memorial day

we had a great memorial day, rain and all. we went to the ranch and the kids played in the rain and on the sand and had a fabulous time as only children can. we also went to katie & mick's house for a little get together and the kids really had fun playing there, too. all in all, when the kids are happy we're all happy. i got a lot of great photos of fiona playing and some of the others on the swings and tator-totter (that's what Wesley & Ian call the teeter-totter). hope every one had a great memorial day weekend. if the slide show doesn't work try this link http://www.slide.com/r/OZL9SNjc7z-FqTPmCzX5zQJtqG9onYUb?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original

The Cure

Okay, I have been waiting for this concert for over 8 months. The original date was October 4th, but it got rescheduled for May 23rd. I was getting really worried because just last week Austin and I both got a horrible flu and I was so scared that one of the kids would get sick that night and we'd have to call the whole thing off. Fortunately, we were able to go and everything turned out great. It was wonderful. The last time I saw the Cure in concert was in high school and I had awful tickets. Robert was the size of a pillbug. This time I made sure to get floor seats and we were row 25. Robert was much larger in real life and I could even see his makeup this time :). I dressed up mildly (my reserve of goth clothes has really dwindled), I got several comments about my boots (I love those boots). Even though I know you really can't recapture your youth, it sure was a fun evening to dress up and get out with my sweetheart. And the concert went on for over 2 hours. They played all the great favorites (except my absolute favorite, Ode to Heaven). It's nice to get old with the one you love and enjoy some of the fun things you did as kids.

thomas the tank engine

we took the kids to the "meet thomas" adventure at the Heber Valley Railroad. It was so much fun. We were a bit worried about the weather because it had been raining nonstop for 2 days, but it turned out to be really beautiful and absolutely perfect. We road on Thomas, got our picture with him and Sir Topham Hat. And we made friends with one of the trainworkers who took us on board the steam engine that's used for the polar express. the steam engine was incredible huge, much bigger that expected and we got to see where the coal is shoveled in and all the controls. The boys even got to take home their own lump of coal. We really had a good time and made some great memories we think the boys will remember for a long time.

Julie, I know you guys didn't tag us, but this looked like fun so austin and I decided to do, too.
1. If you could tell your teenage self something what would it be?
Kelly: I was pretty and very capable. I could do whatever I put my mind to and really succeed.
Austin: Go find Nick Riley, he's got a sweet RV.

2. Did you do any extracurricular activities in high school?
K: drama, a little art, a little poetry (whatever that magazine was), Miss Spanish Fork (I know, shocking, huh). I really wished I would have done dance or something and not cared what anyone thought of a goth on the drill team.
A: drama, ditching class, ditching dad when he catches me ditching class.

3. What did you do in your free time?
K:draw, read, hung out at park with friends, ride around with friends, enjoy no responsibilities
A: ditched class for more free time, hung out with friends, chased a cute little girl named Kelly.(K:actually, just made fun of me)

4. Coolest thing you did in high school...
K:I wasn't into being cool, I was into being disturbing.
A: mooned the drill team. j/k, but that would've been cool.

5. Did you have a boyfriend/girlfriend in high school?
K:4, so glad that all those relationships didn't go anywhere. it was mostly for the shock value, they had peircings, wore skirts, my makeup, ect. it was fun to introduce them to the parents
A: yes, lots, they just didn't know it. I still have parts of them in the freezer.

6. Songs that come to mind...
K:the cure, depeche mode, erasure, bauhaus, tones on tails, love and rockets, nin, oingo boingo, the cocteau twins, primus, janes addiction, nitzerebb, Lords of Acid, Thrill Kill Cult. I remember listening to Friday I'm in Love (the Cure) as we were driving to lunch in Ben's car, I made my mom put in nin while driving me to school one morning and she almost wrecked. We'd turn up our radio as loud as possible while driving out of the back parking lot, just to bug the cowboys.
A:Any song from Metallica pre black album, Anthrax Got the Time, and Bring the Noise, Primus Jerry was a Racecar Driver.

7. If you could change one thing what would it be?
K:as mentioned above I would have joined the drill team. maybe try for student council or something and get more involved and make more friends
A:I don't know, it was all good times

8. What did you think you would be when you grew up?
K:I was going to join national geographic and explore all the cool places in the movies, like medicine man, aracnophobia, jurasic park, ect. i also wanted to make my own dinosaurs. i knew that i'd always be a mom, though so I'd have to find a way to pack the kids around with me without them getting eaten by a dinosaur.
A: a larger version of myself.

