Family Fun is my bible!

Anyway...here's this weekends fun!


So easy...you should try it!

Scary, aren't they!!!

Showin' some Foxworthy Love...you too Ann!

My ever so clever cousin 'A' (who's blog is private...Neener, Neener to you!) just posted this and I thought Every Utahan out there should see it...it's too funny!

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Utah.

If 'vacation' means going anywhere south of Salt Lake City for the weekend, you live in Utah.

If you measure distance in hours, you live in Utah.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Utah.

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day, you live in Utah.

If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both doors unlocked, you live in Utah.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Utah.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Utah.

If the speed limit on the highway is 75 mph -- you're going 80, and everyone is still passing you, you live in Utah.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Utah.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Utah.

If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly' you live in Utah.

If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your friends,you live in Utah.

PS, Utah misses you Tiff!

Haven't laughed that hard in a long time!

Last night was 'WAY TOO MUCH FUN!' like that silly rule I mentioned in the previous post! My Sisters...and Kyle went to SYTYCD tour!

It. Was. AMAZING!!!

We laughed our heads off, screamed our heads off and talked our heads off!

So much fun...we NEED to do it again soon...I love you guys!

The Too Much Fun Rule

So, my Dad has always had this crazy rule about not letting us have "Too Much" Fun. Silly Rule!

Sorry Dad, this post will disappoint!

In the last week and a half we have done something really fun almost every day! My kids are tired and this quiet week feels really good! PS, CAST comes of Friday!! WooHoo!

Here's what we've been up to!

I told you about the hike...we're going again soon (Dave didn't get to go).

Then we went to the FAIR with a bunch of knuckle heads!!

Later, our school carnival and the canyon with some great friends.

A quick trip to see Spider Man.

And then we happened upon THIS!!!!

Talk about little boy (and Dave) HEAVEN!! Such a fun adventure!

It's like it hasn't sunken in that summer's over. We're playing just as hard as ever! Anyway...like I said, We're all tired and I'm actually hearing my Dad's voice in my head invoking the 'Too Much Fun Rule'!

Don't worry Dad...my little cowboys are going to bed now!

One of my Favorite things!

Go here if you need some motivation to get yer butt on over there!
You Rock Kam! Still one of my all time favorite posts!

Things I saw out and about today

Makes you feel all warm inside doesn't it!

CAN'T WAIT...

To see if Katee is that tiny in person...Gev too! and I'm gonna cuz I got me some tickets!

Goin' with my lovely sister Shauna (who does the best Cat Deely imitation!)

Hopefully with my other lovely sister and her hubby (What a secure MAN!)

I'll let ya all know how it goes!

See you all soon...and again after Monday!

So, with no husband in sight...and a 14 hour road trip with my 3 kids...I, needless to say, have 1,000,000 (spoken like Dr. Evil) things to do.

Google reader has 1,000,000 (same accent) things for me to read but I'm pretty sure the tiny town we're headed to doesn't have the internet.

I have 1,000,000 (L.O.V.E Mike Meyers) things to blog about but alas they wait until next week!

Can't wait to see you all on Monday and then it's off in the the wild blue yonder!

Catch you all next week! Hope it's a great one for you!

The Fourth!

I love the traditions of the Fourth! Hope yours was as good as ours!

Have a good weekend!

Memories...From the corners of your mind!

Salvador Dali, "The Persistence of Memory," 1931

I've seen this one out there all over the place. It's been so fun to read and to think fondly about those that are playing!!

What you do is...

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments!

Please let those Star Wars...Staaaayyyy!

The party...We had a great time!

We wore Padawan costumes, got light sabers and met Darth.

We ate light saber cupcakes, sipped on sludge from the swamps of Dagobah (sherbet in Sprite) and used the force to put out 'trick' candles!

We ran, jumped and smashed!

They went home sticky, tired and smiling...Mission Accomplished!

Some names we came up with for Poor Dave in the Black costume on a 96 degree day...

Darth Daver

Summer Darth (short sleeves)

Sweaty Vader

Darth Sweaty

He did a great job and lost 4 pounds of water weight in about 20 minutes!

Today's Funnies

Two funny things happened today...well maybe just to me!

My sweet husband did SO much today...really - he was a HUGE help! It all ended with him doing dinner! (Which he NEVER does! Really so nice!)
He ran to the grocery store and then, when it was ready, he called us all to the table. He had fixed steaks, hot dogs and tilapia. So we had steak with a side of hot dog and fish...or Surf, Turf and Turf as we called it! Such a masculine meal!

Then after tubs, Thatcher had had too much birthday and was bouncing off the walls. I pulled him aside and said "You're starting to get on my nerves" to which he replied "Nerds...Yum!" We laughed all the way to bed. I'm so glad that he has the patience with me to remind me of his age.

