Updated contact info.

So I'm making my personal blog private...so any (and ALL) of you are welcome to have an invite just send me your email at my email.

Speaking of which add notlobs@gmail.com to your address books as my contact email. That's the only one I really check anymore (and if you have gmail--you can gchat me!!). :)

O.O SCARY COSTUMES!

Note: This post was all Brigitta's doing, so she gets all the pride....and scorn. :D

You know the whole family is on a suger high when they post at midnight after halloween, but then again...who isn't on a suger high?

I know, I know, you're here to check out the costumes, so here you go...

The plus makes it go faster, you can guess what the minus does and the two straight lines are pretty easily recognized from your remote.

Glad you tunned in!
Keep bloggin!
-Brigitta

Lagoon, November 1st, 2008, 72 degrees!

Today was the last day for the Season at Lagoon. Sorina's last chance for this year. Since Shawn and I were going on a date to Lagoon today, I thought I'd better take Sorina, since we'd talked about it all season. She didn't make it last year. She had a great time and was reluctant to head home and let Mom and Dad go on their double date. The weather was perfect and the crowds were to a minimum. Very nice Fall day at Lagoon.

Layton Trauntvein's Halloween Gallery

I don't ever remember a Halloween in Utah where the weather was a wonderful 74 degres at trick-or-treat time. Those temps are Califorina trick-or-treat weather.

Carbon County

I found these on the Utah State Historical Society's website tonight. There are so many pictures there. I got some and will be returning for more. Some of these pictures are of Clear Creek, some are Kenilworth and some are Castle Gate.


The State Historical Site claims to have 25,000 photos online for all to use. The names and locations for all the pictures are on each of the pages as you browse the photos. I started with what I knew--I am sure there are a lot more.

http://history.utah.gov/research_and_collections/photos/index.html

Guess what? I left a big container of candy on the front porch with a picture of a skull and crossbones posted above it. I asked everybody to take a FEW pieces and to dare to share. When we got home from the temple at 11 p.m., all of the candy was gone. Sort of reminded me of the deed done by the Grinch--you know, crumbs to small for a mouse. Want to bet that one person got it all?

More on the apple saga. My friend from Price, Joyce Woodward, had a similar apple experience to the one I had. She was using one of the apple pickers featured in garden catalogs, you know the kind. They have a basket on the top. While she was picking, one of the big apples fell from the top of the tree and hit her right between the eyes. She had really black eyes when I saw her a few days later. I wonder if those apples have it out for females in retaliation for Eve tasting the "apple" and giving one to Adam to taste. (Just kidding, of course.) 

Thank You

Myrna,

Just wanted to drop a note and thank you for the Halloween cards and treat money. The kids always feel so special when there is mail for them, let alone one from their grandparents telling them how much they are loved. And let me tell you, they spent their dollars that evening! We went to Walmart that night to do some Halloween shopping and they each brought their $1 and got themselves a treat (Todd and I too)! Thanks again for being so thoughtful! Happy Halloween!

Love you,
Amy

Hawaii is no longer on my "Don't really care to see it list."

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't like big tourist spots. Disney--you can have it. Although, my family really enjoys the place, so I go, I really would rather be somewhere else like North Dakota, Maine, Oregon, etc. The only reason I wanted to go to Hawaii is because it was one of the places I had to visit on my 50 by 50 goal. So, when the opportunity was there, I had to do it. It was there, or Alaska because I've hit all the others.

On the October 14th, Amy, the kids and I went to Hawaii. We visited the island of Oahu for the seven days we were there and never ran out of things to do. This first picture was our first day there and we are at the world renouned Waikiki beach. It was beautiful and the water was so clear that you could see the bottom in 12 feet of water.


The only real negative item we encountered the whole trip was the jet-lag. These pictures were taken at 3am Hawaii time, with the kids wide awake because body time was 9am. We watched cartoons for 4 hours, until the sun came up (no daylight savings time in Hawaii). Even little Hailey was wide awake. She kept the early-bird thing going all week long. It didn't matter what time we put her to bed, she was up by 5am local time. Normally, since it was Amy's vacation too, that meant that Dad got to get up with her to watch cartoons.

Some of the fun things we did in Hawaii? We swam, we ate, we swam some more, we went to the Polynesian Cultural Center, BYU Hawaii, the Temple, swam some more, had shaved ice, swam, visted Pearl Harbor, swam, hiked a trail to Manoa Falls, fell down in the mud, swam some more, tried to drive the rental into the ocean, swam some more, snorkeled, visited Lanikai beach, swam some more, climbed a crater, visited some world war two sites and swam some more. It was one of the most fun vacations I have had and I have had some fun ones.

We ate Malasadas. If you don't know what those are, there is a place in Waikiki that is famous for them called Leonard's Bakery. I gained 10 pounds just eating those. You can find their recipe on the foodnetwork.com.

I really enjoyed myself there. I would not want to live in Hawaii, but a prolonged stay would definitely be nice. By the way, we grabbed the phone book to find a church building, almost like being in Idaho, or Colorado, there were four buildings right in Honalulu and 10 Stakes on the island we were visited.

So, would I go back? Yes!

I am a great-aunt again.

I am a great-aunt on the Pitts side of the family! Isn't that good news? Of course, that happened to me earlier when Charlotte and Cydney became grandmothers. But this is the first grandchild for Laurel. They are excited and so are the rest of us.
 

Gus is the proud father, Janessa is the proud mother, and Laurel and Tom are the proud grandparents.

Little Garrett Gus Marinos was born on Dec. 18 at 8:47 p.m. He weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and was 21 and one-half inches long. Laurel said he has light brown hair, with a touch of red and has his mother's mouth.

I saved the birthday card she sent me to open on my birthday. Inside the card was the good news!

Love, M

Al: I conclude then, that your birthday is December 29 1941

Love you
al

Myrna: You should conclude that my birthday is on December 24, 1940. I tried to see how I had mislead you but failed. Anyway, I am now 68 as of this last birthday. Love, M

You can get knocked out by an apple!

LHT and I were picking apples from the tree by the garden. You know, the BIG one that you all like to climb. Yes, that is the one Maddie fell out of when she broke her arm. LHT had just come down from the tallest ladder to dump his bucket of picked apples into the large container. He finished dumping them and was headed toward the ladder to go back up the tree. Rachel, thankfully, was playing in the now newly plowed garden. I was dumping my bucket of apples into the container. When from the top, about 12-feet in the air, one of the large apples fell and hit me on the top of the head. I looked at the split apple and thought: "Well, now I know my head is harder than an apple." I called out to LHT but, since he did not have his hearing aids in, he did not hear me. I stood there for a second as I started to feel the world go dim. I started to lean over, knowing I was going down. My vision started dimming at the edges and then went black. When I came to, LHT was leaning over me. He said he saw me lying there and said: "What are you doing? Lying down on the job?" I could not get up for a minute. He said that, perhaps, all things considered, I should just lie there for a minute. Meanwhile, Rachel had come over to where I was lying. "Do you want to kiss Grandma to make her better?" LHT asked. "Not while she is down there," Rachel said.