AFTER:
We have hung a few more things on the walls since these pictures were taken. We're pretty much done now. PHEW! Quite the project. Sam celebrated by sleeping on the tramp by himself one night:
9 years ago
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Basement
BEFORE:
AFTER:
We have hung a few more things on the walls since these pictures were taken. We're pretty much done now. PHEW! Quite the project. Sam celebrated by sleeping on the tramp by himself one night:
AFTER:
We have hung a few more things on the walls since these pictures were taken. We're pretty much done now. PHEW! Quite the project. Sam celebrated by sleeping on the tramp by himself one night:
Friday, July 17, 2009
Girls Camp 2009
Last night Sam and I were able to attend Girls Camp in our ward for the Bishopric night. This was our 3rd year attending camp and it was lots of fun, as usual!
Here's our experiences at Girls Camp in 2007
And here's our experiences at Girls Camp in 2008
Our girls were given the color orange to wear during Girls Camp week. They tied it into "Tigger" from Winnie the Pooh. The leaders gave us tigger ears, a tail, and a bowtie to wear. As a bishopric (and wives) we tie dyed orange shirts earlier in the week so we could match our girls. Orange is my favorite color so I was happy!
The bishopric: Sam Sweet, Davis Strong, and Stewart Brennan (bishop)
I don't know why, but this is probably my favorite picture of the night. I asked these guys to turn sideways so I could see their tails. Here's the result. Bishop: perfect form! Davis: Look at me, I'm over here! I know Bishop's tiger tail is awesome, but look at me! Sam: Uhhhhhh, what part of "stand sideways" didn't you understand??
Sam took over with the camera from here on out. During the Stake Presentation, he was trying to get pictures of our girls and their cat-like profiles. It turned out to be lots of fun! We were sitting behind them all so they didn't really know what he was doing.
This is our Stake Presidency: Hansen, Linnell (pres.), Rowland. they sing a song every year for the Stake Program. They are brave. I would be running far far away if I had to sing in front of all those people! They did a great job!
These traitors (I say that very lovingly) are now in the neighboring ward due to some boundary shifts 1 1/2 years ago. I still miss them very, very, very much! Jene' and Wendy! You guys rock!
Love ya Park 2nd ward!
We are so cute in all our orange tie-dye glory!
The leaders...AKA...the Hostess' with the Mostest! Heather Ellison, Stefanie Dennison, Leslie McNaughton, Holly Nesbit, and Marci Nicol. They cooked up a grubbin' meal of BBQ chicken and cheesy potatoes. Delicious!
We had a touching testimony meeting and then some fun around the campfire. It was perfect!
Sam was messing around with long exposures to capture as much light as possible. The fire and glow sticks were a nice touch to the lighting effects!
S'mores faces!
Anywho, we got home around 1am. Then by the time we cleaned up and Sam took the babysitter home (his mama), I think it was about 2:30am. Poor Sam had to get up at 6am for work. Can you say blood-shot eyes? :)
In other news, I got my hair colored. Nothing too drastic, but the gray is covered. Dang gray, it's really persistent!
Before:
After:
Aren't you glad I share everything with you? Hey, at least I won't look like the oldest person in my family pictures in a few weeks! Thank goodness I'm not a pioneer. I'd have gray hair that is super frizzy because I'm pretty sure the hair products I use now weren't around back then!
Here's our experiences at Girls Camp in 2007
And here's our experiences at Girls Camp in 2008
Our girls were given the color orange to wear during Girls Camp week. They tied it into "Tigger" from Winnie the Pooh. The leaders gave us tigger ears, a tail, and a bowtie to wear. As a bishopric (and wives) we tie dyed orange shirts earlier in the week so we could match our girls. Orange is my favorite color so I was happy!
The bishopric: Sam Sweet, Davis Strong, and Stewart Brennan (bishop)
I don't know why, but this is probably my favorite picture of the night. I asked these guys to turn sideways so I could see their tails. Here's the result. Bishop: perfect form! Davis: Look at me, I'm over here! I know Bishop's tiger tail is awesome, but look at me! Sam: Uhhhhhh, what part of "stand sideways" didn't you understand??
