Thursday, June 24, 2010

Latter-Day-Saint Wedding

My baby and the little bundle that was born late in my "birthing time" is getting married very soon in the Manti Temple. I understand, because it's her Temple. It is the Temple that some of her great grandparents were married, and great aunts and uncles. She even knew Orpha Tilby Lazenby, "big grandma" (not big...just older) and I think her heart was softened so much when she attended the Temple so many times and her husband-to-be asked her to be married there. It really did became "her" Temple.


Kiely's leaving us to be always with Matt

This is the hardest of all my girls to send off. I still feel like she's my little one and she is over 21. I'm not fretting about her going because she was already gone at college. It's just like I get used to Larin and her family back from Arizona for a while and off they go to a better life in another state. Bree is in Arkansas and that's a ways from here. I just told myself about Kiely is that we were going to have vacations together. There was summer, Christmas, Spring Break and she could come home and entertain us. We have that empty nest and it hasn't hurt, until now. Do we start a new hobby of vacationing in other states?

Steve, Kiely, and I worked her whole life to get her off to college and when she knew that Utah was the place for her, what a pleasant surprise. I knew she was sick of hearing the stories of Cal Poly and so many other colleges had such reputations as "the best party school" and so on...TMI. Her Grandpa Gene went to Cal Poly and she even wore Dad's '40 something, letterman sweater from SLO. I'm very grateful she was raised to know what she wanted and Kiely has made the decision to attend a college to really learn. (with) No BULL!


The choices Kiely decided to make in dating were on the same level including very high expectations and standards. She knew in her mind the kind of man she wanted to date. She wanted someone that was a return missionary that lived every "rule" like her dad and brother. Then instead of just being an RM he was still engaged in good works, reading the scriptures, attending the Temple, and very active in Church. The cowboys weren't it, however a hard-working, college student, farm boy from Payson caught her unexpectedly and became her "true love" forever. And she's happy.



Then, there's me. I'm just going nuts. Steve and I, and Kiely... didn't take out any loans for any schooling, ever. Cash on the dash, literally. Kiely had some money from working part-time, selling steers, and also had some scholarships. But, it didn't cover everything. We had to forget the kitchen floor, new porches, painting the house, and doing our roof. A very hardy expense on top of college is a wedding. Do we have anything left? Nope. Soooo, we'll make it happen all my other wonderful daughters pitching in making things and getting ideas. All of the ideas came from Kiely's dream wedding, but it will be more and they are making it more. We are all making Kiely and Matt's wedding our full-time job.

Our experiences along the way have been fun, funny, and downright crazy. As I look back over the past three months, I have to laugh at the ridiculous. Stress causes all kinds of weird stuff to happen to you. My doctor thought my anxiety level was too hard and too high for me and prescribed me Prozac. Prozac not the "cool-it" drug everyone imagines. It's just is supposed to stop your thoughts from panic to slightly a mild curb to step-over, but in some-kind of weird daze. NOT ME! It gave me worms! I even saw worms in my eyes and I couldn't sleep. I still can't sleep and I haven't taken it in more than a week. I couldn't get anything accomplished because I was so wiggly. I had really bad side-effects and I'm not doing the anti-depressant thing anymore. Yes, I hate that stuff. DONE! Yes, and I gained 5 pounds, and no I'm not ever, ever going to take it again. My cardiologist was happy about me taking the Prozac because my heart rhythm pill causes depression, especially the dose I'm taking. (I have this inherited genetic-thing in my heart) Anyway, I don't get depressed. I swim and do aerobics and if I'm ticked about something. I act my normal self. I go throw heavy, stone, clipped plates at the rocks and then they are not just stone-chipped they are really rock-wrecked. My other alternative is to cry and actually that feels so good. Mom and I cried together two days ago. She gave Kiely a big gift and I was grateful and then we cried because my mom saw Kiely's little hands imprinted in her cement patio and we know she won't be home.

