So, today at work the fire alarm went off. Fire department came soon after with 3 engines. I guess something went wrong in the boiler room, but being outside, I could smell smoke. Everything ended up being fine but holy crap people. I can't believe how stupid people can be.
I know that we are used to fire drills but it took about 7-8 minutes after I rushed out of the building, until people really start filing out of the building. Um, 7-8 minutes? Has anyone really ever seen a fire move THAT slowly? I was pretty shocked. Although, I did smell smoke while in the building but still, c'mon people.
My favorite line of the afternoon -
One of the firemen commented that some guy was upset because he really wanted to get back in there to get to work.
Ahem dude, there's THREE fire engines here, it's not a joke.
Don't be a stupid person, if there's a fire drill in your building, fake or real, GET OUT OF THERE AS FAST AS YOU CAN.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Hey ho, come on let's go....
....To nowhereland, with Maggie and the Ferocious beast.
Anyone else's child ADORE this show? Well, our now 5 year old does and so this is the theme for her cake.
Our first born's 5th birthday was Wednesday and man was it a fun friend's party for her and I. I used to dread the fact of having a friend party with our kids but it surprised me. I thought it turned out marvelously fun. We set up our slip n slides and a sprinkler thing out back and the girls had a blast.
I'm so happy for our little Lesee. She's such a good girl and we love her to death. She's one amazing big sister and pretty funny too. She's super smart and great kid and we couldn't be more proud of her. We love you Lesee Lou! Happy 5th birthday!
Anyone else's child ADORE this show? Well, our now 5 year old does and so this is the theme for her cake.
Our first born's 5th birthday was Wednesday and man was it a fun friend's party for her and I. I used to dread the fact of having a friend party with our kids but it surprised me. I thought it turned out marvelously fun. We set up our slip n slides and a sprinkler thing out back and the girls had a blast. I'm so happy for our little Lesee. She's such a good girl and we love her to death. She's one amazing big sister and pretty funny too. She's super smart and great kid and we couldn't be more proud of her. We love you Lesee Lou! Happy 5th birthday!
Salt Lake City Fling
This last weekend we were fortunate enough to head up to Solitude resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon and stay two nights with the Wood's. I'm telling you right now, YOU NEED TO DRIVE UP THAT CANYON! Utah's never looked as pretty as in that Canyon. I'm not kidding either.
We all got together on Friday and used our Connect passes (which are on sale in July btw! 2 days for price of 1) and we were able to go to a bunch of different places and museums and shows all for the price of the Connect Passes.
We started out at the Clark Planetarium. We played with their exhibits for a while. Then got to see the IMAX movie "Bugs" in 3D. Um, when you have a 2 year old who's already freaked out about bugs put on 3D glasses and then have a spider fall down on the screen from out of nowhere, you're going to have said 2 year old in your lap refusing to wear the glasses the rest of the movie. I'm just saying.
Then we headed to lunch and then to the Discovery Playhouse. Have you been there? It's amazing! You really should go!
Giddy up. 
Hey dude!
I even wanted to stay and play with the girls but our other dome show at the planetarium was going to start soon so gma D stayed there and let the girls play while the rest of us saw the show. B and M fell asleep during the feature. Good show.
We then headed to the Utah Museum of Natural History where they had a tarantula and bug exhibit there where you could touch the bugs and get a real up close look at them.
Yep. That's Allie standing that close to a bug that big. I don't get her. If the bug is tiny and running around our house, screams a plenty but up close, humongous, and hairy she's all ahhh, look at the bug. They also had a frog exhibit there too, that was cool.
This was a cool aquariam you could poke your head through the middle of. 
Hey! That witch has 3 arms! Frog exhibit.
We saw A LOT of dinosaurs this weekend. This one was pretty impressive.
For dinner we got $10.00 of credit toward the Lion House Pantry with our connect passes and so we went there miss A had a major breakdown. Why is it with feeding the kids, I get the most inpatient?
That night we headed up the canyon, as mentioned before B.E.A.UTIFUL!
These are the views from our room. Yes, that's grass on top of the roof. Needs a good mow if you ask J.
The resort was amazing and they had a heated swimming pool with a slide too! That's where we spent the rest of our night. Funnest time in a pool in a very long time!
