"The Rains Came Down and The Floods Came Up...."

There was a skateboard hiding in all this water that I ran over!



The water leaking through our complex brick wall



My drive home on Indian Hills -  this road took the brunt of the storm!



Bluff Street was a huge fast moving obstacle course! had to dodge all the big rocks!

The wash completely full behind my sister's house - usually you can't see across it because of the trees



Church clothes + Water and mud = a happy boy!  He loved playing in it while I bailed out the backyard!  

 When it rains, it pours lately! or maybe it's because everyone in Green Valley/Santa Clara paid their tithing this particular Sunday???  I was on call and had to nearly float home! At one point my wipers couldn't keep up and I seriously prayed nobody was abruptly stopping in front of me!! Some people in our ward that live right above us found their brand new car floating in their garage, and the firemen had to cut holes in their brick wall to let the water run out from around the homes, which ran on down our direction.  My next door neighbor had their living room carpet ruined, I was very surprised to find ours totally dry, but our backyard water logged and pooling!  Had we not walled and backfilled our backyard recently, the neighbors below would've had a huge pile of mud in theirs!  The kids had a ball playing out in the rain and riding thier bikes through the deep puddles.

Utah Summer Games - June 21-23, 2012

Braxton's baseball team played in the 9 and under division at the Summer Games last week, however out of all the team in their 'division'...I'm pretty sure they were the only team who was really 9 and under...we knew for sure there were a couple of 11 yo boys on the second team we played...so frustrating.  So obviously they lost playing against boys twice the size of them, but they held their own pretty well.  Braxton got pelted in the thigh with a pitch a while ago, and he's been quite nervous when batting and backs out of the box hoping for a walk instead.  So there could have been some bribery, and this weekend may have cost Troy and I $40.00, but he finally stayed in the box and got a few hits! Whatever it takes right?
Braxton's big sister Miranda, who lives in Cedar, came and hung out with us for the day at the games.  We had lots of fun with her and Braxton was so excited to see her- It took a bit for Tanner and Camrie to warm up to her, but then they stuck to her like glue! I took Kason out to Troy's niece Angela's house during the games, he had a great time, took a long nap, and watched a little baseball with her husband Tyler.  A big thanks to them! It was so hot at the games with no shade, or grass so he was better off with Tyler and Angela.
After the games and dinner, we stopped by Grandpa Webb's house for a couple hours to visit and eat popsicles until it was time to go see the Green Show at the Shakespearian Festival. I had heard they were changing it up and so I wanted to go see it. My kids need culture, and I needed one of their famous yummy lemon tarts! We loved the greenshow, it's still wild and crazy fun, but more with a storyline instead of a variety type show. We had a fun fun day, sorry our hardworking dad had to miss it!

Randi and Braxton





Popsicles and fun in Gpa Webb's hammock....wish I had a picture of them trying to get out of it!!!





Gpa pulling Camrie on the gardening seat



The Green Show




They were totally enthralled with the performance!





My poor thumb that I slammed in the car door at the games...with the amount blood involved, I was pretty sure I'd find the tip of my finger inside my car.....OUCH!



Pictures of home....

So many memories in this building, it is being retired this year with the new elementary built and ready for the upcoming school year.  I think the city has bought it and will tear down the old part and move their offices into the newer part.  I had to have a picture of it since it's such a huge part of my family and my childhood.

My dad's office was the 4 long windows above the big planter with the blinds down, and the door in front of the red car went into my mom's 6th grade classroom.  My dad taught 5th grade at Belknap 20 years, and was the Principal for 16 years, along with 1 year teaching in Minersville. My mom taught 30 years in several different grades and Title 1.  It was so fun to have them both as teachers!

Beaver Mtn - Ponderosa - May 2012

Beaver Mtn - GrindStone Flat  May 2012

THE LATEST....

Watch out... Kason will quietly climb up on the couch behind you, get a handful of  hair, YANK your head back...and GIGGLE, GIGGLE, GIGGLE!!

Crazy hair day at school...Tanner was having no part in this!

Camrie and sweet new Lexy - We are so excited to add her to our little Webb/Marshall family!!

I think Tanner would just prefer the mitt be glued on to his hand - it might as well be!

