Father's Day Ties

My husband cooked a wonderful breakfast for Mother's Day, so I of course had to make a nice one also. I found a cute idea on the internet for tie pancakes. I made them and I thought they turned out so cute, until Garret started making comments about my fish pancakes. Shawn was quick to agree with Garret. What do you think?

Steadman's

I wanted to reserve Steadman's (which is a huge waterslide in Raft River) for a year or two. You know something to break up the summer. We had a cousin coming to stay with us for about a week. So we reserved Steadman's for Monday. The weather in June has some what been different then usual. It has basically rained for the last three weeks. Sunday the skies opened up again and poured. So with a prayer we headed to Steadman's Monday night with several friends. The kids enjoyed the waterslide and the zipline. I made my kids wait until their Dad was there to be with them on the zipline. I wouldn't let my neice do the zipline because I was afraid if she fell my head would be toast. It was very balmy but the kids kept sliding even with blue lips. We finally had to shut it down about 9:00. I didn't get my camera because Blakely was very impatient. I had taken pictures of my tie pancakes for Father's Day the day before, but before we left to go I couldn't find my camera anywhere. Blakely kept saying you don't need your camera, Just come on. So I finally gave in and went. We will have to reserve it next summer. Maybe more can come...

What's the only kind of Motorcycle we can have?

HONDA of course...... Shawn decided that if he can't buy himself a new motorcycle then his kids were going to have one. Shawn found a brand new CR 50 for Garret at the beginning of May. The kids have enjoyed riding it. Garret was all gung ho and he was doing pretty good until he started getting cocky. He had a small crash. Not even a sratch on him. Then he was a little hestiate to get back on. But after seeing his sisters ride it, he decided he would give it another go. They all have done well in learning riding the motorcycle. Blakely of course already needs bigger motorcycle.

Memorial Day

I know it's been a couple of weeks, but these few weeks out of school have been crazy. Growing up we never really observed the putting flowers on the graves of your loved ones, basically because we didn't live near any family members. Ever since my mom died we have gone down to Utah to her grave every Memorial Day. My mother's favorite flower was lilacs. So my Dad wanted us to pick lilacs. I do not have any lilacs at my house, so has we drove down we looked for an abandoned place with lilacs. We found a place in Declo and we picked not worrying about someone yelling at us. We enjoyed a nice lunch with Kim and Lampee. We then went over to my Mom's gravesite and enjoyed the solitude.

SCHOOL IS OUT!

Summer Time is here. We offically ended the 2008-2009 school year. Yes, we made it through. This last month was a dozy. Blakely went to Craters of the Moon on Wednesday. She had to be at the school at 6 a.m. and didn't get home until 6 p.m. They hiked and walked through caves. She enjoyed going on the field trip. Katelyn had field day on Monday in 85-90 degree weather. It was hot. She ran her little heart out. I even did the high jump to show off to the first grade boys. The P.E. teacher said I cleared it by a foot(whatever!), I'm just glad I didn't make a fool out of myself.
I have felt on the downhill slide for the last month. So now it is time to play alittle catch up in my life. I still need to finish up my classroom on Tuesday, but other then that we are done. We usually go out to dinner on the last night of school to celebrate, but this year the youth in our stake were invited out to Grouse Creek to a barn dance.(12 and up.) Blakely and I headed out about 5 p.m. It takes about an hour to get there on twisty back roads. The Grouse Creek branch did such a nice job. They had dinner cooking when we got there. They had questions on a sheet of paper. You had to go around and ask 12 people who were not in your ward different questions. If you filled this out you got to put your name in a drawing for prizes. They had a live band and they taught everyone how to swing and do a line dance. Blakely danced almost every danced. She had a great time. We got home close to midnight. Shawn stayed with the other childern. We did go out to eat Saturday night after working the children all Saturday. When asked what the kids wanted to do this summer the reply was swimming. Good Luck to those finishing up school. It's summer Time!

Daddy's Boy

Brady is offically a DADDY'S BOY! For the first year of his life he didn't stray to far from his mommy. When he woke up during the night it was Mommy he yelled and it was my side of the bed he came to. Now we hear,"Daddy" and guess who side of the bed he comes to? It is DAD's. If Shawn leaves before we leave in the morning and Brady hasn't see his Dad he is a little upset. When Shawn arrives home from work, Brady is waiting at the door for him. He wraps his arms around Shawn's legs and yells, "Dad." When Shawn is home, Brady trails behind him. Brady nows has to have Shawn hold him before he goes to sleep at night. I hope he keeps his relationship strong with his Dad always.

Baseball Season is over!

This year we chose to do Declo Rec. baseball. It was nice to have games only on Saturday and to be done by the last week of school. The weather didn't always cooperate this year, but it is nice not having June and some July spent on the baseball fields 5 nights a week. Blakely, Katelyn, and Garret all played. They all did a nice job. Garret would run and jump on every ball. Katelyn did well on pitching machine. Blakely enjoyed being able to have a chance to pitch.