TOAST

For dinner on Thursday evening Karina wanted one of her favorite foods; Chicken Pot Pie.  I fixed her a plate of food and then went into the living room to play the piano.  I had only played a few pages of music when I looked up and saw smoke billowing out of the kitchen.  I ran in and could see that it was coming from the toaster.  There were 4 pieces of burningf toast in the toaster.  Karina was still sitting at the bar eating her food in the midst of all the smoke.  She simply said, "I am making toast."
It has been 3 days since the toast incident and our house still smells like burnt toast.  I hope we don't have permanent smoke damage.

Keep the Change

Karina and I went to the Dollar store so that Karina could buy two of her favorite things in the world.  A coloring book and some glue.  We got in line to pay and I gave Karina a ten dollar bill to pay for her items.  The grand total was $2.19.  Karina handed the cashier the ten dollar bill and said, "keep the change". The cashier seemed very surprised but also very grateful.  What could I say?

She is 30 today

Today is Karina's 30th birthday.  For some reason the number 30 is hard for her to remember.  When asked how old she is today by various people I have heard her say 2 years old, 7 years old, and 7 1/2 years old.  (I always have to whisper in her ear how old she is.)  She told us that she wanted a new baby doll so that is what we gave her.  Her name is Maggie and she loves her. We celebrated her birthday a little different this year.  Instead of having a party (which she doesn't usually like), we took cupcakes around to some of her favorite people and she had a great time. 

Listening to the Radio

Dan needed to go to the ranch to winterize the cabins and Karina was going to go with him.  While Dan was gathering his tools and getting things ready to leave I realized that I hadn't seen Karina for a little while.  I looked all through the house and she was not there.  I went outside and ran around and could not see her anywhere.  Just as I was starting to panic I thought to look in our car and there she was.  She had taken the car keys from the key hanger by the front door, put them in the ignition and turned it on enough for the radio to come on.  (Thank goodness she didn't turn the key all the way).  She was listening to her favorite radio station 102.1 the "relaxation station".  She looked at me, rolled her eyes  and said "I'm just lissning to the radio, OK".  Needless to say, the keys are going to have a new secret home.

How do you like my glasses?

In memory of Hailey (Demaree and Max's angel in heaven) we went to one of our favorite places near Payson and launched some balloons.  It is hard to believe that it has been 7 years.  Demaree was talking to the kids about Hailey and Karina said "Hailey lives in heaven with Jesus in his castle".
As we were watching conference this weekend Karina said, "I like gentle conference".