{Tooth #2}

Garrett finally lost another tooth. This is only number 2 for him and he is 7 1/2! Hopefully this means healthy teeth in the future!

The tooth has been loose for a while but none of us could get a good grip on it. Dave had a brilliant idea to use tools! Dave was really joking but then Garrett decided that was a great idea and let Dave pull it out! LOL. I was laughing so hard!

{Lake Powell}

Despite the horrible weather report we headed out to our yearly Memorial Weekend trip to Lake Powell with Dave's brother Kory and his wife and kids. And this year we were so glad that Dave's sister Tara and her boyfriend Kelly could come also with his son Taijun.

We left on Thursday morning, it rained most of the drive with a small snow storm. ARGH! Not good.

We were so lucky to stay at a house that my husbands company owns in Page, AZ, just minutes away from the lake.

Friday was my birthday! My sister-in-laws Tara & Kelsie gave me a cute swimsuit and a beautiful necklace.

It rained off and on the ENTIRE day! The kids being stuck in the house all day was NOT good! LOL. They drove us crazy!

I couldn't wait for my birthday dinner! There is a fabulous Mexican restaurant in Page that I crave all year long! We had a BLAST at dinner! Lots of catching up and laughing

Me and the love of my life!

The gang enjoying dinner

Saturday the weather wasn't any better. Not even worth putting the boats on the lake. So we decided to go on the Dam Tour at the Glen Canyon Dam.

The kids are now honorary Park Rangers!

Sunday we had a glimmer of hope for good weather, the kids were driving us crazy so off we went to the lake. The water was FREEZING and my kids wouldn't even think of getting in the water so we found a good beach to park at. The kids did a lot of hiking, exploring and catching lizards.

Monday was a little warmer but the wind was blowing like crazy. We went on the lake for about an hour and decided to call it a day.

Tuesday we were planning on going home but the weather was amazing and we just couldn't leave without having 1 good day on the lake. So we decided to stay and I am so glad we did! We went on a little adventure down the channel and found a awesome cove where we parked the boats, had lunch and let the kids play in the water. They mostly stayed on the tubes because the water was still FREEZING!

So the weather wasn't great but I am still glad we went. It was nice to spend time together as a family and spending time with Dave's siblings.

{Birthday Dinner}

My SWEET, SWEET friend Leesa invited me to dinner for my birthday since I am going to be out of town.

She surprised me with more than just me and her having dinner! Tara, Midge and Madge were there and I know more of you wanted to be there and I understand how busy life is!

We ate and laughed and talked and talked and talked. I love these girls! We have so much fun when we get together! 4 hours later I seriously think we talked about EVERYTHING possible!

I received a wonderful package full of scrapbook goodies from the group of girls I get together with every month to scrapbook with! Wow, these girls really do love me....lol

Midge and Madge gave me some good smellin lotion, body wash and candle, and of course a sonic gift card to help with me DIET COKE addiction.

Tara gave me the best DVD. 27 Dresses. Love that movie! Thanks Tara!

And of course my Leesa. She went all out. She paid for my dinner, brought a cake with LOTS of candles and gave me the best presents! She gave me a book that I have been wanting so bad but everytime I go look for it at the store it is gone! The Host by Stephanie Meyer. I will be reading this all weekend, I'm so glad we have a long drive to Lake Powell.

Thank you Leesa! You are a true friend. I love you! We have been friends for 11 years. Lots of up and downs, drama, you name it we have been through it! I am so glad we survived! LOL

{School Program}

Oh the dreaded 4th grade square dancing program!! LOL. McKay did a great job even if he did have to hold a girls hand.

{Forgivness}

Guess who just did a load of laundry? Not me!!

{Memory Tuesday}

Write about the time you found out you were having a child

Just a couple months after we were married I was feeling crappy and just not myself. I have never been on a regular schedule with my menstrual cycle so missing it wasn't a big deal and I couldn't judge anything by that. I just had a "feeling" so I went to the store and bought a pregnancy test. I don't even think it took 30 seconds to show that I was for sure pregnant. I was so EXCITED. Dave and I had dated for 4 years so we were ready to start a family.
I decided to wait before telling a lot of people just to be sure everything was okay. (Leesa loves this part) I immediately called my good friend Leesa to tell her the news. When the phone was answered I yelled "I'm Pregnant!" The voice on the other line sounded confused and told me to hold on a second. Come to find out I just announced my exciting news to one of Leesa's friends that I'm not very fond of!! What was she doing answering the phone?!? I was SO mad LOL. Very traumatic! LOL
I don't have very fond memories or anything good to say about being pregnant, I get very sick. One reason why we only have 2 kids!

