Comin' Home

Ahhh... my girl is coming home.

"I should be studying for finals..."

Packin' up

Julia finished up her finals.  Now on to packing up her things ...

She sent me this picture with the following message:

Packing the printer is more stressful than finals were :( hahaha




She makes me laugh. 

You can see I wrote on the styrafoam what piece go where ... although, don't ask me to pack it up again!

Check her out

Julia is in crunch time ... studying for finals.  How do I know?  I've called a couple of times and Julia answers the phone whispering ... oh ...yah, shhhhhh.... she's in the library.

And more proof: 
Julia posted a cute status on facebook ...
"Katie G, Mikaela M and I have been spending so much time at the library, we might as well be books. . . wanna come check us out? ;)


And here is the cutest reply EVER:
Jaley:  Okay and I will pay a late fee for you to stay here.

S. T. A.

Jenna has had an awesome summer job:  Life guarding.  Jenna's boss came in to work today (again) to check in on the staff.  He asked Jenna if she knew what STA was.  She didn't.

He told her that it is something that he sees a lot of in his business of staffing pools open for the summer.  Short Term Attitude.  It is an attitude of laziness.  Not pulling one's weight because they know their job is coming to a close.  He then told her that he noticed that she is one of the only life guards that has integrity.  He appreciates how she works hard, covers shifts last minute and doesn't complain.  And she has a great sense of humor and a contagious laugh ... he likes that too.  That's my Jenna.

They want Jenna back next year.  Jaley is going to apply to work there too ... maybe we can convince Julia to jump on board as well.  Three HOT modest life guards working at the same pools.  Oh my.

Julia BYU solo debut

Brian S.  is my hero.  He and Beautiful were able to attend Julia's first concert at BYU tonight ... with her solo debut!  Brian taped it (for me) and put it up on YouTube -among the videos of his amazing ballroom dancing son!   Wendi told me that they had some really fun songs they performed in the concert.

I was so tempted to hop in the car this morning and drive out there to hear her...and then drive back....all in one day.  I should have.

Oh how I miss her voice.  Oh how I miss her.

Enjoy

Appreciation of electronics

Yes, I do appreciate the vast amount of technology at our finger tips.  It is sad to think that when you purchase an electronic device that it depreciates in value as soon as you walk out of the store with that item or click "complete order" via the Internet.

Just this week I have experienced the opposite.  I see it as a blessing of my desire to preserve our family history.

4 years ago I investigated negative/slide scanners and discovered that I could purchase a new scanner and turn around and sell it for a little bit less than what I purchased it for ... if I completed my project quickly.  I purchased a negative and slide scanner to preserve my parents', John's parents' and our negatives.   I worked hard for 4 months straight scanning our family history.

I didn't get around to selling it until now.

My investment 4 years ago was $900 (including shipping).


I just sold the scanner yesterday for $3,056.

My efforts of preserving our family history is priceless, but this investment sure was some icing on top.

My scanning project back in Jan-April 2007 while living in IL

My parent's negatives were in white envelopes.  After scanning each roll, I would store them in this binder

The negative scanner is to the left of the flatbed scanner.  I had to use the flat bed scanner to scan in the professional size negatives from our wedding.





So NOT ready

School starts next week.  I'm SO NOT READY.  Where did the summer go?  Sigh ...