I feel better

Sometimes I get down on my blog, thinking that no one cares about my minute accomplishments and family trips. I came across this blog and I feel better. I remember that I'm doing this for my kids, for our family journal and I stop worrying about how lame I sound or if I don't look good in any of the pictures.

Leila's Quilt

I finished Leila's quilt about a month ago but I forgot to show everybody! I can't believe how long one little quilt took to make! I started it when I was 7 months pregnant and I didn't finish till she was 2 mos. old! I think next time I'll try to piece together fabric that has more stiffness to it. That silky stuff, even though I starched it to make it rigid, took forever to piece together! As you might be able to see from the misaligned hems and stitches that it was my first attempt at piecing a quilt together. Overall I am quite pleased at how it turned out. I hope it lasts her for as long as she cares to use it!

Web Picture Tag

I got tagged by Lexi! Here are the rules: Use only pictures from a Google search. (don't cheat and use any of your own, or ones on your computer!)

Favorite Color: As much as I like to try and hide from it, I really do like pink. I think it's the whole mentality that goes with it. I'm not a valley girl that shops all day, and I'm certainly not blonde. But I like pink things! This picture pretty much explains it:

Favorite Animal: Hands down, the little blue penguins that live in New Zealand and Australia (2 places I should very much like to visit!)

Bad habit: Thumb sucking, my mom even made me one of these out of blue spandex when I was little!

Favorite food: Cafe Rio Chicken Tostada Salad mmmm...

Favorite Hobby: I love any kind of craft, anything to express my explosions of creativity... or just to wind down. But who wouldn't want martha stewart's craft room?!!!!

Place I live:St. George, Utah Favorite Song: I'll look after you, by The Fray.... for today anyway. My Job: Wife/Mother

Favorite Author: Yikes! That's like asking me to describe sight to a blind person! I suppose it's Madeleine L'engle, the author of A Wrinkle in Time for today. Hee hee, this is a funny picture because I am obsessed with Lost for the moment!

Favorite Dessert: Torta di Chocolate from Olive Garden (No sugar added) Very Very Very Good!
Picture of Me:

Or, another lady named Laura Callahan. She apparently resigned from the department of homeland security after it was discovered that she had 3 questionable degrees from a diploma mill in Wyoming, hm, glad I'm not her!

I tag...Ashlynn, Annie, and Kristen

Happy 311 :)

Today, we honor these, the 311:

Family, isn't it about.... CAMPING?!!

I'm sure everybody knows by now that my family is made up of a bunch of die-hard, dyed-in-the-wool, camp-till-you drop crazies. We start camping as soon in the season as we can, and keep going till the snow starts freezing our "piggies" off.

We kicked off our camping season this year at Whitney Pockets. (If you've been reading my blog we've gone to this same spot, every year for the past eleventy-something years) Leila was solemnized into the family by participating in this, her first Tent/sleeping bag experience, and I must say she did very well for 3 mo. She slept through the night, stared at the camp-fire, and even smiled as we drove along miles of bumpy roads.

Cooper mostly enjoyed being able to roam freely and not have anyone tell him to "spit out those rocks!", because I, after a certain point, gave up trying to compete with the obviously delicious and irresistable rocks. This was the first trip for cooper that he could run without tripping so he was able to keep up with his cousins and participate in all the mischevious toddler things they do. Among them: getting into the candy, shoveling rocks into our lunch, fighting over trucks, and concorses of other equally deviant behaviours. His life of recklessness led him to fall on a cactus and recieve a palm-full of hair sized splinters. Annie came to the rescue with tweezers, and Mom had a spray bottle of bactine... and after several dramatic minutes with the tweezers and medical tape, his hand was cactus free. He did not, however, come home unscathed. He is to this day recovering from a nasty sun-burn, and a severely chapped face (from hours of 4 wheeling no doubt). He refuses any type of relief in the form of lotion, or otherwise... claming that "It huwts!"

Ben and Tasha piched in with me and Jesse to produce a carne asada meal like no other (they didn't stay the night, owing to Tasha's large and cumbersome belly).

Jesse got some quality time in with his .22, and also, at times, his son. Just Kidding! We all know that Jesse was BORN to be a dad, he love's his "sun-boy" and absolutely adores his "Leilars". He spent hours on the 4 wheelers with Cooper and slept side by side with him at night. I fit in there somewhere too :) Thanks Mom and Dad for such great camping traditions!