Overnight Get-away

We needed to use/or lose some credits at our timeshare, so we reserved 2 nights at the St. George Worldmark. My parents came down and took 9 of the older grandkids to see The Little Mermaid out to Tuachan and they all stayed one night, and we stayed the other. Although our house is less than 5 mins away, and it was just overnight,  it was still so nice to just relax and let the kids play in the pool.  Too bad we had to get up and go to work in the morning! Braxton is staying 2 weeks with his dad, and we really missed him, he got to stay the first night with gma and gpa, but was bummed about not being able to stay with our family the next. 

Fun in the pool- Camrie wouldn't let go of me to take her picture!





Camrie had fun on the slides and rope ladder

Tanner met some friends on the playground,  who were playing pirates and shared their swords with him.

Manti Pageant

When Troy and I were dating, we made a list one night of all the fun things we wanted to do, and the Manti Pageant was one of them....almost 5 years later, we finally got there!  It's probably been about 12 years since I was there last, and longer for Troy.  We decided to take Braxton and leave the little ones in Beaver with Grandma and Grandpa Smith (big thanks to them!)  The turkey dinner before the pageant was yummy, the night was beautiful, we all loved the performance, and we were tasted by only a few mosquitoes each!  We got back to Beaver around 1:30 am, and Troy was up on his way to St. George to see patients by 6:30am, he came back up and got us later that afternoon after he was finished. Hopefully we can go back before another 5 years and take the kids as they get a little older.   

view from our seats...beautiful!

Braxton patiently (not!) waiting for the pageant to start

Random pictures....

B.day present from Gma Smith. Camrie says"look how cute I am!"

It took me a minute to notice the grapes in Tanner's ears too...

I curled camrie's hair and she said "I'm SOOOO pretty, can I have hairspray mom?"

Almost too big for his bassinett, what a fun little guy!

A little soaking time in the sink!

Town Square is one of our fav's in the summer

Some of Camrie's favorite things: her pink cowboy boots, pillow pet, Baby W (poor thing is always upside down!) and her swimming suit which she carries around and calls her purse. 

Mom makes a quick get away..

Last week I had the very infrequent opportunity of escaping St. George and ran up to Beaver for a quick visit.  Here's the 'infrequent opportunity' kicker....I went CHILDLESS!! that's right...I could listen to my own music on my ipod ( no Twinkle, Twinkle, or Baa Baa Black Sheep etc...) and turn it up really loud! It's amazing how quick my nearly record breaking fast pit stop in Cedar was to get a drink without kids needing a treat and a trip to the bathroom.  Anyway, I went up to see my friend and get a very long over due hair cut and color, and rode up the mountain with mom and dad to take the canoes up to the campground, and check on the snow melt. We found quite a few trees down with some mighty big roots!  It was a beautiful day and I can't wait to get our trailer up there!  

not the best choice of footwear!

Check out this tree root!

Lots of trees bent over from the heavy wet snow

I'm feeling a bit broken....

For about a month, I've had a really sore thumb joint that hurt to bend, I just figured since I am getting old the pain was probably a little arthritis, and tried to ignore it.  Well,  I've whined a little, tried holding pens differently, and the other day finally took advantage of where I work and had it x-rayed. Turns out, I have a fractured Rt. thumb....how? you might ask??? that is a very good question! I can't think of anything specific that I've hit really hard or smashed it with.  The break isn't something that is really pin-able so my alternatives include: splint it, or try to perfect my left handed writing and ultrasound skills and suck it up.  So....I am sporting this classy hot pink  thumb splint for a few weeks, (the nurse of the house says 6-8 weeks...) hoping it will help it along.  My writing looks like I'm back in 7th grade, and so far my ultrasound scans aren't too bad, except babies are harder to chase without a thumb I've discovered.  Hopefully it will heal and feel better quick!



At least the coban matches my nails!



Family Picture - Mother's Day 2011

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

 Well, we really wanted to go somewhere with our trailer for the whole weekend, but it didn't quite work out that way, so we were happy to get to camp Sunday night up Beaver mountain.  Everything up there is still under 4-5 feet of snow, so we stayed up to Little Cottonwood just 5 miles up the canyon, and still got snowed on!  According to Tanner the best part of camping was the hike that we went on Monday morning...this hike consisted of walking about 50 yards down to the Beaver river that is running so high and fast.  They had a fun time throwing rocks and sticks and watching them bounce down the river, I had to keep a firm hold on Camrie so that she wouldn't lauch herself into the water along with the rocks she was throwing!  We went back down to my mom's  for lunch, and on the way out to dump the trailer tanks, we noticed that Kersiek's nursery was giving little train rides around their farm and greenhouses.  We went and got Camrie and Tanner and went back down where my good friend Jeff Kersiek and his little boys were  ready to give us the farm tour.  We had a fun time seeing all the animals, and feeding the chickens.  They gave the kids each a peacock feather and containers of strawberry plants from one of the greenhouses. We didn't have time to feed the peacocks this time but drove around to show them to the kids.  Braxton wasn't with us this time, but when he was little, he'd always get excited to go feed the 'cockpeas' when we'd go to Beaver.  We also ran up to the cemetary, to see the beautiful flowers, we also stopped in Cedar to put some on Troy's mom's grave.  I sure wish that me and the kids could've known her. We decided to park our trailer at my gma's house in hopes that sometime the snow will melt and we can get up to Tushar!  We had a fun memorial day.

Tanner & Camrie being silly instead of eating!

Kason showing gma how to shove both hands in at once!

Why do kids always get so crazy at bedtime???

Kason sound asleep sucking his thumb

Throwing rocks in the river

Train ride around Kersiek's farm

Camrie feeding the chickens

Tanner in one of the greenhouses