LAGOON!!!

Well, the crazyness continues. My sister grew out of her old car (a 94 Toyota Corolla) with the birth of their latest baby. They decided to take the leap to get a mini-van. I had a hair-brained idea that chain-reacted to the current situation. What if I bought the car and left it in Utah for the times we come down to visit and have fun??? We would easily make up the purchase price of the car in saved rental fees in no time at all. What if we bought season tickets to Lagoon for us to use during the summer??? Hmmm. Well, that's exactly what happened. We gave it a test run for the first time last week. I gave Heather the day off, sorta, and took the girls to Utah. The flight is only an hour, and the shuttle to the hotel where I left the car was there waiting for us. Ten minutes later we were piled in the car and fifteen minutes later (plus a quick stop to grab some rain ponchos for the forecast and sandwiches for lunch) we were at Lagoon. Needless to say, the girls and I all had a blast. It did rain for a bunch of the day (best three bucks I have spent in a while on those ponchos). We stayed reasonably dry and made the most of the rainy day. It really cut down on the lines, though. We just went from ride to ride. What a blast. Our plan worked great in reverse. We dumped the car at the hotel, took the shuttle to the airport and were home that night to excitedly tell Heather and "woogies" all about it. We can't wait to go again.

Rock Patio

Well, this project was actually completed a while ago. I got a bunch of red rock from up the canyon and slowly plugged away at making a stone walkway from the front of the house all the way along the side to the back connecting to the pool patio. There used to be a flagstone walkway there that drove me crazy because all the little rock would get kicked up on the flagstone all the time. I just wanted a continuous pathway. Plus, I think the red rock walkway lookes a lot better. I moved all the flagstone to the other side of the house where I plan on putting in a little patio next to our BBQ grill. Heather thinks I'm half-crazy. It took a lot longer and was a lot more work than I ever imagined it would be, but I am very happy with the results. I had some help from Heather's Mom when she came out to visit a while back as well. When we finished the job, I used some leftover cement for all of our handprints, including baby drakes (he was about a month old at the time I think). Once that job was done, I couldn't stop getting rocks to make a "dry creek bed" going down the right side of the house to add some color to the front landscape. I have meant to put some pictures of the final project up on the blog for a while now but I just have let that one slip through the cracks. Here you finally go. Enjoy, but don't ask for any help putting one in of your own. My back and knees laugh at the very idea...

Gabs looses another tooth!!!

On our way back from Lagoon the other night, Gabrielle wiggled her loose tooth and it started to bleed. She was freaking out and wouldn't touch the thing for an hour, even though it was just holding on by a thread. Finally, she started to get hungry and wanted part of a sandwich I had. That was enough to let her trust her dad to pull it out. With a quick flip of the finger, it was out. Here's the before and after shot of the drama. The kid has no teeth!!!

Drake is my new walpaper

Madison took this picture of Drake when he was in the car seat the other day. I couldn't resist saving it as the walpaper on my phone. I bust out laughing almost every time I look at it. What a funny little guy.