Somebody Save Me!

Hi. My name is Sparky, and I'm a little dog. I only weigh about 6 or 7 lbs. I live with my mommy. She has a grandson who likes to play with me. I don't like it much. He drives me crazy! He is always putting me places and wanting to sit and hold me. Today he got into my bed and sat with me. SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM THIS TODDLER!!!!

Speaking of Expired....

Bonnie the Boss, whose blog I read frequently, posted about a recent camping trip. It reminded me of the can of PAM that we found while on vay-cay. You seriously have got to look closely at the date on the sticker. It's awesome!

If you look closely you will see that the PAM is from Kmart....and the date is 4-30-82. I wasn't even born yet! Mike wasn't even born yet! It is THAT old! Needless to say, we threw it in the garbage.

Bear Lake Day 2

Day 2 of our vacation we hiked up to Bloomington Lake, up Bloomington Canyon. I don't remember the hike being as hard as it was. Maybe that's because they changed the trail. The path used to go around the east (?) side of Mud Lake, but now it goes around the west (?) side of the lake. It's funny, because a lot of people walk up the hill and see Mud Lake, the first lake of the three on the trail, and turn around and go home because it's nothing special. Little do they know that if you keep hiking past Mud Lake and Beaver Lake that you find this:
Bloomington Lake. It is so beautiful up there!

This tree has a rope swing that hangs off of it, and people line up to take a turn flying into the lake.

Jon and my dad's head.

Marshy trying to get away from Grandma (Nana).

Showing Nana that he knows where the buckles are, and trying to get them off.

View of the far side of the lake.

I love this picture. He looks so sweet and innocent here. Little do we know he is plotting to go jump in the water!!!

FLOWERS!

Pretty Flowers!

A butterfly. We saw a really cool looking yellow and orange bird, but Mike couldn't get the long lens on the camera before it flew away.

I told you he was plotting to jump in the water! Nana had to hold on tight to keep him on the dry ground!

She contented him to throw pebbles into the lake instead of swim.

I think next time we might wear our swimmies up and go swimming in the lake. I might even try the rope swing. Who knows! But, we sure did have a lot of fun. I think my favorite part was when these 4 ditsy girls hiked in and said "I would've sworn we'd be the only ones up here!" I waited until they walked away a bit and said "What did you think the parking lot full of cars were doing up here? Hiking to Mud Lake?" hahaha She was dumb. It was funny.

Later Day 2 we went to the North beach of the Bear Lake, but we didn't take any pictures. Marshy had a lot of fun playing in the sand and the water, and Mike had a lot of fun dunking me under the water when I couldn't touch the bottom. Nice!

I am SO HAPPY

So, I went on vacation over the weekend. I've kind of been freaking out because my court date is set for August 25th, and the process servers had until July 25th to serve the papers. I hadn't heard anything from them yet, and I was starting to worry that I would have to re-file my court papers.

Well...... I got a phone call Thursday morning before I left.


What was this phone call? you ask.



THEY SERVED THE PAPERS!!!!


FINALLY, after 4 MONTHS of trying to catch her, they finally served her the papers.

They told me she was a major bizzo to the girl who served her. I guess she was saying stuff like "You can't serve me those!" and "I'm not accepting this!" and "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!"

haha.

Funny thing she obviously doesn't know: in Utah, all the server has to do is have contact of some sort with the person. Talking to them totally counts, so the papers count as being served. YAY FOR ME!

The server left the papers for her and reported back to the office, who then called me.

YAY! This means no refiling paperwork. No more having to worry.

The only thing I am concerned about is what if she tries to beat me up at the courthouse? Or yells at me? But then, Mike reminded me that there are security guards all over the place, and if she so much as touches me then she is in trouble.

Anyway, that is my happy news for the weekend.

We took lots of pictures on vay-cay, but Blogger won't let me upload them right now, so check back later to see how much fun Marshy had on his first cabin experience. Also, I uploaded pictures on my quilting blog of some really cute quilts. My favorite is "Ethan's Quilt" so please go check it out (comments are kindly appreciated).

Bear Lake Day 1

We went to Bear Lake over the weekend. We drove up Thursday afternoon. Friday morning we decided to go to the Ice Cave, elevation 7800 feet above sea level.

Marshy was so good to hold Daddy's hand on the climb up to the cave. The guy in the front is my little brother, Jon.

This is the view from the top down into the cave. As you can see, there are people rappelling there.

When you walk around to the bottom entrance of the cave, there's a small river/pond-ish thing. There's a rickety old wooden bridge that you have to walk across. It's kind of creepy because you walk in from the sunlight into total darkness for a second. It's weird.

Uncle Jonny and Daddy standing on the snow. There is snow year-round in the cave.

The view from the bottom up to the top. Again, you can see the climbing ropes. There were 2 younger people learning how to rappel. It was kind of funny, because the girl was totally freaking out. It wasn't very deep, maybe only 50 feet or so?

Marshall playing around and exploring. These photos are courtesy of Mike.

Marshy LOVES snow! He was so excited.....until he found out it was muddy snow and he fell on his butt. Then he wasn't too happy.

My dad and my brother watching Marshy from behind the giant block of snow.

Climbing up the rocks. There are crevices and spaces in the cave that go back deeper. I've never spelunked into them, but I sure do think that would be fun! Maybe when I get skinny and don't have to worry about getting stuck, huh?

Marshy was a little unsure about the bridge, even though he kept yelling "BRIDGE!" He loves bridges. He is funny. He had a lot of fun. It's quite chilly down in the cave, hence the snow, but going from the cold to the heat was nice. Then it started to rain a little, so that cooled us off, too. It was a fun little excursion.

24th of July

Going out of town for the 24th of July.

In Utah, we celebrate the 24th of July. All the banks are closed. We have parades, rodeos, carnivals, etc.

My parents and my family are going out of town.

It's probably a good thing, since my little family lives off of the main street of our town, right in the center, all around the chaos and commotion of the celebration!

We're going up to our cabin. It's not really a cabin. It's more like a house. It's the house my grandma grew up in, so it's pretty old. There's no internet up there. What am I going to do?!

Here's to hoping I can survive the weekend without any internet! I'll let you know if I survived on Monday! haha

Our Lovely Neighbors

We have some great neighbors where we live.

They have a 5 month old daughter.

They have a problem taking a five-finger discount frequently.

Last week, the husband went into the county jail on Tuesday.

He got out on Wednesday.

He was in for retail theft of less than $300.

On Thursday his wife went into the county jail.

She was in for retail theft.

We assume that because she has a 5 month old, that's why she was released immediately.

On Friday, the husband went back into the county jail.

He went in for robbery, retail theft, and trespassing.

He is still in there.

His bail is like $12,000.

Makes us really glad they're our neighbors.