9. Picture of self
those are classified (we'll try to get our prom picture up sometime. that is just soooo cute!)

10. Craziest thing you did in high school...
K:this is a long story. my friend wendy and I thought it would be cool to take advantage of the bounce back to lagoon offer. we rode the bus to ogden (we had both just dyed our hair violent red and were wearing all black in july), no one would sit by us. we had a great first day at lagoon. well, we had told our parents that we were going to sleep over at another friend's home. we sort of lied to them. Jeanette lived in south jordan. we really hadn't planned well and Jeanette was grounded and we couldn't stay with her. We waited around at the cross roads mall (making friends with a couple other goths and getting all sorts of "witch" comments yelled in our directions) until the last bus to South Jordan. Then we rode it out to her house and sprung her from her prison. she snuck out and called two of her friends that had a car to come pick us up. these two guys show up and take us up to point of the mountain. we drove to the peak up above the gravel pits and everything, a very nice view. we stayed up there for a few hours just hanging out. around 1am we started back down, the road was dirt and very rough. we bounced like three feet high. the transmission or something went out on the old thing and we ended up having to coast down the rest of the way. one of the guys said his parents lived the closest and we definately couldn't call my mom, wendy's parents nor Jeanette's. so we abandoned the car and started walking. we ended up walking past the prison (afraid at any second some escaped serial killer would leap over the wall and make us his next victims) and a dead dog (it was really gross) and clear over to the other mountain range across the way. it was around 6am when we finally got to his mom's house. she was asleep so we took her car and he drove us to a bus stop by south town mall. wendy and i decided to bag lagoon and we rode the bus back to the university mall. we fell asleep in one of the pits that used to be there with the benches around it. when we woke up all these grouchy old people who use the mall for walking were staring at us, two very rumpled and disheveled girls that were obviously up to no good. we finally called our parents around 11am and told them we wanted to come home. we never told them what we had been up to all night.
A:i had the FBI get me out of class for building bombs, faked my friends death, you know, the usual crazy stuff.

popsicles

mmmm.. fugdy, chocolatey, gooey, deliciousness all over the place.

preschool program

well, wesley completed his first year of preschool. he loved it and is really looking forward to going to summer school. he's getting ian excited about starting next year, too. i went to his little end of year program and got quite a laugh. wesley acted just as we expected he would. it was really entertaining to watch him be so oblivious to what was going on around him at times and then see him suddenly realize what he was supposed to be doing and join in. i'm going to try to get a video to work as well as include some pics. enjoy.

i've got everyone fooled?

last friday i went to the zoo with wesley's preschool class. i took ian and fiona with me as well, because ian loves the rhinoceros. it was a lot of fun (we lost and found, 20 panicking minutes later, one of the little boys) and actually not too stressful (except the above mentioned 20 minutes; i was really relieved it wasn't one of mine nor the child assigned to me). i didn't take the camera because i wasn't sure what to expect or if i'd even get a chance to get it out. yesterday, when i spoke to my mom, who works in the same school as the wesley's teacher, she told me how ms. jodi was singing my praises and so very impressed with me, my attitude and organization, and all that. she said the other teachers were so impressed that i was the mother of 3 under the age of 5 and that i had it all so together. i just wanted to laugh and cry out, "i have you all so fooled?!" only my children really know the truth and hopefully they'll never divulge that awful secret. well, i thought since i seem to have it all so together this would be a good time to also announce that we are indeed expecting again. in november. that's going to make for 4 under the age of 5. i must indeed be crazy, but oh so happy. i just love being a mother and can't imagine doing anything else right now. since i don't have any pics of the zoo and i'd hate to post without one, i'm going to include the pic that we used to announce to our families the good news. it took some time for some of them to figure it out and others no time at all. but it was really fun to read their responses. most thought i just wanted to make the rolls for thanksgiving dinner.

sand dunes trip

we just got back from the sand dunes (i'm still trying to get all the sand off everything). we had a great time. the boys just loved it out there and REALLY did not want to come home. they love to dig and play in the big holes that austin digs for them (we saw a sign that said "no tunneling, dangerous, could cause death). fiona had a fun time, too. last year when we went, was a disaster for her and caused her all sorts of problems. this year was wonderful. she played in the hole that daddy dug, pushed the tonka loader around like a pro and loved the feel of the sand on her fingers and toes. it turned out to be an absolutely fabulous day, too. it never got too hot and no wind (big plus). our lunch turned out to be a bit of a memorable event, too. no one brought the lunch meat for sandwiches. we ended us just eating cheese and pickle sandwiches, which are surprisingly tasty (i ate two myself). enjoy the pics