All in all...A Great, carnivorous day!

It's Finally HERE!

Plans are made...

Tickets are Purchased...

Theatres will be filling...

But with who?

I want those of you seeing this movie this weekend to count the MEN in your theatres and report back!

I'd also like to know which Character you think YOU are! I'm know I'm Carrie but my sisters say that I'm Miranda...WHATEVER!

What a weekend!

Saturday

7am....hit the pavement with Edie...Thanks Edie!

8:30...Garage sale where I bought THE CUTEST BEACH CRUISER BIKE for a 10 year old girl...too bad I don't have one of those!

12 noon... Preschool wrap-up picnic at Washington Park. If you haven't been up there in a while, you ought to - it's a great park complete with 3 inch deep creek that has magnetic powers on little boys! We over stayed over played and got over sunned...it felt SO GOOD!

4pm...pedi's with my sisters! Then the Atom hatched open and we had dinner with my nuclear family. We all piled into my mom's car and cruised the two houses we lived in while growing up! It was so much fun! I LOVE MY PEOPLE!

Sunday

A wild hair and my crazy friend Misty convinced us to join them at the Dugway Geode Beds. We thought it was a 90 minute drive and then got there 3 1/2 hours later had a great hour of play and then drove the 3 1/2 hour ride home! Longest day of my life...7 hours in the car with 5 kids (our friends came with us, that was the day's saving grace!) We brought home a box full of whole and pieces of fantastic geodes!

We ran to my Mom's for Sunday dinner and now I'm SO glad to be home! What a Weekend!

WE. CAN'T. WAIT. FOR. SUMMER!

There's nothing like the FLU to make you crave getting out and get some sun! I just couldn't keep this monkey in any longer!

Wii had a great Mother's Day

Some times, as a woman, you have to take matters into your own hands. You have to make executive decisions that effect your family. You, on occasion, HAVE TO BUY YOUR OWN MOTHER'S DAY GIFT!

And what a time we're having with it!!! Thanks to the ever so Naughty Tiburon, I am completely addicted to kickin' my kiddos bottoms (we don't say butt) with toilet plungers!

So to explain my lack of posts completely it all comes down to the plunger! Between the Wii and a nasty stomach flu bug that cut my week's grocery bill down to nothing...I am all plungered out.

PS ~ Lisa, which works better...Lysol wipes or the Clorox ones?

So True

Thank you, Mom, for all the EVERYTHING!


The Lanyard

The other day as I was ricocheting slowly
off the pale blue walls of this room,
bouncing from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.

No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one more suddenly into the past --
a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp
by a deep Adirondack lake
learning how to braid thin plastic strips
into a lanyard, a gift for my mother.

I had never seen anyone use a lanyard
or wear one, if that’s what you did with them,
but that did not keep me from crossing
strand over strand again and again
until I had made a boxy
red and white lanyard for my mother.

She gave me life and milk from her breasts,
and I gave her a lanyard.
She nursed me in many a sickroom,
lifted teaspoons of medicine to my lips,
set cold face-cloths on my forehead,
and then led me out into the airy light
and taught me to walk and swim,
and I, in turn, presented her with a lanyard.

Here are thousands of meals, she said,
and here is clothing and a good education.
And here is your lanyard, I replied,
which I made with a little help from a counselor.

Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,
and here, I said, is the lanyard I made at camp.

And here, I wish to say to her now,
is a smaller gift--not the archaic truth
that you can never repay your mother,
but the rueful admission that when she took
the two-tone lanyard from my hands,
I was as sure as a boy could be
that this useless, worthless thing I wove
out of boredom would be enough to make us even.

- Billy Collins

I need some a them!

Thanks BB Blog for the chuckle!!

Anyone else a FAN?

My boys are totally into Lego's...I love it. Such a great toy! Creative, problem solving, fine motor skill improvement, I could go on and on.

Problem is...I love to play them as much as my boys. Only...I only like to follow the instructions and they are more into "ship building".

Since our trip to Legoland, we have acquired a few assorted kits. I think I am ready for this one...I've heard it's a bugger! 10,143 pieces...WOW. I think I'm +16 years old?

Only downside? an Oral 9 month old about to start crawling!

Monday, that's WHAT IT IS!

Monday night at 7:00pm...Taylorsville Cafe Rio (they have that lovely little room for us!) Come one come all to a Bloggerhood Reveal!
We'll get some new reads, make some new friends and chat with those we've been reading for months now!

Lovin' it!

Mindi ~ We're just four short hours away...C'mon, you can do it! I have a guest room for you to crash in!
Tib ~ You'd better be callin' away on that sitter thing...OR...bring 'em! I'd love to meet Ethan, Avery, Olivia and Millie!
Ann ~ I'm sorry it didn't work for you this time...next time FOR SURE!!!