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Graduation Barbeque

Written on June 15, 2011 by cori in alex, elkins, family, flemmer's, Friends

The day after Alex’ graduated from high school, we through a huge Graduation Barbeque for her that included delicious food and great company!

With us living in Seattle, the weather in June is still iffy. It could be 90* or 30* out, you never quite know! Not to mention there could be no rain or a torrential downpour. Needless to say, it’s stressful to plan an outside event in this area!! We spent the week prior to the barbeque closely watching the weather.

Somehow, however, we managed to luck out and it was a downpour all day Friday before we left to go to the graduation ceremony. The rain held out after, so we could get photos taken outside. After that, the rain came back and dumped all night long. Saturday morning we woke up and it was overcast, cloudy and not very barbeque friendly weather. Luck once again intervened and the sun came out around 10:00am and shined down on all of us during the party!! We totally lucked out, and were so thankful that the weather cooperated with us!!

And this post will conclude Alex’s graduation posts Open-mouthed smile I’m loving getting all caught up on posts, such a wonderful feeling!!

Know what else is wonderful?? I leave for Cabo San Lucas in just over three days!!

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My Sister: The Graduate!

Written on June 14, 2011 by cori in alex, flemmer's, kelly, Wordless Wednesday

On Friday evening, it was Alex’s turn to walk to Pomp’s & Circumstance as she received her high school diploma! She was all smiles (and a few nerves!) as she crossed the stage and picked up her diploma!!

Alex the proud graduate!

My parents, still in love after 25 years of marriage and 3 high school graduates!

Mom, Alex & Dad

Alex & the Grandma’s!

The Benson Family … all high school graduates!
suck in your gut Cori!

The Girls
All 3 of us have the same smile, you’d never know we were related

Our Extended Family!

Our family wouldn’t be complete without our Mary!

Lexi & Kelly

Alex and her BFF’s Brittani & Sam

Proof: The Diploma!

The traditional throwing of the caps!

This post is part of Wordless Wednesday on the following blogs:
Parenting For Dummies & Seven Clown Circus
The Life of Riley….and Bryce Too!
Angelica’s Awesome Adventures
Live and Love…Out Loud
Crazy About My Baybah!
A Beautiful Mess
Florida Hogans
Shibley Smiles

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Memorial Day Visit {Final Idaho Post!}

Written on June 13, 2011 by cori in alex, flemmer's, Salt Lake City

My Grandma and Aunt have a yearly Memorial Day tradition, to visit the cemetery where my great-grandparents and grandfather were buried. This year, my mom, sister & I were in Idaho over Memorial Day and we had the opportunity to tag along.

This was the first visit at the cemetery, for me, since my Grandpa was buried eight years ago. It was bittersweet going back. I enjoyed being there to honor my loved ones and it was a beautiful afternoon to enjoy time with my family.

I *PROMISE* this is the last in my Idaho “Vacation”, but in case you missed out on any of my Idaho fun posts and photos and want to read about them, check out:

The Estate Sale – May 31st
Crazy Days of Summer *Flowers* (Swing Fun!) – June 8th
{INSIDE} At The Farm – June 7th
{OUTSIDE} At The Farm – June 8th

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{OUTSIDE} At The Farm

Written on June 12, 2011 by cori in alex, flemmer's, Salt Lake City, Vacations

So it’s been a few “tomorrow’s” since I posted the {Inside} At The Farm photos and promised the {After} At The Farm photos … well they are finally here and ready to be posted!!

After having fun getting reacquainted with Aunt Karla & Uncle Tom, hearing old stories about my mom’s childhood, we ventured outside to see the outside of this beautiful farm!! It had been probably a decade, since my family’s last trip to the Farm, but I was happy to see that it hadn’t changed much. In fact, according to my Grandma (who was born in this house) and my mom (who spent many summers visiting), the farm hadn’t changed very much at all!

So now for the long anticipated photos of {OUTSIDE} At The Farm!

If you missed out on any of my Idaho fun posts and photos make sure you check out:

The Estate Sale – May 31st
Crazy Days of Summer *Flowers* (Swing Fun!) – June 8th
{INSIDE} At The Farm – June 7th

I have one more set of photos, that hopefully I will get posted tomorrow evening!! I have a TON of photos from the last week that I want and need to get posted before I leave for Cabo on Sunday!! Bring on the sun and fun!!

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Crazy Days of Summer Refreshing

Written on June 8, 2011 by cori in Crazy Days of Summer, Family Fun!, flemmer's, photography, Salt Lake City, Vacations

Ahhhh … this quarter is so close to being done!! I’m doing final editing on my last essay. As soon as I submit it, it’s summer vacation and I CANNOT WAIT!

