Yard Sale

This coming Saturday, June 13th, our local LPA chapter is having their bi-annual yard sale.

It's going to be at 5114 South 2200 West in Taylorsville. 7:00 am to 2:00 pm. Please come by

and see us.

General Conference

This weekend is LDS General Conference. I love these conferences (April and October). It's very uplifting to listen to the leaders of the church. This month I've been a member for 15 years (1993 was a very big year for me) and have felt like I made a very good decision to get baptized.
You can listen to conference talks at lds.org.

It's quite rainy today, but so beautiful. I love rainy days. There is only one downside to rain and that is Fred. He will not go outside in rain. It doesn't matter how much he has to go to the bathroom he will not go if it's raining. Snow is another matter. He doesn't mind snow in fact he loves it. Go figure. I love rain, he doesn't. I don't like snow, he loves it. Must take after Mike. :)

Our LPA dinner last weekend was great. We had the biggest turnout ever and was so much fun. I love hosting these events. Next up is our Halloween party at the end of the month. That one is always fun. The kids are so cute in their costumes.

This upcoming week will be fun and busy. The Jazz preseason begins this week, I have a birthday dinner for Michael and Lena (from work) to attend and my mom is coming for a visit. We always have fun when she comes to town.

Christmas cards for the troops

My friend Marina asked a bunch of us in our little people group to make some Christmas cards for the troops in Iraq. So this is my card that I made. It's a little hard to see, but I cut a square window in the front of the card and stuck a metal ornament tied with green ribbon on the inside of the card so it shows through in the window. I stamped the front of the card with a star stamp to make a watermark. The star is a mimic of the star design on the metal ornament. I then stamped a Christmas saying on green paper and attached it to the card with foam squares. Very simple, but cute.

Tonight Mike and I are hosting the monthly little people dinner at Ruby Tuesday's in Draper. So far we have 28 people showing up. That's our largest group yet for these dinners. Hopefully I'll get pictures tonight and post them this weekend.

33

I turned 33 on the 28th. It was a fun day. I ended up working that day since Mike did too. Work had my desk all decorated and a few people sent me birthday emails. After work my friends, Michael, Nicole and Ashley took me to dinner at Red Iguana. Our favorite place to go for our birthdays. Mike had the night shift so he didn't go to dinner with us. As usual it was fun. They crack me up like no other people. When Mike got home from work he had a surprise for me. He bought me a card and a cake! Mike never gives me cards and not once has he given me a cake for my birthday in the years that we've been married. I was totally shocked and pleased. He definetly earned some points with me.

The gifts I got were great. My parents gave me a book, The Host by Stephanie Meyer. Two movies, 27 Dresses and Ratatouille. I love those movies. I also got a scrapbook magazine and a couple of cute shirts. Mike and I did joint gifts this year. We took our trip to California and bought concert tickets to see Coldplay in November. Mike also took me to dinner at Thaifoons for dinner on Wednesday. We love that place. Michael, Nicole and Ashley gave me a gift certificate to Target.


P.S. The Utah LPA chapter will be doing a fundraiser booth at the Avenues street fair next Saturday. We do face painting for the kids. The fair starts at 9 and goes till 6. It's on Third Avenue between I and N. I'm sure I will be there most of the day. Do try to stop by if you are in the area.

CODA Fundraiser

The weekend of August 15th the Utah chapter of Little People of America had the opportunity to assist a new non-profit organization with their fundraiser. CODA is an organization that was started by Matt Roloff (Little People, Big World) and Marty Klebba(Pirates of the Caribbean) to help raise money for LP adoptions and higher education. Each year they hold a fundraiser in a different city, this year it was in Salt Lake.

Our local chapter set up a booth and did pirate tattoos for the little kids. Marty and another Pirate actor did autograph signings, there was two showings of the first Pirate movie and a silent auction. It wasn't as largly attended as they hoped, but still did well in the fundraising.

We had a lot of fun being apart of this fundraiser and hope they choose our city again. Here are a couple of pictures. One is with Adawna and I with the two Pirate actors, the other is a bunch of us with the Jack Sparrow look a like they hired from Disney.