Keli eats

When I lived in Utah County, they put a PF Changs in at the Orem Mall. People that went raved about it. I always meant to go and thought " sometime I will have a boyfriend and we will go to PF Changs and then we will rave..
hahahahahahahah
...then I moved to Cache Valley and I KNOW there was no PF Changs there because I went to every restaurant in Cache Valley with my friend Cindy.

Now I live in Northern, VA and I still don't have a boyfriend, but there are PF Changs a plenty.
Recently on Pinterest, I saw some copycat PF Changs recipes and I thought " Hey I always wanted to go there"

So I called a couple of my friends and we met at the PF Changs in Fairfax.

It was a Friday night and the parking lot was packed!!!! I had to park a little jaunt away and walk, but that is OK.


One of my friends lives and works in Arlington and one lives in Woodbridge and works in Old Town Alexandria.
THEY MET ME AT THE PF CHANGS IN FAIRFAX!!!! I know that they are real friends driving all the way out to THAT PF Changs to meet me!

I got a drink that was a strawberry cucumber drink that was REALLY good.. while it lasted it was SO CHOCK FULL of strawberries and cucumbers, which I enjoyed but they were a little to much garnishment and not enough drink.

We each got an appetizer and shared them
we got calamari, which was good.
we got crispy green beans which were also yummy ( I had never tried them)
I got edamame I LOVE edamame.. that was just all right " I have had better"

I felt like all the sauces were just a bit to spicy.. I almost felt like embarrassing myself and asking for some ranch ..but I did not..

My friends both liked their entrees

I got a coconut tofu dish, the was not supposed to have onions.. it did.. and the tofu was eh.. not good at all...

I had a great time with my friends, and I loved my drink and the crispy green beans..


but there are so many restaurants out there that I don't care if I go back to PF Changs....and I am not really raving.

 

dating Keli

My friends had a dinner last month and told me that I had to find a guy to bring.
So I asked a few different guys and they could not go, Then I went to the Potomac ward hoping to find some guy to be able to go with me. I mean after all it is just DINNER at my friends house...nothing more than DINNER..
So all three hours of church had come and gone and I was walking out, and this one guy started talking to me.

.....Earlier I had met him because I said that I knew someone that he used to date... This is how he started the conversation " So you know this girl I dated?" I said "yes" He said " what did she say about me?" I said " not much just that she dated you and it did not work out" He was like " oh OK" I said " well my friends told me I had to find a guy to invite to dinner would you like to come?" He said " Where is it? I need to be at work, really early in the morning like at 4 AM." I said that it was in Woodbridge about 20 minutes from here.
He said that would be fine.
So he had to talk to two ladies on the way out...then we left.
We walked over and he had a truck...( which is always a plus)
We got in and headed out to Woodbridge. He talked to me the whole way.. These are the things we talked about.
1. He asked me if I was part of any "group" and if I had a clique of friends.. I mean of course I do I am only 38, why would I not want that.. I said " no I sure don't I am like the LAST person that has something like that... I have a lot of good friends but some of them don't even KNOW each other.. He said "well I don't like to date girls that are part of groups, because I was dating  this one girl and she was part of a group and well then I asked out someone else in her group and she got mad at me."
........................................ omgosh.. um OF COURSE SHE DID... HELLO...
I said " well maybe you should have talked to her like did she know you wanted to ask out one of her REALLY GOOD FRIENDS???" 
He said he just wanted to make sure that I was not part of a group..

2. When we crossed over the Potomac River he pointed and said over there is where I keep my boat.. ....................omgosh.. what is it about me meeting guys that have boats.. He said that "we can go out on it ANY TIME, because he is one of the nicest men I will ever meet" ...........HARDLY..
I have realized that anyone that has to tell me that they are
one of the
nicest
smartest
or
funniest
guys I will ever meet is not really ANY of those things..
3.He then told me that he had been dating this other girl and that one time during priesthood he texted one of her really good friends and said " do you want to go out on my boat with me, we could leave right now" and the good friend showed the girl he was dating because she was sitting next to her in RS... and he said that they both got annoyed at him and
he hoped I was not a part of anything like that and that girl did not understand that he is " just a nice guy that likes to take anyone out on his boat" and that girl just HAPPENED to be her really good friend..I said well I would HOPE that who ever I date would want to take ME on his boat before he thinks of taking anyone ELSE.. and would not think to invite my best friend with out inviting me. I said that I like to date guys that like to spend time with me.

