DS savings

Jarom got a few ones from his great Nana, and a five from grandma Cherie and some dough from his grandma. He has decided instead of spending it all at the dollar store and getting a ton of amazingly cool toys or spending it all at Wal-Mart's family fun center, where usually one of them leaves crying because the machine ate their quarter, or there's one that lets you play till you win and sometimes it really doesn't or better yet you do win but for some crazy reason the prize is stuck in the claw. And then you do something really clever and dig for that one last quarter, thinking you are going to beat this thing at its own game just to watch that jammed up claw holding your prize ram itself into the other prizes and that's that - nothing. All of this has happened countless times. You ask why we might let this happen so many times. It's easy, we get just as much crazy good luck as the bad. But we won't get into that now - another time. Anyways back to why I'm writing this blog - Jarom decided to save his money for the highly coveted Nintendo DS. And Matt just showed me something utterly so heartbreaking and sweet at the same time: Jarom's savings. It's in this little cheese box. But let's start at the beginning.

This morning Jarom saw that the junk mail was going to thrown out and decided to snatch it up. Throughout the morning he would show me a envelope and tell me how we need this and isn't it great that he saved it. I would just agree. Then he showed me some fake check thingy and asked how much it was worth. He was so happy when I told him. And then he just ran off. Then tonight Matt had to come and show me. I can't bear to think about it. It makes me cry and smile at the same time. Matt lifts the lid off Jarom's DS savings, and lo and behold there's the check.





the savings box

Big pimpin

Sorry Nana, Heather, Adie, even Mom. I didn't mean to cheat - for I do still hold you near and dear to my heart. I just couldn't help myself - or should I say they couldn't. Me with my red bowtie and rosy cheeks (it helped that it was warm in there). I must say I was the coolest baby at the ward Christmas party - thanks for the suit Heather, it really helped to pick up all the chicks, young and old. They sure know the way to a man's heart - FOOD! This is the aftermath. Little embarrassing that I couldn't stand on my own from all that partying with sweet treats. Thanks dad for givin me a hand. Anyways, I got to hit the bottle and say good night. I gotta sleep this off. Love you all - O

P.S. Nana, you know you're still my # 1 nana.
P.S.S. Adie, you know I love it, your style all playful.
P.S.S.S. Heather, no one two-steps like you and I - it's pure magic.
P.S.S.S.S. Mom, I'll never look at anyone the way I look at you. Which means woman give me my food now.


just couldn't get my footing


me and my crew

Good things happen in December

Now for some new friends I made yesterday:

beautiful, beautiful green eyes

Well, now that I, Dan Beatty, know how to post a video to the Beatty blog site (Mikie taught me)thought I'd display one of my favorites. It's of a woman and 3 of her children in an everyday activity. The remarkable thing about this particular video is the beauty of the woman in the video. It's the kind of natural beauty that does not ever fade. Some people have all the luck.

she bangs, she bangs!

hi guys. for any of you who weren't here for my big event: so after ten or fifteen, maybe more (?) years of the exact same hair, i finally changed it! addie came over last night and cut me some bangs and then when mom got home she cut about five inches off the length! so it's something fresh and new, which is nice. it feels really weird though, you guys have to help me get used to it. tell me what you think.

meanwhile, we got our christmas tree last wednesday and it already has presents under it and mom has been baking in the kitchen and our home is full of merry making most of the time. lots of fun stuff coming up in the next few weeks, as well as full immersion in research projects. let's keep each other posted on christmassy life...i love you all!!!


twins now...

we gave mikie bangs too...and they posed emo while all i could do was laugh...

after my shower...and showing off darin's moustache.

today...after rainy weather...doing my best indie/rockgirl/neko case/catpower impression.

Ginger ginger ginger

Well good evening my loved ones. Matt spent all yesterday grating ginger root, cinnamon sticks whipping thin air into cream. He's gone mad. He baked his homemade ginger and it turned into a master piece. Drum roll . . .

Christmas Lists!

Hey everyone,

Dad suggested this, so I thought we should try it out. This year, obviously nobody wants to blow their wads on Christmas presents. Fortunately, we're Beatty-Springs. Which means, thinking up and creating exciting, practical and useable Christmas presents for eachother should be a piece of applesauce-pumpkin cake. Still, it's pretty difficult to think up good present ideas from scratch, so here's the deal:

Post a comment on this blog with your "Christmas List". Anything, big and small, fat or thin, goes. That way we all have some ideas for making/getting wonderful Beatty presents for eachother.
That said, let's splurge!
we all better put a list up on here, OK? GO!

dad insists

dad wants me to post this picture.

Just throw this on your list of websites to check obsessively

http://mikiebeatty.blogspot.com/

Photo adventures

A bunch of pictures have been posted. Here are the recent photosets I created, if you're feeling up for it:


Thanksgiving
-- A bunch of photos from our Thanksgiving visit.


Thunder Mountain Monument
-- This is the place I've been wanting to go. We got some good pictures, even though it was extremely cloudy. There's much to be said about Frank Van Zant (Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder) and his monument. Watch this online documentary about it all if you like (and if you want to download it, you can do that too). I also wrote a song/poem inspired by this place and its history--these are just the lyrics for now.

And here a couple slightly older ones:


Hiking the Y
-- We hiked the Y a couple weeks ago. It was fun and a beautiful day. It's already like 20 degrees colder here.


Jarom's birthday
-- Twas a spectacular event.

Gus the Wash

The Sweetest

Gifts in the whole wide world. I'm thankful. love you all, Mom

Some more Thanksgiving pics!

Also I want to Thank Heather and Darin for allowing us to all meet together in their beautiful home. Where could we all be together if not here. Thank you, Thank you both for being so generous with your place!! And another Big thank you to Mikie for the pictures and for always being so much fun and for loving us all so much.

Thankful for a Wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday

I just wanted to say thank you to all my kids, grandkids and their husbands, wife and everyone for a beautimous, fabulous Thanksgiving week. It was an emotional one for me with moving out of my own little home and in with Heather and Darin for a while. But it was also so great to be with all five of my children and their friends and spouses and my precious little grandchildren. We had so many fun times and dramas! Loved the days after too with shopping at Video Outlet, movie with Heather, Darin's band and the Festival of Lights on Main Street, spending time with the babes, going to the Parade, seeing Santa and out to lunch. What could be better than being with your family - Nothing! You all rock my world. Joey, I love you and wish you could have come with us yesterday. It's so nice having you around. Thank you Danny for all your help and support with my move and everything. I owe you an apple pie! Now on to a fabulous Christmas with not spending too much money and just being with family and celebrating. Let's have another potluck where everybody brings their special dish, yea bring on the Curry tofu rice, Mikie! What do you all think. Joey can bring the coffee! We can all keep it simple. Love you all too much for words and of course you're all too cute for words! Mom

mom sets it straight

"My cats are not fat"
-Mom, Thanksgiving 2007.