Boulder Mountain 2008//First Summer swim meet

It's been a busy week around here. Tuesday was the kids first summer swim meet. It was a beautiful day, and the kids swam great. They each won a couple medals, and a couple ribbons. This was their first medals...and they were soo excited! Then on Thursday Tyson and Brian headed up to Boulder Mountain and camped for the weekend. That meant it was GIRLS WEEKEND too! We had a blast, and it sounds like the boys did too. Their weekend included, 4 wheeling, fishing, hiking, and getting bit by mosquitoes. Our weekend included 7 Peaks waterpark, shopping, watching "girl" movies, doing nails, and eating at as many yummy resturaunts as we could fit in. We love this yearly tradition, hopefully we will keep doing it forever! Just in case you can't find my kids in the swim meet: Kylie and Sydney are in black/purple Lehi suits Kylie with a black cap and green goggles, Sydney blue cap with blue goggles, Tyson in black speedos with sharks written down the side. Don't they look great!

13 Years!!

I want to blog today about my sweetie, whom I have been married to for 13 years today!! Happy Anniversary hottie! I don't want anyone to gag, or feel nauseous...so I will keep it fairly un-mushy!! I am sooo lucky to be married to my very best friend. Brian is absolutely perfect for me...and I hope he feels the same about me. I think he does...anyway, the last 13 years have had their ups and downs like any marriage, but thankfully, we've weathered the storms of life and are now sitting under the rainbow enjoying the view. I love Brian with all my heart, and am so grateful to get to spend eternity with him. He is so patient, compassionate, hard working, and HOT!! I love you Bri!! Happy 13 years!

Kylies Screensaver

This cracked me up. Kylie is frequently changing her screen on the computer. Dolphins, Corbin Bleu, David Archuletta etc.....but today this is what I found. Can anyone guess Kylies favorite treat?

Project!!

So with me starting to work from home in 11 days (who's counting??) we decided to finish the rest of the basement too. This only consists of my office, a bedroom for Kylie, and a bathroom. Kylie is beside herself with excitement as you can imagine!! She has been sitting on a chair in her "future room" supervising every move that Brian makes. I think she might be driving Brian crazy...but so far he has been very patient with her...just having her be the go-to girl to fetch all his tools. Those two have always been inseparable! Anyway...here are a few pictures and also a fun night of fishing off the dock on Utah Lake. Brians dad caught the hugest catfish I have ever seen. It was as big as my dog. GROSS...I'm going to think twice before I get on the wake board again!

$300 loaf of Bread

So yesterday I had the great idea to bake some bread. The recipe I had actually made 4 loaves. So with the first two loaves Tyson and I (if I am in the kitchen, you better believe Tyson is right there with me!) made cream cheese braids. Yummy! The third loaf we made pizza. Then by the time I was ready for the last loaf...Tyson had played so much with it that I decided to let him just have it and keep tossing it around and playing with it like play dough. I was pretty sure we had enough carbs in the house for a while! Well I could tell this was going to get messy so I sent him outside to do the tossing. When he was done he apparently left it outside, and the puppy got into it. She ate about half the loaf before we realized what had happened. I honestly didn't think much of it and we left the house for a couple hours. When we came back Tyson picked up Ruby to play and I hear him panic "Mom...I think Ruby is dead." This of course sent the panic to the girls and they are freaking out! I look over and Ruby is like a little rag doll. She can't even hold her head up. She is limp all over, and when we set her on all 4 legs, she collapses immediately. Oh creike! So we rush her into the emergency pet hospital because naturally it is 5:30 and our vet closes at 5p.m. They tell us that she has alcohol poisoning from the yeast fermenting, and her stomach is all distended and stretched from the rising dough. It could shut down everything. He says she has a 50/50 chance of making it through the night. She was too unstable to even have surgery...he didn't think she would make it through that. My kids are all bawling hysterically, and I am fighting back the tears too...but am trying to remain calm for the kids sake. Anyway...Ruby got to stay the night at the hospital on i.v. fluids, with several enemas...and catheters. We prayed hard for her, and this morning when I went to the hospital to go check on her...she was as if nothing had happened. Good as new. Apparently she pooped straight bread dough all night long. Then came the bill... $300. I'll pay $300 any day of the week to have someone deal with bread dough poop all night!

See where her leg was shaved for the i.v.?? How sad!

Summer Fun!!

So I've been a bit of a blogging slacker since school got out. Not that I've been lazy...oh no...just having way to much fun to stop and blog! First on the summer list for me was Youth Conference. We went rafting down the Green River for 3 days. What a total blast we had! No one drowned so that was a bonus! I had never been before and I LOVED it! A little nervous at first, but then ended up relaxing and having fun. Most the rapids were class 2 but we went over one class 3. I was happy with the class 2, thank you very much! Thanks to Gma and Gpa Wade for watching the kids for a week so I could go, and kudos to the Bishop for rowing the "princess boat" for all of us female leaders so we could sit back and enjoy the sunshine! Sorry the YC pictures are of strangers...I didn't get any with me in them. Summer swim team is in full force and we are still waiting for those a.m. temps to climb a little. The kids swim at 7:30 and yesterday it was 43deg. YIKES! It is sopposed to get up to 90 by this week...so we are ready for that. The kids are swimming in a long course pool which is twice the length they were used to swimming indoors. Can you say exhausted kids at bed time? It's a beautiful thing! Brian has been out of town since school got out so we are ready for him to come home this weekend, and we can start the summer as a family finally! HOORAY! The basement flood is almost repaired and I am getting very close to working from home. Can't wait! Well, thats a quick summary of what we've been up to. Just a lot of summer fun!

Shout out to our Teachers!

Today was our last day (hour) of school for the year. We got up early and went and got the kids' teachers some flowers then headed to school to say Goodbye. We had the MOST AMAZING teachers this year. I left the school in tears, so thankful for the 3 teachers that were so fabulous to my children this year. Kylie's teacher Mrs. Rogers was sooo much fun! For the Fifth Graders she was such a good example and somehow in her teaching of regular subjects taught good values of right and wrong...and making good choices. Kylie absolutely loved Mrs. Rogers and cried as she thought about leaving her. Sydneys teacher Mrs. Loader was absolutely perfect for Sydney. She helped her overcome her anxiety with testing, and helped build her confidence. She was soo patient and kind, and the class was always orderly. Sydney had a change of teachers half way through the school year when Mrs. Murdock got married (earlier post this year), and Mrs. Loader jumped right in and made the transition so easy for the kids. That was not easy as these kids bawled for days when Mrs. Murdock said she was leaving. Tysons teacher Mrs. Pratt...I don't even know where to start with her. She is the most wonderful teacher I have ever seen. She is absolutely amazing. Her patience with the first graders was unbelievable, and the greatest thing she taught Tyson was a true love of learning. He loved going to school every day because of her, and was happy and excited every day after school. Words can not express how I feel about her. I just needed to express my gratitued for these hardworking, dedicated, very talented teachers that we were blessed with this year. It's funny because Brian was getting the kids pumped about the last day of school as we were getting them to bed last night. Tyson, with tears in his eyes said " I want to go back to first grade next year, so I can have Mrs. Pratt again...Dad I don't want school to be over yet." Wow! Brian didn't get it...guess he never had a teacher he loved that much! Here is some pictures of the kids and their teachers, and them on the first and last day of school. The girls picked out the same outfit so we could compare how they've changed over the year. Here's to a FUN summer!