Individual Worth

If you will recall, we were trying to sell our computer desk. We posted it on Craig's List in early July but never got any bites. We were asking $100, then $75. We asked around at church to see if anyone needed/wanted a desk, but again, no takers. So, after getting tired of it sitting in our front room for months, we finally broke down and took it to D.I. on Saturday.

The desk first joined our family shortly after we got married and moved to Rexburg. We bought it with wedding money. We paid about $180 for it. I think it may have been the first piece of furniture (maybe second to the kitchen table/chairs) Chad put together as a husband. It lived in our first little tiny apartment, and then moved across the street with us, and eventually made it down to our house. But with a baby on the way, it was time to retire it. It was a good piece of furniture, and we didn't want to get rid of it, but we just have no room anymore.

So - like I said - we took it to D.I. Then we parked and went in the store to look around, only to find our poor little desk already out on the floor for sale. They couldn't have waited until we left?

For the lowly price of:
Poor desk! You are worth so much more! Don't let anyone tell you different!

But, we did find a JCPenney Home Collection Queen size down comforter and duvet cover for $10.

Random Tidbits

Hello all -
This weekend Erin and Bryce came up to Idaho! It's a sign of the Apocalypse. No - they were visiting Craters of the Moon and came by to see us. We had a "sleepover" with the boys so Erin and Bryce could have a semi-quiet night with Addy. The boys actually did really well and went right to bed. In the morning, they went over to the park with Lady while I made breakfast, then we ate breakfast and then it was time for Conference. In between sessions, the boys helped me pick zucchinis and then we went down to the river and walked the Greenbelt and fed the ducks.

Lady liked having friends to play with, but it wore her out. She slept for about 2 hours straight after they left. We got to see Addy (how did we not take any pictures of her?!) - the first Dickerson granddaughter. She is cute and tiny. It's hard to believe I will have one of my own in a few more weeks.




Playing store - Where I paid with a fake $5 bill and got two handfuls of wood chips. What a deal! (Will was licking a cut on his hand)

Today's zucchini harvest: 26
Zucchini harvest to date: 87

There were some monsters in the bunch.

Memorable quotes from this weekend:

• Sawyer at a restaurant where he ordered broccoli with his kids meal: "I like broccoli because it's yummy and it's healthy for me." (Or something along those lines)

• Will in the car trying to retell the "Golden Screw" story:

"Then he went to the top of the mountain and talked to a camel"
Erin: "A camel?!"
Will: "Yeah that's what you said"
Erin: "No, I said the Dalai Lama - Oh!!"

The boys wanted to play a game with the Wii Balance Board while they were here, but Chad couldn't get it to work. After trying everything we read in online forums, and a call to Nintendo Tech Support, we replaced our brand new out-of-the-package batteries with batteries out of other things that we knew were working, and somehow that fixed it. Anyways, so we got out the Wii Fit and updated our information.

Since September 25 last year, I have gained 34 pounds. I'm sure not all of that is "baby" weight since I'm sure I gained some on my own between September and March. But I have now graduated from "normal" to "overweight", and my Mii is nice and plump. Chad weighed himself and saw that he too had gained weight since last time he used the Wii Fit, albeit not 34 pounds. It inspired him to use the board to exercise. It inspired me to eat a cupcake.

Here are some pictures of random things:
This we found at the Dollar Tree. It made me laugh because I pictured a little cut of meat running around with a harness on - a la raw turkey running through the produce section like on that commercial.
Here is a picture of the little monkey we brought home to be friends with Lady when she was just a puppy. It was her first toy and she was deathly afraid of it for the longest time.
She has since warmed up to him and this is what he looks like today - a little over a year later:

Poor monkey... Since seeing Toy Story 3, whenever we give the dog a toy, all I can think of is the toys screaming at how they will get slobbered on, torn apart, chewed up and eventually destroyed by their new owner.

If you will recall, when we were in California, we went to a giant flea market thing, where we saw this sign:
at a booth run by Asian people. It made me giggle. As you can on the right hand side of the picture, they had slid the signs up under the mat they put down for a floor so that you couldn't see the "crearance" part - but I pulled it out and took a picture.

When we took Stephen back to school a couple of weeks ago, we were wandering around Broulim's where I spotted this sign which still makes me laugh:


And some gratuitous pictures of Lady sleeping - these were during the second session of Conference yesterday:


Tomorrow it's back to work! It's a short week though, because Thursday and Friday are In-Service days. So that's kind of nice. However, I don't know how to tactfully ask if I have to stay for full in-service days when I am only part-time. I know they're not adding in two "full-time" days of pay because I went to two "full-time" days of In-Service. I don't want to "get out" of anything - but I don't want to be working when I'm not getting paid. Well - it wouldn't be so bad if it was just full days of sitting and getting things done in your classroom - but it sounds like we will be in irrelevant workshops all day.

I love fall. I love summer too, but I love fall. Candy corn, caramel apples, pumpkins, corn mazes, hayrides, crisp air, crunchy leaves.... I just wish we were experiencing it in New England where fall is actually a season and not just a few weeks before winter sets in for the next 7 months.

Anyways - that's all from Idaho for now.