My 3-day Weekend

I LOVE 3-day weekends! My weekdays are pretty much shot with work and my weekends are typically filled with Primary, chores and the occasional movie. So, when a free Monday or Friday come around, I feel so free! The opportunities are endless!!!

So, what did I choose to do??? More chores! But for those who know (and hopefully love me for this trait), I chose to clean and organize. Saturday was spent on the house. We did go to a surprise birthday party for my brother-in-law on Saturday night which was fun.

Sunday was typical with meetings and home teachers. Monday, we slept in until 9AM (wow!!) and then went to IHOP for brunch. We then decided to clean the garage. The photo shows the final product. I must admit, we only spent about 1/2 hour so it wasn't all that dirty but we pulled out our summer furniture, swept and recycled papers. I love a clean garage. It makes me giddy! We also worked in the yard (my legs are killing me today from weeding). I gotta remember to bend my legs when I weed but I always think I am going to get one more weed...

We also got the car washed which needed it terribly bad. We did a few minor things in Provo/Orem and then relaxed during the evening.

All-in-all, it was a nice weekend! How was yours???

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth

Thanks for kind words and phone calls! Travis had his eye surgery this week so that has been the focus for the past couple days. I felt that I could understand what working moms go through when they have a sick child. We woke up at 5AM and headed to the hospital for his 6 AM surgery. He had the routine blood work with an additional EKG. He went in to the operating room at about 7:45. A girlfriend (Kristin) happened to be there with her sister-in-law. That was nice to eat breakfast with Kristin while the other two were under the knife.

His surgery went very well but we won't know for 5-6 weeks if it is truly a success. We left the hospital at 11:30, picked up the prescriptions from the pharmacy and then went to my parents home in Provo. I got Trav settled and then jumped in the shower so I could make a training I had scheduled at 1PM. I was crazy tired, but the training was informative.

My folks watched a sleeping Trav until I got back at 5:00. I picked him up and took him home. By then, the effects of the anesthesia were wearing off. He stayed home today while I ran off to try to accomplish 8 hours of responsibilities into 4 hours because I had the 2nd 1/2 of the day in training.

We had no food to speak of in the house, so I grabbed a pizza on my way home. I was also out of gas and was sickened by the receipt of almost $40! We ate dinner and then I had to go out and replenish the cupboards and refrigerator so Trav doesn't starve tomorrow. Tonight, we did enjoy the finale of American Idol and I was able to finish an important project (shhhh...don't tell Jana).

So, now it is bedtime and I look forward to a good night sleep. Buenos noches!!

Still tired...

I am sure no one really cares that I am so tired, but I am. I can't seem to have the energy I usually have. I had a Primary Activity this morning. I think it was a success but I just felt like I dragged.

Thanks Amy for the tickets to The DaVinci Code. I am wondering what everyone thought? I liked it, but didn't love it. Travis has never read the book but he liked it quite a bit.

Sadly, that is about all I can come up with today. Man, pathetic!

A very tan Travis (Lindos, Rhodes)

The Acropolis (Lindos)

Lindos, Rhodes (Greek Island)

I'm back!

I may be back but I feel so behind the power curve. I hear it takes one day per time zone to get back to normal. I guess I have three more days to feel totally with it again. The first day back, Trav and I woke up at 4AM so we got caught up on "American Idol" (which, by the way, was such a bummer to learn that Chris was voted off). The next day it was 5 AM and "The Apprentice". The next was 6 AM and it was "Survivor". We are finally waking up at the right time but still feel so tired.

BUT...enough of that! We had a fabulous vacation. We saw things that we never thought we'd ever see. We touched the great pyramids of Giza. We sailed down the Nile River and stood in the shadows of the Acropolis in Athens. It is hard to even try to pick the most favorite part. It was seriously "all good."

I feel completely out of the blogging world but I will do my best to catch up. I have added new photos to my countingcountries.blogspot.com site so check it out.