Random Pictures

I downloaded all of the pictures from our digital the other night, and come to find out Christmas was the last time that they were all deleted. So here are a couple of the more random ones. With more to come....




I can't remember the last time that all three of us girls were in a picture together. None the less smiling!










Ya, so I think that I'll be killed for this one. At least she's smiling! :o}













Man, I love that kid.

Drama? Nah.

Well, I don't have anything to say. Hmn..... I'm busy at work, real busy...... ok so that's really not exciting....my back hurts, even though I went to the chiropractor yesterday....My mom isn't feeling well,-at all-....I should be doing school.....Yup. I think that's about it. Sorry, nothing too enlightening. :-)

The funny thing about my currently boring life is that when I look at some of my friends' lives and see all the major drama going on. I am sooo happy that I don't have to deal with that.

Ok, enough blabber for the night. Good night to all of you peoples with drama filled lives! And also to you other non-drama people. :o)

It Worked!

Well, I finally got my cell phone to send pictures. I think that it was a security issue. Because my email wouldn't receive them, and Tori's email wouldn't receive them, but Mom's email would. Weird. Oh well, at least now I know what my address is so I can go "safe list" it.

Any who, here is a picture of Tori, Grandpa Clark, and I at the hospital last month. He is doing better now, which is a great blessing. He had some stiches in his arm removed last week, and Grandma said that it went well. But it still sounds painful to me.

Well, I need to go, Dad should be back at the office to pick me up soon. Later!

Mood picture

This picture seriously describes my mood right now. Just kind of slowly going down. And....to....slee..eepp...

Ack! I have to snap out of it, I'm sapposed to be taking the boys to hockey tonight. I may just fall asleep on the bleachers though. :o) I don't think that anyone is going besides us three. Oh well, it will be easier to fall asleep....

Rain anyone?

I heard this song on the radio the other night. It was some southern gospel something or other. Ya know, the ones that repeat the main words over and over and over and yes, over again at the end of the song, (well you think it's the end until it keeps going on). Anywho, whether the song was long winded or not, I still liked a phrase that they used, [and kept repeating :o)] "When it pours, God Reigns". I don't really know why it caught my attention so much, I must have been having a bad night or something. But it was just encouraging for me to hear that although all of the world says "When it rains, it pours", I, as a christian can say "When it pours, God Reigns".

Well there you have it, Lanae`s deep thought for the day! :-)

This is a picture of the company at that General Contractors Bowling thing that we went to last month. Sad to say, but my sister beat me to posting it. But oh well, you people get to see it twice!

FYI Left to right: Jerry(my boss), Gary (Tori's boss), Dad (my boss) ME!, Tori.

After work tonight Gary, Jerry, Dad, Tori and I all went Bowling on campus again. It is the second time this week that we have all gone. We are all trying to get practiced up for this big bowlathon thing on Saturday for all of the Contractors in town. I have probably only bowled 6 times in my entire life, except the twice this week. It is quite humorous to see Tori and I just kind of waddle up to the line and drop the ball hoping that it goes down towards the pins. While the guys get their form all set up and do the whole aim and slide thing. We aren't actually that bad, but it's still funny.

I think that my family is going to start going together like once a month or something. I am actually really enjoying it. It sounds stupid, but if the university wasn't so far away from work, I would go there and just bowl all by myself on my lunch hours.

Speaking of lunch hours, today I went on lunch and was going to exchange a pair of pants, only to remember that I had left them in my car at home, and I was in Dad's car. And so then I thought that I would do math, but then I go to pull out my math book out of my book bag, and realize it's not there. I'm all like "Eh? Where did it go?" But then I remembered, being the smart person that I am, that I finished my math class last week. der.

So here I am at work once again "cleaning". Which, I'm not really cleaning that much. I've kind of turned it into more of a "management" position. I just make sure that the kids do a good job and then do all of the stuff that they can't do, which isn't really that much.

Well, I'm going to go before the poor children work their little fingers off. Good night all.

Oh hay, does anyone know Noah's blog address? I forgot to get it on Wednesday night at church.

She's Alive!

Yes my friends, I am alive. I just seem to have no time at all for blogging. It's tramatic, I know.

So update on Lanae`:

Well, uh... hmn. I'm back to my routine of working lots. I really enjoyed just the few days that I had off from christmas and new years. I actually got to sleep in! So now, all I have to do is wait for some other holiday that I get off to come around so that I can get a full night's sleep. Maybe 4th of July or something. But then again, I can't remember a 4th of july that I slept in on.

I am starting my second semester tonight. Well I was going to start it, but then I got on here, so maybe after church... Good news is that I finished off my Math for my entire High school years. woo-whoo. Now I never have to do math again! Well, that is until I go to work tomorrow and my boss is all like so what price per square foot is that? And how many cubic feet is that pallet going to be? And what is the estimated weight for that flat? I can't quite give them this dumb stare of "der, I don't know". Well, I could, and I have, but let's hope that I act like I know what I'm doing a little better next time.

