Day or Night?

At 2:30 in the afternoon, we were fairly certain that Mr. Moon was a wee bit confused!

Amazing!

Pictures don't do this justice. These were the most beautiful clouds I have ever seen. It looked as if God had just layered them.

gas GOUGING

I kept track of gas prices on the way home too and was sickened by they prices we saw. I was able to keep a better record than when we drove down because we drove during the day on the way home. The lowest price for unleaded we saw was $3.87 (Hogback, NM). The highest was at $4.30 (Arriola, CO)! I was curious of the diesel prices after hearing that they were so much higher than unleaded, so I kept track of them also. The lowest was $4.65 (Hogback, NM) and the highest at $4.99!!! That was in Shiprock, NM (I think that is on the Navajo Reservation??) and also in Monticello, UT.
In my earlier post I was ranting about how we actually had to pay over $4.00 a gallon on our trip. Well.....low and behold.....when we got home, gas was at $4.02 at the Maverick here in Weiser! The most expensive gas station in town had unleaded priced at $4.14!! I couldn't believe it. It did not do me good to have to pay attention to the gas prices almost everyday. I liked it much better when I only had to get gas every couple of weeks, or better yet, when Don would do it for me. I want to go back to being in a state of ignorance again!!

Garden of Eden

Here are the first pictures of our trip to New Mexico. These were taken in a gas station/truck stop called Garden of Eden. I think that the town's name was Eden, it was in Idaho. It is definitely the king of truck stops! Of course it was also one of the most expensive for gas too!! That snake was just above my head as I was taking pictures of the kids and it scared the living daylights out of me! The kids got a good laugh at the scream I let out!

ARM and a LEG

Driving down to New Mexico to visit Don's dad, step mom, brother, his wife, and their ADORABLE 10 month old son I kept track of gas prices.
A few years ago on some driving trip somewhere, (I can't remember where we were) we saw a dummy's arm and leg sticking out from behind a gas stations price board. It was very funny, but I think that it might be more appropriate for today's prices!
From Weiser, Idaho to Bloomfield, New Mexico it was 912 miles and it took us around 10 hours to drive! I have now been awake for 35 hours straight! My eyes burn and I am exhausted, but glad to be here.
$3.98 Weiser, Idaho
$3.96 Boise, Idaho
$4.25 Eden, Idaho
$4.09 Greenriver, Utah
$4.15 Moab, Utah
$4.17 Monticello, Colorado
$3.87 Cortez, New Mexico
$3.93 Shiprock, New Mexico
$3.91 Farmington, New Mexico
$3.91 Bloomfield, New Mexico
This is for unleaded gas. My brother in law said that diesel cost him $4.69 a gallon today!!! I am sure that there are much higher prices, but I couldn't believe that we actually paid over $4.00 for a gallon of gas! I will keep track on the way home and report back.
If anyone is out and about I would love to hear from you.

Battle of the Tounges!

Normally Brayden is the one who has his tongue sticking out, but Kristina's seemed to get away from her while holding Brayden! I thought it was really cute! I especially love the Farmer Brayden picture with the grass hanging out of his mouth.

Trying to help summer along

The kids and I decided that we needed to try to help summer along by going for ice cream today! Kristina's friend Mikayla went with us. We have already had some nice weather, almost down right HOT this spring. But the weather has been so weird since spring broke. Up to the nineties one day and then snowing the next! I kid you not. Now school is out and the summer sun still has yet to grace us with it's presence. It is acting like spring with the MANY rain storms and very windy too. So we decided that it wouldn't hurt to have a YUMMY lunch and eat ice cream in hopes that the summer sun would take notice!
We had lunch at THE BEST place in Weiser. Weiser Classic Candies. They have delicious sandwiches and soup, scrumptious ice creams, and hand made, to die for, candies. It is impossible to watch your waist line when you go in there! Check them out, I think that they even ship candies, but I am not sure. Their web site is http://www.weiserclassiccandy.com/. The service there is even hard to beat. I know that I sound like I am putting in a plug for them...I guess I am becuase I am always so impressed with everything when we go in there. Thanks guys!

FronT RooM CampinG

This is front room camping at our house. The kids set up their fort and then get to sleep in it! The first night they both started out in the fort, but Devin ended up in his bed because he said that Sissy wouldn't stop "bothering" him. So I let them give it another try last night.
Dev decided that he was going to sleep on the couch so he could have his own space. He actually fell asleep on the couch, after a lot of whispers and many giggles! Sometime in the middle of the night he got up for a drink and evidently forgot where he was sleeping and ended up in his bed! Needless to say, he was a bit confused when he woke up this morning!!

