Happy 40th Birthday Lance!

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Black balloons? I can't decide. 40 doesn't seem too bad. Lance has definitely put in a strong 40 years! Talk about your hard worker! He joked last night that he couldn't go through a mid-life crisis even if he wanted to because we couldn't afford a new sports car!!!

I hope I get to enjoy at least 40 more years with him:) The last 18 have been pretty awesome!
Happy Birthday Lance!

First Day Back to School!

I have to rewind a bit and let you in on the harrowing 12 hours before. Although it doesn't include a loss of a limb or decapitation, it was close :)

Shylee wanted her hair colored. I am great with 1, I repeat 1 color pulled through a cap. But Shylee, being a dreamer, wanted 2.

I thought I had it all under control until the first color I put on, which was brown (on the box) turned out green. No worries, I knew how to fix it! I corrected it with a bit of bleach, which I tried only to leave on for a few minutes, just long enough to get the green out, but it was still too long.

Upon inspection everything looked good. So, then we proceeded to highlight. That is where things went askew (apparently the green was just child's play). Her roots were ......how's a nice way to put it, strawberry blond, orange.

For the most part I thought I knew what I was doing, even when I went wrong, I always was SO sure that I knew how to fix it! So at midnight I went down to Wal-Mart (20min away) and got another color. We put it on like a rinse, for maybe 5 minutes tops. TOO LONG! Now her hair had this beautiful silverish hue.

At this point she is bawling hysterically, like there was no coming back from it, like Anne of Green Gables would say: Shylee was in the "depths of despair."

I knew how to correct silver :) So we put a little bleach on for a few minutes and then her hair was at least back to the original state that she loathed the first time:)
I was so proud of her confidence in the end. She starting changing the way she thought about it. She said "I have nice clothes, and I am pretty, so what if my hair isn't prefect. It will just make for a great story to tell my friends." If that's not cool, what is?

If you will look on my Facebook pages, her hair looks fine. It's not entirely damaged:) And hey, at least I knew how to fix it.......

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=70046&id=1017568487&l=f5f4405eba

More Peas

We were all making pea puns at dinnertime

and my husband stole

the show when he quietly sat back down
after dinner was over

and made his


"Peas Offering" plate.

We all had a good laugh.

The Visiting Teaching Movie

The truthfulness of this movie is hilariously ironic! Found it posted on Facebook.

Rider Ridin' and Old Dog Paco

Uncle Luke was nice enough

to give Rider


a few rides on his mare.

Grandpa gave Rider a ride too
but I didn't have any pics left
on my camera.

But here's to the both of you "thanks a ton!"


Grandma and Grandpa have an old dog, Paco.
The kids have really become compassionate towards him.

Anytime it would rain or get windy they would ask if

they could bring Paco in. Now mind you, we had our own
dog there too, Moqui. But they didn't mention bringing her in when the weather would be inclement!

We have some great family reunion pics,
but they will have to wait until Shylee gets home:)

I can't wait to post my pics of my adorable "Dapper Dan." It will be a hoot!

A Picture of Bordom

We got a flat tire going over the Griffin mountain. I finally won the day when I found Greg's magic wrench-thing to get the spare off.


In the meantime, Rider and I made





"Rock People"



drew in the dirt, threw rocks and


took random pictures of our feet.



All in all it ended up being a great time to hang with Rider. The other kids were smarter than us and stayed at Grandma's and Grandpa's house.

Pooling Around

I chose these pics to start with because I love the brilliant colors and we LOVED swimming in the pool!!



We went over for Cager Greg Moon's blessing. My sis-in-law, Cassy, had another paltry 10+ pound baby that they were able to bless the first part of July.



We stayed over in Blanding for a few days. We checked out Monticello, Blue Mountain, the schools, the hospital where Lance will work, and the motel's pool was the greatest hit!





We also stayed for the 4Th of July. Shylee has all those pics on her camera, so we may be posting some of the pics off of her camera at a later time:)

Shylee is staying out in Utah for girl's camp. She will be back next week.



We had an awesome time! Other family members came the next day and we goofed around in the pool for hours and hours.



Coming up next post:

flat tire on mountain,

fishing trips,
horsing around,

recording studio with sister,

and feet!



Check back soon for another round of fun and eventful posting!

Prepare Yourselves!

We have arrived back in Ohio, as of 2 1/2 hours ago! I will posting all the happenings over the summer, because.... why not! We had a wonderful time. We stayed with Debbie and Greg. Lance came out with us for a few days and then for a couple weeks at the end for vacation time, but worked in between then, here in Ohio.

It's nice to see all my stuff again. It's like recycling presents. I forgot about the fun stuff we have, and now I am so thrilled to have it again. Hmmmm...maybe that's what I will do for Christmas. I will just start packing up a bunch of the kids stuff, then when they get it for Christmas they will just be so happy to have it back again!

I have to admit something. I did do that to a few of my kids when they were really, really young.

There...I feel good about getting that off my chest. Too bad it couldn't havecome off my rear-end, but I digress......

It's nice to be back!