GivesMeHope

I scan through the harry potter mugglenet site every once in awhile. Recently they've been putting up little excerpts from the site givesmehope.com. This story was posted on here so a went to the website and came across several others. They just make me smile.

"Today, I was walking in a dog park. I reached this really steep hill, and noticed someone rolling down it, laughing the whole way. At first I passed it off as a just a kid. Then I noticed that it was a woman at least 60 years old, and that her husband was waiting at the bottom of the hill to catch her"

Grade "A" hiking

This morning I finally got up and went hiking. Although it wasn't as early as I should have gone I still woke up Adam Amberly and Alyssa, the triple A's", and we drove up to the number hill. Our quest? To hike to the big A. At first we had no clue where the trail was, it just looked like a water runnoff and then just like someone had decided to climb some rocks. But it was the trail, and wow was it steep. I remember hiking it with my dad when I was younger and thinking it was so long, but I didn't remember it being steep. Maybe I just confused long with steep. After several breaks we did make it up just as the sun hit the top of the hill.

The Triple A's Sitting on the A

Admiring the veiw

In attempt to capture the glamorous picture that didn't turn out. Amberly didn't get the memo

One of the paintbrushes they used got paint glued.

When the excitement of reaching the A ran out, we decided to go to the B. It's not that easy and there is a downhill and then going up and around another so we decided just to go to where we could see the B, the highest point of the Number Hill. Amberly was too tired and wanted to stop so we left her sitting on a rock while Adam and Alyssa and I went to the top. We took too long taking pictures and exploring, and found a new way down that was easier than the steep trail we had come up. As Amberly was hiking up I took this picture.

Standing on a lonely tall thin rock

Superheroes vs. the villain

On the road that we finally found that ended up going around TWO hills the triple A's found several items: Alyssa's broom "fan", Adam's bead type thing, and Amberly's pocket knife.

Catching up, Happy B-Day Adam!

I really haven't updated in about forever, but since I had a fun time and had time to blog I decided I would update just a little bit since I was browsing as I was organizing pictures and came across some of Adam's birthday pictures. His cake was pretty much the best cake I have ever made thanks to theidearoom.blogspot.com. I love to look at blogs and they always take me to other blogs and I saw this cake and it just made me happy. So Mom and I made it behind Adam's back (even with him around ;) I had tons of fun making it and eating it. Super yummy. We used a homeade Bonnie Butter cake recipe and although adding in so much food coloring was a little gross, it was fun to see all the colors stacked on top of each other. I had so much fun making it, even if it took practically all day like all of my cooking adventures. Making it was fun, eating it was fun (even if we did have to share each piece) and even cleaning it up was fun. The six layer cake!

Eating the colors of the rainbow

"Taste the Rainbow"

I would have had more pictures but the minute I uploaded them on here they completely lost their quality.

"Do the Chickens Have Large Talons?" N.D.

Today Heidi went back to Logan but before she left we took pictures with our chicks. Of all the animals we have (excluding the dogs and cats) I think I like the chickens the most.

Princess really likes to play ball

Trying to make the chicken give Heidi a 'kiss'

Chasing ducks

Cute

Camera Curious

Fourth of July

Happy Independence Day! It started with a flag raising ceremony at the RV Park at 7:00 a.m. I had watched Inkheart (such an awesome movie) and then afterward stayed up talking with Heidi the night before and was now super tired. After the ceremony there was cinnamon rolls and orange juice and after visiting a while I went home and got completely ready for the day. Then the parade was ready. It was really long but nothing I thought was too fabulous. We get more turnouts for Atomic days than we do for 4th of July.

One of our two floats

An Inchworm that was just looking around on mom's shoulder. We took it off and I put it in the flowers. I wanted to keep it around in a jar but I thought I would probably enjoy it more if it was happy outside

After the parade the day was pretty boring and uneventful. Lunch was good old fashion hotdogs(yuck!) and then everyone crashed. Except Adam, Amberly and me. A bike ride sounded nice because of the great day outside. Amberly and I took the bikes and Adam rode behind us on the four wheeler out to our version of box canyon. There are two different spots we have gone to so far. One is better without water and the one we went to today was fun to jump across all the rocks, avoiding the water as best we could. I wished I was more like Farid on Inkheart who could do practically anything without over thinking it. I had a hard time jumping from rock to rock, afraid I couldn't reach it, or losing my balance and slipping into the manure infested waters. But once I jumped it was easier to do the next few times. Looking at it was hard, but doing was easy. As a storm brewed behind us we decided it was best to head home. Adam and I sang our lungs out and as we were heading up a hill a snap resounded. I looked behind me and the chain on Adam's bike broke. We strapped it to the back of the fourwheeler and Ihad to stand up while driving the next two miles. It was quite the adventure.

The Forces of Hail

For the Fourth of July parade the Mountain Veiw :D Rv park made a float. I had gone in with Cody and as a result of feeding him so he wasn't grumpy we were stuck in the cafe because of a hail storm. There were several piles of it and lots of the hail pieces were the size of marbles. These are the pictures they took at home, I sadly didn't have a camera.

After finally being able to get out to the garage, we put the float together by painting banners and a tp. When most of it was done and Jackie was gone to work we all started goofing off, starting with Adam, of course. We had a broom and a couple sticks which usually results in acting like we can fly them and sword fighting.

Rain, Rain

ƸӜƷ This rain is so fabulous. 15 days in a row! It's so exciting. It reminds me so much of England and green feilds. The feild next to us is nicely growing into tall green plants that make our little valley so beautiful. I'm so grateful for all this moisture and don't care a bit if it rains more. In fact if the sun is shining I get kind of annoyed.