ColoradoBennett

A few pics to supplement Adam's blog.

Seattle Bennett Living in Colorado

So for the first time in my adult life I planted a garden and let me tell you, I am seriously doubting its value. After demoing a sidewalk, rototilling the ground and putting up a fence that divided Max kennel into max land and garden we went to the nursery and asked if anything would grow where junipers and dogs once lived and they said yes. So we plotted on picking out starters for the vegetables and melons we thought we would eat, came home and planted our garden in nice rows and mounds of good dirt I had just bought. After unsuccessfully trying to use the well we have for free water and trying sprinkler, drip,and soak systems we finally got a system that worked in the meantime I have gone back to the nursery to replacement 30% of the starters I had already managed to kill off in a few days time. Now everything is set, and all is good, all I have to do is drag the hose across the drive hook up the quick connect a set the timer. Yea right, I arose this morning to my beautiful wife telling me max has managed his way into the garden, string of profanity and running out to the garden in my skibbies to toss the dog into the truck and get back inside to get ready for work and have enough time to replant what plants got trampled and are still salvageable. So if I don't kill my garden max will take over in the killing process.
Adam

flower or flour tortillas

4 cups flour
1 ½ c water
½ c oil
2 t baking powder
2 t salt

add dry then wet, kneed or mix until smooth.  Divide into 24 balls and let sit for 15-30 mins.  Then roll out and cook on frying pan over med heat.  Lightly brown on both sides.  So yummy!!

i saw it. i saw the de vinci code. i loved it. but i really think it's because i didn't read the book first because brind saw it too and he didn't like it very well. i was thinking about waited til i had read it to watch it but i think this way i got the best of both worlds. now i can read the book and be excited about how much better it is, not disappointed about how bad the movie was. don't get me wrong, brind didn't say the movie was bad... but you know how it goes. that's all i have to say about it. i'm almost done with my book so now i can get started on the works of dan brown.
blog out, ellynn

povo

wasn't able to see da vinci code but loved the book. M.I. III rules. I love brownies and ice cream and then caramel and chocolate syrup all over the top, and bananas, and strawberry syrup, and a few more brownies. but that's all no more really. once upon a time darla and I went to this restaurant in california called lattitudes. each month was a different janra (spelling?) of cuisine from different parts of the world. there was this dessert from Africa which will forever leave my taste buds with desire. no clue what it was called.
yesterday I got to fly out to denver and have dinner with Adam. it was great one of the prettiest flights ever. Right now Darla and I are trying to figure out a place to go camping. we have some good ideas and hopefully don't end up pitching a tent in the back yard. the babies are beautiful and hysterical. Cole loves playing with Dayne and occasionally Dayne reciprocates the emotion. life is good and hectic. I got my multi engine rating and that was nice. another step closer to a big boy job. i don't think I'll ever reach the business trip with robe and slippers job but such is life. alright will blog later. happy memorial day weekend.

Oktoberfest

Oh Adam, if I wasn't living in Europe, I would come. Instead I will be journeying to the Alps, visiting a castle of a Tuesday, trying out my 45 minutes worth of German that I have studied. Such is life.

Meagan, I want the recipe. Could you please post it. I don't have any other way of getting it from you.

One hour and twenty minutes till the season finale of Lost. I don't know what I will do without the inhabitants of the island in my life for an entire summer.

Well Sadie is trying to show me which buttons to push and causing this to be a long, frustrating process so I will say goodbye for now. It was absolutely great having aunt Paula and uncle Bill here by the way. We just wish it could have been for longer, we didn't get quite enough.

I love you all. Love, Brooke

bg life

Adam if money grew on trees as easy as debt does I would be there in a flash!    

You guys I just made the yummiest home made tortillas.  Say good-bye to store bought.  If any one is interested in the recipe just let me know.

Aunt paula and uncle bill were here for a few days and it was oh so cool.  I have a sick teething baby so I didn’t get to play as much as I would have liked, but at least I was able to spend some time.  Well speaking of my sick little one, she is wimpering and using me for a chew toy so this is all for now.

