Hey-Oh

Yep, the season is upon us- and I'm gettin' into the swing of things by changing backgrounds/headers you name it (but not really). Anyway there shall be some holiday bragging (on my part) and some sincere compliments or ..ahem......silent suffering on your part, to commence shortly.



wink, wink!

Just thinkin'

Though I'm not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

-William Shakespeare

You ever hear something and think, "yeah that's me!", then say so out loud, then think hmmm? should I have admitted that?...yeah that happens to me......a lot.

Word

1. word
A versatile declaration, originating (more or less) in hip-hop culture. "Word" has no single meaning, but is used to convey a casual sense of affirmation, acknowledgement, agreement, or to indicate that something has impressed you favorably.
Its usage among young blacks has been parodied ad nauseam among clueless suburban whites.
I concur, my fellow African American friends.

urbandictionary.com

e.g. -the following....

Why girls (like me) are still single.

Thanks mom, this does say it best.

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from my brother, for your entertainment.

Happy Anniversary Momma and Daddy!!!!!!!

My lovely parents have been married for 27 crazy, hairpulling, gut-busting years. WhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooHooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Alright, senior citizens way to hang in there.^'''' ''''^ (two thumbs up....yeah I did just make that up....no I am not lying....and yes I know I just blew your mind( said in a whisper))

Of course, seriously I couldn't be more proud of you both, evryone knows that we've had rough patches and hard times but you've always taught us how to depend on one another and always showed us what it means to love each other. I couldn't ask for anything more from you both, yet I forever know that you will never stop giving. I love that you love people, strangers and friends, I am amazed at your generousity, courage, and kindness. And I know that where-ever you are, I can call that home. I miss you, I love you, and I am always thinking about you, I don't think a day goes by that I don't remember something one of you has said and smile (or more likely laugh). Thank you for giving me memories to be proud of and the motivation to hope I can be more like you.
Love your little bit.

So...

You may have noticed a rash of random pictures as posts lately and the reason it two-fold.

-1. It is cheaper than posting but just as filling (recall my weakness for cheapness).

-2. I am lazy

No (but yeah) I think a good laugh is just as good as a tear-jerking birthday post (recall my fondness for those in the summer months), but anyway enjoy.

Oh and if you are wondering, "where does she get this stuff? [giggle, giggle, snort]" I, just like you.....steal it from other peoples' blogs (Just kidding/ but really).

And, a little more inspiration for your day...

Again courtesy of bubba Jr.

*******Disclaimer*******

If this offends you I am sorry.... I'm sorry you take yourself so seriously.

Oh the e-mails we get

We've all seen them on the side of the Freeway, in High Schools, Dentist's Offices, and other places of inspiration. But now (dramatic pause) a new class of motivational posters.

The above email gems courtesy of my brother Junior.

A blog a day....

Is way too often (for me-not you. You keep right on chugging along).
I do read blogs that post with beautiful regularly- and I love it.
I love that constant devotion that says, "Yes, I will have something new for you to read tomorrow. Do not fear Lisa, my love, my only true fan, I will not disappoint you." -yeah that's the stuff.
Sorry sweetness but alas this is not an equal relationship, dear consistent blog writing lovelies...I confess I am a little blog flakey, a little lazy-perhaps but then again you love me just a little bit more than I love you and I think that's only natural.

(But don't fear, I'll never leave you.......where would I go? really....where?)

Hi

..howareya? Doing good? Good.
Here's a little posty-post just to kill some time, and because even I think it's depressing when I look at my blog and it's the same old post that I've already seen the title of, like, a bagillion times. So this is kinda like filler- ya know, no real content, but it makes things look fluffy and more filled in- yeah.
(Don't be scared no one really gets my analogies except for me (and even I'm sketchy on whether they make sense or not..but shhhhhhh...let's keep that to ourselves.))
So school's been "in" for a week now at the U and it's gonna be busy, but what the HEdoublehockeysticks, nothings worth having that wasn't hard to get, or so they say. (I personally don't agree- I love lots of things that I don't have to work for, infact I might go so far as to say I prefer them j/k but anyway). It's hot right now and I am sitting in my room, on my bed, with this darn laptop making the fronts of my legs sweat...yuck. Alright you've suffered through enough of this "filler" post- didn't think it would be soo boring did you- so you got sucked in 'cause you thought it might merit a laugh or two, and then you had to finish it because "you'd already started" and you hadn't really given up hope yet, but now it's drawing to a close and you're angry, ya feel cheated, and a little sad all the same because you had been excited that one out of your thousand of blog buddies had finally updated something and now you've already read it. So now what else will you do with the 23 hours 55 minutes of this miserable day between the suicide inducing hotmess we call summer and the tenderly beautiful life assuring season of fall?- well better luck next time sucker.

