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now has a fuzz buzz.

Season Pass

Just a reminder to all you skiiers...buy your Sundance season pass before Halloween to save $100 bucks. I just got mine and my new coat so I am ready to rock!

Moab

Last weekend we went camping in Moab with the Wrights, and despite a really rough start we had a great time.  

Let me explain the rough--after about 40 min of driving Jesse says he needs to throw up.  Ben is going 80, we have a 25 ft. loaded trailer on the back of us and we are in the middle of a construction zone,  he couldn't exactly pull over quick.  So I am searching for something for him to spew in, trying to take my seat belt off,  and take Jesse's seat belt off with no success.  Finally I try and push his head out the window as the spew comes.  The wind splashes it all over the inside and outside of the car.  It's on him, me, Wyatt's car seat, his car seat, everywhere.  So finally when we pull over we get the cleaning supplies out of the trailer to clean the car, and I strip J down and hose him off with the outside shower head that is on our trailer.  We change his clothes and get back in and he says he is feeling fine.

We get to Price, get Wendy's drive through and he scarffs his kids meal down.  About 20 min. after that he says he needs to spew again.  This time we had some plastic bags and he does his business.  Only problem is the bag has holes.  So we change him again, clean the car again, and now his carseat is down to plastics.   So before we drive off we double and triple up the plastic bags incase it happens again.

After that the drive was uneventful till we got to Moab, but when we got there, now about 11pm there wasn't a camping spot to be found.  I guess people do go out for UEA.  So exhausted and grumpy we decide to just camp in a parking lot in the campground--which they usually will come kick you out--thankfully no one made us move and we were able to stay there for the night.  But halfway through the night our heater stopped working and it was freezing.  It wouldn't have been so bad if we were prepared and if we didn't have a 8 week old with us.  So I put a hat on Wyatt and nuggled him as best I could--not to mention Jesse threw up one more time and we had guests in the trailer with us.  Our poor friends.  Everyone was cold.  No one got any sleep and the kids all woke each other up at about 6am.

But Saturday morning our luck changed and the day was magical, all except for our rhino breaking down after about a 20 min. ride.  We found a great campsite just as some girls were leaving and we nabbed it.  It was perfect with sand to play in and rocks to climb, plus the slick rock trail head was just across the street.   Faith and Haven had a ball with each other and getting dirty.  There is nothing better then hiking on red rock in my book.

I even dared to get on my bike after a 5 year hiatus.  It was so much fun.  I had forgotten how fun mountain biking is.  Steph encouraged me to be tough on the slick rock trail.  Maybe I won't wait another 5 years to get back into it.  Sorry scary spandex.

J, my man, was a stud on his bike.  He peddled around like it was nothin.  I will post some video later.  This guy is going to be a mountain biking king.

Ben and Jesse on top of the mountain behind our campsite.

Faith wanted me to take a picture of her hiking.

  I am happy to report that the drive home was uneventful and no one else got sick.  Maybe he just got car sick?  Who knows.  All in all it was a great weekend.

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I don't normally fall for these things, but what the hay...Shows I love you Nat.

6 Quirky Things.

I don't like revolving doors. They make me nervous. Fingers might get caught. It might get stuck and who knows how long I would be stuck in that tiny place. What if I got stuck and my my kids made it through, or vice versa? And the floor and the little duster on the bottom of the door always seem really dirty. Also I don't really know revolving door etiquette. If two people approach at the same time in both the inside and the out, who goes first? How fast or slow are you supposed to push the door (I don't like to push either, I let other people do it)? If it's a large revolving door do you go in the same space as other people, or is it one person to each space? It's complicated, awkward, dangerous and uncomfotable. I'd rather avoid the whole situation.

I plug my nose with my lips when I swim.

I like to sleep diagnol. My head at one corner, and my feet at the other. My huz loves the space that this creates for him.

Apparently I have a bad habit of not screwing on lids tight--a serious cause of contention in our marriage.

This is really gross, but I like to clean out ear wax. I check my kids ears first thing every morning and it drives them nuts. I do it to Ben too. My favorite thing when I come home from a vacation without my kids is to clean their ears, hoping that the babysitter didn't do it. Unfortunately I think my ears have quit producing wax. So you will never catch my family with wax in their ears! I like to pick zits too--same genre.

