Here we go again...

Well, I still have a lot of cute pictures to share...I am STILL months behind, and I am so disappoined that I am. I started blogging so I would have some sort of a "journal" form my family and boy have I lost site of that. I want to be better, but catching up seems like suck a daunting task! Seriously! But I am going to try a little at a time and my goal is to take note of some of the family happenings and posting them more often again. Consider this post a sad start...

Watch Out!

I am now going to catch up-watch out. There will be many posts and many pictures a comin'!

Update...coming soon

I owe a huge update as I have been largely absent from blogging for a while. Sorry to say that it is still forthcoming and when it does, watch out!! Sorry for the wait, but just know that we are well, busy, and as always, trying to find the happiness in this crazy thing we call life!

Wes: A man with a mission...and a blog.

Wes has a blog. It is listed on my sidebar. He was turning into quite a blogger...but now, he has not posted in like a week. This is the last thing he posted:

I just want to take this opportunity to point out an inconvenient truth. In the 5 1/2 years since I started medical school and have been living away from Utah we have made 2 visits across the country to Maryland and California in cities we had never been to before to see Mickey and Natalie (we don't even have a gps, unless Rochelle counts), 1 to see Eli and Trieste in Montana, 2 to see Tyson and Lindsey in Colorado, and multiple visits back to Utah for various reasons and to visit everyone there. I hate to report it, but aside from visits from G. G. and Great Grandpa, my parents and my little brothers and sisters (not Tyson), no one else has come to visit (Beckee's family has visited extensively, and are more than welcome to visit any time). This is an open invitation for Thanksgiving this year. Tyson at least has an excuse. Eli and Mickey have the least excuse of all, what good is being a dentist if you can't even visit your poor resident cousin in Nebraska? Cody and Bret, you have never been here. All of my cousins are on the hook, Adam, Sarah, Laura, Cassie and the rest of you. We have a queen-sized bed in an extra room as well as two extra toddler beds and a top-bunk. There are two other big living rooms that we could set up for families and kids. The first two families to invite themselves are invited. I have Wednesday through Sunday off the week of Thanksgiving so we could actually visit. We make crispy-skin Turkey....
Love, Wes

Two theories on why he no longer blogs: First, I am pretty sure that the lack of response to his open invitation has lowered his level of blogging interest...so I am reposting our invitation on our family blog...maybe it will remind our wonderful family of the open invitation...Come on down to the Heartland and visit Wes-lets get him blogging again...

Oh yeah-the second reason for Wes's lack of blogging might be that he had to go back to work...maybe...

Last Chance...

FYI-I am going Private today, so if you have been meaning to tell me you want an invite, this is your chance!!

Going Private

OK, I have thought about this for a very, very long time, and I know my husband thinks I am silly to worry, but I want to be able to blog safely and securely, so I will be making my blog private. I do not want to exclude anyone from reading it-I want friends and family to be able to keep up with the happenings in our family, but I am concerned with safety as well. I want to be able to post things and know that there is a log in required to see it. I apologize for the inconvenience of having to log in. Please, please give me your email addresses if I do not have them so I can add you to my readers list!! You can send email addresses to beckee13@msn.com or leave them as a comment.

Thanks for understanding! I will let this stay for a few days then I am going private. Thanks for reading and I hope you continue to!

Beckee

Calling all Readers...mom, that means you...

Oh yeah-that's right people-this is my 400th post. Instead of thinking of that as sad, I am just going to think of all the memories I have journaled on here! Awesome!!! I am excited about that.

Now, I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank my readers for reading, and to thank all of you that gave me book suggestions on my blog "Class is in Session". I just wanted to respond and update on my reading...

1-I took the first suggestion I got and took out my copy of Tess of the D'Urbervilles (yes-I own it and have never read it). I am currently reading that. (Thanks Laura)
2-I have never even heard of These is My Words, and it came recommended multiple times-I will have to look into that one for sure!
3-I have to say that I, like Natalie, love the English language and books in general. I love reading books that make me think about the world in a different way. Of the suggestions Natalie gave me, I have only read The Hiding Place (which I love!) and Anne of Green Gables (which I have not read in a long time. I am seriously behind on my classics reading and honestly, when I was assigned a "classic" to read in school-I usually skipped it...sad, I know. But I am discovering why they are called classics-I agree with Mick that classics are called that for a reasons and tend to be really good. That is probably going to be my next kick-we'll call it a classics catch-up!
4-I am glad Sarah mentioned the Koontz Frankenstein books-my in-laws also recommended those, and I had forgotten. Definitely on the list. I sadly, did not really like Life Expectancy-I think I may have had too much Koontz in a row by then...I have not read any of the other books Sarah mentioned...except...
5-Wicked-I love that book and cannot believe I didn't put it on my list. I have read most of the books by Gregory Maguire. Awesome.
6-I love teen fiction books so will certainly look for Book Thief. Has anyone else read Speak? VERY powerful book! I really was amazed by that book-very well done, kind-of sad, but so real. I read that when I was teaching high school and still find myself thinking about how I felt as I read that book all these years later. It was good. I recommend it highly and it should have been high on my list!
7-I was so excited to get recommendations from aunt Karen! Thank you so much! I have not read any of those you recommended either and I really want to read The Host. Wes read all the Christopher Paolini books though so we own them-I will read those soon.
8-Love the idea of looking at the other Pimpernel books-sadly that thought had not even crossed my mind-thanks Mick for thinking for me!
9-Great idea Mel-I love Orson Scott Card-Loved The Seventh Son books and the Ender's Game series (all should have been on my list), and have not read Lost Boys!
10-Again with Jane Austen-I have started all her books and not finished any, but I bought them all when I was in Utah and will read them all before the end of Solace's school year-just for Stefanie and Natalie! It is my goal!! There-it is in writing-no getting out of that now!
11-I loved the Work and the Glory books too and cannot believe they were not on my list-thanks for the reminder, Jen! Also loved To Kill a Mockingbird-my copy of it has been read enough that it looks like it has been through a brawl. All your suggestions look awesome! Thanks!

