The Best of Times and The Worst of Times.

A CRAZY WEEK......
Fortunately Sandy agreed to fly back with the kids and I from our trip to Utah. The flight was a MESS! We sat on the runway forever, waiting to take off. The plane was so hot Ava started screaming and sweat was running down her face. Then Ian was trying to close the window shade and every time he would pull it down it would pop back up about a 1/3 of the way. He kept doing it over and over, until he got so frustrated he started crying too. Sandy and I just looked at each other and started laughing. What else could you do? Once we got up in the air the lady across the isle immediately ordered some vodka and a bloody Mary mix. Who can blame her sitting across from us? As we were waiting to take off our brakes kept squeaking and we thought when we landed we would go flying through the fields around the airport here with corn flying past our windows, but thankfully we made it safely.
Then on Sunday Dustin and Sandy both woke up with the flu I brought back from Utah. So now I've got 2 adults puking their guts out and 2 other kids to take care of. I felt so bad I got them sick.
So Monday Sandy and I decide to turn things around. We are going to paint a wall in each of the kids bedrooms and make cute curtains for their room. We go and get the supplies and get a great deal on paint that was returned to Lowes. Also we found some cute sheets to make a duvet cover for my bed.
Tuesday we get up, get everything painted and it looks great. Sandy gets the curtains done and they look So cute. Ian kept saying "Blue wall", He absolutely loved it. Then the worst happens. The paint can was sitting on the living room floor and Ava dumps it over. Blue paint everywhere! She's sitting in the middle of it, playing in it with her hands and feet. I pulled into the garage just as it happens and I hear Sandy scream. After hours of scrubbing we decide there is no hope, it has to be replaced. Luckily there was a spare piece in the garage.
The next day, I believe, I kind of got my days mixed up. Anyway, Dustin got into an argument with our creepy landlord over the grass, and now we feel like he is always sneaking around watching us. Super Creepy. To top it off we have pot smokers who live behind us and we can totally smell it. So we decide it is time to move.
That night we get on craigs list and immediately find a house, which is rare in the Tri Cities. So we go check it out and decide we want it. Then we realize we now have to paint over the walls we just painted and made so cute. UGH! But we realized how blessed we are that all this fell into place. That a house was put on Craigs List the very day we needed one. It's funny how life happens some time. Thanks Sandy for a Crazy Fun week. Oh I forgot also this week we put Bitter Nail polish on Ian's nails to get him to stopped sucking on his fingers. Well it worked, but have you ever seen a person in drug rehab? I think this was a similar experience. He was totally having with drawls and was super whiny. If you ever have to wean your kids from finger sucking do it when you don't have company it town.

24th of July

The kids and I went to Panguitch and Duck Creek for Pioneer Day. We had a small family reunion on my side. (Just the immediate family). I flew out on a Sunday and thought I was going to have an anxiety attack, just thinking about flying by myself. Fortunatly the kids were great on the plane. I stayed in Vegas for a few days, then drove up to Duck Creek, Madison and Nicole, (my neices) rode up with me. Ian wanted to play baseball the whole time, and Grandpa Tom taught him how to stand correctly and how to hold the bat.

He also went for a few four wheeler rides, I think he looks like a bobble-head.

Ava enjoyed crawling around on the porch in the super nice weather.

Ava and Carson with Grandpa Tom. Can you believe there is about a 4 pound difference between these two, and Carson is only 2 months old and Ava is 13 months?

Ian at the parade. Thankfully Madison was there to help him get some candy before all the older kids got it all.

This is most of the family. We are missing Jacob, Tate, Cari, and Dustin.

I think it is impossible to have 24 grandkids sit still long enough to get a photo. It was sort of a disaster.

Bryson took these cool photos when we had a bonfire and roasted marshmallows one night at the cabin.

I LOVE this one of the Old People, we had a blast out there listing to their bear stories.

On Sunday morning we found "Tuffy Bird" It was baby bird whose mom died flying into the window. It was amazing how tame it was. Ian and Tori Loved her.

Tuffy eating out of Ian's hand.

Ava even got to pet it.

Other random snapshots from Panguitch....

My parents have the best neighbors ever, Rob and Lori Veater. One day Ian saw Rob out driving "Frank", You know the Combine tractor from Cars? Well every day he would ask to go see Frank. So one day we went over to ask Rob to see Frank. He answered confused, "Who's Frank". We explained to him who it is and gladly he took in to see Frank. I think this was the highlight of his whole trip!

Rob even let him get inside....

After he got back down, he kept stroking the front of it, saying "Frank, Frank". It was hillarious.

Overall we had a great 2 weeks in Utah. We were glad to get home to Dustin though.