Saturday, had brunch up there and then headed to Thanksgiving point to the gardens.
Wow. Worth seeing, when you don't have kids in toe. 
We high tailed it out of there cause the kids weren't having it and the heat was a bit much. We headed to the Dinosaur Museum.Yes, ALL these admission prices were waived because we had the Utah Connect passes. Look into it.
The kids liked the digging part of the museum. That's about it.
From there we headed to the Living Planet Aquarium and THAT was cool! I really enjoyed that place a lot. Especially the Parrots in their show thing that was there. Can't remember the name of it right now. Way neat though!
For dinner we ate at this place called "The Philadelphian." The sandwich was good but I'm seriously surprised none of us threw up after eating there. It was the most unsanitary place I've EVER eaten at before. It was awfully dirty and ran by big huge men that used their bare hands to handle the meat. LOVELY. But, like I said, the sandwich was really good.
That night we played games and ate yummy treats in the hotel room, always one of my favorite past times of our vacations!
Sunday, we were able to swim a bit and then take a beautiful hike from Silver Lake to Lake Solitude and man, it was so nice. I swear I'm going back up there as soon as is plausible. I loved that area up there. It's just plain gorgeous. Fun Fun weekend! Even if Allie did get really sick afterwards. May be it was that "Philadelphian" sandwich coming back to haunt us. Poor chica!
Thanks soooooo much Wood's! Fun Fun weekend!
We all got together on Friday and used our Connect passes (which are on sale in July btw! 2 days for price of 1) and we were able to go to a bunch of different places and museums and shows all for the price of the Connect Passes.
We started out at the Clark Planetarium. We played with their exhibits for a while. Then got to see the IMAX movie "Bugs" in 3D. Um, when you have a 2 year old who's already freaked out about bugs put on 3D glasses and then have a spider fall down on the screen from out of nowhere, you're going to have said 2 year old in your lap refusing to wear the glasses the rest of the movie. I'm just saying.
Then we headed to lunch and then to the Discovery Playhouse. Have you been there? It's amazing! You really should go!
Giddy up. Hey dude!I even wanted to stay and play with the girls but our other dome show at the planetarium was going to start soon so gma D stayed there and let the girls play while the rest of us saw the show. B and M fell asleep during the feature. Good show.
We then headed to the Utah Museum of Natural History where they had a tarantula and bug exhibit there where you could touch the bugs and get a real up close look at them.
Yep. That's Allie standing that close to a bug that big. I don't get her. If the bug is tiny and running around our house, screams a plenty but up close, humongous, and hairy she's all ahhh, look at the bug. They also had a frog exhibit there too, that was cool. This was a cool aquariam you could poke your head through the middle of. Hey! That witch has 3 arms! Frog exhibit. We saw A LOT of dinosaurs this weekend. This one was pretty impressive.For dinner we got $10.00 of credit toward the Lion House Pantry with our connect passes and so we went there miss A had a major breakdown. Why is it with feeding the kids, I get the most inpatient?
That night we headed up the canyon, as mentioned before B.E.A.UTIFUL!
These are the views from our room. Yes, that's grass on top of the roof. Needs a good mow if you ask J.The resort was amazing and they had a heated swimming pool with a slide too! That's where we spent the rest of our night. Funnest time in a pool in a very long time!Saturday, had brunch up there and then headed to Thanksgiving point to the gardens.
Wow. Worth seeing, when you don't have kids in toe. We high tailed it out of there cause the kids weren't having it and the heat was a bit much. We headed to the Dinosaur Museum.Yes, ALL these admission prices were waived because we had the Utah Connect passes. Look into it. The kids liked the digging part of the museum. That's about it.From there we headed to the Living Planet Aquarium and THAT was cool! I really enjoyed that place a lot. Especially the Parrots in their show thing that was there. Can't remember the name of it right now. Way neat though!
For dinner we ate at this place called "The Philadelphian." The sandwich was good but I'm seriously surprised none of us threw up after eating there. It was the most unsanitary place I've EVER eaten at before. It was awfully dirty and ran by big huge men that used their bare hands to handle the meat. LOVELY. But, like I said, the sandwich was really good.
That night we played games and ate yummy treats in the hotel room, always one of my favorite past times of our vacations!
