CoCo's Corner

It's not like it is a habit of mine. And, the last time I remember doing it was when I was in Florida, with my very best friend, Elaine. That was several years ago. In fact, if you want to see her pee her pants, just ask her about me falling down in Florida. It automatically brings her to tears and she can't talk because she is laughing so hard. But, this year, I have fallen down twice in the last couple of months. Both times, it has been extremely traumatic to me. First time: It was raining pretty hard. It was in the early spring. I was driving my mother over to Comcast to upgrade her cable television. She was told to bring the remote control and of course, we forgot it. So, we turned around and went back to the house. I pushed the button to get into the garage and the garage door was opening. Well, because it was raining, I had my head down and I wasn't looking. You've got it, I ran smack dab into the garage door because it hadn't opened all the way...

So, I've never really been one to celebrate Utah's Pioneer Day. Way back when, while I was in high school, I had to march in that parade twice. It's always SOOO hot and I think the route is about 300 miles long and when you are marching, it becomes 600 miles long. I usually watch the parade on television in air conditioning. We've usually done the family barbecues and such, but it was more of a way to get together with family than anything. This year was different. There were no get togethers. There were no barbecues. Ted is a huge fan of fireworks and there was no way I was going to fight the horrendous crowds at Liberty Park, which ended up being a good thing since those fireworks were shut down early. A couple of days before, I had a thought occur to me and I broached the subject with Crystal. She decided it was a great idea, too. When we found out that Brandon would probably be in town for the day, we met up and bought tickets in the early afternoon and the...

It's been a long time, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I had been having contractions for over two weeks. A week and a half ago, my doctor had told me he didn't think I would last but a couple more days, because I was dialated to a three. I remember crying when that couple of days went by and I was still pregnant and miserable. I remember going to a barbecue the night before and my aunt telling me that I had at least another week to go because my baby had not even dropped - so even more tears. I was nineteen years old, huge pregnant, miserable and I wanted to hold my baby. I didn't know what I was going to have, way back then, they didn't do ultrasounds (my cousin had given birth a few months before and she didn't even know she was going to have twins until she was in labor and they did an x-ray!!). I went to bed on July 18 and was still having contractions, but I had been having them for weeks, so nothing was different - I had been to the hospital t...

Welcome Drew Rustie Rolfe!! Thursday morning, I got a call from my son. Now, it's no secret that my baby boy is extremely special to me; he's got a huge hunk of my heart!! Anyway, when he called me Thursday he asked me if I was sitting down - to which I said I wasn't (it's not a good sign when someone asks you that and I really was sitting down, but I was kind of frightened). Then he told me to sit down. He then proceeded to tell me that he had asked his girlfriend to marry him and she said YES (why anyone would consider saying no is completely beyond me). He had given her the ring that he had bought for her to signify the special event. After congratulating him for just a second, I went into mom mode and started lecturing him about stuff I had already said to him, over and over and over and over and over before. That was not a very nice thing for me to do, because I had kind of stolen his happy thunder and I really feel kind of horrible about that. His sister ...

It's no secret that Ted and I met on the internet. We jibbered and jabbered via Match.Com a few times and then he sent me his phone number. We won't go into details about what made me give him a call, other than I was in need of a boost. I gave him a call and he was "busy" for a bit working on his carbuerator (yes, I was shunned aside for a carbuerator) and he asked if he could call me back later. Well, he did call me later that night and we made arrangements to meet at Denny's on 3500 South and 2200 West the next afternoon. No, it wasn't a four-star restaurant, but it was a way for either of us to run or make excuses if things were not going well. We sat there for a few hours; I drank Diet Coke and Ted drank Iced Tea. We talked, mostly Ted talked, about stuff I had absolutely no clue about; I tease him a lot about everything he says pretty much floats above my head, because I have no idea what he is talking about. That was October 10, 2004. After a w...

So I had a date with a couple of gorgeous people today. It was a glorious day. We started out with lunch. They had chicken nuggets and apples and I had a chicken sandwich. We also decided to take in a movie. We went to see Marmaduke. It was not the greatest movie I had ever seen, but my dates kind of appreciated it. Marmaduke is an extremely large Great Dane if you don't remember the books. There is some bodily function comedy, as is usual with talking dog movies. There is a part where the couple is laying in bed having a discussion, they roll over and turn off the light and then the scene goes to the humongous dog laying on the bed with the couple and he says, "wait for it, wait for it" and then he proceeds to pass gas, leaving the couple in a nasty haze. I left the theatre with my two adorable dates saying, over and over again, "wait for it, wait for it". That was their favorite part of the movie. We finished the date off by going for an ice cream ...

This post is dedicated to you - - and only you!! I am proud that you are one of my work children. I love you!!! You are one awesome cookie!!! And just one more thing!!!!! YOU'RE SO VAIN, YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS BLOG IS ABOUT YOU!!! Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee!! I'm laughing out loud - cuz you make me do it!!! OK - so after I write this, she writes one of the sweetest things in the land about me!!! She made me really teary and weepy because of how sweet she was to me. So, let me just tell you a little more about Miss Emily. She walked into my life one day wanting to test to be a dispatcher. She was the adorable firecracker of a blonde who had the biggest of smiles that I had ever seen. She took that horrible, awful video test and what she didn't know was her husband (a police officer) was pacing around outside wanting to know how she was doing in there. In fact, Patti called her husband as soon as we knew she passed so he knew before she did. Miss Em...

When the 4th of July lands on a Sunday in Utah, then it ends up being a three day celebration weekend - AND we've celebrated!!! Friday, we didn't really celebrate, but on Saturday, Ted, KayeLynn and I joined Crystal and the kids and we went to the Magna Parade. This is a parade that I marched in when I was in high school. I was in the Pep Club and we marched those four blocks in the heat and sun. Then, when I had kids, I started taking them to that parade. I think it's the funnest parade there is. It's a pretty long parade and there is LOTS of candy thrown. They changed the street that it goes down since I took my kids, so we were a little discombobulated about where we needed to go - so we ended up having to sit behind a few people. Well, these people were the sweetest in the land. They had their kids there, but they were making sure that Zach and Chelsea got candy, too. The dad would get up and start picking it up and calling Chelsea by name to come get it f...