So we get to dinner and he is like the perfect man at dinner.. I am not kidding he was like the best guy you could ever imagine. He came right on in and started helping my friend cook. He had great manners. When I was done he cleared my plate and his plate.. then everyone elses plate and washed all the dishes..

My friends and I were going to play a game but he said that we  better not stay for that, because he had to get up really early in the morning like 4 AM to go to work.

My friends all said to me " he is so nice!" " bring him back anytime" and one guy said "he is a keeper"
I said nothing to any of this but hmmm because I thought I have met a LOT of really nice guys that are SUPER nice the first time.. being nice ONE night.. it does not mean much to me anymore.. they need to be nice CONSISTENTLY a lot more than one night.. but I will admit one night, is a start.

So by this time he had already told me that he had been married twice and he told all my friends that too. He also said that a lot of girls in the Potomac Ward don't want to date him because he has been married twice...

So on the way back I was talking and at one point in the conversation I realized he was not able to keep up with me.. like he could not pick up what I was putting down.. or was just not listening..

We got back to the church where my car was and he then talked to me for 3 or 4 hours about all his problems, like I was a counselor and I am NOT a counselor so I really did not know what to say ..

He told me all about his first marriage and why that failed and how he felt about it..

He talked IN DEPTH about his second marriage and why that failed

He was talking to me about all the stuff HE DID WRONG and what THEY DID WRONG and cussing and almost crying at points..

I was just like mmmhmm , omgosh.. wow I am sorry.. well that is not good.. well you have to move on..

I had no idea WHAT to say half the time..like I thought he had to go to work early and that is why we left my friends house early??

He said that he had " made out " with several women in the Potomac Ward..but they are " not really his type"

He told me all the stuff he does that he should NOT be doing.. and said he has done more bad things in his life than I can imagine.. I said I doubt that.. and I am not going to judge you on what you DID just on what you are doing..He said no, Keli I have done some really bad things" .. then he told me lots of them..

I told him a couple things about myself to help him to know I understood.. but I don't even think he was LISTENING..

then after he had ranted and raved about his ex-wives and women in the Potomac Ward and his life and told me how much money he makes and how he has a really good job..

He said that he really wants to take me out on his boat and " well he is super busy but HOPEFULLY
Friday or Sat. or Sunday.. but  he is super busy.. and his friend may die soon and he may have to go to that person's funeral.. He said he would text me soon and call me as SOON as he knows his work schedule and we would go out on his boat..

So I got out of his truck and he was like " Keli don't give up on me, I am just really busy, but I really want to take you out on my boat because I am a nice guy and well I really want to take you out on my boat"

about three days later he called me when I was on my way home from work. I said " Hi how are you?"
He said "I just called to tell you I am busy so um yeah bye"  I said "ok well how was your day?" He said "I just called to tell you I was busy so yeah um bye" I said "OK" well how is your life? is your friend OK you said your friend may die?" He said " oh yeah she died.. um thanks for asking so I am really busy so yeah um bye"
I was like " I am so sorry.. " He said well I am so busy so I just called to tell you I can't go on my boat this week, because I have to work, so maybe next week"
I said " well are you coming to institute tonight" He said yes but he would be late
I said I would be too..

So I went to institute and saw him there.. and after class I thought we would chat some so I walked up to him and said " Hey how are you " he saw me and said " oh hi" like he had never seen me or met me.. he did not even make eye contact with me.. he walked right over to a woman in her FIFTIES ( he is in his mid-thirties) and spent the whole rest of the night sitting in a corner chatting with her.. talking to NO ONE ELSE..which is fine.. but sometimes I think if you are having that good of a conversation at institute .. go somewhere and chat.. get to know the person ask them on a date.. move it forward..

It looked like she was giving him advice .. so maybe he was telling her all his problems.. He told me that He used to go to counseling THREE times a week!!!! one with his wife, one by himself..to work on his own issues, then the MFT again to work on their issues but by himself..
I just don't even know what to say about that but he is lucky he has insurance..

So when I left I went over and said goodbye to both of them and she was like " bye Keli!" all friendly because she thinks we are friends .. but we are not because I KNOW she has talked about me.. like saying I annoy her or something like that..and he just waved at me .. like he had never met me..

I am glad I spent all that time 3 nights previous to that listening to ALL his problems..