Last, I hate hate hate it when people don't return their grocery carts to the return slots. Be curtious and take an extra 20 steps people. Every car I have owned has been dented or scratched because someone was lazy and didn't return their cart. So I always park as close to the return as possible, not the front of the store, and I return all the carts that are close that others have left. If I can do it with 3 crazy kids, so can everyone else.

Crazy Eights.

8 TV Shows I Love to Watch:
Friday Night Lights
One Tree Hill--From the beginning
Gossip Girl--love Chuck
Project Runway
Lost--is it coming back?
The Office
Survivor--I might be the only one.
Little Bear--puts be to sleep like nothing else.

8 Favorite Places I Love To Eat:
Chef's Table--Mango Chutney Steak
Outback--Sweet Potatoe
Mama Chus
Tacos Rossy
Ruth's Chris
California Pizza Kitchen
Taco Time--Crisp Chicken Burrito
Teppinyaki

Wow, Ben has really turned me into a steak lover.


8 Things That Happened Yesterday: Monday
Woke up with Pink Eye, Wyatt too--awesome.
Took the kids to the Dr. and we all got a plethora of shots--awesome again.
Cleaned out hundreds of dollars of food from the freezer that I left open all weekend--awesome a third time.
Made reservations for Thanksgiving
Changed the day Jesse goes to gymnastics.
Took a nap.
Went to California Pizza Kitchen--because I had no food to cook.
Went to Costco and spent a couple hundred dollars restocking the freezer.

Life's really exciting.

8 Things I Look Forward To:
Napping
Bedtime
Huz coming home.
Cuddle time
Vacation
Sunny weather
Reading
Skiing

8 Things I Love About Fall:
Birthday's
School starting
mountain drives
Fall clothes
Colors, colors, colors
Start of the holiday season
Smells
Pumpkin flavored desserts

8 Things On My Wish List:
A full night sleep
A clean house
A full time launderer--that is a word.
A personal stylist--Maybe a complete personal assistant
To be able to support my kids in all their endevours--both financially and emotionally
Complete Patience
To be a great cook.
Perfect Milky skin.

And I am done.

Hee Haw Farm

Last week we thought that we were going to meet some friends at Hee-Haw Farm for some fall festivities, but apparently I don't know how to read a text and we went to the wrong place, but we still had a good time non-the-less. I was quite impressed with the place--slides, petting zoo, pedal cars, hayrides, a tractor train. The kids had a blast, and I loved watching it all.

Faith not quite big enough for the tractor.

Jesse A little nervous about the ginormous slide--I was a little nervous too:)

He went for it anyways. Atta-boy.

J being a good big brother and letting his scared sister sit on his lap.

I hate to expose my crude side, but check out the nads on this guy. He was more of a horse than a pig. He was huge. I had no idea pigs got so big, and I had no idea they were so well endowed. Crazy. I had to call Ben so I could have a conversation about the guy. Is that really normal?

J was a pro at the pedal cars.

It's all fun and games till you get a smear of poop down your leg. Only fitting for a day at the farm. This is when we decided to make an exit.

Just In Case You Were Wondering...

(This is just half a smile)

we have a little smiler at our house. He has been smiling for a few weeks now, but they needed some serious coaxing. Now he smiles at eye contact. The best part is when he smiles his tounge comes out. Such a goofy little guy. He is starting to look more and more like his brother and sister despite the blue eyes and blond hair.

He is now sleeping in his crib--at least at night and is back to his usual schedule 2:30 and 5:30, which has been great. When he is awake he is a constant wiggler and his favorite activity is watch his brother play the Baja game--He must have the car gene too.

This last weekend my parents invited us all to Saint George to share their latest unbelievable creation. They just finished building a house complete with pools, waterfalls, waterslides, climbing chimneys, and not to mention beds, a refrigerator and that kind of stuff. It goes without saying that despite the rain the kids wanted to swim, swim, swim. Other than that the weekend was filled with conference, theater and Tuachan, biking, chasing marathoners, cousins, and hiking. It was quite the whirlwind of 3 days.