Crusin the Lake

No you're not seeing double for some reason it added some pictures twice and I can't fix it. Oh well that's the way it goes sometimes.



Ryan and I bid on a boat cruise down lake Travis. It was a auction the boy scouts in our church put on so they could go on a HIGH ADVENTURE. We were allowed to invite up to 10 couples and kinda over crowded the boat. oops!! We kept sinking and had to run to the back of the boat to save us from going under. It was quite the adventure. Then while we were at dinner it started to pour on us. Luckily the restaurant was under tarps so we all just crowded together. Boating back to the car we got pulled over by the boat police. But got let off with a warning for overloading, and not having on the proper lights. It was a perfect ending to our great ADVENTURE. It was such good company and it made for a great memory. Thanks everyone for coming.

1st day of school

I can't believe I have two full time students now. Josh started Kindergarten with two shiners and a goose egg between his eyes. What a great way to start school huh. And poor Trevor was in the Dr.'s office last night with a food allergic reaction. He had the worst upset stomach. But they were both up bright and early 6:00 to be ready to go to school by 7:15. Josh was so excited he could barley contain himself. He walked right in and got all set up with out any help. I was so proud of him. And Trevor was embarrassed to have us take him so he hid behind the door while we took his picture. He's so funny. I'm so glad I have Gavin at home he helped with the loneliness. I hope they have a good year I love these kids so much. Why do they have to grow up so fast?

A small town Tragedy

My Home town of Cedar City Utah just suffered a GREAT loss. A plane carrying 9 Dr's crashed in Moab killing all of them. My sister Wendy worked with some of these great Dr.s and has felt the impact it has put on the Small town hospital. These were all great people who will be greatly missed. What a tragic loss. Our hearts and prayers go out to their family's.
If you want to Read more about it here is a link to the article that was in the Salt Lake tribune.

http://origin.sltrib.com/ci_10283456

Family pictures.

Family picture time. They turned out pretty good considering it was about 110+ outside and the boys were hot, tired and hungry not to mention wild and crazy like always. The Photographer did a wonderful job!!!





Today we went and got some more with us all dressy to go above my mantel. I was pretty cranky with the kids because they would not cooperate. I hope we at least have ONE good one of the whole gang. AHH family picture time I now remember why we have not had them taken in a long time.

Elder Goulding

My Nephew Kaleb just got his Mission call to Georgia. We are so proud of him and excited to hear about all his adventures.
Good Luck ELDER GOULDING!!! We love you.

Josh ism's

The other day I had to take the boy's to the Dr. Trevor and Josh were both complaining about a ear ache and Gavin was very congested. Luckily they would see all three at once usually they wont. Anyways the Dr. 1st looked at Trevor and discovered he has swimmers ear. Then she asked who was next and Josh volunteered Gavin. After she looked him over she said "he has a sinus infection." Then it was Josh's turn. She looked into his ear then in his nose and then Josh said. "So Dr what's my problem?" He's such a character.



Then yesterday Ryan and I were in Sunday school it's in the gym and the stage is on the side of the class. It was all quite and the teacher was going into his lesson until we see the curtains move and a child pops out. Low and behold it was Josh. I was so embarrassed. When we discussed him being out of class and disrupting my class he said. "Mom I was just making sure you made it to class safely." I'm always checking on him making sure he's into class because he likes to go Himself with out any help. Looks like I taught him a few things with out knowing it.

Weavel pie

Ever have one of those days? Well today was one. So it's the end of the week and we had a VERY limited food supply. But I had enough for pb&j's for lunch and then I was making skinny minis for dinner with a smoothie and a banana cream pie for dessert. So with a messy kitchen and using up the last of the milk, eggs all the staples we were good to go. Until there were little black chunks in the skinny mini batter. Unfortunately I didn't catch it before I made the pie which was now a WEAVEL pie. YUCK!!! We pulled back the top layer of flour to find it covered in nasty ALIVE bugs. So I figure we will just have our smoothie until as I was pouring it I accidentally DUMPED the whole thing out missing the cups. UGH!!! So I herded the kids into the car and headed to Wendy's. What an afternoon and this is why I HATE COOKING!!! I wont even mention all the other things that went wrong but this is the icing on some pretty crummy cake.

Summer vacation Aug. 2008

Well here's another slide just the best way to view pictures when you have a ton. I think.
It was great to go back to Washington and see some old friends. It was such a brief time we had to say hi. I hope to just go back to Duvall sometime and visit with everyone next time. We only stayed in Redmond Friday and then Saturday after Trevor's baptism we headed to Eastern Washington to find the sun shine and to Lake Chelan. Ryan's parents have a house there; well a big house and a little house so it makes it perfect when the whole family comes up we all have room. The boys LOVE LAKE CHELAN.They played hard all day long. Trevor's favorite thing was to ride the seadoo's and Josh loved the HOT TUB. (Couldn't pull that kid out.) and Gavin just loved it all and was such a happy little camper playing in the dirt and throwing rocks into the lake. He didn't Sleep the whole time we were there so I really need a vacation from my vacation I came home EXHAUSTED! Both the older boys got swimmers ear and the baby came home with a sinus infection. I guess that's what 7 days in a lake will do for you huh. We are so glad we go to go it was nice to see the Family we miss them so much.

Trevor's Baptism

Trevor we are so proud of you and are so blessed to be your parents. Thanks everyone for coming to support us. And helping me do this thing long distance. It was a great day. One I hope Trevor will never forget.