been a while?

yeah. life takes over and the days pass quickly. let's see where did we last leave you... WOW! two weeks!
k I decided to let Sadie keep her sippy's so she would have one at grandmas house.
Flaming Gorge and The Green River. Friday the 8th DOn's friend cut his hand so they invited Don to go hunting with them in case they needed the extra hand lol. ok So he went hunting instead of up to the green with us. Um we got up early Thursday morning and headed over to the church (after packing all the food) and we finally pulled out at 6:30. We had 4 girls, 6 boys, 5 leaders, and the bishop and his wife also came later. Thursday after arriving we set up camp and took off for the dam tour. That was fun I guess. since I am terrified of heights I stayed way back as we walked across the dam. anyway then we drove down to Dutch John to see where we were picking up our rafts the next day. and I bought a really good oreo shake lol. ok then we drove back to cap and hello I forgot my jacket! ARG! thank goodness it wasn't too cold. we had some dinner and then sat around and talked and played games. got up Friday mornign made some breakfast burrito's and got all our lunch stuff together int eh same cooler and we were off to the river. did I mention it was overcast? blah!! OK so we get down to Dutch John pick up our rafts. I was very nervous I feellike such a chicken cuz I'm also afraid of the water. well they all got the rafts unloaded I handed over my keys to the YM pres and jumped on the raft no fear right? lol I did this when I was younger so I wasn't too terrified. it took us 2 1/2 very cold hours going down 7 miles lol. k we were really cold cuz of the ambush of water from the other raft lol. we got 'em good and they were definately more wet than us! haha! got out of the river at Little Hole. Man that was fun I wanted to go again!! We ate lunch a little wet. (we were not lunch lol) The wind picked up and Huge black clouds covered us! That was it for me I wasnt' going again :( I was a little sad cuz I really wanted to and if I had a jacket I would have! None of the girls and a couple of boys didnt' want to go again so I drove them all back to the camp ground with teh bishops wife. I was soo tired I totally crashed and I didn't see the bishops wife till everyone else got back. well I fell asleep in the tent and Icould hear all the kids talking outside the tent. I didnt' totally crash. then I heard then start talking about all going to the boys tent to sit so I thought I had better get up and go with them. so I did and we all just talked and listened to the IPOD and sang. then it started to pour rain!! By the time everyone else got back from their second run it had stopped and we went and made Dutch oven dinner. YUM! then that night we had a nice fireside and smores and bed. I reluctantly listened to my body the next morning and dragged myself to the bathroom early. as I got out of the tent it was sooo cold and cloudy (I went and got a jacket while dinner was cooking) so happy I had a jacket. I saw the YM pres and asked when we wanted to get the kids up looked like rain. ugh it started pouring within minutes! I am proud to say the girls all got right up and we had opur stuff packed and tent down before the boys. we waited around for about a half hour for the YM to get their stuff taken care of and did some smack talk lol. We went in to Manilla to a member of the bishoprics vacation home for a fabulous bbq! and I didn't really think I would make it home cuz I was soo tired but I did! whew!
Don left Friday for his hunting trip and was gone till monday night. Cora left Monday morning for Girl scout camp. and she came home yesterday!
My sister had her Baby Saturday night named him Kyle and he weighed in at 7/10. so I think that is about as caught up as my life goes.

I really am enjoying the Olympics. They have been so fun to watch. I am really bummed I didn't get to see the womens volleyball champs play! I did get to see some sprints that were soo awesome! and of course I saw Phelps win every gold medal this year! he was amazing!

School: K If you haven't heard, my kids are attending the Utah Virtual Academy. It is a new charter school! YEAH!! it is done thru the K-12 program and they will be home! So we have gotten the computer and that's it. school work should be here by tuesday for the first day of school. My kids are really excited. Tuesday we went to a meet n greet to meet other kids/parents, learn more, ask questions, all those fun things.
ok I will try not to go soo long so that I dan't have to write another novel!
oh novel. One day I will have time to finish Breaking dawn. I'm almost there!

yip yip!

I got my cd with all my pictures! they are fab! I love them! I will get around to posting some I'm sure!
Nothing really is happenin around this house. finally a quiet week. Next week is the youth super activity (Youth conference) we are going up to the Green River to give it a run and I am soo excited! yeah anyway like I said nothing exciting! oh well today I took all of Sadie's sippy's away. She ALWAYS has one in her mouth! She threw a fit this morning but finally conceded and has the regular cup. YEAH! we'll see how long this lasts!

WHAT!!

yes yes I changed my music cuz half of it wasn't working! so I hope you enjoy the mostly new tunes! and seriously check out the new Cure songs. it is simply unconceivable that they would release one single a month! I can't even find the singles around here!! HOWEVER! I have snagged them on my player and in two more months I can hold the full album in my arms and lock myself in my room! thanks Robert (YA YA I know he will never read this lol) xoxo

two down two to go!

Cora was baptised yesterday! it really has been such a fantastic week! She was soo cute in her white clothes she said she was scared to go under the water it would be her like 10th time lol. She also was so lucky to have her best friend Maddison baptised with her! enjoy the pic's!

sealings, a wedding and a haircut!

yes this has been the last two days here in Sheriville. Yesterday I had the absolutely awesomest experience! I was able to go to the temple and see our neighbors sealed for time and all eternity! and if that wasn't enough I was able to see their 4 beautiful daughters sealed to them too! three of them are in my Young Womans and the other is being married tomorrow!! It was soo overwhelming I could barely contain myself! When we first moved in they had soo many struggles and the past 8-9 months they have made a complete 180 and are so different! it is amazing! and Ilove them all sooo much!!!
Then Last evening I was able to see my cousin Elnathan Married! WOW!! I used to babysit him! talk about feeling old!! lol He is soo cute and they are a cute couple!

and the haircut! I fianlly cut Sadies hair tonight!! ok it was just her bangs but I did get her to take a bath without screaming and cut her hair!! so here is three pictures!!
she is so cute don't ya think??




oh ya! we also had a couple of Cora's friends over today to swim and a small b-day party! tomorrow is her big day! She is being baptised! so I will have pic's and an update in the next couple days!
thanks to everyone for signing my guest book! I am lovin the pictures!!

could be the last post!

of the month! mwahaha did I scare ya haha jk

ok I got some pictures from the party the other night!
ok I don't know why they are blurry :( sorry

lovely days...

so I don't know why I haven't posted in a while. I guess a long weekend will do that? Saturday was Cora's birthday and we had a big party not really for her, We do a bbq and fireworks and had a ton of people over and it was FUN!! I will post pictures when some one sends me some lol.