I'm back! Did you miss me?

I made a resolution to update this more often...hopefully it works out better than most of my resolutions......



I'm still at Eskdale "working". I actually like what I'm doing right now and I'm very content with how things are, frighteningly so, actually..... My birthday came a went last month too, and now mom is more determined than ever to get me married. It's still weird to not be in school, but I don't miss all the things that go with school.



Winter came quickly this week, dumping snow and bringing more cold. I was quite enjoying the mild winter we WERE having. Luckily I did finally dig my ditch at the end of October before it got too cold and so I've had internet at the shack. It's great.



Last month we teamed up with the highschool and put on a fundraiser dinner for 3 nights in a row. The highschool sings, the orchestra plays, and then they perform a play while they eat dinner.We had about 80 people attend each night, so that was fun preparing, cooking, and serving all that food. It was a lot of work, but it was fun. I'm glad though that life has slowed down, and I'm just cooking for the community once again.



All of the college kids have been back during their break for the most part, so I've been hanging out with Kenneth, Sharon, Abby, and sometimes Cindy. Of course they all leave me when I want to watch the Jazz games. That's when Kiah and Alex usually show up. Good times, good times....Although the Jazz suck so bad right now that it's becoming painful to watch the games. Being the optimistic person that I am, I keep watching and analyzing to see how/when they will start playing better.



I don't know if I ever mentioned that I got three kittens last summer. So yeah, I got three kittens last summer, so I will leave you with pictures of my kids. Of course they are bigger, fatter, and lazier now, but they are still cute.

Jazz, Madison, Raja

Madison

Raja

Raja and Jazz

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." -Edgar Berger

Some images from a family party

aaaaaaand a cake I made for Kayli's b-day.

Since I haven't posted forever, and I still can't think of anything to say....I'll go ahead and post the survey that everyone else has been doing to get me started. Hopefully I'll get around to updating more often...


1. First Name: Annette



2. Are you named after anyone? Annette Funicello...? I think.



3. Do you wish on stars? No



5. When did you last cry? Ha, I don't cry. Actually, I can't remember...Ronald Reagan's memorial....?



6. Do you like your handwriting? I don't remember....now that I'm not in school I don't see it much anymore.



7. What is your favorite lunchmeat? Turkey or Turkey Pastrami.



8. Any bad habit? Of course not.... I'm not sure that I should be the one answering this question.



9. What is your most embarrassing CD on the shelf? Probably NSYNC. Don't have many CD's because I think it's too much work to change them....



10. If you were another person, would you be friends with YOU? Definitely not!



11. Are you a daredevil? Nope



12. Do fish have feelings? Maybe, but their memory span isn't long enough for them to know it so I don't worry about it. Although I would feel bad when my cats would try to get in the fish tank and terrorize them.



17. Are you trendy? Nope



18. How do you release anger? I'm never angry! I like to go on a walk, but it sort of depends...



19. Where is your second home? My parents house and the Fabers.



20. Do you trust others easily? Yes and no.....



21. What were your 3 favorite toys as a child? My doll, Tinkerbell, David's NASA set, and a dish set I had.



22. What class in school do you think is totally useless? I've tried blocking the whole school thing out of my mind......



26. What do you look for in a guy/girl? That's a loaded question....Egads. For starters I'd definately say, sense of humor.



27 What are your nicknames? There is a slew of them....Nettie, Nutty, Nutsy, Nutter Butter, and Net.



28. Would you ever bungee jump? Probably not, I think you'd have to be offering me a lot of money.



29. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Nope!



30. Do you think that you are strong? Well, I think I am.....but I've also been known to be in denial about these sort of things.



31. What's your favorite Ice Cream Flavor? I can't say that I have a favorite, just depends on the day. Right now it's Cookies and Cream.



32. What is your favorite color? Blue....almost any shade.



34. How many wisdom teeth do you have? 2...Grrr...they cause me much pain.



35. Are you in love with anyone? Only about 10 people....



36. How many people have a crush on you right now? I'm sure I have a fan club somewhere..



37. Who do you miss most right now? Good question...



39. What color pants are you wearing? Brown corduroy...should I be admitting that...?



40. What are you listening to right now? Talking Sports on channel 2.



42. What was the last thing you ate? Chicken and Brocolli fettucine alfredo



43. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Well, I'd say blue, but that sounds bad, so I'll go with yellow.



44. How is the weather right now? Just snowed, but now it's clear and freezing.



45. Who is the last person you talked to on the phone? Cindy?



46. First thing you notice about the opposite gender? Duh, their face!



47. Do you like the person who sent this? Of course.



48. How are you today? Fabulous



49. Favorite drink? Milk and water



50: Favorite sport? To watch or play? I like Basketball, but I like playing Volleyball.



52. Hair color? Brown

53. Eye color? Bluish gray pukey color



54. Do you wear contacts? Nope



55. Whats your favorite song? Another one of those I can't say that I have a favorite, and if I do, it changes daily. Today I like "I turn to you" - Melanie Chisholm, and "Hush" - LL Cool J.



56. Favorite month? December (because of my b-day) , and all the months of Spring.



57. Favorite food? Chocolate...and well, food. My latest craving is for Cafe Rio food. It's a Mexican grill place and I've been craving it for two weeks now.



