Summer Craziness

Do you ever feel like your life is on this overloaded, really fast conveyor belt and you can't keep up with it? That's how I've been feeling.

 My house is just going to have to be messy, it's just not gonna be clean till all my kids move out. 

There are so many way more important things. 

What I really want to say is that I am scared. 

I have given a demo CD to the arts person for Bountiful Summer fest. 

They want me to come.

 I really hope I have enough time to practice with Danny before August 5, 6.

 I have all this family fun on the calender, but in the back of my mind is the simmering worry.

 How am I going to present myself as a real musician? 

What a farce. 

 I wrote a song about my worry. 

It's called "un do what I've done"  

 You know like put my guitar back in the basement storage room, delete my blog and put my songs on a book shelf.

 I was balling my head off to my husband about it all on Sunday. 

I was fasting that day for some specific blessings I am asking of the Lord.

 Really I just want to do what he wants me to do, that's all. 

 Simmering worry aside we are having lots of fun with family the past few weeks and the next few weeks are chuck full of summer fun.

 

Having fun with my kids is a lot of work. We have been doing all these fun outings with my side of the family while my brother from New York is here and my sister is here from Southern Utah. I can't believe how we can take them out to eat and to a water park and on the way home they ask to stop for ice cream and I say no  it's late and we are all tired and they feel jipped and like I'm not very fun..........Are you kidding me children?! We just spent the whole day with you at a water park and we aren't fun? Their desire for constant entertainment is relentless.
When ever my kids are demanding and ungrateful I wonder if I'm that way with God.
Am I that relentless and winy and always asking for more! More! More! I sure hope not but it's a real possibility.

 If I am ever going to find the time to blog or write or practice I'm going to have to trade in sleep for it. This summer feels busier for some reason. 

Emmaline did in fact convince us that she could be responsible for a mouse. She loves it and so do the rest of the kids.

 Let's hope it can survive in this house with our cat and dog that sit by it's cage and dream of the day they can eat it

We also took Emmaline to the Temple for her first time. 

She is 12 and is now old enough to do baptisms for the dead.

She loved the experience and said she felt so happy and peaceful.

We went to Nielson's Frozen Custard after, cuz that's what you do when you're a Mormon, you go to the temple and when ever you can you eat  ice cream.

Bountiful Temple

Happy Birthday America!!!

Nate, where did you get that amazing patriotic shirt?

Sarah at the 4th of July parade. So sad when she didn't catch candy....so happy when she did.

Cousins Galore 

AnnaKate the beautiful turned 10 on July 6th.

She requested waffles for breakfast, In and Out for lunch and Chicken and Rice for dinner. She got a bike and got to have a cousin sleep over in the club house. 

We will just keep celebrating her birthday for the rest of the month. 

Here are a few pictures of yesterday's outing.

No, that's not the Grand Canyon. 

Copper mines. Gold, silver and ore too.

Big honking tire for the trucks at the copper mine.

We also went to Willard Bay with our neighbors who have a boat. I tell you, why buy a boat when your good friends have one. Just wait to be invited. It's like we are the kids and they are the parents. We have the fun and they have the responsibility  ;)

Thursday was our first time braving a water park with all 5 kids. They had a blast with their cousins. I was having  too much fun at both of these water outings to bother with taking pictures. 

Today we are going hiking with everyone. 

I'm not going to let my blog get so behind, this post is messy and confusing. 

Hope it captures our happy crazy confusing life.