Lunch

When I go on my lunch break from work, I usually go to the park. Sometimes I stay in my car and other times I sit in the shade of a tree. Yesterday I ventured across the street from my office where I found this little location.

I had seen the grass peaking out from between the trees when driving in so I decided I needed to check it out. I am not the only one who has gone in there because some of the plants were bent over. There is also a little stream along side. There were SO many birds flying around too.The view from sitting on my blanket.
I am so glad I did.

Note to self...

I must write a note to myself. Eyeliner is NOT the same as an eye brow pencil. Do not use it on your eye brows. Especially when your eyeliner is black and your eyebrows are brown. It does not come off very easily.
Thanks for remembering next time.

Snowcones

I like snowcones. Apparently they are a genetic taste thing. My siblings all pretty much like snowcones, some more than others but still we all like them. Rick, does not so much.
Let me tell you a story about snowcones...
It was about 8 years ago, probably this month, when my brother went to get a snowcone. It wasn't his first of the summer but probably his 50th. He was engaged and came home where his fiance was hanging out. We didn't hear all of the conversation but we did hear, "Did you spend all your money on snowcones?!" It was hillarious! She was upset with him for spending his last dollar on a snowcone. To this day, it still makes my cousins and sisters laugh when we talk about snowcones. Yeah, I guess you had to be there.
My snowcone however was mighty tasty. It was so good I had a second one at the ReAl game and little Jimmy 3 helped me drink it.

Baby Elisabeth Drew's Blessing

Last Sunday we were able to attend the blessing of my new niece, Elisabeth Drew. Maddy and Drew (Their names are Gregory Drew and Madeleine Elisabeth hence the Elisabeth Drew name) decided to bless their baby in Salt Lake rather than Oregon because there is family here but not in Oregon. We had a great turn out of almost all of our family in Utah.

Only this morning did I realize that I don't have a photo of Maddy and me together. This is because I was taking all the photos so we were together, just not on the same side of the camera at the same time. Oh well. It isn't like we don't have other photos of us together.

Salt Lake ReAl vs. Seattle Sounders

Last weekend my family from the Northwest was in town. We all attended the Salt Lake ReAl vs. Seattle Sounders soccer match. We had so much fun. The best part was that ReAl won!
Before the matching, everyone was invited to our house for food and hanging out. We had Cafe Rio type chicken salads. It turned out so well and I have the perfect salad dressing now.
We had some friendly guitar hero competition too. Whenever Rick and I play, we play co-op. This time we had some head to head competition. I played 2 songs. The first I lost but I won on the second. Here is the thing, I was playing on medium and my competition was on Expert or Hard. The funniest was playing Free Bird. Kenzie was playing against me. Half way through he decided he needed a drink so he handed the guitar to Marsh and Kenzie came back. I believe this gave me the edge to help me win but man after 11 minutes of play I was ready to take anything I could get! Kenzie wanted to know if I was going to pay for his carpool tunnel sugery after that song.
No fits broke out at the match but we did have some ReAl fans swearing at Kenzie and Marsh. Of course it was right by some children and the security guard got mad at them. It was entertaining.

Saturday was a fun day around our house.

Cause I am Lazy...

or is it because I just don't feel like blogging. I don't know the answer as to why I don't blog on here very often anymore. I can't believe it has almost been a month since I last blogged.
Nothing new though. Life is the same. My sister and her family get in to town tonight. My dad, stepmom and brothers get here on Thursday. We are all going to the ReAl v Sounders match on Saturday. That is sure to have lots of fun and excitement as my dad et al live in Seattle. Rick, Jimbo Jr and I will all be sporting our ReAl shirts while Kenzie, Marsh, Dad and Laurie will be in their Sounders gear. I think even baby Ellie will be in her Leprechaun outfit.
I am tired and just arrived at work. That makes me think it is going to be a long day.
Well off I go to start it!

Scrapbook Pages

4th of July Fireworks

Our 4th of July was fun. We had planned to go golfing that morning but the clouds changed our mind. We decided to go to transformers instead. It was great! We came home, had some dinner and our friends called us to come over and watch fireworks. I cooked up some brownies and off we went. As always we have a good time with them and their children. They even put on a private firework show for us. It was a wonderful 4th of July!

Gonna Need My Angry Eyes

I don't get offended very often. Today I did and let me tell you...I don't like the feeling because it also brings out hurt and even more powerfully, Anger. That's right, I am downright pissed now. (I know this is something that mostly likely will happen again in my life and I need to learn to deal with it, nevertheless, some anger in one's life from time to time I think is a good thing. Just look at the movie Enchanted. She learns about anger and ends up having a great life. Ok back to our story.) Rick and I are on the activities committee. In planning activities we are trying to incorporate several things each time into them such as fellowshipping, emergency preparedness, and genealogy. This past Tuesday we were having a cookout and wanted to use it as a fellowshipping/missionary tool. We wanted all who live in our ward boundaries to know they were welcome and invited, no matter what faith. On Sunday I asked the chair guy if the flyers were ready to go and offered to make sure they got to all of the apartments in our ward, as I live in an apartment. He emailed back around 1:30 on Monday stating the name of who was going to be delivering them and that they were unsure of the policies concerning flyers. I emailed back within 10 minutes that anything is welcome here and there is even a clip by every door. At 10:00pm that night I had still not received a flyer. I again sent an email stating this. I finally received a response today...SATURDAY. I was told "Sorry I didn't get this in time" related to the flyers being allowed. Ok I have a major issue with this. The guy emailing me is my home teacher. He knows where I live. He knows my phone number. He could have called if he really had a question about the situation. I also received an email today with:

"We didn't get them to the apartments. We got all homes in the ward though." What the hell?!?!?! Do I not have a home??? I am furious! There is a reason that the attendance/activity from the people living in the apartments is so low. We are treated as if we are an after thought. There is no chance I would ever buy a house in this ward. There is a reason I can't wait to get out of this ward. 3 years of being treated like this is long enough for anyone and the sad thing, we will probably be here another year. Maybe I should just go inactive... ;-)

Seriously...do any of you see this as being as offensive as I do?

My Siblings

I realized that most of you don't know how many siblings I have or what they look like. It can be a bit confusing.
Growing up if anyone asked, I said I had 2 sisters and one brother. Well the reality is that I have 1 brother, 1 sister, 2 half brothers and 1 half sister. The half brothers have a different mom and never lived in the same house as me while the half sister has the same mom and we have shared a bedroom, bed and I have had custody of her at one point in time. She is more of a sister to me in many ways than the one with the same blood.
I am the oldest of all of them.
Then we have James Martin Jr. who is 2 years younger than me. (Brown eyes, brown hair)
Next comes Madeleine Eliszabeth who is 5 years 11 months and 1 week younger (blue eyes, strawberry blond/reddish hair)
Then Marshall Martin who is 9.5 years younger - half brother #1 (blue eyes, dark blond hair/light brown)
Marissa Pamela is next who is 10.5 years young - half sister #1 (brown eyes, blond hair)
and last but not least is McKenzie Martin who is 13 years younger (blue eyes, dark blond/light brown hair)Maybe next week I will post photos of all the parental genes involved hahaha.
As I have gotten older I have the most contact with Jimmy and Marissa then Kenzie. Marshall goes to SUU but he is in his own little world, as is Maddy who lives in Oregon. Kenzie lives in Seattle but he is on facebook so it is all good.
So there you go...all my fun siblings! Do you think any of us look alike? And in these photos, all hair is it's natural color!

Growing

I really want to try and get a photo of what I am going to describe to you BUT usually when I pass them, I am driving 60 miles an hour alone in the car.
As I go to work each day, I go from I-15 to the 201 Westbound freeway. This is a ramp that goes up and over I-15. No where remotely close to dirt. Nevertheless, there are 4 drainage grates where there are plants/weeds growing out of them. It is the funniest thing to see the green popping out of them.
Maybe tomorrow I will remember to whip out the cell camera as I am passing them and get a photo cause I sure can't find one on google images.

Boobs

So we all know that I have my fair share and more of boobs. That doesn't mean that my sisters do. The middle one, no boobs. The youngest one, well she has boobs. So when the middle one lsat 70+ pounds anything she had there went bye bye. I think the last time I saw her I asked her if she wore an A or a AA. Yeah that pissed her off.
So yesterday (yes I know I use the word So a lot) she gave birth. A few months ago she was telling me that she had to buy a full B cup bra. I laughed. Today I really really really want to ask on her facebook...So how are those boobs treating you? Got some now? hahaha Yeah I crack myself up.

A Father's Day Gift (or two, or three)

Today is Father's Day. I was at Best Buy about a week or so ago buying a memory stick for my digital photo frame when I came across the first season of Burn Notice on DVD. Not only did they have it, it was on sale for about 25% of the original price. I have never bought a TV series on DVD before but seriously for that price, I couldn't pass it up. I thought, oh I can buy this because Father's Day is coming. Then I thought, well Rick will probably want something more for him...so I found The Italian Job on Blue-Ray also on sale for a very reasonable price.

I got home and messed around with the card for a few days and wasn't able to get it to work. So of course I had to go back to the store. Well by then Guitar Hero had come out. Of course I had to buy it!

So this afternoon I gave Rick his Father's Day gifts. When he opened the first, Burn Notice, he said, is this for me or for you? Then as he was opening up the second gift he said, you didn't need to get me anything. I let him know that I was happy to get him gifts. He finished opening Guitar Hero and said, oh is this for you? He was teasing me as he knows very well that yes I wanted both of those BUT he appreciates the gifts.

Rick is so incredible and wonderful. I look forward to the day when we will have a child of our own and he will be able to be a father again. I would say
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY RICK
but he doesn't read my blog.

I forgot

I thought of some really good blogs today. I forgot what they were. I hope I remember.

Pee Wee

This cracked me up!


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