Hand Foot and Mouth

So once again I am the lucky recipient of another 'weird' illness...we are guessing since it's running rampant around town and has been in the daycare that I must've picked it up from Kason who seemed to have most, but not all of the typical HFM symptoms earlier the week before.  It started out with a really sore throat and serious fatigue on July 5th, so I just figured I was way tired from all the 4th of July festivities.  I was off the next day for my 5 days off...this is NOT how I planned on spending my days off - on the couch eating 2 big bags full of popsicles! Luckily the kids went to the daycare on Friday and I slept nearly the entire day which is unlike me and by that evening painful red spots had developed under my skin on my fingers and then my feet.  I consulted my ever-so-loved resident nurse Troy and he figured it was HFM... I hadn't even thought of that and now I was MORTIFIED! To me that just sounds like you get that by chewing on your toenails or something, YUCK! I called my sister Caroline, our family Pharmacist and she agreed with Troy, but because it wasn't common in adults I made a trip to the InstaCare early Saturday morning just to make sure.  One look in my mouth full of painful blisters, my hands and feet was all that was needed to confirm HFM in the shortest Dr visit ever of 25 seconds! No Rx, just Tylenol every 4-6 hours, It's nasty virus that has to run it's 5 day course ... So thus began the worst week ever! Imagine trying to swallow with at least 3 Gillette razor blades in your throat and when you do manage to swallow ANYTHING (water included sometimes...) it feels like horrible reflux/heartburn that you just can't clear out of your throat! Burn, baby burn...  Yep that's how it felt!

My hands were so sore I couldn't even hold a utensil even if I wanted to use one and I lived in slippers since my feet were so tender.  The Farley's, our very awesome neighbors brought dinner over one night, Troy stayed home to help me with the kids and took care of everything so I could rest and be miserable.  Tuesday (day 5) hit and it was like I was a semi-new person....my little red spots were tender, but I could at least hold things and step easier, I ate a little ice cream, and some noodles, and by Wednesday I was a cleaning fool bleaching everything that could be bleached and washing everything that could go in the washer! Thursday I was back to work, like nothing had ever been wrong.  So far Troy and the kids are all ok, thankfully!  So now I want another 5 days off so I can have a 'do-over' and get the things done that I had planned!
Just an FYI, The symptoms of HFM this year seem to be atypical, some people are getting some of the symptoms and others are not.  So watch yourselves and your kids! And if you do get it, let me be the first to say  "I'm sorry", and I'll be over with popsicles and the bleach!!

MEMORIAL WEEKEND 2012

We had a super fun weekend and headed to Beaver to invade my parent's house while they are vacationing in China.  We also returned their car that we've been borrowing this past week while our truck was in the shop getting a new engine.  It began as a nasty cold day on Saturday but by Monday we came home surnburned!  We visited with all my sisters who were also there and my cute little Grandma Fern.  I love the Beaver cemetary on Memorial Day -  so many people come home and it's so great to visit and catch up with everyone.  Troy and I already have our plots at the cemetary so I showed Braxton the general area of where they are and he was a little confused over the whole concept of 'buying before dying'.  We noticed there are lots of people who already have their plots and headstones in and are years away from needing them...not a bad idea, but a little creepy to see your name in stone!  Anyway, we spent a lot of time in the mountains, we rode around the loop with a quick diverson down to Junction for a treat, and we played baseball up the street at the baseball fields. We had a fun time and Tanner is ready to go back everyday, to play more baseball! Here's some pictures of our fun!!  These pics are from mine and Troy's camera and will be out of order since I need to get more off my camera, but at least they are here....

We had a fun Memorial Day picnic up to Ponderosa and the kids always love throwing rocks in the river

My Grandma and Grandpa Smith

Kason playing in the rocks

Mom and Braxton having a little batting practice on Betensen Flat, with a big herd of deer behind us



My Grandpa Williams

Grandma  Webb

Braxton wanted to sleep on Gma Smith's couch, but he only made it half way there!

Seattle

A couple weeks ago Tiffiny and I went to Seattle to attend a 2 day conference at the 'hub' for Philips to learn more about our newest ultrasound machine.  We've had this machine for about a year and still don't really love it, so our quest was to learn how we can make our images better, learn 3D applications better, and ultimately LOVE the machine.... We learned a lot that will help us in scanning and I'm really glad I went, however, I still don't love the Philips.  Anyway, doing a little sightseeing is what makes every trip worth it.  I love cloudy, rainy weather, but not all the time...I missed the sunshine and out of 3.5 days there it peeked through only a couple times for a couple minutes!
After class the last day, we went with a few other sonographers from the conference to the Space Needle, I haven't been there since I was 7.  We also toured the Chilhuly museum which was way cool! It's amazing to see what designs can be made with blown glass - so beautiful!  We walked down to the waterfront to the 'Crab Pot' for dinner, fish and chips is about as daring as I got in my seafood eating adventures, I did try some salmon and Alaskan King crab.  I'm a meat and potatoes girl for sure! If you order crab, they bring it out along with red potatoes and corn on the cob in a big silver bowl and dump it out in the middle of the table and you get a cutting board and rubber mallet to beat the crab meat out.  We all had our bibs on too. I'll have to post that pic later when I get it off my camera!

Me and Tiffiny at the Space Needle

View of downtown Seattle

Amazing blown glass





Tiff, me, Krista (Indiana), Shelley (Minnesota)

dinner is served....

We had a great time, but I was glad to get home to the warm sunshine and my family!  I loved walking off the plane to see Troy and my little cuties waiting with pictures they had colored of me flying home on a plane, I missed them all so much!