58. Last movies you watched? The Terminal, Bend it like Beckham (And I have to add that I really like that movie.)



59. Are you too shy to ask someone? Ask someone what?



60. Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings.



62. Summer or winter? Summer



63. Hugs or kisses? Kisses....or both...



65. Do you want your friends to write back? Sure!



66. What books are you reading? Well....there are about 7 of them. A few home decorating and garden books as well as a novel.



67. Whats your favorite board game? Right now it's Trivial Pursuit.



68. What did you watch on TV last night? Trading Spaces, While you were out, and the UoU football bowl game.



69. Favorite smells? Lavendar, cookies baking, Men's...yes well..etc.....



70. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? I don't think there is much thinking going on when I wake up....but I'm usually thinking that I want to stay in my bed with my warm flannel sheets.



71. Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply

press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over? Yes, that could come in handy sometimes.

Wow, what a time it's been.

 The MIA conference was great! Most of you know, since you were there, and it was lovely seeing you all again. I'm still waiting for everyone to post pictures they took at the conference. Somehow I never remember to bring my camera.

At the conference. ;-)

At Tabernacles

Life has been kind of crazy since we got back. I've been cooking alot as usual, and soon I'll stop talking about it. I decorated my cousin's wedding cake for 3 days. Luckily Abby and Sharon were home for the weekend and helped me out a bit, but it still took a while for my hand to function normally. Right after my cousins' wedding I went to the State Fair in Salt Lake to help my dad and my brother Ben with the cow show. Good times, good times, and lots of hard work. I usally try to stay away from hard work, but I always manage to get persuaded into going to cow shows. I still haven't been able to catch up on my sleep, but I'm wondering if that's even possible. So if I say anything insane that's what I'm blaming it on.

The cakes I decorated for Jenny's wedding.

I got a new computer which I'm very excited about. I just need someone to dig a trench to my shack so that I can have the internet, and as digging falls into the category of hard work, it might be awhile before it gets done. Computers are worthless to me without the internet though, so I'll have to do it eventually. Ok, I'm totally rambling so I think it's time to end this.

-Annette

Well, here I am again.

The school schedule here in Eskdale has already started so my work schedule has changed also. Over the summer besides eating popscicles and other things my job was landscape maintenance, but now I'm a chef. Ok, ok, that might be romanticizing it a bit, but I find myself cooking alot lately.



Everyone around my age will soon be leaving this week for school, and I'm about to become really depressed about that.



The Orlando reunion isn't very far away and I'm torn about whether I'm excited or frightened. Of course I'd love to see everyone, but I'm a little worried about my dances.



Lately I've found myself glued to the TV at nights watching the olympics. I have a bit of an obsessive personality...if you hadn't noticed. Ha ha. Before Raul Lopez, there was Pieter van den Hoogenband from the Sydney olympics. For all of you that haven't been watching the olympics, he's a swimmer from the Netherlands. Anyway, it was nice suprise to see him back.



At the risk of sounding like a hick, I'm off to shuck corn and all that goes along with it. It's going to be a long day.........

I guess it's been a while since I wrote last.........

Nothing much has been going on besides school being over since April, the MIA reunion in May, and of course we have a big get-together for the 4th of July. Other than that, I've just been working, eating popsicles, starting up my jogging program for the 20th something time now, puttering around in my yard and doing all of the fun things that you usually do during the summer............. I am looking forward to going to Orlando at the end of this month although I still have 3 dances to learn.



Ok, I just remembered something out of the ordinary that I did.... At the end of June, dad and I drove into Salt Lake and went to the NBA draft party. That was fun, but later in July we went to a Jazz summer league game and that was really fun.



It's going to be weird not going to school when the summer starts coming to a close....however, can't say that I'm missing it yet.



Ok, I'm done for now, but I'll be sure to write more exciting news when the NBA season draws near....;-)

Well, the weather's been lovely lately

Tara and I went for a walk the other day around the great city of Logan for a few hours. It is raining today, but that's ok because I don't have to walk to school today and rain is nice since we don't get it very often...everything is turning green and it makes me happy.




It dawned on me during one of my classes this week that I get out of school even earlier than I originally thought. Last day of classes for me is April 20 so that's kind of cool. The only bad side of this is that I have less time to do all my final projects I've been procrastinating on.



There are only 3 weeks left of the NBA season.....Jazz are fighting for a playoff spot so it will get very interesting. I'm so excited! I decided to give Raul a break this time so I didn't put his picture up so instead you get to look at me.

Yay, it's warm

 I'm so happy, although, now I get to complain that it got too hot too fast.... I love it when I whine about 55 degrees being hot. I'm loving it even though it makes me feel like I shouldn't be in school still. Oh well, only about a month and some to go and then I'm done!!!!




Spring break was last week, so I was home. That was fun. It was nice to see Jaime and all those nice people as they dropped in for a visit.



I'm trying to learn a dance for Passover that my sister choreographed. It's interesting, I'm not very good at learning dances through a video anyway, but it's especially intimidating when my roommates are watching me. (I'm not an advanced dancer like the rest of ya'll. )



I decided that I will spare all of you and not talk about basketball today. Although there is a Jazz game tonight.......... Aren't any of you Memphis Grizzly fans? Geez............ Ok, ok, well, I'm off......Have a fabulous day everyone!