Crazy, Funny Fun

This last week has been quite a crazy one. Work has kept me very busy and wishing more than ever that I could be at home with my sweet little EmmaLynn and be working on another little baby.  I am hoping the time will come soon enough, we have a few ideas on the horizon. We just have to wait and see how they turn out. EmmaLynn has been growing like crazy. She talks all the time, and recently has even started calling us honey. I call Dan "honey" apparently a lot more than I thought I did.  She usually says " Water Honey? Water honey please." It is so cute. her new favorite show is the backyardagains. She loves to sing and dance with them. We don't have TV so I bought her a backyardigans dvd. Whenever an episode is over she always waves at the tv and calls " bye kids, bye kids" it is SOOO funny.  I still have yet to capture these cute things on video.  She is loving nursery, every Sunday when we walk into church she wants to go straight there, first thing.  Then when it IS time to go she looks up at me as we walk there saying "ersery mamma... ersery please.. OKAY"  I am so amused, because she never cries when we drop her off, but somedays she is throws a fit cause we are picking her up and she is not ready to leave her friends in the nursery. 

So, between keeping busy at work and EmmaLynn, I find myself working on my calling for church. I was asked to be the " Enrichment Counselor" in the relief society.  Well, little did I know when I had agreed to this calling it wasn't what it sounded like. I didn't realize the real name for the calling was, 2nd counselor in the Relief Society Presidency.  That must have been their plan. hehe... I went to Relief Society and, not knowing , I sat in with the rest of the women. Then the Relief Society president told me I was supposed to come sit up front with them.. I was ultimately confused, till after the meeting was over and this was explained to me.  Wow, if i had only known what I was agreeing to...  :)  ... just kidding. It is a really great opportunity, and the women I am serving with are wonderful, I am excited to help and work with the women of our ward they are all amazing women. 

I also got invited to go to girls camp in Florida this weekend,  which I am so excited about. This time we get to camp in cabins and there is a pool. No air conditioning though, so we shall see how that turns out. I have a lot of fun new opportunities and can't wait to get involved completely and meet all sorts of new people. 

Here are some pictures from over the weekend. We had a ward Luau activity. It turned out to be a lot of fun.   Wow, I should have made this shorter. Oh well, enjoy. 

Here is My sweet EmmaLynn see how big she is getting?

EmmaLynn with our good friends Sara and Joe. EmmaLynn refers to them as " Sarah and Jote"
Here she is enjoying the Luau flamingo in hand, lay's around her neck, and umbrella in her hair. She was having so much fun dancing and playing.

Valentine Photos

We went for our first ever Family pictures today. We figured it was about time to get some pictures done professionally... It has been 4 years... So here are some of the pictures we got taken. These are edited by me... I  like sepia it softens things up a little. Plus that was all I was really able to do on our computer. We get our pictures soon. I can't wait I am so excited.  We almost had to make another appointment, but to our luck a family showed up with a couple of little boys who got EmmaLynn to smile and play a bit.  Next time we will get ready a little bit earlier than noon, and try to take some other kids with us.  After pictures we went to Logan's Steakhouse for our valentine dinner. It was quite delicious, They are kind of like Texas Roadhouse.  Next on our list, RELAX. 

That is what we are doing now, just watching some movies and catching up on us time that we've been missing for a while.  Happy Valentines Day to all.

This one above I have a really silly looking face... I am n

ot sure about it.. we didn't order that particular one.. 

Our first ever professional pictures together. 

This last one is my most favorite pose out of them all

"Dr. Dealer" WOW

Today I had one of the most interesting conversations ever at work.  I was talking with my co-worker about one of the guys who works with us. He doesn't work on the T-mobile program, but he works at the call center I work at and used to be the site director. He is a dentist with an Ivy-league education, but he was also a cocaine dealer who ran one of the largest drug rings on the east coast.  This turned out to be an amazing story. Picture your nice-guy, low-key dentist having a dual life where he's also the biggest cocaine drug dealer on the east coast. It's almost impossible to imagine, but that's what happened here in this case against Larry Lavin.

What's also amazing is that he got his drug-dealing start along with a bunch of other dentists-to-be at the prestigious University Of Pennsylvania where those med students were pocketing a lot of money while they learned how to drill teeth. This was around 1981, It's a sad comment that our bright med students at an Ivy School were doing this. Later, when Lavin went really big-time - we're talking millions of dollar in cocaine sales each month in the '90s  and 60 million in annual sales- many of his clients were executives.  

I was told he was actually pretty smart about it and did it for quite a while. Eventually he got caught and spent 19 years in prison. After which he came to work for my company. This is where he has been since then. He is a really nice guy. There are a couple of books about him.  They are   "Dr. Dealer"  and  "Dr Snow" They also did a biography type thing on A & E City confidential called " Philadelphia - Double Dutch Bust. 

I had heard that he had a book written about him, but I had no idea that was what the book was written about. The funniest thing is that people at work will ask him to sign their book. How funny is that. Now I want to read the book. I would actually like to sit down and just talk with him, ask some questions. He is a really nice guy. A goofy one too. I can't wait to read the book, especially because I know the guy. 

Diaper Change anyone??

Ok, A new video.. Someday I will have something more interesting to put on here.. This is pretty good though.

So At work when we have downtime sometimes I pull up some You tube videos. We found this one the other day. You may have seen this before, but I don't have TV so I thought this was the funniest commercial ever.