Grammy babysits

Grandma babysat Wyatt and Dean while Ammie went to girl’s camp. All I have to say to Ammie is, I almost killed your children. Dean has a bruise on his face, and Wyatt has a tear in his foot, but they are still breathing. Alena was the biggest help and great company, but I tried to kill her too with too much ice cream. I don’t know about Paul, but it’s great to have you back.

Betty Crocker

Call me Betty Crocker. Today I baked, sewed, and I also helped put on a shower for my cute friend, Kati. I was almost named Martha, but I dought Martha leaves her boys in pj's most of the day and lets her boys cause mayhem in the house between the cartoons.

To toot my own horn I made a beautiful quilt for Kati's soon to be baby girl. My cookies were a hit at the shower. They where lemon bars out of the box and with a little tweaking became lemon crisps. I put K's on each of them, for Kati. They looked and tasted AWESOME.

I think Kati was happily surprised about the baby quilt.

Egg #2

Today Jamie and Hannah brought over another egg. I think our last egg was a dud. I hope we didn't kill the little caterpillar/butterfly. Wyatt only got to it a few times, I realy try not to let Wyatt shake the little egg. We hope we will see some action with this new egg. So I say goodluck to us!!!

Update the update this morning I was going to take a picture of egg #2. I was shocked to see I have a tinny-inny caterpillar crawling on the leaf. Yeah we have made it pass the egg stage. Now we need get this bad boy to grow big so it can move to stage 3. I will keep you posted. I still say goodluck to us keeping him a live.

Soccer saturday

We had a good old soccer day. Paul joined a coed team last year and loved it, so he had to do it this year. I don't think I went to any games last year, I don't know why. I also missed last weeks when Paul scored 3 goals. Today I finally made it to one. It was so fun to watch Paul again, just like old high school days. He isn't as fast as he was in high school, but then again he looks a lot different, Paul was 50 lb lighter and he had long multi colored hair (red, gold, green, and blue).

cooky wyatt

Yesterday we had a mild cold front come in. So Wyatt had to get out the umbrella and put on a fleece jacket. The funny thing was it cooled down only to 90* instead of the past few weeks of 96*. Cooky boy, Wyatt stayed in his fleece for a while. I was melting just watching Wyatt.

Dean and I are trying to stay cool in shorts and tees.

Slide Boys

We all decided to have birthday dinner with Gramdma at PC park. Her big surprise was that all the arrangements for dinner and entertainment was totally planned by her children. The grandkids were of course a total delight in entertainment value. Laughing Hysterical Jack, Mr. Bobblehead Dean, and Digging Boy Wyatt were fun to watch and play with. Dinner was her favorite, chinese. The big surprise was that all of us chipped in to buy her a hard drive for her next trip to Turkey. Next year's surprise is going to be a jungle-jim set just like the park's to put in her backyard so we don't have to share. JK, after we all win the lotto.

Caterpillar Egg

My cute friend Jamie and her even cuter daughter Hannah gave me a caterpillar egg for my birthday and so the boys could watch the whole cycle of a butterfly. Can you see the little gray dot on the leaf, that my friends, is our butterfly, well caterpillar first. I showed it to Wyatt this morning, he was kind of excited. I'm sure when it gets a little bigger than this (.) it will be more exciting for him.

A bunch of families in our neighborhood grow butterflies each summer. They find them in the egg form, then grow caterpillars. They feed these little guys lots of milk weed so the caterpillar can grow nice and big. The little creepy caterpillar will spin a cocoon for the whole family to watch. These families have all said that the best part is watching the butterfly coming out of the cocoon and drying off, lastly being able to set it free. So this summer I thought it will be fun to blog our Butterfly experience, so stay tuned.

Summer Fun

We have had so much fun in the hot weather. The boys and I have gone to the park and played with friends. We have set up the slip-n-slide for a few days. We have lit a fire in the pit out back. Dad made us a sandbox years ago, which Wyatt plays in almost everyday all day. If you don't have a sand box in your backyard may I tell you, you should get one tomorrow, its the best investment ever. The boys play in it for hours. The best part about our sandbox is that its in the shade starting at 11:00 for the rest of the day. LOVE IT...



Wyatt plays all day until the sun goes down.

BIRTHDAY SURPRISE!!!

I had a very surprising birthday this year. I was first surprised by my girlfriends with an overnight getaway up at the Park City Mt. Resort. Mandy headed it up with Paul helping with the surprise. She had planned it over a month before. Lori was in charge of the cake, Lara and Jamie brought chick flicks. We all got up there before dinner, talked it up until our hunger took over. We ate at Bandits on Main Street. Then we went back to the hotel to soke in the hot tup until they kicked us out. We got ready for bed and did more talking until 2 am. That's crazy fun for some of us who are moms that are almost 30 years old. The next morning Mandy had to leave early, I got up to thank her and tried to go back to bed, but I have an early rising family so no luck. I got up and walked around the beautiful hotel. I got my swimsuit on and headed to the pool. Swam until my cute friends got up and joined me back in the hot tub. We then got ready for the day and went over to the outlets for a little shopping. After that I wasn't quit ready to go home so Jamie dropped me off at my sister Randi's. Randi bought me lunch and we ate at her pool. We hung out until 5:00 and then she dropped me off so I could get ready for my hot date.

My mom (Lyle), stepdad (Gary), Paul and I were going to go to Sundance for dinner. Well that was the cover story. On our way to Sundance, Paul told us he had to drop off a check at his parents. I was so mad "we have to time, we can do it later." But they didn't listen to me. So we pulled up to my in-law's house, and my mom said I want to see your garden in the back. So we all got out to look at my tomatoes. As I got to the back I saw Daniel my brother on their deck, then Lisa and Greg then my mom Lesli. First I thought "why are they having a party without me." Then they all yelled SURPRISE!! It was a party for me, my whole family minus my brothers and their families that live far away. It was so much fun. They had great food and awesome cake. It was so perfect, it made me happy. Thanks Mom (Lyle), Randi, and most of all Paul for planning the whole thing. Definite thanks for Dana for hosting the party in her lovely home and thanks to Dan for getting our yard ready and weeding my garden. Thanks for all my family that brought good food, you are all the best. Here are half of the pictures from that night I have to get the rest later.

On my real birthday Paul and I went golfing at Ceder Hill golf coarse. We played 18 holes. It was so much fun we both played good. Then we took the boys, Tawine, and Alena out to eat. Then to the golf store to buy my b-day gift a golf club of coarse. My birthday was the best birthday ever.

Happy Birthday Mom

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!

My mom gets all my birthday cake leftovers every year. Sorry that's what happens when you can't hold baby Ammie in just for a few more days. For reals, I have always loved that we have birthdays next to each other. I feel like we have a close bond with one another like two peas in a pod bonded by our birth sign. I am sure it's like any other mother/daughter relationship, but I like to think we are more than that. I love my mom so much, I just think she the greatest. She has been my best cheerleader in the choices I have made. She loves being a grandma to her grandkids, even though she lives far she loves talking to them on the phone. Growing up I have great memories going on family trips. At times it might have been just up the canyon camping in a tent telling stories or my first time to Disneyland and the ocean or to many National parks. She has installed in me the desire to see the world and to love the people in the world no matter there color or belief. I was so proud of her when she went to China. She was a little nervous about going so far away from home, but she went and had a great time. Now she wants to see more. Thanks for including me on your next trip around the world. We are going to have a awesome time in Turkey this year.

Lets make a birthday wish to our new adventures in Turkey and in Utah this year.