Spilling the Beans: July 2010

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Ahh, the 'Mammoth' P-rade

After getting off a night-shift, waking Scott and the boys up when I got home at 4 am we drove down to Fairview where Scott and I ran the 5K...then after a shower at his parent's motel room we went back to Uncle Vaughn's for our prime seat for the p-rade. These are the best, they still throw candy at these p-rades, I do believe I was nodding off throughout the whole thing, but caught my share of derby cars, emergency vehicles, and pageant princesses. After that I went back to the motel and crashed while the boys stayed for the BBQ and opening of the time capsule we put in the grainary cellar. We ended up leaving for home while everyone else went up the mountain--we wish we would have stayed, but alas I needed sleep!

Monday, July 12, 2010

View Photos from Freedom Run - America's Freedom Festival at Provo

Saturday, July 10, 2010

My idea of camping

I found this awesome firepit at Sundance and while I am not a "camper" per se, I wanted to give it a trial run, so we set-up our tent and had a camp-out in the backyard, the boys did well and we all got some sleep.

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Cub Scout Day Camp @ Camp Fife...the boys had a blast!!!

They were able to do archery, a dirt bike course, zip line, relay race and were able to spend cold-hard cash in the camp store.

Monday, July 05, 2010

Let Freedom Ring

The "3rd" of July was fun, Scott was in Vee Dub heaven,--he decorated 'Oscar' and lined-up with the rest of the club to be in the Kaysville Parade. The holiday weekend just kept going with the "5th" of July...I got to go down to Provo and run the Freedom Run 10K with Scott, watch the parade with my kiddos, and then head to Mom's for our traditional family BBQ and pool party! It was a lot of fun and it was a blast running with Scott--I have to bribe/coerce/drag him to such activities, but he actually said he wanted to do another race after we finished (and he was the one pushing the Bill & Ted's with Garrett strapped-in for the ride). The pool was welcoming and the food delicious. It was a bummer I had to foot it back to Ogden to work that night, but the boys enjoyed watching the fireworks from the front yard.

words to live by...

"I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly."

~Bill Kirby

"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."

~Barbara Bush

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are living art, created to help others hang on, stand up, forbear, continue."

~Maya Angelou

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

~Winston Churchill

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

~Christopher Reeve

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

~The Dalai Lama

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

~Lou Holtz

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

~C.S. Lewis

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."

~Pearl Buck

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

~Mignon McLaughlin

"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."

~Gertrude Stein

"Don't let the fear of striking out prevent you from playing the game."

~author unknown

"He who is tired of Wierd Al is tired of life."

~Homer Simpson

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try."

~ Theodore Geisel

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Angelou

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

~Marie Curie

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

~F.P. Jones

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do someting instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."

~Dale Carnegie

"...the greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies."

~ President Gordon B. Hinckley, Dec. 2007 Ensign, pg. 6