Groneman Family

I see some folks are thinking of holidays and starting to use the WISH LIST BLOG . Good job folks! I've added my greed list there as well.

Obama Seeks to Lengthen School Year Interesting. What do you think?

It's almost Ha llo we en !!!! One of my favorite holidays. Q. What do you call a witch who lives at the beach? A. A sand-witch.

We went to Marysvale to get our trailer and bring it back home this weekend and took a ride around to see the colors while we were down there. Not many Maples, but a lot of Aspens which were really pretty.

Steve and I just returned from our 5-day cruise to Catalina Island and Mexico. Half of the cruise was a blast and the other half was …um…interesting. Day1: Super dizzy upon boarding the boat—oh man, I hope I’m not seasick the whole time. Too bad none of the food looks appetizing. Developed a painful cough about the time I got on board. Night 1: Cold cold cold. Just couldn’t get warm and couldn’t sleep—was up wandering the boat in the middle of the night thinking to myself: “why didn’t people tell me to bring warm clothes on a cruise—I had no idea it could be so cold!” Thinking secretly to myself that I don’t really like cruises and I don’t think I’ll do another one again. Day 2: terrible headache. Took some Tylenol and off to Catalina island. Had a blast snorkeling with Steve and his brother, Devin, and his wife Lena. That night was the “Formal night” on the boat and we ate lobster. Mine just wasn’t very appetizing—too bad --I must just have some seasickness. What is the poi...

O ne of Erica's friends from work at BYU invited us to their house for Dinner, so we went last night. They live on the outskirts of Heber, and she's got several animals. They have a Horse, 2 dogs, 3 goats, and 3 kittens. We took Emmy around to see the animals. First we took her to see the kittens. They're 8 weeks old - little fluff balls that run around and play. They frightened Emmy at first. We took her hand and showed her how to pet them. We let her pet one on her own, and she promptly grabbed one by the top of neck and squeezed. It's a good thing kittens have extra skin there. We took her hand away and I think we startled her, such that she didn't want to touch the kittens again. She liked watching them though. Next we took her to see the goats. She liked the goats more than the kittens. She got brave and reached out and touched them on their snouts. Next we took her to see the horse. We walked through where the dogs were to get to the horse, and th...

OK, I hope Cambrie isn't upset with me...but from the sounds of things, she isn't going to have time to blog for awhile...They have Swine Flu, and Kiera has Croup and Sinusitus. Cambrie spent the last 2 days of her cruise in quarantine in her cabin. I don't think Steve has it, but with him in Dental school if he had to miss for a couple of weeks,I am sure it would be bad! BJ isn't sick yet...but because she has been exposed they don't want her coming to work....it could kill one of those kids she serves. So NOT FUN STUFF! Poor Cambrie quarantined on her first cruise! Bummer!! I am sure Steve wasn't able to enjoy that either...and I hate that my littlest ladies are sick! Anyway...add the group to your prayers, OK? OK Brigham...I know that the Gaskills got it and he said it wasn't that bad in their family. But it probably hits little ones harder than a 25-40 year old right? I know it can kill and that is why they have been making such a big deal about it...

Erica's sister, as you remember, was expecting triplets. Well, she had them this morning, and so far they are seeming to do pretty well considering that they are 2 months early. Check out their blog: bottfamilytriplets.blogspot.com What an adjustment they are in for! From one child to 4! She'll need a lot of help!

Thursday, September 24, 2009 OK, so I suspect there is a better way of doing this, but I don't know it. I got a chuckle out of this video, so I thought you might as well . Go to: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=160376183581

Most of my siblings have been checking our blog, but we are a little offended that it still hasn't made the Groneman Family Blog list. If you want the latest on our job search and cute kids, that's the place to find it!

We took over 1200 pictures. This is just a few of them. Click on this and view it on the web site to see it in all it's glory. 2009-09-Hawaii

OK I had no idea I would love that cruise so much! The food was nothing to crow over...it was ok...but the places we went to made up for it! When I went to Hawaii in 1981, really the only place I got to go see was the Polynesian Cultural Center, and I LOVED IT! But, I really didn't have much to compare it with...the only other memorable thing we did on that trip was body-surf on the north shore area of Oahu. We were on our way back from Japan and just paid $25 extra to stop over in Hawaii. We were out of money...thus the tight budget. Anyway...Kim is in the process of pulling pictures to put on the blog and a picture is worth a thousand words...so you will "get the picture" (heh, heh!) My favorite places? Wow, that is hard! We loved the Captain Zodiac adventure to this WAY AWESOME tropical reef where we snorkled. I saw critters I never even knew exhisted! (which I found out is called a sea lily) I even saw an Octupus! On our way back to the ship, we jet boated ar...

I got to shake hands with a prophet of God today! Elder L Tom Perry just spoke in our Stake Conference, and I got to shake his hand after the meeting! That was a first for me! Our plane arrived at SLC international at 1 pm, when the meeting starte d...but with the quickest exit from the airport in the history of the world, I was in our meeting in Cedar Hills at 2pm and he spoke at 2:30 pm! I have seen in person, many times at the conference center, the AF Tabernacle, and the McKay Events center...but never in my little church in po-dunk Cedar Hills So, here is how the miracle went down! Kim and I had been assigned to seats on the plane about 20 rows apart, so we asked at the gate if they could switch us. Not only did they switch us, we were in the first row, right behind first class...so we were first in the non-rich class to exit the plane. We bee-lined it to luggage and (REALLY) it was already there! Counting our amazing blessings already we walk...