                    Blog on….me

Seattle Bennett living in Colorado

another thing today is the day that i book rocky mtn national park for fall camping it is beautiful the leaves are changing colors the air is crisp the dutch ovens are on the fire, the elk herds pack the park, and the bull elk are in the rut and strut, fight and bugal non stop it will be the last weekends in sept and the first ones in oct so if anyone wants to come you are more than welcome however i will not plan on any of you until i can physical see you there. despite popular opinion Utah is not flat and if you sail to the end of it you will not fall off but instead enter another state.
still a little bitter Adam

Seattle Bennett living in Colorado

so I finally have internet hook up at work after months of waiting for a phone line to the site i found that i can't get anything but dial up so instead i talked the boss man into paying for verizon wireless service all i can say is that it is a good thing he knows almost nothing about computers so today is the same old normal grind don't answer any questions till you look at the blue prints and hope that the calls you get are good news and not bad. since about the first week of the project i am on we have had problems with the neighboors and its been a mess. Luckily we have one owner that is kind nice and has a great deal of patience because he decided it would be a good idea to let the nieghboors deside how we could make them happy at this point its been 6 months and nobodies happy and the price tag is getting bigger and bigger but i don't care i get paid just the same.
as far as de vinche code goes that should be fun and i am most interested as i am sure cory is as well, in the french country estate with the stable converted into a garage for cool cars. digital fortress by dan brown is a good story too.
favorite desert is no not humble pie never had it but instead the dark chocolate lindnt squares that come in a pask that looks like a chocolate bar but its a bunch of little 3/4" by 3/4" pieces of heaven you just put one in your mouth and don't move it will take care of the rest and a close second would be Jamican ginger ale the kind where you can still feel the ginger in your throught an hour after drinking.
ok well got to run love you all Adam and Max

Oh, What Joy!!

How cool to get on here and see so many blogs. Someone please tell me what you think of the movie. So far it hasn't been getting very good reviews but that doesn't really mean anything. Mindy, I'm very impressed that you sped through Jesus the Christ as well. Mike has told me on several occassions that I should read it but I never have. I think I picked it up once and then didn't actually get past a paragraph, got distracted, and haven't attempted since. However, yesterday in Institute I was looking through my scriptures and realizing how much I lack in my knowledge of the Bible and the D&C. All scriptures really, but those in particular. I have to get busy.

Jess, I'm so jealous of your camping trip. That sounds like a blast. The title of your last blog made me miss Oklahoma and Texas. Not that I'd want to live there forever but I do love them both in a way.

This has been a stressful week. I took Ellyn in for another appt. that was supposed to be for her bow legs and it ended up being with a developmental ped. and she observerd Ellyn and is ready to sign for her on the medical side for being Autistic and started talking to me about getting her registered federally for Social Security and Developmental Disabilities and wants to have a series of tests done to make sure that autism isn't all that we are dealing with because she has such low muscle tone and then she was also concerned that we were going to Germany because the therapists for the military aren't too great overseas in general (confirmed by one of my best friends that was over there) etc...There was just one piece of good news after another and the worst part was that this was a woman that was not an alarmist, who I felt really knew what she was talking about. It was just hard to hear all at once. I got out to the parking lot and started bawling as I loaded my sweet baby into her car seat. Mike and I have decided that we prayed a great deal that the Lord would send us to Germany if it was the right spot for us and basically any place that he could get his orders switched to would mean it was a real need for the Army in preparation of a deployment. So we think staying together is the most important and I'm going to have to really be on top of everything while we're there. It will all work. It is amazing how much I have had to rely on the Lord this year. I'm always careful in my prayers that I don't pray for humility, I'm scared of what the Lord will give me to make me humble. He obviously decided I needed some anyway. I hope this is sufficient and I pray that I'm up to it.

Cam, I'm glad that you are for sure having a boy. That's got to be exciting. I have momentarily forgotten the other name option besides Tristan but I remembered that I loved it as well.

I love you all. Love, Brooke

bg life

Oh I forgot, for all of you that know my dear sister in law, rose.  She gave birth to her second baby in 14 months, a big beautiful, healthy baby boy.  He weighs 9lbs and is 211/2 inches long.  He is a sweet little thing and my kids love holding him, especially vimmers.  I got to change his tiny little diaper last night, oh they are so little.  I told cory if I could get through this with out wanting another baby we will be in the clear.  This is the first time I have been around a tiny baby without having my own or expecting, since Janie was born.  I’m doing well though.  I am still happy with my 4.  Oh yeah his name is David.

jumping on the band wagon

I think the dan brown books are fun.  I finished da vinci code a couple of weeks ago and am about 20 pages away from finishing angels and demons.  They are great stories, and they make me thankful for the knowledge that I have.  But more importantly for the faith that I have.  I don’t worry about whether or not Christ was married and such because like some of you have said it is not a point that is addressed by church leaders.  I know if or when I am supposed to know those things, I will know them.  For now I need to be focusing on the basics.   What is in the scriptures, in conference talks and in the temple is enough to keep me busy for a long time.  I hope my understanding will grow continually, but for now I am not going to worry about those kinds of things.  I can’t wait to see the movie either, but I’m afraid it will be a let down like the harry potters.  


