Clint's Birthday is today!

My brother, Clint is 31 today. He looks great in this picture, if you can see him behind All of the hair.    (This hurts me as much as it does you:)

I love my brother!

He is the most amazing brother ever! He genuinely cares for everyone. 

He is witty and so fun to be around.   I love that we can sing every word of Milli Vanilli  

He has always had a great sense of humor and I laugh every time we talk.  Clint is also a loving father.  I love watching him with his kids, he is very sweet.

Happy birthday-  I am proud to be your sister.  I love you.

  

Two Teeth!

4 1/2 months!  Growing too fast!  Claire surprised the heck out of us on Saturday.  She had two little teeth pop through!  She was so happy and pleasant that I did even consider that they were on their way.  Sunday how ever... She was sad and in pain. 

 I got her a little teething ring at the grocery store in Foothill Village in SLC while we were waiting to meet my Brother there late Saturdaynight.  He had a sweat shirt on that said "Notre Dame Women's Boxing"  I love it.  He said that when he was going to school there he had  passed a girl on campus wearing this sweat shirt.  It was quite big for her.   Intrigued, he stopped and asked her how he could get one.  She said that you have to be on the Women's Boxing Team.  Then she asked if he would pay money for one?  

- Sure.

-Twenty dollars?

-Sure!

She took it off and handed it to him.  (She had a shirt on underneath, of course.)

He handed her twenty dollars and they went their separate ways.  

This is a picture with Claire and her new teething ring.

The Postum conundrum

Yep, it's true they are not making Postum anymore!  What is a girl to do?   

This weekend I when to Richfield to visit my family.  I called the grocery stores to see if they happened to have any Postum.  No luck.  Then my Dad got involved.  We called every surrounding small town with hopes that maybe the news about the Postum supply hadn't gotten there yet.   We even called Royal's Market in Loa!  Some lady had just cleaned them out.  So we had to think outside the box (or outside of the state- as it were)  I called my Brother in Bakersfield, CA.    The following is the post that he put on his blog  The story ends well, but read on.  It's worth it!

Ransom Note

Wow! After doing a little research and finding out that my sister was right, I'm starting to feel greedy. Like flared nostrils and dilated pupils greedy. It turns out I'm sitting on a gold mine. Postum is a thing of the past--and judging by the Postum Forums out there (you heard me, Postum Forums) this stuff is soon going to be more valuable than....something quite valuable. Maybe I'll come back some time and fix that little non-simile. But for now, know this: I have 19 large jars of Postum in an undisclosed location and it's mine. MINE I TELL YA! I'm holding it for ransom.

Our arrangement was that, since Utah is fresh out of Postum from St. George to Logan, I'd cruise the markets here in Bako and ship her what I could find. Guess what, sister? DEAL'S OFF! Call me to make an arrangement. Or visit my new Postum eBay store.

Okay. I'm not really holding it hostage--I'll send it as soon as I get back from SLC--but you really should sell this on eBay--those people are nuts!

As a side note, I had just finished packing my cart with this powdered liquid gold when I spotted a not-very-active member of my ward walking past the aisle. Not wanting him to see me with a ridiculous quantity of something I had obviously just taken from the coffee aisle I quickly ducked my head and turned into the next aisle which, as it turns out, was the magazine aisle. If you're ever sneaking around in the supermarket to "avoid the appearance of evil" be sure to find a better spot to hide than the magazine aisle. I'd rather be seen juggling flasks of Jack Daniels with a cart full of pinot grigio than appear to be scanning the covers of Maxim and Hot Rod. Luckily, I don't think he saw me. At least not he stood behind me in line at the checkout.

"Wow!" he said.

"It's Postum--no caffeine," said I.

"Don't worry; I won't tell."

"I'm serious--it's out of production and my sister wants it."

"I said 'don't worry; I won't tell.'"

"Yeah, thanks. See you around."

So I have several jars of the good stuff!  You can find some here on E-bay!  :)

It gets better...  now it's in the news. 

TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2008

Ahead of our Time

Look what made the front page of the Deseret News 3 days after my last post. The author, Sara, as I like to call her, never called me for a comment on the tragedy, though.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695240438,00.html