CONGRATULATIONS SARA JEAN!!!

Congratulation are in order for Sara Jean (Darling) Newton! (I'm sorry Sara, that I always have to add in your maiden name, I just can't help myself!!)
Sara is the proud winning of my grammar contest and if she will email me her address, next time I'm am in Utah I will be dropping off her GRAND PRIZE! She is the winner of several new hair bows for her little (nearly) hairless baby! :) (Lucky for me, I was already planning on getting you something for your VERY sweet little bebe!!)

FYI

So . . . for your information, NELS has a blog. I'm posting this on mine so that all of you can bookmark it and check it everyday, (just like you do mine - ha ha!) and THEN he will have to spend time adding things to it. :) :) :) Hooray! There's nothing like enabling yet another future addict!

http://ninjanels.blogspot.com/

Its or It's???

I think I need a basic English refresher course. And for any of you out there who are "passionate" about English and grammar - I've probably been driving you nuts for a long time. Now, I would like the input of everyone who is (or thinks :) ) that they are smarter than me. 

When do you use "its" and when do you use "it's"? I'm sure that I could just google this information - but I've already spent enough time on the computer today. I know that there are some weird rules about this that I learned in college english. And you don't always use the apostrophe in the same way you would with other words. So. Give me your input. What do you use when you're using it as a contraction? What do you use when you're using it as a possessive word. I need some education! :)

P.S. I'll take answers and then, at some point in the future, do my own research and whoever is right will get a special prize! Hip-Hip-Hooray!

P.P.S. You don't get to google this yourself before you answer. You have to tell me just what is in your brain. Let's see if you are right! :)

One of my favorite observations

Today I was reading different blogs and came across my SIL, Melyni's, most recent post. It's so great! She's talks about this really great website where you can learn about all sorts of things History related. Awesome. She tells about some of the cool things that she's learned lately. You can just really tell that she loves it. 

Then I started thinking about my post from last night. I'm a dork about fish. Melyni's a dork about history. Nels is a dork about video. --- I think all of us have our own hidden nerdiness. And I think its also something that's really important! 

It has long been one of my favorite things to watch people get excited about things that they are passionate about. Usually it's something that almost no one else is explicitly interested in, but it is so fun to watch someone get excited! It is just so TRUE. It's SO REAL. In that moment, you are really SEEING that person.

I think it's important for all of us to have these things. Sometimes we can get too self-conscious - we don't allow ourselves to get excited - and that is a crying shame! I think it's important for all of us to be passionate . . . excited . . . happy. As long as we're careful to keep it in SOME moderation. Some of these things can also be very time or money consuming. :)

Anyway. That is my little blab for the day. I think we all need to let ourselves get excited. It makes us happy. It makes other people happy too.

Poor Nels

So Nels has finally realized after nearly 6 years of marriage that he is married to a crazy woman! I have spent much of the past month researching some new fish that I'd like to get and looking for a good deal on a bigger tank (even though he told me that I couldn't have another one). Today I found some really awesome websites and some cool stores to check out in Salt Lake next week where I think I can find them - these are pictures of the fish I want. (I know that pretty much no one who reads my blog gives a hoot nor holler about fish, but I can't control myself!)

Aren't they cute?! Also, while I was at it, I decided to check out ksl.com's classifieds and found several tanks for AWESOME prices! And guess what??? Nels wants to pull his brains out, but he said that I can get one!!! As long as I don't spend a dollar over $150, this can be my birthday present!!! HOORAY! I'm so excited that I can hardly wait!

Poor boy. The one animal that he holds pretty much no feelings for (fish) I am totally addicted to. But hey, you know what? They don't poop on the floor or the grass. You don't have to find a sitter for them ever time you leave town. They don't lick your face (or your baby's) and they don't whine at the door! They can also double as a beautiful piece of art! :) 

***sigh***

I'm so happy!