                    Blog to all……….me

Murphy at his finest

so you guys all remember murphy and his beautiful law stating basically that anything that can go wrong, will. such is my life the last 24 hours. okay not completely, i had a couple lucky breaks. yesterday in the drivethru at the bank i had to ask for a pen. one is sent to me and immediately upon opening the little spaceshuttle it comes in, it falls between my center consol and the seat. when i reach for it, it disappears into nomansland under the seat never to return. i search my car despirately for the next minute looking for another pen. i spot one between the center consol and the the passanger seat. same thing happens to that pen. too frustrated to find another solution i spend the next 5 minutes digging for the pen which i can touch but not grasp. not kidding i started sweating. finally i had to give up and ask for another pen. next item. i get to work and my name tag is finally in. i am now ellynn burnst! leaving work last night i forget to turn my lights on. luckily a nice man yelled out his window to tell me. at the next stop light i put my car in park to switch shoes, i put my car in gear and when the light goes green, begin reversing. no one was behind me. and last but not least, this morning i drove to work and was so proud of myself that for the first time all week i wasn't going to have to speed like the devil with an expired drivers license and run into work so i'm not late. as i approach the building i start looking for the keys to my kiosk. not there. i had this feeling on my way to work "check for your keys". of course i dismissed it quickly thinking "they're there. i'm taking the same purse i took yesterday and my ellynn burnst name tag is in there." i guess next time i won't brush off the holy ghost quite to quickly. okay that's enough. i won't bore you with other small details like getting lost on the way to my boss' to pick up his keys, or smashing my finger in the cupboard while i was getting a phone for a customer or having an employee at another store telling me that he was sending one of his customers over for a samsung 950 which he didn't have in stock and then as i'm activating the phone have the customer tell me that it's the wrong phone, that he wants the LG vx9800 so everything i've put in the computer is wrong. but things are bound to get better right?! we'll see. okay blog you later.
ellynn

I love Dan Brown

Adam what a cruel trick to play on your poor wife. It would've taken me close to 5 years to read Jesus the Christ.

I can't wait to see Da Vinci. We are going camping with Tony's family in Green River this weekend and we are trying to find a time when we can sneak away to Moab to watch it. I am just going to go and enjoy it the same way I enjoyed the book.

I love Dan Brown! Has anyone read any of his other books? They are all really good and a lot less controversial.

Jess

Interesting Article

I read this article in the Deseret News yesterday and thought it was really interesting. I for one will see the movie. Just like Adam said, we have to remember is that it really is just a novel and movie.

