new adventures

Since I posted last time, we had a garage sale that bombed, we visited with our friends Kristy and Andy and their beautiful children. We met up with Lisa Slagle(Alexis' teacher from the last three years) and her two girls and went to the water park and the kids had a lot of fun. Alexis even went down the really big slide once. Hunter started smaller and went down a open tube slide. Then we visited the Leblanc's for a few minutes. We've gone to the zoo, but we didn't take any pictures this time. We went to the beach last Friday and none of got burnt. Then we went to Pioneer day where my kids had even more fun rolling down hills and fishing and beating pieces of tin with nails and rocks. I wasn't too thrilled about that. Alexis and Hunter are now enjoying swim lessons. Today was their first day and hopefully in two weeks they'll be able to swim. If not swim, maybe not drown would be good. Heath is almost done with school. This is our last week, so hopefully we will have a decent schedule soon. HUNTER LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH ON SATURDAY! His adult teeth were growing in behind his baby teeth. He looked like a shark with rows of teeth. His other front tooth is loose as well and so maybe we won't have to do the braces thing. Hunter also got his first real big boy bike on Saturday. He's very excited. Alexis has to wait until two more paychecks to get hers but I found one that I can afford. My kids are enjoying the summer, but Alexis is counting the days until school starts. Literally counting them. She went to her new school today and she saw some of her teachers from her old school there teaching summer school. She was so excited. She was a little upset when she realized that they wouldn't be there when school actually started. So here's to the road ahead.

They're all gonna laugh at you?

You know how it is usually unwise to laugh at some one who is holding a gun. Well notice the person in the background. He is definitely laughing, and why? Allow me to offer an idea, Perhaps it is because this Somali has no clue on how to hold a rifle, let alone maintain this type of weapon. This is a Russian PK general purpose machine gun, or in layman's terms, one that goes bam-bam bam-bam bam-bam bam-bam bam-bam bam-bam bam-bam bam-bam bam-bam, a lot. Should he fire this rifle, he would very quickly lose control of it, and be very inept. His stock is not fit up against his shoulder, and the left hand is clueless. but here's an E for Effort, since that is the carrying handle. If any of you dont know how to hold a rifle, ask me to show you.

Sadly though this photo came from a story of the rise of Somali violence, and the fear of their president that American naturalized Somali's will return to fight in his country against his government. Too many cuss words come to mind while thinking over that. but nevertheless, this guy has no clue how to use a rifle, and I laugh at him behind his back.

In Hunter's class today they must have talked about missionaries and missionary work because he came home with a piece of paper pinned to his shirt that said elder Blanton which he had clearly written himself. So when I asked him about this he said he was going to serve a full time mission and he was going to Egypt. I told him that there weren't missionaries in Egypt but he still insited that he's going to Egypt. So there you go. We had fun visiting the Snows last Thursday. Seeing them is always fun. The kids had a good time swimming. I think the pictures are still on the labtop. So I'll put them up later. Heath also gave a talk in Sacrament meeting and didn't embarass me. There is a first time for everything.

We had a rather quiet fourth of July, but we saw fireworks at Harbor Park. They were pretty good. Not quite DC style, but they were pretty good. Heath is enjoying his down time, and starts his training tommorrow. Hunter's two front bottom teeth are loose. He already has new teeth breaking the gum behind the baby teeth. He seems too young, but they all grow up eventually. He's already trying to raise the rates for the tooth fairy, but what he doesn't understand is that the tooth fairy is broke. We took the kids to the new ice age movie and Hunter loved it. Alexis was freaked out about ten or fifteen minutes into it. She's very sensitive and the movie makes it looks like Sid was eaten by a dinosaur. Good times.

Why don't you have any push ups?

Is this what you picture if you hear that question? Well today at Blockbuster, the Boy and I were waiting in line in front of the ice cream, and he wanted something i would not buy. Since he had his wallet with him, I opted for one of life's lessons, and would let him buy one with his dollar fifty. Only thing was he could only afford the push up, but they were out. So as we were checking out, the Boy walked around the counter to the female employee, of a very slender build, and asked," Hey Lady, how come you don't have a push up?" Interestingly enough his pitch of voice carried throughout the store, and piqued the curiosity of all the patrons. The poor cashier didn't know what to say, you see, she was not thinking ice cream, not one bit. So I gathered myself, and explained the situation, only to gather more laughter in the store. Fortunately for the boy, I went to the grocery store later and got him his reward for the humorous situation.

The Vacation's Over.

So much has happened in the past few weeks. Heath and I have gone on a trip to Monterey CA to visit our brother and his family, including the new niece. She's so adorable, as are all of our nieces and Nephews.

Monterey, What a lovely part of the world, and a very different climate than we are used to being around. We traded in our kids for a niece, and flew out west and it turned out well.
We got to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium, including all the natural sea life of the Bay.

Before that we got to try out Rex's new Mastercraft and the Boy and Girl got to come along also. They did so well, we were both so proud. They got to knee board in the river, and found out what dipping the boat felt like. THanks Rex.


Now that we have returned Heath has started the new job at District Five, and is soon to start learning the Search and Rescue aspect of the Coast Guard. He is very excited. And there's still two months left of summer vacation, Yeah me!
what will I do with myself.