SLIME, DOUGHNUTS and CUT

What's a better summer day activity than making slime? I don't know, but we sure had fun with the gooey stuff along with our friends the Birdsalls. 

 It was really fun and gross!

 We also decided to make homemade doughnuts to top off our slime filled day

 

 After all the cleanup Jacob was playing outside and he comes in crying saying "You're going to be mad at me! You're going to be so mad!" I asked him to show me his hand but he wanted to tell me what happened before he showed me his wound. He grabbed Randy's sharp pocket knife and was sharpening a stick and accidentally cut himself open. He kept saying "I hate pocket knives! I'm never going to ever use one again! they are dangerous!" through tears and sniffles, we super glued the wound and bandaged him up. I guess his pocket knife isn't as sharp as Randy's so he wasn't expecting it to cut so well. oh well, live and learn I guess.

 Jacob hating pocket knives

Kind of a crazy day, but with four kids and one on the way, these are my normal summer afternoons! 

Flaming Gorge and Dinosaur National Park

Randy decided that we needed a fun trip with the family so he planned and executed an awesome one! We drove to Flaming Gorge and went swimming and cliff diving. I was surprised how high my boys dared to jump. They get it from their daddy I suppose. Randy had a crowd standing around watching him dive and that is always fun. He sure is good at entertaining people!

Cute Lily and Alyssa

 somebody next to us wasn't using their little raft so they said we could play with it. Yes, I actually got in the water for a bit! (I really don't like swimming. Like, really don't like it.)

 

We stayed at a hotel that night and they were all asleep super fast from all the swimming. It was great!

 The next morning we drove to Dinosaur National Park. It was over a hundred degrees and It was hard for me to be out in the heat, so I skipped the hike. Randy, Tyler, Jacob and Lily went though and they saw some pretty cool things.

 The front of the museum has a colored dinosaur that constantly changes because we really don't know what color they were when they were here. Pretty cool.

Me and the kiddos in front of the wall of dinosaur bones.

It was a hot but fun trip together.

Call poison control...again

This kid gets ice-cream for dinner because her sister accidentally poured acetone into her eyes and face. Yeah, that happened. Poison Control probably knows me by name now. Being a mommy is a full time job!

OOPS I did it Again!

I May have a problem, you see, I sometimes bite off more than I can chew, project wise. You see, we had these super thorny bushes on the side of our house. They were mostly dead, and Randy asked if I could just try to trim them back to the curbing.  Being pregnant, and therefore slightly insane, I decided once I started, that I could just rip them all out. After all, that was the end goal anyway! I got started and soon realized that I was in over my head a bit. So I called my dad and asked for some help/better tools to complete the task. Next thing I know, we are both knee deep in thorns going to town ripping everything apart. By the way, these thorns were NO JOKE! We both wore TWO pairs of heavy duty gloves and the thorns still poked right through to our hands.

 Dad helping me

You can see how far over the curbing the previous owners let it grow! 

 Chain saws were required to continue the project

 I was kind of nervous to tell Randy about it. I think I led with "Um, well, you see, I did it again, I've been working all day with my dad, but there is still a lot of work for us to to and You're going to have to help. Sorry babe. Oh and by the way, they are the worst thorns known to mankind. Some sort of devil thorns."

 Randy got in on the action (like it or not) and We took countless loads to the dump. The sheer amount of bushes was unbelievable! 

 The outcome was fantastic! even though we couldn't feel our hands, legs or feet anymore from all the constant impaling going on. I had to throw away my shoes too! Crazy.

I really do have the BEST dad! Who else would help me rip out the most thorny bushes known to mankind? He's the hardest working toughest guy I know. Randy is just as amazing and I am so thankful they put up with my insane shenanigans! Thank you thank you thank you!