LAGOON

It is true... I went to SLC completely child FREE!!! No, i didn't even take Tanner. I've just been pumping an extra "meal" a day in preparation for this trip. A friend from my ward asked me last month if I wanted to go on retreat with her and of course i said yes. We decided on Lagoon. Friday we ate with friends/family at my favorite chinese gourmet restaurant and had a great time talking. Amanda and I stayed up talking until 1:30 in the morning. My body kept waking me up early Sat. even though i'd gone to bed late and actually could sleep in...sad. We went to Lagoon and had a fabulous time! I took some dremmamine to be sure I wouldn't get sick. I still felt kindof light-headed and a bit tipsy when we would get off a ride. Our definite favorites were the Wicked,and the rocket. The rocket just made me laugh big time...not really sure why, but it was great. It was fun to spend the day just constantly laughing and screaming! We went to the Relief Society concert that night and I could NOT keep my eyes open!!!!! I was exhausted, but i'm also blaming it on the drugs. We went to dinner at the Gateway mall at The Counter and then had dessert at the Haagen Daaz ice cream shop... I love their dulce de leche ice cream!!! When we got back to amanda's aunts, I went straight to bed. Sunday we couldn't get ahold of any friends of family to go to church with, so we went to Amanda's mission president's grandson's ward. It was a great trip and we had some awesome conversations. I kept dreaming about the rides and even found myself leaning in different directions as i was "riding" the roller coasters. I can't wait to go again!

I need Ideas!!!!!!

HELP ME!!! Please give me ideas so that I can get my precious sleep back. My house has become incredibly small the last few months. We only have 2 bedrooms so Hyrum and Brayden have been in the same room since Brayden was born. I have finally had it with the two of them staying up all night playing and waking up before the sun even comes up, so I moved Hyrum into our entry-way and Tanner is in the bedroom with Brayden. I was super excited to go to sleep that night, because all three boys were asleep by 8:30pm!!! Only by 3am Hyrum had snuck into my room and into my bed only to be followed by Brayden an hour later. Not wanting to start a pattern, I put them both back in their beds. Well, the next few mornings went about the same, sometimes Hyrum would just go into brayden's room and wake him up (the kid needs way more sleep than hyrum is letting him have... he's a grump all day!) Yet again I thought I had a solution. I put a babygate up so that Hyrum couldn't get out of the entryway...apparently he can climb it and also just knock it over. ;o( What else can I do???? I am getting up more at night with those two than i am with tanner...not ok! If you need a visual... here is the post of pictures of my house. http://dcmaughan.blogspot.com/2008/05/ucon-house.html
The second picture is the entry way and the third picture shows the doorway to the entryway just to the right of the bookshelf.
oh and this morning i woke up to vaseline in brayden's hair. Still working on getting that out!

FYI

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Dallas' B-Day

We celebrated Dallas' b-day a little early because my mom has been here this last week. His real b-day is on Monday. I think we had a fabulous time. I took him to the all you can eat steak place that is just down the road from us, but we'ver never gone to before. It was pretty tastey. Then we went shopping for shoes for him, but apparently his style isn't what stores make anymore. We couldn't find any brown skater shoes anywhere! Then we went to gameworld and played arcade games. I thought that was a lot of fun, because it made me feel like a teenager again. After games, we walked around for a while waiting for the 10:20pm showing of Harry Potter. I can't believe I stayed awake! I liked the movie, but I can't believe it was only rated PG. There were some pretty intense moments! I won't say what, because I don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but Dallas and I jumped out of our seats at one part. Good thing it was only us and one other couple in the theatre. And to top it off... Tanner only woke up once that night! woohoo.;o)