Rainy day at Lagoon

My father in law had a few free tickets to Lagoon with his works "Lagoon day". No one else wanted to use them, so we took advantage of the savings. It rained around lunch pretty hard, so we hung out under a pavillion and ate & talked. That was about the worst of it. It wasn't crowded and the kids had fun, so that's all that matters. Here are some of my favorite pics from the day.

Kelsey was too tall for the bumper cars! She is almost as tall (or short!) as me.

Conner & Mal got right on both these rides, no one was in line. It was drizzling pretty good about this time, but as you can see from their faces, they were still having fun!



Hmmm, they don't look too happy here. I think their little bums got wet getting into a wet seat!

They are such good friends....most of the time!

Oh, looks can be so deceiving. Going on the train! One of the few rides I went on.

Playing a water gun game by Rattlesnake Rapids. I think Emma won everytime!

Kelsey & Emma taking Conner & Mallory on some kiddie rides. Mallory was actually kind of scared of this one after she got on. She started crying "Mommy". I laughed and tried to get a picture.

We actually had to wait in line for this one, but not long. A new ride this year called "Jumping Dragon". We were all able to go on. It's like Music Express, which is down by Colossus, but more fun. You are in your own seat, so you don't smash each other, and it also goes backwards!

Ashton didn't really want to do this one, but of course he loved it afterwards. This is "Rocket-Re-Entry". Kelsey & Emma were on the other side.

Kelsey, Emma & Ashton waiting for Conner & Mal to get off the boats!

Conner is really good at posing for pictures.

While Jared took the 3 older kids to do the roller coasters, I took Conner & Mal to the kiddie rides. Here's another ride I got to go on! Conner picked a horse, and Mallory picked a cat. I strapped them both on & Mallory made sure to tell me NOT to hold her. Miss Independent!

Kelsey's YA Award & Mallory's B-day pics

Here are two pictures of Kelsey & her hard earned Young American Award. It was the last day of school, and the Principal forgot to do this particular award during the "academic" part of the too long assembly. The 5th grade teachers reminded him at the very end. Conner & Mal had had enough & were ready to leave. Only she & two others did it in the whole 5th grade. My "Update" entry lists exactly what she had to do to receive it.

Way to go Kelsey!

Poor Mallory was so sick on her birthday. She looks sunburned in some of these pics, but it was a "strep rash". We didn't have anyone over since she & I were both sick, so we just did presents and had Disney princess cake and ice cream. She loved her gifts!

Here she is with her Aurora dress up. She also got a Cinderella dress. I love her face in the above pic.

Her brothers & sisters loved helping her open her gifts and we all loved watching her happy reaction. She had been so sick, it was nice to see her forget about it for a little while.

Rock Gate, June 13th 2009

Oh....boys.
We had our friends, the Dallas family, over for dinner tonight. They have 2 boys our boys same age, and a girl Mallory's age. They play really well together. The kids were just outside our dining room window playing. We adults were sitting at the table, talking. We had the window open and were keeping an eye on them. We didn't notice, however, that Conner & Ryan were in front of the twin home that my in-laws are building next door, and were throwing rocks in the street. Well, some guy who lives up the street turned onto 8175 South, headed east, and saw them. He stopped, put his window down, and told them they shouldn't throw rocks. I guess that wasn't enough for him. He pulled over, walked to the back of the twin home to where he could see us and told us that..."Your boys are throwing rocks. They could have hit a car. They're lucky they didn't hit my Range Rover, it's a $75,000 car." (Yeah, maybe 5 years ago...get over yourself buddy!) Jared apologized and we told Ryan & Conner to come in the house, they were in TROUBLE. Jared went with the older kids to get the rocks out of the street. They guy had already left. BUT, he came back. He wanted to talk to Jared & Tyler. He pointed out a dent on the hood of the car (passenger side) that he claimed came from a rock they threw. I'm telling you, there is no way either of those boys can throw a rock that far. Plus it was too large a dent, and paint had already chipped around it, it looked pretty weathered. It got ugly after that....the guy called Sandy police, filed a report, and is probably going to sue us. Poor Conner, when he saw the police, thought they were coming to take him away and just started crying. That right there was probably punishment enough. The officer was very nice, he talked to both Ryan & Conner, got everyone's story. Conner relaxed after that and thought the officers belt was pretty cool. Not because of the gun though. He kept saying, "Mom, the police has a flashlight!" The officer said there wasn't anything he could do about the situation. He actually called us later tonight to get some additional information because this "Range Rover" guy had called the police department to complain about how the officer had handled it. Give me a break! I'm sure there will be more to come, as the officer kept telling us, "That guy is on a witch hunt."

I've been hacked!

For those of you who don't know, my msn email account was hacked yesterday. He/she sent out an email to my contacts list, as me, saying I was in London and had lost my wallet and needed money. C'mon, a wallet? London? I wish I could say I've been there. And if I really needed help, like I would send out an email. There's a thing called a phone...works much faster. It took up a lot of time yesterday, but I think I have everything straightened out and hopefully the worst is over. I updated my email address on every account I could think of. So make sure you delete my old msn email, and my new one is jlsmart27@gmail.com. And if you get any emails in the future from that msn account, it is NOT me. The password and the secret question used to get the password have been changed, so I can't get into it anymore.