A frivolous buy

My Sister in law, Becky and I were at the D.I. in Brigham City a couple of weeks ago when I spotted this little wrought iron out-door table. These chairs were close to it and had a similar design so I picked them up, having visions dancing in my head of the endless possibilities offered by revamping them all. Before.

The finished product. Cost (this is my favorite part.) Table: $8 Chairs: $2 each. Fabric: $4. Paint: $3. Now I don't have anywhere to put it but it was sure fun to do and it only took a couple of hours. My next project is making a doll house for Clare. David is going to help me of course. He is the saw man. I'm too chicken to use the table saw and he has the practical knowledge about how to put it all together. I'm so excited!

The Big One That Almost Got Away

Before we left Mantua we had to go to the reservoir and fish. I took the kids to play in the water. Clare is my little mermaid and Hyrum is my Sand kid.

Nothing like having cool buns while eating a delicious snack.

David would never forgive me if I didn't post a picture of the big large-mouth bass he caught on Monday before we came home from camping. He caught this big guy off the shore and then the fish swam right into a thick fog of moss. David had to wade into the lake up to his waist to get the fish because his line was about to break and he WASN'T going to let this one get away. Yay Dave!

Of Bugs and Slugs and Slimy Things

We had planned to go camping at a campground near Bear Lake this weekend but it got cancelled at the last minute because the weather turned bad. It got down into the 30's up in the mountains and even snowed one day. We were so bummed. Well, we decided Sunday afternoon to go camping in Mantua with David's sister Becky and her family. We packed up our stuffed and headed up. We had a lot of fun in the mountains eating, playing in the creek, and talking around the camp fire. It was a little more difficult at bed-time. Hyrum WOULD NOT sleep in the tent. So at 11:00pm we finally packed up his crib and he and I headed down the canyon to sleep in the comfort of Becky's house. aaahhh. We probably won't do another over-night camping trip for a while. David tossing Hyrum up in the air. I'm biting my fingernails and trying not to look. Hyrum is having the time of his life. Hmmmm he's scared stiff of a carousel ride but loves being tossed 20 feet into the air. I don't understand.

David did a great job scraping up enough firewood for us to keep snuggly warm the whole time. This was really impressive because there isn't a whole lot out there and we weren't going to buy any from the camp host. (The charge $6 a bundle for firewood!)

Tyler, Natalie, and Clare found a slug down by the creek and it became their little slimy pet. They passed it around and if it moved......Hot diggity! That's when the fun really began. They also had a pretty good bug collection going.

This is where you would find Hyrum 80% of the time. He LOVES Becky's dog "Sadie". He hugged and tackled and snuggled and pulled and poked her the whole time and Sadie took it like a champ. Bless her little doggie heart.

Phants

We went to Hogle Zoo on Saturday. We've been wanting to go all summer but were waiting for a good time and weather that wasn't blazing hot. We got our wish. Since we couldn't go camping up at Bear Lake (it was snowing) like we had originally planned, we decided to take advantage of the free saturday and go. We had a lot of fun looking at the animals, eating cotton candy, and watching the really cool bird show. The really cute baby giraffe. He looked so small when we were further away and his mom was right by him. When we got closer however, we saw that he was actually about as tall as David is. Wow! Glad I don't have to give birth to that!

Both my handsome guys. What a lucky gal I am.

It may look like Hyrum is having fun here. He's not. Both kids were terrified of the carousel. Clare wouldn't ride on any of the animals period. The only reason Hyrum is on one is because he was too scared to put up a fight. :)

One of Clare's favorite animals was the elephant or "phants" as she called him. There was also a brand new baby elephant but they don't let him out for public view yet.

Clare and David looking at the Elephants.

Coming and Going, but Mostly Staying Put

We have had lot going on and like a moron I didn't take pictures. Here it is in a nut shell. My Mom and Dad came up last weekend to visit. We had a wonderful time garage-sale-ing, picking apricots, going to the Preston-night rodeo. Mom watched the kids for us so David, Dad, and I could go. Bless her heart! Thanks Mom. We were also able to see my Brother's family for a few hours on their way back to Oregon. Good times. David found a swing at one of the Garage sales that we went to and he and my Dad rigged it up to swing on one of the pine trees in the back yard. The kids have LOVED IT! Besides that it's been Doctor's appointments, birthday parties, meeting with realtors and other fun stuff. I don't even know if you can see anything in the picture. But if you could, you would see a huge grin on Clare's face and if you could hear a picture, She would be giggling her adorable little giggle.

Hyrum in the New Swing