Wilmott Update

Superman stopped by and visited with the Wilmott's this evening. The funeral will be held on Sat. May 31st at the Tulsa Ok. East Stake Center at 10am. Early investigation of the skid marks on the road appear to show that as Les came over the hill, he did not realize the tractor rig was stopped on the downhill, on the highway. There were marks to show he tried to turn at the last minute. Why the rig was stopped on the highway is unclear yet. The driver and passenger have conflicting stories. The family is as good as can be expected at this time and Superman plans to visit with the Wilmott boys very soon. There have been really good news tributes to the Wilmott's on local CBS and ABC.

A Dear Friend Has Moved On

My morning slumber was disturbed twice by Superman calling and i thought, "He can wait," however i decided when he called the third time i'd better get up. He called with the unfortunate news that our good friend, Les Wilmott, had been in a collision last night. The Lord has decided to take Les home. A short while later another woman who is very, very close to Jerianne (Les' wife) called to make sure i knew and said Jerianne is "pretty torn up."

My heart is breaking for her. This could not have happened to a sweeter lady. Superman was pretty close to Les, having served with Les in various callings, not to mention being close to his sons as Young Men's president.

And Superman dated Les' daughter before he met me. She's beautiful too--like her mom. One of Superman's favorite memories is of picking his date up and Les coming down the hall all dressed up in his S.W.A.T. gear with his guns spread all over the kitchen table. It did the trick. Superman was thoroughly cowed!

Les and Jearianne lived in Inola for a while when Les was employed as the Inola Chief of Police. Early word is that the funeral will be this Saturday. One thing i feel grateful for is that Les had the joy of knowing a grandparenthood through his little grandson and new baby grand-daughter and that he saw all his kids go to college. Les was supposed to graduate from college this December. Jerianne had told me he was working really hard. This is what Superman e-mailed out:

Les was a Great man.



Kiefer police officer killed in crash

COURTESY
Sgt. Leslie Wilmott




By KELLY HINES World Staff Writer 5/29/2008 6:47 AM
A veteran officer for the Kiefer Police Department was killed early Thursday in a collision in Rogers County.Sgt. Leslie Wilmott, 54, of Oologah died at the scene of the crash on U.S. 169 northbound near State Highway 88 shortly after midnight, according to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol accident report.Wilmott's patrol car, a 1998 Ford Crown Victoria, ran into a tractor-trailer rig, troopers reported. The semi's driver, 33-year-old Luis A. Lara of Laredo, Texas, was not injured, nor was his passenger.The cause of the collision is unknown, the report stated.Wilmott has been in law enforcement for about 30 years, according to the Kiefer Police Web site. He served as chief of police in Inola and Beggs.

Thanks for that, Superman. We would like to offer our thanks to Les and his family for their years of service and sacrifice on our behalf along with our condolences and love. The Wilmott family is in our prayers and our hearts this weekend as they go through this difficult time. We love you.

Here We Go again...

Mommy Moments

Q. walks into the kitchen chanting, "Boobie, boobie, boobie, boobie, boobie..." This isn't the first time. She likes to sing this chant to BBB. Seeing as he's a boy and that he still gets his main form of nourishment from something very similiar, he finds this chant amusing. I tell her this is not an appropriate thing to say. "But why?" The infamous kid question. Because its actually a part of our body that is supposed to be private and when we talk about it we should refer to it as a breast and only when there's a problem with it. In the back of my mind i am thinking i need to have a chat with Superman because i'm certain Q. may have overheard some hushed or maybe not so hushed talk in the car or sumthin'? Anyways, Q. loves to drag these conversations out probably because i'm not very good at putting this in terms she can understand...isn't it obvious i'm not good at this? Granma K. (my mom) walks in while i'm chatting with my runt and i have flashbacks to when i made my mom suffer through these same conversations. Does parenthood seem like its all about payback sometimes? Huh.