{Venting}

When are men going to get a clue!? Don't get me wrong, I love my husband more than anything and I don't know what I would do without him but sometimes I just want to strangle him!

Dave has been working out of town for the last 6 months. Leaving on Mondays and coming home Thursdays. He is done with that project and is back home for a while. It is going to be hard to adjust!

2 comments he made to me this morning while he was sitting on his a** watching the news.

"Wow, you are really behind on laundry" & "Could you look something up for me on the interent at work?"

Are you kidding me right now? The laundry is sitting right next to him needing to be hung up and the computer is sitting right next to him with wonderful internet service on it.

This was my day yesterday.
Wake up at 6:30am. Workout, get myself and 2 kids out the door by 8:30am. Work from 8:45am to 5:00pm. Go home. Figure out dinner. We are out of milk, run to the store. Make invitations to McKay's birthday party, clean up muddy foot prints from the kids, put a load of laundry away, (which by the way Dave was looking for work pants and couldn't find any. Not my fault, they were clean he just wasn't looking in the right pile!) Get in bed by 11:00pm

Today? Same thing but I had to make a lunch for my kids field trip, another load of laundry so McKay would have soccer clothes, working from 8:45am - 4:30pm, taking McKay to soccer tryouts until 7:00pm, figure out dinner, and get me and 2 kids packed to go out of town in a few days

Most men think women just sit home and watch soap operas and eat bon bons all day. Well he thinks all I do is talk on the phone, blog and check email all day. Blogging and email are a total of MAYBE 1 hour out of my day which I do while I am eating lunch at my DESK!

I WISH he could walk a day in my shoes!

Okay, i'm done. Thanks for listening.

{Sunny Weekend}

We had a good weekend in the SUN! Finally some sun!


McKay had soccer tryouts. Wow, this is serious business. He still has 2 more to go before he finds out if he is on the team or not..... That stresses me out! I want him to make it, he is a great player, I just hope the coach sees that. I really don't know how the coach is going to pick 16 boys out of 30. It just doesn't seem like he can make a fair choice by himself. Hopefully he will have someone else there to help him.
Then on Sunday we went to Salt Lake to a birthday celebration of our good friends Jon and Leesa's daughter Sydnie. We ate lunch at Red Robin and then went to the Narnia movie.

This is what happens in the car when the boys get bored of driving. McKay was making Garrett's face do things I didn't think a face could do. It was funny!

{Circle Journal}

Another Circle Journal complete. I am so sad that this fun project is almost over, just a few more rotations. I have really enjoyed getting to know everyone more.

This book is Heathers. Her theme is "Lyrics of my Life". I couldn't really choose one song that stands out to me because I love music and I love to DANCE! Heather did such a great job with this book and she sent CD's so we could burn our favorite song. I made a mix CD. YAY!

{Memory Tuesday}

ARE YOU AN OUTGOING PERSON OR MORE RESERVED? EXPLAIN?

I'm not a very outgoing person, it takes me a little bit to step out and meet new people. I am also quick to judge someone from the first impression and that isn't such a good thing to do. I'm sure people have taken that as me being a snob or a b****. It is something I really need to change about myself because I don't want people to think of me that way.
But once you get to know me watch out, you can't shut me up! I am very outgoing and fun around people I feel comfortable with.

{Mother's Day}

Happy Mother's Day to all the great women in my life!!! I have learned so much for each and every one of you!

We took Dave's mom to lunch today and enjoyed spending time with her. She moved into a new place where she has her own apartment but they feed her and do lots of great activities. She has made a lot of friends already and she is very happy! It is so good to see her doing well.

I took a cute iron rod decoration up to the cemetary for my mom. GEEZ I miss her so much!!!

The kids woke me up this morning with a bag full of goodies. Hat, crocs, jewelry, shirt and capris I love my boys!

{School Program}

Garrett had a really cute 1st grade program today at school. It was all about Midway and how the swiss found it and named it. He even had a part to say all by himself and he did a great job!