Sam took over with the camera from here on out. During the Stake Presentation, he was trying to get pictures of our girls and their cat-like profiles. It turned out to be lots of fun! We were sitting behind them all so they didn't really know what he was doing.
This is our Stake Presidency: Hansen, Linnell (pres.), Rowland. they sing a song every year for the Stake Program. They are brave. I would be running far far away if I had to sing in front of all those people! They did a great job!
These traitors (I say that very lovingly) are now in the neighboring ward due to some boundary shifts 1 1/2 years ago. I still miss them very, very, very much! Jene' and Wendy! You guys rock!
Love ya Park 2nd ward!
We are so cute in all our orange tie-dye glory!
The leaders...AKA...the Hostess' with the Mostest! Heather Ellison, Stefanie Dennison, Leslie McNaughton, Holly Nesbit, and Marci Nicol. They cooked up a grubbin' meal of BBQ chicken and cheesy potatoes. Delicious!
We had a touching testimony meeting and then some fun around the campfire. It was perfect!
Sam was messing around with long exposures to capture as much light as possible. The fire and glow sticks were a nice touch to the lighting effects!
S'mores faces!
Anywho, we got home around 1am. Then by the time we cleaned up and Sam took the babysitter home (his mama), I think it was about 2:30am. Poor Sam had to get up at 6am for work. Can you say blood-shot eyes? :)
In other news, I got my hair colored. Nothing too drastic, but the gray is covered. Dang gray, it's really persistent!
Before:
After:
Aren't you glad I share everything with you? Hey, at least I won't look like the oldest person in my family pictures in a few weeks! Thank goodness I'm not a pioneer. I'd have gray hair that is super frizzy because I'm pretty sure the hair products I use now weren't around back then!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Our Family Pet
My dad scored this robotic dinosaur during a "day after Thanksgiving Sale" a few years ago. The last few days we have introduced Cameron to our "family pet". Sometimes he cries, sometimes he laughs. He has the same reaction to Parker, we're looking into it...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
July Is Crazy
So far July has been quite the crazy month. We are consantly working on our basement (carpet, painting, moulding, hanging lights, hanging blinds....). Once everything is done I will do before and after pictures. I honestly can't believe how much I love it! My basement doesn't feel like the dark dungeon anymore. It's fabulous!
Our 4th of July was freedom-fabulous! We worked on the basement most of the day and my parents took Carson and Parker on the Heber Creeper. I've never been on the Heber Creeper but my kids love trains so I knew they'd love it! We didn't tell them where they were going until right before they left. Here's a little conversation Carson and I had earlier in the day:
Mom: Carson, you are going to LOVE where you are going today! You are going to do something today I've never even done! Can you guess what that might be??
Carson: Learn to sew??
What the crap? Why would that be the first thing he thought of? Crazy 8-year old's brain... Anyway, my parents took a few pictures of the train experience:
In other news...Cameron is finally learning to walk. He's 16 months old so I'm very excited!
The evening of our 4th of July was perfect. We hung out with some good friends and watched some fireworks. It was super fun!
Parker and all his girlfriends. It's funny because there aren't that many kids Parker's age who are boys. They are mostly girls. He doesn't care, he's a cool cat.
Oh yeah, a big "thanks" to our friends, Russ and Amy. You may not know it, but your truck was the perfect CAGE to the babies who wanted to crawl towards the dangerous fireworks!
Because these pictures had long exposures, you can tell who was sitting still and who was moving around a lot during the fireworks.
In other news...
On Sunday Cameron was being a huge pill. I ended up holding him in the hallway of church for about 45 minutes trying to get him to fall asleep. I wouldn't let him get down and play, I just held him tightly. After Sacrament meeting, I was fed UP. I took him home and put him to bed. Then I fell asleep. I woke up and my back was really sore. It was really sore for the rest of the day. I have a bad back so this isn't too unusual. I took some Naproxen and did my back exercises and tried to be careful.
By Monday morning I could hardly walk or move without enduring stabbing back pain. Crap. The last time my back did this was 3 years ago. I knew what path I was heading down. Without waiting for the back spasms that I knew would come, I called my back doctor at the Spine Institue of Utah. On my way to the appointment, I was really nauseated. A few miles from my house I said "agghhhh! pull over!" Sam quickly pulled over just in time for me to hork all over somebody's front lawn! Oh man, I can't stop laughing when I think about it. It was crazy! What would you do if you witnessed this on your lawn? Would you go out and offer the stranger a drink or a toothbrush? Would you be totally grossed out and irritated? I'd probably be grossed out. ha ha ha!
The back appt went great. My doctor prescribed me some medicine that didn't totally take the pain away but it made me feel good enough that I didn't care! In about an hour I'll be going back to the doctor's office for a cortisone shot and then life should be good.
Crazy back pains...all because of this little monkey and hauling around his 23 pound self!
Oh don't let the innocent look fool you, he's really heavy! Cameron, seriously, it's not funny.
Okay, maybe it's a little funny...
Our 4th of July was freedom-fabulous! We worked on the basement most of the day and my parents took Carson and Parker on the Heber Creeper. I've never been on the Heber Creeper but my kids love trains so I knew they'd love it! We didn't tell them where they were going until right before they left. Here's a little conversation Carson and I had earlier in the day:
Mom: Carson, you are going to LOVE where you are going today! You are going to do something today I've never even done! Can you guess what that might be??
Carson: Learn to sew??
What the crap? Why would that be the first thing he thought of? Crazy 8-year old's brain... Anyway, my parents took a few pictures of the train experience:
In other news...Cameron is finally learning to walk. He's 16 months old so I'm very excited!
The evening of our 4th of July was perfect. We hung out with some good friends and watched some fireworks. It was super fun!
Parker and all his girlfriends. It's funny because there aren't that many kids Parker's age who are boys. They are mostly girls. He doesn't care, he's a cool cat.
Oh yeah, a big "thanks" to our friends, Russ and Amy. You may not know it, but your truck was the perfect CAGE to the babies who wanted to crawl towards the dangerous fireworks!
Because these pictures had long exposures, you can tell who was sitting still and who was moving around a lot during the fireworks.
In other news...
On Sunday Cameron was being a huge pill. I ended up holding him in the hallway of church for about 45 minutes trying to get him to fall asleep. I wouldn't let him get down and play, I just held him tightly. After Sacrament meeting, I was fed UP. I took him home and put him to bed. Then I fell asleep. I woke up and my back was really sore. It was really sore for the rest of the day. I have a bad back so this isn't too unusual. I took some Naproxen and did my back exercises and tried to be careful.
By Monday morning I could hardly walk or move without enduring stabbing back pain. Crap. The last time my back did this was 3 years ago. I knew what path I was heading down. Without waiting for the back spasms that I knew would come, I called my back doctor at the Spine Institue of Utah. On my way to the appointment, I was really nauseated. A few miles from my house I said "agghhhh! pull over!" Sam quickly pulled over just in time for me to hork all over somebody's front lawn! Oh man, I can't stop laughing when I think about it. It was crazy! What would you do if you witnessed this on your lawn? Would you go out and offer the stranger a drink or a toothbrush? Would you be totally grossed out and irritated? I'd probably be grossed out. ha ha ha!
The back appt went great. My doctor prescribed me some medicine that didn't totally take the pain away but it made me feel good enough that I didn't care! In about an hour I'll be going back to the doctor's office for a cortisone shot and then life should be good.
Crazy back pains...all because of this little monkey and hauling around his 23 pound self!
Oh don't let the innocent look fool you, he's really heavy! Cameron, seriously, it's not funny.
Okay, maybe it's a little funny...
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