Monday, July 21, 2008

SO much fun....

On Sat. the girls and I packed up and headed out! That's right NO BOYS!! I pulled our honkin huge trailer for the first time by myself up Logan Canyon to Bear Lake! No worries though we made it safe and sound!! That's more than I can say for the guy on the motorcycle 3 cars in front of me! Yikes!! Pure craziness.....cuz I needed that sight for my already taut nerves! Geez well I was in the right passing lane (so all the crazies could pass me) and a gold car and the motorcycle and then a black truck managed to pass so along a curve I go and I see the gold car on the side of the road then I notice the motorcycle on the ground and the back tire is still spinning and about 10-15 feet away is the guy just barely starting to sit up. HOLY CRAP is all I could repeat for the next few miles! Anyway the guy in the black truck had just gotten out and was running towards the crash sight!! HA SO needless to say every muscle in my body was in about 3 knots each!
Well we get there and meet up with my friends Buffie, Dawn and Jamie and their kids and the FUN begins! We had an absolute blast riding the wave runners, playing smashball, riding the half-pipe tube and just hangin out and enjoying the sun!
Let me just say that it has been about 5 years since I had ridden a wave runner, well Dawns were top of the line go fast awesome ones. So of course I take it slow, for a while then I let loose! I was pretty comfy and had Maycen on the back with me and we had hit some pretty harsh waves! Well I had my contacts in and water splashed my face and I had to close my eyes for half a second and next thing you know is I see the handlebars fading away from me!! I come up out of the water and Maycen is looking at me like WTF happened? I started laughing so hard that I swallowed about a gallon of water! What a sight!?!
Then later that day the kids had finally talked me and Buffie into riding on the tube that is for 3 people so we rode with Dominique another one of the kids for a few minutes and Buffie had had her feel, so Maycen wanted to jump on with me and so here goes....well Maycen was hanging on tight and Dawn who was pulling me silently mouthed to me to HANG ON cuz she wanted to dump Dominique I say OK and she takes off...next thing you know I am in the water laughing hysterically cuz I totally knew she was taking off! Holy cow we had such a blast...but every muscle in my upper body is SORE from hanging on to the tube! GEEESH what a FUN workout! All in all we had an absolute blast!

Friday, July 11, 2008

OH MY!!!!


I officially have 2 (yep you read it correctly...2) 8 year olds!! And no they aren't twins! It is that time of the year that my girls are the same age for 1 and a half months!! JJ was born 8-22-99 and Maycen was born 7-10-00!!

HOLY SMOKA-RONIES!!!

Don't even worry! We have bravely survived these past 2-3 weeks. But not without a whole lotta craziness!! Geez where do I start? Well during the week of Jordyn being at camp we were crazy busy with getting ready to be gone for a week of campin and getting our stupid sprinkler system (that Mike claims he did ALL by himself...WHATEV) He says that I just supervised....ugh...I handed him all the parts and did some diggin! I went to the store and got all the random parts that he needed and I am a good supervisor! HA HA Anywho it was a very good thing that we stayed busy for that whole week or I think I woulda gone nuts without my oldest child being home!
Anyways Friday we go pick up sister SUE (Jordyn) and the first thing she says to us is "Did you bring some butt pain relief?" WHAT??? Apparently when she went on her horse ride, it was for 3 hours and she got a bit sore!! It was freakin hilarious! Welcome home Jord!!
SO we go home and let her shower then we are off to a week of camping (in the new fabulous trailer) YIPPEE!! SO she was home for about an hour before she left for another week!
We went up into Idaho with my friends Dell and Tina that I have played ball with for about 12 years! Mike has never met them but he was a trooper on goin to a random place with all these random people! Cuz' if you know Mike you know how much he DISLIKES PEOPLE! Well we go to Glendale reservoir in Idaho. Pull in and there were probably 15 trailers there! Not knowing what Dells trailer looks like I randomly walk through peoples parties and see if I can find them. Come to find out ALL the trailers were with Dell. AAAH CRAP is my first thought cuz all these people are here and Mike doesn't know anyone! (SIGH) Well we start gettin the trailer setup and here come 4-5 guys that offer to help so that eased a bit of tension for Mike. Come to find out they were such a fun and welcoming group that we didn't feel like intruders in the least! Best part was..is that we camped like 15 feet from the reservoir so needless to say my kids became fish for a week! Seriously they spent 10 hours if not more in the water! It was great!! Needless to say we went through tons of sunscreen! Well this post is getting rather long so I will take a break and post pics when my dumb computer will work with me and my camera!!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

SHOUT OR CRY???




So this entire week we are sending Jordyn off to camp!! Pioneer Bible Camp to be exact! Mike went to it when he was young, and absolutely loved it! I on the other hand have never even heard of it. Well we decided that it was an awesome chance for her to discover a bit about herself and to become a better person! But seriously I'm not sure how i'm gonna handle this!

There are a few possibilities.......we are going to thoroughly enjoy her being gone (for a day or two) or Maycen is going to be so bored without her play partner that she is going to drive me up the wall or I'm gonna cry and continue to cry until I pick her up! I actually am expecting all three and there will probably be a few more emotions that'll come up while she is gone.

So until then I just want to let Jordyn know that she is a very special young lady! You have a mind of your own and let us know how you feel about every issue that you come across! Your not afraid to speak your mind....and I admire that about you (most of the time) ha ha You are very loving towards your little brother and sister. One of my favorite things to do is sit and listen to you read and play with Quinlan. You are very special and I am so glad that you are my daughter! I LOVE YOU!!

Friday, June 20, 2008

New Trailer!!

Here it is ALL 28' of it!!
This is what you see when you walk in (including the kiddo-S) haha
The right side keeps goin and that is where (my) bedroom is!!
This is the kitchen and yes it looks like we live in it cuz we transeferred everything from our old trailer to the new one! YIKES!!
And here is the bunks! They are awesome!!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Old trailer is now GONE!!

YEAH!! I put the trailer on KSL Monday night and got 300 hits within the first few hours! SWEET! Got a phone call that night with a lady saying she wanted to come look at it on Tues. morning! SWEETER!! Well she didn't show up (bee-otch) anyway got a few more calls and most of them were men needing ot talk their wife into it! (Which got me wonderin if Mike ever called on any of the trailers that he liked but new I didn't want to deal with the payment) Anyway a very soft-spoken man called and asked if we were willing to negotiate with the price and we were so he wanted to talk his wife and get back to me! Well I didn't hear anything for a few hours so didn't think much of it until he called back and said they wanted it but they were in twin falls and weren't coming my way until Thurs. night well I had a good feeling for the guy and told him we would hold it for him! And I am so glad we did....they were such a cute couple with four kids under the age of 7 (YIKES!) who had just traveled for 2 hours and behaved so well! SO it sold within 4 days! KSL is an amazing site for the classifieds! Sheesh

Old Trailer

This is the 'old' trailer! It was a great starter trailer that we had bought from my brother!

So last year we bought our first travel trailer and have LOVED it! Well Mike has been looking for a new trailer for quite sometime so on Sat. I decided to let him look at a place that was right off the freeway (we could always say NO right!?!) Well we saw a few but one stuck in our minds and I was actually really interested in it but we walked away with the salesman saying he'd hold it for us until Monday! Well they call us on Sat. night saying that the owner had advertised the price for their cost and he'd give us the new price if we were interested. So I was lookin on KSL and decided that the first price was actually very reasonable so when they told us the new price ($1300) lower we decided to jump on it so we are proud new owners of a 2007 28' Mallard trailer. Holy cow it is so much trailer....and we can't wait until we can make time to go camping which will be SOON!!