Since then I have not heard from him...but I am so sure he is just busy and going to call me any minute RIGHT??

on a side note, I asked him Sunday night " why are your records not in the Potomac Ward?" He said that he just BARELY got his divorce finalized and well he just did not want to deal with all the stress of moving his records.. that is super stressful to give the bishop his info and have it sent there via the Internet..
He said "he does not want to be on Bishop Larsen's radar and if he moves his records there he would be and he does not want to be.."
I said "where are your records right now?" He said that "he guessed back in the state where he had lived as a married man.. " I said "they might have been sent to SLC by now"

He said that he does not wear his garments right now, because he just does not want to because well he does not, and he has done a lot of bad things but he really doesn't want to and wants to get married in the temple because he thinks that the third time he can really make it happen...

He said Bishop Larsen is probably not concerned about him anyway since he wants all of us women to marry non-members and that makes him feel like S...
......and on and on and on..He said so much stuff my brain was like on overload...

and just think I COULD HAVE HEARD MORE !!!!TO BAD HE WAS TO BUSY TO TAKE ME OUT ON HIS BOAT.. to freakin bad...

crafty Keli

So I was on Pinterest the other day.. and I saw this idea for a DIY bird bath made out of those terra cotta pots.. I thought I CAN DO THAT!!!.. Then I went to the Lowes in Chantilly and they did not have any.. I was like um now what.. because now my heart was SET on making one of those bird baths..
But I was at Lowes so I just decided to walk around when I found THIS! you buy the pieces separate and it comes to ... OK I forgot BUT less than $35.
but I did not want a boring gray birdbath, So I spray painted the bottom purple and the top lime green.
........I have only seen a bird out there once, but I am sure the word is getting out because I built it so that means they have to come.
a couple of addendum's
* I am glad I did not do the DIY one because I added up the cost and it would have been like $ 80 plus.

* sometimes being a single woman in hard.. I had to get this thing OUT of my blazer and then ROLL it no joke ROLL it into my backyard and ALL the way over to the other side I started because that is just where I HAD to have it..but when I got it there I will have to admit, I was pretty darn proud of myself!

field trip

Last week I took,
Corey age 11
Hunter age 11
and 
Ari age 8
to Leesburg Animal Park in Leesburg,VA
 with the extra money I paid we got a small ice cream cone with animal feed and then a plastic souvenir cup with a zebra on it that says " Leesburg Animal Park"  that was also filled with animal feed.

With that we could feed some goats, sheep, pony's, lamas, alpacas, deer, and other stuff.

you have to watch out for the horse Napoleon it will steal your whole cup as it did with 11 year old Corey.. and then I had to put my hand in there at my own peril to retrieve that cup, that Corey later decided he did not want...

some of the other things to look at there are
rabbits.. Hunter got to hold one.
macaws- didn't see any
lemurs -didn't see any
there were chickens and roosters roaming around the grounds, but none came close to us.
The gibbons were fun to watch, they were swinging around their cage and that was cool.

some of the other stuff to do there is:
Pony rides- that was included with the extra admission, all the kids did it, it just went around three times.
there was a wagon ride included in admission, it took us to a zebra exhibit where there was a mom and dad zebra and their baby that was born in April 2012. They were out running around waving their tales. The guy who did the wagon ride told us facts about zebras when we stopped there.
the wagon ride also stops at a big pond that is FULL of carp and I mean FULL. He then gives you fish food that you just throw in the water from the wagon and the carp basically fight each other to get it they come out of the water, to get it LIKE THEIR WHOLE BODIES COME OUT OF THE WATER TO GET IT.. and there are a lot of geese there and the geese will step on the carp to get food. so it is like a feeding frenzy.

They also said that the wagon ride is usually longer and more animals are out to view and not in their stalls and behind fences but they can't do that right now because " they are getting ready for pumpkinville" so apparently getting ready for that is more important than the people that come in August. I saw a bunch of wood things standing up against a shed that I guess they are going to put up for pumpkinville.. one of them was a decapitated Shaggy.. IDK about that one..

there is also an area that you can go in and pet dirty pigs, lamas, goats and sheep.. and walk around in their manure if you want to..

they also had a playground and a moonbounce for kids to play in.It was really hot the day that we went and the kids I had with me did not express any desire to do any of that stuff.