Cam


Errors in 'Da Vinci' covered

3 Y. professors tackle assertions found in popular work of fiction

By Carrie A. Moore
Deseret Morning News

If there is one topic of particular interest to Latter-day Saints in "The Da Vinci Code," it is the assertion that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, because many believe it could well be true.
Formal doctrine and scripture unique to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that, in order to obtain the highest level of "exaltation" in the afterlife, members must be "sealed" or married in one of the faith's temples for "time and all eternity," and that such unions are a central part of God's plan for humanity.
So while the question of Christ's marital status isn't new among Latter-day Saints, a trio of LDS scholars who have fielded numerous questions about it since the book's release three years ago decided to address the topic head-on in the first LDS book to answer queries sure to be raised again with the film's premiere next week.
"What Da Vinci Didn't Know," a 124-page book explaining what LDS doctrine does and doesn't say about Christ's marital status and other issues, has been published by Deseret Book. Authored by three Brigham Young University religion professors — Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Andrew C. Skinner and Thomas A. Wayment — it contains a list of factual errors in the book and details the historical documents and context used by author Dan Brown.
In discussions with students, family members, friends and strangers about the novel, the authors found "excitement fades" when they outline how the book was based more on "imagination than solid historical foundation."
They sometimes find they are not just correcting misinformation but dismissing "a precious facet of a reader's inner life, having given him or her some sort of 'gnosis' or special knowledge. Somehow, pop history, obtained with little effort or thought, helps some people define themselves and their relationships to others," they write.
Skinner, a professor of ancient scripture at BYU with a master's degree in theology from Harvard and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Denver, said part of the reason is the general decline in readership of non-fiction works and primary source documents among the population in general, rather than Latter-day Saints in particular.
"There is a lot of truth out there, but not all truth is of equal value ... That's certainly true with documents that were produced in the Christian age up to about 600 A.D.," including the Gnostic gospels, on which parts of Brown's novel were based. "Some of them are spurious — from an LDS point of view, we know them to be patently false. It takes more effort than it used to, to keep up with all information we're being deluged with," Skinner said.
As for questions about Jesus' marital status, there's nothing wrong with asking the question, "but when the debate focuses solely on the question of his marriage, that does us a great disservice" by deflecting attention away from Christ's role as the Savior of mankind.
The book notes that many LDS leaders, including church founder Joseph Smith, "have inferred or believed that Jesus was married," including former church president Joseph F. Smith, who taught that Christ was married and "fulfilled the entire law of God and asked men and women to follow him."
Other LDS leaders, including Orson Hyde and former president Wilford Woodruff, concurred, while others have been more cautious on the subject. >"In recent years, we have, in fact, been counseled by current prophets and apostles ... that where the scriptures are silent, we should pass over them with reverence and focus on those doctrines that are revealed with clarity." As for future discovery of extra-biblical texts referenced in "The Da Vinci Code," Skinner said LDS scholars expect "a continual discovery of records from the Earth and other religious documents" to surface in years go come. As director of BYU's Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Skinner said the school is leading out in preservation and translation of ancient religious texts from a variety of faith traditions.
"They are not going to go away, but will continue to flood the market."

ColoradoBennett

I can't help but join the band wagon about the Da Vinci code. Adam and I listened to the book on cd a year or so ago and really enjoyed it. I thought it was an exciting novel and I'd love to see the movie. But I've been watching/listening to a few things on BYUTV and there are a few really good points about why this is such a dangerous kind of novel. A Humanities professor from UVSC gave a great lecture on the "what-we-know-about-Leonardo" and why Dan Brown has painted a false picture of him. Then the American Family Association just sent me an email with the following info: "The book and movie make several false claims: That Jesus and Mary Magdalene were man and wife. That the New Testament is false testimony. That there were 80 gospel accounts of Christ’s life. That the Roman emperor Constantine gave us the New Testament. That the divinity of Jesus is an invention of fourth-century church leaders at the Council of Nicea. While the book and movie claim to be based on fact, they clearly are not. Tragically many people, even Christians, will go away believing that the book and movie are factual." Through all of this Adam keeps telling me, "It's just a novel!" and that is true, but it is so easy to believe it is fact. I went through a phase where I really wanted to know if Jesus Christ was married. Adam told me it said just that in "Jesus the Christ" so I read it as fast as I could searching for that information (turns out James E. said nothing of the sort and once again Adam was just teasing me). Then I heard a cd from some LDS guys who pretty much said who knows if He was married or not, the scriptures and our prophets are silent on the subject therefore it is not something we need to know. And that's good enough for me.

Cookies

Not just any cookies. My new favorite are the Neiman Marcus cookies fresh from the oven with a tall glass of cold milk.

I don't remember if I posted this or not but we found out that it is for sure a boy that is on his way.

Mothers day was great. We got to talk to Joel on the phone for about 2 hours. And he is doing great. He said that he is loving the food "a little too much" in his words. He was just called as a ZL and is white washing his area with an american companion. It was kind of hard listening to he and Jan talk about the possibility of missing each other. Depending on when Jan leaves it could be 4 years before the 2 of them get to see each other again. Anyway, all is good.

Cam

Not Neither

I'm neither of those two either and I think that if you have short hair you will lose all your good fortune. Leave it long.

Sincerely, cousin Valerie

Keep It Long

This is not Brooke or Meagan. It's Ned, I'm a Beecher cousin, I just started writing and reading the blog. I think your head is really great with long hair. Best wishes, Ned

nice try

i forgot to mention that i will not read any submissions written my meagan or brooke. and if you don't sign your name, i still know it's you!

what i say

Long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long.  Ellynn is long hair, the end!