New thought** I'm just going to post all the fun and exciting things we made to make this a cheap, but completely elegant wedding. What I made, what the girls made, what our dear sisters in the ward did to contribute... and I WILL have pictures.

The really bright-side to all of this daughter, like my first daughter, is that both are so into genealogy that I have it's covered. I'm not quitting at all in MY genealogy, but I am going to "fan-the-flame" of genealogy work and teach them as I learn new techniques in our together quest for our ancestors.

We will be attending the Beach House in a few days just before the trip to Utah and this will be so fun and relaxing. It will be a great time for all of us to get to know Matthew. Thankfully, we have someone here to take care of the ranch. My brother is going to be giving surfing lessons to all the grand-kids and maybe nieces and nephews.
This picture doesn't show all the sand
this year, tons of sand and NO ROCKS!

I am going to swim with the sting rays, sharks, and creepy things in the ocean without fear; and I'm going to have fun and use sunscreen, maybe make "monster tracks in the sand" and even still make bread. I will make my husband like sand in the sheets...at the end of our bed, even eat some Grunion and cockle clams, if it isn't red-tide. We might even have Cheviche every day and beach-house bread.
"Ta-da... Incoming message...scanning...receiving upgrade information for database. 'blip' Message received" Yes, my new toy, a Android phone. Love it... makes me feel close to my children, gives me peace-of-mind because Steve KNOWS where I am. He tracks me. It's always charged, with my "apps" it has all the Gospel and no huge Scriptures to carry and that's difficult for me to do with a broken finger. It has my ward and stake information and the Mormon Channel. I have even all the new Church Magazines and new Conference Talks. I can study, cross reference, and even highlight passages that I want to remember. I have a dictation machine built in for a notepad, a recorder for talks and lessons to listen and study later, a calendar, a budget, a shopping list and more. We have "app parties" (Applications) This all hooks to my computer and I have the BEST ipod-type player, ever. It will even blog, but I can't use the small keyboard because my busted-finger bothers the other fingers and I write like I'm typing German. All the words munched together, no spaces.

Updated--Captain's Log: stardate... uhh...June 24th, 2010. T-8, 22.6 until blast-off. "Love's Labors Lost in Space" treekkking onward into unknown territory. "I was not prepared!" "Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed...but a woman is always a woman.
-- Kirk in 'Conscience of the King' and 'All Our Yesterdays'


Thursday, June 3, 2010

I'm NOT complaining. I'm NOT "And There You Go"

Overwhelmed, Oh Heck, Use Norske accent here:
"yah!"



I look at my hand and I think, "It could be worse!" Now, I have a broken finger and a really ugly cut finger that hasn't stopped bleeding. I'll count my blessings that the canned, soft, dog food was washed-away with all the blood. And... another thing, it hurts right now, so my broken finger doesn't hurt anymore. Yay! Danger Ranch strikes again!

We had a big dog fight over yummy dog food, as if I never feed those chubby dogs. The cans rolls around and with my broken finger and I guess the little one got in the way and "there you go". I don't know what happened.

This has to be a teaching moment. What can I learn from this? Well, I'm overwhelmed with writing-out announcements so...I'm thinking and thinking, and thinking. I am using the computer with labels. "And there you go".

Wedding. "Our Big Fat Mormon Wedding!" I do love it. I have forgotten how to manage all of this. It's been more than 10 years since our last daughter's wedding at the L.A. Temple, plus it was all in California. It didn't involve three communities, plus.

I am glad I have a lot to do and that I'm healthy, and I can see everything, and be involved no matter how it stretches me. All I can think of when that happens is, that I grow from whatever comes my way. Our family's testimony of tithing...Wow, I can't even put into words. Heavenly Father is blessing us because my kid is doing all that is right. We were prompted to send her to her school at the right time and she knew from the very moment she put her foot on the ground she was home and she told us that it's hard to let-go because she's my baby. Kiely's ideas on the reception are a bit vague. She is in" love-land" and her mind is completely consumed with "Mr. Incredible" I have to keep thinking it is the Temple Marriage and it's Eternal and nothing else is really important. The reception is two hours there and two hours here a week later. I wish I could just hug her for everything that she's accomplished to get where she is right now. Only the mother knows all the long hours of huge homework and service projects, community involvement...Kiely, you are beyond amazing, because it was so hard, but wasn't it all worth it? Just a touch of Heaven on Earth and stronger than ever testimony.

