Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed....

Up the skirt of Lisa's bed, not the water spout and it wasn't itsy bitsy EITHER! Let me tell you what happened, I was rearranging my bedroom a few days ago and I guess I disturbed this wolf spider who was chill'n in a sac I had in my room. I am not afraid of spiders, but this one creeped me out. I guess because I was holding the sac in my hand when it popped out and quickly scurried up on to my bed skirt to get a better look at me. Despite my heebeejeebee fit, I was able to pull myself together long enough to snap a photo. Then I made the quick and smart decision to force him off my bed skirt with a clothes hanger onto something hard like the floor or the wall (you cannot smash a spider against a bed skirt). So now with my attacker on the ground I needed something to slow the sucker down I ran to my bathroom and snagged my airesol can of hairspray. The creepy crawler was now behind my dresser which I moved (i was on a mission) pointed the poison and sprayed. It worked!! My 8 legged intruder was now not so agile and speedy. I watched it for a minute, don't ask me why, I was kina fascinated WEIRD i know. then I grabbed my weapon, Thank you Stephanie Meyer, and sent the poor guy to the next life (its in a better place). I guess its just been so hott outside that the bugs want in. I don't blame them. sheesh! When I recounted this dramatic event to Barry he told me that it was a brown recluse and that I was lucky to make it unscathed and that I was sooo brave, but I knew better so I Googled my friend spider to discover it was Wolf spider which aren't aggressive but ARE POISONOUS .....okay okay like a mosquito and there's like 5 different colors and they can live for 5 years. Remember Marks little shower friend?? He kept him around for a while.....humm I don't think so!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

At the Request of KARI

I am putting up some videos of "the kids" instead of just the house!

Milea was excited to be in CA.


Friday, June 20, 2008

Mark and Holly's big MOVE


Auntie Lisa and sleepy girl. Milea napped on me like this for 45 min. cute
Good BYE to AZ HEAT and to their little condo!
LOADING UP The 26ft truck!! Bret and Barry were a big help. Thanks for your help BAR!!

Sweet lil MILEA
We make it about 10:30pm and started to unload that night!
Kaemon and Milea seemed to just love their new house with lots of room to run around!
Traveling
This one of the beauties on their street! I'm in love with the weather in Chula Vista CA.!!

VICTORY!!
Here is the BEFORE "under construction" phase........but its a good look at their neat house! I love it. I was glad I got to help out with moving couches and desks to playing with the kidos!! so FUN! love you guys! ~lisa

Friday, June 13, 2008

My trip to Utah

 I'm so glad I got to spend some time with Kari on her b-day. I love pedicures!
This is one of the big houses that Chad and I saw on our walk in the neighborhood just below Aunt Nan and Uncle Denny's house. ther was 3 open houses and I loved walking through all the custom homes! FuN! as you can see Chad loved it too! wink

                           This is Josh and Megan and my new pal Randy.  Below is their home in Draper, where I spend the last week. Megan is my Prego friend I went to visit and go to her baby shower.
Here is Megan being  "showered".  Girls are so fun to spoil. Her baby Girl Savannah is going to be the best dressed baby on the block! 
We played fun games like musical bottles, taste test baby food and can't say baby or I get your diaper pin! cute Megan ALMOST won. winkwink

Here we all are at her shower! Megans the pregnant one!
Megan took me to a unique place just outside of SL claled Gardner Village.  It is a old mormon homestead with a bunch of houses that were restored and turned into a very quaint shopping center they had all kinds of unique shops we spend hours there and ate lunch at a bakery.

This is Megans cute nursery. she had a rad mural artist come paint it. CUTE As a button
this is Josh's sister and husband at a arena football game . I was there too.

Megan is the most adorable pregnant person EVER! she is so spunky you would never guess she's 8mos PREGO if she didn't have a little lump!!hee hee  I had a GREAT time in utah visiting my friends --minus the freak'n freezing weather (i'm a wimp, it wasn't that bad if you're from ut) . Megan kept me busy with all kind of fun projects. I'm mad we didn't take pic of CARD night. I  went with Megan to her craft evening and got to make 8 homemade cards --scrapbook style! I was proud of myself.




Thursday, June 12, 2008

Sites we saw on Vacation

Well, I'm finally getting around to posting pictures from our trip to West Virginia. I was glad that Mark posted his graduation pictures, that was the most important thing that we got to do. Its pretty awesome having a Dr. in the family now! These pictures are out of order, but these are some the the things we were able to see and do. Not posted are Stonewall Jackson's home, our carriage ride around Lexington, VMI, (Virginia Military Institution), and Williamsburg, where we spent a whole day walking through a completly restored town. It is SO beautiful back there! Green, green! When you drive on the highways, you can't see anything but huge trees along both sides! Of course the weather was still nice, not to hot or humid yet!!
This is at the Virginia Marine Aquarium, they have alot about all kinds of turtles and I learned that crabs shed their shell when they out grow of it and then take in salt water that expands their body 25%, then they grow a new shell in 24 hours.
I've always wanted to say that I've swam in the Atlantic Ocean, maybe because I grew up next to the Pacific Ocean. It was way to cold and windy to do that!! This is Virginia Beach, right where Bret served 6 mos. of his mission waiting for his Visa to Peru!
What a neat statue, you can see how huge it is!! Virginia Beach has a boardwalk that people can walk for miles along in front of all the big, tall hotels, then another path next to it for bicycles and joggers. They rent alot of 4 and 2 people bikes, which looked like fun!
This is in Lewisburg at Lost World Caverns. They have alot of these neat water wheels back East! This one was just for looks, but some others we saw were real, functioning water wheels.
Here we are down in the Caverns, they were really quite spectacular! Lots of neat formations! I just love caves! So did Kaemon!!
This is a side view (my memory card was full before we got around to the front!) of "Monticello" (the c makes the ch sound,) Thomas Jefferson's Mansion. It's the building that's on the back side of the nickel, (he's on the front!) This was probably our favorite site. We learned so much about him and his accomplishments. He said that "the sun never caught him in bed"! Maybe that's why he was able to accomplish so much in his life. We had a great time!


