Made by Memilyrae

Thanks Dad! 😉

25 REASONS I OWE MY MOTHER
1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE . ‘If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.’
2. My mother taught me RELIGION . ‘You better pray that will come out of the carpet.’
3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL . ‘If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you
into the middle of next week!’
4. My mother taught me LOGIC . ‘ Because I said so, that’s why.’
5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC . ‘If you fall out of that swing and break your neck,
you’re not going to the store with me.’
6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT . ‘Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in
an accident.’
7. My mother taught me IRONY ‘Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry
about.’
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS . ‘Shut your mouth and eat your supper.’
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM . ‘Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!’
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA . ‘You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.’
11. My mother taught me about WEATHER . ‘This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through
it.’
12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY . ‘If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times.
Don’t exaggerate!’
13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE . ‘I brought you into this world, and I can take you
out.’
14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION . ‘Stop acting like your father!’
15. My mother taught me about ENVY . ‘There are millions of less fortunate children in this
world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.’
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION . ‘Just wait until we get home.’
17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING . ‘You are going to get it when you get home!’
18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE . ‘If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going
to freeze that way.’
19. My mother taught me ESP . ‘Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you
are cold?’
20. My mother taught me HUMOR . ‘When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come
running to me.’
21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT . ‘If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow
up.’
22. My mother taught me GENETICS. ‘You’re just like your father.’
23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS . ‘Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born
in a barn?’
24. My mother taught me WISDOM . ‘When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.’
25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE, ‘One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out
just like you.’
— Author Unknown

My Friend, Cheltsy sent this to me in an email. I thought it was interesting so I figured I should share. Enjoy! tell me if you try something and it worked…I’ll be trying the dryer tips.

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Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to
pick the little ‘stringy things’ off of it. That’s how the primates do it.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.

Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints
in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonder ful minty frosting.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply
chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them
in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350
for 15 minutes!!!  Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low
and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on
the cooking channel and it really works.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up.
Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly,
cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg.
Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer
for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes
with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.

Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around the plants overla pping as you go cover with mulch and for-
get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.

Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket.
It will keep the mosquitoes away.

Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper.
The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.

Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel
roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in nar-
row openings.

Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt
or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.
Place pin in seam of slacks and … at da! … static is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such
as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of
your car . When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s cheaper than shaving cream and
leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you
bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.

Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar
and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the
cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t
digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works
and you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the
house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the
dryer and pulled out th e lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the fil-
ter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something; he
took the filter over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a
mesh material … I’m sure you know what your dryer’s lint filter looks like. Well …
the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn’t go through it at all! He told us
that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that’s what burns out the heating unit.
You can’t SEE the film, but it’s there. It’s what is in the dryer sheets to make your
clothes soft and static free … that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feel
waxy when you take them out of the box .. well this stuff builds up on your clothes
and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to potentially burn your
house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long
time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash it with
hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months.
He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?!
Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn’t know dryer sheets would do that .
So, I thought I’d share!

Note: I went to my dryer and tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran
through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it
with warm soapy water and a nylon brush and I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when
I rinsed it … the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn’t any puddling at all!
That repairman knew what he was talking about!

So, I’m exhausted. Very exhausted. Stephen fell asleep, Spencer fell asleep, I laid down for my nap (especially since the kids kicked Steve out of our bed last night and kept me from sleeping fitfully) and Evie pounced, and jumped, and kicked, and stuck her feet in my face, and cuddled, and cried, and pounced some more ALL OVER ME! I’m exhausted and now I’m cranky. Steve woke up and I thought Evie was in the living room with him. I thought I heard something and I realized it sounded like water. I went into the bathroom and there was dear, sweet, mischievious Evie with the sink water on, the plug in, splashing in the water…in the sink, on the counter, on the stool and all over my floor. 🙁 Steve and I just kind of laughed and told her that was naughty. But now she’s mad and crying because I took the stool away from her… and I’m still exhausted and still cranky. Humph!

So I’ve been looking through some previous scrapbook pages I’ve done and I realized there are some that I simply do not like. Especially the ones at the very beginning when I started teaching myself how to do Photoshop and only knew how to use very few tools. Others I’ve gone back and fixed or added or changed a few things…but others…whew! I hated them! Here are two that I’ve re-done lately:

Before

After

and

Before

After

And here’s one I did when I found this picture of Spencer. I can’t believe how much he’s grown!