Oh no they di'n't!

Ummhuh, they sure did.

*I actually really like Burger King, just read any of their little blurbs on the back of their boxes or bags and you'll know why, besides they just came out with the big guns you know the kraft mac 'n cheese, oh be still my heart.....sigh. and it's only like a buck 50....my only weakness(es); cheese and cheapness!

By way of explanation- the Whopper IS actually bigger than the big mac and (bonus) it costs less.

Sew what's up?

Corny title (I know..suck it...or don't depending on your attitude) but yeah I have been bitten by the sewing bug, but alas school starts for me on Monday so I can't be too infected by it. Any way I just wanted to say (brag) and show pictures of my latest (and probably last for a little while) completed project- A present for my favorite sister in law.
Well, actually two presents, because really can you HAVE too many aprons? Nah...didn't think so.

And more for me than for anyone else.....dundududa......(crappy) close ups of the the goods, yeah that's right....the pockets!!!!!

WooWoot!!!!!

Oh and just in case any of you didn't know, I LOVE, LOVE aprons, and in my mind anything that I like (by default) makes a good gift for anyone else, honestly I would make a man an apron anyday too (just call it a grillin' splatter protector or fancy it up with words like chef, boss, or king of the _____ (insert appropriate noun) ).

Guess who?

Yep.......it's Rosa! She got ink'd, a new tat, tickled with the inky needle.... I know I sound so bad*** right....no didn't think so. Anyway for those of you who were asking...(all,um....one of you) here's the foe-toe. Enjoydiddilyoi.

And don't worry she was all smiles the next day!!!!

Happy Birthday Little Bubba

I love you little, I love you big, I love you like my little fat pig.
I hope everything in your day went well, I love you so much.


I remember......

How you used to get out of trouble by "telling on yourself".
How you had (and still have) mom wrapped around your little finger with ojitos (butterfly kisses).
The video of you telling Mansi you were going to tell Abuela about water on her concrete.
That time that little boy thought your name WAS Bubba because that's all we used to call you (compliments of Luz).
Waking up to your tiny hands wrapped viciously in my tangled hair.
How you used to carry my violin to school for me.
How you used to keep my shirt from falling off my shoulders.
How you always wanted to be sick if I was.
How you used to tell mommy that when you grew up you were going to marry her.
How you were going to be a pilot and fly her all over the world.
I remember you playing army guys with your little fingers all over the backseat.
That you always stood up for me even when I was wrong.
You love me unconditionally (the way Luz loves you).

I will always love you, always be proud of you, always think of you and smile, and always wish I told you more.

Love sissy.

Case of the Mondays

Hello everyone, anyone else notice that no one seems to post much in the summer except for you? It's probably because in the summer, days seem to either be frantically busy or mind numbingly dull- so sad. So everyone's caught between
1) being too busy to spend the time creating a post (rereading it to make sure you don't sound too dislexic, re-rereading it to make sure just the right amount of crazy is seeping in to your words to show people you have a sense of humor but not so much that your loved ones know its finally time to call the white coats)
or
2) being so bored (to death) that you can not possibly string an interesting sentence together if your life depended on it.
Which it does not... let's face it the only people who read these are blog stalkers and the nicest of your friends and both of those groups will love you sans-post or post. Well I love you too.
And you're welcome because look I posted!
(p.s. I fall in to the blog stalkers group- creepy, but you know you like it.)

BitterSweet

You know how they say, "when it rains, it pours" ya well that's not always true, it just mostly feels that way.
Like right now it seems like in my adoptive family a whole lots goin' on. Jen and her clan are moving away now and even though we all knew it was coming it still seem like it's snuck up "like a thief in the night", (as holli likes to say). Then there's Cassie and Drew and their three sweet little girls who will be leaving way too soon as well and tomorrow I'll be one more year closer to death, man oh man (tear). But of course there's always an up side if you look hard enough (or lie to yourself).
Jen and co are an amazingly close family who know how to lean on and be there for one another and Cassie's family is going to be too close for us not to visit and for me one day closer to death is no problem when you get 24 hours to tell the people you love that they are important to you.
So thank you; Jenny, Rich, Haley, Megan, AJ, and Austin for being amazing examples of a strong, thoughtful, compassionate, fun-loving family and for the four (too short) years that you let me impose and get to know and love the caring way that you watch out for each other.
Thank you; Cassie, Drew, Kirstyn, Kam, and Kaide for letting me love on your girls and illustrating what it is like to love each other without judgement and with careful consideration and patient understanding.
I am so glad to have gotten to meet you all and get to see your loving families as amazing examples. There's so much more I could say about each and every one of you and I really, honestly want to say that I love you all and am grateful to have been allowed a small paragraph in your amazing lives.
All the best and hope to see ya soon.
xoxoXXoOOxx