Monday, June 09, 2008

Happy Birthday to ME!!!






I can't believe I'm 23 stinkin years old! AAA! I was absolutely freaking out this whole week! I ended up having a great birthday though. ps- Thank you all for the phone calls! I began the day by going out to breakfast at IHOP with Chaddy. he was so thoughtful to take me. The employees brought me out a hot fudge sundae afterwards and sang to me- ice cream for breakfast- hooray! After I went to class, Lisa and I went and got pedicures. I've decided that is one of my favorite things to do- there's nothing quite like an hour of feet rubbing! The sweet little Korean people didn't speak much english so I didn't get quite what I wanted on my toes, but they're still cute! I than rushed off to work at the MTC and my elders were so adorable. They sang and gave me a card and some candy and were on their best behavior all night. I topped the day off by going out with my cute boyfriend Kirk... Sorry, the details are just too juicy to write... I'll have to tell you all later:) He's so adorable. Anyways, I guess birthdays aren't so bad after all!

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Graduation Pics




My beautiful wife deserves a lot of credit for this degree for all her patience and support. After graduation I was commissioned to an O-3, which is a Lieutenant in the United States Military. I start work at the Navy Medical Center San Diego on the 12th of June, where we'll be for one year.


Graduation from Osteopathic Medical School





So, we flew back East, I graduated, and we had a great time seeing lots of our friends from West Virginia. Both Grandmas (and grandpas) were able to make it...Thanks for your support!!

Saturday, June 07, 2008

It's a great day to be a tape-woman!



So I think most all of you know about me sweet summer job of selling Living Scriptures. I am living right by the lake in White Mountain Lakes. I work over in Snowflake everyday, basically just knocking doors all day. My muscles are pretty much getting huge from the big bags we carry around. I have met so many great people and really enjoy what I do! I love LIving Scriptures! Yeah there are a few down days that people yell, but for the most part people are nice. Well better goh start knocking those doors! Much love!

Friday, June 06, 2008

One more month to go!!


Elder Tesolin, Elder Da Costa, Reed, Elder Motta
(Reed thinks Elder Motta looks like cousin Jesse!)


Hey hey hey! Here I am again writing from good ol Joao Pessoa! Well, it is still raining a lot here, it is still really hot, and I am still here and just cant believe that time passes soo fast. Well, this week was good. We had conference with President Fernandes on Thursday and I always get pumped to go out and do the Lord’s work after every conference. Then on Sunday we got to watch the dedication of the Curitiba Brasil temple. It was awesome. Presidente Monson was there and Russel M Nelson too. It is great to see that the church is growing in the whole world. It was good to hear the prophet speak and feel the spirit there. As far as the people that we are teaching, things are going good. I really want to baptize a few families before I go home and we have a couple good families that have a lot of potential. First off there is Rodolfo and Graca. They are the family that is letting the ward use a room they have on the side of their house for activities because the chapel is really far away. They are really special and already know a majority of the members. They met the bishop, his counselors and a lot of other members and all the members always ask about them. But the problem is that every Sunday something comes up. This Sunday there was an anniversary and so they couldn’t go but they PROMISED that next Sunday they will go. They tell me almost every day that I visit them that they need a religion to follow, and need time for the spiritual things. The bishop here said that when he met Rodolfo, he saw a future leader in the church. Well, I do too but they just need a little help. Having the church activities there will help a lot too. The other family that I am pretty excited about we found on Friday. I had made a contact with a man named Carlos and he seemed interested and was really open. Well, Friday we passed by his house and I thought, lets see if he’s home. Turns out that he was home. He was going to work late on Friday but for some reason he came home early. Well, we taught the first lesson and it was great. Him and his wife and 2 daughters were paying a lot of attention and they accepted everything. They had a few questions but good questions that we responded. He likes to read and I am excited to go back and see how it went. They don’t have a religion but are awesome people. Carlos had already read part of the book “Our legacy” and knew a little about Joseph Smith. I am excited to see these 2 families progress and be baptized. They are both MARRIED which is really rare here. Anyways, I am doing good. I just cant believe how fast every day passes. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to do all the things that I need to do. The days pass by soo fast. But, that’s life and we have to make the most of it while we can.
I love you all and hope all is well.Elder Crosby

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

My Funny Friends: Music Hour and LAKE TIME

 
Me wake surfing!
My girlfriend Erin
Shiloh and his nice boat. FUN I LOVE LOVE LOVE SUMMER

his is Shiloh and Corey in a JAM session at a chill evening at the cabin  last weekend--Roosevelt! so Stink'n funny and very entertaining. Enjoy.