I'm BAAAA-AAACK

Hey Everyone-
Tawnia is back in Oregon! And a year older! Thanks for all those who wished me a Happy Birthday in one way or another. Hopefully we'll celebrate it here at home this weekend.

Life is getting back to normal for me. I already have sub jobs lined up for the rest of this week and the beginning of next week... and of course I'm busy with everything else in my life already!

Have a great day.
-Tawnia

Eric Strikes Again!

Hi! Here's yet another picture of me. This one was taken March 18th, about a week and a half ago. The only change is that my hair is a little bit longer now and I'm not so blue.



The weather here is great. Check out weather.com for the current weather in our ZIP code. It was in the nineties yesterday. Spring is here!

We're looking forward to General Conference this weekend, and to Easter the week after that. It's a special time of year, and this also means the two weddings are that much closer! Less than three months to go now... I should tell my boss I need the time off, shouldn't I?

That's all for now.

Take care all,
Eric

phone calls

An FYI to everyone that they should call Tawnia's cell to wish her a happy birthday. She's not anywhere near a computer unless we go to Adam's dorm ... which is not her ideal place to spend her birthday, or vacation in general! We're taking her out to dinner and to walk around the Monuments tonight. And it's with a BOY! One that's not Adam, even though Adam is going too. It will be a good time. And for the record, I was the first to wish her a happy birthday, this morning when she first got up - so THERE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAWNIA

I just wanted to be the first to wish Tawnia a very happy birthday. You're still in D.C., right Tawnia? I hope you're having a great time and that you have another wonderful year. Why, it seems like just yesterday when you were born and I got to hold the new baby.

Happy Birthday

Love,
Eric

a song for Tawnia

I thought about it some, and figured it out. Tawnia, you should sing something by Josh Groban. He's your favorite singer, and he's got some beautiful music. It isn't overly sappy, and probably something you could get ahold of (check on the internet). The radio station that I listen to up here plays "You Raise Me Up" all the time, and I've come to really really like it. So there you go, that's my suggestion for Leah's wedding.

It Finally Worked!

Hello Everybody! The invitation for this blogger thing finally worked, and so here I am. I'm sure you've read my email, and it was scary, but I'm doing okay now. I'm not quite up to my usual peppy self, but I'm doing much better than before. .. and now that I'm on the blogger I can't think of what to say.

love,
mindy

More Pictures

On Saturday Dad took pictures for Nate and Amanda's announcements. Here are a few of the best ones. They picked the one of them in front of the fountain. Things are moving along here at home. I'm sure when Tawnia gets home the pace will pick up on Trina's plans. June will be here before you know it.



Thanks Eric. It worked this time.

Pictures are here!

I am currently in process of putting together the collections of pictures for Mom, Trina, Tawnia, and Mindy. Each of you will get almost exactly what you asked for, with only a few minor variations. And some bonuses to make up for those variations. For those who still wish to recieve pictures, here's what's still available. First bidder gets that last remaining 5x7's, one each of Brooke and Bryan.

There are also 3.5x5's of nearly everything, and wallets aplenty. If I don't know what you want, I'll either guess and send you whatever or just send you nothing.

A New Cousin

Here is an announcement that came in the mail a few days ago. Thought you might all enjoy seeing Jamie's new little guy.



Now we'll see if this works.

Spring break is here at last and I'm finished with work for the day. I don't have to go back until the 29th. Lots of time to plant flowers, clean house and work on wedding stuff.

in the press

freeeeeeeeeeeek! I'm quoted in the media! It's not just "according to NCSL." It's "National Conference of State Legislatures analyst Trina Palmer said ..." And what I said is in quotes and everything. It's in the National Journal Congress Daily. I don't know where or how to get it (you can't access it online without a subscription), but I've got a copy of the draft that's going to the editors for Monday's edition. I was just parroting Cheye and it was something simple about market cycles for medical malpractice insurance, but he's out of the office today so I am the one quoted. It's my 15 seconds of fame ...

Happy Friday To You!

Hi everybody!

Here I am on St. Patrick's Day (March 17th, Wednesday) at my desk. Doesn't it look colorful and exciting?

the adventure begins ...

