WOW!!

Iceland is incredible, every time I think it cannot get any better we see something that changes my mind. The water falls we saw yesterday were amazing and riding the Icelandic horse to the beach and along the ocean had some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen. Pictures to come. We are so busy that I haven't had time to download photos, but I am on my second card, I filled the 4GB card two days ago.

Iceland

We are here and it is cold and wet. The plane trip was long and cramp, but we each had our own tv screen with lots of options. Church was in Icelandic and I feel so bad for the members in our ward who have the service translated it is really hard to keep up with the flow.
Exhaustion flowed over me every few hours until I finally fell into bed at nine last night. I should be good today. I left the video camera and card readers at home so I will need to borrow a card reader to get my pictures off the camera.
Love you at guys at home.

Iceland here we come

We are getting ready to leave on Saturday. I went out and bought a new camera since Gunnar lost mine. Now just what else to bring. My parents need a few things and now that I have all the items I hope to have room for clothes. Luckily for us you can still check bags for international flights. We will be there over The Iceland Independence Day that should be fun. Lots to do before we go. We will post when we can.

The boys all went to a Twins game last night and they are all very tired today. Lots of grumpy kids Yeah!!!!!

Book of Lies

I just finished he Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer. I really likes it. The search is for immortality, the searches believe that God gave Cain some sort of book on the secrets of immortality when he repented of killing Abel. Repenting is a very important aspect of this book. Well it really is the Book of Truth carved into an animal horn and the idea is that immortality is really what we leave behind, stories we tell our children that they tell their children and our children themselves. True immortality the things you leave behind of yourself that last. I look forward to reading a few of his other books, good story it kept me entertained.

Not to be outdone.

Books I've read this year.

7-15 of the In Death series by JD Robb, I'm taking a break from Death for awhile. 9
Watermelon by Marion Keyes along with Sushi for Beginners. 2

Voices and The Draining Lake by the Icelandic guy. 2

How Nancy Drew Saved My Life, stupid but about a nanny in Iceland. The book was going along great and then she ruined it with about 40 pages to go. Don't waste your time. 1

The Shopaholic books, not all this year, but two of them. I still need to read Shopaholic & Sister and Shopaholic & Baby. 2
Hot Ice-Nora Roberts and a few others of hers(fast to read) 4

Some Linda Howards. (fast to read) 3

Financial Peace Revisited. Dave Ramsey 1

Suzy Ormans Plan for 200. Pretty short. 1

Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? Peter Walsh. 1(Second time reading it and the other one he just wrote.)

Little House on the Prairie and parts of on the Banks of Plum Creek(with Cenneidigh). 1

Working on The book of Lies.

Various other children's books. I get all of my books from the library so sometimes it hard to remember them all.

I may not read like David, but I'm not wasting my brain either. Some of you may disagree with some of my choices, but I enjoy all sorts of books. Romance mixed with murder seems to be high on the list this year. Last year it was a better mix more murder and suspense less romance. I like romance, everyone ends up happy. Reichs needs a new book as well as Brown(September) and the Icelandic guy needs more of his translated into English, then I would never run out of things to read. Of course in the summer we are at the library a couple times a week so I'm sure to get a lot more reading done.

My back.

My back is getting better. Saturday morning I couldn't even move off my bed. This is Thursday and yesterday I went to work at the preschool with little ones crawling over me, and it was not that bad. Today it is just slightly annoying, but the heating pad is doing wonders. Ice was good, but it is cold outside so I'm glad I'm now ready for the heat.

Friday I was working out, but not getting the feeling anything was actually working, I guess it was but not the way I hoped. Old age is what I've been told is happening, and if this is it old age sucks.

The back pain pills gave me the strangest sensations. My whole body felt like it was wrapped in plastic, even the Ben-Gay didn't feel like anything. I stopped taking those and now am just using advil and tylenol combined with heating pads(yes two, one on my back the other on my left bum the muscle pull is from my lower back all the way down my bum) and rest. Slow moving and not taking many stairs right now.

JT photos

Here is a photo of JT with the missing tooth. Yea JT. Such a cutie and growing up so fast, too fast. He played outside all weekend with friends and family. Really looking forward to summer time, sleeping-in, late nights and locking everyone outside for the day(on nice days). This keeps me sane all summer long.