So Proud!

We have been hearing geese every morning the past week. Jason has been checking them out at night when he gets home from work.

Halle decided that she would like to check the geese out too. Jason was so proud of her. I think he almost wept.

What I've been doing.

This is one of my latest projects, the table. I can't get my computer to load any more pictures on this post. (So annoying) I can't show you how ugly the table was before but believe me it wasn't pretty. I have 4 chairs that need to be done. I will show you the color in my next post.

I am an amiture when it comes to refinishing furniture. I sanded this baby down for hours and hours until my neighbor (Encyclopedia Brown) told me to go buy some stripping stuff and it would take the paint off in minutes. REALLY! Why didn't she tell me that last week. AARRRH!

TA Dah!
I kind of love it!

It only took me 10 hours or more.

This is a little lap quilt that I made with my sister. I picked out the material and then she did the hard stuff. I handed her the squared in order so she could sew them. I did sew the green binding by hand along the edges. I don't want to learn to much at one time, I like to pace myself.

Isn't it cute! I love the colors. Kelli did the flowering stippling (the white thread stuff that hold the quilt together).

I want to paint my house in these colors. I don't think Jason will go for that.

Another brilliant project, (not).

We went to Grandma Char's for Conference last Sunday. She had dried fruit set out to snack on. My girls loved it, especially Hunter, she is the one that wont eat anything besides hot dogs. So I thought it would be a great snack to have lying around the house. Do you know how long it takes to dry 5 apples? Eight hours. This is 5 small apples. We could eat this much in minutes.

I told my mom how much the girls loved the dried fruit, and to be on the lookout for pears. She found some and showed up yesterday with this box of pears. This was before I had done the 5 small apples. Do you know how long it is going to take me to dry this entire box of pears. Do you know that it will all fit in one ziplock baggie.

Help Me!

I am done being domestic for the year!

My new job!

Where are the seagulls when you need them. I cannot clean my yard with grasshoppers attacking me. I hate . . . I HATE GRASSHOPPERS!

This is our side yard. Jason helped me tear out our Hollyhocks and Iris's. We filled out trailer with flowers and took them to the dump. Do I feel guilty, YES, do I want to go to the dump and revive them, YES.

I don't want to talk about it.
(check out Jason stretched out on the tramp talking on his phone)

This is one of my pots that I need to tear out. Why can't I tear it out? Let me tell you, there are grasshoppers hiding everywhere in my yard. It is not safe.


This is like Chuck-a-Ramma for grasshoppers. They love it. All you can eat.

YUMM YUMM!

I see you!

I spit on you, you dirty, dirty grasshopper.

Oh, what happened here?

This is what I have been doing with my shovel. I have been averaging around 5 grasshoppers an hour with that shovel. If you would like to hire me I charge a $10.00 per grasshopper.

I hate grasshoppers.

Bow Huntin'

We went bow hunting with the Westcott's and Lanny's family a few weeks ago.
I brought my camera but the battery was dead, so these are all pictures from Nycole's camera.


We went down by Monticello. It was the prettiest place ever. We loved it. The Westcott's are from Monticello so, they showed us around. They wanted to take us on a "ride" in the Rhino's. This was the absolute scariest ride I have ever been on. Holy Cow! I have never been so scared in my entire life.

This is me giving Nycole the finger (not "THE FINGER", the Shame Shame finger). Jason is smiling on the outside but freaking out in the inside.

Are you kidding me. We could hardly fit between trees. We had to push the trees away and suck in our gut to get past the trees.

The kids kept asking if we were going to die!
Why are they so dramatic?

I think were going to live! Now pass the cookies!

The view from the top.

I was posing for Nycole so she could get a shot of the European in the back ground. INTENSE!

We were laughing so hard at his stance, and his telaphoto lens. He could probably count the moons around Mars with that lens.

This is Newspaper Rock. Jason LOVES this kind of stuff. He was in hieroglyphics heaven.

Keep in mind we were camping. Give us a break.

No deer were killed. But we still had an awesome adventure.

Yahoo!

I have a cute little 2nd grader and a big 5th grader going off to school today.

This sweet kid is fast in the mornings. She gets everything done even her bathroom job.

This sweet kid is a turtle in the mornings. She got up at 6:15 and was almost late for the first day of school. HELP!

Devilish smiles-same teacher- GOOD LUCK!

Fishing at Silver Lake

We went up A.F. Canyon a few weeks ago with some friends from Jason's work. They wanted to learn to fish. So, we packed up the kids and took off for Silver Lake. We didn't know the lake was practically empty. That didn't stop us we loaded up on junk food and fished for a few hours.

Halle has some skills. She was casting clear out to the middle of the lake.

Sammy broke out her new pink fishing pole and waited and waited for a fish to nibble.

Hunter tried to teach Sam how to cast. I think Sam wanted to throw Hunter in the Lake.

Luke got the hang of it. He kept wondering when he was going to catch a fish.

Well, as you can tell NO fish were harmed or caught or seen. But we still had a great time. My job was to drive the kids down to Tibble Fork in the Rhino. (I think the ride down was the biggest hit of the trip, but don't tell the guys!)

We missed you Brooke. Hopefully next time you can bring the other two kids fishing with us.

Hiking to Timp!

Jason and I love hiking Timp every summer. It is a difficult hike - 7 1/2 miles each way. We used to hike Timp with the YM in our ward but Jason was released from that calling so we decided to do it on our own. It was so much fun. We woke up at 4:00 am, left our house at 4:30 am, arrived at the Timpanookew campground at 5:oo am and were off hiking. Our goal was to be at the top in 3 hours (8:00am) and then to be down in 2 hours.

We did it!
We saw some goats in the distance before we got to the top. We thought it was so cool, but then when we got to the top we had a little family of goats waiting for us.

There were so many amazing flowers. This is in a little valley before the last mile or 2 of switchbacks until you reach the top. I am resting before the final push.

This is Jason on his phone. Can you believe it? Who are you calling at 8:00am on a Saturday morning?

This is what I looked at the entire way up the trail and the entire way down the trail. Man, Jason has long legs! I was practically running to keep up with him. Jason was so impressed with all of the trail runners. What do you think I was doing trying to keep up him. . . Trail Running!

Jason is laughing at me trying to catch up to him!
Check out the red, white and blue flowers.


Jason was so far ahead of me that I had to take a picture of myself.
Cheese!

What a great day. We want to keep hiking this until we can get a senior citizen discount at the entrance of the canyon. This was a great way to spend our anniversary.

Happy 14th anniversary J!