Another Tag

Okay this is fun. Even if i haven't blogged about anything all week. It was a pretty exciting week too. Well more so for Superman i think. i really felt for the guy. anyways here's the tag list. What was i doing:

10 years ago? lets see that was may of 1998...i was in the middle of nowhere, idaho living on a sheep ranch owned by the feds. i was still working the lambing though it had slowed down alot...it was just the late lambers by then. and it snowed the weekend of mothers day. yep. i was still freezing my hiney off and wearing quadruple layers of clothes while my family was here enjoying tornado weather. in fact, i believe that was the spring that a tornado ripped through stroud (off I-44 halfway to OKC) and blew away the outlet mall. that was kinda sad cuz the owner decided not to re-build it.

**OOPS! i realized the other night watching the news that i was a year off. the news lady mentioned the anniversary of that tornado from 1999. so here's my real '98...i had just returned home from Ricks College 20# heavier than when i left. I couldn't really remember what was going on so i looked up may of '98 in my journal.

Looks like I was still figuring out where my life was going, especially spiritually, and worrying about meeting the right man. I was also going to summer school at the community college in tulsa and attending bible study with a group of young single adults. I do remember hiring a personal fitness trainer to learn how to manage my nutrition and metabolism. It worked. Just FYI: I lost all the weight by the end of the year and have managed my nutrition pretty well (everyone slips up) since.**

5 years ago? may of 2003...well i was a newlywed...i was commuting from inola (east of tulsa) all the way to stillwater (west and south of tulsa) attending OkState. it was 1 hour and 40 minutes one way and i usually rode BOB, that left from OkState Tulsa. this week would have been finals week. fun stuff.

5 months ago? i was still recovering from the birth of my third runt, BBB. except he really isn't a runt. the kid's up to 14# now. WO! my lil' gals' weren't that heavy till they were around 9 months old. he's almost 5 months now. where does time run off to? we had just celebrated my niece's 3rd b-day and i was fixin' (like that?) to close out a Pampered Chef show for my SIL.

5 things on my To Do List today: (so far i've gotten to 1, 2, and 4)

• go for a walk with the neighbor and all the kids (5 total)
• clean my house
• fold the laundry
• check my email and craigslist
• watch greys anatomy online

5 snacks i enjoy:

• ice cream
• cheese and ritz
• chocolate milk and raisin bread
• 1/2 bagel
• scrambled eggs

5 things i'd do if i became a billionaire:

• go to australia
• go to europe
• pay off my house and student loans
• buy as many acres as Superman wants and build a house, barn, and monkey shed (for Superman)
• take my ENTIRE family (including in-laws) on the vacation of their choice (within reason)
• PS the rest of the story: there's about a million other things i would do with it (trust funds for kids and missions...including me and superman's, shopping, a home gym and trainer, get a maid...)

5 bad habits:

• go to bed late, get up late
• washing laundry and never folding and putting it away
• spending too much time on the'puter and not enough time reading/playing with my kids
• pickin' my nose (just bein' honest folks...i learned it from watchin' my mom...yep i see the implication)
• not leaving enough time for myself to get anywhere on time--i'm a bad judge of how long its gonna take to geter done. in other words, i'm late.

5 places i've lived: did this before but here goes...

• sydney, australia
• carson city, nv
• rexburg, id
• moscow, id
• provo, ut

5 things people don't know about me: which people??

• i had at least four cats that were named after some form of ice cream throughout my childhood (fudgescicle, vanilla, pistachio, blizzard)
• i have never, ever changed my hair color
• i was a tae kwon do champion (yep on the state and national level)
• the most sheep i owned at one time was 18 (i love sheep)
• i didn't get my first kiss till i was 19

5 people i am tagging: i don't think i know five people who read this who haven't already been tagged...

• ashley (sorry mate)
• sharon and charlie
• michelle (i know you don't blog but email it to me and i'll post it on mine)
• melissa j.
• someone want to volunteer?

okay that took up my entire afternoon. at least BBB fell asleep finally. till next time...