I saw this before and lately from 2 friends’ blogs and since my hubby is a computer guy I figured this’d be appropriate…well, at least in that aspect.

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Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance — particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0, NBA 3.0, and Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.
I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed, Desperate
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Dear Desperate:
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System. Please enter the command: ‘I Thought You Loved Me.exe’ and try to download Tears 6.2 and don’t forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

But remember, over use of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system.)

Also, do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Food 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck,

Tech Support

Wow…I feel like we’ve been one busy family lately! I love spending time together and doing fun activities and I can’t wait to scrapbook them! Here’s a recap:

We went MINI-GOLFING with Mike, Nicole and Natalie:

Evie & Spencer got a shiny GOLF ball to take home…

So did Aunt Coley

We went to the LLAMA FEST with our neighbors, the Sterziks:

This is the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork

Sydney pretending to play the piano

Spencer and Taylor looking at the alter

Spencer and Evie checking out the displays

Neat chairs

Shana and Bailey

No, my children aren’t in trouble….they were looking through the holes

Steve and Evie

Woman making thread from llama wool

The llama show…like a dog show…but with llamas! 😉

4 month old baby llama

Evie and her pink cheeks. It was hot.

“Where go?” – Evie looking for the baby llama

Feeding the llama

That’s Evie feeding the llama.

Taylor and Sydney giving the llama a snack

Sydney and the llama

Bailey (with big Spencer’s nose)

Evie

Spencer

Sydney

Taylor

We also went to dinner and the Spanish Fork Rodeo with our friends, Curtis and Camille:

Sky divers bringing in the American Flag

Mommy and Evie

We had seats on the east side so we had the sun in our eyes. It wasn’t too bad.

Spencer waiting (very oddly) for the “horsies” to come out.

Curtis and Camille

One rider jumps off to tackle the calf. The other helps “steer” the calf straight.

The tackling cowboy wrestles the calf to the ground.

One cowboy ropes the head, the other the legs.

The Clown decided to take the stunt bike for a ride while waiting for the rider. The Clown called the rider a

“SHIM” (She + Him) and the rider stormed off. So, the Clown decided to try the jump himself…

Not a huge surprise, but the Clown is actually the stunt rider. Spencer said this was his favorite part.

Evie stole daddy’s hat and looks oh-so-cute!

The Bull Riding was neat, but I was SO worried that someone was going to get a horn up the tush…you know, like on that reality tv show they always show you the guy who got it up the rear and got flung around. OUCH! I didn’t want to see anything like that first hand!

I think that about covers it for our family outings lately. Well, that is, until tonight is over. We’re heading to Lagoon on Novell’s tab! I’ll post pics later.

Annette pointed out to me this morning that one of my layouts that I did for a “Volunteer Creative Team” call for Dea Spina was featured in their newsletter. How very cool. Take a look-see. (Click on “Late July” to download the correct newsletter from Digitals)

Latisha came to town for a wedding from Cali. I haven’t seen her since our wedding more than 5 years ago! I so miss that girl!  She finally got onto Facebook and the world of friends opened up to her! Yahoo! Lisa M, Latisha, and I went to Mimi’s to eat. It was SO fun catching up and remembering the old days. We caught up on friends’ we keep in touch with and just had a great time…and ate too much food! Renee wasn’t able to make it because she was going to Cali to do some fire fighting (yeah…she rocks!). Or so we thought. She called and said she was still in town. We left Mimi’s and headed to Springville to visit Renee. Here’s the reason she didn’t leave:

The poor girl got in a bike wreck (she bought a new bike 2 days ago!) because some wretched woman sped in front of her so she could park on the side of the road…parked right on the edge of the bike lane and OPENED HER DOOR RIGHT WHEN RENEE WAS BIKING BY! Renee’s bike hit the door, she got bent around the door and then ROLLED 3 TIMES and ended up in TRAFFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She stood up, the woman asked if she was okay and she said she thinks she is. THE WOMAN BLAMED RENEE AND TOLD HER TO STOP. GOING. TOO. FAST. ON. HER. BIKE. Then walked off. WHAT THE HECK!?!?!?!? I want to find that woman and throw a few bikes on her car! Stupid woman!!!

We got to catch up with Renee and take a few pictures. And yes, we’re busting up in the first one because the pic we took right before I held my hand up with a “peace” sign but it looked like I was grabbing Renee’s ‘girls’ – so yeah…we were laughing hard. 🙂

Here’s my “All Boy” kit: