A Snowy Fieldtrip

Today April 29,2010 Ty and I went on a field trip to the Wetlands in West Layton with his 4th grade class. I mention the date because it snowed and hailed on us almost the entire time. Why is it still snowing in April?! Our tour guide was an older lady who loves, loves, loves her job, the wetlands, and science. She was determined that we still get the full tour even though it was freezing! My favorite quote was by a 10 year old boy who said, "oh my gosh, I'm going to get frostbitten!"

The only thing that saved us and got us out of the cold was the thunder. When that happened she said we needed to get on the buses asap. We were all overjoyed to hear this because it had just started to hail really hard! Needless to say, I didn't get a picture of our scramble back to the bus (after a 2 hour tour). When I finally reached the bus I looked like a snowman. My clothes were soaked!

A little snow on the boardwalk at the start of our tour.


The sun tried to peek out for a few minutes.

When all was said and done, we went back to school and ate lunch in the class room. It wasn't a great field trip but I got to spend the day with Ty so it was a great day!

Feeling like a bat

Jim has a bench that we use for sit ups, bench press, etc. We use this bench almost daily. The incline can be adjusted to different sets of difficulty. Sometimes its a slight incline for large sets of sit ups (60 3x's) and sometimes, well... I feel like a bat hanging from my feet.



Yesterday we used the bench to do bench presses. It is rather comical climbing onto the bench. First I had to duck under the weights, then I had to get my knees up and over the first bar and my feet under the second while "gracefully" rolling onto the bench. It is quite a feat to get into position! Then the actual exercise beings. It is quite an interesting sensation to bench pressing 65 pounds upside down as all the blood rushes to my head! The best way to "dismount" the bench is to simply roll off. Not very graceful but at least I didn't hit my head on the bar!

Finally Great Weather!

The first week of April it snowed, no kidding snowed!
As in bring out your shovels, SNOWED!

A look out our front door.

Our backyard. Yes, it is big and yes we do have a riding lawn mower.
(my favorite household job!)

So only 11 days later when my mom called to have a picnic in the park and celebrate the great weather we jumped at the chance! Max was born the day before and my brother was looking to keep his other 3 boys occupied, so a picnic with cousins sounded great!


We had a picnic.
So sweet!


We played pass.

We got some"Owies"

We went for a walk to see the ducks...
and play on the playground.




My little brother even showed up in his new car.

What a great way to Celebrate the Great Weather!

"Welcome to the World"

Friday, April 16th my brother and sister-in-law welcomed their FOURTH little boy to their family! Let me introduce you to Max. 8lbs 3 oz. 21 inches long. What a sweet little guy! We are so glad he has come to join our family! My brother and his family just recently moved to Utah so it was fun to see little Max just hours after being born. As one of my favorite songs says,
"Welcome to the world"

Where's my bacon?

Matt just reminded me of the other funny thing Morgan said on Saturday. Let me set the stage My older sister wanted to go back to a store we had already been in and buy some pants so she told us to go get the car while she made her purchase and she would meet us out front.

After getting everyone locked in their seat belts we started to drive to meet my sister. All the sudden Morgan started asking , "Where's the bacon?' My sister responded "What?" To which again we got "Where's the bacon?" My sister said "Are you talking about Tami?" Yes, where's my bacon." My sister explained she had gone back into a store and we would pick her up. Then asked "Why are you calling her your bacon?" Then she tried to get her to say Tami. We never did get an answer for why she called her the bacon but it sure was funny!

Honey

Saturday afternoon I got to spend some time with my adorable nieces. Here's the highlight of my day. A conversation between my sister and her daughter Morgan, age 2 (whom I have already explained in brilliant).

Morgan: "Mom?"
My sister: "What honey?"
Morgan: "I'm not honey, daddy's honey."

I'm still laughing! Smarty pants. I love these girls! I have tons of pictures of them on my new camera, I just need to download. This picture was Halloween. Morgan was a frog and Emma was a fairy although she had already shed most of her costume by this time. Oh the joy they bring to my life!