Flashback to the Future

Today was my son’s twenty second birthday. We haven’t celebrated together since his nineteenth birthday, so it was fun. We had friends and family for a barbeque and video games. What a great time! The original plan was to have a barbeque at a local park, but when attempting to pack everything up to go, I recommended that we stay home for the barbeque and go to the park after we eat, but we never made it to the park. We had a lot of fun!

What just seemed strange was that the songs that they were playing were those from my teenage years, such as “Carry On My Wayward Son” by Kansas, “Freebird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd and others. I knew all of the words. When I realized what I was singing I had a crazy flashback to the days when I was young, single and such, just like my son. What if at that time someone had said, “Many years from now your children will gather and have a great time playing this music on play guitars….”? What will their children do when they are teenagers?

I love the connection that we have through music. We enjoy many of the same songs, styles of music and performance of music, whether it be concerts, like the one we have tomorrow at the Gateway of the Granite Junior Youth Symphony where I have a son playing the trombone and a daughter the string bass, or like the fun we’re having tonight being Guitar Heroes playing the great rock songs of the ‘70s, or any of the other times that music brings us so much joy. We sing, we play, and we love to be together. We are truly blessed to be a family.

Savage Chickens in Utah!

It's been awhile since I had a chicken laugh. I found this one and wanted to share: http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/2007/03/one-day-in-utah.html

I wonder if we'll run into the chickens on our southern Utah vacation?

Just gotta love the chickens!

Home Office Makeover

After help from the daughter who thought about becoming a professional organizer my home office was starting to become more functional. Unfortunately, when I originally put the furniture, book shelves and such in the office, I set it up so my desk was facing the east wall. That would be okay, except I found that I needed more workspace, so I put up another table. But the only place the table could go, was on my right. I need my workspace on my left. It was my daughter who came up with the new arrangement that would change the desk/tables to allow work space on the left. We were going to move it after I finished all of my organizing homework. I did most of the homework. I sorted through everything, but then I had a deadline. I had to create two portfolios and in doing so, left a wake of papers and projects all over. I was sad that I had piled things up again, so my first project of the summer was to get my office functioning again. I really needed to get things set up right, so I could work more effectively, so I moved stuff around. Now the desk is on the west wall and I have plenty of workspace on the left. It even allowed for more room because I could move the printer out of the main work area. This also allows for more functionality of the bookshelves. I use an antique dresser for storage and made a place to keep the video camera powered up. I think I'll also keep the iPod there, too, so it's always ready to go. Even the children like the new arrangement.

One of the projects I've completed is to add SnapShots to this blog and my family history website. It's a fun tool that gives the user a peek at the where the link will take them, before they click. Here, check it out: http://genealogy.annriding.com. Now off to add more fun goodies to the website!