Pool Time

There were 2 reasons why we went to Vegas and this is one of them...

Broken String

Last night I broke my first tennis racket string. I was having a great time too. Rick knew the second it happened what it was because the sound is so distinct. Now I need to find a place to get it restrung. Dick's is where I did it last time but I don't want to drive all the way downtown for it. Today I am going to see what I can find around here.
I am ready for the long weekend. We don't plan to do too much other than get in some good pool time. We have the baby blessing on Sunday as well but I can't go to the pool that day anyway.
Life is pretty quiet. With both my sisters being gone...I did receive an email last night with a great photo of Rick and me. It was nice to have someone else taking photos over the weekend.
Speaking of photos on here, the last two times I have posted photos they have shown up as html or whatever the words are rather than a photo. Is this happening to anyone else? It makes it much more difficult to position my photos.

Moving?!?

Earlier today I had thought of something I really wanted to post and now I have no idea what it was! This afternoon we went driving around looking at houses. We went all the way out to Eagle Mountain. Can I just say that actual Eagle Mountain, not the Ranches but all the way out in the boondocks Eagle Mountain is a HOLE!! It was so depressing out there. The homes were so ugly. Most people didn't take care of the yards. There is no way we could ever live out there. The Ranches weren't so bad but we did find one area in Saratoga Springs that we really liked. Now the hard part... do we wait until we are further out of debt or do we buy now. I do know that I can't wait to get into a house. I really look forward to being in a place where I can make friends with my neighbors and really feel past of the group. As it is right now, I know I have friends but because of living in the apartments, I am "forgotten". Guess we shall just see what happens.
Yesterday was a great pool day. I was out for about 3 1/2 hours. I sure love pool days. Next weekend is the Lavender festival. Jimmy and Carrie are planning on going so we are trying to decide if we want to go or not. Rick is playing golf in the morning with his dad and brothers. We also have his "family reunion" on Sunday. I am excited for that!
I haven't worked on my ancestry stuff in weeks! I need to finish up a chart for this party though. I think I will go to that or watch Pride and Prejudice. I think I only have about 45 min left.

Old Friends

Last night I received a phone call from my best friend growing up, Katrina. I have known Katrina pretty much my entire life. Seriously, we were in the samw ward when we were like 2 years old. I don't think anyone influenced me like her family did. They lived across the street and down the alley from us. I can't tell you how many hours were spent in that alley and in their back yard. Since talking with her I have had a flood of memories hitting me this morning. Most of them are good too....like trying to catch the alley cats in a sandbox trap. lol (Those darn cats kept getting out!)

Katrina also told me that when we moved away when I was 13 that "it broke her heart." I had NO idea. There were many people who I figured just tolerated me when I was growing up and probably still do. I thought she was one of them. This made me feel so sad and so good at the same time. I wonder if I would have done things differently had I known. Would I have done more to have stayed in touch with her once we moved? It was hard though not being old enough to drive and get around.

I feel like I have found my long lost friend now. Talking with her was SO easy. I felt like I could tell her anything and everything all right away. Like I had been talking with her the day before. Now I am going to have to go to my mom's this weekend and try and find some photos of us together. I can think of one off the top of my head but I probably don't have many.

On another note, I feel great this morning. My pants were even a bit loose and that makes me super happy. Tonight is a book group for Relief Society to which I think I might attend. The author is in our stake presidency and the book is about receiving personal revealation in the Temple. I haven't read the book but it is on old at the library for me. I think I will probably go because it will probably be interesting. I think I also wrote about this in a previous blog as well.

Work is going slow this week. It is about 10:30 and the first person just got here. I need to make a to do list again as things have changed on what I need to do. Probably #1 is finish transfering mini videos to regular size so I can get the video camera back to Scott. #2 is figure out how to use the timing feature on my camera. I can probably do that at work so maybe I will work on that this morning.

It should be warm this weekend and that means Pool time! Rick agreed to go with me last night. =)

Ok off to do other things