Semi Tuck Cake

Here is yet another lovely cake I just did this week for one of my brother's birthdays. The speed limit sign is his age. He is in the process of getting his CDL, so decided this was fitting. It took him a little bit to realize the side of the truck looks similar to Sage trucking, where he is doing his training.  He thought it was cute, he told me so. :)

Potty Talk

On Sunday was trying to get through a lesson with my sunbeams, which for those who don't know are 3-4 years old. We were talking about Heavenly Father and Jesus creating day and night for us. We talked about what we do during the day, and then what we do during the night. One of my boys said that sometimes he pees in bed and sometimes he doesn't. I asked, trying to not laugh, "It's hard to get it right sometimes isn't it?"
To which he nodded. I kept going thinking that would be the end of it. A couple minutes later, one of my girls said that she used to poop in bed, but not anymore, so now she gets to wear underwear. I had to turn my face away to keep from laughing outright. I just said that was good and moved on.
The thing I'm learning from this age range is they don't have filters. I hear things all the time that if their parents knew, they'd be embarrassed.  I just laugh it away. And I laugh now because I don't have kids yet. I'm sure it won't be nearly as funny when my kids repeat things I say.

Really? REALLY?!?!

I was just barely talking with a friend from high school. I congratulated her on her new baby and how big her other child is getting. She thanked me and said her older child feels so heavy because she hasn't been able to carry them for a while. Her next comment was.

When are you having babies?

  

I sat there, knot in my stomach, staring at the screen thinking, really? REALLY?!?!?

I just tried to keep it light so I said, I don't know, never?

LOL why not?

 

 Really? REALLY?!?!!??!?!?

I just said it hasn't happened in the last 4 years, it probably won't happen anytime soon.

(Again trying to keep it light-hearted, struggling at this point)

I guess I'll have to start taking people's kids when they offer them.

 :( I'm sorry. There's always adoption.

 I am fuming at this point. You think we haven't thought of that? I'm not ready to let go of biological children, which I need to do first be fore adopting a child. We can't afford the adoption process or any other kinds of processes at the moment. Just because having kids is as easy as blinking for you.

I of course don't say that. If we had been talking in person I might of, but thankfully internet helps me from killing people.

So instead I make another joke from it and say,

"more cats?"

Don't get me wrong. I'm not angry at her really. I'm just frustrated with the situation in general.
 I don't always bawl at diaper commercials. Or Rice krispies commercials. Or when I see pregnant women. Or when I'm in Primary. Or when someone asks when were having kids. Or every month. Or in Walmart. Or when someone announces on Facebook their having their "umteenth" child that was a complete surprise. Or when I play with any of my nieces or nephews.

  

I'm usually calm around people.

And don't freak out.

I know I need to

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."

Proverbs 3:5

But some days I just want to punch people in their oh-so-perfect, baby-making parts.

Portland Trip

Roy's sister, Rachel, had moved to Portland, OR in Oct. 2010. She had gone to help their sister, Ane, who had just had her baby girl, Max. We went up with Roy's parents to move her back in March 2011.

 Roy's parent's drove the van back. Rachel, Roy and I rode in the car.

 Multnomah Falls. After we went there, they had filmed an

episode of Grimm there. Very cool.

 The bridge was just beautiful. I loved it.

 Awesome tree.

 Sign on the tracks.

 Picture I took of my in-laws, Robin and Robin. Yes, They both

have the same name. :)

I love how it worked with the reflections.

Pearson Reunion 2011

For the reunion we went to Island Park. A few of us

decided to go through Yellowstone one day. Of course,

it's the only time I remembered to get out my camera.

I love Roy's face. I told him I didn't want a goofy picture.

 My nephew, Elias, playing with his Thomas the Train.

He thought the negative setting on my phone was cool.

 Some little thing I can't remember any of the names.

Roy's brother, Ben, being... well, himself. :)

 Me with my umbrella. I got weird looks, but I'm white.

 Mud pit thing. Roy is going to be so thrilled with my

names for things.

I know this one. Buffalo. Probably the best thing to see.

 A Waterfall. This was near the end of the trip. I didn't hike down.

In the van behind us were Roy's brother, Ben, and his daughter

Ellie. There was also Roy's sister, Ane, her daughter, Max,

and her nephew, Taylor.

 Here they are again in our backup camera. Roy's dad, Robin,

rode with us. We were going so slow leaving the park

that we were relaying snacks between vehicles.

See? Slow.

 Fastest we went for about a hour.

Reason was there were about 10 of these large bellowers

walking down the rode. It was funny, at one point a guy in a WY pickup

went around everyone and the buffalo. Then the people 

in front of us got the idea to go around.

 The moon coming up as we FINALLY got out of Yellowstone.

It was fun to get together last year. We were sad we didn't make it

to Provo, UT for this years reunion. Maybe we'll get to Oregon

for next years, but I have an inkling we probably won't. :(

Ninja Chick

Made this chick a couple years ago. I was staying at my sister's, Amber, house while Roy was away on a business trip. We made Chicks for easter. My brother, Luke, also came over and made one. i only have a picture of mine though.

More Nail Art

 

We Not in Kansas Anymore?

April 6th was just another of our windstorms that rip everything apart. i look out the living room window and see our pool floater going passed our drive way. I've never put shoes on/run down the road so fast my entire life.This is a picture I got off walmart's website so you can visualize how big that sucker was. Also figure it being covered in smelly, algae-based mud. A nasty orange color. Reminds me a lot of the color we painted the house on Logan St. growing up.

 

i wedge this floater in the screen down so it doesn't take off again so I can open the garage. Well, now that I'm no longer running like a mad woman I notice this.

Our swimming pulled wrapped around the tree. We were going to take it down that day when Roy got home from work.... stupid wind. Ended up Having my brother, DJ, come and haul it to the dump for us after it sat like that for a few months. he also hauled out the carpet that had been in our ditch since before we moved in. When we were picking it up, a mouse jumped out. I scream and threw the nasty carpet down and couldn't even get close to it for a few minutes. DJ jumped as when, he said it was because I squealed, but I know he doesn't care for rodents either.
DJ and Jared were able to come and help us dig ditch this summer as well. I'm really thankful they did because everywhere around our house has enormous rocks. Including a lot of the rocks that were part of the church that used to be here. Some much work. :P

Girl's Camp Decorations

I know that it has been quite a while. Missed me?

This summer I was called to be the Assistant Camp Director. Here are the decorations for our camp(minus the old satellite dish I wrote free WiFi on. it was funny how many people thought we really did have internet in our camp.) We were celebrating 100 years of Girl's camp this year so each ward was assigned a decade. We were 2000's and so we were all about technology. I just want to say thanks to my lovely hubby who cut my signs for me.

 More bars in more places.

 As I said previously, all about technology. Our Skit was about Napoleon Dynamite, and Kip loves technology. I'll have to post more pictures from camp once I get copies.

 We had three tents for the girls. Each one was labeled with a type of social networking site. Here we have MySpace.

 Twitter.

 And Facebook.

I crocheted some letters to make some text messages (just in case you don't know what they stand for: Best Friends Forever, Laugh Out Loud, and I Don't Know) but didn't end up using them. We had no trees around our campsite to fasten anything to. Hopefully next year we have a better spot. With shade. And where another camp doesn't continually walk through the middle of ours.

 

This was the sign for the entrance to our camp. It was by our water spigot. I search the internet for the iPod silhouettes to find just ones of girls. I used the iron on transfers. I might use them again. They were really easy.

Pumpkin Carvings

My Pumpkin

Roy's Pumpkin

Happy Halloween!