Logan's Wax Museum

Logan's grade had a wax museum where they were all allowed to choose a figure in history to represent. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. They had the lights turned down low and instrumental music playing so you really felt like you were in a museum.
All of the kids were dressed in their costumes and had to hold a "freeze frame" position. Logan chose to be George Washington. Thanks to an amazing dad who put his costume together because mom was working late, and a large photo of "The Prayer at Valley Forge" in our family room, Logan's costume was excellent.
HOwever, Albert Einstein was NOT happy to be there, and especially didn't want to stand still. Boyd and I were laughing because here's this little boy with a gray wig on totally throwing a fit by himself and no one was paying attention to him. I wish I had a pic.
Anyway, a few kids made fun of Logan's boots and I told him he should have said to the boys that he was going to kick their butts with his lady boots and then they'd be sorry. He gently reminded me that he was a wax figure and couldn't talk.
Anyway, I was thankful I got to go see the little guy, who really isn't so little any more.

Finally - Hawaii 09!

After a busy 2 weeks, I finally have some time to post some pics!

BOyd and I had a GREAT time! We LOVED the Big Island. So much to see and do, with such different climates on the small island. It's also still very rural, which was my favorite part.


Our first view of the island...




The resort was INCREDIBLE!


Also part of our resort!


We rented a soft-top jeep to scoot around the island in.


We flew over to Oahu for the day and visited Pearl Harbor. Amazing.




The PCC - so dang fun!


A Buddhist temple on Oahu - part of Pearl Harbor was filmed at this location, and LOST was setting up to film here too this day!


Boyd exploring. My fourth boy...


The sunset on the night of the luau was GORGEOUS!


This was one of my favorite things, hiking down into the rainforest to go through the Thurston Lava Tube. It's where lava once flowed through to get to the surface of the island.


BOyd loves to golf - so how could we go to Hawaii and not have him golf? He spent one of the mornings golfing while I read by the pool. A bit of heaven you know...


Celebrating the end of a great trip. If you can't jump on beds at home, where can you jump on beds?




16 years - yesterday (4.9) was our anniversary! Love you babe! We make a great team after all!

Question of the Day

Logan: "Can we go to Granny & Bomps when it's conference half-time?"

Laugh till you can't breathe....

This would have been the kind of video we would have made as kids, and I would have cast Neal P. at the lead character!

Sexiest People on Earth - A Celebration o f the Perfect Portrait

Meet Ronald. Ronald likes vienna sausage, his momma, and following little piggies all the way home. Seriously? I bet his mom was like 45 when she had him, so she's super old and he's an only child. What parent would do this to their child? "Hey Ronnie, let's take a picture with the brother you never had." Poor kid, I thought it was a girl and I felt bad. Then when I realized it's a boy aka "Ronnie", and I felt even worse.

Okay, so the funniest person on this earth, my sister Laurel, has the funniest website on her blog. How many more times can I say funny? I have to copy her so I can share the wealth of laughs with all of you.

www.sexypeople-blog.com


As Boyd would say "She's looking at me like I am a 20-piece chicken mcnugget!"


All I have to say I "heart" Robbie. MEOW!

Death of a Fridge

So, I woke up on Tuesday to melted frozen berries and ice cream streaming out of the fridge.
The boys came running in saying something had exploded in the freezer. Boyd has a bad habit of putting soda in the freezer to get cold quickly and forgetting about it. What does this do? Soda cans explode in freezing temperatures. However, this was no soda accident!
The weirdest thing, the top 1-2 shelves of both the fridge and freezer were no longer cold. Boyd and I tried all day to figure it out. We turned it off, cleaned out the back of the fridge, underneath the fridge, took out food etc. We tried it all. So, we then went fridge shopping. Not the funnest when you are leaving to Hawaii in a week and a half. Oh well, things could be WAAAAY worse, and they have been, believe you me!
So, we had no milk for a few days and new Mr. Fridge was scheduled to arrive today. Old Mr. Fridge still wasn't working until late last night, when WALA! The water Boyd put on the top shelf (just a little pudddle, on purpose) finally froze. Although it started working again, we had already purchased a new fridge and we both decided we couldn't put up with a fridge that just gets cold when it wants to. That's just unnacceptable in the White house. I need my bon-bons frozen and my caffeine free Diet-Coke cold baby!
Well, the new fridge came today and guess what? It doesn't fit! Boyd measured everything before hand and we knew it would be a tight squeeze, but it's not squeezing anymore and has about 10 inches to go.
So, I sent the delivery guys home and Boyd will need to deal with it when he gets home. The good news is, Boyd can fix anything and I'm sure he'll figure out a way to get the fridge in it's rightful place.
Now, the rest of our appliances are calling for stainless steel and our floor is calling for wood! I wish it could happen tomorrow, but it won't, and I just have to be patient. I have a great kitchen, that I love. I shouldn't be so wanting and be more grateful. Boyd's been working on the basement for a year and we cannot do any other home improvements until that's done.
Stay tuned!

Winter Wonderland

We had a small snow storm over night (I think it was Wednesday night) and I couldn't help but notice the beauty on the way to work. I pulled over a few times and snapped these photos.






NO matter where I travel, I always come home to Utah, where I think it's one of the prettiest places on earth.