Are you smarter than a monkey?

 

 

In an effort to help Luke have something really fun to do, we have decided to start a science club.  We are going to have a bunch of kids over for 1 hour each week to do super awesome science activities.  Luke and Megan are both really excited. 

 

I created this logo today and love it!!  I can't take all the credit though.  It's a spin off this brilliant logo, and I found the monkey online (there are tons of the same everywhere or I'd give credit).  Also, it was Megan's idea to put a monkey and a test tube in place of some letters.  I think it's cute and totally worth the time I should have been using to clean the house. 

Vrrrrmmmm!

Our family of motorcycles :)  Picture by Keith

I never thought I would own a motorcycle.  Even a couple months ago I would have never dreamed I would change my mind and we would have motorcycles.  Keith has been asking for one for a long time.  I kept saying I didn't want him to get one, but soon I realized I couldn't stop him and told him that if he was going to get one than I needed to have one too, because I think it's important we have things we like to do together.

Suddenly, not only did I have a motorcycle, we had four for the family!  Crazy!  We went back and forth between buying a Rzr or 4 Wheelers for the kids and ultimately decided that motorcycles were safer than 4 wheelers and that the Rzr wouldn't be as much fun for the kids because one would always have to be a passenger.  We've taken the motorcyles out twice now and had a great time although Megan won't go past 10-15 MPH and Luke isn't ready to go a lot faster.  It's hard to go that slow!!!

Before we bought the motorcycles we bought really good helmets and didn't pay much attention to the prices because we felt that was important.  Last night we bought a Spot GPS.  It's an emergency GPS that you can use to get help if you are ever somewhere you can't get cell phone service.  We are pretty excited about it.  This is going to be a fun new hobby!

Sympathy?

Typing with one hand....

We took the kids to Trafalga and went to the batting cages.  I was excited for my turn, but quickly "struck out" when I hit the ball with my hand instead of the bat.

It's not broken luckily, but my hand looked pretty bad last night.  It swelled up quick and looked disfigured.  I'll be out of this in a week and the pain isn't bad, so I'll survive.

After Pictures

These pictures were all taken with my iPhone.  I tell you because my pride gets in the way sometimes and I feel embarrassed posting blurry pictures. 

How amazing is this house now?  If you read the post below, you read that Megan and Andrew did all of this to their house I helped them find, in just a couple months.  It's even more impressive when you know they are newlyweds.  Are newlyweds supposed to start this nice?

It's hard to tell from my pictures, but if you look close at the bathroom and kitchen pictures in the previous post and the pictures above you can compare and see just how much they did in those rooms.  I love the beadboard they used and I LOVE the turquoise and white cabinets mixed together in the kitchen.  It's genius with the red accents.  All of the wood furniture was bought or found and was in bad shape.  Megan has a real talent for taking old furniture and making it beautiful again.  What do you think?  Should she go into business?  I think so too.

Andrew and Megan, I loved working with you!  Thanks for working with me!

Before Pictures

What do you get when you cross a artistic mind with a decent looking house and loads of hard work?  You get absolute genius!  I can't wait to show you the after pictures of how the house above was transformed. 

I had the opportunity to sell a nice house to my friends, Andrew and Megan Horrocks.  In just a couple months they have transformed that nice house into an incredible house.  It's amazing!!

Let it Snow!

I have been thinking a LOT about the snow lately.  The weather in September is so great I certainly don't want to rush past it.  I love this time of year.  Still, my mind is looking forward to the ski season.  Recently I entered to be a Snowmama at Park City Mountain Resort.  If selected I would become part of their blogging team and would write about skiing and vacationing in Park City with kids.  Since I enjoy blogging and taking pictures, I would like doing that.  I'd love being part of the community too and meeting other moms with kids who ski. 

The biggest perk is that you get season ski passes for your family and a trip to PC for the week.  This would be a dream come true because I would finally be able to get Keith skiing.  He doesn't have any interest in skiing because of the cost.  I wish so bad he would go with me and the kids.  I love skiing so much, and it would be so exciting to have my entire family with me on the mountain.

For my application, I answered a couple questions, turned in this video, as well as the pictures above, and a list of blog titles I have in mind for their blog.  I hope somehow I can stand out.  I'm sure there are a lot of talented people out there who would also enjoy this opportunity. 

Summer Pics

As I was looking through my iPhone pictures I realized there are a lot of stories I haven't recorded from this summer.  Can you find these pictures?

*Megan by the river (right before she dipped her toes in... so much fun!!)
*Meg and Luke with Grandpa by our backyard fire pit.
*4 motorcycles we bought this past month.
*Grandpa Oaks playing with the kids (he is amazing)
*The view from my Las Vegas hotel room.  It was such a beautiful room and such a nice temperature I absolutely LOVED sitting on the balcony when it got dark.
*Megan and my cousin's daughter Hailey in their twin outfits.
*Luke with his newly delivered (still in the box) solar panel.  He was so happy that day!
*Megan and her cute friend at Sand Hollow Lake.  We had a blast swimming!
*Luke and his cousin Kaden.
*Camping kids.
*Summer ski lift.
*Cute little cousin Kate and her pink hat.
*Megan with her French beret and pink Paris shirt my mom brought her back from vacation.
*Megan and her cousins singing at her baptism.
*A cup full of bugs!  Luke put them all in there on purpose.  Ugh.

Oaks Cousins

What an awesome group of cousins!!  This picture is from our trip to Payson Canyon for HAM radio field day.  Lonnie and Linda go every year, and the rest of us try to go too, although Keith and I seem to have something stopping us far too often.  I got my HAM radio licence but it's really not too interesting to me.  However, this year I did really good in the contest they were having, and the competitor in me is excited to try the contest again next year! 

Oh how I wish we could go camping more often!  I love it!

Kurt, Stacy and their family moved to Colorado yesterday.  We are going to miss them so much.  It's really hard to see them go.  This picture was taken the end of June (I believe).  Minutes after this picture, Kurt left to go to Colorado to start his new job.  Their family has been apart until now.  I'm so glad they are together again and hope we get to visit often.