My Last Meal

Okay Jessi, I can't sleep, and I must be hungry, so I'm going to join you in your last meal with my meal plan:

Breakfast:

Diet Coke with crushed ice from Pure

My dad's crepes plain but add blueberry syrup

Dave's hash browns

English muffin with my Grandma Stout's apricot jam

Lunch:

Footlong Subway Sandwich with Turkey, lettuce, tomato, green pepper, onion, and white American cheese on wheat

Diet Coke

Banana Milkshake from Sonic

Mid-Afternoon Snack:

Turkey Foccacia sandwich from Marie Callenders (I don't think they make it anymore)

Five Guys French Fries

Diet Coke

Dinner:

Fish Tacos from Rubios in SLC

Chips and Salsa from Chili's

Southwestern egg rolls from Chili's

Tiramasu from the Italian restaurant I just went to in Ballantyne

Creme Brulee from The Mandarin in Bountiful

Diet Coke

Midnight Snack:

Cheeseburger from Five Guys with ketchup, mayo, lettuce, tomato and onion

Huge water

Dots

What would your last meal be?

Things That Make Me Happy

The sun anywhere, anytime. Lately I find myself wandering upstairs at 1:45, 20 minutes before the kids get home) and sitting on the edge of the bed where the sun comes in at the perfect angle. I seriously always pictured really old ladies sitting in the sun like I do almost every day, but I'm not old, I just love the sun. It makes me happy and relaxed.

What's better than Dots you might ask? Dots and popcorn. Together. (Thanks Glen for sharing this gem.)

When this truck is in my garage.

T-shirts without tags. I really, really dislike tags on anything. They especially drive me crazy rubbing against my skin at the base of my neck or on the side of my ribcage. I think one of the coolest inventions ever is t-shirts with the "tag" printed on the inside.

Watching my kids run wild...I mean, not completely wild, but when they all make a plan on the bus to meet up after homework and then go to their "fort." The fort is actually the empty lot behind my house. They were playing "hobos and Indians" yesterday. They come in the house with ruined clothes (ripped and stained), shivering and muddy, but so happy!

Campfires and camping with the family...everything about it, except for the packing and unloading, of course.

Oh, and just because today is the THE DAY....the Utes make me happy, really happy.

Happy Veterans' Day!

Today I am grateful for every man and woman and family who has served this country and is serving this country. Amelia made this star with my cousin's husband's name to hang in her classroom today. We are so grateful for his sacrifice (and also my cousin's who often time is home alone with four kids far away from family).

In Georgia we lived next door to a man who was a former POW in WWII and I could sit and listen to his stories for HOURS about his experiences and sacrifices he made. To this day, Mr. George suffers the pain of extreme frost bite to his feet and had to move to Phoenix to get out of the humidity and the cold that would cause his feet such pain...fifty years later. I am just so grateful for the people who serve this wonderful country.

Trick or Treat and Girl Scout Camp

We ended up having an impromptu street get-together in our driveway before the trick or treating began. We roasted hot dogs and shared potato chips!

Thanks Aunt Chellie for Amelia's costume...you can see how much she loved it...even though she wouldn't wear the wig! The girls love it when we dress up! The girls got SO MUCH candy. And yes, I've been digging through it to find all the Almond Joys, Peanut M& M's and Butterfingers...and eating them daily.

We woke up so early the next morning and headed up to the mountains of NC to go to Girl Scout camp.

S'mores, Troop 42 cheers at roll call (I let the girls make up their own and it went something like "TROOP 42! AH CHOO!!!!", 48 Daisies and Brownies in a cabin...including one who threw up in the middle of the night....equals a lot of nighttime fun!

During the day we hiked and went to workshops. This camp was the home of the REAL Terabithia...you know, the land where fairies live...shhhhh!!!!! We were pretty sure we saw a fairy with pink wings fly over us. Amelia was sure that Tinkerbell that actually LIVES in Disney World must have just had a cabin here.

And my fabulous husband cooked EVERY meal and snack...I mean, prepared, served and cleaned up, just in time to start the next one, for 250 girls and 50 leaders, with only five other dads. Man, I love this guy.
We also went to Science and Arts and Crafts workshops...they were too little for canoeing and rock climbing, but it was still fun.







The balloon races in science were cool, but the greatest was watching the Diet Coke shoot out of the plastic bottle if you drop a Mentos in there...there was some real scientific reason, but we missed that part... the explosion was really cool though!

My brave little Daisies...only 4 out of 10 were strong enough to brave the cold (at least at night), the hiking, a night away from their bed and lots of bugs....