Just in time for …

This week’s theme is refreshing! I figured most people were going to be posting water related photos, but being the “not follow the group” kinda girl, I once again looking at the theme slightly differently {I assume!} then other people!! Again, I return to my Memorial Day weekend in Idaho! On Tuesday I posted {Inside} At The Farm and promised the next day I would post the {outside} photos – well that didn’t happen, darn finals got in the way! So now I’m sorta posting photos from that day, but there are a lot more beautiful photos of the outside of the farm – Did I mention the view is amazing?! You’ll have to stop by again {maybe Saturday or Sunday} for more pictures of {Outside} At The Farm!

What is more refreshing then spending an afternoon in a beautiful local swinging and reminiscing about your childhood?? That’s what my mom, Alex, Aunt Leslie & I did for an hour last Sunday afternoon!

Make sure you stop over at Kristi {Live and Love Outloud} and Alicia’s {Project Alicia} to see all of the *refreshing* photos of the week!

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{Inside} At The Farm

Written on June 7, 2011 by cori in flemmer's, Vacations

On our way back to Salt Lake after the Estate Sale at my mom’s aunt’s farm, we stopped by the farm where my Grandma grew up in Preston, Idaho. The farm and the house was built in the late 1800s and still is a full working farm! Pretty cool! My Grandma grew up on this farm, but her sister Karla now owns it with her husband (they’ve owned it since like the 1960s!) Needless to say there are a lot of family memories that took place on the farm! It had been several years since I had been back to the farm and/or saw Aunt Karla and Uncle Tom, it was great to get reacquainted and spend time with them!

We only spent a couple of hours there, but I took a ton of photos [shocker, I know!]. This post is just dedicated to the photos that I took inside! Come back tomorrow for some fun and beautiful outside photos of us and the farm!

Aunt Karla & Mom

Aunt Karla, Mom & Uncle Tom

Grandma, Aunt Karla, Mom, Uncle Tom & Aunt Leslie

Aunt Leslie & I

The Piano Protégé ~ Alex
The piano Alex is playing on was the same piano that my Grandma learned how to play on when she was young!

Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow to see more photos of the farm Open-mouthed smile

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Crazy Days of Summer Flowers

Written on June 6, 2011 by cori in Crazy Days of Summer, flemmer's, photography, Vacations

Two of my favorite blogging photographers, Live and Love Outloud and Project Alicia, are teaming up together to host a new summertime meme: ~~Lazy~~ Crazy Days of Summer! I’m slow in participating this week, darn finals are getting in the way, however I promised Kristi & Alicia that I would make sure I linked up and joined in the fun! So my post is way late, but better late then never! I promise to do better this week Open-mouthed smile

This week’s theme was flowers and I’m fudging it it a bit, the photos I’m including for this week are more of landscape shots! I have been meaning to post more pictures from my Idaho trip and thought this would be the perfect time to post these!

These photos were taken on the farm that belonged to my mom’s aunt and uncle! I’m not a country girl at all, but aren’t the views gorgeous?? It was so peaceful, serene and beautiful at their home!

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The Estate Sale

Written on May 31, 2011 by cori in flemmer's, linked-up, Wordless Wednesday

Over Memorial Day Weekend, my mom, sister Alex and Aunt Leslie flew from Seattle to Salt Lake City. Once in SLC we picked up my Grandma and Aunt Cindy and drove to rural Burley, Idaho. We’ll just say, Burley isn’t exactly New York City…just about as far from it as you can get!

Instead of the leisurely, beach ridden trips I’m used to this was no vacation! We worked from 5am-midnight Thursday through Sunday getting my mom’s Aunt’s house ready and hosting a huge estate sale.

We didn’t know what to expect from the sale. We had been warned that Memorial Day weekend was a bad weekend to have a Estate or Garage Sale in Burley. Supposedly the majority of the town will head out for the holiday weekend. Plus, the weather was being forecasted as 50+ mph winds and extreme rainfall. Making the weekend basically miserable. Needless to say, we had very little expectations. Our goal was to raise enough to cover the trip…and that was stretching our luck!

We arrived on Thursday to the house and found it immaculately clean. Alex & I weren’t sure why my mom insisted she needed us to come and help. However, once we started opening drawers, closets and cabinets we soon realized – it was going to be a lot of work! That day and evening we started prepping for the sale for Friday morning. We cleaned, organized and priced as much as we could. We left that night feeling pretty good about the work we had done, and headed home to get some sleep before returning the morning!