We have a temporary employee helping me at the office right now. She is really nice, and so helpful. It is so nice to have someone else to help me. I am so busy it's rediculous. My poor desk hasn't seen the light of day in weeks. I am continuously clearing papers and puting stuff away, but yet I still end up with about 4 layers of projects. Oh to be superwoman.

Well, as you all know, I could blab on endlessly, but I think that I'm starving so I should go. And if I don't go eat something my stomach is going to start chewing on my backbone. That's another thing. I started my diet again today. Ugh. I really don't like dieting. (positive thoughts Lanae`, positive thoughts) And I could tell you a story about how I set my alarm this morning so that I could work out,(wishful thinking, I know) and as all Lanae`/alarm clock stories go, yes you guessed it, it didn't go off. But don't worry, I'm not going to blab on endlessly about the Alarm clock story. Oh, wait I kind of did. Oops.

It's a keeper!

Well my friends, I have finally found my hobby(s). Yes, I have always liked playing the piano and it is a great stress relief, but I can't quite drag a piano with me everywhere I go, and even if I could, it's a bit loud. Thus I have found my new hobby: Crocheting while I watch the Law and Order series.

Laurel just taught me how to crochet on Saturday. It was allot of fun spending time with her. The only bummer out of the deal was that as I was getting started to leave, I realized that I had skipped every other stitch, so I then had a scarf only half the size that I wanted it. Ugg. But it's all good because I started all over again last night while I watched Law and Order.

And while we're on the note of the show that I said I loved. Let me clarify that I understand that not all of their shows are good, and since I rent them instead of watching them on TV, I can skip the ones that I don't like.

Well, I need to go do some math before Bible Institute tonight. Oh, and maybe even memorize a verse or two out of the 9 that I was assigned. Hmn. Wishful thinking. :-)

How can a person lose so much in life and yet feel so full?
It seems as though every time I turn around lately something is being taken away from me.
It may be a friend, it may be a possession, it may be a hope, a dream, a family member.
I tell myself that this is life, things come and things go.
But I understand now that it's way deeper than that.
I have learned so much in the last year it is indescribable.
If I had the chance to do it all over again, I would keep some things the same,
but other things I would change.
I should have listened more to my parents, been a better friend, been bold enough to tell my friends when they were wrong, studied harder, listened more, talked less, prayed more, read my bible more, witnessed more to others about my personal relationship with Christ, gotten to know more of my extended family, smiled more, been more content, help others more, let God have more control of my life.
I feel like I have failed in so many things, yet God still continues to bless me.

My family loves me so much more than I deserve.
With out my Mom I would be nothing.
I am sitting here thinking about what I could say to describe my Mom, but nothing seems sufficient, I can't even come close to describing her amazingness. Any one of you who knows her knows that.

I have such a special relationship with my Dad.
He gives me so much good advice, and even better than that, he stops when I've been quiet for too long, just to ask me what I'm thinking.
He will never know what that means to me.
I can disagree with him so much at times, but then I realize that it doesn't matter, life is too short to have arguments with your parents. Just smile, and know that God is in control.

Oh my Tori,
how to say what her personality means to me.
My mom used to tell us in the midst of our fighting that we would be best friends when we were older, I deep down disbelieved her.
But now I look forward to Mondays, and Wednesdays, and Fridays, because I know that I will be able to go to work and be with my sister all day.

And what would my life be without my darling brother Mason?
No one would ask me to wake them in the morning so that they could make me breakfast.
No one would ask me to take them shopping because they know that I will pick out everything that they like too.
He is calm, he is quiet, yet I can always make him laugh about the stupidest things.

"Ashley" Just hearing the name makes me think of a sweetheart with blond hair and blue eyes.
She reminds me allot of myself when I was younger, but way more special.
She is going to be the greatest Wife and Mom.
Every night when I get home from work, she is always dieing to tell me everything that happened that day, whether I want to hear it or not.
She talks to me when I'm doing school, when I'm playing the piano, when I'm sleeping, when I'm cleaning my room.
I may complain to her about the loss of sleep that I get from it all, but I still feel so special that she just wants to talk to me about her life and hear about mine.

Who has the energy of Foster?
I could take a million energy supplements, and never match his energy.
He jumps out of bed in the mornings just to give me a hug and kiss before I leave for work.
He greats me at the door with a hug and a smile when I get home from a long day.
He still isn't too old to sit and cuddle with me.
You can almost always talk him into going and plugging in your car when it's twenty below.
He's Foster, he's special.

Without Jenni, Emily, Kassandra and Angela, I would do nothing besides work and school. I would feel so empty without their friendship. I don't see most of them very often, but I still fell them with me always.

So here I am, sitting here having cried for the last hour from being so overwhelmed.
Not knowing why God chose me to make so lucky.
But yet so thankful that he did.
People around me are in so much suffering, yet I live on.

To my Family to my friends, to those that mean more than life to me.
I love you all.
I pray that you are as blessed and loved as I.
Lanae`


It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.