We went in the gift shop, which I thought was kinda lame because they did not sell magnets...

next door is a farmers market that sells a lot of local and organic produce, which is cool except all his produce looked terrible..but the guy running it was nice and gave Ari a whole container of tomato's to eat for free.


so here is the information:
Leesburg Animal Park
19270 James Monroe Hwy.
Leesburg, VA

you can find all the other info here
http://www.leesburganimalpark.com/


The lady that I was watching her kids gave me the extra $$ to do the extra things with the kids. So  I paid the 11.50 for kids.. I personally think adults need to be cheaper..

So that is that.. I don't know if or when I will ever go back.. I am sure at some point.. but I don't know it will be any time in the foreseeable future.

 

dating Keli

So about a month ago I went to a ward activity. We were meeting at the church to carpool. 

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MID-SINGLES MEET TO CAR POOL

people just stand around and say " well I have two places in my car.." and someone else will be like " well I need a ride" I don't have time for that drama..because we all know that some people are just waiting to ride with so in so... and if you really, REALLY want to ride with that person or don't want THAT person in your car.. then DON'T MEET AT THE CHURCH TO CAR POOL .. I AM SERIOUS..
this is the kind of stuff that stresses me OUT...
so now people just stand around and I basically ASSIGN people to ride in people's cars like ...hold on WAIT you have two spaces..
hold on you need a RIDE...let me hook ya all up..
so I say to this one guy... " do you need a ride" he said
" who all is in your car?"
AGAIN IF YOU ARE THAT CONCERNED DON'T MEET AT THE CHURCH TO CARPOOL...!~
I told him ...
he said ....oh...no... I said
WHY? are you waiting for someone COOLER??
and he said YES
omgosh I am shocked..but oh well he admitted it that is saying SOMETHING...
I saw who he rode with and I thought " OK maybe he wants to get something going with that person" which is acceptable..but you know what is MORE acceptable.. calling the person and saying " hey want to ride to this with me and bypass meeting at the church?"

then he ignored that person all day.................................the cooler person he rode with...

I just don't even know anymore.... I really don't....

so I talked to him for a bit and he seemed all right.. like maybe worth getting to know

so the next day I added him on FB and then I messaged him and was all like " hey do you want to come and eat dinner with my friends and me?" He said he was busy
BUT MAYBE HE WOULD ASK ME OUT IN THREE WEEKS......
who are these people??? what the what??? you REALLY think that I THINK that you are SO BUSY that you actually have NO TIME FOR THREE WEEKS...ok well I will just wait for YOU to ask ME out since shoot you did not even ask for my number...

so I went by the Potomac Ward that day and I saw him and he gave me a hug and said are you going into this class... and I was like " I guess" and he said well Let's go in.. and I said where should we sit and then I realized he meant Let's go in as in we both walk in ..but not let's sit together..
because you know if we sat together we might have to get married...seriously...
and I admire his missionary spirit inviting me into that class but dude I am covered...like you know what.. I am good... I went to ALL THREE HOURS IN MY OWN WARD and participated... so we go into the class and he sits on the bench by me but like so far away... you know so I don't get any crazy ideas flowing through my brain...cause I TOTALLY WAS....

So I did not hear from him at all and that is OK I did not expect to ...but a week I am not joking a WEEK later... I went to a potluck at the Potomac ward and he was there and I said " Hey how are you and he said " um.. I am sorry who are you? what is your name again? is it Keli?? or Kim...??

AND I AM ON HIS FACEBOOK.... Keli or Kim... omgosh... if he can FORGET me in one week...
then um...WOW... I guess I will continue to look for someone cooler...

so yeah this is the state of my dating life...

random Keli

A few years ago some teenage girls were at my house and we were watching TV and I remember some man came on the screen I think it was Christopher Meloni and I said don't you think he is HOT? They said no.. I said why not??? They said

" Well he is an old man" ...

Christopher Meloni is 14 years older than me making him FIFTY-ONE..currently...WAIT when did I get old..old enough to think that a man that is FIFTY ONE IS HOT.............that if I met him in real life I would totally want to ..............um date him...

a couple of days ago I had another experience, I was watching Lena who will be 13 next month. She was going on and on and on about One Direction and how her favorite one is Zayn.
I didn't tell her about how I loved
COREY FELDMAN in Goonies
or
River Phoenix in Stand By Me
or KIRK CAMERON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omgosh I loved KIRK CAMERON...

I didn't tell her about New Kids on the Block and that Jordan was MY FAVORITE ONE..

or how I could never choose between Dylan and Brandon.... I still can't....oh Luke and Jason!