I'm going to be a rebel and NOT put my name in the header - I'm sure you can all figure out who I am. OR ... you could just LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST! It's not like people are posting novels, forcing you to scroll to read the whole thing. Sheesh.

Anyway, Tawnia got here to DC safe and sound. Her "real life in DC" adventure (as opposed to being a tourist) started this morning - there was an electrical fire in the subway tunnel on the line we take that completely closed it down, so Adam drove me and Beth to work (and Tawnia to go around the Mall). Downtown traffic is horrific, but taking the bus would have been even worse. Our meandering route to try to avoid the worst traffic areas took us past the White House, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Kennedy Center. Tawnia is now at the Postal Museum, a block from my office, and we'll have lunch at Union Station in another couple of hours.

Good Morning All! (by Eric)

Good morning everybody!

Welcome back to the web log. All is well here with Eric and Laurel. I had this weird dream last night about being at our house as a family, except the house was more like it was when I was a teenager, with the family room cut in half and the walls all brown. I think we were there for Trina's wedding, but it was kind of like Christmas or Thanksgiving as well.

Anyway, Laurel is cool. She should be up on here soon but she hasn't quite understood my directions for her to sign up. Or maybe she wasn't listening. Anyway, it was at the end of a long day. I'll just say that we bought a sewing machine a few weeks ago and Laurel has been making things with it, mostly modifying old clothes at this point. She's also going to Idaho this weekend for Anthon's homecoming (from Russia). He'll fly in Thursday and she'll fly in Friday. I'm not sure yet what I'll do all weekend. Saturday I'm going to the temple for the ward conference session. That'll be nice.

I've been spending most of my free time working on school. I'm in an online instructional design program at Cal-State Fullerton (click here for more info). It's good times. Last night Laurel helped me with my homework-- a storyboard and flowchart for a tutorial on Chinese history. It should be very cool.

Well, that's all for now. Take care everybody and keep on posting!

Love, Eric

Help me (Tawn) find a song!!

Hey I was asked to sing a song for my friend Leah's wedding. Of course she didn't give me much direction on what song... so I'm here to petition you for your help. My criteria are as follows: 1. It has to do with marriage and/or love, 2. I can NOT feel foolish singing it (this means that "O Promise Me" is not an option!, and 3. It needs to be something appropriate for singing in a church. Oh, and 4. It has to be something that I'm capable of singing. I figure that most of you know my vocal capabilities, or are married to someone who knows my capabilities so you'll know what's right... right?

Your help with this would be greatly appreciated, especially since her wedding is only about a month away. I figure I can get music for anything, as long as it's not some obscure piece.

SO yeah, what was (or is) your favorite love song? What was sung at your wedding?? (Or what do you WANT sung at your wedding!) What have you sung at other people's weddings? What has been sung at any wedding you've been too?? What have you heard on the radio that could possibly work as a wedding song?

Thanks for your help.
Love,
Tawnia

Jason and Mindy

Hey all,

Just wanted to drop a line and let you know that Mindy and I are doing fine and finally enjoying some nice weather, after 2 snowfalls in one week broken up by hot weather. Calgary has some strange weather. Ah well! Just wanted to say hello and we hope you all are well.

Take care,
The Aimotos

Jared

Well I finally got around to looking at the Blog (sounds like something that crawled out of a swamp) and figured out why I don't get e-mails from anyone anymore. From what I just read of other people's posts, I suggest officially that you stick your name in the title or first line. Some of those I read most of the way through and still didn't know who it was. Except for Trina. Sorry sis, but there's no mistaking that lovesick puppy thing, even online. Anyway, there's my official suggestion.

For my news, I talked to my boss at work and I'll probably be transfering to the Fry's in Irving TX. What that means is I'm cutting about fifteen miles off my commute to work, plus the Irving store is just a few miles from DeVry, so if I can get my class schedule and work schedule worked out right, I can cut out hours of driving time from my day.

So, that's all I guess. See you all later.