Sunday, we were able to swim a bit and then take a beautiful hike from Silver Lake to Lake Solitude and man, it was so nice. I swear I'm going back up there as soon as is plausible. I loved that area up there. It's just plain gorgeous. Fun Fun weekend! Even if Allie did get really sick afterwards. May be it was that "Philadelphian" sandwich coming back to haunt us. Poor chica!
Thanks soooooo much Wood's! Fun Fun weekend!
Hospital play
So, on Sunday mornings we have late church this year and we try to not let the girls play with friends on Sunday, so they have to entertain each other. This is what they decided to do on one such day.
We had an old diaper box and Allie decided to get in and then E piled the blankets on and I guess Allie was the patient and E was the doctor/nurse and was feeding her her lovely hospital meal of Trix. One at a time. Look closely and you can see the back of the box behind A. Ahh, to have fun with a box again.
We had an old diaper box and Allie decided to get in and then E piled the blankets on and I guess Allie was the patient and E was the doctor/nurse and was feeding her her lovely hospital meal of Trix. One at a time. Look closely and you can see the back of the box behind A. Ahh, to have fun with a box again.
4th of July
We had a nice 4th of July. Ellyse and I were with Starstruck Studios in West Point's and Clearfield's parades. That's a lot of walking so we got up on the float for the Clearfield parade. Nothing like dancing up on top of something like a crazy person with hundreds of people watching. hee, hee.
Little Lesee in her cheer outfit. She's a trooper. She walked a lot of the West Point parade.
The float.
In the afternoon, we went to lunch at Applebees. It was dead, no one was there. I blame the economy. Then we saw the movie "Up!" Allie wouldn't have any of it and squirmed like a worm on MY LAP ONLY, she would scream if transferred to another's lap, THE. WHOLE. MOVIE. I didn't come away with the best of feelings towards that movie. And not just because of Allie either. It wasn't my favorite movie.
That night we went out to C's for a BBQ and fireworks.
I love this shot.
After the first firecracker went off, THIS is where Allie was the rest of the night. Jason's trying to coax her to try a aparkler. Yeh, she wasn't having that either. May be next year.
Happy birthday America!
Little Lesee in her cheer outfit. She's a trooper. She walked a lot of the West Point parade. The float.In the afternoon, we went to lunch at Applebees. It was dead, no one was there. I blame the economy. Then we saw the movie "Up!" Allie wouldn't have any of it and squirmed like a worm on MY LAP ONLY, she would scream if transferred to another's lap, THE. WHOLE. MOVIE. I didn't come away with the best of feelings towards that movie. And not just because of Allie either. It wasn't my favorite movie.
That night we went out to C's for a BBQ and fireworks.
I love this shot.After the first firecracker went off, THIS is where Allie was the rest of the night. Jason's trying to coax her to try a aparkler. Yeh, she wasn't having that either. May be next year.
Happy birthday America!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Literally, a little too literal...
For family home evening this week, we decided that we'd discuss the timeless story of Noah's Ark in honor of our little trip we're taking this weekend where we'll see a mock Noah's Ark.
J and I navigated through the story and J remembered to bring up that the flood came because the people living on the Earth at the time were wicked. When E asked what wicked meant, we let her know in basic terms, it's when people do bad things and don't keep the commandments of God; and went on with the lesson.
Tuesday, my sister and I decided to head to the Splash pad in S. Ogden. After we got sufficiently splashed, we headed home and I happened to have "The Incredibles" playing in the van. All the sudden E shouted out, from over the noise of her headphones that the little boy on 'The Incredibles' called the Incredibles 'totally wicked.'
Had to chuckle a bit and then come up with a clever way to introduce her to American Slang.
J and I navigated through the story and J remembered to bring up that the flood came because the people living on the Earth at the time were wicked. When E asked what wicked meant, we let her know in basic terms, it's when people do bad things and don't keep the commandments of God; and went on with the lesson.
Tuesday, my sister and I decided to head to the Splash pad in S. Ogden. After we got sufficiently splashed, we headed home and I happened to have "The Incredibles" playing in the van. All the sudden E shouted out, from over the noise of her headphones that the little boy on 'The Incredibles' called the Incredibles 'totally wicked.'
Had to chuckle a bit and then come up with a clever way to introduce her to American Slang.
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