For those of you like myself who wish they had whiter teeth, check this out: click here . I'm going to give it a go, and we'll see what happens.

If you like a murder mystery along the lines of "10 Little Indians" but a little more modern, check out Harper's Island (watch for free on cbs.com) which is one full season of a murder mystery where a group of friends go to an island for a wedding but get picked off by a murderer one by one...and you try to guess whodunit. All is revealed in the last episode of the season. Not for the squeamish.

OK, yes, I am aware that it is Sept....but I am going to the Dastrups in early Oct and beings that I have always had a great dislike of mailing boxes, I would like to take their Christmas with me when I go. AND if I need to start planning on buying theirs, then I would also like suggestions from the rest of you all. Doesn't guarantee a thing! You may just get that proverbial "Electric piano" again! Or COAL! so you better be nice.... But if I get no suggestions, you will be stuck with what we decide, which may not be what you would have wished for...so Suggestions are being accepted at this point! No boats, houses, or cars will be accepted. Not valid in Florida, Maine or Texas...batteries not included....Do not operate this equipment without the proper use of safety goggles and rubber gloves..... Fire up the Groneman wishlist gramps!

I'm a bit upset right now since due to a minor error on the part of my employer, I no longer have a job doing flu shots this flu season. they "FORGOT" to send me an email notifiying me that I could sign up for shifts (which were on a first-come-first-serve basis) after they had sent us an email saying "our scheduling system is down-- don't attempt to log on and don't call us...we'll email you once it is fixed and let you know when you can sign up for shifts". OOOPS. Well, there went that prospective income. The good news is that I still have a very strange single attorney lady with UGLY hairless cats who lives across the street from me who said she'd pay me for pet-sitting, cleaning, filing, and all sorts of other random help. So, there is still hope for some income.

Brigham got an offer to interview at a hospital in Draper! We have no idea on the details of the job yet, so we don't even know how interested we are, but I thought I'd share anyway. He'll be interviewing sometime in October after Mom leaves.

So a few random things have been happening around here: 1st of all, just to let you all know (not that I expect you to be there), my official graduation date is Nov. 13th! Woot Woot! I'm super excited! We're just getting into the fund raising aspect for our end of program fees and everything. So if any of you feel the urge to get your car washed or to buy a raffle ticket for an I-Pod Touch, let me know ;-) There is also a good samaritan somewhere in this vicinity. So, I've had a big ol dent in the back bumper of my car for a while from when someone hit me in the parking lot where I work and didn't leave a note. I had JUST fixed another dent 2 weeks previous and just decided to fix it when I moved back to Utah. Anyways, about a week ago, my friend Mallori asked me "so when did you get the dent in your car fixed" I told her I hadn't and she informed me that it wasn't there any more. I walked out to see for myself and sure enough, someone had popp...

We went with our friends the Kirk's to their cabin up above Jordanelle reservoir on the upper Provo river and spent the long weekend playing games, eating good food, walking along the river, reading, etc. Good time was had by all. Hawaii is Friday.

Nothing huge to write about but I'll do my weekly post. We went to the beach on friday evening. It was lovely. There was a jazz band playing in the park right next to the beach so we stopped to let kiera watch. She loved the chic singing and was upset after watching for 15 minutes when we told her it was time to go. We watched the BYU football game at Steve's parents house. Good game : ) Watching football with little ladies running around complicates things a bit though. I did a lot more chasing than watching. Steve will be done with this quarter in 2 more weeks and then we are going on our cruise. I'm SOOOO excited! I just finished a great book called Playful Parenting that I highly recommend. I'll give it 10/10. Good book-- good concepts. I wish it would cool off a bit around here-- too hot!

After the party was over, Jacob waited until Brigham and I were busy getting kids out the door and then grabbed a big handful of cake. From the trail of cake crumbs and frosting, we gathered that he ran across the living room with it, stopped and wiped a hand on the couch, and we found him licking crumbs off of his hand while sitting on the Love Sac. Unfortunately, it was decorator's icing-- meaning it was half butter and shortning. What a mess! You'd think he hadn't almost thrown up from eating too much cake only a half an hour before!

A great time was had by all!

GO COUGARS! A win would be great, but let's just not embarrass ourselves on national TV, okay?

1 year well baby check yesterday. Lydia is 10th percentile for everything. I also noticed that about 2 months ago she was 1st percentile (or however you would say that) for weight (after she had been sick). She is wearing 6-9 month clothes and it one tiny lady. She is anemic, but I've NEVER had either one of my girls not been anemic despite all my efforts. She had 4 needle pokes yesterday for immunizations and then 2 more this morning for more allergy testing. She was SO MAD!

So, we are a day early, but since we are going to the Mtn property today and may not be back until Sat AM...we will not be able to do it tomorrow! BENJAMIN!! YOU ARE SIX? Woah! Before your parents know it you will be baptized and then turn around twice and you will be on your mission and gone! You're growing up so fast! Hopefully, your mom will take a movie of you opening your present like she did with Jacobs. I want to see you opening your gift! I hope you like it! I am way excited about coming to see you and your family and the balloon festival in Oct! That cute little Ty is growing and progressing so fast...and I want to enjoy some of it! Well, we hope your day is fun and fabulous for a fun and fabulous kid! I am so proud of you that you are growing up to be SO VERY GOOD! In SO MANY WAYS!

http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=7303&e=landing You folks with girls might be interested in this. You can get a free DVD (although it is only like 12 minutes long) by clicking on the tab on the right hand side.