The Weekend Pt. 1 Cleaning & Noah's Baseball Game

This weekend was a busy one for me. I went down to Draper on Friday night to help Shannon get her house cleaned up. She hasn't had very much time the past month because her dad had a major heart attack. So she's been busy getting the kids to school, to their activities and taking care of her dad's two businesses. And she moved into a new house before her dad's heart attack and some of the kids things were still in boxes. I talked to her Friday morning on my way to work and could sense the overwhelment in her voice. So I got down there Friday evening and got started on her house and got to spend time with my 3 favorite kids. Elizabeth, DJ and I all slept in Elizabeth's room and watched Hannah Montana.

On Saturday morning, I got started on Shannon's laundry, my oh my did she have A LOT! Noah had a baseball game in the early afternoon so I finally got to see him play a game! Yay! I wish Josh could have been there with me to see him, but he wasn't feeling very well. Noah played a great game, it was so fun to watch him and see how good he is. He got walked his first at bat but every at bat he got after that, he got an awesome, solid hits! He plays center field and is very good at fielding the ball. The game was a single elimination tournament so his team had to win to move onto the next team, but unfortunately his team lost. He was really upset about it, but he did such a great job. I'm so proud of him.

Look at the disappointment in his adorable little face, poor kid. He's grown so much in the past year, it makes me realize how much I've missed not being down there with them all the time. I miss being with those kids every day and watching them grow and learn new things. I love those 3 so much.

Hello Yoko

We did it...we got a new cat. Since Sammy died our family hasn't felt complete, something was missing. Sammy is still missing, but I just couldn't resist her. It took a couple of days for Josh to agree to get her and on Monday she finally came home. Josh named her Yoko. She's just itty bitty and isn't scared of a thing. She's not scared of the big dogs or Meow. Meow isn't too crazy about Yoko but is getting better with her everyday. She definitely doesn't replace Sammy, Josh and I still miss him all the time and have even caught ourselves calling Yoko Sammy, but she's fitting in the family really well.She has loved Josh ever since she came to our house. She cuddles and sleeps right up against him while he is sitting on the couch.

Lucky Number 9

Last week Tara told me about a job that was opening up at the doctor's office she works at and told me to hurry and send my resume in. So I hurried and updated my resume and she took it into work with her on Tuesday. She put in a good word for me (again Tara, thank you!) and I got an interview yesterday and got the job! I'm so excited to change jobs, I'm burnt out from my current one. I'm also excited that it is Monday thru Friday 9-5, no more weekends or holidays...Yay! It'll be sad to leave the friends I've made at TG and to leave some of my favorite residents but this new job will be exciting. It'll be scary at the same time though, new jobs always are.

Games and Adventures in Dog Breeding

We spent last weekend playing games and spending time with friends. Cody had told Josh about this Nazi Zombie game so Friday night we went over to Cody and Tara's to play. I'm not very good on the Xbox so I didn't play but the boys sure do love to play Halo and Josh had lots of fun playing the Nazi Zombie game. On Saturday night, we got invited by a friend of mine from work to go play Nazi Zombies at her house with her husband. We went and got some dinner at Jimmy John's, a new sandwich shop here in town, then headed out to their house to play. First Josh and I played Mario Kart on the Wii, it was so much fun, we really need to get a Wii. Then it was time for the Zombies! We played until the wee hours of the morning and had lots of fun. I finally did try to play a little and didn't do too bad!We aren't doing too much this weekend. I have to work and Josh has a couple of reports to do for school. Last night we got invited to Cody and Tara's for steaks that were yummy! Cody makes the best steaks. Their pug Athena is in heat so they found a stud for her and were wanting to try to see if they could get a litter of little puggies. Her boyfriend came over last night while we were there and it was hilarious! The boy pug was HUGE! And had a serious breathing problem, we thought the poor thing was going to have a heart attack. Athena didn't want anything to do with him and he just kept smelling her. She went and hid in her box, and the boy was trying to get into the box with her. We were laughing so hard at the two of them and the dog mating humor...let's just say Josh and Cody got attacked by the dogs. Things didn't work out and they took the boy back home today, too bad for Beana!!
I hope you all have a great Labor Day weekend.