I thought going into 8th grade hmmm who did I love ....AXL ROSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT... I could NOT admit to that because WHAT HAPPENED TO AXL... I mean that is more embarrassing that Corey Feldman IMO..
So I showed her " Every Rose has it's thorn"
and said I thought this man Bret Michaels was hot.. and people loved men that looked like this. Then I showed her a current picture of Bret Michaels and was like this is what he looks like now and women still go ga-ga for him..she said "ewwwww gross" does that mean Zayn is going to look ugly when he is like 40" I said IDK but you don't want to see what some of these other men look like now...which I guess is better than what River Phoenix looks like now.. RIP...

Then we watched a One Direction and was like THESE ARE ALL LITTLE BOYS!!!! and HARRY NEEDS A HAIRCUT!!!!
..............omgosh I am old ya'all ..and so old I forgot in less than five minutes my teen love for Axl, Sebastian, Jon, Bret, Motley Crue and all of them to tell Lena that Harry Styles needs a haircut!

when did I get old..?

Like A Detective

I have always wanted to try gelato, but seriously who hasn't I mean it is in those RECTANGULAR BINS! and a stunning array of colors and flavors and you can actually SEE it and it just looks so tantalizing a little different than ice cream down in those bins with a little cardboard name..or yogurt in a machine with a name attached to the machine. No gelato looks amazing it is like self-advertising right there.
I have been wanting to try some for awhile but it is never the right time or the right place. In my church congregation, all the singles meet together on Monday nights for FHE ( family home evening)  We are like a family.
The person in charge right now is named Sarah, I suggested to her that we try gelato for FHE. I thought I am always putting it off, now I would not anymore
Sarah found a place in Vienna, VA called Plush Gelato. It is on 123 in the heart of Vienna.
The parking is kind of tricky, I found a place but a man that was not looking almost hit me when I was pulling in.

I walked into the gelato place, and my friend Kristen was waiting. There are about 6 tables or so and they offered about 10 flavors. The man behind the counter was very friendly and let us try as many flavors as we wanted.
I ended up getting coconut and peanut butter. I love peanut butter the guy behind the counter said he loved coconut so I got more coconut than PB..but oh well..
three other girls, Fiorella, and Gina and Kelly M. showed up and two guys, Bailey and Eric came. Everyone said that they liked their gelato.

Here is my only issue.. I got two big scoops in a cute little cardboard bowl. but it was FOUR DOLLARS...that is a little much IMO.

so my verdict is gelato is good..but EXPENSIVE

http://www.plushgelato.com/

they also served coffee but you will have to ask someone else about that..

Missionary Keli

I just tried to post a picture on here..but for whatever reason it did not work, so you will have to go to FB for that picture..

Yesterday I uploaded to FB a picture of my missionary companion and myself in Simi Valley,CA in September 2000.

I was with Carrie Ann Christensen Melton. I will tell you a story about when I was her companion.

As I said in a earlier story I REALLY wanted to speak English on my mission. I mean I REALLY wanted to.. and My bishop here in VA was like " maybe the Lord does not want you to talk" .......well guess what HE DID because I got sent to the California Ventura Mission speaking ENGLISH.

The first six months of my mission I served in Bakersfield,CA with Sisters, Amato, Smith, and Weight..then transfers came...

transfer night was HUGE in my mission and I mean HUGE... we would stay up late and wait for the Elders to call us and tell us where we were going to go.. and before that we would write ALL our predictions on a white board.. ALL the English speaking sisters .. and ALL the Elders we cared about..

So transfers came and they said that Sister Weight and I BOTH were leaving! I forgot where Sister Weight went but I remember them telling me that I was going to SANTA PAULA, CA.. like um...what??

WHERE????

WHAT???

SANTA WHERE???? and I was going to be with Sister C. Christensen...I am sorry I am going to be with WHO????

 no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.................I don't KNOW this C. Christensen... I mean what is her NAME..?? COME ON.. and she is a SPANISH SPEAKING SISTER.. I mean she was white and from Idaho but she was a SPANISH SPEAKING SISTER... like what the what??? and Santa Paula was a SPANISH AREA.. we would be going into an area that was for the most part all MEXICAN... ALL...no no no no no no no no no...this was BEYOND UNFAIR...no no no no no..where the FREAK was SANTA PAULA and who was SISTER C. Christensen...

