Power Nap

So I got the power nap and more! I got the whole nap and a massage to boot! I have the most awesome husband ever!
I also have the most awesome Mia Maid class ever! I also have the most awesome kids ever! The little ones had a primary program today and they were super cute!! I also have the best friends ever! Golly and while I'm on a roll, I have the most awesome... well, let just leave it at family, friends and Mia Maids for now.

I just needed to say that!

Hey, has anyone seen these pictuers? Comments people, comments!

MORE!

I really should post more. I want toooo... But I haven't! Today I have some really cool picts so I can blog them!

I wanted to hire someone to take our pictures but I have only found one person who does it here in AV and she wouldn't call me back. I left messages and called all the time. Nothing. I know a lady down in Rancho that does it but she charges TONS of money. So I opted not to call her. Anyway, I continued to look but without success.

So then last night I decided to just DO IT! I know, how dumb, I don't have a good camera or anything but I saw a red wall and I wanted to take pictures against the red wall. So I started gathering clothing last night and told Scott and the kids that we were going to get up and go take some picts... I don't have a photo editing program on my computer so my friend Annette is going to work on that, but here's some of the raw stuff!

Yep, Halloween

What kind of blogger would I be if I didn't post Halloween pictures... Besides I spent forever on costumes! I wish I had a better one of Carter's huge cloak, it is reversable and took a lot of work!

Clara Baillie is an 80's girl... could you tell? Brodric wanted to be whatever Carter was, so they are both "travelers"... Do you know what that is? I don't really know either, but it is like in the midevil times. Kendahl was a rock star, go figure. What you can't see is the head set microphone she has coming off her ear.





Scott had a blast passing out glow sticks to everyone. He is everyone's favorite at ward functions!

Things I learned at the beach

Things I learned on the beach.
A day to remember

1. Broken shells are very valuable.
I am the proud owner of nearly every broken shell on the beach. They were given to me by a little boy who, after 4 years, finally noticed shells lying on the sand. It doesn’t seem to matter that they are broken. It only matters that he finds them to give to me! I hold them with care… what are we going to do with them???



2. The space between a rock and a hard place is sometimes where you find the treasure.
Here’s the picture… Two big rocks that are covered most of the time by ocean, except when the tide goes out. Then you can walk between the two BIG rocks. The waves crash and the water rushes into the space between them. So we stood in the space between the rocks and were pounded by waves and rocks being carried by waves. And I do mean pounded! It hurt many times, pain, not good… But we stood. And sometimes we would find the treasure! In the few seconds the water went out and before it rushed back in we found the beautiful shells! We kept hoping that the next wave to come in would bring with it a beautiful big shell. It became addicting! We wanted the next big find and that’s what made the pain worth it. The shell treasure.



3. Gambling sometimes pays off.
This is totally in reference to the shells! It was addicting and it did pay off with some really nice shells! It was a gamble standing in that rough area, but in the end we scored!

4. Don’t say obscure things when there are strangers around.
Scott and I came back from the beach and he was suddenly feeling sick. We didn’t know why, maybe it was too much heat or too much surf or too little food or water in his system, but he had to lie down and quickly! He headed in to the trailer all wet and full of sand. I was wondering how he was going to work it because he wasn’t fit to be in the trailer like that, all sandy and stuff. So as I sat just outside on the picnic bench.
I hollered into the trailer… “Are you lying down?”
He hollered back, “ya.”
And I hollered back in, “Are your clothes off?”
And just at that moment I looked across the little street to see another camper just looking at me with his eyes nearly popping out… I can only imagine what he thought. Now go back and read what we said again.
I should have ended it with a holler back into the trailer, “I’ll be right in!”

5. Sweet little kids are like a life line!
Here’s a comment from my little Brodric in
the evening. “Mom, can we hug? We haven’t hugged at all today”. That just makes the world go round!

more picts...

I just want to put a million picts on here but I can't...

Nathan did it!


Daniel is so cute!! He is a blast. All the Taylor kids are cute.


Finally a picture of Carter?


Just cute!!


Little kids craft table. They did this for several hours..


We sure didn't see much of Carter and his friend Matthew. But this is one time they played with everyone. They had minds of their own this year and were often off doing who knows what...


We had a little beauty time and the kids loved it!


Lasanga we made in the dutch oven that turned out awesome!!! Too Beautiful.


Classic Scott photo, always playing with the kids!


Cool pict of Scott on the rocks at the tide pool when a big splash came!


More sisters...


Didn't get many of the big kids, but this was them doing crafts...


The glow sticks at night on the beach is sooo fun!

Beach Pictures

Here's some picts from the beach!! I am notorious for not taking family pictures so there isn't a good one of the bunch of us! I hate that! But oh well!
We had over a 1000 pictures between us, so this doesn't even scratch the surface...

I got one of the Taylors, they went with us!! Fun times.


This one is titled "Shell phone" These girls are silly!


Scott rigged up the tree swing which all the kids loved!


Clara boogie boarding, just one of the millions!


Sisters, Melanie, Billie and Stephanie


I love this picture! Brodric had a blast flying kites!!!



These are all the "Why" photos... Why were we doing that?

We just call this one atomic wedgie!


Why was this bug in the tent under the girls sleeping bag?


Another hug? Poor Connor had a ton of these. I love them, he tolerates them.


Fun fun night vision glow sticks!




Don't you love this Stephba monster?


Silly little kids thinking they were so funny playing in the tent...


YES, look at those eyes! Great camping deserts!


Ahhhh warm sand...


This one is just scarry beautiful, isn't it? No why involved.

Time in a bottle... thrown out the window!

I have no time to blog and I want to share my beach pictures so bad and blog about the best beach day ever! Ahhhhhhh!

Busy, Busy

Isn't that how life is? Busy!!

My DH came home from Texas the other day! He got home late Sunday night. YAY!! He stayed with the kids on Monday. They missed him a lot (I did too!) and it was nice for him to stay home a day and be with them. I haven't seen any picture he took yet, so if I get some I will put them on!

I don't know if I have mentioned it, but my office gal had to quit because she moved down the hill. Quite a bummer for us! She is a great person and she did a good job for us. Shout out to Lori! :o) I wish her the best!

This is a Lori kind of picture because she hates her picture being taken! So I thought she'd rather have one of her taking a picture of me! You're great Lori!



Since I have no Lori, now I have the "new girl". It's always interesting to put in a new person. I have to learn to trust them, get to know them, hope they do a good job and this time I have to leave her after only a week and 2 days on the job because we are going to the beach!!! I hope that goes well! She seems competent and she is really nice, I'm sure it will go well.



I just thought I'd add a picture of me and Bricky! We took Lori out to lunch for a little good bye and Brodric sick so he had to hang out with me for the day. He was picture happy so he took a bunch of crazy ones. But I thought this one of he and I was cute!

So needless to say I am working every day this week, as well as I have the kids home from school because they are on break. I hate leaving them, but they are good kids and they watch each other AND... they have jobs to do, piano to practice and a sign up sheet for computer/video game time. So they have lots to keep them busy and they don't let each other get away with much!

The beach is only 4 days away!!! So expect tons of pictures when we get home!