Garrett's teacher is amazing. She made sure everyone's shirts were ironed and she made the suspenders and hats. All the other classes looked great in their outfits too and I'm sure the teachers had a lot to do with that.

{Memory Tuesday}

TELL ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO DRIVE

My learning to drive experience wasn't anything out of the ordinary. I took drivers ed and passed the test the first time. They gave a licence to anyone! I didn't have to go to the drivers licence division to do anything but get my licence. All the testing was done at school and our drivers ed teacher was a softy.

I remember learning how to drive a stick. My friend Leslie had a stick shift car and she would take me into the church parking lot and let me practice.

My first car was a $800.00 grey 2 door Mazda. My friends and I had so much fun in this car! If you pushed hard on the gas and then let off fast it would backfire. LOL We went around many late night scaring the tar out of BYU students walking around campus. Now that I think about it we could have gotten in a lot of trouble, it sounded like gun shots! LOL

My next car was a red VW Jetta. I loved this car but some idiot rear ended me and it was totaled. I loved the Jetta so much that my next car was a white one and I had that for quite a while up until I was married. That Jetta made many trips to Vegas, Moab, and hundreds of miles cruising state street.

{Camping}

We went camping this weekend with some good friends of ours, Jon and Leesa. It ended up being some friends of theirs and friends of friends. basically a big group of people we didn't know but we had a great time.

First things first. We have a tent trailer but we were thinking about getting something bigger. My dad called me last Saturday to see if we wanted to buy my aunt and uncle's trailer that they were selling. Dave went and looked at it the next day. We got it!

Dave brought it home on Friday afternoon and we were on the road with it at 5:00pm to go camping. It is old but still a great trailer! It is huge and best of all it has a bathroom with a shower! 1 big reason why I always hated to go camping in the tent trailer.

We didn't get to our destination (Elberta which I had never heard of or been to before) until late so we pretty much sat around the fire for a while and then went to bed.

The next day the grown ups went on a ride while the kids stayed back, they watched movies and just hung out.

One of the guys we were with was pretty familiar with the area so he took us to see some great stuff. First we drove through this tunnel that was used by trains. I guess this area was big on mining at one time.

Next we stopped at this huge hole in the ground covered with rebar. The pictures don't do it justice, this thing was enormous! We even dropped a huge rock to see how far down it would go. It probably took 10 seconds before we heard it land.

And last but not least the great views of Utah Lake and the mountains. It was great to have some quality time with Dave. We don't get very much of that these days.Another reason why we wanted to get out and go camping is because the kids and Dave got guns for christmas and they have been wanting to shoot them so bad! I even got a few shots in. Dave was very impressed with my shooting skillz. A family that shoots together stays together! LOL

This picture cracks me up! All the men standing around watching Dave, I wonder what is going through their minds at that moment?!

McKay caught a lizard, thank goodness I talked him into leaving it there, we almost had a new pet.And of course our trip wouldn't be complete without me taking a scrapbooking moment picture. I just can't get over what an amazing father Dave is. These boys worship the ground he walks on and I have no doubt in my mind that he will not let them down!

{Circle Journals}

So I am a little behind posting my circle journals so today you will see 2 of them.

First is Laurie's book. Her theme was Who or What are the "Gems" in your life? This was an easy question for me

This is what I wrote:

My husband. He makes my life complete. I don't know what I would ever do without him. He keeps me grounded, makes me feel content and constantly has me laughing. He is my best friend and he loves me unconditionally. We have a wonderful marriage and I can't wait to grow old with him.

McKay and Garrett are great boys! As they get older, I just get more and more proud to be their mother. I just hope that I raise them to be strong, giving, and incredible men.

My mom and sister are also gems in my life. My mother passed away about 4 years ago and I miss her dearly! I took for granted my time with her and if I could go back I would cherish every minute my kids and I had with her. My sister and I have gotten a lot closer since my mother's passing. There are not very many days that go by that we don't talk on the phone. She is my best friend, my confidant, and a piece of my mom that I can still hang on to. I love her dearly.

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The next journal is Amber. Her topic was My big picture and why do you scrapbook.

There are so many reasons why I scrapbook! Of course I do it for my kids to record their lives and for them to have something from me to treasure when I am gone. Scrapbooking would not be the same if I didn't have my family & friends to do it with. It is also a stress reliever and a creative outlet for me.

{May 1st}

It snowed.

That's all I have to say about that.