Family Pictures

I've posted a slide show of our family pictures that we took out at my mom's house this last week. We had fun but Dalin didn't last to long as little ones usually don't! Hope you enjoy. Also scroll down for more pics and info. on what we've been up to these last few months.

Playing Catch up

I'm way behind on all of my bloggin' so I'm playing catch up today. scroll down for all of our happenings over the last month or two!

The Antics of my Son

Dalin has really been on the war path over the last few months, if it's not one thing it's another. A few weeks ago I found him in my craft room with my ink pad smearing it on the table, the white bed spread, and, of course, himself. The only thing I could do is throw him in the tub and scrub him down. Thankfully the ink came out of my bedspread. Mom was over visiting a while ago and Dalin thought it was hilarious that mom was stuffing plastic bowling pins up his shirt. He'd get mad if they fell out so we took some pictures of him and his "muscles"

And last but not least this morning I was downstairs doing Ciara's hair and Dalin was upstairs standing on a chair watching Daddy mow the lawn outside. I thought he would be fine and stay at the window since Zane was outside but of course I was wrong. As I was doing Ciara's hair I began to hear something that sounded like water running. I ran upstairs just in time to see Dalin dumping the last of the box of Trix onto the table and floor and then proceed to eat it by the handful... man this kid is such a boy!!

Family Reunion Fun

At the end of June we had the opportunity to head down to Whitehall for a Briggs family reunion (that's Zane's mom's family) We all had so much fun at Grandpa's ranch. It rained almost all day on Saturday but we still had fun. Zane spent a lot of the day trying to keep Dalin out of the mud puddles and most of the kids had AT LEAST one bath that day. After the reunion Travis, Jared, Zane, and I headed down to St. Anthony for some dirt biking at the dunes. It was tons of fun. Travis ran out of gas out on the dunes... twice... once each day we were there and he broke of his kick start so he had a few issues but other than that we did good. No serious injuries. The girly men didn't want to camp out so we rented a motel room in which the tradition of the pastry throwing was upheld (you can ask Zane or Travis about that one, hahahahaha too funny, mad did that muffin explode on impact!!) I woke up early to get my scripture reading done... and I was to keyed up to go riding to sleep any longer. This is what the boys were doing...

Fourth of July Fun

We were down in UT for the fourth and had a blast. Theresa and Randy, Zane's aunt and uncle, invited us to meet them at Yuba lake and hang out for the day. They had there jet ski's and some friends of theirs were there with their boat as well. It was all Zane and I could do to get Ciara and Dalin off of the "wavy boats" as Ciara called them. She had so much fun and was a pretty good little driver. Dalin squealed and giggled the whole time, he'd throw a fit when we pull into shore. We also went out on the boat with the kids. Randy took us out and Zane, Ciara, and I went out on the tube. It was a double seat tube so Ciara sat with Zane and I was next to them. Randy went pretty easy on us at first but gradually he was popping us up higher and higher, it was a blast. We had a great day out on the lake and the kids loved it!!!

Car Update

Well, I thought I'd better do an update on the car since it's been a while since I did the last one. Zane had an old street bike that he sold to further fund his "baby" He recently purchased shocks and wheels and has most of the framing all done. He is still currently looking for racing seats. He was pretty disappointed a week or so ago. He found a set of them for sale on Craig's list up in Bozeman. He said they looked practically brand new and the owner was only asking $50. If any of you out there know about these things that's like getting them for free. Usually a set of two nice ones like these ones you'd be looking at around $300. Anyway, Zane called immediately on them and the guy had sold them like, 5 minutes before he called... thus the search continues. I've posted a picture of Dalin Modeling the car and also a picture of what it will look like when it's done. Keep in mind that the picture of the completed car is really all Zane has used to know how to build it. All of the designs are of his one make and model. He has drawn up the specs on AutoCAD and hasn't looked at a single "blue print" that wasn't of his own make. It still boggles my mind that he can do that and in the end the car will go... and go fast at that!

P.S. Zane said that any donations to the car fund are welcome and in exchange we offer a complamentary ride in the car when it's done! (Zane says large donations may earn you the privlidge of driving the car, after a check of your driving record of course ;)

Laugh out Loud

I just recieved an email from my sister-in-law and, along with forwarding it to family and friends, I had to post it to my blog. I checked the story on snopes and it said it was undertmined. Real or not it made me laugh so hard I had to wipe a tear away. If ever you're having a bad day, whether at work or with your kids at home just remember this little story!

Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana.He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.

Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. But before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water... It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch.. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day? May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!

I've had my share of bad days but I've never had a jellyfish bad day.