A quote for today.

"Remember when you go into the world to keep your eyes and ears wide open. And be kind. Love one another. Take care of each other. Tell the truth. Always do your best. Listen to the big people and the little people.Explore new paths and have fun. Know that you are loved like crazy. Give thanks for all your blessings. Above all else, love and you will do wonderful things in this world." - Rebecca Puig

I saw this quote on another blog and I felt like sharing it on my blog. I have had some tough things to have to go through lately and I needed a boost. So when I read this I thought of my kids and how they are growing in many aspects of thier lives.
If there is anything else in life I could share with my kids it would be this quote. We have a little saying at our house..."Grandma says try new things" is often said when my kids say "can't."

Ashley is growing up so fast and I am so not ready for her to be her own person. She is such a great person and a wonderful friend. I am so proud of the young lady she has become. She may never read this because she is more involved with facebook than my silly blog. So I post this for myself and for any of you you read this.

Funny

Sometimes we say that kids say the darndest things. WELL.... Yesterday Sugar came home and told me she had a fun time at Tylers(our neighbor) and needed some lunch and then she was headed back out to play again. As I was making her lunch I could see that Tylers dad was home and I said "Tylers dad is home so maybe you should stay home" Now I don't have anything against Tylers day I just thought that maybe they could have plans. So anyways Sugar gets this silly look on her face and said "I like Tylers dad, but he always asks me where Spice is."
I know she had no idea what he was talking about so I said," You should tell him she is with Everything nice. She did not want to say that but I got a kick out of what he said to her and later in her life she will get it and laugh about it like I did.

Just so you know I, for some reason, like to make a short story long! ;)

Twilight Obsession

Okay, I have not only neglected updating my blog but my life as well. I started reading the Twilight series. Oh, man am I in trouble. I have seen the Twilight movie so I thought maybe I should read the next book so I would not sit in the theater nudging Ashley and asking her all sorts of questions. So I started reading New Moon and I finished and then I started reading Breaking Dawn. I was a little confused so I decided to ask Ash what the next book should be and she said it is Eclipse...Okay not so confused anymore. I had to put it down so I could take my kids to where they needed to be at the time. I get so angry and so happy and so frustrated all at the same time. (stupid book). Well actually its really good. So now I need to go find a quiet place to get reading today. My brain can only do one thing at a time and when the kids are around I tend to listen to them instead of concentrating on my book.

Annual Lobster boil

Well its that time of year for our annual lobster boil. Clint's sister lives in Maine and for the past 3 years that she has come to visit for the summer she has brought with her the most delicious treat. LOBSTERS! Last year a few of them died and this year they all survived long enough for us to cook em' and eat em'. She also brought Lindt chocolate truffles from Maine. It also happened to be mine and Clint's 17th wedding anniversary. Whew, I can't believe it. I don't feel like it has been that long. It was a fun day and the sun was around long enough for us to enjoy the day and then it was gone the next day.

This is Guss(Clints nephew) making the lobster dance.

We like to play with our food before we eat it.

Into the pot they go.

Ogden Dinosaur Park & Train station

Saturday we went to the dinosaur museum in Ogden. We tried to go to the train station but the line to see the Disney movie train exhibit had a 3 hour wait so we found something better to do. Sugar found this worm hanging from a string and felt the need to take it home. After a few little tears we decided to not put it in her pocket and leave it there.

Here are the pictures we did manage to take at the Ogden train station.

Jeepin'

Clint was home alone with the boys last week while the girls were in St. George and I was at my sisters. They got the jeep going and they had so much fun. They took us all for a ride when we all got back. Spencer is a good driver going forward and Tanner is terrible at backing up but he will have plenty of time to practice this summer. Ashley got the hang of a stick shift and found out how hard it is to drive without power steering.

This jeep has been in our family for about 17 years Clint bought it when we were first married and it has been just sitting around. I really think it is an eyesore and I wish he would get rid of it, Until I saw how much fun the kids had and what big smiles they all had. Ashley and I are going to try to make some seat covers to cover up the big rips. I even got to drive and the windows are so dirty that I had to have Spencer help me back it up.

This is the flooding from the storm we had yesterday. The hail and the rain and the wind and the lightning and thunder. It was all very noisy and very exciting. I had just finished mowing the front lawn and I had just taken the grass to the recycle place and then all "hail" broke loose. We were all so shocked and amazed. Ashley and Tanner were at mutual cleaning up the cemetery. So you can imagine they were just drenched when they got home.

These are the hailstones.

This is our deck in the back. This all happened probably within 1 hours time.