Goofs

Yes, We are getting ready to have professional photos taken!!! Augh!!!! Wish me luck.










Emily has been letting me get her a little girlie! For those of you wondering about my "Sexy shoes" She found them!!!

Lagoon

Thursday we headed up to Lagoon. The Ellis' and Hardy's were already there and stayed at the campground. We tried to get a campsite for both nights, but they could only accomidate us for Thursday night. We figured it wouldn't be worth the effort for just one night, Luckily the Ramseys were at a hotel. We decided to stay at a hotel with the Ramseys. We were eventually able to find one together, and they put us straight across the hall from eachother. It worked out great for us, hopefully they would agree too. After checking in to the hotel, we went to Lagoon and met up in Lagoona Beach. It was a lot of fun.

Kymball and McKay Ellis had fun trying to tip me off my tube in the lazy river. I had one successful round, but as we started the second lap, they finally won, and I went head over heels into the water. As if that wasn't bad enough, Then they took my tube! I always thought that a 31 year old woman would have a better chance of catching up to 6 and 8 year old little girls, but they were weaving in and out of people so fast that before too long they were out of sight and laughing all the way. I told them the storm was coming, but I am afraid my bark is worse than my bite. If any of you have ideas of how I can get back at them, I am open for suggestions.

Okay, now I have been accused of crazy things in my life, but....
I was innocently holding Leigh on Thurday while Anne, Cami and Kim were demonstrating their bravery (I was too late to be involved in the stunt--Yeah!!). She had already been eating licorice when I got her, but Cami has the nerve to think that I gave it to her. True that is me holding her, and everyone knows how much I love her, but really, WOULD I DO A THING LIKE THAT?!!!

Okay, so I would have, but this time I was too late!

I have decided that going with friends is definatly the way to go. We all have kids the same age, so we let them go off in groups by ages. Each kid had a buddy, and the adults went with the diffrent age groups of kids. This was great because you got to be with an adult, the kids got to be with friends, and we got to watch each of our kids go on rides.

So this photo is when Sean and Boyd took the "big kids" on the big rides. They waited 45 minutes to go on "Wicked", 15 minutes in the car to ride it, when finally they said that the ride had broken down. The next day Sean and I took Jake and Jaron to ride it, only to wait in line 50 minutes in the hot sun, finally ride it, and have them close the ride right after us. The ride is a total of about 30 seconds. Par for the course: Wait 100 times the ride time in line, 30 times the ride time in the car, but yes it was worth it.

You do get to find out a lot about your kids. I found out that Nathan can, will and wants to wear his swimsuit all day long! He loves the big rides, and loves being with his friends. He is a lot of fun, and sometimes he just wants to spend some one on one time with mom and dad.

I found that with a camera, and a scary ride, Jaron is hilarious! (See previous video.) Really, I found that Jaron is pretty happy go lucky. With a little encouragement (especially from Jake) he has no problem with the scary ones, and at the same time is thrilled to go on the little rides with Emily. I guess that is one of the sweetest things about him.

I learned (no surprize) that Emily loves to be with Caleb, and she wants to be in the drivers seat. They are both pretty strong willed (youngest child in the family), but they seem to know when its okay to take the lead, when to let the other one take the lead, when to get your own boat, car, stroller, whatever, and when they need to be away from eachother.

Sean demonstrated that he is a big kid and a great daddy. He loves to go with the boys and play on water slides, lazy rivers, rides, etc., and is also very happy to go on the kiddie rides with Emily and get wet. He is also very patient with his unperdictable wife that sometimes is running out of the house a million miles a minute, and other times has to be dragged out of the house kicking, screaming and crying. I truly do love you Sean!

I learned that I am a screamer and laugher when I am scared! I also realized that I have bad luck in canoes and on a tube riding the outback waterslide. And when I fall off I go completly head over heels underwater soaked! Then it takes about 2 minutes to get back on the tube. That means I average about 6 minutes more per ride than my friends. I guess that is one way to make it last longer.

I learned that Cami is a daredevil. She tries to trick her friends into riding a slide called liquid light--How mean!

Kim does not like to get her pants wet, and will actually stand up on the log ride to aviod it!

Anne hates roller coasters. She doesn't like to see the track. Her and I went on the Jetstar. As it is winding up, we are talking. She looks over and sees the part where it drops, and sais "Oh, What is that? That is not part of our roller coaster is it? Oh, I didn't see that before! Michelle did you know that this did this?" Of course I was laughing, then the screaming began. On the video it is funny to hear Jason talking to Sean "Anne hates roller coasters!"

We had a blast at Lagoon. Sean made a point when he said "We only have 8 more summers with Nate." We really do need to take these opportunities to make good memories with our family.

I agree with Cami "We had SO much fun with our kids. This is where the VISA commercial comes in... Amusement park tickets, $200.00; Gas to get to Utah, $100.00; food, $100.00; hotel $200.00; Spending time with our little family, priceless!"

So one last video of our trip. About 7:00 Friday evening we went on Rattlesnake rapids. It was a blast. I think you would fare better going around 1:00 in the hot sun, but I am glad that we did it (I was wet for the rest of the night.) Yes, the water is as cold as it looks--maybe colder! and I am the one screaming!!

Jarons Jetstar surprise

Do you ever wonder what made you laugh before you had kids. You can see that Sean and I get a little too much fun at our kids expense. Please note that it was Sean who shot the video. I had nothing to do with it.

I love how he is so happy, and then instant fear, then back to happiness at the end.

"Was it scary?" "Ya."

"Do you want to go again?" "Yes."

More lagoon and update to come. I have to get to sleep!