ColoradoBennett

Every time I turn around to check the blog, something crazy happens and one of the girls starts crying. It is a new phenomena and it happens when I do the dishes, when I start cleaning the bathroom, during yard work, etc. I feel like I have 52 half finishes chores around here because I stop so often to wipe the tears off a sweet little angel's face. Tempting as the corporate world sounds, I'd miss these moments, even though they seem irritating now. So stick with your "domestic engineering" plan, Jess, it is the best of all career moves.
Ellynn, my vote is that you do not cut your hair. Only because I look longingly at pictures of my long hair and miss it terribly. Plus, most the girls in hair school will probably have short hair because of all the experimenting they do and it'll pay off for you to keep it long. See that logic?
My favorite dessert is pineapple upside down cake made in the Dutch Oven. What is better than being up at the camp site, listening to the elk bugle, and eating a little slice of heaven? I submit, nothing.
Well, Sierra is doing something mysterious in the bathroom. I hear water sloshing, better go.

cut it or keep it

"here i am again on my own." so no one has written and i'm bored at work again so i'm going to do a little getting to know you question as well. okay so it has nothing to do with getting to know you. i just want to run a quick poll as to whether you kids think i should cut my hair to like what it was a jess' wedding or should i keep growing it out? just thought i'd get some outside opinions.
ellynn

bg life

Jess I’m so glad to hear you don’t want to be in that scene while raising kids, but man does it sound tempting.  I don’t know if I could give up that nice stuff for my dirty house and budget gourmet.

As for the desert thing, that is a hard one.  I’ve come to realize that most look way better than they taste, and they never taste good enough to make up for the way feel after I eat them.  Although I keep trying, elly’s finish chocolate is probably the only thing that might be worth that feeling.  

                    Blog on………….me

back in blog

i really do feel really guilty about bloging at work but it's so darn slow! the only entertainment i have is to watch the icescaters below and you can really only watch the big sweat, over-zealous, guy so long without getting the heeby-jeebies. i don't even remember the last time i blogged so i don't know what to catch you up on. brind and i have decided to attend school in rexburg. i know we said salt lake, but the more we thought about it, the more rexburg just seemed like the right thing to do. i have no idea why, but i'm so excited about the idea i could burst. i'm going to be rooming with two of the sisters i served with in finland. i haven't even applied for the school there yet, but by the end of the week i'll have that taken care of. in the meantime i work not enough hours in a place 45 minutes away from my home which in turn causes me to have to put my paycheck almost directly in my plus-sucking gas tank. what can you do? nothing, just keep working for the man. speaking of the man, jessy! i cannot believe you went on a business trip! just like grown-ups. that sounds terrifying! you're so tough. too bad you didn't get to see ben. that would've been fun. that fire story sounds intense. almost as intense as cam's story. the difference between me and cam is, i wouldn't have even pulled in the parking lot if i had seen the car there. i would've just driven right past. well, as i don't have much else of relevence to say i'll sign off. but first, my favorite dessert would be ice cream as well. you just can't get enough of it.
ellynn

The stars at night...

Are big and bright...Deep in the heart of Texas!

Well it has been a while so let me bring you up to speed. On May 1st I flew to Texas for my first ever business trip. Needless to say, I was a little nervous. Sure I have traveled to the nether regions of Europe for weeks at a time but that was always in a group. This 4 day trip was going to be solo. I flew into the DFW airport and had to rent a car and drive all around the Dallas/Fort Worth area by myself. It turned out to be not as scary as I thought it would be. I stayed at the nicest hotel in the area so that was sweet, it was called the Gaylord Texan (with a name like that is has to be sweet, right? JK). I was just bummed no one was there to share it with me. There were two big beds and only me. They turned down my bed and laid out a robe and slippies every night. I spent as much as I wanted on food whenever I wanted it and the company paid for it. It all sounds pretty nice but the truth is I learned a lot on that trip. I learned that I do not want to be in the corporate world while I raise children and that I love and missed Tony and my family so much. I visited Fidelity's Westlake site and most of the people I work with there are women. They all have kids and they are all trying to work and raise them at the same time. "To each his own" but for me I am going to stay at home. I missed Tony like crazy. It gave me a greater appreciation for people who live for months without their loved ones. Like missionaries but especially people in the military. I just can't imagine it. I tried meeting up with Ben Jones (mine and Elly's friend from Provo) but no luck. He didn't get my email in time.

Well besides the trip life has involved a lot, and I mean a lot, of yard work. Things are really shaping up. I will post pictures.

