"Pay It Forward"

The Rules

1. Be one of the first Three (3) bloggers to leave a comment on this post, which then entitles you to a handmade item from me.

2. Winners, you must post this challenge on your blog, meaning that you will Pay It Forward, creating a handmade gift for the first 3 bloggers who leave a comment on YOUR post about this giveaway!

3. The gift that you send to your three Friends can be from any price range and you have 365 days to make/ship your item. This means you should be willing to maintain your blog at least until you receive your gift and have shipped your gifts. And, remember: It’s the Spirit and the Thought That Count!

4. When you receive your gift, please feel free to blog about it, sharing appropriate Linky Love! If you are not one of the 1st Three Commenters on this post, you can still play along. Post it on your blog; start your own Pay It Forward chain, and encourage your blogging friends to do the same! I will leave a list of names who were the first 3 on my blog as soon as I receive them! I have no clue what it is I will make you, lets see who the winners are first.

Get a whiff of that. Here comes the human.

I know - I quote movies or books too much.

Tonight Bryce and I went on a date. We've been trading every other weekend with some people in our ward so we get a pretty consistent date night. That's fun. Anyway, tonight we went to the Olive Garden - which was good but I think now that we've been there once in Santa Fe, we're done. When we were done we had some extra garlic breadsticks and my leftover fettucini alfredo in the car. We stopped off at Borders to do some wandering and browsing without 2 little distractions. It was nice. Well - the Olive Garden gave me some stinky gas - so I tried not to let too much pass in Borders. Unless I was close to Bryce so I could blame him :) Anyway, I had to let some go in the car because I was in pain. Next we went back to pick up the girls and visited with the babysitters for a bit. When we brought the girls out to the car, Eva said, "It smells like pizza in here." Isobel said, "I think it smells like a stinky toot!" What a keen sense of smell they have.

Birthday Boy

Bryce is getting on in years. The heat from his cake almost burnt my face ;)

I got Bryce some cheesecake pans - in which to make him cheesecake - because our last one broke. And the movie Lars and the Real Girl. It's one of those strange movies that we like so much ;) (Thanks Mike and Jayna for recommending it!)

The Elders here are famous for admiring Bryce's fat ties. They joined us for dinner tonight and brought Bryce some sweet pieces of polyester! Thanks, guys!

(Isobel wanted to be front and center of every picture - that's my girl.)

Random Happenings

So, whenever Share calls me, I tell her random things that happen to me and she always says I should blog about it. This is the most recent random thing that happened to me.

I have been struggling with my running schedule. It's hard to fit in an hour or two for running each day - and then have time to shower. Saturday I had planned to run with one of Katie's friends in Albuquerque but it didn't work out. So after Lily's birthday party, I came back home to go running. Well, I needed to run 7 miles and I wasn't in the mood. I was really tired and not motivated - it's boring to run alone. Now it was getting to be around 4 pm and I knew that if I didn't go now, I wouldn't get back til dark. Argh. So I got ready and complained to Bryce that I was nervous running alone because there are often random people wandering around near the trails. I sucked it up and went to the trail. Just as I entered the arroyo to go thru the tunnel to get to the trail - I saw three homeless men. Two of them were sitting in one tunnel drinking beer and the third was zipping up after peeing in the tunnel I needed to go thru. Yikes! So I said, "Excuse me" and ran thru the tunnel as fast as I could! My heart was racing until I got far away onto the the main trail.

I really need a running partner.