LOCKED OUT!!!

I was planning on posting a photo of the temple today - sorry to disappoint, but I promise I'll post one soon.  However, when I got home from work, I made some dinner, did some errands, and finally planned to go to bed at 11ish....when I got to my room I saw this....

...which seems quite normal, except for some strange reason - my bedroom door was LOCKED - and I couldn't find the key!!  I know there is a spare somewhere, but I didn't know where, I sent a text to Arlan, but there was no response - so I had to call a locksmith out at midnight and fork out $100 to get into my bedroom.  There are enough spare rooms in the house that I could have slept somewhere else, but my make-up and clothes are in my room, and I couldn't possibly go to work with no make up on wearing today's clothes!!

So now it's 12.30 and I just heard back from Arlan telling me where the spare key is!!

When dreams go up in flames

On May 12,  I blogged about the houses across the street that I was interested in buying, word on the street was that they were considering selling....well would you believe that while I was away, one of the houses when up in flames...fortunately no-one was hurt, but by looking at the house from the outside, I would guess it will be a very long time before that house will go up for sale - and when it does, I'm guessing it will be a brand new house.   So, now we just have to hope the other one stays in one piece before they put it up for sale :)

Here is the "after" photo....

...and the nominees for best Oscar

A lovely relaxing day; Church was delightful - I met with the YW leaders after Church and we continued with girls camp planning, it will be so fun, I'm almost looking forward to it (except for the no-make-up thing!)  I'm still home alone, so it was a quiet afternoon, and I didn't even have to make Sunday dinner.

I had the girls in Primary act out the story of the Prodigal son, they enjoy role playing, and I enjoy watching them - lots of fun;  next time I think we'll use costumes!

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Grown up decorations

I have the weekend to myself, Arlan has taken his Dad and Brother to Hawaii for a little holiday, and I must confess, I'm quite enjoying the peace and quiet!

Trina let us take some of the stuff that was used for decorating for the reception yesterday, so I got a couple of black plates - I went to Michaels and picked up some other stuff (sand/stones/candles) and put together some nice little candle features for the living room.   I'm pretty sure none of the men in the house will particularly care for these, but I personally think it looks cute :)

The end of a long week

...and I'm falling asleep at my computer.  It was Kierra's wedding today and Meesh and I were catering. it was a lot of fun - we did some appetizers and a few desserts...as usual, there was lots of food left over, I'm not sure how we can calculate it better, but as I always say, it's better to have too much than not enough.

I made a chocolate dessert, and when I was mixing it, I accidentally turned the mixer faster instead of turning it off - the end result was chocolate all over me, all over the walls, the cupboards and the floor - what a mess!

Left over wedding cake - it looked gorgeous on display, but practically disintegrated when they were cutting it up!

enjoying a well earned Pellegrino at the end of the day - no time to bother with a glass!

no wedding is complete without a cute bridesmaid peering around the door!

Natures fireworks

I had already done my blog for today before I got on the plane home from Ontario - however, I was glad to have my camera handy when we flew past a spectacular storm - I took dozens of photo's but none of them really did the show justice - here is one of my favourites:

This morning the team (under April's direction) decided to start the day with a spin class at 7am - I've never done "spinning" before, and it was quite tough, but I think I could get into it....I will just "spin" slower than others :)

FORE!!!!!

Today I played my first game of golf for over 30 years.  I remember playing 9 holes when I was a teenager and deciding it wasn't worth the effort, because I was no good - and as I seemed to be good at most other sports I figured that there was no point in trying with something I was useless at.

I played 18 holes with two of my colleagues - Alistair  and April - they were both very good coaches, and I decided early on that it would be fun as long as I didn't take anything too seriously...end result was that I had a lovely day; I missed the ball more than I hit it, but it was so awesome when I did hit it that i swear I could play this every day! I totally understand how people get hooked!