DADDY-O

We had Father's Day dinner at our house this year. We had chicken wings and tenders, rice, salad, fruit and cookie ice-cream sundaes for dessert. We played some Scum too. Overall it was a fun night!!

This is my dad. I thought I'd share a few tidbits about him since we recently celebrated Father's Day. He is definitely a "if it's not broke, don't fix it" kind of guy. For most that would work but you see he has chosen to reside with my mom who, to say the least, is always looking for something to change or update. That's where his easy going attitude comes in, for he just does the things that make my mom happy even though he sees no sense in it. He's also a "pull my finger" prankster. We can't go anywhere to eat w/o the cheesy waitress jokes. He still won't get popcorn at the movie theatre because once I asked him why he bought a medium size when we could have gotten a large with a free refill and shared it. "Can't a grown man have his own popcorn" it's a joke now but jeez, it seemed sensible then. Anyway he's a great dad who had to endure having four daughters and finally got a son when they adopted my cousin Robert. He's always worked hard and sacrificed for his family. Now he's a grandpa and enjoying his grand kids(preferably in small doses,right?)

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I have this strange feeling that we're going to have a girls night out in December. I just can't figure out why though. I know it's obvious- staring you right in the face. In case there's any of you girls out there that have yet to read this book, please do by then because you'll want to join us. If you need to BORROW the book please walk, don't run on over and I will be happy to oblige.

COOL IN THE POOL

If you would have asked me a year ago if we would ever have a pool, the answer would have been no, yet somehow we ended up with this big plastered hole taking up residence in our backyard. I can't tell you when or why the decision was made, the kids even voted dog over pool, but we now have a wonderful addition to our backyard. At 74 degrees I have yet to brave the waters, but the kids have been floating around all week in it. We did however heat the spa up tonight and had a good relaxing soak.So pictures were requested and pictures you shall get. Mind you the landscaping has yet to come, we are going to do it ourselves so any pointers or volunteers will be appreciated. I'm looking forward to spending the summer lounging by the pool, barbecuing, and enjoying having friends join us for both.

DOUBLE TROUBLE

The twins have arrived! Kate weighed in at 5lb.12oz. and Jane at 5lb.6oz. and they are healthy and mom is doing well too.By the way I didn't just give birth, it was my sister Steph who is already the proud mom of 3 rambunctious boys. So needless to say we were all pretty hyped about the twins being girls. That brings the grandkid tally for my parents to 6 girls and 6 boys. I went to see them yesterday and boy are they tiny. I took a few pics while I was there- Kate is the single picture and the double is Jane on the left and Kate on the right(I think).

COLD MOUNTAIN

Good 'ol Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer to take a long weekend to enjoy the warming trend in the weather. That is unless your plans involve heading to Cedar City for a stay at the cabin.32 degrees Friday night when we pulled in- that is FREEZING!! All was not lost though,we cranked the heater and pulled out our jackets. Saturday we went to town and ate lunch and made a visit to the graves of some of our family, followed by a stop at the movie theatre where we watched Indiana Jones for $5. The movie was great, another classic for sure. We had Wingers for dinner, not that we were even hungry after the popcorn, but that's what you do on vacation- right? Sunday we had breakfast at the Parowan Cafe and drove up over the mountain where we found Brianhead full of snow. These snowy pics were taken at Cedar Breaks- FREEZING COLD!! We hung out at the cabin and Lauren and Jace played with the dog from down the road that they named "Ray" and Lauren found a bird skeleton that was later crushed by one of them.I found some of those plastic ballon things we had when I was little that you would squeeze out of the tube and put it on the end of the straw and blow it up. The kids loved it- some things just never go out of style. We played some Scum with my parents who also came up and Jason got all angry saying we were changing the rules and it turns out he was right, but it was funny anyway. We ended our weekend Monday night at my parents with a pool party and once again the cold creeped in and there was no way I was swimming. Most of the kids swam and shivered but enjoyed every minute. We're back to our old routine now and thawing out as the weather is getting warmer.

LITTLE LEAGUER

Jace has survived his first season of Little League Baseball. At first we weren't quite sure we wanted to sacrifice our Saturdays, but it was worth it to see Jace having fun and learning to play. Not bragging but he did quite well for having not played before, he even perfected the unnecessary slide home. He looked so handsome in his little uniform too, of course he had to play it cool with his teammates around so I wasn't allowed to say anything too "mommyish" to him. He's looking forward to next season and we're not dreading it because it turned out to be quite fun.

DISNEYLAND

Good 'ol Disneyland!! We went down Saturday and came home Tuesday. It just seems like you enter another dimension there. It was Jace's birthday on Tuesday that was the main reason for our adventure, so he was thrilled be able to get the birthday button and the phone call from Goofy. On Sunday he was a hair too short to ride Screamin', but miraculously on his birthday he was tall enough and got to ride it for the first time and loved it. Oh I forgot to mention Jason put some paper towels in his shoes to raise him up- that's not cheating is it? Overall we had a good time- my parents went and my sister Karessa and her family ended up going too. It was really HOT on Sunday, but cooled down Monday and Tuesday. On Sunday the heat was blazing and all I wanted was a frozen slushy raspberry lemonade to cool me down, and not the chinsy one from the ice-cream guy but the slushy fountain drinkish ones. So me and my dad got in line and on the person in front of me it breaks down-SHUT UP! So a guy comes to fix it and we're still hanging around waiting for the parade so we jump back in line - same thing 3 times we do this . Finally the guy figures out it's overheating and needs to rest in between customers. Persistence paid off and I got my $4 slushy!!!