Biltmore

Last week Keith and I went to North Carolina. We have been wanting to back for a LONG time and finally got to go. Last time we went was 10 years ago. We wanted to go back during the Holiday season. We went to see the Biltmore Estate in Ashville. It was their special time of year.

It is the time of their Candlelight Christmas Evenings. The Biltmore Estate's story began in 1895 with George Vanderbilt, of the wealthy Vanderbilt families. This estate is huge and sits on 9,000 acres. http://www.biltmore.com/. More to come......

I Spy with My Little Eye

Oh whoops, I guess I can't. Today I was getting my hair done (wonderful feeling-don't you just love getting your hair shampooed and scalp massaged?) when all of a sudden my I felt like there was something in my eye, it became red and swollen. Then it happened, my eye looked just like an eye of a fish, the sclera (the white part, look it up people) was overtaking the iris (my iris is green) it looked like a HUGE blister. I ended up going to Instacare and found out that there was a huge scratch just under the top of my eyelid on my sclera and down the side. It felt like there was a rock in my eye. The doctor said that there was some foreign matter in there the size of a large grain of sand. To bad the foreign was not Daniel Craig or Hugh Jackman mmmmmm. The doctor gave me a prescription for anti-biotic eye drops for a few days and said that I would be fine. Thank goodness because Jack Bauer is coming back next Sunday and I having been waiting to see Keifer Sutherland again, yes baby!

Veteran's Day

On the coast of France, not far from Ruon where Monet would sit and paint, there lies a cemetery that sits in a countryside in Dieppe. This is a special place for me, I have only been there once, but will always remember. It is a cemetery of Canadian soldiers that were killed in World War II. This cemetery is for soldiers who were killed in Operation Jubilee on the shores of Dieppe. There is not much history of that battle. It is taken care of so immaculately by little school children of Dieppe, who are taught by people who have much respect for these soldiers, in fact the day that I went there with Keith, my parents, and one of my brothers, Matt, to dedicate the grave site, it took 2 cabs to get us all there, it is a little drive from the town, yet the cab drivers would not let us pay them, and told us in their broken English to take all the time we needed. This cemetery is special to me because it is there where my Grand-father lies. He died in 1942 when my Mother was only 2 years old, but he died serving his country of Canada. My mother would lose her Mother when she was only 9. No, I don't know much about my Grandparents on my Mother's side, but I will someday. I have much respect for Veteran's and for Military in general. I am so grateful for what they do for me to keep us free. Thank-You!

Sister's Southwick and Anderson

Last Saturday was a GREAT day, I had the day off from work so that I could go to the Saturday session of Stake Conference with Elder Nelson, which was awesome. During the day Keith and I ran errands and when we got home, I happened to check my Facebook account and there was a message from my MTC companion Gina, (yes I actually went on a mission to Beautiful British Columbia) who I haven't seen since my wedding. She was in good old F-Town at the Tea House and sent me a message to see if I was home to call her if I wanted to see her, would I! She and her party were just leaving the Tea House when I got there. I absoloutely LOVE technology of today. THANKS GINA for getting in touch with me. It was so great to get back in touch.

Stranger

What has a stranger done for you lately, was a question posted to me. Well this morning, I dropped my keys in a garbage can at a local gas station, and the attendant hurried and gave me some plastic gloves to get them out. Silly me. This question really made me think what have I done for a stranger lately?

106?

Last night in his victory speech, Obama spoke of Ann Nixon Cooper who is 106 and voted. I looked her up and cannot believe she is 106. She looks amazing. She should be blogging or something to tell us all how she looks so good. She looks better than Tommy Lee Jones these days.

Congratulations Marcel

My dear freind Marcel has launched her new website today! You can see it here http://www.marcelwalker.us/index2.php. Her work is creative, beautiful, breathtaking, and very memorable!

Congratulations on all your hard work, may you have much success in your pursuits!

Family Halloween

This is my brother Danny. Every year for Halloween he gets quite creative on his costume. He does work at Home Depot and does wear his costume there, I think it is quite brilliant. I think this year takes the cake. He even had a robotic soundtrack playing with him the whole time. Kudos!!!!!

This is my cool nephew Nick 'Spydy' and my sweet neice Syd 'flower'.

What a fun halloween 2008 was. Everywhere I went there were more kids dressed up this year than in years past. The costumes for the most part were so creative and the kids seemed to have so much fun. Maybe because it was a Friday, but I am thinking that people right now seem to be just getting back to basics and enjoying each other more and the simple things in life.