Education Week! I HIGHLY recommend it!

When we heard about education week at the beginning of August, we were at Jason's nephew's baby blessing. He leaned over to me and said "you're going". I smiled and said "oh yeah?!" He told me that I should. He didn't have to twist my arm. I LOVE Ed-week. My mom got me addicted to it when I was 14. So she did what her mom did for her and took Josh for me that week so I could go. I planned out my courses for everyday, some I would be going to the full series (all 4 days) and others were just here and there. You can take 10 classes a day and so I ended up going to 34 for the week. I was a wee bit worn out by the end of it, but so incredibly armed with ideas and its been really fun to start implementing them. My favorite overall class was "How to be an Influencer", #2 "How to teach your children to be Leaders" #3 Several different classes on how to be Abundant financially. (That was fun because most of it is what my company teaches and was just a reconfirmation of what we do for people to help them win financially) #4 How to take less time but get more accomplished in keeping house!
I also met up with some old friends and met new friends. It was wonderful.

Jess Tagged Me!

*Four random things I like (adore) about my Husband?
1. His SEXY legs!
2. His Beautiful Smile!
3. His Work Ethic
4. His sense of humor!

*Four movies that I would watch more than once?
1. Remember the Titans
2. Glory Road
3. Facing the Giants
4. The Kid

*Four Tv Shows I watch more than once?
1. Numb3rs
2. Ghost Whisperer
3. American Idol
4. SYTYCD

*Four Places I have Been?
1. Okinowa, Japan
2. Minot, North Dakota
3. Calgary, Canada
4. Orlando, Florida

*Four people who E-Mail me regularly?
1. Sis-in-law Kristen
2. Exec Sec, Bro Danner
3. Husband, Jason
4. Google, Calendar

*Four Favorite Foods?
1. Mexican
2. Fresh grown Garden Tomatoes
3. Protein Shakes w/ fruit in them
4. Zucchini Bread

*Four places I would like to visit?
1. Tahiti
2. Kauai, Hawaii
3. Alaska
4. Nauvoo

*Four things I am looking forward to in the coming year?
1. Doing pre-school w/ my sis in law, for Josh and his cousins
2. Holiday Baking and family service projects
3. Hopefully adding a new member to our family.
4. Amy my sis in law living with us

*Four people that I have Tagged!
1. Amy C.
2. Tara M.
3. Kelly R.
4. Teresa B.

Happy Anniversary # 10 For Jason & Melanie

I can hardly believe it but today is our Anniversary. Ten years ago today Jason and I were driving down to Manti together sharing our patriarchal blessings with each other, stopping at McDonald's for a burger to make sure we'd have energy and not be cranky and @ 2pm in the afternoon in the Manti Temple, Jason and I were sealed for time and all eternity. The weather was gorgeous, and our family and friends were stuffed into the sealing room. It was a white wedding b/c we were sealed in the Emerald room that is right off the Celestial Room. It was so beautiful. We did a session b4 the sealing, Mom and Dad Crane were the witness couple. Those who couldn't attend the session just met us in the sealing room after. The spirit was so strong that I couldn't keep from getting teary eyed. In our video you could see how extremely happy we were. We could hardly kiss at first b/c our smiles were so BIG! But, we figured it out...haha We were kissing almost the whole video. We had a beautiful dinner at a bed and breakfast there in Manti and then we headed up to Provo for our first night together. Mom Pug put us up in a hotel b/c she said that NO-One should spend their wedding night in their apartment. :D lol. Our Reception was the next day and then on Sunday night we left for Mammoth Lakes, CA for our honeymoon (provided by Mur mur and Mur Far Broman) And that was the beginning of our marriage... What an ADVENTURE it has been. The Lord really had His hand in my life when He picked Jason for me!!! I have put him through HELL and back and he has been there for me every step of the way. I am the luckiest bride in the world!
So reasons I adore Jason (in no particular order):
1. His gentle and loving eyes
2. His BIG laugh!
3. His dry and not so dry sense of humor.
4. His work ethic
5. His GREAT Legs! -very sexy!
6. His beautiful smile
7. His spontenuity and playfulness
8. His willingness to serve
9. His testimony
10. That he's an Honorable Priesthood Holder
11. His Great Listening Skills
12. His Great "Daddy" Skills!!
13. The fact that Josh wants to grow up and be like him! "cuz he's cool!"
14. That he dances with me and can still sweep me off my feet.
15. Our deep conversations...how we can REALLY talk!
16. Forgiving Heart. -He is incapable of holding a grudge!
17. His singing, both tenderly and silly! :D
18. His belief in ME!
19. How he gets EXCITED about things. Its SO cute!
20. The fact that he loves and adores me. :D
21. Man of MANY talents!! He can read a book on how to do something and then go do it.
22. He's my handy man!
23. His willingness to Sacrifice so much for me and Josh!
24. He's a great Brother...he has a great relationship with each of his siblings.
25. He's a very loyal friend, to me and all the rest of his friends.
26. He's athletic.
27. He treats me like a QUEEN!
28. That he randomly buys me cute dresses, just so I can feel pretty!
29. He defends me if someone has something neg to say about me.
30. He randomly buys me flowers...just to say "I love you" & b/c I like them. (esp wild flowers)

