The continuing saga of the wave runners.......

Some of you might remember when Todd and I sunk the wave runners at Utah Lake a couple of years ago.  Sean spent lots of time reading stuff online and trying to get them running again.  Most people said we would need to buy new engines and there was no hope.  He kept working and did finally get them running again.  Time got away from us last summer to go try them and almost again this summer.  But, he could start them up in the driveway so we thought we would take them out today.

We loaded them up, all got changed and loaded in the car.  Tyrel said he wanted to be first since he was bummed he didn't get a chance to ride them last time (2 years ago).  We got to the lake.  Sean and Tyrel got on the wave runners.  Sean's started but Tyrel had no luck once he got into the water.  So, we put that one back on the trailer and Tyrel traded Sean and took off.  I told him not to go very far just in case it killed again. 

Sean tried to work on the other one and could get it to turn over but no spark.  Tyrel drove around for a bit and then rode back to the dock to give someone else a turn.  When he was almost back to the dock, it killed and he couldn't get it started again.  Wouldn't even turn over.  So, he paddled to the side and we loaded it up and came home.  Sean thinks the battery is dead.  So, Tyrel had a bit of fun but the rest of us didn't.  Hopefully all is not lost..............

Surprise for dinner

Sean and I missed our lunch date because he was in Millard County working for the day, so we decided to go to dinner.  So, we place our order and are sitting there discussing the 4 or 5 families that are there that we know and in walks Kirk and Heidi.  They were on a date for Kirk's birthday, so they ordered and sat with us.  It was a fun surprise and fun to visit with them.

I totally spaced that yesterday was Thursday, so we didn't get our room cleaned, but I had the boys busy this morning.  We cleaned out the lower pantry, the other closet in the kitchen, all the drawers and the lower cabinets. They look so awesome.  We were about 3/4 of the way done and I was just going to  comment on how nice it was that they weren't complaining and just jumping in and getting the work done when the bossiness and arguing started.  Oh well, we got it done, it looks good and maybe next time we'll make it through without any contention!

We Won!!

Big shout out to everyone that voted for my team in the designer competition I'm doing.  I really disliked the immunity challenge we had to do this week, I doubt it is something I'll ever use again, just not my style and I didn't like what I came up with.  But, we must be good marketers because we won immunity which means no one on my team can get voted off this week so I'll be around for week 3.  The actual week 2 challenge was huge!  We had to make commercial use products for a huge back to school mega kit.  Each team member had to do 6 paper overlays, 12 elements, 2 word arts and then we had 2 team members that did alphabets too.  My team worked well together this week and everyone participated and got their stuff in on time.  Most of the time, these kinds of kits are done in shades of grey and then the people that use them can recolor any color they want for their kit depending on their specific color scheme.  I figured everyone would do their previews to post in just the grey, which I thought would be really boring.  So, I suggested that we pick a color scheme and color ours.  I even volunteered to color everyone's pieces if they didn't want to.  I'm so glad we did because the other teams didn't and our preview looked SOOO much better.  This is my part of the kit

and here is just the boring greyscale preview

See, color is much better dontcha think?!

I spent my evening working on a snorkeling kit.  Isn't this cute?

To The Pool We Go

Heidi and her kids came up today to finish their school shopping and then after lunch we took all of the kids and went to the Payson pool.  The kids had a blast and didn't want to leave.  I sunburned my knees.  Mr. Independent (Tyrel) said he could sunscreen himself.  Yeah, right!  Needless to say, he is kinda splotchy now.  I told him he should have let me help.  I'm old and I still have people help me.  There are just places you can't reach by yourself.  I didn't take my camera because I've already taken too many pool pictures this summer.

Yep, we are still at it

For those of you that think we've given up on cleaning the house, you are wrong......  We are still at it every Tuesday and Thursday.  Today the boys cleaned out the two closets in the kitchen.  Doesn't sound like much, but they had not cleaned out their backpacks from the end of school last year, so it was actually quite a chore.  I was in the other room and all the sudden I hear the vacuum.  I go to see what they are doing and after they had emptied out all the papers and books, they vacuumed out their backpacks.  Silly boys.

Travis and Tyrel had scouts tonight.  They went swimming at the Smith's pool.  No one had called Travis again, so he didn't know what they were doing, so he didn't go in a swimming suit.  He said he hung out a while and then went over to Devin and Dayan's to hang out with them.

Designer Survivor

Well, since I have been gone and the internet connection at our hotel was awful, I have lots to catch up on with the Designer Survivor competition I am in.  I did make it past the first week and now I'm on a new team. 

This week, between the 5 of us, we have to make a huge commercial use mega kit.  We have to have 60 elements and 2 alphas, and 30 papers.  That is a lot of stuff.  The theme is Back to School.

So, I have spent all day getting that stuff done in both greyscale and color.  What a chore!  It is kinda fun though.

I did a couple loads of laundry to get caught up with from the trip.  Unpacked everything and put it away.

I was so not in the mood to cook dinner, so the kids volunteered to make their own and since we had ripe tomatoes in our garden finally, I made BLT's and fried some squash for Sean an I.

Tyrel gave us our Family Night lesson.  Trevin fed us ice cream for dessert.

The long drive home

It seemed like it took us three times longer to get home than it did going out there.  We had to stop for more potty breaks and the kids were sleeping, bugging each other, not very talkative on the way home so it made for a long trip. 

We actually got up and went to church, well everyone but me.  I put on my dress, bent over to pick up something as we were packing up and the zipper on my dress split.  Great!  So I sat in the car while everyone else went to church.  Travis said there was not even one young woman in the ward, so he is glad we don't always go to church there.  LOL

We ate lunch at a park before we left Denver and then headed out.  I don't remember the places we stopped at, but we did have dinner in Green River and made it home around 8:30ish.  It's nice to be home.