Funny Strangers

I drove past this after I dropped my kids off at school. I laughed out loud, got out, and took a picture.

Thank you funny stranger, for making my morning a little more laughy.

Meg 'n' Chels

As a birthday gift, my triplet sisters (the other two are identical and I'm fraternal- it's very rare) took me out to see Chels in her show. It was pretty much awesome.

Now, here we see Meg and I doing a self-inflicted photo. I typically love how these turn out.

See. Don't we look cute? But undoubtedly, some good citizen always comes along and offers to help us take our photo...

And THIS is what happens. We laughed ourselves sick over this picture, it was so funny to us at 10pm. So I'm actually grateful that this horrible photo was taken. So, thank you kind stranger, who ever you are, for taking this awful picture of us.

Hahahahaha! Okay, I'm laughing again, it must be funny at 2:30 in the afternoon too. I look like I'm tasting something terrible and Meg looks like she has something in her eye. We totally missed the mark on a cute winking picture. Hahahahahaha!

Here is Chels (in the middle) during the final curtain call. I'd like to mention that this is right after I was dragged onto stage for an "audience participation" number and forced to ad lib a devil dance while playing a washboard with a stick. Yeah, that's right, you heard me. It was supposed to be completely random selection from the audience- apparently not. She ganged up with Ed (who my brother and I knew in high school) to put me intentionally in the aisle seat for easy access for just this situation. Happy Freakin' Birthday to me. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

Chels, Me, and Meg. I wish I'd gotten their gorgeous giant eyes.

Oh, yeah, here's Ed. He did a good job in the show, he's a long time pro at Desert Star. However, I think he's still in the dog house for bringing me up on stage. Ed, Don't think I didn't noticed that mischievous delighted look in your eyes as you were taking me from my comfortable anonymous seat and onto the bright stage full of strangers. Brat... :-)

Thank you Meg and Chels for such a fun night. I only wish it had lasted longer! Let's start our next "Triplets Night Out" earlier than 9:30, and lets do something where we can actually talk to Chels while she's entertaining us. Love you!

OUCH.

When he smacks his head, he does it right.

Who ya gonna call?

I don't know who did this or why. But I like to send a message out there into cyberspace.

Dear Person Who's Car I Passed In A Parking Lot,

You. Are. Awesome. Congratulations on being dedicated to being original, funny, and doing what ever the crap you think is cool.

You win. I don't know what you win, you just do.

What the butter?

What could possibly have happened to this half stick of frozen butter? I had it out because I was cooking dinner while the kids were outside playing in the dirt. Then I turned around and it was open and mangled. Poor little butter.

EW. I threw the butter away immediately after I saw these little hands.

Baby Rae

These are the photos I took of my new neice. She's so perfect!

Congratulations Laura and Nick!!!

Summah time, summah time, sum, sum, summah time

So it would appear to someone that only knew me through my blog that we didn't have a summer at all. As though perhaps we'd entered some sort of worm hole or time continuum that caused us to skip time and go from one school year right into another. Quite the contrary actually. So here are some of our summer goings-on.

Bear bear in coach-pitch baseball. Awwww. It was so cute. He got a hit every time he was at bat (except the one time they had to break out the tee for him...).

Nearly every Tuesday has been "Park Day" with the cousins from my family and Jeff's. It's always a different crowd, but its been really fun to have the little cousins from both sides of the family all play together.

We've been having "Friday Night Swim Party" with Jeff's family nearly every friday since May. It's been great to have a regularly scheduled time to get together.

Our Fourth of July was pretty fun. We went to the Sandy city celebration with a bunch of people (Mortensens, Hortins, Gadds, etc...) to see the festivities and fireworks show.

My brother, Rick, was here visiting for a MONTH! It was so nice to see him on a regular basis. We went hiking a couple of times and the boys loved it. Uncle Nate came with us once too, and boy, I was so glad because I could not have carried the little ones the way the uncles did.

One of my fondest childhood memories is all the time my Dad spent with us at the University of Utah Natural History Museum. We took the kiddos a few weeks ago. They had a really cool frogs display with amphibians from all over the world. And of course the standard dinosaur bones are always the favorite. The museum still has the dark and musty smelling diamond mine and the money eating dinosaur sticking out of the wall... "Hi, my name is Al. Feeeeed me money. Mmmmm. That tastes gooooood." I love that place!

A few weeks ago we visited "This Is The Place Heritage Park". I thought it was a little pricey, but it was well worth it. The boys absolutely loved doing pioneer chores (why do they think hand-washing laundry and beating rugs is easier than putting away toys?), and learning how to card wool, and play that hoop 'n' stick game. We rode a train, and saw a old west quick draw gun fight, pet lambs and goats and oxen calves, saw Brigham Young's house, and had a pony ride. It not just for kids either, Jeff and I enjoyed learning the history and seeing the old structures that began our valley home.

Okay, I have about a bamillion more photos of stuff, but you get the idea. So clearly no worm hole entrance here, although that would have been a cool adventure too.