death and the funeral

so my grand father died last saturday, and his burial and memorial service were today. im his fifth granddaughter, and the last to recieve a cedar chest from him.

its nice seeing all the family again. i havent been here in eight years. thats a long time. every thing is so much smaller than i remember. but the swing is still there. i loved that swing. even hitting the tree it was attatched to. it was all part of the childhood building experience.

ill write more later. right now i want to hang with my cousins

my uncle's birthday party

was TOTALLY ROCKIN'! whenever my aunts get together and theres music, you can count on not only dancing, but a dance circle, loud singing, and it going on as long as we can stand. michelle, denise, donna, my mom and i were totally keeping it happening. some of the cousins didnt want to join in, because they think we were an embarassment. they would for some songs ('air', 'so what' 'let it rock') but some others, classics, they didnt want to come in for. lame, but what ever. i went and requested some songs, because i didnt know or like what he put on. he played 'nine in the afternoon' and i was the only one dancing, but i was ok with that. and i sernaded my aunt lisa with 'lovin feeling' and my cousin heather with a song ive forgotten, and my mom and aunt michelle with 'i love you baby'. sam kept messing with the dance circle. it was annoying, because when we get together like that, we have people go in the middle and sorta show us what theyve got. sam would get in the middle, not even dance, just stand and...be an idiot.

when i dance, i sorta like to show off, because i like when my aunts say 'go laura' or 'work it' or stuff like that. and when sam has to be annoying like that, it kinda spoils my fun. sure, i get that no one was going into the middle, but that was partly because he was CONSTANTLY there. annoying.

but my aunts are all the best. i mentioned that if we werent mormon, we'd still be doing what we were doing, just doing it drunk. i love my aunts, and i told my aunt susie, that when i grow up, i hope im just like my mother, because shes totally hip and happening. as are my aunts. i love you all!

Happy New Year!

my mom is the best matron in my whole world. we just went to hot dog on a stick and walked around the mall. she even went into the comic book store with me. nice reminicing there. some of the toys were of things we wanted or watched when i was really little. then we went to the sweet factory and bought bananas. i had to take them away a few times, because she was going to make herself sick. and we went to walden books, which is such a mall bookstore. hardly anything there. i was looking for a copy of inkspell, but they dont have anything. but i noticed the 'movie novelization'f inkheart is one third or one fourth of the original book. thank you so much hollywood. as if its too hard to read a book thats going to be a movie, theyve turned it back into a book. its like LiteratureLite! same story, less calories. but as any dieter can tell you just because its 'lite' doesnt make it the same. but i digress. i will go see the movie, i just wont read the movie novelization. sounds fair to me.

we also stopped in hot topic, which was fun. she didnt recognize the place, and she laughed over the twilight stuff with me. they have GLITTER now. ugh. ive got better stuff than that if you want to have vampire glitter. come on. and she laughed over some of the other stuff there, oohed and aahed over the cool bags for bands and games and stuff.

and of course we went to sees candy. i got me some good chocolate. sees is the best! we always go to sees...

and just talking with my mom was fun. i dont get to just talk to her often enough, and i always love it when we do. bonding over hot dog on a stick, thats me and my mom.

anyway, im going to go pretend to watch the game over here. catch you on the flip side!