Friday morning we got up early and was at the house by about 8am. By the time we arrived shoppers had already shown up and were waiting for us! We figured we would have sometime that morning to get organized. Get tables up, items displayed, etc. Instead we were met by a mob of shoppers ready to shop! We basically opened the door and said “everything’s for sale, if it doesn’t have a price just ask!”

I would estimate that the first four hours of the sale, we sold 75% of what we would sell over the two days. It was insane! Everything was for sale in the house (except for the couch, chairs & table in the family room), plus they had a huge shed full of gardening and power tools. My mom stayed in the shed selling like mad, Alex & I spent several hours helping people purchase their items – at one point we had a line of probably 10 people waiting to be checked out. My Aunt Leslie was the only person in the house, helping customers with questions! She ran ragged from one side of the house to the other helping people!

The house was stuck in the 1970s from furniture, décor and carpeting! I don’t have any clue why people would want to buy it! [IMO] absolutely hideous, but apparently many people found items they loved! My great-aunt (I think that’s who she is to me, my mom’s aunt??), had a few really cool antiques, and when I say antiques I mean ANTIQUES – from the turn of the century! Pretty awesome stuff! Here are three of my favorites …

One of the first electric Maytag Ringer Washers! Apparently this belonged to my Great-Grandma and dates back to probably the 1920s!

An Old Pot-Belly Stove!

An old fashion milk jug (right) and creamer (left)!

We completely lucked out and the rain held out for us every single day, until right about the time we closed for the day! We couldn’t have asked for any better weather! The sun was out as were the customers!

We estimated we sold almost $4k during the 2 day Estate Sale! We met many, many ~~annoying~~ interesting people (some more ~~annoying~~ interesting than others), but that’s a story for another day! In the end, we figure we sold 80% of the ENTIRE house and shed … it was insane the before and after photos! The photos I included don’t do it justice, because you can’t see all the little things that sold! My mom & and I calculated we only sold $1,300 worth of items over $100 … the rest came from $1.00 here, $5.00 there! Insane!

We had a lot of fun, but I have to say I am sooooooo happy to be home!! Not to mention, I’m looking forward to my Cabo trip in a few weeks! I just have to survive the next week of FINALS! I think I can, I think I can ….

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Memorial Day Weekend Crazies!

Written on May 30, 2011 by cori in alex, flemmer's, Salt Lake City, school, Vacations

Going on vacation is always so much fun, but coming home is even better!!

For Memorial Weekend, I flew down to visit my Grandma and Aunt in Salt Lake City along with my mom, sister and another aunt. From Salt Lake we drove up to Idaho, to a small town where we had NO wifi, except at the hotel. We were there to put together and run a huge estate sale for my mom’s aunt who passed away a few months ago. We sold 80% of the items in her house and made a lot of money! It was sooo much fun! A lot of work, but so worth it!! I tried to pop into the media world in the evenings, but by then I was so exhausted I dropped!

I have a ton of photos that were taken while we were working and visiting family in the area, but it’s not going to happen this evening! I’m just happy I got this post up!! Hopefully, I’ll get the photos up over the next few days, but on top of a busy weekend, this week is finals for me Not sure how much “me” time I’ll have, good news is this time next week I should be done! Bring on summer vacation!!

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It’s Like Watching Molasses Pull…

Written on November 20, 2010 by cori in family, flemmer's

O.M.G. I made the mistake of telling my Grandma that I would help her set-up her new Blackberry phone. When I started I figured it couldn’t be that hard, I could enter all her contact information and be done. No. That’s not what she meant. My 78 year old Grandma wanted to learn to text!

Yes, you heard the right…TEXT.

I sat down with her at 10am and worked with her (litterally nonstop) until 4:00pm! She just didn’t get it, nor could she remember what to do. I don’t understand what is so hard about texting. There are like 3 steps, and I did it over – and over – and over again with her….she still couldn’t do it!

At one point, I needed a break, so I decided to run down to the chiropractor, I told her I’d be gone 20 minutes and left her with homework to do while I was gone. I was gone about 10 minutes when I receive a frantic phone call from her. You’da thought that she was in pain or the house was in fire. She was nearly hysterical. I told her to calm down and take a breather….while I did the same thing.

Finally, by the end of the day, she could send a text, with very little help! It’s a miracle I tell ya! I also taught her how to use her camera on the blackberry and attempted to teach her to send picture mail. That was harder, by the end she could do it, but I doubt she could do it again alone.

The sad thing is, tomorrow she’ll probably be back to not remembering tomorrow….darn technology and old folks! I suppose it wasn’t a total loss, I spent all day with her and she really enjoyed it. Plus, we actually had something that interest me to occupy our time.

She Texted …. She Picture Mailed … I survived!

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