Temple Service and Bear Lake

Thursday, June 6 we worked on the temple grounds. Doran did a lot of the mowing and I learned how to deadhead roses. No wonder why the temple grounds always look so nice. There is order in their service work and everyone is willing to do their part.

I wish I were better about making our own yard look as nice.

It was a neat learning experience.

I would do this again.

After the service work we went home and hooked the trailer up for our first camp trip.

We went to Bear Lake for the weekend with my Mom and Stan.

We had reservations for Rendezvous Beach.

We aren't much for the water experience as we are to get away.

When we arrived there weren't very many campers and then we figured out why, maybe.

On our drive over Logan canyon we saw helicopters flying over the mountains. We were wondering where they were headed.

Come to find out that they are based at Rendezvous Beach for some training.

Some people were annoyed that they were there because the were flying from sun-up to way late in the night. They didn't bother me, I was fascinated with them.

I asked what it would take for us to ride in one and they said to sign on the dotted line.

Uh...sign on the Enlistment papers.

I am not ready to do that and I admire the men and women that do!

Every time a chopped started up the M*A*S*H* theme song would start playing in my head.

Friday morning Doran and I got up and drove to the top of the summit.

When we were driving before we were calculating how far it was to our camp site.

We figured it to be about 8 miles.

We parked the truck at the lookout and headed down the road.

We were having a pretty good run and then we had a watch die on us so I started my phone.

We stopped and filled our water along the way and used a resort potty.

When we hit eight miles we knew we had miscalculated!!

At about mile 13 we ran out of water again.

There was a rest stop that the water was not working. There was some parks lady there filling a bucket and said we could have some of that water. We asked if it was drinking water but she wasn't sure. She thought so. It tasted AWFUL!

We could see the camp site so we sucked it up and finished instead of calling for a ride.

That was the longest eight miles I have ever run.
We ended at 14 miles!

Such a refreshing treat after a run.

I was so needing to put my feet in some ice so we decided to go and sit in the lake.

Well to get to the water from where we were, we had to trudge through the muck and sludge to get there.

This is as far as I got. It was gross, it felt like quicksand and...sharks!

That night we went to Pickleville Playhouse to see "El Bandito Rides Again".

It was hilarious!

Saturday morning was the Bear Lake Half-10k-5k race.

Doran thought about running the half but since we had already ran a grundle of miles the day before he wasn't sure he was up to another 13 miles so we went out to the road and watched for a couple of people we knew were running.

The service men and women were volunteering at a couple of the water stops. So cool!

We all took our bikes with us so we rode around camp a few times.

Sunday morning Doran and I went in to town to attend Sacrament.

It definitely was a great weekend!!

What's on YOUR plate?

Gah!! It's that time again!

You know, the time where you feel overwhelmed. 

Where you are so disorganized you don't know where to begin.

Where you put so much on your plate at the same time.

My home office is in shambles.

My work office doesn't look any better.

My closets are a mess.

My kitchen needs help.

I can't see out my windows because they are so dirty.

My callings are keeping me running,

not because it is busy and hard (which they are, in a way)

but because I created HUGE activities that will take a lot of organizing, work and cooperation from others.

My finances are out of control.

The dust is building up.

My fitness is slacking.

My motivation is shot.

I fell off the blog world and I want to come back!

My job is ehh...but I am thankful I have one.

Thank goodness my marriage is intact.

I want to CONTROL my life again.

Not my life control me!

One. Day. At. A. Time.

Looking Through Windows

The other day I stumbled upon Mindi's blog. I can't remember how I got there but I read one post and commented. Have you ever commented once or twice or several times on someones blog and never hear a response? Well Mindi actually commented on my comment. So...I thought I would visit again and read the next post and this is what she posted. I loved it so much I wanted to share it too, to those two people that read my inactive blog.

Anyway...

Is it time to clean your windows?

Laughing Companion

I just love it when Joni and I get together!!

As she puts it, "We get each other."

