The Girls are Back in Town

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Culturefied

Tonight, Scott and I went to see Les Miserables at Tuachan...It was amazing.  I have always loved that story.  Tuachan always does a great job with their productions, very professional.  I would recommend it to anyone heading this way.  They are also doing Sound of Music and Big River later this summer.  I want to see both.  And Cyrano and Taming of the Shrew at the Shakespearean Festival.  So much culture so little time.

Tomorrow, I am heading up north AGAIN...to get my girls...I miss them lots.  I probably missed them much more than they missed me.  Which is as it should be.  Scott is not coming with me, so I'll be on my own. ...pretending he's beside me...oh, wait...musical flashback.  I'm staying with Bob tomorrow night then heading back to SG on Saturday...it will be a quick trip.

Scott is still trying to figure out how to handle the news from Governor Huntsman today.  His department will likely be postponing the transition, but it will be interesting to see how it all comes out.  He already goes into work early enough, but now he'll have to stay until 5 or 6 instead of coming home at 3 or 4.  But he'll have Fridays off.  We'll have to see how it will be...hopefully, it will be good since there is nothing to be done about it.

Well, toodles for now.  I'm sure I'll have a full report on camp for you when we get back...

Half Past Camp

The girls have been at camp for three days today.  For Shaylie, this means she will leave today to spend the night with Papa Strong.  For Tay, it means the week is half over.  I can't believe it went so fast.  Shaylie is supposed to call me the very first thing!!! I am excited to hear all about the fun she had! 

I came back to St. George after dropping off the girls and visiting my friends Bobbie and Tiffany.  It was good to see them again...I hadn't seen Tiff since before her 2 year old boy Tanner was born.  Sheesh!  I'm heading back up on Friday and will likely stay with Bobbie again before heading up the canyon to get Taylor and back down to get Shaylie from Grandma Js house.  I'm trying to streamline the trip as much as possible so that I can save GAS MONEY!!! Ouch...just typing it hurts my stomach.

Next week is another camp for Shaylie, this time at Trefoil camp and my 20th high school reunion.  Ouch..that kind of hurt my stomach too.  Then week after, Taylor has another Young Women camp with our ward.  Then, the next weekend Grandma J visits, we have the 24th celebration and Puerto Rico.  Wow, the summer has been (will be) busy!  School will be back in before we know it.  Okay...what is up with my stomach?

Mom is heading to Denver today to help my brother Mike and Erin and baby Myka to move back to Phoenix.  They just can't stay away from the heat and sun.  I don't know why they don't just come to St. George...it's the best of all worlds. 

Hopefully, we'll have pics soon...I'm still figuring out how to get them from my phone to the computer.  I mean, I know how but it's a matter of technical difficulties.  Hopefully soon...check back.  Love to all...

Home alone

Tonya left with the girls today to make the trip up to Holden.  Tomorrow the Girl Scout camps for both Taylor and Shaylie start, so it is boy's time (Blackberry and I) at the house.  Just so everyone knows, we like Blackberry now, he mainly does what we want him to, he knows when to go to his room for bedtime and when we go to church and he is fairly fun to play fetch with.

We had our huge stake conference do redo our ward boundaries, and it turns out that they are not splitting up our ward, in fact they are adding to it, I leaned over to Tonya and whispered, "Another Nursery :-)" Unfortunately the sound was terrible in the Arena so we heard almost nothing of the talks.  Taylor sang in the choir for the conference, so that was very nice.  Church will now start at 9:00, so I'm happy again, I wonder if I will ever be able to convince them to start at 7:45; that would be great!

Working on my layout. It seems to be turning out ok!  More later!

Edit: Actually more right now, one of the Families that I home teach brought a pool over for us!!!!! It is 15' round by 3' deep.  Can't wait to get our backyard cleaned up so that we can set it up!

Camp Time

I'm leaving today to take my children to Girl Scout Camp...we've been looking forward to this for so long.  It's strange that it is finally here!  They'll both be gone all week, Shaylie will spend half the week at camp and half the week with grandparents, until I can come get them next Saturday. 

I know they'll be fine, but I can't help be a little worried.  I always do even though they always have fun.  I need to just chill.  I'm grateful that they can have this experience. ttfn

Around the town

Well, I have been slacking in my weekend bike rides so I decided I better ride around town, plus I wanted to checkout some things. There is a new park over in Green Valley that opened yesterday and I wanted to see that, it is a really nice park, but it looks like a morning and evening park, little shade no covering over the playground. As I biked past Tonaquint Park, I saw that the city has hung an awning over the playground equipment, that will be nice. Neither park is as good as Hidden Valley Park, but I think that might be the nicest park ever. Also, as I biked back into town, I biked to J.C. Snow Park and the Dog Park is now completed!!!! Nobody was there, so I don't think anyone knows about it. Can't wait to let Blackberry run around at it. Was a great bike ride, it was just over 30 miles today! I need to do that more often, feels great!

Edit: Almost forgot.  there was a fairly major car accident up by Dixie College that I biked to.  Appears that one car was making a left turn and the other can coming straight didn't stop for the light (That never happens in St. George (how do I show sarcasm on a blog) In fact, there is a color called St. George Green, that is very often confused for red)  I asked if it had been called in and a few seconds later a policeman pulled up.  The two vehicles are both done, their front ends were a LOT smaller that they were supposed to be.

Busy, Busy, Busy

The new computers for the year arrived yesterday. I have unboxed all of them as I needed the room to store them. Obviously, I am going to be busy for a while.