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Update

This is called a Jerusalem Cricket or Stenopelmatus fuscus according to Riley....he's the bug guy, so he must be right! According to him, they bite hard, so lucky for me, he didn't get a very good grab on my leg.

Check it out here on wikipedia.

Weekend Fun

Last weekend, we decided we would go camping to the Sand Dunes again. Here are some pictures of the fun weekend.....including some not so fun parts.


Everybody is ready to go!

Where's Libbi?!?!

4-Wheeling

Libbi at the top of the hill, oh that hill! But isn't she so cute!?

Everybody standing around at the top of the hill.

Kyle trying to come up the soft sand hill.

Dusty and Kyle at the bottom of the hill, watch that tree Dusty.....it was the start of the crazy 20 minutes that followed.

Dusty getting stuck in the tree, really, really stuck in the tree. While all the boys were down there trying to figure out how to get Dusty out of the tree, I had a freak out moment of blood curdling screaming going on at the top of the hill. Below is the reason why.

Yup, this little guy decided to crawl up the my pant leg. I still don't know what it was, but it bit me twice on the back of my calf. All the guys could hear was blood curdling screaming coming from the top of the hill from myself, Libbi and Amanda.

Luckily, he found his way out. And we took some pictures of him. He was creepy. If anybody knows what he was, let me know. Somebody told me he was a sun spider, which is a mix of a tarantula and a scorpion. I don't really know.

Kyle's "little" brothers decided to come with us. It was fun to have them. This is Tyler and Travis out at Sand Mountain.

All 3 brother's waiting to go up Sand Mountain

I'm not sure who this is, but they were on Sand Mountain turning around to come back down.

Everybody hanging out after a long day of riding and 4-wheeling.

Libbi wanted to sit between Tyler and Travis.

Amanda and Dean and the dogs on the mountain behind camp.

View from the top of Sand Mountain.

Veiw from the top of Sand Mountain, see the three dots in the middle of the photo, those are the trucks.

This is why we finally decided to come home....yup, it rained on us!


All in all, we had a fun weekend, minus the few moments when everything was crazy. We all came back a little sun burned and tired and sore, but we had a great wekeend. It's just what I needed. I also wanted to wish Dusty a happy birthday, even though I know it's a few days late.

More of My Sweet Libbi!

Lately I have been trying to teach her appreciation for things. So when she finishes her dinner, she can't leave the table without one of us checking her plate. Not that she is a bad eater, but we have a 3 bite rule, you don't have to finish it, but you have to have 3 bites of it. Last night we were sitting at the table eating dinner and talking and I hear from her chair.

"Mom, Thank You for Dinner. May I be excused?"

Usually I have to prompt the line above, but last night, she said it so sweetly and quietly that I let her go. (She ate most of her dinner.) When she walked back over to the table to be apart of the conversation, I asked her to tell Dad what she had told me before she got up. She looked right at me and said, "Daddy didn't make dinner, you did."

I love her!

Some Random Thoughts

I feel like I haven't been very good at updating this blog lately. Lots of fun things have happened this last month. Mother's day, hanging out with Aunt Jen and Bailey, cute pictures of the girls. Lot's of great weather complete with swimming and playing outside. Give me a little bit, my laptop as been at the computer doctor, so we have a loaner at home. The loaner does not have pictures or stay connected to our "borrowed" internet well. When mine comes home, I will update for sure with pictures and lots of details.

Introducing.......

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Very Excited

I'm very excited to introduce you to a new project.....stay tuned!

3 Year Old Lines

I love when she says stuff that makes total sense to her. Sometimes I forget that she doesn't actually know what things say or hasn't ever had them before so she isn't sure what they are called. Like the other day, she picked a pack of gummy life savers as her treat, but never actually knew what they were, so when she tried to explain it to Kyle, it was very interesting to me to see how she preceived them. Today she gave me the best line:

"6 Minutes ago I have gone crazy!"

I love it!

It So Wasn't Worth It......

I was craving ice cream, so I talked Kyle into going to .....

First of all, it wasn't the one in Centerville, second, they no longer have my favorite nerd blizzard and Kjerstin was always my partner in crime for blizzards. I should have taken Kyle up on his offer to make me a nerd shake at home. Because it so wasn't worth it.

Dinosaur Park

Just a few pictures from Libbi's trip to the dinosaur park in Ogden with Grandma Cynthia's preschool classes. She had lots of fun and was worn out when she came home from Grandma's tonight. A big thanks to my parents for all they do for us and for her! Libbi says her favorite dinosaurs are the ones that don't have sharp teeth because their toenails are painted!