"Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best." ~Ezra Taft Benson

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

24th of July Celebration...

So it never fails... Stefanie is on top of things going to do a blog post on Sunday.. The day after the festivities and sure enough... An obstacle course arises... The dang Internet stopped working. GRRRR!!! So we are back in business and here are some of the pics from the parade...

Friday, July 25, 2008

Charlei Lou's Birthday (Such a bad aunt)

Ok so I am horrible about getting things on the blog... Takes me FOREVER... Just like to make all of ya'll wait!! Hope you enjoy...

Friday, July 18, 2008

BIG ADVENTURE....

WOW!! I took my first ride to Canyonlands lastnight with my wonderful man and 2 little sisters... What an amazing thing to see!!

We started off @ 6:30 PM up to see Monticello Lake and take the girls up the mountian to enjoy the beautiful scenery and ALL of the deer (AND COWS??). Yeah... There were herds and herds of cattle on the mountian.. Who knew?? LOL... Anyways we drove to the Lake then started off to Canyonlands and all I could say was.. DAMN!! I have never seen anything so beautiful in all of my life (and I lived in Alaska). We saw the most prettiest sunset I have ever experienced in my life. We decided to go to the falls where everyone went camping this April b/c I have never seen it and we were on a nice drive enjoying the evening...

We headed in and there was an AMAZING water puddle about a half mile in. We of course were in the "Black Beast" AKA Kirks truck and we had to mud bogg it for the first time... WHAT A BLAST (even being 9 months pregnant). The girls were giggling & screaming b/c they were having a blast (it was like a mini Monticello Lake). The red water splashed up and over the truck covering the windows so we couldn't see anything.. he he he what fun it was... We continued on to the "Falls"... We cross the creek and park on the other side... I looked @ Kirk and said... "These are the Falls??" LOL... The water wasn't running off of them in a huge amount, it was more like it was trickling.... But it was the amazing views that I was enjoying.

The girls wanted to go down and put their feet in the water (by this time it was 8:30 - 8:45 PM). Kirk and I walked around and me being the worry wort I am was concerned about Mercedes b/c she is a lil on the blonde side and sure enough we hear a call from her saying... "HELP ME IM STUCK!!"... We go over and sure enough she was knee high in the red sand and yep... my 17 year old sister was stuck and couldn't get out.. HAHAHAHA... Kirk went down 2 pull her out. We decided it was time to go b/c it was about 9 PM and getting dark... We all loaded up in the truck and YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FREAKING KIDDING ME... The damn truck wouldn't start. So we gave it a few and tried again... Sure enough NOTHING... All we could figure was something got wet and it needed to dry out. We gave it 20 more minutes and tried again... NOTHING!!! Kirk said lets give it til 945 and try agian... So we got out and walked around got back in the truck and watched the moon come up over the rocks and WOW... another amazing experience... How beautiful it was to be in the middle of nowhere and watching that. We tried again to start the truck and WOW NOTHING AGAIN... This went on for 4 more hours lastnight... YES 4 FREAKING HOURS of being stranded in the middle of nowhere with NO CELL SERVICE...

By 145 AM after the truck giving us a little glimmer of hope a couple of times before I had an overwhelming feeling to try it just ONE MORE TIME and sure enough... The BLACK BEAST started... the girls screamed with joy and I looked @ Kirk and said DON'T U DARE TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THAT THROTTLE as I jumped out and closed the hood... We arrived home about 245 AM and from all of the excitement, frustration, and emotions we were all drained and ready to go to bed... Needless to say my 15 and 17 year old sisters didn't crawl outta bed til 1230 this afternoon.. And my poor sweet man had to go to work by 8 am and yes he was and is exausted...

Hope you all enjoy the pics I got of our "BIG ADVENTURE" lastnight.


Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Good Neighbor Days

While I was in Kimberly, ID with my family my little sisters had a Cheerleading fundraiser they had to be at for Kimberly Good Neighbor Days. This is a celebration and there is a band and local vendors that set up in the park... My favorite part of the whole day is when I get to eat an Elephant Ear... (HUGE SCONE WITH ALL THE YUMMY SUGARIE TOPPINGS) Hope you all enjoy the pics of my family and of the festivities!!

ZOO DAYS....

HOW TIME FLIES!!!

One month today since I have updated the blog! I am such a bad bad person!! Let me tell all of you what has went on in the last month...

We traveled to SLC for Debbies 50th Birthday. That was a great time... Then we went to the ZOO that same weekend. I haven't been there since I was 16... We enjoyed every minute of it.. Then we came back to the big city of Monticello (home sweet home)... After a fun filled weekend you can only imagine what my ankles looked like with all the car riding... Oh wait they weren't ankles they were kankles!!

We have been camping on the mountain and out at Bullhollow Raceway (A LOT OF FUN!!) We went back to SLC 4th of July weekend then I headed up 2 Idaho for a week and just got back Sunday the 13th... Yet again... I had kankles they were oh so beautiful!! I enjoyed spending the week with my family, but let me tell you.... Doing it without the person you love... That was hard... I am so happy to be home and back with Kirk... 7 days was way to long to be without him!! I love you babe!!

My little sisters also came back to Monticello with me and are here for a week... We take them back to SLC Sunday....

I will have some pics uploaded soon..!