I do know a bunch of random stuff like the full history of China. Thanks to Mr. Stacy in 7th grade. I read the whole history book and studied with Kiely every single paragraph. We worked hard, huh, girl?

A dear friend told me that she had done wedding photography for quite a few years and she remembers one comment made by a groom that was in another wedding party talking to his new bride. The circumstances were, that after planning and preparing for the day in the Spring, it rained. The cute bride was about in tears as she came out of the Temple thinking photo's were going to be ruined and the reception was going to flop. The groom turned to her and said, "It's okay Sweetie, this just puts all the more emphasis on the Temple anyway." How neat is that! What a wonderful way to start a marriage.

I want to dance at her wedding, but not like dance, dance...you know "Dance Like Nobody's Watching" I just want to dance, full of joy and respectfully. Then I'll come home and turn-up my Droid and rock-out. We do live in a rural area and the loud music would just be heard by livestock and my few neighbors that are closely related. I might even invite them to dance with me. I hope I do disturb the livestock!

Remember the Greek father in the movie " My Big Fat Greek Wedding?" He thought ever word that we have in the English language was from The Greek language? I grant you, there's tons of words in our language that are from Greek roots, however we are a mixture of many.

I placed a few words on my blog to remember that are Nordic origin. Our language is full of Nordic words, I kid-you-not! I don't even remember all that I saw, but I copied a few and then more and more -- I had to quit. It was a fun and eye-opening experience.


ado
influenced by Norse "at" ("to", infinitive marker) which was used with English "do" in certain English dialects
aloft
á "in, on, to"+ lopt air, atmosphere, sky, heaven, upper floor, loft"
anger
angr "strait, straitened, troubled" related to anga, plural öngur "straits, anguish"
awe
agi "terror"
English provenance = c 1205 CE (as aȝe, an early form of the word resulting from the influence of Old Norse on an existing Anglo-Saxon form, eȝe)
are
merger of Old English and Norse cognates
awkward
the first element is from Old Norse öfugr "turned-backward", the 'ward' part is from Old English weard
axle
öxl "ox tree"
bag
baggi
bairn
barn "child"
bait
beita
bark
bǫrkr
bask
baðask reflex. of baða "bathe"baðast, baða sig)
berserk
berserkr, lit. 'bear-shirt', alt. berr-serkr, 'bare-shirt' frenzied warriors lol
billow
bylgja
birth
byrðr
blunder
blundra "shut one's eye"
both
bathir
bug
búkr"insect within tree trunks"
bulk
bulki
bulk
balkr
bull
boli
bylaw
bylög 'by'=village; 'lög'=law; 'village-law'
call
kalla "cry loudly"
cast
kasta "to throw"
club
klubba"cudgel"
crawl
krafla "to claw"
cur
kurra "to growl
die
deyja "pass away"
dirt
drit "feces"
dregs
dregg "sediment"
egg
egg"an egg"
flit
flytja
game
gaman O.H.G. gaman "joy, glee"
garth
garðr "garden"
gawk
from Middle English gawen, from Old Norse ga"to heed"
get
geta, gat got, gittan gotten
geyser
from Icelandic geysir, from Old Norse geysa "to gush"
gift
gift "dowry"
girth
gjörð "circumference, cinch"
give
gefa "to give
gosling
gæslingr" "goose"
guest
gestr "guest"
gun
from Old Norse Gunnhildr female name, both elements of the name, gunn and hildr, have the meaning "war, battle" That's Cool!
gust
gustr "gust"*possibly Middle English
hack
höggva "hew"
haggle
haggen "to chop"
hail
heill "healthy" - From whence one hails ; to hail a cab ;
hap
happ "chance, good luck, fate"
Hell! HELL is Nordic? Yeeaaahh! Use your best Norwegian, here.
may be in part from Old Norse Hel, the daughter of Loki and ruler of the underworld in Norse mythology
hot
hett"to heat"
hit
hitta "to find"
how
haugr"barrow, small hill" Usage preserved mainly in place names
husband
husbondi "master of the house"
ill
illr "bad"
Jökulhlaup
Jotunheim

