I Got Tagged

. Where is your phone? Desk

2. Where is your significant other? Working

3. Your hair color? Brown

4. Your Mother? best

5. Your Father? greatest

6. Your favorite thing? family

7. Your dream last night?nothing

8. Your dream/goal? savings

9. The room you're in? living

10. Your hobby?

11. Your fear? alone

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years?

13. Where were you last night? inlaws

14. What you're not? creative

15. One of your wish-list items?

16. Love Someone?yes

17. The last thing you ate? yogurt

18. What are you wearing? clothes

19. Your TV? off

20. Your pet? gone

21. Your computer? on

22. Your mood? happy

23. Missing someone? YES

24. Your car? passport

25. Something you're not wearing? jacket

26. Favorite store? dollartree

27. Your Summer?warm

28. Where did you grow up? smalltown

29. Your favorite color? purple

30. When was the last time you laughed? yesterday

31. Last time you cried? sundaynight

32. Something you crave?

33. Why you blog? comments (you all know thats why we all blog!!!)

Now I tag....Marielle, Tiffany, Jessica, Shannon

Saying Goodbye

Today has been the dreaded day that Todd and I have not been looking forward to at all. When I started babysitting I had no idea how long I would be watching little Johnny. Three weeks after I started watching him, his dad came to pick him up one day and told us that he was joining basic training but his mom was going to stay here and work. I continued watching him Mon- Fri. I didn't know how long his dad would be at basic training so I was preparing myself to not have him after the end of the year and then I found out that i would have him til the middle of Jan and then it went this long, so I feel very lucky to have been able to watch him longer than I originally thought. Johnny has been a huge blessing in my life these past 5 months. I not only got to watch him grow from just rolling over to crawling to walking around furniture, I got to watch him bounce in this bouncer I found for him to play in bounce so fast that it looked like he could launch himself out of it. Since I haven't been able to have any of my own yet, watching him helped me relax and not think about it as much and that I was able to in my own way mother him like he could have been mine. He was the best baby he took his morning and afternoon naps and they weren't short ones either. He had the cutest smile, personality and was very determined. This last week he climed up my moms 15 stairs and then turned around with a huge smile ''like I did it and you can't stop me now'' and all proud of himself. Now he is going to spend time with family in Florida and then in a few months they can finally live with his dad. I'm excited for them to be able to be together as a family again but Johnny will be missed alot. I really don't know what I'm going to do now that I don't have him anymore, but I'm sure things will come along that needs to be done. Todd would come home for lunch and and after work and play with him so I got to see a side of Todd that I haven't seen before and its made me realize what a Father figure he will be someday to our kids. Todds mom asked us one time if we had thought about being foster parents, at that time we hadn't but we have thought now and there is no way too many tears to fight back.

Fun Time In Mesa

Friday Jan 23rd we left Show Low at 5:00 and headed to Mesa for the weekend. Saturday Drew and Marielle fed us breakfast and then they left to a commitment and then we got ready to go to my uncles 80th birthday party. When Drew and Marielle came home we left and played frisbee golf, I've never played it before and I'm really not that good at throwing a frisbee but is was alot of fun. When we finished playing we went to the party, there were alot of people there mostly family. My uncle wanted soups and rolls to serve at the party. There were about 10 - 15 diferent kinds of soups to eat. We stayed for about and hour and then we went back to Drew and Marielles and found out that they made reservations at Chiles so the time in between we went to Mills Mall and window shopped to kill time and then we went to eat dinner. After we got home from that we played the game CURSE and i do not like that game at all. Sunday we went to church and then we went to the Temple and walked around had dinner at Marielles and then headed home for Show low but neither of us wanted to leave yet but we had too.

Happy New Year

Just wanted to write and wish all of you a Happy New Year. For Christmas we spent Christmas Eve with Todd's parents and grandma. We also stayed the night in Taylor and then we woke up had breakfast and then loaded up and came back to Show Low to spend Christmas day with my family. We also went and watched Bedtime Stories we recommend that movie to everyone. It also snowed for Christmas which was fun to play in. It was also nice to be able to relax a little and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas how blessed we are even though the country is going through a hard time. For New Years Eve we spent it with Todds parents again. Anyways hope everyone is having a wonderful new year so far.

family get together

Saturday the 13th my mom and her brothers and sisters got together along with the grandkids that could come and we had our annual Perkins christmas get together. I really don't know when they started butas long as can remember I remember going to Mesa or Tucson or staying here on the mountain for a Christmas get together on my moms side and the aunts and uncles would bring potluck and we would enjoy the company of everyone. In the last few years they started doing soup and rolls every year. My aunt Cil is always designated to make the rolls and then the other 8 would bring and soup or 2 or 3 each. On Saturday there was probably 12 different kinds of soups along with grandma perkins homemade noodles made by aunt Jane and aunt Shirlene and rolls to feed an army and then some. There were so many that I got too full to try all of them, but the ones I did eat were really good. Every year uncle Cecil would bring oranges, grapefruit and lemons for those that wanted to take some. Yesterday morning we woke up to snow again there was probably 2-3 inches and its snowing again today and is in the forecast till Thursday. I'm excited for Christmas to come and be together with family and hope that all of you will have a very merry christmas

Catch up

Sorry to those who like to look at my blog that I haven't posted lately, I'm not the best at blogging but I wanted one for those times that I did have something exciting going on. It makes it harder since we don't have kids to post about. Anyways Todd and I had a wonderful thanksgiving with his family this year, we decided instead of driving back and forth to Taylor we would stay in taylor with everyone. Todd's mom wanted family pictures while we were all together which they were due for a new one since Drew joined the family. On Friday some had to go home for various reasons. That morning we went shooting with those that were still around, Later on that afternoon John, Jessica, Todd and I went to the movies. Jessica wanted to see Twilight and I didn't so John and Jessica were going to twilight and Todd and I were going to Madagasscar. When we got to the theatre there was a huge line and by the time we got inside Twilight, bolt, and Madagasscar were all sold out. We decided to go to lakeside theatre and we decided to watch bolt. Bolt is a very cute movie better than I thought it was.

Friday December 5 we went to the Taylor Christmas dinner and dance. It was fun evening and to tell you the truth thats the only time Todd and I get to dance. Then Saturday the 6th we bought tickets for us and his parents to go to Feaste of Carols. Todds parents have never gone to it so it was fun to take them this year. His dad got called up to do a trick with the jesters.

Sorry theres no pictures I need to learn how to work the camera and cords and everything I usually have Todd do it for me but I do need to learn and we just don't get into taking pictures everywhere we go.

Callings

About a month ago my mom was called to be primary president and then after church a member of the bishoprich pulled Todd aside and asked him if he would accept the calling to teach the 12 - 13 year olds Sunday School class. Then two weeks ago they called me in to meet with bishop and I got the calling to be the primary secretary. Thats pretty much what we have been up to. I'm still babysitting and that keeps me busy, Yesterday we woke up to some snow which was suprising but we will take it. I'm dressing in layers to keep warm so the arthritis doesn't bother me as much.

Also since its veterans day today I just want to express my appreciation to all those who have fought for this country and are fighting right now so that we can have the freedoms we have to enjoy