Walmart

I was returning a couple of items to the Walmart in American Fork, Utah on my recent trip and was in a hurry. I grabbed the white Walmart bag and the receipt, and hurried in, only to find 10 people or so already in line. I waited it out, so as to not waste all the effort, and finally it was my turn. I walked up to the return counter, a little exasperated with the delay (now I was really late). I grabbed the corner of the white bag to dump out its contents, and with the flip of my wrist (I was returning two small towels), out sprang my dirty clothes from the trip in all their glory. Whoops, wrong white plastic Walmart bag. The clerk asked if I had a receipt.

A Misundertanding

At one of my hotel stays on my last trip, I called and asked for a wake up call. My phone rang at about 4:30am and a voice asked, "Well, what exactly are you doing with your life that is positive?" I guess they misunderstood me.

Kitchen Light

For some reason, the kitchen light ceased to operate (something inside of it went pop), so KR went shopping and picked out a new one. We followed the instructions carefully, and when we turned it on, it actually worked! Ta da....... Note: the crooked position of the glass thingies was before adjustment, they are straight now.

Utah

After dropping Katie off in Spokane for her return flight, I kept going into Idaho and eventually found my way through Montana, Idaho again, Utah, Nevada, Idaho again, Oregon, to Seattle for a legal seminar, then back home. I call it the great Utah circle route. It was great seeing the Provo gang (and watching Megan cut four heads of hair) and the folks in Morgan. Talk about a lot of snow...I have never seen as much snow on the ground in Morgan as they have right now. And while we were at Church on Sunday, we came out to a snow storm and several new inches on the ground. I drove back through Nevada to avoid the storm and took some pictures of the recent earthquake damage in Wells, Nevada. (February 19-27)

Katie Gets a Tuneup

Katie was in town for the removal of her wisdom teeth (thank you Mark for the professional courtesy of your Wenatchee dental brotherhood) and some other procedures. Mark also helped her out on the latter with some appropriate breakfast food. (February 13-19)

Chatterbox

Emmett stayed with us for a few days last week, and has that kid every become a talker! It is fun to see his personality develop. I kept pulling out my pen and jotting down his random thoughts. A few examples:

He saw some "cool" wheels on a car, and after telling me how cool they were, there was a pause and "Jesus created wheels on cars so we can get around". He had been listening at Church!

I took him to Denny's and, while he was eating his cheese sandwich with applesauce, he looked around and declared "this is such a quiet restaurant - I like it".

I was helping him on with his shoes after preschool and he put them on backwards. I suggested he take them off and switch them, but got the response "it's ok - with these shoes it doesn't matter".

"My daddy's name is Mark and my mommy's name is Laurel - that is a great name".

As we were pulling up to the house, he asked "can I do garage bowling?" I told him sure, then he paused...."is that my special treat?"

He made sure he pointed out the Denny's bathroom location to me, just in case he "needed it". Then he said in total seriousness "when mommies go potty they read magazines". Emmett, I think that is a universal rule.