Funny Norma Moment

We had some friends over last night and I was so excited that all our kids are about the same age and played together so well!  It was after dinner, before the adults got to play a few games, (Ticket to Ride.  I totally lost.) and I am just listening to Norma yelling upstairs.  Her yelling is nothing new and I've learned to tone her out.  Well she is really up there, "Hello!  Anybody!  HELLO!"  So I yell up to her to quit yelling, thinking that she is yelling out her closed window at the boys playing outside.  About 10 minutes later she is still yelling.  It's been a while by now and in a break in my conversation with my friend Katie we here, "I NEED TOILET PAPER!"  She had been up in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet yelling for someone to bring her toilet paper.  I felt so bad.  But I was laughing so hard.  Poor thing could hardly walk down the stairs she had been sitting there so long.  Another parenting fail.  :0)

Something New

It may not be the best camera but it was free.  Nate took this with it. 

She always smiles for Daddy.  It will be fun to have.  Might make me want a nice one though.

Powers Out

The power went out today.  Weird.  And I'm posting this so that I can remember when it happened.  It was really odd too.  There were only about 10 houses on our street that had gone out and it was kind of spread out over the neighborhood.  It was out for about 2 hours.  I was a little nervous about how long it was going to be out for.  I sat out on the porch with some neighbor ladies and let the kids play in the rain.  It was a light rain so even Kate ran around getting wet.  We were just talking about what we were all going to do for dinner with no power when I noticed that the fan was going again.  It would have been a great street party if it hadn't come back on though. :0)

Dimond Fork Camping

We wanted to go camping again and after having a few camping trips ruined because we didn't get a spot before hand, we reserved a spot at Diamond Fork.  We came here the very first time that we went camping in our trailer.  I had just thrown out my back and was about 7 months pregnant with Katy at the time.  We had really enjoyed the spot and the area so we knew that it would be fun to come back.

The kids had fun helping set up the trailer.  I know that we are going to have so many memories from camping and I love that the kids are getting old enough to start helping out a bit more.

It was very hot after we got everything set up so we all piled inside and did our own thing for a bit.

Nate wanted you to see our camp site. :0)

Love that Nate got this picture.  She doesn't like when I try to take a picture of her but she loves her Daddy and will smile for him.  Look at that grin.

She wanted up with me.  I was just reading and she laid up there with me for a bit.

Walle even had a spot that he calls his own.

I was really glad that we had thought to bring the kids scooters with us.  It was something for them to do.  Katy really wanted to do it too.  She is so cute.  She'll climb on and then wait for someone, (Mom or Dad) to push her on the scooter.

There is a Discovery Trail at the camp ground and it was really nice to go walk it in the morning.  They have these fences at the stream so that you can't get to close.  There was a beaver dam at one point and a tipi at another point.  They also had some metal benches here and there in shapes of a bear, a fish, and a spider.  There were "keys"  all along the trail too that had facts about the canyon that the kids liked to look for and find.

This camping trip was all about being together.  The kids rode their scooters a lot.  We played a lot of card games and the kids like trying to catch bugs.  Even Kate didn't want to be left out and had to try too.

It was really nice because on  Sunday the Taylors and my family came up for dinner.  It was warm but it was nice having them come.  We had a wonderful dinner and the peach cobbler was made even better when my Mom and Dad surprised us with bring ice cream to have also.

 
We love camping and we are looking forward to the deer hunt in a month.  It is so fun having our kids getting older and helping out more, having fun on their own more and being able to play games with us more.  We love our family and are so glad that we can do some fun things together and make it be a wonderful summer.

Pioneer Bike Parade

Our ward did a bike parade for the 24th and the kids were super excited about it.  We made sure that we were all ready to go camping and then went down to the park.  The primary had bags with crape paper and balloons for each of the kids to decorate their bikes, scooters or strollers with.  The kids had a lot of fun decorating their bikes but when they were told that root beer floats were waiting for them at the church, they all took off.

