Baby projects

These are the CUTEST baby blankets we made this weekend for the BeeGee's baby. The pictures certainly don't show how soft and cuddly they are. Brandon is worried that they won't make it to the baby because Bridget will steal them for herself.

Now all we need is that cute little girl to wrap in them!

D&B After Tax Season Party 2009

Every year the fine folks at Davis & Bott CPA's, where I work, take us on a party! It's something to look forward to and helps us get thru the long tax season. Last year - Cancun! This year.... Salt Lake City!! Haha - it may sound like a let down to you, but nope! we (all 32 of us) had lots of fun.

The party started in Bountiful at Paradise bakery for breakfast.
From there we traveled out to Tooele to the Miller Motorsports Park. Oh my! If you haven't been there, you should put it on your list of things to do. We raced the Karts and had a tour. Lots-o-fun!

This was part of the crash of the day. Roger, causing trouble as usual, spun out. Kevin managed to dodge Roger, but Tori t-boned Kevin at full speed. After replacing Tori's shattered car, they finished the race before the pain took over.
They are still feeling the after-effects of that!

Here is race-driver Brandon.
This ended up being the pre-activity to his graduation!

The winning team - and their trophy.
Brian, Gaeleen, Paula, and Ted

The winner of the 'I broke the car' trophy

If you're about cars, this is the place to be. Ahhh!!

Awesome museum!

We spent the night at GRAND AMERICA!!
Oh sweet mama was that fun!
Bridget, Cara and Cora, and Riley stayed over. We giggled and laughed til I thought I would be hoarse.
I love spending time with my girls!

The next day we got to spend the afternoon at LaCaille!!

Entertainment:
Davis and Bott IDOL!!!
Who said CPA's are boring?
Oh gosh - you shoulda been there!

You can't have IDOL without the JUDGES
Please welcome Randy, Paula and Simon
(I know - you wish you had my hair -heehee)

And the winner is...
Dave the great!!! a.k.a. Desperado!

And Tori as runner up!

The grand finale was the Eagles Concert. Those old guys can rock!
It was fantastic and LOUD!! It took me back to the days of the Dodge Dart listening to 8-tracks! Or dancing the night away to those good tunes!

Big thanks to Clark, Rennie, Roger and Bruce!!!

I'm back...

Wow - I haven't blogged forever!
Now that tax season is over, I'll try and get back into real life. It's weird how when you're on the computer 10-12 hours a day at work, the last thing you want to do with the hour or two left of the day is get on the computer.
Ok - I guess I must admit that I do some facebooking. But that is chatting with friends and who can get enough of that!


First off - here's a picture of our new Tayah bug. She's the second granddaughter born this year. She is the joy of her mom and dad and brothers. And the rest of us too!

Here's a picture of a stupid table I was so lucky (pfft) to be able to decorate for the
RS dinner. I had to decorate it for the month of May, so I did some stupid pinwheels and got cute mismatched plates at the DI. It was pretty cute - the pics aren't.

And here's a picture of today's Sunday nap. Who do you think is controlling this hammock? Hadlee went from laying with Grandma to laying with with Riley to laying with Grandma to laying with Riley - you get the picture.
Trying to get a 3 year old to sleep with the outdoor sounds is crazy. She thought the motorcycle driving by was a tiger. Haha! That girl is always FUN!

Do things like this ever happen to you?

So last night on my way home from work I ran a few errands. I stopped by Shopko to grab some nylons and headed to the counter, feeling quite on top of my game, I might add. As I get to the counter, the clerk, in her 'poor puppy dog voice', says: 'Aaaahhhhhhh! You look like you've had a long hard day.' Oh man, I couldn't quit chuckling. Did I really look that bad? I really was feeling quite fine and quite happy. ~Snicker snicker!~

This is my other story...

Do you ever have those times in your life that things just don't seem to go your way? In fact, it just seems like Murhpy has taken hold in your life and whatever can go wrong will. You know what I'm talking about. Everything you touch goes bad, you break things, you loose your pants in the treadmill... That kind of stuff...

So that seems to be the theme at Our House, lately. One day a kid visiting our house went out to get into his car and found that it had been backed into. What the..? Who does that and just leaves? Well the mystery was soon figured out and amends made and all that. So as he leaves and the door closes; crash, bang, shattering of glass. The newly framed soccer collage I had just placed on Riley's corner shelf evidently wasn't so steady and it tumbled the 6 feet to the floor, taking with it anything in its way. Just as I got the glass chips picked out of the million dollar photo and the shattered glass cleaned up, the kids come up from downstairs with the news of the great '46" LCD TV/Wii Remote incident'. That one will have to be left for your imagination because none of us have quite come to terms with it yet. We can hardly even talk about it still. Who invited this Murphy guy to our world anyway?

So, tell me this. How does your garage door open almost all the way? Like... far enough that looking in all three mirrors doesn't clue you in that there's a problem. But the bang is a pretty good clue. Shiz Louise! What the?

Thanks to a VERY nice ex-husband and Matt and Nate, the garage door has made a pretty good recovery. The Pearl, however is going to need a little extra TLC.

This is the type of things I'm talking about. I was beginning to wonder if I was stuck in this mode for the whole new year. But I resolved not to let it happen. I decided to welcome the feng shui, live positive, bring the vives, invite the good. You know, positive thinking brings positive things.

Saturday I choose to clean my oven. As I pick up the heating element to wipe underneath, the stupid element disinigrates right in two. Are you kidding me? Saturday night. The day before Sunday dinner. Sunday dinner after Fast Sunday. Just so you ever need to know, you can bake a ham in a roaster and cheesy potatoes in the crockpot. You can even bake cookies for pizzookies with the broil feature on your oven. Positive thinking... Positive thinking... Positive thinking...

Yeah right!

You know, Riley once in a while gets brave and asks if she can take my car, affectionately know to all as the Black Pearl. Very seldom do I tell her yes, but not usually if she is going to the school. But tonight her car was in the garage with another car parked behind her. So being the nice mom that I am, I offer, 'Oh, just take my car.'

Now why would anyone in their right mind say such a thing? I knew very well that she was going to the high school. I knew of the 'luck of the irish' going on at our house. I knew better.

The story goes that as soon as the game was over the announcer comes on the loudspeaker and asks the driver of the 'Black Pearl' to go to their car. ShiX! DaXn! HeXl! A kid with his learners permit made the corner a little sharp and took out the end of my car. Oh my hell!

I'm seriously considering living the rest of my life in bed. I can't afford to get out. If you care about me, just drop off some chocolate and diet DP. And I'll just lie here and THINK POSITIVE!

Riley Boarding

Look at this cute snowboarder... Riley and her dad at Snowbasin