Mormon Pioneers - Act of Courage - LDS Church History

I love Pioneer Day here in Utah or as some people refer to it "Mormon Mardi Gras"!

I love this little video...the best....

Mesquite day 3,4,5,6 & 7

We had a great time, even with the 110 plus temperatures the last two days. The kids played in the pool about 90% of the time and that was fine by me, I had about 8 magazines that some nice passengers left on the plane so I could get caught up on some celebrity gossip. Ben flew home 2 days early, we drove him to St.George and he flew the 1 hour 5 minute flight on the old Brasilia airplane, he asked me if a lot of people got sick on that airplane because it is so bumpy. No not really then I asked him if he threw up and he said almost.We went into Las Vegas for a few hours and on our way there we drove through the Valley of Fire. It did feel like fire and was fun to let the kids out and explore until theu realized the rocks were really hot.
We stopped by the Coke store and M&M's store Bauer was so happy he got to meet the yellow M&M.

Some cousins that came and had some fun with us.

Really the only rocks you could touch the one's in the shade.

She was unhappy, she was not excited to be walking around outside with no pool in sight to cool off.

Mesquite Day 2-109*

Today definitely didn't feel as hot as yesterday maybe I am already getting used to the heat.

Just some updates on the kids,

Alivia is 7 going on 17.

On the drive down here we put on seat down in the back of the Suburban, and so she got to sit in the back all by her self. She had her own head phones on, her own snacks, her own games and books while her 3 brothers were in the middle seat watching "boy" movies.

She also wants to wear sunglasses, and a visor, and lip gloss....

she is the biggest "fish" in our family, Kessler is a strong second...

Cooper loves to swim but mostly running and jumping into the water over and over again.

Bauer loves to swim sometimes, but mostly sit by his Mom, or have his Mom push him around on the raft.

Ben burned his shoulders, surprised? you shouldn't be, he fell asleep by the pool yesterday and sat in the shade all day today.

My family ended up getting some rooms down here the same time as us.

My Mom and my two sisters are over in the hotel part of the resort.

So all the cousins were able to go swim in the pool tonight together is was comical, one cousin decided to jump in without a life jacket and so one sister was in the pool in her clothes saving her little "geeno".

Kessler also decided to go in once with out his life jacket and his dad saved him.

Pictures are not going to come for a while the internet access here is SUPER slow, so uploading the pics onto blogger is too time consuming.

day one-110

We rolled in last night around 11:30pm to Mesquite, Nevada and it was still 104 degrees. The air was thick with hot.

We found our place which is nice it is away from the casino so the kids don't have to parade through there.

Today's temp 110 pippin hotness.

We swam in the pool for 5 hours, had lunch swam for another 2 hours went to the store and took a trip to Lake Mead.

We loaded the machines into the water and cruised around a bit, it is so amazing to see how low the water is.

Also amazing to see all the quaga (sp?) mussels attached to them selves to the side of the rocks.

Kessler and I were the only ones to jump in and swim in the 90 degree water.

Also a side note Kessler said to me the other day "no bueno" I say that a lot and died when I heard him say that.

back to mesquite....no one has been burned yet, we have been sprayin on the 30spf -50spf.

Sorry no pics yet ....too hot to get the Camera out in the sun....

Happy Fireworks Day!!

Fun times here, for the 4th but really celebrated on the 5th. Although these little fireworks don't compare with the big one's done by the city, or other cities.

I have been working a lot the last few days, so I now have a 2 week stretch off. Ben has been working crazy long days 12 hours plus.

Luckily ~ now that he writes the schedule he can take time off when they have enough people.

We are taking a little trip down to Nevada, why you ask? why would we go from hot Utah to EVEN hotter Nevada.

The Whidden's need to use up some time from their time share that was going to expire and the only place available was Nevada.....

hopefully I will come back with a great tan, not a great burn.

Friday Fishin'

Small Obsession

Our little family (by Utah standards that is) has had a small obsession with Toy Story. I remember seeing the first Toy Story right after I graduated from high school and loved it.

Our kids have fallen in love with it too.

We love our movie theater over in SoJo (South Jordan) called The District. We made sure we went and saw the very first one at 10:20 in the morning.

We bought our tickets a few days before to make sure we got the right seats.