Insomnia

So I'm thinking that I have insomnia I haven't gone to a doctor or anything, but I find myself up at all hours of the night. Not able to fall to sleep, my mind keeps working it just won't stop and I just keep thinking I'm so tired! So then I'm exhausted all day at work I get home and I'm so tired I just want to sleep but I think no just keep going until bed time then you'll be able to sleep. Then it gets to be 930 or 10 pm and I'm wide awake once again, usually until close to midnight or 1 am. If anyone has any suggestions of what I can do I'm all ears. I just want to sleep and feel rested again.

Wow! Been Way to long!

So I know that I've been away for a long time. Truth is I've been too busy facebooking, reading, and being lazy. Not a whole lot has been going on here. We had Christmas it was nice went down to my mom's house went sledding. Sledding, now that was fun. I hurt myself more than once but that's what it's all about right? Then came New Years, went down to Guy's parents house. Played some fun games, went sledding again! Hurt myself some more. Decided I'm too old for sledding.

Then came the January blahs! Had some tough weeks. In November my Grandpa Bown passed away, he'd been sick for a long time so it was a blessing for him to not be in pain anymore, but still sad to see him go. His funeral was the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My brother was able to come home for the funeral, and was actually the one that presented my uncle with the flag from my Grandpa's coffin. Then in January my Grandma Lewis passed away, she too had been sick for a long time. Both will be missed by everyone who knew them.

January 27th brought around Guy's birthday. I took him out to dinner while Ashley watched the boys for us. She sure is a sweet heart sometimes. He was somewhat disappointed as we hadn't baked a cake for his birthday. But I knew a secret, Megan was coming home for the weekend and had called and told me she wanted to make a cake and bring it up. I figured that two cakes was too many. So we had cake and ice cream with her over the weekend. Ashley went to a school dance that weekend. She looked very pretty. It's hard to believe that she is 16 and old enough to date.

Now around to February. Still nothing to exciting. We made a snowman last weekend. Megan came up again, which was wonderful. She gave us a wonderful valentines day gift of a gift card to Texas Roadhouse, and two movie tickets so that we could go on a date. She then said we were to go and she was watching the boys for us. She took them to get pizza and to get some popcorn at the store. Then brought them home and gave them a bath and watched a movie with them. The next day we played some games as a family and had a wonderful time.

Well that brings us up to this weekend and that shall be saved for another post all to itself.

I'll try and post a photo slide of the last three months soon as Guy gets home with his computer and the photos!

Elf This

So I know it's been a long time since I posted anything. Life's been a little crazy here. A couple of my friends and work and my sister-in-law have elfed themselves and it looked like fun so I tried it. I guess that Guy really can dance, who knew?

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

High School Tag

So a couple of my friends have done this and it looked kind of fun so I thought what the heck I'll give it a shot.

1. DID YOU DATE SOMEONE FROM YOUR SCHOOL? Yes I did

2.WHAT KIND OF CAR DID YOU DRIVE? 1985 White Chevy Cavalier, man I loved that car

3. DID YOU PASS YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST YOUR FIRST TRY? yep!

4. WHERE YOU A PARTY ANIMAL? Not so much really

5. WERE YOU CONSIDERED A FLIRT? I would guess Yes

6. WERE YOU IN BAND, ORCHESTRA, OR CHOIR? Nope

7. WERE YOU A NERD? Kind of, I was smart but I don't know that I was a nerd

8. WERE YOU ON ANY VARSITY TEAMS? Negative

9. DID YOU EVER GET SUSPENDED/EXPELLED? No

10. CAN YOU STILL SING THE FIGHT SONG? Heck Yes! Go Darts!

11. WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHERS? Mrs. Gooch, Miss Hoge

12. WHERE DID YOU SIT FOR LUNCH? In the cafeteria or the hall

13. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S FULL NAME? Davis High School

14. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S MASCOT AND COLORS? A Dart, and Brown & Gold.

15. DID YOU GO TO HOMECOMING AND WITH WHO? Yes Junior year I went with Ben, and Sr year I went with Brandon. Had a great time both years!

16. IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN WOULD YOU? Nope then my life wouldn't be what it is now and I wouldn't change that for anything.

17. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER MOST ABOUT GRADUATION? It was really long and they said my name wrong like always.

18. WHERE DID YOU GO SENIOR SKIP DAY? Wasn't every day senior skip day?

19. WERE YOU IN ANY CLUBS? Yeah FBLA

20. HAVE YOU GAINED SOME WEIGHT SINCE THEN? I've gone up and down and up and down

21. WHO WAS YOUR PROM DATE? Jr year Brett S. Sr year I was stood up for prom how sad huh?

22. ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO YOUR 10 YEAR REUNION? It was two years ago and I was going to go, but ended up helping my sister-in-law move instead.

23. DID YOU HAVE A JOB IN HIGH SCHOOL? I had three different jobs I think. I was a maid at a motel, then I was a telemarketer, then I work at Dariy Queen.

I tag all of you out there that want to remember high school. It was kind of fun to think back about things.

New Camera

This year is my ten year anniversary at work. It was actually back in July but I didn't get my gift until October I think. Just because I couldn't decide what I wanted to get. I finally decided on a new digital camera. The one that I had was about 5 years old went through batteries like a kid through candy. So the camera I got is a Nikon Coolpix. It's an 8.0 megapixel and it takes pretty good pictures. The night I brought it home the boys wanted me to take their pictures so I did and I got some pretty funny ones. Here they are. Oh yeah and thanks IHG for a great 3 month summer job!

Halloween '08

Yes I am aware this is late. But better late than never or something like that. :) So this year Caden was a tiger, ah scary, and Zach was a cute little dalmatian. Here's a couple of pictures. We went Trunk or Treating with the ward, and as luck would have it they hold the trunk or treat on our street because it's a dead end. So all we had to do was back down our driveway. How nice is that? The boys had fun, dad walked around with them, while I sat in the trunk and handed out candy. We were all done and by in the house by 645. It was nice. Then Ashley and her friends were in and out of the house until about midnight when all the friends had to leave. Didn't get any pics of them, but they're teenagers so really who cares. LOL

Dad and the boys

Caden the scary tiger

Zach they shy dalmatian

In Memory

In memory of Stephan J Bown

18 years ago today I lost my dad. He was killed in an auto vs cyclist accident. Here's a few things that I remember about him.

He had a wonderful sense of Humor
He loved me and my family very much
He worked hard so that we wouldn't go without
He was always willing to help anyone
He was just a big kid, he always told us he was president of the Peter Pan fan club
He loved the outdoors, camping, hunting, he was just getting into mountain biking
He loved cycling, I remember watching the Tour de France with him
He loved animals I think that we always had a dog or a cat or both

I'm sad that my dad didn't get to see me graduate from school, or see me off on my first date, or get to be there when I got married. But mostly I'm sad that he wasn't here for any of the little things, dinner at home when he would get us all rilled up and drive mom crazy, watching funny movies as a family, going camping up at Ferin, falling asleep in his banana chair, the way he laughed and talked, hearing stories about him growing up.

I love you dad. It seems very hard to believe that you have been gone for 18 years. Back then I didn't think that life would go on this long. I know that you are watching over all of us. I know
that you love us and that you are waiting for us to be together again as a family.

This is a picture of my dad and I taken the summer before he died. I was almost 12.