Happy Pioneer Day!

Well, its been another successful day in Utah since that fateful day of July 24, 1847. My family and I went and saw Hairspray this afternoon and then had a KFC barbecue at grandma Barb & grandpa Karl's. Then we played Chicken Feet with domino's to our hearts content. I thought Hairspray was just fantastic. I watched the episode of "So You Think You Can Dance" last week where the Director/Choreographer was a guest judge on it. They were talking about the movie and one of the judges said, "it was just one of those movies where I found myself sitting there smiling". Boy did he hit the nail on the head. I seriously was just sitting there with a grin on my face through almost the whole thing. It give it 5 out of 5 stars. I have a teenage girl crush on Zac Efron too! I think its the Elvis hairdo. Anyway, I have some pictures of what Eric and I spent last weekend doing, hard manual labor! We went up to Bear Lake West where Eric's grandpa has some property and he was getting concrete poured in the mid-noon sun. So we spent the rest of the afternoon smoothing and finishing the concrete. I am very glad to have a career as a hygienist after that experience!

Friday the 13th Camping

Eric, Danny, Katie and I spent our Friday the 13th camping in Butterfield canyon. We had a great time, with Danny making homemade ice cream and his famous cobbler, life around a campfire can't get much better. A couple of weird things did happen though. Like when this deer befriended us and was just hanging around within 10 - 20 feet of us for about 20 minutes before Danny finally tried to sneak up to it but scared it and then threw something at it to get it to go away. :( But I did walk up pretty close to get a picture before he scared it away. It was just a yearling but it was still so wierd that it wasn't scared of us at all. Then a little while later we heard this animal sound that I thought was the deer crying from Danny throwing something at it, but when I shone the flashlight where the sound was coming from there was a domestic black cat standing there. That was very freakily appropriate for Friday the 13th! Eric thought we were camping on an old pet cemetary and that was my old cat, Hazel.

Danny says this ice cream maker was the best $15 he ever spent.


Danny broke one of the camping chairs that night so the next morning they threw it in the fire. Unbeknownst to me, I decided to try and roast a Pop Tart over the fire. Well, let me tell you, that was not a good idea and that Pop Tart tasted like a mixture of a burnt marshmellow and burnt canvas. Good thing we bought the 12-pack of Pop Tarts after all!

Pressed flower cards with grandma Barb

So I took a picture of my three favorite cards that I made and you will get the gist of it. I figured with all the time that I spent even though the cards are almost free to make, they are probably worth about $40 a piece. It was a two-day project because on day 1 you have to create your arrangment from dried flowers and leaves on wax paper then you cover the wax paper with Kleenex and cover it with watery Elmer's glue. Then the glue has to dry overnight. On day 2, you have to iron them, cut them out, add the paper inserts and then tie or glue them together. I am sure some enrichment committee somewhere concocted these cute little creations as a great idea but the thing is, they take so long to make when I can just walk into Target, spend 10-15 minutes and $5 and walk out with the same amount of notecards. So there you go, you decide what serves humanity better. If it means spending quality time with grandma Barb though, who can resist?

She works hard for the money!

Well, I didn't work too hard today, I couldn't find a temp job for the day so I just went over to grandma's house with my sister and made some cute flower cards. I'll have to take some pictures and post them tomorrow when we return to finish them. But... I did spend 3 days at Dr. Smith's office this week so it was enough to need a couple extra days' rest. Yesterday just before lunch the worst two hours of my life were from 10:30 -12:30 where Trish & I, along with the help of Melissa (the so cute & way too hard-working hygiene assistant) saw 10 patients. Yes, that number is real. 7 were kids and 3 adults. I don't know how it got done but it really did. It was RIDICULOUS! The good thing is, Dr. Smith hired another assistant so in 2 weeks I'll have my own assistant everyday! Oh, and the other good news is Trish has accepted a job teaching at Dixie so... I get to go full-time, Mon-thu, 8-5, benefits and I really do love everyone I work with so I am very excited and feeling so blessed. Eric is also excited, he keeps saying, "So now I can quit my job." Not a chance babe!

My Husband = Sexy Cool

Who brought Sexy back? How can you bring it back when it never left because my husband had it going on from day one that he was born!

Independence weekend

So I've been having a pretty good July so far. We started out by spending last weekend at Eric's aunt's cabin in Island Park, ID. We spent ALL DAY Friday "rafting" the river (2 inches deep in places!) and Eric came back looking like a lobster. I wish I didn't forget my camera or I'd have some really good pictures of his belly. I also didn't use sunscreen and my shoulders look like a leper now!

On Saturday we went to Yellowstone and saw the many wonders of nature. Its really cool, don't get me wrong when I say that its only something that needs to done once every, oh 20 years or so! Again, no pictures because I forgot my camera. :(

On the fourth of July we started the day off at Meadowbrook Golf Course where Eric, me and my parents shared a lively game. It was so lively that I hit a 9 on a par 3. Let's just say, I think I got the most out of the game! Then we had a barbecue at my parents house where we enjoyed horseshoes, American Flag cake, hula hoops, a swinging contest and fireworks, of course. Isn't life in America awesome?

Tay loved the fireworks but thought they were a little loud! "Happy Birthday America!"