 We can be laughing so hard with tears rolling down our faces and everyone else is just rolling their eyes because they don't "get us."

It is so sad that they are missing out.

I can always count on a good gut wrenching, eye crying laugh we when are together.

She is a sister I never had or a friend that I should have had all my life!!!

She moved to Tennessee and I haven't convinced them to come back yet.

But hopefully one day they will come back.

In the meantime I hope that we can see each other AT LEAST once a year, even if it is for just a few hours.

Joni arrived in Utah Monday and had to get her girls to Youth Conference being held in Logan this year.

She then headed over to my house. She beat me by 1.5 hours so she had to make her own bed....and sleep in it. I was kind enough to wash and dry them for her though.

We had a nice visit. Jake finally made it over to visit also, then I made dinner.

We got talking about the Sen Sen and realized that Jake hasn't tried any yet.

Well he was going to have NONE of that!

Joni tried to con/talk/convince him into trying some but he refused.

As we were busting up laughing because of her "tactics", Jake just sat there with a smirk.

Not quite sure how to take his mom and I.

In the end....

he did NOT try the Sen Sen.

When I woke up the next morning I went and plopped on her bed and we just visited in our pj's and morning breath. Only true friends can do this right?

We finally got up and showered and then headed to breakfast.

After breakfast we headed over to the temple to walk around. She wasn't able to be here when we were having the Open House.

After walking around a bit, and wishing we would have thought to get up earlier and do a session, we ran home and put on a skirt so we could at least "tour" the inside of the temple where we could.

Hopefully they can come back to do a session before they head back to Tennessee.

I LOVE YOUR GUTS JONI!!!!

Thanks for being my friend, sister, laughing companion

and always there for me when I need to do a long-distance vent.

Doo Doo and Delivery

Last Saturday Daddy got up early and went running while I.....

didn't.

I took a shower so I could be ready when he got home so we could leave as soon as he showered.

We were going to Smithfield to pick up a bed for our friend April.

She was lucky and got to take her two little girls to Lagoon instead.

Wait...Lagoon with little ones?

Maybe WE were the lucky ones.

Anyway, by time we got ready to leave I got a text asking if we could wait until later in the day because the weather postponed their (bed owners) boys' game.

So we did some much needed yard work.

Our neighbor, Dixie, has been awesome to weed the garden since it has been planted!

I weeded the front yard, if you can call it that. We actually have two side yards and a back strip.

While I was working on the bigger flower bed Daddy comes over to me and asks me:

"What does that smell like?", while holding out his gloved hand.

I bout gagged and he just starts laughing.

He was trying to tell me what it was but he was laughing too hard.

He finally got out that he had picked up some dog doo doo because he THOUGHT it was dry and he didn't want to run over it with the lawn mower.

It was NOT dry.

Oh he thinks he is funny.

I think my trust level has fallen.

But it was worth it to see him laugh so hard.

Even if he DOES laugh silently.

We then went over and picked up the bed and stopped at Home Depot to get me some new yard lights and headed back to town.

We mostly beat the storm and luckily we were able to pull in the carport to unload the bed.

We got that all set up at April's, ran to get a couple of things at the grocery store, went home to build some dinner and called it a long, sweaty, stinky and productive day.

THE END

I thought you were my friend...

A couple of years ago my friend Joni showed me some "schtuff" that her dad had. When he passed away she took the rest of it. She really likes it and had me try some.

I was afeared but did anyway because HEY! She is my friend.

She wouldn't give me harmful things right?

Well fast forward to a couple of months ago.

Cortney was up visiting and we were Skyping with Joni. 

We were talking about Sen-Sen and Cortney was wondering what it was.

Sooo Joni mailed her some.

The next time Cortney was visiting she received her package from Joni.

I had to get Cortney's reaction so we could send to Joni.

Yep!!! This is about the same face I pulled when I tried it.

So JONI!!!

We thought you were our friend??!!

BRAVE

We can be BRAVE!