazine spread (hence my post of that photo of me with billowy hair a few posts ago).  So I am girding myself up for her post. 

So there you have it:  two cute young people, a sleepy mom and one cute photo-taking chick, all on a Sunday evening.  :-)