4th Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser

The band that played this year was "Mid-Life Crisis" They sounded great! Jeremy introducing Ed from Habitat for Humanity

Jeremy trying so hard to keep it all together. He was on a lot of drugs from his kidney stone and weak from no sleep and not eating for two days.

This is when the wind started to pick up and the thunder started to roll closer and closer to us. Than we started seeing the lightening.

And this year we had a GREAT, GREAT turn out of friends, neighbors and family and the rain had to ruin our fun. We thought the rain would just come, sprinkle and go away....BUT we where wrong so wrong. Not only did it rain it down poured for a good hour. We made a mad dash to get everything in the house, people, games, raffle prizes and bands. We managed to pull it all together and finish the raffle in the house. The second band "The Wolf Gang" didn't get to play but we are greatful to them for being there and supporting us and such a great cause. Thanks to ALL our fab friends and family who helped to pull off another GREAT year of helping those who are less fortunate than us. We hope to see you all there next summer.

Trama at the Gates House

Jeremy ended up in the ER the weekend of the 20th. He woke up with a strange pain the grew progressively worse as the day went on. By noon he needed to go to the hospital. With his families history with their "guts" not working we worried it was his apendix or galbladder but it was a very large kidney stone. The pain was so different than the one he had in the past so he wasn't sure what it was. After 5 hours of being at the hospital and lots of tests, ultra sounds etc. They sent him home with LOTS of meds. 10:00 p.m that night I made a 911 call because he passed out and stopped breathing twice while sitting on the couch. I was scared to death. He turned white as a ghost and all limp. I tried waking him up over and over again. I pushed on his chest, I smacked his face, yelled his name. While I was explaining to the dispatcher on the other end of the phone, Jeremy took a really deep breath and than turned deep red and started sweating SO bad. He wasn't awake but he was breathing but only for a second and than he passed out again. The parimedics got there in no time at all even though it seemed like forever watching Jeremy go through hell. When they got there they checked his vitals, he was awake and telling me I over reacted! I think not.... he didn't want to ride back to the hospital in the ambulance so after calling my father-in-law to come stay with the kids I took him back to the ER. More test, EKGs and more test but he wasn't feeling better so around 4 am they finally admitted him to the hospital to monitor him more. I went home to

relieve my father-in-law and try to sleep. When Jeremy saw the Uriologist the next morning he was shocked at the type of meds the ER docs had givin him. He gave him the RIGHT meds and sent him home at Noon. It was a crazy few days and I feel truly blessed that Jeremy is better and that he is still here with us. And it's a good thing too because our 4th Habitat for Humanity concert was that day!! And he wouldn't let me cancel it. He is so stubborn!

Fun Summer Family Activities

One Sunday Afternoon after church we decided to go for one of your "drives" and we ended up down town at Temple Square. Okay so it wasn't a coinsidence that we were there that particular day. It just happened to be mine and Jeremy's anniversary that weekend and the Conference Center was were Jeremy proposed. So I purposely drove us there to spend the afternoon. :) sneeky I know. Any way we had a great time. We toured the Conference Center and the Visitor Centers. It was a great afternoon and the kids loved it.

We also spent lots of time at The Hogle Zoo. Thanks to Uncle Joe who gave us the best Christmas gift ever. Jonathan LOVES dinosaurs so this was a special treat for him. The Zoo just happened to be having the dinosaurs visit for the summer. They scared him a little at first but he seemed to warm up a little by the time we left. The first few he would close his eyes and cover his ears with his burp cloth (he is kind of like Linus from Peanuts who carries around his blanket every where only it's a burp cloth for him)

This dinosaur sprays water from his mouth. The others roared or were hidding in the bushes. The Zoo is such a fun place and I love that it changes from time to time so that we can have a great time everytime we go.

Lemonade for Sale!

This was one of Julia and Maia's favorite SUMMER afternoon past times. This particular day Julia made Maia a lemonade hat. It was so cute right down to the little umberella sticking out of the cup. Kind of like the crazy hats at the hot dog on a stick place in the mall. Julia is SO creative and Maia loves being the drama queen.

They are pretty good sales girls. I think they made $10+ dollars this afternoon!

Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum

We spent the afternoon at the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum one August afternoon. We had a FABULOUS time. If you haven't been we would highly recommend going. It's amazing, so much to see and do. The kids had a great time!

After we spent all the time we wanted wandering inside we headed outside to dig for Trilobites. We got our gloves, goggles, hammers and buckets and found a corner of the quarry to find our very own fossils to take home. ALL the kids walked away with lots of rocks and even with trilobite fossils in them. Jonathan LOVED it!

It was a super hot and sunny day, but so worth watching the kids.

Hannah and Julia digging in the rocks.

I think I spend more time choosing the perfect background for the blog than I actually spend updating the blog. I will be better I promise. Our summer has been jam packed with fun and exciting adventures that I will updating you on :)