One Reason for the Vacation

Since we aren't really taking a family vacation this summer, I took full advantage of the chance to enjoy a couple of days away from home to visit two girls' camps this week.  Plus the added lazy day withteh girlfriends and you have the extent of my vacation this summer.

One of the camps we visited was out on Flaming Gorge.  It was our ward's camp, where The Girl spent hte week.

What cute girls, right?!  They look like they are having a good time and are ready for some more fun!

The Girl tried to give them Frist Aid practice by attempting to chop off her finger.  She was chopping onions and the knife slipped.  She was fine, but it really detracts from her manicure.

Look at this beautiful place!

Like a Box of Chocolates....

Remember Forrest Gump telling us "life was like a box of chocolates"?  Well, life is also like a surprise bakery.  You still never know what you are going to get.

I got to spend two days visiting Grisl' Camps this week, and another day just being completely lazy, and relaxed with the three ladies I work with in our YW presidency.  During our lazy day (reports on the Girls' Camps will come, but later) we wandered across this lovely window display at a little bakery in a littler town.  Yes, the Abominable Snowman.  Cute, right?

Of course, we had to visit the bakery.  We discovered that the baker/owner/manger did it all there.  (Told you it was small.)  She told us the previous window display was the Incredible Hulk, and while she liked that display too, this one made her smile.

I completely get it.

This discovery makes me want to go out to tiny town and explore their local establishments a little more.  It didn't hurt that the cupcake of the day was a chocolate peanut butter confection that tasted as good as it looked.  You never know what you're going to get.

Just a Subtle Reminder

My [child], peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;  And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands.

Doctrine & Covenants 121:7-9



What IS It With People?!?

After my post yesterday, once you read this, you may be tempted to think that I really don't like people.

You'd be right.

Why do otherwise rational adults turn into self centered, narrow minded monsters who refuse to let go of their own personal, selfish, competitive drives in favor of a positive, uplifting, and challenging, learning experiences for their kids?  Kids need to have some positive experiences in order to learn how the world works, but it is dang hard to give them that when other adults are too busy watching the world rotate around them to let it happen.  If they never see that, how can they ever learn to manage the world they must deal with in a positive manner?

It is a really good thing I believe in life after death; a life where things are bound to be better off for all of us, otherwise I'd be so depressed in the world we live in I just wouldn't take it.  I know that all things will be made known, and made fair.  I just hope I can hang on long enough to see it happen for these boneheads that mess things up for their kids.

Just Not Right

I was sitting the car, waiting for The Girl to run into the craft store to get whatever she needed to finish a project for camp this week.  While I was enjoying the sunshine and warmth, I watched as a woman tried to park her thunderous Suburban while she held her phone to her head cutting it pretty dang close other cars on either side of her selected spot, and all the while I gawked at the "handicapped" license hanging from her rear view mirror.

Really?!

If you are a legally designated handicapped driver, do you really need to (a) drive while you talk on your phone?  and b) drive a super sized Suburban?  Really?

Ironically, just before pulling into the parking lot with The Girl and observing this disaster in the making, we sat at the stoplight where a young woman in one of the Cube cars was holding the steering wheel with her pinkie and texting on her phone like nobody's business.

Come on, people!  Let's think about what we are doing.  Maybe it is because it has fallen to me to teach The Girl to drive and put in the hours she needs behind the wheel to complete before her birthday, but I have become very observant to the many, many foolish ways people multitask while they simultaneously operated a vehicle.  And we have had plenty of "I had never better see YOU do something dumb like that" kind of conversations because of them.

That kind of behavior is just not right.  And you know I am speaking truth here, right?!

Video Sunday

I understand that summer vacation is the time many families go visit The Big D: the Happiest Place on Earth.  Now I remember why.  This makes me happy, even when I am just sitting at home at the computer.