also she wanted to leave Bakersfield earlier in the morning...like um NO... I need to go around and take pictures of everything that I never got a chance to take pictures of in the 6 months that I was there.. and um...I need to drive around and say goodbye to all the cool members .......like NOOOOOOOOOOOO... so Sister Weight and I did not show up till really late to meet her.. and she was LEAVING.. I barely caught Sister C. Christensen...I was like WHY DIDN'T you wait.??? she was like you are lucky you caught me.. I said um didn't you want to drive around and take pictures and say goodbye to all the cool members... she was like I did what I had time to do but we need to get to Santa Paula.. we are missionaries and have missionary work to do...

oh....yeah...................missionary work.... !

writing this I can't BELIEVE HOW SELFISH I WAS...I seriously can't believe it..I felt so horrible about myself.. I had had a companion that had passed around crazy rumors about me.. and I felt like they just pushed me off on this Spanish speaking sister because no English speaking one " wanted me" that I was just worthless...

.............and deep down inside that is how I felt..worthless...

Also I think of how hard of a time that Sister Christensen who I later found out was named Carrie, must have had with me.. I mean not only was I a BRAT.. she had to clean out the whole apartment mostly by herself.. while I sat around because " well it did not really need it" and I would just sit around reading the Ensign or the scriptures..

She had to do EVERY door intro ...every discussion.. every, every thing...while I pouted and acted horrible and was SO MEAN TO HER...!!!!

like when are we going to hang out and have some FUN!!!!?????

and we would get in arguments where I would be SO MAD AT HER... and I would cry...

then one day..Sister Christensen sat down beside me and gave me a big hug and said Sister Wright I feel like you just need love... and well I love you ... and I was like..............well I was humbled...and we just sat there for a long time ...me crying and her hugging me...

 

slowly but surely things changed ..we became great friends..and even BETTER companions... we were able to baptize two amazing people in that area..one who went on to do HUNDREDS of names in the temple..

Sister Christensen showed me not only HOW to be a missionary and what it MEANT to be a missionary but what it meant to love...and how to accept love.. and for that I am always grateful!

 

Turns out that during my tenure in the CVM I was the highest baptizing missionary ..it is scary to think what would have happened to me or even where I would be now.. if Sister Christensen (who was stuck going to a Spanish area with a sister that only spoke English who was a selfish brat.. )

had not loved me...

 

..."as I have loved you..love one another this new commandment love one another..by this shall men know ye are my disciples..if ye have love one for another..."

 

PS the picture I put up is from later in our missions when we were in Simi Valley, CA and had different companions but were GREAT FRIENDS!!! I gave her that dress she is wearing :)

Holiday/ My mom's birthday 2011

On December 16th 2011, my mom turned 68 years old. I talked to Brad and we planned a fun day for her.

Brad met us here and we took her to the Build a Bear in Fair Oaks Mall.. we told her that we were " taking her out for sushi" and she was like " no I don't want to go to anything off the wall" but we went in the mall and just walked in and when she saw the Build a Bear place she was like oh!! and when we told her THAT was where we were going she was so excited!
we went in and she could not choose between 2 different bears so she got them both.. she put hearts in them and told the lady this is my son and daughter and they are taking me here for my b-day. She picked out some clothes for them. They are dressed in Christmas type clothes ..one is a boy one is a girl. She insisted on putting two hearts in each to represent Brad and me..
on Mothers Day 2012, I tried to get her some new outfits for them but the Build a bear was closed.. so THAT sucks.. we went through everything and then we had to name them.
She really wanted to name the boy Brad.. and the girl Heather.. which is weird because well she named her SON Brad and she wanted to name me Heather but my uncle said he wanted to name his first daughter that.. so she did not.. and well.. he never had a daughter.. and I ended up Keli.. that is OK with me..
So Brad and I were like no you already have named someone Brad.. so she decided on Bret.. and named the girl Heather....she sure does know what she likes...
on the way out there was a bear that was only $5 if you had bought other stuff, she wanted him too so we got her him.. she ended up with three bears..
Christina had joined us by then, and then we all headed out to Manassas to go to Cracker Barrel because my mom had been going on and on about how her and her friend Charla stopped by this Cracker Barrel once and it had SUCH GOOD FOOD!!!!....
I don't know if I agree..but we did not tell her where we were going and when we got to Cracker Barrel she was so excited..
after that, we took her home and she called all her friends and relatives and told them about all the fun that she had and her new bears..
Now I need to come up with something to do THIS year!!!