Good website

I read about this website and thought I would pass it along. It is a website that rates juvenile and young adult books. Read about the moms who started it. Very helpful when your kids start bringing home all sorts of books!

http://www.theliteratemother.org/

10 minutes too late

I was a few minutes too late putting Chasey down for a nap. I found him sound asleep in his closet on top of a pile of dirty clothes with a sock in his mouth!

Remembering

Today is a sad day.

I have been thinking about my sweet nephew and how much we all miss him. We will never forget him. Happy Birthday Gavin.



We also had a young wife and mother in our Ward pass away from leukemia yesterday evening. She has left behind her husband, her 10 year old son and an 18 month old daughter. This is a video of her made by her husband. Warning: Only watch it if you are in need of a really, really good cry.



Life is so fragile. I am so grateful for the atonement of my Savior and for the Plan of Salvation.

Round Two

I am willing to admit that I was defeated by the Highland wind this spring. If I am lucky I will get a few peas and some tough spinach. The wind is brutal out here. However I have not given up the fight yet.

I wanted to build some sort of wind break that was cheap, but would work. At some point in the future we will have a fence surrounding the garden that will help immensely. But until then I had to come up with something else. So last week in my jet-lagged stupor I erected these domes over my boxes.



The idea is that when it is windy (most of the time) I will put some plastic sheeting over the new plants. I bought the sheeting in the paint section at Home Depot and cut holes in it. I am hoping that once my plants get bigger, they will be able to withstand the wind a bit better.



I also bought the pavers that you can see that are suppose to hold down the sheeting. However on the first trial run with only mild Highland wind, the pavers were knocked off the sheeting. Sooooo I went down to Lehi Block and bought some heavy duty triple weight pavers in their seconds area that seem to be doing the job.



It's not pretty, but I am desperate. I really hope this works.

The after effects.

It is four thirty in the morning and I am wide awake. After returning home yesterday from Bali and going for 40 plus hours without seeing a bed during the ride home, you would think that I would not have this problem. But I do, so here I am.



We had a great time relaxing, reading, playing cards, eating good food and doing all sorts of stuff that you normally do on vacation. After sifting through all of my pictures I liked this one the best. This was where we went to get a few spa treatments. The ride over to Indonesia is brutal, but once you get there the cost of everything is very inexpensive. So inexpensive you feel like you are getting your money's worth.

Now that I am back to reality, my first order of business is attending to my kids and my garden. My kids did great while we were gone, but my garden is another story. There were more terrible wind storms, so all of my cold crops are either gone, almost gone or will be gone if something is not done about the wind. My mission is to construct some sort of wind break to help these poor plants out this week.

Bali Ha'i

Ever watch Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific? Back when we had no kiddos Scott and I went to see it at the Sundance outdoor theater. In it there is a song titled Bali Ha'i. Whenever I think of the island, Bali in Indonesia, I automatically think of this song. Now this song may or may not have anything to do with this island, but for me the name means a connection. Here are a few of the lyrics to this song.

Bali Ha'i may call you,
Any night, any day,
In your heart, you'll hear it call you:
"Come away...Come away."

10 days on a beach in Bali with a pile of books to read sounds just about right. I think Bali is definitely calling me.

"Here am I, your special island!
Come to me, come to me!"

Really how could you not come with a song so enticing as this?

On a whim

Poor Chasey doesn't get much when it comes to new duds. He gets all the old stuff that has gone through 3 other boys. Only when the clothes are so worn and stained or I can't stand to look at them anymore do I go out and buy him a few things. This is what happens when you are the youngest. The other day I was at one of my new favorite stores and I saw these shoes. I thought they were so cute and reasonably priced, so without a second thought I bought them.



Cute huh?


After several attempts, this was the best picture I could get with Chase wearing them. I think they look extra cute with little baby toes peeking out.

This is the extent of cuteness at our boy-filled house. I take what I can get.