JDRF Walk

Today I was reading here about how Tiburon is going to do the JDRF walk for her son. She is very inspiring. My husband is a type 1 diabetic and we don't ever do anything. I was telling my kids about it and we decided we should do it too. We are going to join her team and walk for my husband and nephew on August 29. My kids are pretty excited about it. Their cousins are going to join them too. If you want to donate you can go here.

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

My husband has a friend that has season tickets to the Owlz games. His tickets are right behind home plate on the first row. Not that there is a bad seat there anyway. He gave us his tickets on Monday and since our daughter wasn't home we took the boy's.

They are learning a lot more about baseball, and they loved it. Our oldest sat and told me the rules the whole time as if I didn't understand what was going on. It was fun to see how much they got into it.

Family Reunion

We also had my husband's family reunion at the end of the week. My husband had to work so I took the kid's and went up to the cabin for a night. We have 20 kids between all of us, although only 16 were there. There are at least 2 of each age except for the oldest. They always have a great time.
I took my 2nd son and my little nephew fishing the first night. They each had a bite but never got their fish in. I love to see the excitement when little kids get fish on their poles. I still love the excitement of a fish on my pole.

The next morning I took my oldest son fishing early, that is the best fishing. We didn't even get a bite after 2 hours of fishing he finally decided it would be okay to go back to the cabin. We saw a nice little 3 point deer on the way home.

Seeing all of the wildlife is so much fun about going up there. The deer are never scared of you. They will just look at you and go back to what they were doing. They know they won't be harmed in there since noone can hunt.

I of course forgot my camera at home. So no pictures. My two youngest kids had so much fun they both had dirt mustaches when we got home. That is when you know they had a good time.

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

I haven't been keeping up on my blog lately. We have had a very busy summer (or maybe I have just been enjoying spending time with my kids and have neglected it).

This week we met most of my husband's family at the Temple and took our kids through it before it is dedicated in a couple of weeks. It was amazing to see their excitement about finally getting to go inside of a Temple. This is the newest Temple that our church has built.

When we got inside our 4 year old started folding her arms and they were in awe. She doesn't even do that at church. It was nice to see them being so reverent.

All 3 kids in front of the fountain

When we got up to the sealing room that had a couple in there to talk to people about the reason we get sealed in our church. I love the mirrors in there. If you look in one you can see yourself and it looks like it goes on forever. Like our church teaches we are sealed together forever, even after death. We sat down in there as a family and I showed my little girl how you could see our whole family going on forever. It means we will be together. She got a little tear in her eye. It was a pretty special day to be able to take our kids and they got to go with their cousins.

Fiesta Days Rodeo

I have always loved rodeo's. I don't know if it is because I grew up in a small town and played on my neigbors farm and ate their cow's salt licks or what. Ever since I was young I have loved horses and to go to rodeo's.

My little girl's favorite part is always at the beginning when the royalty rides or (pretty girls) as she calls them. Although she did get into the barrel racing this year. It was fun to watch.

Muffin watching the rodeo

When we moved back to Utah we started going to the rodeo once a year and now it has become tradition. My 2nd son did mutton busting last year and wanted to do it again, except I forgot the deadline and we didn't get him signed up.

I love to watch how these men can stay on their horses and the people always there ready to rescue if needed, or just lend a hand getting down.

This was the entertainment after mutton busting. This guy has 2 brahma bulls trained to do several things, like jump through a burning hoop. It was amazing. Probably my farm neighbors again, but I remember them having them in their field when we would go play. We were scared to death of their bulls. Their kids were scared of them so I guess we were too. It was amazing to see bulls doing those things and a guy riding one like a horse.

My kids love to watch the rodeo clowns and always get a kick out of them. This is a picture of my oldest laughing his guts out at this crazy clown. It is fun when they get into it.

This poor girl's horse got hurt while she was barrel racing. It was very sad. Once the vet came to get her horse she ran off crying. You could tell she was pretty freaked out. At the end they said they thought it would be okay. It was just a sprain or small fracture.

We had a great night. It was a lot of fun to see how much my kids got into it this year. They are starting to understand the events a little more too.

Random Thought

I was thinking the other day. I go through periods of time when I get headaches for weeks at a time. I remember when we were younger we used to watch a show called "Saved By the Bell"

In one episode Zach was trying to get Kelly to fall in love with him and he tried to do it with subliminal messages. In order to trick him back they told him that she would get these headaches and she wouldn't be herself. When the headaches would come on she would be violent and crazy.

As I had 2 migraines last week and a headache in between that would not go away, I realized that I get really cranky with my kids and I am very not myself. I was laying in bed thinking about how I had got after my kids for stupid things all weekend and crying over nothing.

When I was apologizing to my 9 year old for getting after him for not being able to help me, and I sometimes forget he is just nine, he said is that why you were crying mom? I just said yes.
I feel like the person that they portray Kelly in the show sometimes when I get my headaches.

I need to learn to be more patient even when I don't feel good, I need to learn to not be so short fused with my kids.

Family Camping

This was the first year my parent's decided to do an official family camping weekend. My husband wasn't able to go since he was on call. I am not a fan of tent camping so we very rarely go. I decided not to bomb on my kids since they love to camp. They did not get that from me.

We drove up to Joe's Valley Friday morning to spend the night.

Our boat is not working so grandpa took us out on his. I didn't even pull my camera out except on the boat.

When we were growing up we spent a lot of time on the boat and we loved it. It was a lot of fun to have all of our kids out on the lake.

The kids just enjoyed running around trying to catch squirrels and roasting marshmallows in the night.

Walmart is Gross!!!

I always have to sanitize when I leave Walmart and thoroughly wash my hands the second I walk in the door still. Today I went to pick up some pictures and was sitting there waiting.
Next thing I know some little kid in the basket in front of me is puking and I get the brunt of it on my feet.
I was glad I wasn't standing very close. Getting the splatter was enough to make me want to puke right back on him.

His mom didn't even know he was puking, I had to tell her. Thank goodness they hurried and got my pictures for me.

I had to wash in the hose before I came in the hose and then came in the house and thoroughly washed with soap and water.

Why do these things always happen to me?

4th of July

We decided to take the kids to Stadium of Fire this year. It is at the BYU stadium. My kids found out that the Jonas Brothers were performing and all 3 of them love them. Since we weren't going on vacation or anything we decided to take them.

They always have what they call the stadium of fire dancers. It is a bunch of dance groups from around the state that perform together. These girls and guys on the stage were very good.

The mlitary always flies over. This year they had the F16's like they usually do. They were too fast to capture. Later in the show they also had military helicopter's fly over.

My 2 boys don't get into the dancing and the fun of the concerts. Joslyn was loving it. She was clapping at the end of songs and she let me dance with her. My oldest was a little embarassed by us.

Although he did sing the songs. When the Jonas Brother's first came on our little girl just sat there and stared for a minute. She was in awe that she could see them. I wish we would have had a little better seats, even the cheap seats cost a lot. These were the best pictures we could get with our zoom lense on our camera.

In between the concert and before they started the fireworks, they retired the huge flag that has been hanging in the stadium for a long time. They had the 388th division from Hill Air Force Base help with it. They just barely returned home 2 weeks ago. It was a very neat experience for my kids to witness the retiring of the flag. It was so big they had to put it into that big incinerator you can see and wrap it around more than once.

Then they had the usual fireworks show. It is always fun for the kids to see them. They are very loud and the stadium is usually covered in smoke by the time they are done.

It was a fun 4th of July with the family. It is fun when all of your kids can go and enjoy the fun things.