Family Home(out and about) evening

Last night as a family we went to the Temple Visitor's Center where they had a display of a bunch of statues of biblical and historical scenes.  There was a really nice lifesize statue of Jesus called "Come unto me" that had Jesus reaching out his hand to us and the really neat thing about it was that Jesus had stepped forward to reach out to you, you didn't have to come all the way to meet him.  Very nice thought.  Was a very nice scene of Jesus walking on the water, the way she designed the sea to be wild and violent everywhere except where Jesus was walking was very beautiful.  There was also a very nice statue of a person learning the steps of repentance and finally coming to Christ. Lastly, the scene in the Sacred Groove was, in my opinion, the best.  It had trees surrounding the whole thing, and Jesus and Heavenly Father appear to be floating in the middle of it. Very nicely done.

Afterwards we went out to dinner at Olive Garden's, where once again, Shaylie barely ate anything.  Today we will probably go to the REC Center, we love to swim, plus we need to get our money's worth out of having a membership for this month.

Tonight is train club meeting, we are having it at Jim's house and we will be finishing the track.  Tonya has possibly her last Primary Presidency Meeting.  It is likely that this weekend we will redrawing ward and stake boundaries, So it would make geographic sense to split our ward down the middle, but we will see.  Have to go setup the training room so that people can learn the new eREP program that they are using.

See ya

I guess I better write more

Now that everyone is jumping ship from the mothership blog, I guess I better write more. UDOT has torn apart the bike trail at the intersection of Bluff Street and Main, so I had to find a new route to work.  Funny thing is, the new route is about two and a half miles shorter.  However, it is causing me to lose mileage, so I guess I will have to bike more on weekends. I will pass 1700 miles for the year this week.  The city built a new bike trailon the south side of the virgin river over by Bloomington Hills.  It is really nice, it is right next to the river, so I could hop off the bike and jump into the river easily.

I am working on a new layout for my office.  I have an ongoing discussion thread about it on the Zealot hobby forum.  Here is a link: http://forum.zealot.com/t159574/ if you would like to see pictures of it and watch my progress.  So far it is turning out pretty nicely.

We bought a month membership at the new community center, so we have been trying to go swimming there almost everyday.  I need to find a way to work in a workout while I am there.

Train club meeting tomorrow night.  We are putting in the final piece of Jim's layout so now he will be able to run trains all the way around.  His layout is incredible and I can't wait to see trains going around.  It has taken two years to get to this point, so it will be really fun.

Girl Scout camps start next week.  The busy season begins.

Branching Out

We all have new blogs....I don't know how long it will last, but for now the girls and I have written new blogs on blogspot.com.  Taylor has been keeping hers up faithfully and Shaylie is determined to make hers into a Web Show.  She and her sister have already filmed the first episode, we are just trying to figure out how to get it online.  It's a work in progress.  Of course, this is the place to come for family news and to check out the others.  We'll expect to see lots of comments and support!  Love to all!

HEY, New Web Site

I have a new web site: http://tayjayrocks.blogspot.com. Go there when it is done which will be today.

Future Soccer Star

A couple months ago, I overheard one of the teachers at my school talking to her husband about a Competitive soccer league that was in need of players.  Being the awesome mom that I am (and having the awesome soccer player daughter that I do) I stepped in and asked for details.  I told them how wonderful Taylor is and they said they would call when they put it together....so today they called and invited Taylor to tryouts.  We are both very excited!  If I understand it right, one of the coaches is also the Soccer coach at SUU, which just happens to be the school where Taylor wants to eventually go to school on a Soccer Scholarship!  Very fortuitous if you ask me...hope she makes it!  Like she wouldn't...Hah!  We'll keep you posted.

Bienvenido a Puerto Rico

If you've been reading our blog at all over the past few months, you know I've been wanting to go on a trip either to celebrate our 8-8-8 (16 year) anniversary or just to get away.  Well, Scott had been researching cruises and other getaways...but now, thanks to a training for my job, Scott and I get to go to Puerto Rico at the end of the summer.   The training is kind of a splurge because our program has a bunch of money that needs to be spent before next school year.  Unfortunately, it is the week before school starts so the timing is kind of hard, but I couldn't pass a chance to visit such an exotic locale.  And when I found out that I could take Scott with me and mom can watch kids....Yippee!!!  It is very much a blessing because I've been worried about $$$ and this way my work covers everything except Scott's airline ticket.  Talk about a bargain.  Now I can maybe spend some bucks on clothes to wear there1?!  We'll see.  Anyway, it's going to be a blast!  More to come...

Animal morning

I went into my train room this morning and saw a big blob on my carpet, that was moving, I turned on the light and it was a fairly big frog! I got a tupperware container, scooped it up and put it in my lawn.  While in the container, it kept trying to jump out, but was hitting his head on the side.  Obviously no vertical leap.  Then biking on the new street saw three dear bounding along side of me. Saw 6 rabbits, the rabbit count lately has been under ten a day, the high this year was 28.  Then over by main street a bird decided to fly along side of me for a couple hundred yards.  It was just toying with me as it would flap its wings twice and then coast for a few feet then flap again, then it took off and left me in its wake.  Obviously, the animals are checking me out in preparation for the animal revolution.

In other news, Ralph came to visit last night and showed me his new Utah Railway F45 and some Bachmann engines that I can afford.  It was great to see him.  He took his corner module, which greatly shrunk the club layout, but it makes the room much bigger so it actually is kinda nice.

The track arrived for my layout, so i will put that together tonight so that I can figure out where I need to glue the inclines and cork down, I hope that maybe by the end of the weekend a train could be running around the layout.