Some Catch Up

I need to catch up on a few things we've done over the past little while that I haven't blogged about for my journal.
Let's see...last weekend Chelsie and Brian came home for the weekend and went camping out at Glendale. They told us all that if we wanted to see them while they were here we had to go out to the lake to see them, so Saturday after work, I went out there with my mom. Josh had to work so he missed out on the "family fun".

It's been a long time since I've really spent anytime out at the lake, since high school, so it was fun to be out there. My mom brought all of her beads out and all of us girls sat around and made some watch bands while the boys went fishing and made supper.

Sorry for the picture overload...I have a serious problem but our lives are well documented. Messy Boy The Girls

Me & Mom

I also went down to Sandy a couple of weeks ago to help Shannon with her move and helped take the kids to their activities. I cleaned and moved stuff between her two houses for most to the day while she was at work and then took Lu to dance class and Noah to baseball practice. Lu is getting really good at dancing and can do all three splits, she's so much fun to watch. Noah has been playing baseball all summer,but we haven't gotten down to see him play so I was excited to see him even if it was at practice. He got some really good hits and also pitched a little. He's getting very good at it. He was so much fun to watch. I love these 3 kids as though they are my own so I'm so excited when I get to see them do what they love to do.

Fun In The Sun: St. George Trip

Our trip to St. George finally came! We left early Friday morning. Our AC went out with about two hours left of our drive, it was horribly hot in our car! But we were so excited to get to hang with Cody, Tara and Atticus for the weekend. We went to Sand Hollow reservoir when we got down there to go out on the lake with Cody's parents' boat. It was so fun and the sun felt so good. I didn't get on the tube or try to water ski because I'm a baby and don't like being thrown off something into the water. Josh gave it a try though. He went with Cody and by himself. Atty and Cody also got out on the tube. That reservoir is so nice. We stopped to swim for a while where the water was 7 ft deep. We could see to the bottom where we were so that made me feel better, I don't like not seeing what's below me. The water was warm and we had lots of fun. We left after we started getting too warm and went back to the house to get showered, then we went to the county fair to meet up with one of Tara's cousins, who I went to school with. It was an interesting fair, they had bears in a cage just pacing around in a circle and a big bear that you could have your picture taken with. I felt bad for the poor things. They also had a boxing ring set up and there were really little kids in there boxing each other with their parents cheering them on. We got a slushy and then decided to head home for the night. We went swimming in the community pool where Cody's parents live. The pool was too cold for Tara and I but the boys had fun jumping off the cliffs. We got in the hot tub for a minute but the water was almost too hot for us.

We got up and ready on Saturday to go back out on the lake again. It was really crowded so it was kind of hard to get around the lake pulling someone behind you. Josh didn't get on the tube or try to ski or wakeboard because he was really sore from the day before. He also got this horrible bruise from the tube from being thrown off or from bouncing on it, I'm not sure.

Cody and Atty got on the tube, though. Atty was teasing Tara saying that she couldn't throw him off the tube so she drove the boat while he was on the tube and she threw him off a couple of times and the kid got some major air. We had so much fun out there. Went to shore to swim again but the water was way too cold for Tara and I, the boys swam though.

We went back home to get showered. The guys played Risk with Cody's dad for a while, it got pretty heated...all the betrayal! They had fun though. After their game they all took a nap and Tara and I ran to Target to get some treats, lotion for our sunburns and some anti freeze for our car. Then we stopped and got some yummy frozen custard, lemon and oreo. Josh put the anti freeze in our car and the AC was working again!

That night we went on a hike where the settlers got the lava rock to put beneath the St. George temple because it was a swamp, they had to take those rocks a long way.Then we went to see District 9. It was so weird and gross. We didn't know what to say about the movie for a while after we left, we were speechless.

We got up Sunday morning and got ready to head back out on the road for the long ride home. The boys played Risk again before we left. On the way out of town, we stopped to look out over the city from a very big rock. It was really cool.

Our AC quit working again on the way out of St. George so we were pretty hot on the way home. Luckily it was getting cooler the further north we went.

It was such a fun little getaway, we had a blast. I hate coming back to real life but it was good to see our furbabies. My dad was great and stayed with them while we were gone, I don't think they missed us, they love him!