Happy Halloween!!

(1987)

...any costume idea for this year? i'm thinking that this pirate vest probably doesn't fit anymore!

my mom = superwoman!

My mom competed in the Triathlon at the Senior Games this weekend in St. George, and she did awesome!!

Her time was 1 hour 28 minutes, and she won the Silver Medal for her age group! She was the first one out of the pool, and first one onto her bike in her heat!

[please notice how toned my mom's legs are!! awesome!]

In order to compete in the Senior Games, you had to be at least 50 years old, and during the triathlon, each competitor had their age written on their calf. It was quite inspiring to me – being the overly lazy person that I am – to see all these old people still doing triathlons! At the awards ceremony, they announced the winners from each age group, and their times. There was an 84-year-old man who did finished in 1hr 34 minutes!! Very impressive!

After the triathlon, we visited with my grandma, and her sister (my great-aunt) who is going to be 102 in February! The two of them together are just hilarious – my mom and I were laughing quite a bit. They are both pretty much blind, and can’t hear great, so they just sit around and yell at each other! I was getting a bit sleepy, so I figured that since neither one can see all that well, they wouldn’t notice if I just sat there with my eyes closed. But they did notice, which makes me think that they are lying about how much they can and can’t see!!

It was a great weekend full of old folks, and made me not feel so bad about my upcoming birthday this year!

i {heart} SF

I spent this weekend in San Francisco with a few of my girlfriends, and it was a blast! We did lots of walking, shopping, eating, and being touristy! We rode a cable car, took a boat ride around the bay, and biked across the Golden Gate Bridge – which my mom and I did last time we were there and it was great!

{our yummy cupcakes that we ate for breakfast!}

{riding bikes across the Bridge}

Sunday night, we headed about 30 minutes south of the city to Alviso where our sales office is located. One of the projects that I am doing for work is finding and tagging all of the company computer equipment. So I spend Monday and Tuesday tagging computers. It was nice to finally see the other office, and to put faces with the people that I talk to there on a regular basis!

Oh, and I checked in using my phone, when then sends the boarding pass to my phone. At security and then to get onto the plane, you just give them your phone, and it scans the barcode from the text that Delta sent. Genius!!

This weekend is moving weekend. I’m moving across the street – into a cute little townhouse with a friend. The place is awesome – we have a 2-car garage (which will be so nice for when it starts snowing!), a fireplace, granite countertops, new carpet, a washer/dryer, AND…. My very own scrapbook room!!

Today is back to work, getting caught up, and then packing up my bedroom tonight and tomorrow night so that I will be ready to move on Saturday!!

it's back!!!

....I'm so excited! I can hardly wait!

(If you call me between the hours of 7 and 8 tonight, don't expect me to answer!)

PS - I am already off to a bad start with my once-a-week blog posts. I'll try to be better. This weekend, I'm going to San Fransciso, and then working at our California office for the beginning of next week. Then it's back home to pack up everything to move into my new, super cute townhouse!!

Hopefully more posts to come soon!

Milestones:

I realize that this is a really bad picture…..


But my car has now been driven 100,000 miles!!

And even though I’ve never really liked my car, we have just been through a lot together! College at Utah State, countless trips from Logan and Alpine. We survived the long drive to Portland, and all our adventures while we were there. And now back to Utah again!

I’ve only been pulled over 3 times in this car – and only 2 tickets! For anyone who has had the privilege of driving with me, this is pretty impressive!


Also – on a totally unrelated note….. I have a new goal of doing a blog post each week until my birthday. We’ll see how well that goes!!

my new toy!

impulse shopping at its finest!!

it's fate - i've been wanting to ride a tandem bike, and my favorite color is red. so why not buy a red tandem bike!!

i went to dessert social tonight, and on our way home, my friend rode by on this beauty. he asked if i wanted to take a ride on it, which of course i did!! during our ride, he said that he was trying to sell it. i said i wanted it, and so back to my house we rode and I wrote him a check!!

can't wait to get home from work tomorrow and take her for a ride! but she (or maybe he??) needs a name.... any ideas?!!

i love this boy

I have the best brother in the whole wide world!!

(july 1987)

(october 1991)

(september 2009)

In December 2005, Dave was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). That winter/spring, he went through some intensive chemotherapy. He went back to school at USU in the Fall of 2006 while on maintenance, and was "cancer free" in April of 2009.

During a checkup a few weeks ago, they found that the cancer has relapsed.

So far, he seems to be doing pretty good. He has all his treatments done at Primary Children's Medical Hospital in SLC, and will be staying in Alpine with my parents.

This kid is amazing! Not only is he a genius, he is hilarious! I have never heard him complain about the chemo treatments. He has the best attitude about life, and is always so optimistic.

In case you care to follow, or just are interested, here's a link to a blog that he has started. The 'Journal' link is where he's going to try to post updates.

https://sites.google.com/site/davidwillisall

I brought him back a ukulele from Hawaii, which I'm hoping will keep him entertained, and he can also be used to serenade all his visitors when he feels up for it!

Love you Davie!