Thank you sweetheart for adding so much to my life. I love you with All of my heart. xoxo

Chad/Marianna Posterity @ Family Reunion

Here's the link to the photo album:
http://s303.photobucket.com/albums/nn125/JMCrane2008/Pugmire%20Family%20Reunion%202008/

Getting to know me, the "other" blogger Jason

So yesterday I had an interesting conversation with the CEO of my company. This is for your consideration. He mentioned that there are 3 levels of intimacy in relationship, friendships, and others. I brought to his attention, "you mean like water-skiing, snorkeling, and scuba diving". He said yes. I continued the analagy last night with a good friend of mine Ben. I told him that I love water skiing, and snorkeling, but have never been scuba diving. In relationships I believe that I am almost the same... I almost never go scuba diving. Why? you might ask, well though the beauty (so I hear and have seen in pictures) at 60 feet is spectacular, there are inherant dangers in it. Just to mention a few... The pressure becomes immense, your air could run out, you have to know what you are doing, especially going into caves, etc. Well I truly love to snorkel, it is amazingly beautiful and "less risky"? My CEO actually asked me, how are you supposed to accomplish what you want to if you aren't warm enough for others to acutally know? I thought that this was an extremely valid point. So to the start of getting to know me a little bit better, I propose that you ask a question, and I will provide an honest, and hopefully insightful answer that will help you know me a little better. I am also interested in getting to know each of you a little bit better. Online I believe it difficult to know someone at a "scuba" level, but certainly not difficult at a snorkeling level.