Flaxseed Cinnamon Muffins- Ooh la la

Okay here we go!

Sorry for the dramatic (week long) pause.

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 F. Liberally butter muffin tins. Makes 12 small muffins. Do not use paper muffin liners - they will stick.

1. Pour boiling water over cranberries. Let sit for 5 minutes and pour off water.
2. Mix dry ingredients in bigger bowl and wet ingredients (minus the cranberries) separately, then mix them together.
3. Let mixture stand for 10 minutes to thicken.
4. Fold in cranberries. (You can vary with blueberries, applesauce, or mashed bananas.)
5. Fill each muffin cup about half way (about 2 TBS), and sprinkle with nuts.
6. Bake about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.Keep up to a week in the refrigerator or 3 months in the freezer.

Ingredients:
1 cup whole fresh cranberries
1 1/4 cup flax seed meal (can easily grind your own)
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 large eggs, beaten
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup sugar-free syrup such as Da Vinci's or Torinis or 1/2 C "sweetening power" from
other artificial sweetener (if powdered, dissolve in 1/2 cup water)
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 tablespoons grated orange peel
3/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional for topping)

For 12 muffins: Each muffin has 2 grams effective carbohydrate plus 6 grams fiber and 6 grams protein.

Alright, prepare yourselves...

Hi everyone, ready for some text that isn't dripping with Happy Birthdays or odes to joy and testaments of un-dieing love for friends and family members...yeah I am too. I am just about gagging on the sappiness that is "lisa's blog".

Alright enough with the dramatics.

So guess what! (I don't think that exclamation point is necessary especially after I claimed enough with dramatics...to late to change now.) Anyway- so we of the household of _______W ______N, Provo UT (address omitted to keep my thousands of stalkers at bay......for now) are attempting to eat more healthily<-- not sure that's a word but whatever if Bush can make up word so can I. Back to the topic, so in our increasing research into healthilyeatingness I have discovered the amazing flax seed, yep I discovered it, you're welcome.
Anyway so we here at "the house" have been experimenting with recipes with which we can exploit its awesome wholesome-y goodness. I will soon start sharing some of these successful recipes on my blog (Thank you Cassie and Holli and Robin for willingly tasting my experiments and thanks Cassie for the suggestion to post recipes.) Send all hate mail for said recipes directly to Cassie's Blog (Just kidding, but no, really.) Anyway if you want to learn a little more about this healthy low carb seed you can find some good recipes and info here.

Well blog ya later- thanks for readin'

For my Rosa

SISTERS

HAPPPPY BIRTHDAY! ! ! ! !

I love you so much. I will never be able to tell you how overwhelmingly lucky I
feel to have you as my big sister. You have always been a voice of understanding and encouragement to me. I am happy that you are always yourself and that you have the confidence to say the things that you feel need to be said and to do what needs to be done. I am completely amazed at the amount of compassion and sensitivity you show to those that need it.

Here are a few things that I wouldn't forget if you paid me.

*I will never forget our notes under the door.
*I won't forget that you pulled off my Barbie's head
*Or that time I bit you on the tushie
( none of these things being in any way my fault. );)
*I will never forget your long luscious perm, your NKOTB (New Kids on the Block) sleep shirt, or how you wore that one piece purple onesie pajama that zipped all the way up the front (including feet pads) until it was uncomfortably tight and then ripped the feet out so you could continue to wear it.
*I will never forget that I am pink and you are purple.

*I will never forget how you and Tabby scared our cousin into thinking you were a witch via the infamous scissor cut on Tabby's hand. *I will never forget how you lit fireworks (worms) on the basement floor, instead of outside on the step so that mom and dad wouldn't find out, pure unadulterated, misguided genius even at such a young age.

