Project Update

Our living room is still not finished. Projects on old houses are always filled with lots of unknowns. This one is no exception. But, we are getting closer. We have spent many hours preparing the wood for our floors. The wood we are using is a piece of Deweyville history. Several years ago (about 8 or 9 I think) our town burned down the old school. Before they did this my husband went into the school and pulled out all of the old maple flooring and stored it so we could use it. I am sure it is going to be beautiful when it is finished.


This is how we are spending our weekends lately...sitting in our living room scraping about 70 years of accumulated gunk, dirt, floor wax, etc., off the sides of the floor boards. We are creating a stack of wood in our house that needs to sit and acclimate for a couple of weeks before we start installing it. Hopefully we will have enough prepared that we can get started at the beginning of November. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that I will at least have a floor and paint by December so that I have somewhere to set up a Christmas tree!

Corn Maze

Friday night I took my Aggie Scarecrow to stand guard at the entrance of a local corn maze where the Brigham campus was having an activity. It was fun to see and talk to some of my friends who are students there and also some of my favorite faculty members as we passed out donuts and hot chocolate. They had a pretty good turn out that included students with their spouses, children, or dates. My scarecrow seemed to be a hit and we took lots of photos of students with him. I was glad that I had saved him after the pumpkin walk last weekend.My kids and I have been attending this activity every year for the past three years while I have been a student and we always have a lot of fun.

AAARRRGGG@#$%&

I spent this afternoon doing something that you would think would I would enjoy...shopping, for clothes, for me. Let me just say...I HATE SHOPPING!!! (Well actually its fun if I 'm shopping for gifts for my kids, or things for my house, it's just trying to find clothes for myself that I hate.)
I'm afraid that for most of my life I've lived in "comfortable mommy clothes." You know the kind, jeans and t-shirts. Well this semester I am involved in a few things that actually require me to be dressed in business attire. So, I have been shopping several times mostly unsuccessfully. I have had my suspicions confirmed... I was built by a committee and they don't make clothes to fit me. Today I tried on 18 pair of pants that all appeared (according to the size on the tag) to be my size and none of them fit me. Waist too big or too small, butt too tight or too loose, too short, too long waisted, or just entirely all together wrong. It was very discouraging. On my way home I wished that the fashion industry had a complaint department that I could call or email and vent my frustrations. Since there isn't one, I guess I'll just post my complaints here and show up at my next meeting wearing jeans and my favorite Aggie game day shirt!

Big Blue

Deweyville Town (where I live) had a pumpkin walk this weekend to raise funds for new playground equipment for the town park. I thought it was a great opportunity to show my Aggie pride so I made this scarecrow for the event.

Governor Herbert

Friday I had the opportunity to go to the Brigham City campus and meet Governor Herbert. He was there for a meeting with people from the community. He spoke for about an hour and then took the time to answer questions. I will say that I was impressed with what he said. I didn't really know a lot about him before, but I think he is going to do a good job. He seemed to be a very genuine, honest person who knows of the people of Utah and will look out for our best interests.

Autumn is here

It is really starting to feel like fall to me. Last weekend we took our kids to Lagoon for Frightmares. My kids love Halloween and this has become somewhat of a tradition for us. My kids are all roller coaster fanatics (I've taught them well!) I regret to say that I am not as young as I used to be. I can no longer keep up with my kids the way I used to. We started the day by being at Lagoon before they opened so that we could ride "Wicked" before the line got long. Once was not enough. I made it through THREE CONSECUTIVE rides on wicked before my head threatened to explode and I was afraid I might see my breakfast again and then I sat out a couple while my kids went on Colossus.
My son and two of his friends took a ride on the "sky coaster." For this ride they strap you into a kind of full body harness, hook you to a cable, pull you way up into outer space and then drop you and let you swing back and forth before they stop you and put you back on solid ground. Now, I love roller coasters, and I like to go fast, and even go upside down but I like to be able to see what is holding me up, so this looked like some sort of insanity to me but he loved it and wants to do it again next year.
We always make a point of going to see a hypnotist act they have that is hilarious. This year my oldest daughter decided (without warning us in advance) that she would be a participant in the show. So, this is how the show works...The hypnotist asks for volunteers who sit on chairs on the stage. He hypnotizes them and then has them do silly things to entertain the audience. This show is usually pretty funny, but this year we really laughed our heads off at my daughter. The hypnotist told her she had just won the MR. America contest and had her strut her stuff on the stage ( pretty funny because she is 5'2" and weighs about 100 lbs.) He also had the entire group of hypnotized participants perform as the "Village People," and then as the famous "butt drummers," and also do an assortment of other funny things.
My favorite ride at Lagoon is the rocket, and I like the "blast-off" side. It is especially fun to do in the dark so you can see all the lights of the park when you get to the top so at the end of the day we rode it one more time and then finished day the way it started...by riding wicked one more time, and I guess you can tell we had a pretty fun day.