Sore Muscles

Well, no one can yell at me about working out for a couple days. You see, Melanie had a field trip on Friday and since Jaron would like to come along, of course I was invited to take care of Jaron. Well, let's just say that the Arctic Museum at WOU is NOT very exciting to Jaron. Instead we spent two hours walking around campus. TWO HOURS of just WALKING... no sitting, no stopping, just walking and walking and walking. (I never would have made it as a pioneer... and I understand why our ancestors stopped in Nebraska!)

After returning from the field trip I ended up watching Deb's kids. Melanie wanted to go to the park. So we walked there and then I had to push all the kids on the swings (all being Daniel, Melanie, Jaron, and Annika.) Needless to say, when I got home last night I was pooped. But I do know my way around WOU a little bit more now!

Love,
Tawnia

99 bottles of pop on the wall

Sing it with me, kids! La la la! It's 99 days until Adam is officially inducted into Insanity Inc. (Which, by the way, I think should be the header on this page instead of "palmer family." HA!) So every day from now until June 19, drink ... um ... well, that much soda would get expensive, plus it's bad for your teeth. So have a drink of something other than soda every day as we sing the song in sloooooooooow motion ... 24 hours for every drink. AND today is the 2-month anniversary of us getting engaged. For our 1-month, that was the day we picked up my ring from being resized. Tonight, we're going to the temple. Okay, I will stop being a giddy, slap-happy ditz ... or at least I will stop making you see me be a giddy, slap-happy ditz. See what Tawnia has to look forward to! HA!

Love from - Adam's One and Only

Welcome on board everyone!

Hi all!

Thanks for signing up Trina and Tawnia and Mom and Nathan!

And Mindy... except she's having a hard time getting it to work for some reason. Maybe someone else has an idea of how to help her. I haven't really been "invited" to join, so I don't know what problems might come up.

This is so cool!

Okay, we need everyone else on board now. So come on! Sign up! Let your news be known!

call me ishmael

hello family. bet you'd never think you'd see me here. does that make sense?
well I got to go now. have a great day.

from nathan

News from Mom

Nothing really new and exciting but I thought that was a good title. The weather has been nice - REAL NICE - the last couple of days so I've finally gotten a few things done in the yard. I want it to be beautiful for Nathan and Amanda's open house and for when everyone comes to visit.

Dad is still working on getting the gas line in, so my new stove and dryer are sitting in the garage. We don't have the new water heater yet but that will come soon. Then when everyone is here we'll have enough hot water for all the showers, a dryer that dries during one wash cycle and a stove that really works. Right now we don't have an oven at all and the stove is sitting on a tiny cabinet. It looks weird but it works.

I love you all,
MOM

Let the FUN begin!

Howdy everybody--

Well, I'm on, now I just have to figure out how to come back after I've signed out. If you don't see me post again in the next week e-mail me and tell me!

My big excitement for today was working (subbing at Amity Lifeskills), completing my first Human Anatomy Lab, and now I get to go and make fajitas for dinner. (Jared do you remember our friend Fajita from high school?? I wonder whatever happened to her.) Then I'll take Jaron swimming.

Only 8 days until I'm in D.C.

-Tawnia

are we on?

This could be even better than mass emails! Wa hoo! Thanks for starting this, Eric!

I'm talking to everyone individually about wedding plans so I won't clutter up the blog with that stuff. Wait for your phone call ... it's coming. I'm very excited for Tawnia to be out here in another week. I'm glad that SOMEONE gets to meet Adam more than 3 days before the wedding.

The latest is that Adam and I went to the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center on Friday and it was awesome. You know that Animaniacs where they say that a bust of Lincoln is a giant Pez dispenser? Yeah, well, you should have seen this MASSIVE bust of JFK. It's an even BIGGER Pez dispenser! We went to Gettysburg on Saturday (it's only 75 miles from my house - easy drive) and spent about 7 hours doing the 3-hour tour. (Sing it with me - "a 3 hour tour ...") The battlefield is goes for miles but it was impossible to visualize how many people were actually out there - the equivalent of the entire population of the city of Salem. Yikes. It put a new spin on things, that's for sure.

Love, Treen

Welcome to the Palmer Family Web Log!

I thought this might be a nice way to start us out, and to experiment with what this thing can do.



Thanks to Jared for this great photo collage.