Driving Miss Daisie (Oh, I mean Miss Barbie)

Have any of you seen the movie Driving Miss Daisy??  That is what my day consisted of with Barbie and her bestie who is visiting from California, Buffy :)  They sat in the back while I drove them to Salt Lake to do some Costco shopping (if any of you knew what a shop-a-holic Barbie is you would understand how hard it was to convince her that she didn't need to buy a bench to put in her house.  My advice to her as her employee was to hold off and not to impulse shop and if she still felt like she really needed to buy the furniture in two weeks I would drive her back in to buy it.  Barbie was not happy with that, but we got out of the store without the bench!!!  (Clark should be very happy I am in his service, I think I will actually save him money by cooking, cleaning and driving Miss Barbie around!)  After we came back from SLC we picked Elle up from school and then drove down to Thanksgiving Point so Barbie and Buffy could meet another friend (we shall call her Muffy).  Muffy is interesting and may be involved in the adventures I write about in the future about Barbie and Clark.  Just Saying =)  I actually enjoyed driving Miss Barbie and her friends down to Utah County because while those three silly women were enjoying dinner I was able to go to my sister Allison's house and visit with her for a while.  It was great getting to see her and hang with her two girls and Elle.  It made my whole day!  So needless to say I am tuckered out with all this driving (and listening to Barbie and Buffy talk about nonsense.)

Side note ~  Emma sent a letter today.  She stated I would like to add for the record "Mom, I hate to admit it, but you were right. Heels are just not okay to wear. After touring the school we toured around our neighborhood and Anna and I decided we should wear heels. Worst idea EVER. Our native coordinator got us lost so we were just roaming around for like 3 hours. Not fun."!!!!!!!!! (I added the explanation marks for emphasis)  These are some of the most beautiful words I have ever heard coming out of Emma mouth. :)  When does a 17 year old ever say that their mom was right about anything????  I am so happy.

I am so grateful for daughters who admit when they are wrong and their mom is right!  And I am grateful for life, it is great.

My new Job :)

I am getting really bored!  I knew this would happen.  After being so busy with my life in MN and then moving to Grantsville I knew the day would come when all the unpacking was done, Emma was off to China and Elle in school that I would look at Barbie and say "I am bored".  Today it happened.  Barbie then said "come to Tooele with me I want to buy a bench to put in the kitchen."  After I talked Barbie out of purchasing yet another piece of furniture for her already "you have enough furniture in your house Barbie!!" home.  She offered to pay me to be her personal chef!  (At least for this week, haha).  Barbie has a guest coming to stay with her and she doesn't want to have to worry about cooking and cleaning so she offered me a job right there on the spot!  I thought why not?  I don't have anything to do with my life right now (I even called the rs president and told her I would be happy to help with a funeral that the rs is doing and she said "no, we have it covered".  Even when I volunteer to help I can't get anyone to give me an assignment, I would have killed to have some one call me out of the blue and offer to volunteer for an assignment in Minnesota!  Oh well....

So this week I am officially employed!  I will be cooking the meals for Barbie and her friend Buffy all week long :)  I am so excited!!  I am even going to drive into slc tomorrow and buy some food to prepare!  Things are really picking up for me :)  I just hope Clark is okay with this arrangement....

I am so grateful for the FHE lesson that Elle prepared tonight because her grandpa Clark asked her to do it. (She would have laughed in my face if I would have asked her to do it!)  Thank goodness for Grandpas!!

Two kids and a husband far away

Barbie and Clark have been very, very boring the last two days. I will move on to better and more interesting information.

But what has not be boring is the letters Emma has been sending from Hong Kong.  She is funny.  Her favorite site to see in Hong Kong was Jackie Chan's home.  She is enjoying the good looking Chinese boys (or men) which she tells me are tall (I am not so sure if I believe that)  I will need to see some proof (a picture of that would work nicely Emma).  She said she enjoyed her first real Chinese meal, crunch noodles with seafood (squid tentacles and scallops).  And she is getting around on the subway system.

Tanner was moved from his location on the coastal area of Lynn MA so he wouldn't be in any danger when hurricane Irene hit.  Thankfully it was not as serious as predicted and there was only (I say only because they were expecting much worse) flooding and power outages in his area.  I am not sure I will hear from him tomorrow on his P-Day because I think they will have all the missionaries out helping to clean up. 

Elle has been liking school so far.  She enjoys her teachers and even likes seminary.  I hope that she can join some school clubs that might help her make friends if she can get involved in activities.  It is so hard being the new girl.  But all in all my three kids are all safe and happy and doing great.  One in China, one in Massachusetts and one in Grantsville (and a husband in Hawaii).