Never to old for peek-a-boo!

After our walk today Devin disappeared. I walked past him a few times, calling him, before I heard the giggles. He said that he liked his place and stayed in there for about an hour just watching life go by!

Now this is a real puzzle!

Our neighbors, Ammon and Tara, got a new porach swing today. I snuck pictures of them trying to put it together! They did do a good job, and kept the usual husband vs. wife bickering of "read the directions" to a minimum. Don finally decided to go over and put in his opinion, as if it was really needed!
In the end, it looks great, and it didn't collapse when they sat on it. I think that Tara's excited squeal of "Yeah!!! We built something!!!" says it all.

Wonderous Worlds!

Devin and I went for a walk this afternoon and these are a few of the things we saw. Devin's favorite were the many ant hills we saw. He declared this national ant month! My favorite was spending time with Devin, but he said that doesn't count and that I HAD to pick something I saw during our walk. So I picked the bird oasis. Devin informed me that it was the perfect place for birds to hang out because it had water and shade from the "palm weeds"! They have such wonderful imaginations.
We stopped by a friend's house on the way home to pet their bunny. Devin loves giving the bunny pets every chance he gets.

Weiser Winners!!

Kristina's softball team has now played four games. The first two were learning games. The scores were 0-12 and 4-24, not in our favor. The girls have been practicing very hard and it's really showing. They are working together so well now. The last two games have been 15-3 and 13-5, in our favor!! Kristina played 1st base at the last game and made some catches resulting in outs for the other team. She also got a few good hits in at bat and scored some runs!
The last game we went to there was deffinately some drama involved. I didn't really think that there could be comotions made at a child's game, but I was proved wrong! It was all in fun and really exciting!
We are thankful for their great coach, Dan, and assistant coaches, Matt and Kailyn. Matt and Kailyn are Dan's children and he also has a child on the team. Softball runs in their blood! Kailyn just had sugery on her shoulder for a softball injury, so we are prying for a fast recovery for her. We missed her at the last game!

Picnic Preparations

The other day the kids helped me make a wOnDeRfUlLy YuMmY picnic dinner.
We took our picnic to Kris' softball game. It was nice hanging out with the kids in the kitchen. We listened to music and had lots of fun being silly!





We had quite the spread of tantalizing concoctions. I was sure we would be the envy of all! But of course, the weather turned sour and we had to huddle under our blanket to eat and watch the game!!

Fun with our neighbors

Kristina and Aaron playing on the computer after a fun water fight.
They were so zoned out on their game that I had to call their names at least three times before they even heard me! I guess water fights and computer games can be exhausting work!












Aaron's sister, Sara, is caught red handed looting the house next door to us! Oh that's right, it's their house that they are moving OUT of!!! We are NOT happy with them, but we are excited for them at having finally made the jump from being city folks to becoming country bumpkins! It's one of those mixed emotion things. We will miss having them next door though, they were GREAT neighbors!

Typical Weekend Day

This is a typical weekend day at our house. Lots of work, and lots of play!

Summer Storm

Last night the heavens decided to open up and let loose! It was quite the storm. The kids and I sat out on the front porch and watched that lake in the road rise and run wild. It was quite the site!

rAISEd gARDEn bEDs

Don worked hard building me 2 raised garden beds. He did a great job. They look great and will hopefully save us a bit of money on veggies this summer. Oh! Check out the fence behind the garden beds. Don put up the fence all by him self! I helped just a bit, but it was a BIG job!! I think it makes our back yard look smaller, but it is done very professionally. We are very proud of him!

Don turns 34!!!

WoW!

We sure are getting old and the kids sure are growing fast! Don's receding hair line and my gray hairs say it all!

Devin tells dad, "NO PEEKING! I wrapped it all by my self!"

It's a shiny new grill set. Don was very excited, especially since we finally threw his old one out a few weeks ago and kept "forgetting" to get a new one! I think he was starting to get a bit frustrated with me every time I would come home from Wal-Mart with out one.

Kristina and her friend Tanya baked the cake and decorated it. Looks great girls! It was yummy too!

Today we went to a bar-b-q for a friend of ours that recently got married. It was a nice time. The food was very yummy! Thanks Darel and Amy. The kids and I went for a walk and found some interesting places to snap a few pictures.