So glad the windows weren't broken... or worse.

Today I went out to take care of several errands. At some point while I was out, my Yukon was invaded. I thought I locked it at every stop and am quite sure I had to use my key to open it each time but I must not have locked it at least once. The stupid theives took my bags of groceries (luckily I spent less than $20 on just a few items), the box of curtains from grandma's (Sonia's) house, a bag of tie-downs and most annoying... my cell phone charger. How Wude!

Kuzcotopia

Yesterday dad and I went in search of our own Kuzcotopia. These first two photos are out past Duchesne, take a right and go another 6 miles on normal road and about another mile on dirt road in a place called Moondance Ranches. It's even better to get to than up at Rockport. It's a nice property because there are 40 acre lots for $1000/acre. The lot in these photos is kind of long and skinny. The best view is the one with the flagged post. Its taken at the back of the lot and so everything you see in the picture is on the lot, even the oil station and pump.

These last two photos are of a place called Tabby Shadows which has 5 acre lots at $5000/acre. It's right off highway 40 about 2-3 miles past Fruitland. These pictures aren't of any lot we were looking at but depict, generally, how it looks at Tabby Shadows. The one with the little shed cabin is funny because there is a rule in the area that you don't have to get a building permit for a shed that is up to 200 square feet. Click on this thing. It's cute and clever... the guy has made it look like a real cabin but it is small enough to not have a building permit.

So the reason I want property is for an investment but I want something we (our family) can enjoy in the meantime to 'get away from it all'. We'll be looking for a little while in search of the 'mountain top that sings'. I'm thinking to put a camping trailer on the property for awhile for me and dad (not sure when a 'cabin' would get built). If we're not there, it can certainly be used by whoever is.

What I want to know is, does going out in the sticks and pitching a tent sound fun to you? With these properties, there is nearby fishing at Starvation and Strawberry reservoirs and I'm sure water skiing could be done there too. The kids would have fun just playing in the water near the shore. We also saw a camperworld close to Strawberry which may be of interest for the Swensen clan. Both pieces of property are easy to walk but have good exploring possiblities. It's not that far away from other things too such as hiking or dinosaurland stuff. There is even a little bowling alley in Duschesne. If one was of a mind, you could even drop down to Castle Valley for the pioneer pageant... it's a good one.

I did see deer at Tabby Shadows but have seen pictures of deer and elk at Moondance. They have rabbit at Moondance too... saw the droppings. That way if you have a bad day fishing, you can always shoot a rabbit for dinner! Of course we'd cultivate wildlife gracing the property by putting in some kind of water trough. Maybe even get them some of that great corn like Uncle Russ does. One of the first things I would want to do is get a 'john'!

Tutti Frutti Dresses: Part Deux

The dresses turned out great! They are so cute and I personally LOVE the sleeves on them... especially Addie's. Her's were a bit different on the pattern I used and I decided to go with them... so Q! So I made the drive to Syracuse today to take them and get pictures. I had no idea what it was like to be Auntie and have children swarm you but I found out today cuz Auntie wasn't there and I was. Oh my goodness! They made me laugh wanting me to do everything they could think of to do. I even played the High School Musical game (actually it was pretty fun) and made chalk pictures. Oh... and way fun for the girls was to have grammie eat lunch over... who knew?

Tutti Frutti Slide Show!

Pentathlon April 18, 2008

Here's the best team ever! Together they won best overall team, best mile run and best Regulation Drill team with 100%. James ran the mile in 6 minutes and 22 seconds. It was fun to be at the awards ceremony which was short and sweet. I did feel bad for one team that got absolutely no awards for anything but a round of applause for showing up. James said he didn't feel bad for them cuz they were jerks at the last competition. OH... and while this Pentathlon competition was at East High (woo-hoo), Zach Effron was no where to be found. ;>

No more Dial-up!

For about two weeks I've been on dial-up. My little wireless adapter got fried just before time to do electronic billing for Medicaid. The only way to get the new adapter here faster was to pay mega-bucks for one locally or mega-bucks to get one shipped over-night. I decided to deal with the dial up (hey, I'm getting paid to sit and wait for dial-up to grind away) but it's been a long two weeks.

Let there be LIGHT!

I went out and spent my birthday money from Roxanne today. I've been working on a cross-stitch for quite some time now and don't have much done. I could see just fine when I started it but now (say 5 years later) I've got to have glasses and lots of light to even see the 14 count stitches. Geez. I've been sick the last few days and have gotten quite a bit done, it just doesn't look like it. Then I ran out of one color floss (and umph) so had time to reflect on how great it would be to have a lamp over me instead of every light in the house on. I also remembered a 40% off coupon I had at Joann's so today, off I went and got a lamp similar to this one. I looked online but Joann's site didn't have the exact one I got, nor the one I was telling Hillary about that had stuff at the end of gooseneck arms and looked like a critter out of Star Wars! Happy Birthday to me (thanks Roxanne)!

Snore Fest

I have not been sleeping well for about a month. Ever since we got this sleep number bed, my DH has been enjoying laying on his right side. For a long time he just did that while awake reading. This last month he's been falling asleep on his right side and staying that way all night, facing me and snoring in my ear. This has resulted in me waking up many nights in the middle of the night and not being able to sleep because the snoring is vibrating my head! I grew up with a snoring dad and my bedroom was under my parents room so I heard most snores loud and clear but being a sound sleeper, it didn't bother me. Usually DHs snoring doesn't bother me either... I just tune it out as usual but now that he's facing me, and I've got sinus allergies going on, it's a killer. This last week has been real bad because DH has had a bad chest cold and the snoring that comes out of him could probably bring down a city if we marched around it several times first! Needless to say, I'm one tired mommy-mo. I am very grateful I'm not losing sleep over 4 little pukaino children tho!