Answer Me This

We're walking down the street. We're in the city heading toward this yummy (though hole-in-the-wall) burger joint. As we approach, we (well, I guess mostly I) witness a homeless man losing his lunch in the garbage can outside the restaurant. Now I ask you, COULD YOU EAT THERE? My answer is NOOOOOO! My husband was quite disappointed. He tried to argue that the man probably didn't eat in the restaurant. I don't care if the guy ate there or not. That is inconsequential to me. Puke equals LOSS OF APPETITE in my world. Am I alone here?

Under the Gun

It is July 23. My 34th birthday is in roughly 60 days. As you may remember, I set some goals for my double 3 year. You can note my updated progress on the sidebar. Since my goal was to accomplish 33 of each item on the list, I will be a reading, movie watching, thank you note writing, new thing trying fool. I will not fail!!!

Travelling With Children

Travelling with Children. The word "adventure" comes to mind. They love seeing everything new (until bedtime). They love running (away from us). They love trying new things (and breaking them). It's one giant adventure.

We had the opportunity of visiting a place that we frequented prior to having any offspring. Now that we have three bundles of joy, the experience was quite altered. IN EVERY WAY. We didn't feel the usual calm, memory lane thing. We felt like crazy, zoo exhibits.

Favorite moments of the trip: swimming, boating, milk shakes (boy, do we miss those in this part of the country), Minnetonka Cave, seeing cousins, Temple Square, Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house, laughing (and we did LOTS of that)!Baby Lu's favorite part of the trip was having his very own can of sugary goodness. Notice the huge puddle on his shirt. He didn't want ANY help! Not pretty, but noted for posterity.

Here's the Scoop

Here's some summer tidbits!

1. Someone put in a great offer on our house last week. Yahoo!

2. That same someone backed out of the sale yesterday. Blech! I, being the horrid person that I am, hope they find themselves living on an ancient Indian burial ground.

3. I continue to clean my already clean house on a daily basis.

4. We had a super fun Independence Day. The highlight was the "ice fight" after ice blocking. I had lots of ice down my pants.

5. We had our first annual "Ice Cream for Dinner" over the weekend. We went to a yummy ice cream shop in the city. It was hysterical. S couldn't finish her ice cream and was somewhat upset about it. R finished his immediately and wanted, in his words, "another GIANT SUPER HUGE ice cream cone." Baby Lu (aka the SLOWEST EATER ON PLANET EARTH) could have sat there for hours. I was chuckling to myself the whole time because that is a summary of each of their personalities.

6. We will soon be making the official "trek west" (made annually by many of our "people").

Oh, No!

Just for fun I went to the park to take pictures again. This time two of our fave babysitters came with me. We marched hither and thither looking for fun spots to snap some shots. They were jolly good sports. Unfortunately, I gave no thought to POISON IVY. One of them came down with a terrible case. I feel AWFUL! Hopefully she'll think the pics are worth it!!!