24th of July

I wish I had a picture for this, but my boys have revolted from photos of any kind and I just didn't feel like hearing how crazy I am . . . I know it, I just don't need to hear it. But we had a wonderful 24th. My family always went to the Zoo and a few times hiked up to the "this is the place monument", my mom always said it was a hateful hot hike. I think it was a case of dreading it and also being a little older, but it was one of my great memories. I don't remember doing it once we started having a million kids.

Bill always watched the parade (which I always found boring and wondered who ever watched a parade on TV . . . we both had surprises, I couldn't image ever watching a parade on TV and he never knew there were people who actually bought popcorn from a gas station), but anyway we watched it for a while then we cleaned the house and headed up to Cherry Hill, which has become our tradition for the last 4 years or so.

We had so much fun and the water was sooooo nice and cool on such a hot day. Bill and the boys dunked and played rough while I swam around them and helped Carson and Heber when they "literally" got in over their heads . . . and consoled anyone that felt they had been "done wrong". We ended the day floating around the lazy river, while the ones that were still ready for rough and tumble hit the water slides, then walked around the campsites to pick out which would be best for our vacation next week. A whole week of swimming and camping . . . I AM SO EXCITED!

Coming home after a wonderful day and to a clean house I am so grateful that I live in these times of a wonderful home, swimming and air conditioning.
My limited time is up . . . off to play referee to my wild boys and off to primary presidency meeting.

I hope you all had a wonderful 24th.

Me and my mom and dad

I am going through all my old pictures and trying to do a scrapbook for me, the first few years were really fun, but not a lot of pictures. Now I am in the teen years and even less pictures, but not nearly as much fun. I think if I do one more school page I will scream and I haven't even done one of my kids pages. Actually I have a preschool page done for a few of them. One of these days I'll be caught up.

Adding on to our house

I hope that this isn't the first blog I do, but we just finished adding on to our house. The boys were a big help and it was a lot harder than I anticipated being in pure upheaval. Some of the boys liked the ladder, some more than others. We couldn't keep Heber off and BJ was a little scared at the top.

Trying to get one picture where all 5 look happy and at the camera is something I have yet to master.

I hope to get better at this and as I said I want to do a better job for my first blog.

My boys

I have thought about starting something like this, but haven't really felt comfortable. Judy and Jerusha came up to "scrapbook" today . . . we (or I should say I) got nothing done except watch kids, solve problems and get me into the 21st century and have a blog set up. I really thought that this would be the last thing I ever did but have so enjoyed looking at Judy's and Carolee's. Well that is it for the first try . . . Jenny