Snake River!
When the family gets together for some River running on the Snake.....we tend to get wet, alot, laugh, alot, eat, alot, let our crazy twin come out and have a really good time!

This is a trip that we all look forward to each year, and every year is a new adventure. We also share our fun with a new friend and they survive our craziness!

The water changes and old holes are nothing, new waves appear, some waves dissapear. Our favorites are always, Kahuna, Lunch Counter and Hay Stacks!


Add a little jumping off the rocks!


Some technical manuerving!

And expert rowing!
Thanks for the great time everyone!

BAD DOG!

I recently watched my sister-in-laws dog, who we affectionately call "Bad Dog". Cause every time we turned around she was doing something naughty. Mostly eating something! I laugh over the posts of 2 year olds being tornadoes and I wanted to put a post about dog's also being tornadoes but, we still love them.

This dog is very old, she can't hear, or see very well anymore. She has growths on her body that I'm sure gives the groomer a difficult time, if the groomer were to shave one off, it could be messy. She has a growth on the inside of her ear that will not heal and bleeds.

But, she is well loved and well taken care of by her Mommy! She arrives with doggy bed, medicine, ear wash, leash, dog food and doggie treats.

First thing she does when arriving, is canvas the house with her nose. You know how they say that when one of your senses isn't working, the other ones are more acute. I believe this dog has a very good sense of smell. Within 24 hours she ate the dental floss in the bathroom garbage can, went down into the storage room, where it is very dark and found a bag of noodles that she proceeded to tear open. I happened to notice her venturing into the basement and caught her before she could eat any.

We left the bathroom door open and the cupboard door was ajar, she pulled out a bag of women's pads and ate; we don't know how many of these before the cotton filled her up.

I thought that my purse was high enough out of reach that she couldn't get to it.....not.....2 packs of gum. So now she has gum and cotton in her stomach.

But she topped it off with 18 chocolate zucchini cupcakes that were in baggies on the kitchen table. All the chairs were tucked in, she managed to get one wedged out enough for her to get on the table. She was thinking though and took the bag under the table to devour this delicacy. Short Dog might have helped some.

What am I going to tell my sister-in-law, your dog succumbed to cotton, floss, gum, chocolate poisoning?

This dog has an iron stomach and she survived. Whew! The cleanup in the yard was interesting!

But when she looks at you with her cloudy eyes and a happy face, how can I get mad! When she follows you around the house like she is your best friend, can't get mad. When she is laying there sleeping all innocent, can't get mad.

So standard procedure before going to bed or leaving the dog in the house: Close bedroom doors, close bathroom door, close basement door, push all chairs under table, put anything smelly on the washer or dryer, put garbage cans on the dryer, put stair guard up in doorway to living room to keep her confined to kitchen, (which she can jump, therefore close the bedroom doors) and hope she has a good night!

She has gone home now, but I will be ready for her when she comes to visit again!

We all want to ride in green VW bus!

It's alive and running. Needs new tires, the upholstry work done, this, that, etc. etc., but it is alive! Only going around the block for now! Got to work on a few more things and if it breaks down and we have to push it home, well can you say, embarassing......

Babies in my yard...

I was getting ready to leave Thurs night and there in the driveway was a baby bat! Still alive, I scooped it up with a stick and hid it in a box with a lid until the sun went down. About 9:30 p.m. the bats come out of my garage and fly away to eat bugs and best of all, mosquitoes!

It made these little squeeking noises and two bats dropped out of the garage and circled the box, we had poured the little bat out onto the top of the lid so the big Mommy bats could find it. It scooted off the lid and landed in the driveway again. When we got close to see if it was ok, it flew across the driveway, only about 6 inches off the driveway, but I hope it survived, cause we couldn't find it again!

Then on Sunday, we had a microburst go through the yard and blow a bird's nest out of the tree. Inside were two baby birds. I climbed a ladder and put the nest back in a pine tree and I am hoping that the Mom can find the babies and still will feed them. I don't want to climb back up to look for another couple of weeks.

Nature is tough on animals!!!!!!

What freedom means to us...

Being able to spend Friday the 3rd at Utah Lake, soaking up the sun, laughing, flying, getting wet, putting our toes in the Utah Lake mud! While Kevin and D.J. work on the V.W. bus at home, getting all oily and dirty, but smiling from ear to ear, cause it is fun to get dirty.


Going to the Riverton Parade.

Then Myself, Morgan, Adam, Rodney, Kylee and Sam left the Silver Lake parking lot at 11:00 p.m. and walked 2.5 miles in the dark with the full moon lighting our way to upper Silver Lake. To sit on a rock for a few minutes, eat a snack, giggle around sleeping hikers in their tents and walk back down in the dark, scare up a moose and a deer. Have the local sherriff approach us in the parking lot looking for bad boys and wondering why in the heck we are hiking at night, under the light of a full moon, only to fall into bed at 3:00 a.m


Then get up at 6:00 a.m. and send Kevin and Jamie off on their bikes to ride the 60 miles to Tooele airport, so we can throw our pilot, Adam, out of an airplane. Cloud cover was a little low when we first got there and it sprinkled a little, but then the O.K. was given and Jamie gives Adam a good luck hug. Adam's tandem instructor, Cliff, is the same one that Morgan had, and he is the best!!!!!. Adam and Cliff came out of the plane rolling. Not just a fall from the sky, but rolling through the air. There were numerous chutes coming down, but Adam was the one Yahooing! Can you see the grin on this pilot's face.




We had some lunch, came home, had a nap and happily went to bed. Without our freedom, could we have spent two days like this?


We jump a big Thank you to all our service men and women, present, past and future!

I am grateful to live in America.

Summertime, summertime!



How cool is this....today -
At 04:05:06 on 07/08/09. A number sequence that will never happen in our lifetime again!

No butts about it, it has been a busy summer. Riding bikes, planting gardens, yard work, BYU women's conference, Youth conference.

I have been a little behind in posting for the last month.

Youth conference was all we expected it to be. The activities that my committee planned worked well. We had just under 200 kids attend. The first night we had 69 vehicles parked in the woods and 52 tents. A rain storm deluged us with rain and cold when we first arrived. But then the sun came out and we had two days of activities, food and Book of Mormon learning.

Now we are riding our bikes and getting ready for Lotoja. Lots and lots of riding.

But don't look back, keep putting one foot in front of the other and smile. Cause it's a great day!