*I will never forget how you always told me I was pretty.
*I will never forget that you used to rub in my lotion for me because "it made my hands tired". *I will never forget that you never let your friends be mean to me.
*I will never forget that you always tried to include me.
*I will never forget that you let me be "right" even when I was wrong.
*I will never forget that you let me be myself.
*I will never forget that you will always be there for me.
*I will always think of you when I watch a good (or bad) movie, when I hear the name Crystal, when I eat nachos, when I want ice cream, and when I see a little girl with long black hair in a pretty braid.

I miss you and I love you. XOXO

Happy Father's Day, daddy!!!

I love you so much Daddy, I didn't have a picture of you that wasn't a family picture or one of your highschool picture so I had to do without, but I love you and miss you and thank you for being my dad, a man I can look up to no matter where I am.
I love you, love your princess.

Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday. I couldn't ask for a sweeter little sis'. Thank you so much for being a part of our family. I love you so much and hope you had the sweetest of all days.

Here's to my Mom @ 29 forever!

June the Sixth

Happy Birthday MOMMA!
I love you to the moon and back, I am so happy that you could come out and see us, I miss you tons.

Here is a collection of things about my mom that I love, things that make me laugh, and things that I wouldn't change for the world.

My Mom
Cries every time she leaves one of her kids.
Gets a cold sore when she's stressed.
Is generous to a fault.
Loves her RED sweatpants.
Will wear just about any shoes with any outfit.
Played make believe with me and my sister while "the boys" were out.
Taught me to believe in myself no matter what.
Gave me the confidence to speak from my heart.
Shows me the person I want to be.
Thinks I am the person I hope I become.
Always asks me how I am doing (and really wants to know).
Will probably cry when she reads this post.

Miley's Second

Do you think the beginning of June is too late to post pictures from February..... yeah me neither, so here are a few pictures from Miley's (A.K.A. "Ramon Macias version 3.0") Birthday Party at Chuck E. Cheese's. I love the faces he is making and if any of you know his daddy then you are probably grinning too, because that picture in the middle is the spitting image of a face Junior unwittingly makes all of the time. Note the slightly raised left eyebrow and food stained lower mouthal region, amazingly similar to his papa. Hil-ar-ious!!!!!!
Love you guys!

From Holli's latest internet Find

Had to put it on here because I'm sorry but it cracked me up!

"Man who sneezes without hanky takes matters into his own hands."

(It's from some fortune generator thingy.)

Whoa

I soooo fell off the posting wagon. It has been 10 whole days since my last post (gasp...).

It seems like things have been happening so fast. First we (Holli+Mindy+Jen..pause..+Robin+Cassie..pause..+Megan) went to Midway(beautiful little town in the mountains by Park City). Then Holli and I went (quick as lightning)down to Blanding to visit Becky+fam (sister of holli's that was MIA at Midway thingamabob (parenthesis inside of parenthesis inside of parenthesis ..(Am I like, just totally blowing your mind right now?....thought so))). And Yes I know that it is highly unlikely that any of my blog is grammatically correct. And now (to continue on with the real topic (hectic happenings)) my parents came down(or up and west)from Tennessee. Yeah icing on the cake. And lastly at this very moment there are about 16 live people (and 4 live animals of the cat and dog variety) in this one house.

Yes we are celebrating Memorial Day to its fullest extent- by barbequing today and reflecting on it all tomorrow.
So you see busy, busy, busy with lots of reasons to not have posted.
Well and that is just the summary, I will bore you out of your minds later when I elaborate and (dramatic pause) POST PICTURES yeaaaah!!!

Okay enough of the talkie talk for now. See ya.

Back for More?

I know I visit everyone else's site five times a day......do you?
No....then this is awkward.
Any way I think I am going to do some back posting 'cause I have some cute pictures (from before now, despite my sad, sad, sad photography skills). So see ya soon, and maybe you'll see your self (here as a picture) or maybe not...we'll see.

First Post EVER!

Hi family, friends, and weirdos who like to read strangers blogs. This is my first post (hence the title) so ... reasonably I really have nothing {interesting} to say.
This is mostly for people who already know me (as stated in the "About Me" section located to your left) but, for heck's sake, here's the long and short of me? <---read in Ron Burgundy style.

I am doing this because I don't like to talk to people and now I won't have to (just kidding, but not really).I am in school, regrettably sarcastic, I love anything funny and reading random people's blogs (weird.. I know).

And um, maybe you've noticed my fondness for stating the obvious and for all the unnecessary buttons on the keypad ({--<"') YEP you're in for a treat.

Okay this has gone on long enough sorry, but now you know what you're in for.