Did I mention that I was feeling frazzled?

This morning in my rush to get off to a church meeting I failed to see the pile of bricks sitting in front of my car for a landscaping project we are working on (Even though I KNEW they were there and I ran right over them denting the front bumper and wheel well of our car! This did not start my day off well...

Feeling Frazzled?

I don't know if any of you are familiar with this scene from Cinderella. But it describes how I am feeling perfectly. I've got too much going on and not enough time or energy to do it all. I have lots I want to blog about and hopefully I will soon, but for now I need to figure out which "teacup" to focus on!

First Camping Trip of the Summer

Well, it wouldn't be as good of a story if there weren't some mishaps along the way, right? Overall it was a fun overnight trip and mainly that's because we tried to keep a positive attitude throughout it.

We were all set and ready to go. We had the camper packed, clothes and food ready, all that was left was to hook up the camper and go! Aaron went to work in the morning and we were set to leave by 3pm to go to Tinney Flats. When we hooked up the camper however, the brake lights and turn signals weren't working on the camper. We tried everything we could to get it to work and still no luck--which was strange because it all worked fine when we brought it home. What could be the problem? We tried for 3 hours to get that thing working and then our neighbor, Dan, came home and we thought we'd ask for his help cause he's very handy with fixing up vehicles and he thought that maybe there would be a separate fuse on Aaron's car for hauling lights. (We had already tried all the fuses on the trailer) Dan was over for about 15 mins and it was fixed--which reminds me that I have some brownies to make...

So we were off finally! We set off toward our campsite and arrived there about 40 minutes later. It was a high climb in the mountains and Aaron's car got heated up a lot. So hot that his transmission fluid popped(?) He lost it all all over the ground. His car was smoking and leaking. I thought hmm... maybe we weren't supposed to come on this trip afterall. But we kept our spirits high, a friendly camper helped us with the car and we set up camp.

By the time we got everything set up and dinner cooked, it was past 10pm! It was really cold up there but it was OK cause our little camper has a heater that kept us warm all night.

In the morning we woke up to rain mixed with...SNOW! Yah! That's how cold it was! I told Aaron that next time we go camping this early in the season we will go to southern Utah! (he agreed) He ran down into town to get some transmission fluid for his car while I fixed breakfast. And it seemed to run just fine to get us home.

The kids had fun and we did have fun too. We played some games and the kids rode their scooter and rip-stik around the camping loop.

But I came home and got really sick. Probably a combination of the bad weather and eating too much junk food.

We learned some valuable lessons and can't wait to go again! We are already planning our next campout!

Free Krispy Kreme!

I just thought it was really important for people to know about this. It is a good thing to do with kids in the summer. Although once you get to Krispy Kreme you will probably have paid for your free doughnuts and then some for what you've paid in gas to get there! But still, I am not a donut lover but I love Krispy Kreme. Just like I'm not a hot dog lover but I LOVE J-Dawgs! That's how good they both are!

Weekend Recap

Thursday was the last day of school! Tessa is now done with preschool and will go to Kindergarten next year! It will be strange for my kids to not be going to Teacher Lynda's preschool anymore! We have been going to her every year since we moved here 7 years ago!

Every year we take our kids out to lunch or dinner to celebrate the end of school. We reserved seats in the trolley part of the Trolley restaurant. It is the first time the kids have ever been able to sit there so it was kind of fun.

We spent the weekend making sure that everything on our tent trailer was working properly and stocking it for our upcoming camping trip! The kids are so excited. They were very helpful with every part of cleaning and stocking the trailer. I am so glad to see them so excited about this and hope we have lots of fun camping experiences together.

Aaron and I went on a date to see "Esperanza Rising" at BYU. I have read the book and I really like it a lot. But, as what normally happens, the play did not live up to the book. They also threw in a lot of Spanish asides that were often good for laughs for the audience except for those of us (me & Aaron) who don't speak Spanish. Oh well. We enjoyed our evening together nonetheless.