We had a great weekend!

With the kids in town I thought it would be fun if we headed over to Moab, Ut and to Arches Nation Park. We were hoping we could leave by 5 or so, get there around midnight, set up camp in the dark and then wake up cook breakfast and be off to enjoy the beautiful park. Yeah didn't really go that way. We left late (surprise, surprise) got there at 1:00 am, drove around to find a camping spot and there weren't any so Justin suggest we just go into town and see if we could find a hotel....

Me:WHAT they have hotels here? Why didn't you tell me that in the first place...

J: Well I thought you wanted to camp...

Me: No I just thought that was our only option!

Seriously if I would have known that, I could have saved $400 in camping equipment!

So a hundred dollars later we found a hotel to "camp" at. Moab is actually a much bigger town then I thought. I was totally surprised. Hum I have lived in Utah more then 15 years and I had no idea!

So hiking was a lot of fun. We hit four different hikes, spent a lot of time together with the kids. Jayce proudly announced that we were going to a super national park. Never new it got to the "super" status but cool! Macie decided that she need to fill her shoes with sand because her feet were hurting and we watch a bunny try to commit suicide (not really we just scared it and he tried to jump off a cliff) The park was sooo beautiful! We will have to go back and do it again!

I have no idea where the captin morgan pose came from but everytime one of us would reach the top of the trail we would hit the pose....so we had to get pictures of it!

I look like I fit in to Mormonville

Shay, Jayce, and Ty are here visiting for the weekend, I have been running around getting things ready for our trip to Zion and Arches this weekend. Picture me....huge SUV, 5 kids, running around town. I feel like I finally fit in. Typical Mormon mommy, with her kids 2 years apart...yeah that is sooooo not going to be me....evah! Sorry mormonville I am refusing to join. Have a great weekend! I promise I will try to be back to my regualr posting next week!!

It is surprizing to me...

when you have made a horrible choice who stands by you and who walks away. I think I will always be surprised by the support I have had these last couple days. I have made a lot of bad choices. I am so grateful for the support I have received, grateful for the prayers, thoughts, advice and love that everyone has shown me. I guess throughout my life I have learned the hard way, always have and maybe always will. There is so much going on in my life, so many struggles that I have to overcome. I am so glad that I have such an amazing support system to fall back on, I am grateful that I have friends who understand me enough that they will support me through anything. I really don't feel like I deserve the love I have felt this last little while and I am truly grateful!

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Since when does he not need me?

He just decieded that he that he wanted to ride his bike without training wheels so Justin took them off. I figured that I would sit out there with him, run along the side of him and encourage him, catch him when he tipped over....that is so not how it happened. He got on it and took off and that was it! No help from me he just did it! What a punk!

Another one bites the dust

and another ones gone, another ones gone, another one bites the dust!

Kase has lost his 2nd tooth! This time wasnt as exciting as the last time, he even fell asleep not holding his tooth fairy box. Now he has two missing teeth on the bottom and he is so cute! I can't wait for the top ones to start coming out cause pictures of that will be priceless! I totally wonder if he will get my big front teeth, I sure hope not!

Some days I feel like I have nothing to post

but today I have sooo much to type about! It is funny how much I want to write! I had an interesting weekend...

I had a shoot Saturday night, the couple didn't show up and i forgot my client book so I had no way of contacting them so I went to drive home. I was sitting at the light and some kid ran into the back of me. Yep my cars not even 2 months old and I get hit. Luckily it was just a tiny little car and I was the big one cause his entire hood was pushed up against his windshield. So we pull over and the first thing he says to me is how sorry he is and please don't call the cops because his licence is suspended. Thinking that was the nice thing to do I agree and I try to get his insurance information. He insist that he write it all down and every time I try to look at the card he turns it away from me. I finally grab it and double check it and what do you know he totally messed up the numbers...and yes it was on purpose. He starts to get antsy so I ask him for his phone number name and I write down his licence plate number. After he left I started to feel like I got screwed over so I started calling the numbers he gave me and none of them are right. So I call the cops...they catch him on his way to Hurricane (which is like 15 mins away) and they bring him back to where I am. He gets on the phone to his mom and he just starts bawling. She says she is going to sell his motorcycle, he says that his girlfriend doesn't want to marry him anymore. He is seriously upset and I feel totally bad for him. It seems like he is having a bad time in his life. I kinda wish I hadn't called the cops on him but I thought that would at least get me the right insurance information...well turns out he did have any insurance at all!

So lesson learned when you are nice to people you get screwed over...I'm so kidding!

I am happy with who I am....

It seems like all of my life I have been searching for acceptance from other people. I have always need approval from everyone that I meet. It drives me crazy when people don't like me and I tend to over compinsate to win over the person that doesn't like me. I have done alot to change and mold into this person that I think everyone else wants me to be. You think that I'd grow out of it but it is something that I have been working on all my life. What is cool is that I am now finding people who like the weird corky things about me. People who actually embrace the side of me I have kept hidden for so long. It is weird how that happens, weird how I can find people who like the actually me. It is becoming easier to let my walls down, easier to love me, and to let people in. That is a really cool feeling.