So here is an exciting tale. Sunday night, Lyd slept over at our house. She and I had snuggled down and Tony was downstairs playing x-box. I heard this loud bang like a gun shot so I jumped out of bed and looked out the window. I went to the other room to ask if Lyd had heard it and then I headed to the top of the stairs to yell down to Tony to see if he had heard it. I glanced out my side window and I could see a small bush on fire across the street. I yelled for Lyd and Tony to come and see it. We ran outside and called 911. People were starting to gather and I was wearing a robe and one guy said "nice outfit" so I decided to run and change. By the time I got back there were about 3 huge pine trees completely on fire. The flames were reaching the power lines and the firefighters still weren't there. We could feel the heat from across the street. Tony had run over to tell the people to get out of their house so I was panicking that things were going to get worse and he would be right in the middle of it. The wind was blowing so hard and luckily it blew it out instead of blowing it toward another tree. There are pine trees lining the whole road. It could've been a lot worse. So the firemen, who are located less then a mile away, finally showed up to put out the ashes. It was quite a night. We finally got settled in again and the wind was blowing so hard a transformer blew which made this strange humming sound and turned the whole sky green. It was freaky. I finally went to bed at about 1:00 and had a terrible night sleep worrying about everything. Lyd said she would sleep over anytime if it was always that lively.

Brookie, my favorite dessert is ice cream. Practically any flavor. Lately we have been cutting a banana into cookies and cream. It is not as bad for you when you eat fruit with ice cream...just kidding.

That is all for now. Chels, how are the twins? Blog out. Love Jess

Bring this thang to life- Getting to Know You Game

Cameron, your story cracked me up. I have a wild imagination and I can imagine any number of frightful, violent, scenarios in just a matter of seconds. I even had one walking Sadie to the bathroom at the park today. There were a bunch of scary teenagers and I was just waiting for one of them to say or do something. I try not to freak myself out but there are so many acts of random violence it's hard not to think about. I know Jane gets her freak-outness from me. I just blame it on Leash.

Okay, now we are going to play the getting to know you game. I know you all check here just about every day. I normally do, except for the past three weeks while I have been out of town. This will not be a difficult question, okay maybe it will be since I have three answers- What is your favorite dessert?

Mine is homemade brownies with icecream and homemade fudge sauce. Or...grandma's peach cobbler. See not too tough. Don't be afraid to answer the question and maybe jot a note or two about yourself. I know you can all do it.

Love, Brooke

bg life

I’m just going to write every day about nothing until someone else steps up to the plate.   We had mother’s day dinner at my house last night, which was great.  Yesterday afternoon we were up at the allen’s.  We went for a walk in the field that we hope one day will be ours, and I turn around and Jackson is just sitting there with his chin in his hands.  I asked him what he was doing.  He said he was thinking, I asked about what, he said he was thinking about where he was going to build his tree house.  Cory was so proud.  
                                                             Blog out….me  

happy mother's day

I know I won’t have time to do this tomorrow, so happy mothers day to all the mothers out there, and to anyone who will ever be a mother.  I think mother’s day is a great holiday, because you can wish women you see with children a happy day without fear of offending them.  Wait no, maybe they are just the nanny and then they’re ticked that you think they have kids.  Never mind, nothing is safe.  Every year and every child I am more amazed by my dear sweet mother.  How she ever did it all I will never know.  I am just thankful that was part of the fun and teaching.  We all come from a long line of strong, good women.  I hope that I can live up to their legacy.  I love you mommy, and aunties, and sisters, and sister-in-laws, and cousins.  I hope you all have a wonderful day!!!

