My Family

So I might just be breaking my blogging record, I'm posting a second time in a week. I know, watch out! Just teasing. I was checking out a lot of other people's blogs and I stumbled on Nick's mission presidents daughter's, Avery. I didn't know her that well, but I've met her a couple of times and liked her. Well she's since been married and has two little kids. Her little girl, maybe a couple of months old, has had some serious heart problems and has Turner's, I'm still not sure what that is. Anyway, so I'm reading her cute posts about how glad she is that her and Bela are home from yet another surgery and long stay in the hospital and how she's looking forward getting things back on track. She gives a list of her daily tasks and the list of times she has to give meds (10 separate times in a day) to Bela. Her posts are always so positive and upbeat, which just makes me feel horribly guilty for my silly complaints about normal life. I'm sure she'd love to just get back to normal and enjoy the stupid things I gripe about. I really am so blessed to have such a wonderful, happy life. I have a fantastic husband and two beautiful, healthy girls. Truly, I do worry all the time about having another baby, what if it's not healthy or what if it needs special care and I'm not able to offer or help with the needs. I know it's stupid, but I worry about that. And then I read Avery's posts and how sweet she is with little Bela and her patience. Not that she'll ever see this, but if you do, Thanks for the reality check Avery! I have so much to be grateful for, and I truly am. I'm not sure my life could get better than this. I have everything I could need and more. And I'm grateful to my Heavenly Father who blesses me with all of these things.

Fall

Fall is here. This makes me both happy and sad. Happy because I love the fall weather. I love football season and I love the leaves changing. Sad, because summer is officially done and I only have snow to look forward to. It's a love/hate relationship for me. I'm excited to go pick pumpkins with my girls and excited for Halloween. But really, does it have to get so cold and miserable? Oh well, what are the options.

Camping

We went camping two weekends in a row, first week down in Manti at the Palisades and the second weekend in Park City. We went to the Palisades for the Powell Family Reunion, we do this every year. And every year it's just as fun. Nick has an awesome family and they're a lot of fun to be with. We got there on Friday and Nick got in 9 holes with his cousins. Then on Saturday he went again in the morning and when he got back the family did the auction. It's a lot of fun, but man, the bidding gets out of control! You end up paying $5 for a glow in the dark bouncy ball, that only really costs 88 cents! But it's all part of the fun. The kids had a lot of fun riding bikes and catching frogs, ewww! I can't figure out how to spell my disgust for those little frogs, it's something along the lines of yuck, blah and gross. Emma was loving it, I'm not sure why. At one time the kids had caught 22 frogs. Why is this so much fun???? Then we pulled out the homemade slip and slide, the kids always love that, and Paula volunteers to hose down the kids while they're sliding. She's so cute with the kids. Then we pulled out the vanilla and chocolate pudding and they did some body painting with it. They enjoyed it a little more than we thought. Averie had her body and hair completely covered in chocolate. At least it'll wash off without staining right? It was a lot of fun to watch though.

That night we watched a slide show that Kelly had put together for the family. It was just the Powell family from very early on and very neat. Kelly did a great job. It was a lot of fun for me to see these pictures of such wonderful people I never got to meet. Thanks Kelly! Sunday morning we rounded things up, said our goodbye's to family until the next year.

Then Friday we were at it again. We went to Park City with our good friends, Dave & Lisa. Bob and Chantal joined us for a little while and the Ruttenburs came up on Saturday to visit. But the first thing on Saturday morning, Emma hops on her bike and decides she's going to take on the little dirt road hill by our spot. So she gets going as fast as she can, and totally eats it. I wasn't there, fortunately Nick and Dave were. She got a bloody nose, fat lip, scraped knee, and a lot of scrapes on her face. Poor Emma. I felt so bad. Her little lip was swollen hurting so bad she said she couldn't even drink her capri sun. :( Well, she learned to be a bit more careful and not so speedy. Overall, we had a lot of fun camping and feel like we are done for this year.