My Blog: July 2011

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Family campout

A couple weekends ago we went on a family campout up American Fork Canyon. It was so beautiful up the canyon and I loved that it was cold in the morning. My house isn't cool right now and I loved sleeping in the cold!

We had fun with all the neices and nephews until we built a campfire. Then they all wanted to 'help', light matches, put wood on the fire and everything else. My dad was sure that one of them was going to fall into the fire pit and I got to the point where I was going to help one of them fall in so that the others would learn to stay away from the fire. (I'm nice, aren't I?)

My dad taught us a new Indian saying (since he has some Indian blood he and one of his brothers has taught us 'Indian' lore).

"White man built big fire, sit way back. Indian build little fire, sit real close."

We had a true white man fire. It was huge and warm and attracted all children within the campground!

Monday, July 25, 2011

Fireworks

Last night we did some fireworks at mom and dad's house with all the lettle neices and nephews. We gave the little kids sparklers to start off. When I was a child when we had sparklers we spent time writing our names in the air and twirling in circles. Last night, we had 5 little kids running around yelling 'stupify' and 'protego'! We also heard lumos, avada kedavra and expecto patronum! What fun they had pretending to be wizards. I heard several refrences to Harry Potter while playing with fireworks. I love that kids can take something like sparklers and pretend to be wizards!

Monday, July 18, 2011

Germany trip 2011

I've been home almost 2 weeks and I still wish I was in Germany! We had so much fun and I got to do so many things that I probably wouldn't have if I lived there. I kept telling myself that I needed to do it because chances of me getting back there are slim. That's the only way they got me to ride the tram to the top of the highest mountain in Germany!

Here's a slidshow of some photos I put together for the girls at work.

http://cmd.shutterfly.com/commands/pictures/slideshow?site=mygermanytrip2011&page=mygermanytrip2011/pictures&album=8

Favorite Quotes

"I cannot live without books."

Thomas Jefferson

"When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship."

Spindle's End by Robin McKinley

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you."

Winnie the Pooh

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it." The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

"Because when you're imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile."

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

"Even for me life had it's gleams of sunshine."

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."

Winnie the Pooh

"I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

"His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him."

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

"I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes.

'But you kept on playing?' Dad said. His eyes got wide when he said it. I could tell he was proud.

'Everybody does,' I said. 'You can't just get up and walk away every time you mess up. You'd never get anywhere."

A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

"And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it."

The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”

Winnie the Pooh

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

"'Were they not satisfied where they were?' asked the little prince.

'No one is ever satisfied where he is,' said the switchman."

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It didn't matter. He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about."

Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

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