Labor Day Weekend {2009}

Scott was playing in a softball tournament and I have never been there so we packed up the family and spent Labor Day weekend in good ole Snowflake, AZ. It rained off and on all weekend, but it was still beautiful!

After church on Sunday we went to see the Snowflake temple. It sits so beautifully on top of the hill and you can see it from the whole town. It is still a goal of mine to attend a session there one of these days.

While Scott played softball...The kids played...

The weather was awesome and made it hard to come home.

The kids played in the creek and caught crawdads.

I am LOVING this chair!

Seriously?!?!?!?

I know it's time to clean the bathroom, but come on!!!

Are they even getting any of it in their mouths???

Dirtbags Summer Gathering

This last weekend we had the annual (well for the last 2 years alteast) dirtbag getaway to Prescott where one of the dirtbags lives. We just camp out (when I say we I mean the dads and kids:)) in the backyard. We had pizza at a park where there were bees, mesquitos and.....

tarantulas!

It was the real wilderness! The kids seriously caught this in the parking lot of the park. I have never seen one of these in the wild.

Of course we stayed up way too late playing games and having lots of laughs!

The next morning we had a yummy breakfast thanks to Ryan and Krista. Then we ventured to the local farmer's market-I wish we lived closer so I could've bought some of the produce.

We headed home after that, but the rest of the group headed to a lake and canoed and hiked.

It was great to get away! It was still hot, but definitely not as hot as the valley so it was nice.

Thanks for having us Ryan and Krista!!!

Dirtbags 2nd generation...

The adults...

Macey 4 $treasurer$! oops I mean VP

Macey wanted to run for student council (she wants to do after school choir too-how do I stop this??? she wants to do everything!). I remembered those days when I was the secretary , but that was 6th grade! At Simonton they were letting 4th and 5th graders run since there are no 6th graders at their school this year.

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So, the paper came home and I had Macey discuss it with her dad. He signed the paper and later told me that they discussed her running for $treasurer$ so we built a "campaign" all around being treasurer. Well, when Macey's teacher read the ballot to the class the day before the preliminary election Macey's name was under Vice President so of course I had to contact the teacher in charge of student council and fugure out what was going on. Apparently, it had definitely been marked Vice President (that's what happens when 8 yr olds and dads fill out papers I guess). Basically, we had to choose from running against 17 other kids as treasurer (which is funny because she chose treasurer thinking not many people would run for that and that had the highest number of people!) and having the teachers hand edit the ballots or run against 12 other kids as VP and hope that the name recognition would be enough because all of the posters and stuff said treasurer not VP. Macey chose to take the option that had less competition, but probably a tougher competition once we found out who else was running for VP.

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So, the next morning I was editing posters and printing new stickers for her to hand out. She made it through the preliminary elections which brought it down to 4 kids in each category.

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Then it was speech time. We practiced and practiced and she said she did good so then it was just the waiting game.

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We were heading out of town and had to pull Macey out of school early so we had to rely on other people texting me the results and we were happy to find out that Macey WON!!!!!

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Her first order of business was assisting the fundraiser people with the prizes during the assembly-which she was happy to do! I am glad she won and will get this experience!

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As a side note for journaling purposes: Scott was put in as the Young Men's President about a month ago and is in heaven. He loves the boys. Now all of the boys he had as Deacons are Priests so it is fun for him to be with them again. Now he has to get them all on missions which is a huge responsibility and one he does not take lightly. I know he will be awesome! Scott is totally a kid at heart and the boys respond well to him too. One of them was even "raising the roof" when it came time to raise their hands to sustain him.

Private Blogs

So if you look overe here

I have a private blog list because I follow blogs on Google Reader (best invention ever) and I can't follow private blogs there (well I am trying something but either way I need you address again :) ) so I have to click on them individually on the list to the right.

As you can see there is only one blog listed there. I accidentally erased my lists when I switched blog backgrounds a while back.

Soooo, if you read my blog and have a private blog that I am invited to read will you remind me of your blog address so that I can keep up with you and your happenings:) Email me at

smw4967 {at}yahoo {dot}com.

And if I don't already have an invite I'd love one!

My brain just can't retain this kind of information anymore especially with so many people I know going private lately so a little help woul be great!

THANKS!!!!

It's a....

YES its a bow, but NO it's not a girl! It's an inside joke for those who were at the hospital awaiting this cute guys arrival-the bow just had to be documented hahahahahaha.

This was my baby sister's first baby and during labor she swore she would never do it again and I wouldn't be surprise if she was telling the truth since she already has 7 other step kids.

After the long ordeal of her induction (more like just waiting for the dr to quite getting called to emergencies so that she could break her water) she finally had him Sunday night and he will be sharing my brother Toby's b-day. He was smaller than they thought he would be weighing in at 7lbs 5oz.

Congrats to Shannon and Dustin!

now the real fun begins!