The Easter Bunny

We took Ben to the mall to see the Easter Bunny this week. At Christmas, he wailed the second Santa Claus looked at him. This time, we expected the same, but he didn't cry...immediately. He looked around and it didn't seem like he realized that the Easter Bunny was a living, breathing thing...until he moved and tried to give Ben a high five. It was all over with then. Thank goodness, Ben's super-dad was there to save him from the evil paws of the Easter Bunny!

Afterwards, we are paying for our pictures and the cashier is this early 20-year-old carni-looking chick (carni as in runs the rides at the fair, never bathes, not to be confused with Carni Wilson, ex-Wilson Phillips, although I'm not sure which is worse). She starts to hand Ben a dum-dum and I tell her, "no, thanks". She asks how old he is and I tell her that he is 11 months. She says with a *toothless* grin, "Oh. I have an 11-month-old too and I give him suckers all the time!"

Ben's Birthday

I really need to get crackin' on what to do for his birthday. He isn't going to remember it, but he will get older and see the pictures from it so I want to do *something* nice. I have playgroup that day. Any ideas? What did you do for your kid's first birthday? Thanks!!!

An Interesting Letter

I was recently looking through some old documents on our computer. Some were *really* old, you know for a document on a computer. I found a letter that Adam had written to a missionary friend the summer we met. It is dated 7/17/1999, a couple of months AFTER we met, mind you. Here is a portion of it (typos and all):
"Well I am doing pretty well. I am going to back Vol. State for a semester and then in the spring I am going to BYU. [which never happened] So I might accidental [again, his typos, not mine] run into you in Salt Lake when I am visiting Shawn Cecie. I was going to go to Atlanta and go to school down there. Things fell through and tuition was going to be quite expensive so I decided to follow the sheep to the slaughter(you know RM's to the marriage capital). A big reason for this is because there is NO One around here to date or even to hang out with. But I learning to manage with that I got."
Again, boys and girls, this is AFTER we met! AND he asked ME out and came to MY work to talk to ME..not the other way around. So I'm so glad he was able to "manage with what he's got" and all!
So I printed this little letter of his out and underlined the interesting stuff and left it on the desk. I just now pulled up the document to just copy and paste it here onto this post and it reads differently now. The last two lines are crossed out and this has been added:
"I change that I have met a beautiful fun girl from Florida. I don't know what is she doing with a guy like me. I think this is the one. I can not stop thinking about her and wish she was with me all the time. I will keep you posted on the results."
How sweet is that?! Oh the power a bloggin' chic holds! hehehe

Something New

I don't really have a lot to talk about any one topic, but I, like some of you (cough-cough, Laura) am bored of going to my page and seeing the same old thing so maybe I can just talk a LITTLE about a couple of things on my mind. At least I'll have something new to look when I go to my blog!

--CALLINGS IN CHURCH. Sometimes people are called to a position that, knowing them, you know they are perfect for that calling. Other times, someone is called to a position and you think, "I don't get that one, but maybe they'll do a good job. They probably need to learn a lot of things from it." I am the latter of those two when I was called as the Ward Primary President this past Sunday. I have one kid's-worth of expereience and he's not even a year old yet (almost though). I hope I can serve the kids well there though and I am excited to try. Besides, Primary is the most fun place to be on Sunday any way! So that's one thing on my brain.

--LOSS OF A FRIEND. I dated a guy in high school for a few years. We were even engaged for a bit. But I realized he would never be what I wanted (even though he got baptized) so we broke up, I met Adam shortly after and he was (is) everything I wanted and more, and we got married after dating for a year or so. A couple of years later, I learned that my ex-boyfriend had cancer. The doctors were able to get what they thought was all of it. A couple years later though, it came back again and it was there to stay one way or the other. He died Feb. 22, 2008. He has a wife who supported him the whole way and a little boy who is only a few months older than mine. I talked to him a couple of weeks before he died and he told me that he always had a testimony of the Gospel (see http://www.lds.org/), but he always questioned whether he had it because it was true or because he wanted it so bad so he could be with me..I can remember being a teenager and thinking about what I thought life would be like and then life happens and its sooo not like what you think, sometimes better, sometimes worse, but NEVER what you think.