Daisy barfed!

So yesterday Greg and Daisy went for a ride up to one of the local passes to see if the colors were nice. They got out and walked a couple places. Then today I get home from school and Greg proceeds to tell me that Daisy threw up this morning before she got outside. Gross you say? Well it is but it is kinda funny...She threw up a pine cone. Apparently dogs are not suppose to eat pine cones!

The new post

Melissa and the kids came to visit. We had so much fun! I took a couple of days off to hang out with the little ones. Daisy loved having people her own size to play with. In fact when it was nap time and everyone got out their blankeys Daisy wanted one too. She kept trying to take pheonix's so we made her one real quick. Here they are with the blankeys before bedtime.

Willow and Poppy getting ready to hop on the merry-go-round.

Pheonix trying to convince melissa to carry him up the slide (2 minutes earlier he climbed right up them)

So it may a little hard to tell but the fish was born and lived most of its life completely orange. One day when pheonix was "playing with it" a serious accident occured. We found Daisy Duke's pet (she thought she would stay with the whole dukes of hazard theme, lulu) stuck in the filter. Now we aren't sure if it got sucked up or if someone put it in there. Anyway goldfish usually have three flowing parts to their tail, lulu now has one. She has also started turning black. So if anyone is a fish expert please enlighten us. I'm assuming that it is kinda like my hair turned gray after a tramatic event. anyway lulu is swimming fine and Daisy checks on her everyday.

my garden is enjoyed by some...

This past month I have been noticing that my tomatoes were not getting ripe. I see the green little beginnings then nothing. Aleca's garden is flourishing with vegetables and mine was not. Then last week when I mowed the lawn I realized that someone, not going to name dogs, had been picking the green tomatoes the carrying them off to the corners of the lawn. the lawn mower found them and spit them all over the yard. Well i had a stern talk with her and have checked then lawn every day. I have not found green tomatoes instead I have found the fist sized orange tomatoes that are almost ripe. tonight I found the fourth victim this week.


Notice that the tomato still has some green on it. The teeth marks are what gave it away. I know I'm better at this detective stuff than Sherlock Holmes...it only took me a month to figure it out.

Her she is the tomato theif!!!

back to school

Well the summer is over and I am going back to school. I get to go a week early because the literacy teachers all decided that they need to meet and discuss the pacing guide and test scores. FOR 3 DAYS!!! I was also selected by my principal to be on a committee that decides what the other teachers are teaching when I am teaching AVID. the nice thing is I get paid extra for going in those 3 days. I would take a picture of how happy I am but sadly the camera batteries are dead.

Greg is in Chicago working his usual 12+ hours and enjoying the famous deep dish pizza. the lovely Daisy is sleeping all day long.

mud volleyball

We had an activity this week that the YW and YM loved. We were invited by another ward to join them in playing mud volleyball. It was quite the experience.

Here are the other YW leaders with me. We "tried" to make it out clean.

This is one of the young men's leaders...he got it the worst out of all the leaders. I don't know if you can see the twigs and brush that was on his face.


After the activity they had a big water truck there to hose down everyone. The water was freezing cold.


It was a good time. The mud however was everywhere. I still have yet to get my sneakers clean.

packages from Santa?

Every week I am collecting packages that come for Greg. This week I have collected only part of them and already it feels like Christmas. This week I have received 4 new wheels for the jeep TJ and an air conditioning unit for the TJ as well. Notice how large the boxes are. Maybe one of these days there will be a box for me that has tons of my favorites.

Oh and I had to add a picture of Daisy sporting her new outfit the purple collar.

the new project

This last winter greg got a great deal on this TJ and decided to modify it into a rockcrawler. He has slowly been collecting parts over the years to put on something like this. This summer he had been taking off parts and selling them if they were not needed. This is what it looked like before I left for San Diego 2 weeks ago.

Why yes that is correct those are huge tires try to guess the size.

The TJ looked like this when I came back from San Diego. Greg is building it using nice beefy parts to make it the official RME Rockcrawler.


Yep, that is correct there is nothing in the front of the jeep. Hopefully by september it will be running again. We are staying optimistic because it is a ton of work.