the white house at the right time

I am pretty sure Madalyn and I came up with the word "vidiot."  If words made money, this would definitely be a million dollar word.   By our definition, a vidiot is someone who plays so many video games they are an idiot for spending so much time online.   I really ought to submit it to the urban dictionary because I think it has resonance for a lot of people, especially moms.    Lately, the boys have been playing a game where they link up into a clan. A clan acts like a family by helping the other person out.   However, last night Cayleb got so mad at Cayden he blurted with vehement resolve,  "Cayden you are such a brat I am not going to be a part of your clan anymore."  Uh, apparently that is some huge threat. Vidiots!  

It  was a little like the movie Groundhog Day. The first day of school, over, and over, and over, and over.   First, Cayleb on July 25. Naturally it would make sense to start school on the day after a statewide holiday, the 24th of July, that celebrates with parades, all day activities, and late night fireworks. Of course.   So we got up early for Makenzy's first 5k on the parade route of the Days of '47 parade, watched the parade, came home and bbq'd, then drove up to Midway for shakes and fireworks over Deer Creek. The drive is worth the bursting color above and on the placid reservoir.  Kid went to bed at 11:30. But he was ready come morning! Excited for a new start.         Then my baby started a week later, on an early out day. Kindergartners get tested the first week of school.  It is basically to make sure all 3 years of preschool tuition have paid off or at least t...

Our escape during the incessant inversion.  Park City and the Sundance Film Festival. Even Randy couldn't resist getting outdoors finally and playing around in the sun and true blue skies. We had Stake Conference this day. Stake Conference use to mean I would grumble about the efficacy of me attending at all.  I usually ended up out in the hall. Reading the announcements boards. Pointing to the pictures on them and reading the notices with such enthusiasm hoping to convince my little ones there really was something pinned up to that board that should hold their attention. What 2 year old doesn't want to go on a Klondike? Plan for the an upcoming stake dance? Or finish up their degree at BYU online? I remember wanting to boycott church meetings all together will my little ones in tow and Randy up on the stand. Yes,  I had been admonished that the sleep deprived baby days would go by fast.  Fast?  At the time it seemed one of the most ridiculo...

After living in Maple Valley for a couple years, I still have a piece of WA in me.  I love my home here and being closer to family.  However, part of me wakes up wanting a misty day, cooler temps, towering trees and being close to some of my good friends in MV.  So when I check the weather and news online I make a quick click over to Seattle too just to see what is going on there too.  I know.  It is weird.  To check news and weather in a place I don't even live.  But part of my heart and who I am is still there.  Bizarre and quirky but me. If weather casts were like rock, paper, scissors, then Utah would win almost always.  But lately, Seattle's milder temps definitely cut through the inversion and freezing weather we've been having.  KSL WEATHER (SLC) today: Brrr! VERY cold air this morning along the Wasatch Front and across the state. Well below zero in many high elevation valleys this morning, and near zero in the lower val...

"It felt like I was in a snow globe that someone just kept shaking." That pretty much summed up the first real snow storm of the season. We had over a foot of snow. And loved it! Minus the constant in and out of wet boots and accompanying puddles, soaked socks, and twenty pair of dripping gloves piled up by the back door. Snow means hats, boot, and gloves, and of course a snowman to guard the front yard. Cayden told me my snowman looked more like a pumpkin than a snowman. Madalyn said so too. We are still in fall mode, since pumpkins and fall wreath still adorn the front steps. Then they both said, "Mom, try making a turkey." So the kids and I got a little creative and made what we are sure must be one of the first snow turkey's ever!  Pretty proud of our significant contribution to world history ;) Gobble, gobble you might see this on google! We knew for sure people could tell it was a turkey when someone leaving church on Sunday stopped t...