One of the Best Days of my Life

We had a party for Amy's birthday and Mother's Day on May 10th. It was one of the best days of my life. Unbenownst to me, the Bishop and Amy had arranged to have my whole family at church. They came walking in, one at a time to surprise me, which it did. You could have knocked me over with a feather. They then dedicated the meeting to me. I was so honored as each one of them spoke about me and my role as a mother. That is really something to have to live up to, but there is nothing in the world as precious to me as they are. I am so lucky to have a husband that I am crazy about, children and their spouses that I dearly love, and grandchildren that rock my world. Thank you Bishop Ed Collins and Amy for all your organizing.

We then went to our home for dinner. After dinner the kids took the balloons down and were playing with them. In a while they came in the room to show us what they had done. I thought it was so clever and artistic and just had to share. They took my painter's tape and made faces on their balloons. They named them, but of course I don't remember the balloon's names so I will call them Bob, Paul and Mary. Each time they came in, they also had a name or emotion that is reflected in the faces of the balloon.

Millie decorated this "Mary" balloon and it has hair made from torn little pieces of tape. Is that clever or what?

Nick made Paul here with a "soul patch"

Have you met Dracula Bob?

Joey said Bob is a little sad here..... just one tear.

Paul is either screaming or is very afraid.

Those eyebrows show surprise don't they?

Just a normal looking guy, I think this is the one Nick called "contemplative"

A very sad fellow with tears streaming.

I forgot what Toby called this, so put in your own interpretation.

Shon and his family got to stay for 6 days so we had lots of fun. Thank you family for being the amazing people that you are.

License Plates

A while back I was writing about quirks on my blog and stated that I probably didn't have any. My very disrespectful...I mean "WONDERFUL" children, mentioned a couple and I guess I do have one that I didn't think of at the time. Whenever I am driving or riding around and see a license plate with 3 letters on the right, I interpret the letters to stand for something, and in my mind it just automatically forms a phrase. These are not personalized plates....just the regular state issued ones. For instance:

This one stands for "Wayne underestimates Joan". Wayne had a different interpretation but it is not worth mentioning.

And this one is "Large Giant Attacks"..... A good newspaper headline.


I do it all the time without really thinking about it consciously. It's easy in Utah because most of the license plates have the 3 letter ending. Colett used to have the license plate YVV. I called it the Yarro vrooom vrooom car and I could always find it in the parking lot amongst the other 100 black suburbans. We also have a VDC in our family so it's easy to find too. Just look for the car that means very darn cute.

Now I have YOU thinking about it don't I? Nevada and Minnesota and a few other states also use the 3 letter endings on their plates.

What would you interpret these letters to mean? Leave a comment and let me know.

113 ALT
407 CYD
892 PDE
789 EDQ
815 HGT
008 NSL