Now We Just Need a Motor

We finally got Dad's boat together. It's come along way since he boat almost a year ago. the trailer was bent and didn't have any lights and the wood on the boat was all rotted. Josh started by getting new wood for the motor mount and sanding the old side boards when I took it over. I took it to Dad's house stained the mount boards and cut the tongue off the trailer. Dad welded a new tongue on and ran the wires for the lights. I painted the trailer and wired the lights up. When i tried to hook up the back corner braces, I found that the side boards were bad and needed to be replaced. Klint hooked us up with some sweet oak boards that he cut to custom dimensions for us, thanks Klint. Then I mounted them back to the boat and it only took all of the smaller clamps that dad and mom had which was 18 by the way and It's back on. I finished staining them this weekend and we picked the motor up from Josh's and we just have to give a tune-up hopefully and it will be ready in time for "Ice-off." Not going to get to it this weekend though we plan on going to Bass Pro Shops and look for new Fishing Poles so we don't have to put up with the Iron Man thing closing all the roads off.

Pipe Springs Trip

We decided that since we have this park pass that we should use it and go to as many places as we can and we haven't been to Pipe Springs for as long as we can remember. It did turn out to be the fee free weekend so we didn't really need a pass anyway. It was okay Sydney got to play with a horse and quack like a duck. We were even privileged to have our own private tour of Windsor Castle it was kinda of awkward. We think there might have been one of Benjamin Frederick Blake's chairs there but we're not sure.

River Trip Info

I have posted information about a river trip in June on my rafting blog. For those interested please click on my super cool Paddle Oar Die Button to the right.

Gum Cut?

So yesterday Sydney paper cut her pinkie on something she doesn't know what but,

"It hurt bad!"

she said. This morning she was trying to get some gum and gum cut her finger on the tin foil (we know how she paper cut herself this time).

"It hurts bad!"

she said.

Tea Party

I had an assignment for a class to attend something political, so today I went to the Tea Party for the Republican party at Bluff Street Park. It was rumored that Sarah Palin was going to be there, but she wasn't :(. I've never been to anything like this in my life! It was definitely an experience I will always remember. And oh man are there some crazy people out there!

CNN was there, although I did not see them.
Me with the Tea Party bus.

There were a lot of people.

Me and Moe partying it up while wearing our anti-abortion pins:)

It was quite an experience!

Getting value out of my time off

So, since I worked 74 hrs last week and that I've 0 hrs this week I thought it would be a good idea to get some use of my time off hrs that I'm having to use. Sydney and I decided to go to Zion and get one of those "America the Beautiful" passes, Marilyn gave us one for Christmas and we decided to get it now. I'm a little bummed that the picture on the card is of some birds and not Nankoweap, but what do you do?





But it was really cool because normally you don't get to see the water running down the dry creek bed. The top three pictures are from a hike that isn't a park hike. You just go off the roadside on the other side of the tunnels. The bottom picture is a panoramic picture that I made of the view from the Canyon Overlook Trail. You start just east of the big tunnel.

Sleep-Over in Progress

It's a new tradition at our house to have the boys over for a sleep-over when they come to St. George to stay. It's always lots of fun:)

Christmas Cactus

Sydney got the best Christmas present from her dad ever last Christmas, a couple of starts of her Great Great Grandma's Christmas Cactus. I decided to put it on Grandpa Gene's magazine table, and with the sun and Sydney's love it likes to bloom. It blooms a lot this is at least the third time since we've had it. She's waiting for it to get a little stronger to switch it to a new pot, maybe next Christmas.

Syd's New Ring

Sydney received the valentine gift of her life this past valentines day.
Here's a picture what do you think?

Sydney has been hounding me for the past year and a half or so, by holding up her hand and saying,

"look at my ring it isn't symmetrical, wouldn't it look nice with another band?"

She has also been saying that she would love some solitaire diamond earrings. This year for valentines day I thought i could use some of the tax refund to buy her one of the two things that she really wanted. I also needed to make up for the pee funnel birthday present, or so I was told. So I went to the mall on one of my many no work days that I've been having (at least until this week I have 64.5 hrs this week), and compared prices of the two things. They were very similar price, but it was becoming hard to find the same style of band, so I thought that I would buy the one that would stop being made, you can always by diamond earrings. Well the ring had to be shipped in from Indiana or somewhere and the arrival date was the 16th. Being afraid that the ring wouldn't make it on time I put the receipt in the valentine that I made Sydney, and she could tell there was a piece of paper in it and said,

"Why would I want a piece of paper for valentines day?"

Anyway, the ring came on time and I went and got when she was thrift shopping with her family. Valentines day morning I still gave her the receipt and she opened it and looked at and couldn't figure out what the receipt was supposed to be for. Then I threw the ring at her, and it made my Sunday nice because she was speechless for most of the day:).

Remember that bag I made?

Someone was very happy to get it!

Happy (almost) Birthday to my sister Kristy!

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celebrity - Collage - Morph

And then I added something special

What do you think? It's on a pin, so it's removable. Should I leave it on or take it off?

Aren't I Crafty???

I made this little combo for someone's birthday, but I will not say who. I was so proud of myself that I decided to post about it. There is also a wallet to go with the bag. Please don't look too closely. My machine wigged out during the buttonhole so it's not the greatest.

And there is a sweet little pocket inside the bag for the wallet.
Aren't I crafty???

Coincidentally, I also had my first accident with my rotary cutter. Don't ask my how I managed to cut the knuckle of my thumb, but I did. I bought my rotary cutter and some refill blades and a ruler and mat for with my birthday money:) I love it, but I knew this would happen sooner or later. I'm just glad I didn't lose a finger;)

My Husband is a Carhartt Advertisment (and other Logan news)

(Here he is pictured in his Carhartt coat, hat, and pants working on his hitch)

As we all know, Logan has a somewhat obsessive personality. When we were dating it was stuff at Cash's house, like the bench he redid, the trench they dug, and Granny's swing. Then there were the Halo days. Then power tools. His TV. BluRays. The list goes on and on. Luckily, his obsessions usually change when I am nearing my breaking point. Anyway, his new obsession is his hitch, Lady Gaga's Bad Romance and Carhartt clothing.

A couple of weeks ago Logan wanted a new Carhartt coat. We went to IFA and found one he really liked, but as most of you know, Logan is worse than a woman when it comes to shopping. We had to go to Sportsmans and finally to Cal Ranch in Cedar City. He finally decided on the original one at IFA in St. George. Well, long story short, we got there just in time to see a lady snatch it up and carry it around the store clutched to her chest.

Logan's favorite present by far was his hitch. Who knew that buying him a hitch would lead to so many other purchases? First we had to buy the ball thing and then the electric stuff (I swear no one actually has the electric stuff in Sevier County). He has big dreams of a trailer and fixing his dad's boat.

About Lady Gaga. My sister was able to find the exact ringtone he wanted but in a dance remix version. This satisfied the need to search for ringtones, but not he need to sing it incessantly:)

This is my life.