Wild Ragin Water Weekend (aka Girls Retreat)

We had such a great weekend!!! Jeneal, Kelli, Jhalore....Thank you for coming to see us and for being such good sports! You all have such great qualities and are so much fun! We had a girls retreat weekend and thanks to Meredith we all ate like Queens. We ran the river on Saturday and it was so beautiful. We were hoping to have a little easier time with the white water rapids as you can see in the second slide show below we hit some pretty wild waters but with the combined skills and agility of each of us we faired pretty well. In order to prepare ourselves and get tough we decided that every time someone gave you a compliment you had to reply "up yours" which was really hard for Jeneal. She really just wanted to reply a simple and heartfelt "Thank you", but we wouldn't let her. Luckily she and Mom were always the first to hop out of the boat and pick it up and move it when we drug bottom. When we would tire out and didn't think we could press on Amy was in charge of the pep talk. It was a very short. thoughtful and moving speech that got us going again. It consisted of yelling "Tallyhoe Bitches!!!". Every time someone or something would go overboard Jhalore would rescue dive into the water, swim to the bottom and retrieve whatever had fallen. Due to Kelli's vast knowledge of the wild and her hard core thirst for speed we beat the pick up time by 1 1/2 hours so we had to plenty of time to rest and re-hydrate with power drinks at the dock when we were through. I didn't tell you guys this but Doug and Ray ran ahead of us so they could take pictures for the slide show and I think they really captured our best moments well. Thank you Doug...Thank you Ray!
Mere, thanks again for all of your hard work and I love you all!!!!!

Taming of Orca the Killer Whale

Last night I asked Jess if she could get me the comb off of the counter. She said "Easy Peazee Lemon Squeezee" Then she had tea in my bathtub.
I want to be her for just one day.

Mikey Moto dancing to Booty song!

Make sure you turn off the sound on the video's, then hit the play button. (Don't turn off my blog music, each video has a little sound thing on the bottom) If the sound is off and you can hear my blog music it has a much better effect, then if you really want to enjoy it, change it to the stupid mud digger song....it's great!

Mud Diggers

Is that not the face of regret? Or maybe the face of WOW..I was having a blast until I realized I am up shit creek. I can't believe I actually found a song called "Mud Digger" If you listen to the lyrics I think he may even be from Vernal. You gotta love the internet! I have reached my height of stupidity in the picking of this song. Another camping trip down the tubes. Let's sum it up in a nutshell.... The kids "accidentally" fell in the mud...Chandler made me do it..... Mackenzi dared me....Ashlie had no comment. Jessa painted dad's fingernails which went beautifully with the magarita's we had. Jessa got stung by a buttload of bees. She told us that daddy said "run jessa...Run Jessa....RUN RUN RUN JESSA RUN!!!!" I guess she didn't run fast enough as you can see one tried to stick his butt in her eyeball. The boys went in to a coma on the fourwheeler and last but not least it HAILED on us!!! Tallyhoe!!!

Check out the tree in these pics!!

Soooooo...If a tree fell in the forest and nobody was around except 25 sleeping people would anyone hear it?? Why, yes, thank you for asking! Jill would, and only Jill, but would Doug believe her? Oh hell no! Not even when it was 10 feet from our vehicles. We are all so perceptive too that we didn't even notice it nor did I remember I heard it until about 2:00 the next day! Dang....I was so wishing for a new car too. It actually blew down about 10 minutes before I made Doug go outside in his manties and put down the awning and 9 1/2 minutes before Brent and Mere were outside in their underwear putting down their awning and 9 minutes before...well, Dad goes commando so let's not go there. But it was big wind and it was in the middle of the night. If we all would have been smart (like Ray) and put the awning's down when we went to bed, the wind wouldn't have blown at all!

We had another great weekend. It was Brendans birthday..the big boy is 18 and we all decided that he is now old enough to touch boobies. Happy Birthday Weazel, you big ole handsome hunky fella! Jessa and Chandler both rode Mikey's motorcycle but Jessa only rode it around in once in a short circle. Chandler on the other hand was a totally different story...her butt was glued to the seat ALL weekend...around the camp she went. After that she went around the camp and then she went around the camp so she could go around the camp some more. Can't wait to go again and see you all next weekend!!!!

When the wife doesn't listen....

Oh yeah....you wanna impress me...part it!

I had to put that picture on top so you could see how funny it really is up close! Ruger apparently decided the water was too cold after all and he would just walk across Flaming Gorge instead.

So we went camping last weekend and had sooo much fun! The kids rode the dirt bikes all day, aound, around, around the track. We got invaded by cows every morning and I mean invaded. You can see the picture of one in the middle of the camp fire? We named him Filet Mignon...He just stood there and looked at me waiting for me to build a fire under him. Jessa saw a REAL cowboy. We went to the Gorge and let the kids jump off the cliffs Which was a really good thing because they had been camping since Wednesday and they all smelled like cow manure.

Jessa cried when I told her yesterday that it was time to come home. She ate...well lets say they ALL ate fifty pounds of smores and a whole dutch oven full of peach cobler, not to mention the concoction that Aspen and Ruger made up by mixing cake mix and Sprite in the empty peach pie filling can and cooking it in the fire. It looked like silly putty but Ruger said it was delicious and "That's what campin is all about!"