                                                    Love forever,          meags’s

Cameron's Imagination

I had quite an interesting experience last night that I thought I ought to share on the blog.
We have been running a little behind on the cap-lining machine so I said I would come in and finish the job they were working on last night.
Normally when I come in to work at night it is really quiet and there is no one ever around. Our building is somewhat secluded. There really is nothing for a mile North of us and to the South about a mile is Rosepark (not a very nice neighborhood if you know Salt Lake at all). Anyway, I pull up to the building at about 10:45pm and there is an old red Toyota Corolla parked in front of our building (our doors are on the back side of the building out of view from Redwood Road). I thought it somewhat strange because no one is ever around at night and I didn’t recognize the car. I went in to my building to get a drink from the pop machine and walking back to the Lining building I stopped to turn on the air compressor. Then walking over to the door I looked at the mysterious car again and realized it was left completely unlocked, a big no-no in this neighborhood. The car also had no license plates. I called Kerry (Dad’s business partner) and told him what was going on and that I was going to call the police. He was freaking out telling me just to leave (because that’s what he said he would do). I decided to just pull my car into the warehouse and lock myself in while I called the police. It’s now 11:00pm, I’m alone in a warehouse, it’s dead quiet and I didn’t want to turn the radio or anything on because it might give it away that I’m in there. Picture yourselves, or even more comical picture me in a warehouse under these circumstances and tell me whether or not your imagination might start to run away a little. Let me answer that, yes your imagination would run and fast too. So, back to the dead silence, I’m waiting for the cop to show up and I gave them my cell phone# so they could call me when he showed up so I wouldn’t have to open the door unless I knew who was out there. In the silence one of the fluorescent light bulbs above my head started to buzz. It started so fast that jumped out of my skin to hang in the rafters. OK, not really but it really did scare me. So here I am hearing things (example: doors closing), I now have a 3’ steel pipe in hand which I had wrapped duct tape around the base for better grip and I’m pacing the warehouse. I sneak out the side door and peak around the building and the car is still there and no one in sight. I hurry back inside my mind the whole time going through the thousands of scenarios that may lay ahead, guns, knives, and me disarming a whole gang with my steel pipe, etc. (didn’t I tell you my imagination was running away). I go back in the warehouse and again wait in the silence. 11:30pm, this time I know I heard something outside. A car door slamming and voices. Again, I sneak out the side door, quietly walk to the corner of the building and peak around. This time there was someone there, bright lights and someone in the mysterious car! It only took a minute for my mind to register the bright lights was from a cop car and the person in the Corolla was the cop. I start to walk out to him when the thought crosses my mind, “what is this cop going to do when he sees a man walking out of the shadows in this neighborhood with a 3’ steel pipe in hand?” The vision of getting shot was too much so I threw the pipe in the bushes and then walked out. Sure enough, the minute he saw me his hand went slowly to his holster. I put my hands up a little and gave him my name and told him that I worked here and I am the one who called the police. He approached me and shook my hand. Just then his radio came back with the report that this car had been stolen over a week ago. While they were trying to contact the owner this officer took all of my information. He then started to go through the car a little and found quite a bit of blood on the dash and the ceiling. His dispatcher wasn’t able to contact the owner so they called a tow truck to come impound the car. I told the officer that I had some work I could do if he thought it was ok to stay around. He suggested that I go home for the night. “We don’t know when the car was left so we don’t know where the thief is or if he has any intentions to hurt or steel again.” He waited for the tow truck and walked around the buildings making sure that they all were secure and that there was no sign of break-ins. I of course had no objections to getting the heck out of there, especially after he put it that way.

I’m just glad I was here and not in Vegas. After our experience with the cops in Vegas last month I would have been dead in a warehouse and the cops would have refused to come out because it was too far. Seriously though, I was glad that an officer responded as fast as he did last night. If nothing else it calmed my imagination and gave me a little peace of mind to drive home with. It also gave me more appreciation for what they do. He was going to wander around the buildings by himself with the same uncertainties that he just warned me about.

Sorry about the novel and I hope it made some sense.
Blog ya’ll later!

Cameron

ColoradoBennett

By the power of Greyskull!!! The other day Sierra started yelling that at random times. I didn't even know she watched Geof.'s new HeMan movies while we were in WA. For some reason, two weeks later she is quoting like crazy. Funny how little minds work. We are getting ready to rush out the door for swim lessons then FHE picnic in the park with some friends, but I thought I should blog since I've been checking it all week with disappointment. We had Joy School at our house this morning and I set up a Hop-Scotch course in our living room with masking tape. It was a huge success. Four 3 and 4 year-olds running and hoping like mad, it was too funny. Right now Kaia and Sierra are filling the hop-scotch squares with the paper plates and cups I'd packed for the picnic. It is amazing what can happen when you turn your back and get distracted for just a moment.

day late birthday

Happy birthday baby dayne!!!  I’m sorry I didn’t write yesterday.  I kind of forgot that our pretty little princess was born on may day, it’s very fitting.  She is such a sweet baby.  We had so much fun with both her and cole, we miss you all!!

                                             Love you tons……aunt meagan

Brind, Did you know about this?

A new temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be built in Cebu, Philippines, it was announced this week.

It will be the second temple for the Church in the Philippines. There has been a temple in Manila since 25 September 1984.

There are over half a million members of the Church in the Philippines, with more than 1,000 congregations.

Church leaders say the new temple will be very significant for members in the central and southern parts of the archipelago who will no longer have to travel the long distance to Manila.

I just got this off of the Church website today. Great news for the Philippines!
Cam

She's one!

