Monday, September 22, 2008
AHHHH!
My sweet family has been sick for about a week. I have been running around the house fixing meals, drinks, distributing tylenol, cleaning up tissue, giving baths, and listening to my sweet husband rant about how I don't understand what he is going through. At one point he said that he was so frustrated about being sick that he wanted to spank me and break things. What a freak-show. Anyway, everyone seems to be getting better (finally).
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I painted my bedroom today, for the 5th time. I think I will actually finish this time. I like the color
Pow wow dancing has started up again. I'm not sure if we are going to make the trip to the valley every week. We may have to go to once a month. We'll see. We are going to go tomorrow.
I need an apple cider press if anyone knows where I can get one. My friend has a ton of apple trees and I thought it would be fun to do cider this year. May do grapes, applesauce, and dried peaches this year. Dried peaches are the yummiest.
My son keeps kissing my stomach and tells me that he is kissing the baby... time to get serious about that treadmill. p.s. NO, NO BABY!
I love this time of year. The weather, the activities, the smells. Beautiful.

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Monday, September 01, 2008
family campout
Just got back from out annual family campout. It was pretty sweet. We always have a good time with OJ's family. I wish we could stay for a month. The kids have so much more freedom in the mountains. Anyway, on the way home we stopped at the trout lake yard sale and got to take whatever we wanted for free. Heck yah! We got some Christmas decorations, some sweet shoes...I don't know what other cool things we got, but we got a lot (boxes and boxes). The kids got pretty much whatever they wanted. I figure they have forgotten about it by now so I will just take everthing to the good will in the morning. Check out our pics on my facebook.... I know crazy to have both.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
pumpin iron with Emmerson Drive
Well Emmerson Drive worked out at one of our clubs while they were in town for the fair. One of our employees was pretty much freaking out. She said that she watched one of them stretch for about an hour. They ended up giving her a back stage pass and she got to meet the band. Pretty sweet. OJ and I ended up seeing them at the fair and we got a chance to talk to them for just a second. One of the guys (I'm not sure what their names are) told us how much they enjoyed the massage chair, and another one said that he liked our smoothies at Mango Tango. Crazy huh. OJ and I thought it was pretty fun. He wants to be a rock star now. We'll see how that goes.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
4 wheeler freak out!
so the kids wanted to ride their little motorcycle today. I let them ride around the yard for a little bit. After about 15 minutes they came into the house and told me that they ran into the fence and knocked down a couple of boards. OK. I handled that pretty well. I told them to turn the sprinklers on and stay off the motercycle. Well, aparently my oldest didn't hear me. She went out, turned the sprinklers off and rode the motorcycle. I was just about to go out and tell her to get off when she came running into the house crying that she was so sorry. She ran into the fence about 12 feet from the other carnage. She knocked about 4 fence boards down. I had to get on the treadmill for an hour just to try to keep from freaking out! Good times...
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Friday, August 01, 2008
camp trailer
We just bought a camp trailer today. It is pretty sweet. We are going to have to take our first trip in it this weekend. So much for finally staying in town. OJ is gearing up to climb Adams. They finally opened the mountain back up today. He wanted me to hike it with them, but I'm afraid they would have to carry my dead body off the mountain. I'm not sure that one week of training would do it. I think I'll stick to the upcoming fair 5k.

cop car

COP CAR!
So, We went to Seattle this weekend so that OJ could ride the Seattle to Portland (STP) with my brother Josh . The first day was great! We went to the children's museum, called the fire department to come and put out a 3 foot fire next to the pay to park kiosk, checked out the space needle, and we met OJ and Josh at a few of their waypoints and cheered them on. Perfect! Then on Sunday morning after I dropped OJ off in Centralia to continue his ride I took the kids up to the Mount Saint Helens visitor center. We hiked around for a little bit, but the kids weren't up for it. Aponi was pretty much freaking out, so we left. As soon as we got on the freeway the truck lost power and we broke down. A state trooper showed up after a few minutes and we got to sit in the back of the cop car until my tow truck showed up. The kids thought it was the best. The tow truck winched the truck up onto the back of the truck with us in it. So, we got to ride in our truck on top of his truck back to the repair shop. Aspen was recording it all with the video camera. The kids kept asking me if we could get popsicles after we were done being broke down. Anyway, we got the truck fixed,OJ finished the ride, the kids got thier ice cream, and we are getting ready for next weekends family reunion in Glenwood, (if the fire gets under control); OJ is supposed to guide a group of our club members up the Adams next week... we'll see what the fire says about that...

oregon coast

Just got home from the oregon coast. We camped out for a 5 days with JJ and Sam. We had a great time. Stayed at Fort stevens, rode bikes with the kids, played in the freezing ocean, saw Brett Ottley and his family, saw my cousin, paid for firewood, bon fire on the beach, dirty sandy kids... It was beautiful. check out the pics.