what i've been up to!

There are some fun things i have done lately that i don't want to forget to post about! Hopefully i will see this and remember to put pictures on about them. 1st thing i missed was our 4th of july activities. We camped at Calamity campground near the Palasades Dam. It was actually REALLY pretty and the outhouses actually smelled GOOD! crazy... i know! My sisiter sara went with us. It was fun. But, i do miss my families BIG celebration... it is sad when we have to grow-up and some traditions die!
The next fun thing I did was go to GIRLS CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!Woooohooooo! I LOVE girls camp...as most of you already know! Dallas took 2 days off of work to take care of the boys, so that i could go be a teenager again! I had so much fun, and I just love the young women in our ward. They were so fun. I was worried that with only being there one day, they wouldn't get to know me and I them, but I was wrong! I told them I was only there to get babysitters, and the lowest bidder could watch my kids for me. ;o) I think they just thought i was weird! oh well. They also gave me the nickname "Jamaica". They said it was because of my last name. Say it with an accent and you will get it! ;o) That nickname was much better than the first ideas.... q-tip, and c.c. (wich is the nickname that I have spent YEARS getting rid of!) anyway... tons of fun!

family caricature

We had a fun stake pioneer day activity yesturday. One of the things they had was a lady doing caricatures... so we got one of our family. I love the sketch of Hyrum! Can you tell he wasn't sure about this lady... no smiles, just a stare. Anyway... i think it totally looks like him!

Darby Canyon Cave

I had Friday off of work because I went in on midnight wednesday so we decided to take a hike. It was amazing and I love being in the mountains the boys and cecilia liked it too. There was still too much snow so we could not make it to the top but we had a good time

BYE BYE BLANKY!!!!!!!!

(blanky with corners cut) (the nasty last corner)

Poor Hyrum.... half an hour later and he is still crying in bed, because he can't find his favorite corner to suck on! I have been slowly cutting the corners off (rounding them) so that he won't suck on his blanket. He only sucks on corners... and he also has to have a soggy corner to hold on to! YUCK!!! As many of you have seen (or mistakenly touched) the blanky, you know how incredibly disgusting that thing is! No matter how hard I try to keep it clean, it's just permanently nastified! So, this last week I cut of the 2nd to last corner (the holding corner) and he actually didn't seem to mind... he just held onto the corner he was sucking, because the wet area was HUGE since it was the only corner left to suck on! Well... today he woke up with a really sore chin and it was also on the bottom of his lip, so I decided that was my cue that I need to get rid of that final corner. I always do it in front of him and he didn't even seem to mind that the last corner was being cut away. He'll even pick up the corner and say "yucky" (in his mostly vowel only language). Anyway, we were fine until I told him it was time for naps. He picked up his blanky and started turning it and turning it (looking for the precious corner). Finally he said "blanky???" I told him there were no more corners because it gave him an ouchy. Needless to say... as of this moment I think he may have finally given up and gone to sleep. but, i'll probably post this and the crying will start again. Poor Hyrum.... ;o) If i'm lucky, maybe he won't need his blanky anymore. we'll see.... Here is the tribute to the blanky..

GO AWAY!!!!

I would just like it to be known that it SNOWED last night!!!! Sadly, I waited too long before taking a picture. Where is summer???????

Bath Disaster!

The other day I went to a Relief Society activity and when I came home I saw my plant on the counter with stems broken and dirt all over. I asked Dallas what happened to my plant and he said... "what happened to your plant?!! Let me show you what happened to your plant!!!" Apparently Brayden had a nasty blow-out and while Dallas was changing him, Brayden put his foot in the poo and so Dallas decided he probably needed a bath. While taking a bath Brayden found my plant and decided it need a bath too! (I of course reminded Dallas that I previously instructed him that you have to move EVERYTHING out of the baby's reach when giving him a bath in the sink-I guess he learned his lesson) ;o) Thankfully I have an awesome husband and he cleaned up the mess before I got home...AND took pictures so that I could laugh too!!