Buddies

Two Sides of a Coin:  Golden Delicious and Braeburn.

Golden Delicious and I love it, love it when Braeburn comes home.  So many hilarious things - so much Peter O'Toole - How to Steal a Million British charm.  

I also have a special fondness for Braeburn's friends that always come over.  The kids complain that Braeburn's friends are my favorite.  I admit nothing except that Spencer (my favorite) is still on his mission in Arcadia California, but I also get a huge kick out of his buddy, Isaac.  (plus Isaac always helps in the kitchen.)

So Isaac, and Braeburn, and my cousin Trevor are all sitting at the picnic table visiting and Trevor says, "ok, advice for Golden Delicious for the MTC..."

and Braeburn says, "sorry, I went to the England MTC"  and everyone groans and looks envious.  Then Isaac thoughtfully says, "Well.  I have something that might be interesting.  I'm not sure if it will be helpful or not... But if you go down to the basement of the MTC and reach into one of the wall heaters you can pull out a long piece of rebar that's stored there.  It's quite useful for prying up the door in the floor so you can go down by the heating pipes and explore all around. "

Wow.  Just the kind of stuff you can't make up.  and so helpful.  

This caused Golden Delicious and I to laugh for hours.

Should she wear her navy skirt or blue dress for the tour?

The Missionary Girl

How does one go from this -

To This so fast?

Golden Delicious is the light of our family.

I can hardly wait to hear about all the wonderful adventures she is having.

Sister Wadsworth!!

We love you!!!!

More Krav Injuries...

Uncle Josh and Braeburn came home for the weekend.  On Saturday morning all the kids went to Krav.  Braeburn and Josh spent the whole time trying to kill each other, (elbows and knees flailing everywhere I heard).

So when they got home the back of Braeburn's head was bleeding still.  Uncle Josh planted Braeburn on the stairs,  whipped out his EMP kit, donned gloves, and did a complete medical analysis.  (he is totally fine).  Josh seemed mildly disappointed; "gosh, the last guy I hit had to have staples in his head, etc...)   But I am pleased that all is well, and also... just as a precaution, that with all the weaponry around, that no one was shot....

Ellie and the Play Dough

My Brother and his family came up to visit from California.

Ellie got a bit bored with the adult conversation so we made play dough.

Then we cut out all sorts of neat shapes.

Then we pressed her hands and feet into the dough.

Golden Delicious helped.

It is so much fun being with a three year old:  imagination games, playing school, going on stroller rides...  You cannot imagine how much I wish I had a little three year old of my own right now.  They are perfection.

Golden Delicious Turns 19.

Love this girl!

Happy Birthday Darling.

I hope you have a perfect year.

Black Eye at Krav

Prairie Spy ran into the corner of a fight pad at Krav this week.  It gave him lovely black eye.

Everyone is jealous - Golden Delicious especially.  She says getting a black eye is on her bucket list.

I think that sounds crazy.

But Prairie does look legit.  We've come up with all sorts of interesting (untrue) stories about how he got it.

To Duchess or Not To Duchess, That is the Question

Well, I have done what seems like tons and tons of work on my great idea:

1.  I have refined the idea like a billion times.

2.  I have written adorable "day in the life of" stories so I can share ideas with people on how to use oils without running afoul of "regulations"  (Mr. Bechtel required that one....)

3.  I have developed a web site (which looks stupid and dumb still)

4.  I have pretended to be a professional photographer and taken hundreds of photos of my great ideas.

5.  I have sewn a lot of cute clutches with their own duchess essential oil labels.

6.  I have further refined my "target market" to focus on the convenience of the clutches, hence the "start carrying" byline, which I think is genius.

7.  And I've gotten sooooo close to selling them....  But then I realized at the end, that I cannot sell them on Amazon, because you cannot "bundle" things that other people manufacture and create your own UPC code....blah, blah, blah.

8.  And I still don't want to spend tons of money to direct people to my website.  So then I've also said, "well, Janene, this has been a very educational experience.  But since you are not spending thousands of dollars to manufacture your own oils, etc. etc.  it is probably over."

9.  And then, I've stomped my foot because in the middle of this pity party I have a friend texting me asking me what oils she should use -- so I KNOW THERE IS A MARKET!  It's all very frustrating.

10.  So this is the chronicle of the little oils that should, but still aren't.