11yr. old scout camp

March 14-15 2014

My BFF's

3-8-2014 It's always a good time when we get together! Today we just met for lunch at the scoop and got to see Genna's cute belly that nobody knew she had until like a week before we got together!!

The race is on!

 There was a little drama with the design of Degan's car, him & his Dad decided on the design and it looked kinda crazy so Darin tried to fix it and he still wasn't happy and thought it wouldn't win so he was told his options were to 1- use one of Dillon's old cars or 2- suck it up and use the one they had made! He eventually decided to use his purple car and wouldn't you know it, the thing won!! Haha! #65 got 4th place and had to go back for round 2!!

Katie's Shower

3-1-2014 I love any excuse to get together with my sisters & mom!! Today's excuse was Katie's baby shower!! I provided the house and games and Carla made lots of yummy food! Later that night we went into Vegas and watched the show Mystere at the Treasure Island! Our seats were right by a wall and at the end of the show one of the people in a crazy costume jumped up right in front of us and Kasaundra, Deanna & I screamed so loud that Carla, Lindsey & Gerilynn could hear us on the other side of the stadium!! Can't wait to meet their cute baby girl Maelie!!

Spider Monkey

    Spider Monkeys are mammals and are known as the "trapeze artists" of the animal world. They spend much of their time swinging from limb to limb in the trees high above the jungle floor. These quick and well coordinated monkeys are found in the rainforests located in places such as Southern Mexico, Central and South America, Brazil and Northwestern Columbia.

    The average weight of a spider monkey is 12 - 20 pounds, the length from head and body is 19 - 20 inches and the length from head to tail is 27 - 30 inches.
   
    Spider monkeys are social animals and stay in troops of up to two or three dozen during the day. However, they split up at night in small groups, each group consisting of half a dozen or fewer monkeys. They have black glossy hair that covers their entire bodies except the face. They do not have thumbs but they can still grip powerfully to tree branches. They also have a patch of skin at the end of their long tails. This patch works like a finger, it increases their gripping ability by using their tails to swing from tree branches leaving their long arms and legs free to grab food items from other branches. Spider Monkeys feast on 90% fruit and in the wild they eat nuts, seeds, leaves, insects and bird eggs. It is believed that spider monkeys play an important role in spreading seeds of plants throughout the rainforest.

    Typically, female spider monkeys are somewhat larger than males and they give birth to a single baby every 2 or 5 years. Young monkeys depend completely on their mothers for about ten weeks. Mothers continue to care for their young for the first year and a half of their lives, and often move about with their babies clinging to their backs.

    Sadly, man is the spider monkeys greatest enemy. Humans are destroying their habitats, hunting them down for meat, and are also responsible for dragging these beautiful animals into the  pet trade business to make money.

      One day I hope to be able to help these fascinating creatures and hear them make loud noises that can be heard up to 1000 meters on the ground and up to 2000 meters above the trees.

Boys & their Toys

Jim & Carla decided to sale their scrambler and offered to give us a family discount of $1000.00 if we wanted to buy it so we took full advantage of the offer and picked it up!! The boys are having fun driving it around the yard!!

Shining the pearly whites

I wasn't sure how Daxton was going to do for his first official teeth cleaning because he HATES it when I brush his teeth, I have to sit on him and hold his head still to get the job done and he screams the whole time. I hate to say it but he gets his teeth brushed maybe every other day if he's lucky!
To my surprise he did great! The assistant showed him everything and he just laid there while she did her thing without a single peep!! I love it when things turn out better than I think they will!!

V-Day Boxes

I love & hate Pinterest! today I LOVE pinterest!! It gave us some really cool ideas for valentine's day boxes for the boys cause now days you can't just have an ordinary old envelope you make yourself at school!! Now it has to be crafty and cool!! I think we did pretty good recreating the hulk and a football field!! Yay Me!!

A Girl can Dream!

7-14-2014 In honor of Valentines day we went to the Parade of Homes in St. George!! I just love walking around different floor plans and seeing how they decorate the houses! Of course my favorites are always the big huge unattainable houses but a girl can dream right?? I love that Darin likes it as much as I do and this year we were really excited to go because we hope to build again in the near future and to our surprise we actually found a floor plan we liked!! with just a few tweeks I think it'll work!! now we just need to find some land and get the ball rolling!!

Degan's big day!

2-1-2014 Between moving, unpacking, and my mom having foot surgery Degan's big day got pushed back to February.

Crazy Hair Day!

Nitro Circus

Ain't nothing better then watching people do crazy stuff!! Darin & the boys have watched Travis Pastrana do crazy things for years so it was fun to see them in person. Sadly Travis was in a cast so he wasn't participating in the craziness but it was still fun to watch and spend some time with the boys!!

2014

Happy New Years!! Root beer floats and just dance for the win! Some of us didn't make it til the new year but there's always next year to give it a try!!