Murphys law.

This week end Les's nephew Dreson raced his BMX bike in the nationals in Salt Lake City. Sean, Sarah, Owen Dreson's little brother, Susie Les's sister and Les's Mom were all coming to watch him race. Les and I were planning on going also. Mom spent Friday night with us and we were going to drive her up the next day. Wouldn't you know it Saturday turned out to be one of the hottest days we've had all summer. Mom and myself do not do well in the sun so we stayed here. They moved Dreson up to a harder league and Saturday he didn't do his usual best. Probably because he was a little intimidated by the older more advanced bikers. Last night after the race they came to our house for a Barbecue. As I was preparing the salad and Les was setting up the tables outside we noticed some clouds rolling in, all summer long we have been praying for rain to cool things off but we would only get a sprinkle or two. I told Les maybe we should set the tables up down stairs in our family room. "Are you kidding, he said, It's not going to rain!" Famous last words. Just as we were sitting down to eat our delicious steaks and salmon it started. First just a few drops but all of the sudden it turned into a down pour. "Now don't you wish we would have set the tables up in the family room? No one ever listens to me." We all grabbed the food and the tables and moved under the deck and just inside the garage. Sean and Sarah's last name is Murphy, Sarah said, "If it can happen it will happen when were around. It's Murphy's law!" Get it? We had an enjoyable meal visiting and watching the rain come down and wouldn't you know it. As soon as we finished our meal it stopped. Today Dreson raced again and took home first place and the trophy. Congrats Dre! That's awesome dud!

Theres something about things you've grown!

Don't you think that there is something exhilarating about looking out and watching something grow that you've planted and tended to with your own hands. And then comes the reward when your able to enjoy the fruits of your labors. Les is really the gardener. Just the last couple of weeks we have enjoyed tomatoes, cucumbers and squash from our garden. It's a little early for the peaches yet but it will be nice once they're ready. It's really true that the simple things in life bring you the most joy.

"STADIUM OF FIRE" 4th of July

Yesterday was the 4th of July so I thought I'd just catch you up on who got to take the kids to the Stadium of Fire if you read my previous blog. Last week one of AshLyn's friends who had bought 17 tickets and thought she'd make a bundle on them found out people weren't willing to pay the big bucks like she thought they would so AshLyn was able to buy three from her for what she had paid for them and we all went. Ash, Dave and Jake sat together and by the way, their seats were much better then ours. We bought ours the first hour they went on sale, go figure. Les, Keagan, Lily and I all sat together. The first thing to get us off to a negative start was I brought bottled water for all of us and a large bag of cheese puffs. As we entered the gate the security people told us NO FOOD OR DRINK! You've got to be kidding me, not even WATER??? Nope, you can pour out your water and take you empty bottles in. Why would we want to do that. We couldn't find one drinking fountain that worked, and this is at BYU, LAVEL EDWARD STADIUM! I wanted to give ole Lavel a call and ask him if he knew that they did things like that in a stadium that had his name on it and represented him. Lily had the bag of Cheese puffs and I saw the girl look at her like she was going to say you can't take that in little girl but then turned her head and didn't say anything. How could she do that to a little innocent girl like Lily, we should have let Lily carry in the water too. Then we found out we were on the far side of the stage, but at least we could see well on the large screen. As people started to fill in and take their seats we discovered we had 8 little excited girls sitting behind us. They screamed when the Blue Men Group came out but nothing compared to the screaming when Miley Cyrus arrived on stage. All four of us had to cover our ears it was deafening. How can a 16 year old make the kind of money she does???? That should be illegal. And to see all the little Miley Cyrus want a be's, I just hope she won't turn out like Brittney Spears! She jumped around on stage like Mick Jagger from the rolling stones and from the way she wiped her head around with that long hair I'm surprised she didn't have wipe lash. All of her songs sounded alike but I guess now I'm just showing my age. At least the girls loved seeing her. I asked Jake this morning, "If I get tickets to the Stadium of fire do you want to go again next year," his reply was, "if it is someone that a 6 year old girl would want to see NO." But he did enjoy the Blue Men Group. Glenn Beck is always entertaining and had some great things to say about our country and being patriotic. The fireworks were spectacular! All in all we had a good time. At least the kids had a good time and maybe when their older and have children of their own they'll tell their children that Nana and Papa took them to the Stadium of Fire and they had a great time! How I wish Brynlee could have been there because I know she would have been screaming just as loud as those 8 little girls behind us and Isaac and Jaron would have loved the Blue Men. Happy 4th of July and hears to making wonderful memories with our children and grand children! Isn't that what life is all about, really.

New Mattress - So Far So Good!

Well the new mattress arrived Thursday. The first night neither one of us slept very well but you know how it is when you get a new mattress it take a few days to get use to it. One good sign is I woke up the next day with no aches or pains! Les took the salesman's advise and listed the inteligel mattress on Craig's list Friday. Friday night when we got home from work a guy called asking if he could come see the bed Saturday. The man and his wife got to our house at 11:30 we took them down stairs and showed them the mattress, we had to put the box springs and mattress on top of our guest bed to show it. We were frank with them and told them why we didn't like the bed. They climbed up on it and tried it out and decided to buy it. Guess how much Les sold it for???? I know you are thinking the way Les wheels and deals we made a good price right? Wrong. He pretty much gave it away. He asked $250.00 dollars for it. AshLyn said we were crazy to let it go for that. She said we should have got rid of the bed we have in the computer room and put that bed there for the kids and guest to sleep on and maybe she is right. Les didn't have the heart to try for more on something we had been ripped off on. He was ready to pay someone to take it off our hands. So the inteligel mattress is gone and heres to more nights of restful sleep.