Mother's Day

My mom got a poster size, framed picture of her grandkids. After opening it, she went through each child reading them out loud and laughing. She hung it up on the wall right away.

Here are my 30 neices and nephews. I actually have 31. Little Sam is missing. He's about 6 weeks old. He'll make the next one for sure. Most of these emotions are describe their personalities perfectly. I think my favorite is Grace's forsaken, or Betty's heartbroken, or Paisley's perplexed, or Lucy's joyful. I love my family. 

My mom loves being a grandma. She loves her grand kids. I almost wish she was my grandma, but I get to have her as my mom!

They're great grandparents.

Really fast, my mom and I went to Pocatello, Idaho last weekend to visit my grandma. It was fun to see my grandma and spend some time with my mom. My dad was going to come, but I'm glad he didn't because mom and I talked and talked and talked. One night we even stayed up until 2:00 a.m. talking!! I told her about my dating experiences and she told me about all of the boys in her dating years. There were a lot! It's been a while since I've stayed up talking like that and I've never done it with my mom!

My mom is hilarious. I'm keeping a quote wall, mostly so I can remember funny things or precious moments. My mom said a lot of things that night.

"Mom, it's getting late, It's like 12:40" - Me

"It's probably good we talked. I kinda feel like we're the same age right now." - Mom

"I haven't talked like this for like twenty years it feels like." - Mom

I don't remember how we got into this conversation, but it just shows how funny that night was...

"I might die in five years" - Mom

"We might die on our way home tomorrow" - Me

"I might die before morning" - Mom

"Mom it's already morning!" - Me

"What time is it?" - Mom
"1:00" - Me
"Oh my goodness I've never stayed up this late!" - Mom
"Never?" - Cindy
"Not hardly" - Mom
 
"Dad had good brains." - Mom
"Haha good brains??" - Me
"He did. and I really needed that because I dated some real... knuckleheads." - Mom
"Hahahaha" - Me
 
I will probably remember that night forever. I learned a lot about her. I felt like we were the same age too. It was fun :)
 
P.S. I finally learned about google reader. I have never used it before. I had 256 new items! I follow a lot of blogs :) I can read blogs without going to their blog! It's awesome.
 
Well I'm off to California. Camille is back from Romania and we going on a road trip! I can't wait to spend hours and hours in the car with her, we sure do have a lot to catch up on. 4 months worth.

Extra, Extra, Read All About It

Big news this week!
Kevin's engaged!!!! Jen is about to join our crazy family and I can't wait! I was wanting another sister. Kevin has decided to leave our little "unmarried pact". I guess I'll just form my own pact, that consists of me and only me. My wish of attending just one of my sibling's sealings is not going to come true after all, but who cares about that! They're getting married!!!

I know Jen better than anyone else in the family and I love her! Pretty soon she'll be settled in the family. I can't wait. We're a lot a like Jen and I. I feel like we can relate to each other pretty well. Kevin's so happy.

As I watched him teach the gospel in front of a class full of teenagers this morning, I was just grateful to have such a good man as my brother. Even though sometimes I feel we're complete opposite, I'm grateful for his example. He's such a great teacher. It's very easy to see his love of teaching. So, who's luckier, Jen or Kevin?
Congratulations you two!!! 

Something less exciting, my hair's dark. I've been talking about doing it for at least a year now. I finally did it. My mom has said, "I'm proud of you" at least three times. What does she mean? If she thinks I wasn't brave enough to do, I showed her! It's been an adjustment for sure. Every time I look in the mirror I'm surprised! I saw my reflection as I was walking into Wal Mart today and I thought "Oh my gosh, that's me, huh?"

Last night my dad was talking to my uncle. I heard his end of the conversation.
"Well we have a wedding coming up and I thought I'd let you know so you can put it on the calendar.... Nope, not Cindy.... She just dyed her hair today so it will be a while..." 

I wasn't offended. That was the idea anyway. :)

My nephew, Evan, ran in my house, looked at me, looked at my hair, gave a forced "ha ha", and then said, "Cindy, what happened to your hair?" A few minutes later, "Grandma, what happened to Cindy's hair?"

I don't really know what happened! It just got this way. It's pretty dark isn't it? Every keeps telling me I look like Janet. A summer under her roof, and I might end up just like her.

It's fun to have a change! I guess I'll find out if blondes really do have more fun. I'll let you know what I think later.


P.S. I was reading my last post and I said something about still feeling like me. It made me laugh because I'm always going to feel like me! Did I expect to feel like someone else? Duh! Silly me.

There's something different in the air and it's not just my hair. Something just feels different. I don't know what it is or whether it's good or not. Maybe I'm crazy! That's definitely not different.