Pugmire Family Reunion 2008

What a glorious thing that Heavenly Father has blessed us with in Families!!! I LOVE family reunions! It was especially great for me going to this one b/c some of my cousins have blogs too and so I've been able to keep up on what's going on in their lives for the last several months. So it didn't feel like we had to catch up for the last year when we saw each other. We had such a fun time. We got up there a day late b/c Jason couldn't get off work but when we did..it was a packed adventure. :D After staying up until 4am getting the truck packed thursday night, we finally got out of the house around 10:30a Friday morning. We picked our normal spot for sleeping (down in the basement of the lodge, and thanks to Aunt Sonja we didn't have to sleep on just the extra padding we had brought...she let us borrow her extra air mattress. (Thanks Sonja! It helped Jason so much! -I didn't mind the benefit one bit. ;D) I got my hair done by cousin Kiley...I love having someone else do my hair! We decorated picture frames...which reminds me I didn't take a pic of that. :( Jason made a really sweet one for Josh. And then after dinner that night I stayed in the kitchen for several hours making 3 pies. 2 for the silent auction and one for my dad and gpa (lemon meringue, blueberry, & peach) It took me a lot longer than it normally does b/c I was enjoying the company of cousins ( Tara and Kelly and a few others that stopped in to say "You're STILL in here???) talking to me more than being focused on the pie-making...but they still turned out even though I had to start the lemon one over. ;D We of course stayed up late and talked and played games. Saturday is always the biggest day of the reunion. We do our family raffle and silent auction where everyone brings stuff to donate to it and then we buy tickets and put our names on them hoping to be drawn out...and/or we can bid on the silent auction items. -We do this to raise $ for the next year's reunion. -they had a contest during the raffle this year of who has the best and most excited reaction to their winning something. Tami won it HANDS DOWN!!! She is such a hoot!! In between the auction and the dinner, we played outside in the jump house that Tara rented (that was a BIG hit with the kids!) and played dodgeball with sponges...the funniest part was when the kids decided to attack the adults that were just enjoying themselves on the sidelines. Then Saturday night we had a fun program spotlighting some of the talent that we have in the family. and of course part of the that is always the hilarious Improv Skits that Uncle Rex writes b/c we have a lot of "characters" in our family if you know what I mean. This year the theme for the skit was super heros. Jason was mighty mouse...in minnie mouse ears with a big bow on em. LOL. The running line in the skit was about Troy's big clown tie making his butt look big. (which afterwards he got a chastening from his 5 year old son how he shouldn't be shakin his bum in front of the family. LOL) while the skit was going on...I was helping Jared and Lisa in the kitchen with making 4 big bowls of the YUMMY family recipe caramel popcorn. mmm makes my mouth water just typing about it. :D For my talent this year I sang a song that I picked on Thursday...it was "I love my life" by Jamie ONeal. Its just a fun upbeat country song. Then instead of doing a second song, I had Josh dance. He was a little shy this time, but he still did a great job. After the talent show, we did line dancing with all the cousins and some of the aunts which included 'boot scootin' boogie', 'fishin in the dark', the 'Macarena', and of course the "chicken dance"and then we learned a choregraphed dance to the music of "High School Musical" choreographed by Jesi and Amanda. It was awesome!!! and so much fun. I hate seeing how big my BUTT has gotten but it will be a different story next year, I've decided!

After I was officially tired from all the dancing, we stayed up and talked...and watched/listened to Josh and Ethan playing "Go Fish". Ethan was HILARIOUS!! I can't mimmick him very well but we were getting a hoot out of listening to him describle the coke cards to Josh. So funny...while that was happening I was hangin with Kenny and Troy telling each other jokes and riddles. About midnight I headed off to bed with Josh (jason had already crashed) or so I thought...he was downstairs talking with Ben and Kelly. So we finally get to bed and then about 3am I hear Ben startle awake and get up...he had gotten a face full of water from the rain coming through the roof where the owners had been doing contruction and it filled the heating vents and started raining on us downstairs. It was NASTY water...luckily Jason and I weren't right under them. We ended up taking everything upstairs and sleeping the rest of the time up there...well Josh and I did anyway...Jason decided he might as well just leave so he could make it back home for bishopric meetings and ward conference. So needless to say...a rough night. Sunday we had our usual storymony/testimony meeting...conducted by Van (yeah!!! -He's usually not there for it.) After that we had a slide show put on by Aaron from the pics he'd collected from everyone (I had taken 500 pics lol) We also got to see a video archive of a previous year's skit...that was Funny!!! Cousin Gordon showed some pics of the Sea of Galilee (sp?) and how much it looks like Bear Lake. We had lunch and then it was clean and go home time. Sad to see another reuinion come to a close but it was so wonderful! Another highlight for me was meeting Amy's daughters and friend Briann, Cami and Liz. They were so funny! I'm def going to have to spend some time over at their house this year! Well that's my summary of the family reunion....can't wait til next year!
Here's a link to our photobucket photo album...it was the only way to get all 447 pics on...(I deleted some)