We ended up taking a short cut with Norma and were able to see the boys coming back down the street.

Norma gave up on riding her scooter about half way and just wanted to walk.

 My 3 boys all enjoying a root beer float.  It was wonderful and they all had so much fun.  Now it's on to camping!

How many teeth?

7.  That's right, 7.  That is how many teeth Katy K has coming in at the same time.  No longer is my happy, always doing something and smiling baby but instead is a little monster that is hitting, drooling, chewing and crying most of the time.  As long as I keep up on the pain killers, she is okay but man!  I can't wait til she gets all of these through and I think it's going to be a few weeks.

I Missed this Face

Or faces.  I'm so glad to be home.  :0)

Train Station

Thursday morning we were suppose to check out of the hotel at 11.  So around 10 we called to see if the train was running late.  It was scheduled to arrive in Glenwood at 1:35pm.  The automated call told us that is was not coming in til 6:05pm.  !!!  So we played another round of Canasta.

We checked out around 11:30 and made our way to the train station to see if we could leave our bags there so we weren't carrying them around town all day.  The worker was amazingly nice and very friendly.  He let us put our bags in his office.

We went and rode the bus to get some lunch and walked the town again.  Took some more pictures of the two of us.  :0)

Found that we could see some of the park from the city.  You can see the swing on the right and the lodge on the left.

We didn't want to get our swimsuits wet to go back into our bags so we went golfing.  Miniature but it's still golf.  It was overcast and nice.  We really hoped for rain.

I got a hole in one and Nate had to take a picture of it.

Then it was back to the station were we got an update on the train.  We had gotten our bags and the worker asked us if we really wanted to do that.  He had just found out that the train had hit a truck 2 stops over and he didn't know when it would be running again.  We sat in the station for 4 hours.  Nathan thought you would like to see it.

We read and played cards.  Napping was out of the question in those seats.  8:00pm finally came with the train.

It was 4:30am when we got into Provo.  Our car was still there with all its tires and we got in and headed to Glade and Diane's to wait for our kids to wake up to go home.  We enjoyed our trip so much and even waiting for the train as much as we did wasn't bad.  Having no schedule and not having to worry about anything but the two of us was so very nice.  We missed our kids and it was so nice to sleep in our own beds but I think another trip with just the two of us will have to be at least a bi-yearly thing. :0)

Adventure Park

One of the big attractions of Glenwood Springs is the caves.  Big long story of how it came to be... and you get an adventure park.  We spent all day here.  We rode the gondola up.

Here are some pictures of the park.

Cavers Corner is the way to the cave entrances.  It is also the way to the swing.

Down this way is the 4D theater, kid rides and the lodge which has laser tag, the gift shop and the restaurant.

Over this way is the alpine slide, the zip line, a arcade shooting range and old time pictures.

First thing we did was the cave tour.  You can find that post under this one.  When we left the cave, Nate really wanted to ride the swing.  I let him.  This first picture of from the cave tour.  You can see how it goes right over the cliff.

We watched a 4D short movie and then had some lunch.  We spent a lot of time in the souvenir shop.  We wanted to get the kids something and couldn't decide what.

We went down the alpine slide and I was a little nervous. It was so cool!  I could have done that all day long!  It wasn't as fast as I thought and being seatbelted in really helped.

We did the maze and would have won a prize for doing it in under 7 minutes but we got stuck behind some kids and Nate didn't feel right about shoving them out of the way to go faster.

 We didn't do the zip line but if we ever go back with the kids, which we really want to do, we'll take them down.

It was a lot of fun.  When we first decided to come to Glenwood I told Nate that I didn't want to go anywhere that the whole time we would say, "I wish we had the kids with us."  We didn't do that but we do want to go back with the kids.

We stayed all day with just the two of us so I am sure that if we came with the kids they would love it just as much.  It was so much fun and we are planning on coming back.  Just not on the train.