How Crazy is Your Life??

I can't believe it's been almost three weeks since I posted. Time is just flying. I love this time of year!! Especially now that I'm not married to a football coach :-) A few things that have been happening around here:

Brooklin's THREE!!
My baby is already three. I can't believe how she's growning. She's sooo much fun and I can't imagine our family without her. She brings such a sweet spirit into our home. Although many of you know three is much worse than two and we're already feeling it. She's a busy one!!! Most of my day is spent cleaning up messes (15 pounds of flour and sugar mixed together, office cabinets emptied, a witch stamp ALL over my doors - and that's just today!!!). No, she wasn't home alone all day either.
Shayna, Brooklin, Jasmine, Austin Stratton and Saydee Shelley.

As most of you have heard I got put in as primary president last week. Most of my days are at the computer or on the phone while Brooklin redecorates and destroys. I've got just under 100 kids in a ward of 300 (do the math - is that possible?).

We just had parent-teacher conferences. The worst thing Tanner's teacher could think to tell us about him is "I feel sorry for you two, the girls have it BAD for this kid!" Oh boy, I think bad grades would be easier to deal with. He's such a great kid and so much fun to be around.
The three of them making cupcakes for Brooklin's preschool class!!

Shayna was just nominated as Student of the Month for her entire school. She had her picture in the paper and everything!! They do a characteristic each month and her's was attitude. She is getting so grown up and is a lot of help to me. We are so proud of her. Of course, good grades too.

Moab Trip

What a weekend!! I know many of you enjoy our camping trip updates. This one was much less eventful (thank goodness!!!). No property damage, mosquito infestation, near divorces, etc. I'll try to do a day-by-day update:

Thursday: We left right after the kids got out of school. And drove straight to Chinle. Stopped and got a bite to eat and traded kids. This seemed to make the drive go faster if they had new friends to talk to. We got to Moab about midnight...... We took our trailer and stayed in an RV park. It was nearly 1 by the time we got things set up and everyone settled down.

Friday: We were assigned breakfast so we woke up to Patrick's yummy pancakes. Soon after it was off for a family mountain bike ride. I haven't been on a bike ride for probably 10+ years so breaking me in with a 13 mile ride wasn't real easy. The first part was great - ALL down hill. We stopped at Gemini Bridges (awesome place!!!) and then went on. At one point or another Tanner, Shayna and I all had breakdowns. Patrick is absolutely convinced we are all wimps and out of shape and we'll be doing it again next year. That afternoon the kids swam for about 3 hours. Needless to say we were all tired that night and went to bed early - GREAT DAY!!!

Saturday: Patrick got up for his bike ride about 7:00. He made the 74 mile ride!!! We were all quite proud of him. Now he's gearing up for 109 mile ride in Tucson next month. The kids and I slept in til' almost 10 (I love vacation!!!). We got to watch the first session of conference. The kids swam again and we took them all out for pizza. After pizza, the girls went shopping and the boys went and napped and swam (AGAIN!). That evening the guys were off to priesthood.

Sunday: We were able to see the first half of conference. Check out was 11:00 so we had to get on the road. We stopped in Montecillo at the temple, it's small but beautiful of course. Most of the leaves were changing and everything was so pretty. Again, the stop in "beautiful" Chinle and then home.

The weekend was great!!! Such great friends to hang out with. The kids had a blast and we're looking forward to our next trip.