I am so grateful for the health and safety of my family!

Barbie to the Rescue!

So today I had an adventure.  As much of an adventure as it goes in Grantsville.  I went outside (in my pj's) to walk the dogs.  As I walked out the door I decided to grab my phone (I don't know why) I was only going to stay outside for 30 seconds.   After the dogs did their business I attempted to open the door.  To my surprise it was locked.  No problem...just walk up stairs to Barbie and Clark's house and go in and then down the stairs to my home sweet home.  I went straight to the garage door the is ALWAYS unlocked.  But for some reason on this day Barbie decided to be a little safety conscious.  That's okay I will go to the back porch door and let myself in.  No suck luck.  That door was also locked.  Finally I walked around to the front door, I really didn't think it would be unlocked and sure enough it too was locked.  What to do????  Barbie should be home, I will knock.  For some reason Barbie decided to leave the house on this 100 degree day and not even give me warning or tell me what she was doing with her day (she always tells me what she is doing with her day).  Good thing I had remembered ti grab my phone.  I gave Barbie a call.  No answer.  Two minutes later I call again.  No answer.  Five minutes later another call.  After calling 10 times and still no answer I decided to just settle down onto the porch swing and visit with the dogs.  By this time I had been outside for about half an hour when I had a phone call from Barbie.  "Hi Barbie, where are you?"  "Oh, hi Krys, I am at the store, what are you doing?  I saw you called".  " I am locked out of the house and can't get in.  How much shopping do you have?"  "I will be right home I will check out right now".   20 minutes later Barbie came home with 5 bags of Popsicles.  Barbie to the rescue both with a key to get into the house and with something cool to help me quench my thirst :)  I love Barbie!

Side note:

Emma was on face book today while she was waiting in the airport in Korea.  It took her 14 hours to fly from LA to Seoul Korea.  She had a lay over for 4 hours there.  She is doing great and things were going smoothly for her.  She will email me once she gets to Hong Kong and let me know how things are. 

Tanner's mission president emailed me today and said that he was being moved inland.  He is serving in an area that is right on the coast of the Boston area.  With Hurricane Irene on the move they thought they would take precautions to keep the missionaries safe and move them.

So now it is just Elle and I.  It is weird to have two of my kids on their own.  I have already started to miss Emma.  It feels so quiet here in the house.  I guess Elle and I will have to make some noise.  (What will I do when Elle leaves for college??) 

Scott is in Hawaii for two weeks.  He has already been there a week and so will be home next Friday!  Elle and I are glad that we have Clark and Barbie here to entertain us :)

I am grateful for my mom!

Barbie and Clark the story begins :)

Hello.

I have decided to begin blogging again.  I know I am kind of fickle.  I do and then I don't.  But last night I gave myself a challenge.  My dad asked me why I was not blogging any more.  My last blogging day was a day in July when I was having tooth problems and then my world changed.  I was released from my calling as RS President and then we moved to Utah.  I have been super busy unpacking, visiting with my family (I have loved all my sister days and nephew and niece days!!!!!!!  I am the luckiest aunt in the world because my nephews and nieces are just so cute and funny and interesting and I love being around them!!  I have been busy getting Emma ready to leave for China.  (I will probably blog about that tomorrow, she left today! :( )  I have been busy getting Elle ready for her high school years (she started 9th grade last Tuesday!!)  I have been busy just getting use to living in Grantsville Utah!!  But one of the biggest things I have been doing is getting use to living right below my mom and dad!!  I told my mom and dad at dinner last night (yes, we eat most of our meals together...I love this!!) that I was going to dedicate my next year of blogging to them.  I was going to write about my experiences of being an adult child living with/under my parents!  My mom is not so sure how she feels about this but I don't think this will be a problem because she doesn't ever read my blogs or get on her computer for that matter.  My dad was okay with this idea.  So here goes a new years commitment to blogging with my focus on my life in Grantsville and the adventures I am going to have with my mom (and sometimes my dad) but probably mostly my mom (since I am around her like 24/7).  I am going to try to protect the innocent by changing the names of the people involved in this blog.  From here on out I will refer to my mom as Barbie and my dad as Clark.  I will refer to Scott as Tony and Elle as Ellie.  I will refer to Emma as Kate and Tanner as Elder.  I will of course just be me or Krystine or I.  Anyone else that is involved with the day to day dealings with me will be known by their real names but they probably won't know I am blogging about them so that is okay!

I am still going to be grateful each day.  Today I am grateful for Emma.  I will miss her soooo much!