thoughts

It's 4:42 in the AM and I'm at work. I arrived at work last night just in time for a major federal felony warrant service involving 4 agencies, 2 K9s, and SWAT, as well as a knife-wielding old lady accusing her neighbors of breaking into her apartment ... all at the same time. Things were pretty intense until 3 or so. When it cooled down, I started a netflix and pulled out a magazine... Then at 4:30 the 911's start ringing (PS I'm by myself) and there's a big fight going on at one of our favorite apartment complexes. I called another agency to help out, and 30 minutes later that's over.
I just love my job. That's all.

This week is Spring Break for the kids. And for us, that means Trek. Lucas and I will be taking a bunch of delinquents down to Boulder for 4 days of backpacking, solo overnighters, an exciting rappel, and much much more... we're actually taking our 2 boys down a night early to help set up the rappel for another group. And Brok is coming. He loves Trek.


Also, we went to dinner tonight with some friends to celebrate a birthday, and got into some really great conversation about kids and drugs and how when we were 12 we had no idea about the real world. And here are these kids that are using and selling meth. And all kinds of other things. Crazy. It just makes me think about how scary it is for the youth of the Church, and how it will be even more scary when my kids are faced with even harder challenges and trials. I don't really like to think about it. Lorien and I decided we'd really just rather be living in 1955. Next door to June Cleaver.


And speaking of Lorien .... I really want to say how grateful I am to have great friends. I feel like the trials in my life are hardly mentionable compared to what others are going through, but sometimes I need to whine. I have a bunch of really understanding and supportive people in my life (sisters and friends and co-workers and neighbors and HUSBAND) who know just what to do and say to brighten my day.
I'm lucky.

Introducing:

Amelia Rae - the newest Kane baby. Actually, she's a Casper, but she comes from Luke's sister.




And she's adorable.

at conference time

I just have a few random things I want to blog about:

1. I love General Conference time. I love that we are lucky enough to have living prophets to lead and guide us, and that we get to hear directly from them twice a year.
I love that the messages from our leaders are directed at us, to help us deal with real life, current issues we're dealing with.
AND, we got tickets to the Sunday morning session, so take that!



2. George and Reba. Tonight. I'm pretty excited, but Lucas is SUPER excited.



3. I've mentioned before how much I love boy haircuts on girls. Well my long-haired sister cut hers (not a total boy cut, but short). Shorter than mine, which might be a first in our lives. I'm 100% jealous, and have already called my hair lady. How cute is she?!?!



4. I have been listening to Damien Rice constantly for the last week or two. I just love him.

March 30: Today's To-Do List

- Skylar to work at 6
- Diareece to school at 7
- lawn replacement/landscaping estimate guy at 7:30
- work on monthly reports until...
- shopping with Rachelle at 10
- sushi at the Naked Fish with Vicki and the gals
- snowboarding with Rachelle 2:30-8:30? (or however long we can last)
- home before carpool drops off boys at 9:15
- midnight snacks
- bed.

March 29: Favorite Foods

I love food. My #1 is easy.

Avocado.

I really love steak or burgers or hot dogs or anything than can be cooked outside.

But I really really love fruit. Berries or pineapple or apple slices or grapefruits. Just not mango.

I also enjoy a good salad bar. As long as I can have garbanzo beans, peas, and sunflower seeds I'm happy.

And also a Happy Birthday to my brother-in-law Mike - I'm sure he won't read this, but Steph will. Steph, please tell him.

What a great guy.