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I finally went on facebook but I don't have any friends and don't know how to find people that I want to keep track of. Somebody find me on facebook and help me. Also I should have put my full name Lori Corrigan Joffs but I just put Lori Joffs. Is there any way I can change that? I will try and blog later this week. I have been sick sick sick and so has almost everbody else in the house so our Spring Break was stellar. The highlight is when I could finally taste Diet Coke again today. Brandon is running the Salt Lake Half Marathon tomorrow. I am not running because of my dumb foot injury. Thanks for stopping by! I will write more asap.

Shamed into blogging!

So Abby finally decided she was going to start blogging again and is hard at it. I think her recent blogging was spurred on by a visit from Katie Lynn who showed her some of the ins and outs. I am pretty sure she is surpassing my knowledge of blogging by leaps and bounds. So here I am shamed into writing. Abby informed me today that it has been almost a month since I last wrote. I have done an awful lot since then. I flew to New York, which was supposed two be a two day stint before I flew to Rome with Brandon on a business trip. Second day in New York, probably one of Brandon's worst days documented, he informs me that the project he is on really does not want him to go to Rome and that He will be leaving them at a critical time. So long story short we did fly to Rome a day late and then returned to New York two days later. This is not what I would recommend for a European vacation. Rome was amazing and I felt like crying because I new it would only be for two short days. So I won't tell you everything but I would highly recommend Rome for a vacation destination. It was the neatest place I have ever been. It was early spring when I was there and the park was covered with little white daisies and it really truly was breathtaking. The city is clean and so fun to wander in. It was really weird being a foreigner. Some very important things to know before you go to Rome, if you drink Diet Coke they don't have it. They have something called Coke Light (which is nothing like the real thing) and if you want ice well just forget it. What they do have is really good ice cream. I don't see how they can have ice cream but ice is so foreign to them! Come on people it is not that hard. I also highly recommend first class (which we had on the way out) and I highly don't recommend Air Italia coach (which we took back to the states) talk about miserable and soooo so long 9+ hours in the air. So New York was actually really fun and it was all thanks to my sister Heather Anna. Thanks for salvaging my vacation Heath. I was once again blown away by her awesome preseverence and her great attitude. She is truly an inspiration to me. She really knows how to make the best out of any situation. I learned a lot from her while I was with her and, amazingly, this sunday in relief society our lesson was about enjoying the journey and living in the now. I was so thankful for Heather's example and then a totally inspired lesson by my very own relief society. I hope I can do better at enjoying these precious, fleeting moments and be a better friend, mother, sister, and wife. I am so thankful for my mom, Katie Lynn and Katie Lila for watching my kids. They are the best and I hope they realize the lasting relationships they are building. I still remember my Grandma, my aunts Lynan and Nanette babysitting when I was young and I know that our relationships were formed in those young years of my life. Thanks for remembering and celebrating my birthday with me (You Know who you are). Have a good day and if I continue on the same track, talk to you next month!

If March is Mad what is February?

Wow, has it really been that long? I almost gave this up but my cousin told me how much she enjoyed staying in touch with the blog. I guess I will give you what I have and if that isn't enough....well it rarely is. February has been a blur of colds and flu. We are all, knock on wood, doing okay for the moment. I have been training for a marathon again. Brandon and I are running the Salt Lake Half and the Ogden. After that how crazy we decide to get remains to be seen. I do feel good to be back in training, working towards a goal. Last weekend I had a a scrap and crap weekend with both Katies, my mom, Lynan, Nannette, Jinnene and Katie's mom Debbie. My favorite new quote from the weekend is, "I don't know Karate but I do know Crazy and I am not afraid to use it!" I know I will find a good moment to use that one.

The snow is melting outside and it would be really exciting if it wasn't coated with dirt and grime. I really can't even recognize my grass in the park strip and along the drive-way where the snow is starting to creep back. It is really disgusting and makes me all the more in awe of mother nature. I can't believe that all that grass and the plants are really going to come back and look decent again. This is always a hard time of year for me, I just want spring to hurry up. I do have one exciting event happening next week. I am going to Rome with Brandon for a few days. I am going to break out my passport for the first time and venture out on an international flight. I am most excited to spend some time with my hubby.

Tonite I got to attend the maturation program with Abby and it made me feel really old. I swear I am not old enough to have a child in fifth grade. It wasn't how I remembered it when I was in grade-school. It has either changed or I am remembering something very wrong. They really don't get into details and I wonder why they even offer the program at all. I would seriously consider not attending next time. I had already covered everything with Abby and the only thing we really got from the program was a couple of free panti-liners.

I spend alot of time just me and the kids and I am constantly trying to decide if I am a good mother. The visiting teaching message in Feb. was about the divine calling of women. It points out that we fought for the opportunity to be mother's. I am going to try and remember that when I have those desperate moments. I wanted to come to earth and be a mother and I better enjoy and treasure these moments. Check out my new slide show...I figured it out again! (whew) I hope all is well with anyone who reads this. I will blog again when I get back from Europe.