Crab Omlettes

My brother and his wife live in Alaska.  You know the place where they get fresh shell fish whenever they want.  They know how much my hubby loves crab.  So my brother caught a bunch of crab, cooked it, shelled it, packaged it, and shipped it to my mom - hahaha.  I know right?!  Jared was super jealous.  Lucky for him my mom is the most wonderful person and she has no problem sharing.  So she brought us some.  We made omelettes.   They were amazing.

Fair Week - Part 2

After we saw the home art exhibit we went over to the Sea Life encounters.  They had some baby horse shoe crabs and some small Stingrays that you could touch.  

 After the sea life exhibit the little kids saw these horrible, horrible bubble things.  I am so claustrophobic and I have asthma.  So all I could think was there is no way we will be doing that.  How can anyone breath in there? But Jared is a sucker when it comes to the kids so they asked if they could try it and he couldn't tell them no.  Paige and Lucas both wanted their turn. 

 Paige went first.  Basically they put you in a giant plastic bubble, blow air into it and the roll you over the edge into the water.  Then it's up to you to move around and get yourself around the pool.

 They loved it.  They were only in there for a few minutes but they had a blast.

Next up that night was the City of Fun Carnival.  Typically we go to the carnival during the Ute Stampede, but since Jared was out on rotation during the stampede this year we didn't end up going.  So tonight it was finally our time to go.  I love the Carnival.  Not so much the rides as the food.  I love a good lemonade and a hot funnel cake and just to walk around and watch my kids having a blast. 

Fair Week - Part 1

I can remember the one and only time I ever got a blue ribbon, it was at the Utah County Fair and I was about 13.  I won for my mom's recipe of Root beer Syrup (still a favorite).  My kids were looking through a memory book I have and they saw the ribbon and wanted to know where I got it.  You know those "oh shoot" moments (well maybe I'm the only one who gets them) but  you know the moment when you realize that your kids have never experienced something that you have.  (seriously, I get these little moments all the time).  I have to admit - I have never taken my kids to a County Fair. (insert bad mom).  I decided it would be fun for them to experience the Fair.  So they each picked a project that they wanted to do and entered it into the fair.  They spent a weekend working on their projects and then Monday morning we took them down to the fair and entered them in the home arts exhibit.

Tuesday was the judging and then the fair actually started on Wednesday night.  We went to the fair opening night.  The first place we went was to the exhibit building to see the projects on display.  There were so many wonderful things.  It was nice to walk through and see the amazing talents on display.

We found MaKady's first - she painted a plate and a bowl to match.  She was super excited for her blue ribbon!

Paige's was next.  Her cute little flag painted on canvas.  She worked hard on it.  Trying to get her stars and stripes just the way she had imagined.  The colors were vibrant - and she was happy for her blue ribbon also.

We found Lucas' painting last.  He was so happy to see his painting on display, but he really wanted to take it home that night.  It was a little hard to convince him that he had to leave it out for other people to see - just a few more days.  All the kids in his age group got a participation ribbon.  He was so proud of his painting - he says its "like a forest", then he will change his mind and tell you its "like a dinosaur"  oh "I see a rainbow too".  Can you see all those things?  This kid has some serious talent!

It was fun to watch my kids through this process and see the sense of accomplishment they had when their hard work paid off.  I think this might turn into a yearly thing for them.

Brigham

Last Friday I was feeling kind of home sick.  Not for my house - because you know I have moved over 15 times in my life and my parents have moved that many times as well.  But I was homesick to see my parents and some of my sister's that I don't get to see very often. 

I got off work a little early and loaded the kids up, asked my neighbor if she would feed our fish and water the plants and then we drove the 5 1/2 hours to Brigham City.  We got there in the evening, but it was still light outside.  The first thing my dad said was " Hi, do you want to go for a walk?"  Of course the kids wanted to go, so off we went.  Up a couple of blocks to the main street and then down Main Street, towards the brand new building in Brigham City.



 Oh the Brigham City Temple - is is magnificent.  The detail and care that went into building this temple is amazing.  Like the little beehives carved into the stone on the side.  The round windows that look like giant snow flakes.  The copper baptismal font (there are only 2 in all the temples).

 The fountain in front that they made small so there is no splashing and wasting of water.

 The miniature apple and peach trees, already full of fruit.

 Underground parking

It is really a beautiful temple.  I can't wait to go up for the open house. 

The rest of our weekend was fun to.  We went to Crystal Hot Springs and MaKady, my Mom and I snuck out and went to the cutest little Antique Shop.  We bought some fun hats.

24th of July

Pioneer day was another weird holiday in the middle of the week.  So I worked Monday, then I had Tuesday off for the 24th and then I worked the rest of the week.  Weird (like the 4th of July week).  Jared was gone so we didn't go to Levan as usual.  (we really missed it).  But Hurricane had their own little parade which the primary kids were in and then there were a few booths at the park afterwards.

Waiting for the parade to start - eating donuts for breakfast.

Our bishop, his wife and daughter leading our little primary in the parade.

Paige rode her scooter in the parade which she was mad about afterwards because she wanted me to bring her bike but I didn't.  Anyway....she was happy to be in the parade with her friends.

MaKady and the other young women in our ward working at thier booth.  They were selling water bottles and little flavor packs to put in them.