Going, going, gone!

As you probably know, we live in a home built in 1961. "Way back then" I guess they did not have dryers. Only kidding :) But my house did come complete with a clothesline out front. We used it for a while to hang up blankets and sleeping bags, but after we put in the fence it was really akward and eventually the line was cut and only the posts remained. Imagine my surprise when I heard a backhoe running and went out to see this :)

Even with all the rain we've had that made the ground soft (notice the sinking tire track), he really had to work at it too. that thing was cemented in there pretty good.

Wow! We were totally shocked at how deep it was.

We had a city dumpster delivered that day and into the dumpster it went.

Then I had to take a few pictures of my kids in the huge hole, lol.

The lighting was good down there so I snapped a few pictures of Fisher and Carly. Hunter was not around, but I should have made him come up for a picture too, oh well.

The second one was more tricky. The top popped off while he was trying to pull it out.

Carly and Fisher decided they would help Dan by just pulling it out by themselves. Hilarious.

When his attempts were futile, he just posed by it.

And of course, her attempts were also futile so she posed as well.

Dan gave me this face when I asked him "Is this really going to work?"

He's pretty tricky, and handy and cute :) The man can fix anything!

I, of course, totally ate crow when it worked flawlessly.

And to the dumpster it went too.

And finally Hunter, my clever first born child, appeared on the scene.

He'd been in the hole. Hiding under a bucket. Totally laughed his head off when he startled his mom.

I'm Baaaack

See this picture?


This is one happy mama.

-A happy mama that got internet back for Mother's Day!

-A happy mama that can once again pay her bills online.

-A happy mama that can update her blog.

-A happy mama that can see the current coupon deals. Because she lives for those, lol.

-A happy mama that can put things on hold at the library.

-A happy mama that can catch up on full episodes of Vampire Diaries that I have missed.

-A happy mama that didn't have internet for 15 months and just discovered there was an update to Picasa online. Picasa now has a feature called Picnik on there and I edited the above picture with it.

One happy mama!


Easter 2011


Easter 2011. My, how they've grown!

Random thoughts from my brain

Random thoughts from my brain:

-With only a few weeks left of school, my kindergartner and 3rd grader are soon to be 1st grader and 4th grader. Crazy!

-I am looking forward to a summer of hanging out with the kids and having fun. The only thing I am not looking forward to is the extreme heat of the summer.

-I have actually enjoyed this last winter and I rarely even wore a coat. I am weird and am always hot. I always have been that way, don't know why :) The summer heat leaves me drained and tired until 9:00 or 10:00 at night when the sun goes down.

-Guess there should be a lot of swimming in our summer plans, lol.

-I got a part time job.

-Well, truthfully, 2 part time jobs.

-So far, so good. It's been a long time since I had a job where I got a W-2. About 9 years to be exact.

-I recently got glasses again. Haven't had them since Fisher broke mine when he was a baby. I was amazed when I looked out the window and could see a clearly defined eye on the horse in the corral.

-Dan's diesel truck gets better gas mileage than my car. Unfortunately, diesel is expensive right now! Oh how I miss my little Honda Accord when gas prices are high. It wasn't worth fixing though two years ago, and sold just a few hours after I put a for sale sign in it which let me know it was the right thing to do at the time. I cried when they drove it away. Silly, I know, but I loved that car.

-Our yellow lab surprised us yesterday and had a total of 3 puppies. We discovered she had milk and less than 24 hours later, she had the puppies. One was still born and one died at only a day old. The remaining puppy is doing well. Although it was not planned for her to have puppies, I still cried when they passed away. She is too old to be having babies and maybe that is why they didn't make it??

-We have already had to mow the lawn quite a bit. SO GLAD Hunter is big enough for the job. He is so helpful. It is nice to be able to count on him to help out in our family.

-Dan's brother, Morgan, and his wife, Christi, took out their endowments last wednesday in the Salt Lake Temple. All these years of having a recommend and I had never done a session there. It was awesome! I want to go back and do it again. They were sealed the following day at the Salt Lake Temple and I am so proud of them!

-Without having Directv and a DVR, I don't have a lot of shows that I watch anymore but I really like the tv series "Vampire Diaries" Have you seen that yet? It is in the 3rd season and I can't seem to get enough of it.

-Still don't have internet. It's been over a year lol.