Ten months later! Oh my!

Well well well well well, how do you like them apples?  I would say I'm doing pretty good here blogging wouldn't you?  I mean I am SURE I am setting a record: one blog a YEAR!  HA! HA!  I wasn't even sure how to get back on this thing and had to ask Jessie for help!  But anyway, here I am and I really am going to TRY to do better!  I do think it's a lot of fun and it's a great way to stay "in the loop"! 
So, I got an I-phone a little more than a year ago mainly so that texting with my Australian daughter, Lisa, would be cheaper.  Well, she has been state side since Christmas and I no longer need the 'cheaper' version of texting.  Soooo, I decided that I had ONE year to make this I-phone thing work for me ( because I do have a 2 year contract with the phone company I have to honor)or I would need to let the internet go 'cause I can't justify 'throwing away' $30 per month.  (Dave Ramsy would NOT like that!)  Hey, I WONDER if Dave Ramsey has an I-phone?!! Anyway, I'll tell you what is reeeally reeeeeally weird: going on a mission trip and having your 10 year old grandson 'download' apps for me and show ME how to do it! (Thanks CAMDEN!)  I mean that boy was whizzing through everything and he was so excited and proud to be showing me how to manuver as well!  THEN my 4 year old grandson proudly showed me HIS skills playing all sorts of the cool games that Camden down-loaded.  I mean seriously people, these boys are AMAZING! (Way to go PIERSON!) And... I'm NOT!  And then there was Mr. JACKSON soon to be 9 year old grandson entertaining himself for hours on (I think) his dad's I-Pad manuvering 22 men in different positions really FAST in a game of you guessed it: FOOTBALL! It's CRAAAAZY! I thought I was supposed to be teaching them, but they teach ME! But.... exciting too!  Do you ever wonder what the 'world' will come up with when our kids (or grandkids as the case may be!) are grown that THEY have to learn from scratch?  So, anyway I am GOING to get savey with my I-phone and save the $30 some where else!  Yay me!  OOOOOH! I have it: I can quit exercising at Curves!  Ha! Ha!  NOT!
While I have your attention directed to my mission trip let me tell you something else quite funny.  I acquired the most GINORMOUS cankles you have EVER seen. (of course I have only known what cankles are for about 6 months!) I mean seriously people if you had seen my ankles you would have thought the body that was attached to those feet was at least 300 pounds. Too bad I don't know how to put pictures on my blog yet (where aaaaare those boys when you need them!) or you would get the biggest LAUGH of your (and might I add GASP)life if you could actually SEE how BIG they were! They were awful! Now I know I have gained weight (another blog story for sure!)BUT...That is NOT why they were so swollen.  In case you are wondering (and even if you aren't!) my feet were so swollen because my area of service on this fantastic mission trip was to be number one sidekick and bottle washer to the chief cook my oldest daughter, Haley!  Friends, we cooked 3 full blown delicious meals for 4 1/2 days.  We were literally on our feet for 15+ hours each day.  It was a GREAT experience and so much fun to work with Haley (not to mention enjoy the boys)but we literally watched our ankles grow bigger by the day!! I think I actually looked deformed!  I am happy to report that mine have gone down by about 2/3's and I am looking much better in only a day and a half.  I am hoping to use my "deformed" feet to get out of jury duty tomorrow (gonna practise limping real well after I get done with this and dig out my grungiest slippers!)  Well, not really! Anyway my friends (thank you to my 2 faithful followers!)life really IS good, cankles and all!