Jormungand
knife
knifr
knot
knutr
lad
ladd "young man"
lathe
hlaða "to load"
law
lagu
leg
leggr
litmus
litmose "lichen for dying", lita "to stain"
loose
lauss "loose" "free"
low
lagr
mire
myrr 'bog'
mistake
mistaka "miscarry"
muck
myki "cow dung"
mug
mugge
Monday
moon day
Norman, Normandy
from Old Norse through Old French, meaning "northman", due to Viking settlement in Normandy region
oaf
alfr "elf"
odd
oddi "third number", "the casting vote"
plough & plow
plogr
Ragnarök
"Doom of the Gods" or "Destiny of the Gods", from Norse mythology & ON word of same meaning, composed of words ragna, genitive of "the great powers"regin, and rǫk later rök "destiny, doom, fate, end". "Twilight of the Gods" after Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung, based on the mythological event.
raft
raptr "log"
raise
reisa
ransack
rannsaka "to search thoroughly"
reindeer
hreindyri
rive
rifa
root
rot
saga
saga "story, tale"
sale
sala
scare
skirra "to frighten
scarf
skarfr "fastening joint" interestingly, "scarf" and "scarves" English words, now. lol
scathe
skaða "to hurt, injure"
school
scōl "leisure, discussion, lecture, school"
score
skor 'notch' 'twenty'
scrape
skrapa "to scrape, erase"
scrap
skrap "scraps, trifles" from skrapa
seem
soema "conform"
scale
(for weighing) from skal "bowl, drinking cup", or in plural "weighing scale" referring to the cup or pan part of a balance) in early English used to mean "cup"
shirt
skyrta "shirt" see also skirt
skate
skata "fish"
skid
probably from or related to Old Norse skið"stick of wood"and related to "ski" "stick of wood", or in this sense "snowshoe"
skill
skil "distinction"
skin
skinn"animal hide"
skip
skopa "to skip, run
skirt
skyrta "shirt"
skull
skulle' "head"
sky
sky 'cloud'
slant
sletta,slenta 'to throw carelessly'
slaughter
slahtr "butchering"
sleight
slœgð
sleuth
sloð "trail"
snub
snubba "to curse"
stagger
stakk "to layer" as in clothing or hay
stakra "to push"
steak
steik, steikja "to fry"
Sunday
Zunne, Zun, Sun "Sun day"
take
taka
tarn
tjörn, tjarn
their
þierra
they
þeir
thorpe
þorp
thrall
þræll
Thursday
Thor's Day
thrift
þrift "prosperity"
troll
troll of disputed etymology
Tuesday
Tew's Day
ugly
uggligr "dreadful"
Vanadium
from Old Norse Vanadis, another name for Freja
valley
vǫllrfield
wale
vala" knuckle, oath"
wall
volr "staff"thatch walls held by staffs and staves.
wand
vondr "rod"
want
vanta"to lack"
weak
veikr "weak, pliant"
whirl
hvirfla "to go around"
whisk
viska"to plait"
wight
vigr "able in battle" The other wight meaning "man" is from Old English.
window
vindauga "wind-eye"Although gluggi was more commonly used in Old Norse.
wing
vængr"a wing"
work
werc, weorc "work"

All words mostly contributed by Wikipedia just because it was easier to paste and copy.

Are you impressed yet? "And there you go!"