Our adorable, blue-eyed beauty is already one! I can't believe it. Happy Birthday Dayne Dorothy! If I had a digital camera, I'd post pics but unfortunately I don't. We celebrated her b-day last night when Geof. was here. We had a pink cake with pink frosting. It tasted exactly like Strawberry Quick. The kids loved it...the adults, not so much. Geof.'s friend Ricky came over and we had real Alaska Salmon (my sis-in-law's from AK)..yummy. So yes, yet ANOTHER week away from Geof. We really have no choice since my sis-in-law and brother will be watching Cole and Dayne for us when we go to Mex in June. Geof. says it's a good week to be away since he has so much to do and he's gonna try to squeeze in 4 night flights since he changed his night shift to a 5 am shift. I've signed up for 2 classes during the summer and Geof.'s gonna have to go to one of them tomorrow night to find out what I need to do. What a good husband. Well, I hope all is well with each of you. Please write if you haven't!! Good luck to your baby sisters Chels. I can't believe how mini they are!! When Dayne was in the NICU there were a ton of preemies in there and she looked so ginormous up to them (she was 9 lbs. 6 oz.) It's so hard for the parents. I hope your dad's gfriend is handling it well. I heard of one lady who's baby was in the NICU for one whole year. She finally moved a bed in there and just stayed there. i can't imagine how difficult that'd be. Anyway, I have to run. All 3 babies were sleeping and I think they're waking up! Darla

bg life

Aunt jack thanks for the story about gma and dell.  I’ve heard parts of it, but not all.  Gma had such a sad life.  You girls, I’m sure, brought such joy.  I know you continue to still.  Holy cow chels, that picture is scary.  Are they doing well?  I think its funny that your dad now has 6 girls.  I’m glad the cop let brad go too.  If he hadn’t he would have been such a creep.  Cam and monie I am so happy you are having a boy.  We desperately need more of them in this family.  Jess I am still waiting for pics of the house.  Darla I can’t believe you are away from home again.  

Jackson went camping with Cory and the 11 year old scouts last weekend and when he came through the door I almost died.  He had burn holes all over his fleece pull over and pants.  Leave it to dad to keep a close eye on small child.  He broke another bored in tae kwon do, this time with his elbow, and is now a yellow belt.  When the other kids broke the bored they would just sit down, but Jackson bowed.  It was so dang cute, then he bowed again when he was presented with his belt.  Of course the good parents that we are we didn’t record it or even get a picture.  

Bennett is sassier than ever.  It doesn’t help that her best friend is a spoiled princess too.  They better not live around each other when they are in high school because they will either hate each other or they will still be best friends and everyone else will hate them.  Cory says she is a little me, just more caring.  I’m caring dang it.  I think I care a little too much if you ask me.  I can’t get over how cute she is, I mean I don’t think it’s right that I get the two most beautiful girls in the world.  This I what I always tell her and she just gives me her coy little smile, then I ask where the beauty comes from and she points to her heart.  

Wilohm is my handful right now.  Well, not so much mine as everyone else’s.  Cory says if you want to avoid discipline you just need long blond hair, big blue eyes, and to be a mama’s boy.  That is not true, I just know that you have to deal with wil differently than the others or he will just freak out.  And we try to avoid his freak out sessions as much as possible.  Well, most of us do, ellynn does everything she can to make him flip.  Usually it just takes her looking at him.  He is getting so smart.  The other day I was crying about something and he was trying so hard to distract me and make me laugh.  He said look mommy this is happy as he is hitting himself in the face.  

Hazel is so beautifully round.  She has gotten so mobile.  She has little calluses on her knees, feet and toes from crawling everywhere.  She stands up against something then starts to reach trying to figure out how she is going to get from here to there.  I think walking will be in the near future.  I get to take her on her first camping trip Friday night as I go to be trained with the rest of the camp directors.  

Cory and I did a 50k bike ride on Saturday.  We rode through down town Vancouver, officer’s row, Vancouver Lake Park and along the Columbia River.  It was so gorgeous.  The rive on one side and farmland on the other.  We were on our mountain bikes surrounded by roadies who for the most part flew past us, but we were in heaven.  Although, it’s a good thing we have all the children we want because I’m pretty sure cor’s crappy seat did some damage.  I have to idea how he rode that far on it.  We traded bikes for about 10 minutes and I thought I was going to die.  It was one of the best dates we have ever been on.  

Sorry this is forever long and probably very boring to you all but I really have been slacking and felt like I needed to be better.  I have been teaching seminary for the past week and one of the lesson was on 3 nephi 23 when Christ encouraged, well commanded, them to be better record keepers.  So here is a little record.

                                                              Blog you all………..meags