So, basically I have learned that I am not all that well read and have a long way to go. Thank goodness I have well-read friends and family that can help me out along the way as I try to better myself and smarten up! You are all amazingly awesome to help me out and I am excited to read, and read and read-oh and I am still taking suggestions! (Come on Mom-if ever there was a blog for you to comment on, this would be the one right up your alley!!)

Maybe I should start an online book club-I am reading Tess of the D'Ubervilles, anyone want to join me? It can be the October book of the month...I'll put it on my sidebar.

Prepare yourself...

I hope you are prepared to be bombarded with pictures-I will be putting up lots of Labor Day weekend pictures. Shout out to Stefanie for sending the awesome pics. I am posting a lot as there were so many good ones, so I am splitting them into a bunch of different blogs. Enjoy!

FYI-Blog issue

Though I gave myself some time to blog last night, I was unable to as my blog would not work due to Internet Explorer being unable to open it. I spend literally hours being ticked off and trying to figure out what to do. Looked at other site and found that it seemed some blogs were fine and some were not. Finally this morning I was able to determine the problem. So, just FYI, if your blog is one that Internet Explorer will not open, it is because sitemeter is on your blog, and it is causing a problem. You have to remove it from your blog. I know this is not ideal as many of us use this to monitor our blogs, but it is the only fix. If you try to go on sitemeter's site, it will not open either. I am hoping it will be fixed shortly and we can put it back up. If not, there are other sites to monitor blogs with, and we can find a new one! Just an FYI!

You are beautiful...

I am not sure that I have ever actually mentioned this in a post, but I have to mention it now...

One of my favorite things about my blog is on the sidebar where I gave it a subtitle that says:

"Beckee's Blog...Where the Beautiful People come..."

I love that and just wanted to note that all of you that read this/are reading this are the beautiful people!

I'd also like to note that a major goal of this blog is to make the world a more beautiful place, one reader at a time, so feel free to remind family and friends where the beautiful people come...

Am I really this funny, or do I just think so when I write after midnight?! I guess I'll have to reread this in the morning and see if I am still funny.

More coming...so, so many more...

So, quickly I want to make sure to note that I have much more to update on from Utah and from our move, and from this past week here in Omaha, but for tonight I will leave it with the ones I have posted, and leave you with a few teasers:



1-8 more really fun Utah posts with pics coming

2-Driving to Omaha-Stories from the road...Let's just say it was crazy!

3-Just a few words, Walmart, tornado warning, big storm, stuck in a back room, CRAZY!!!

4-New house-kinks with closing, and help moving in. For now I'll just mention we had A LOT of help from the new ward which was nice, we already have our kitchen totally done, the bedrooms and basement mostly done. And I will take pics soon to post.

Catchin up on a big ol busy week...

Prepare yourselves! I went hog-wild on this blogging thing to catch up on the past week...Enjoy the pics and stories of this past few days. I think there is like 15 posts in the past day or two... :)

And now that my camera is up and running again...

Here I go again blogging a ton of crap in one day...just to catch you all up on our recent past in pictures...You can pretty much look forward to about 5-6 picture blogs going up today...prepare yourselves...

Blogs?

OK-So, if you are reading this it must mean I know you. I am thinking that some of you that read this probably have blogs that I am unaware of. If you have a blog, and somehow it is not listed on my "blogs I like" section, it is not because I don't like you. It is because I don't realize you have a blog, or I do not know your blog address. So, please, leave me a comment and let me know what your blog address is so I can go see it and add it to my blogs I like section! Thanks!

Come back for more!

So, it has been pointed out to me, repeatedly, and my many, ok well, by few, that I have been neglecting my blog for the last couple weeks. It's so true. But I assure you, I have pictures and stories galore! We had grandparents day, visits, and fun, fun, fun! So, stay tuned for more on the great Enderton family trek to see us here in Spokane! I don't promise to be hilarious as I have found I am less funny when I am not feeling well, but I promise I have lots of fun pictures.

BTW-Thanks to everyone who has been contributing to the names/ideas. I love them-keep em coming! I will likely put up a few of my recent ideas soon (pending whether I fear them stolen or not)! :)

Any comments?

Hey-just so you know, if you are reading this, I really do welcome comments on any of my blogs. As you read, feel free to leave your thoughts or reaction to my Beckee brand of crazy!! :)