This is what we did

She is a nine week old Shiba Inu puppy. She does not have a name yet so we are looking for suggestions. She hops like a rabbit and we are leaning toward something japanese so all of you cool people who speak japanese suggestions are wanted or anyone else who wants to. We are waiting to hear from you. All we ask is that it be clean and easy to yell at a puppy when she escapes. 

Izzy seams to be tolerating her so far. It was very cute tonight to see her bouncing around Izzy like a crazy rabbit trying to get Izzy to play with her. 

D says we can't take her back so we are stuck with her. 

The kids wouldn't give her back anyway, they are all in puppy love

have you ever done something..........

Have you ever done something.......crazy

without really thinking about it

just on the spur of the moment 

and then wondered 

am I crazy?

Who's idea was this?

But then again if you have to drive for 2 and 1/2 hours to do the crazy thing is it really spur of the moment?

Hmmmm...............

I know nothing

It is really sad when you have no idea what is going on. I have been so focused and stressed for the last six weeks that I have no idea what is going on around me. I don't know how the kids are doing in school, what is on in the news, except of course all of the financial crisis because we have had to study that in class oh and the hostage situation in Farmington since I work three blocks away from it.
It is very upsetting to think that you can become so out of it that you just shut down everything else. I can say that I am really tired and feeling somewhat strange. People talk to me and tell me things and I have probably forgotten to do things for people so I apologize ahead of time if I have forgotten to do something for you. I plead insanity.

The lights are on

Hello
you have reached my brain
we are sorry to inform you that the brain has packed up and left for sunnier locals
Please leave a message and if we find the brain we will be sure to answer you
Have a nice day

Garage Heaven

When we moved from the old house in North Odgen to the new house in West Point we lost some much needed space. Our old house had an almost finished basement with a family room and a couple of bedrooms. The new house has a basement but only one room is almost finished so, needless to say, we have a lot of excess stuff that has no where to go until we finally get the basement finished. D had hoped to have it finished within six months of moving in, I was a bit more skeptical. Well almost two years later we still have no basement finished. I give D a break because he does work an awful lot and does not have the stamina or drive that he did when he was younger. So where is all of the excess stuff - In the garage.
When we first moved in we had a large storage shed with all of our stuff in it because we sold our house in five days and did not have a house to move into. We had to store most of our stuff while we rented an apartment until the new house was finished. Eventually we had to move the stuff home as rent got to be expensive. So all of went in the garage and the cars moved out.
This past few weeks we have slowly gotten rid of a few things and D, being very sweet, cleaned and organized the garage enough that MY CAR NOW FITS, IN THE GARAGE!
I was way excited. It is really nice to have the car in the garage. It will be even nicer when it snows, or rains, or freezes as I won't have to scrap the car every day. D hopes to clean the rest out in a couple of weeks when we have a big yard sale and sell a lot of the extra stuff. As for the basement he has Boo's room almost sheetrocked, Ty's room is sheetrocked and she actually lives in it and he hopes by October to have both rooms done all the way ready for paint and then we can tackle the family room.
I am looking forward to having more room and the kids having more room and being able to seperate the two youngest again. Bee is a messy packrat and Bear is almost a neat freak so they do argue about who made the mess and who gets to clean it up. Besides boys of ten do need their own space without their nosy messy sister in it.

Disney Pics

Since my wonderful and loving daughter sent me all of the pictures off of the camera I thought I would share some of our Disney fun. The trip was great. We did a lot of fun stuff and saw many of the little shows and such that you usually do not have time for when you go with kids. Any one planning a trip to Disney really needs to check out the show at the Golden Horseshoe - it was so fun and we saw it twice, The Muppet's 4-D, and It's tough to be a bug (this will scare the little ones but was really neat). D's favorite rides were Soarin over California, Space Mountain, California Screamin and the new Toy Story Ride.

This is the Mark Twain riverboat which goes on the river around Frontierland. We were sitting on the top deck waiting for it to start when the captain came down and asked if would like to join him in the wheelhouse which is the little room you see at the top of the boat. D got to blow the whistle and ring the bell. It was very neat and I think D really enjoyed that part. Orlando was our driver and he was very nice and talked to us all about Disney.

Our trip home was a nightmare. Since we were flying standby there is always that fear that you won't get on the plane. We were flying from Long Beach to Vegas and then to Salt Lake. Our initial flight out of Long Beach looked like we would not get on but we did. The Long Beach airport is really small. You board and unboard the planes outside and the luggage returns are outside, very strange. We got our tickets and got on the plane and were on our way to Vegas. The flight to Vegas was really bumpy, there were storms between California and Nevada and the pilot tried to go around them so we went a ways out of the way. On our first approach to Vegas he had to abort because the weather was too bad. We finally landed, thank goodness, before both D and I lost our cookies. We were on the same plane to go to Salt Lake but they made us de-plane and go pick up new tickets (standby rules) and then get back on the plane. We were supposed to land in Salt Lake at 7:15 pm but due to the storms and such we did not leave Vegas until 8:00. We sat on the plane for almost 2 hours. Fortunatly the trip to Salt Lake was smooth and we landed without incident at 9:15 got in our car and drove home very thankful to finally be home.

my feet will never talk to me again

Three days, 

Two parks

90+ degree heat

humidity

a long walk from the hotel to the park

a long walk back to the hotel from the park

meeting many strange people (some even from utah, originally)

one spectacular fireworks show

four times of the same parade (dang that song is still stuck in my head)

five times soaring over California

five times magic mountain

three California Screaming

lost count of how many pirates

very tired

very soar

lots of fun

Ready to come home

It has been a fun three days. We rode lots of rides and discovered today the really nice shuttle that we should have been riding from the start but were too stubborn to get tickets for (D). We had really good crowds friday, we were able to ride rides will little or no wait. It got a little busier yesterday but still we could ride things pretty quick. Today the park was much busier and the crowds were a lot heavier. We wanted to do the toy story ride again but the wait was over an hour so we did not. We did decide that we do need to bring the kids again because there are some things that we did not do with them last time that they all would love. We will have to save our pennies and bring them, maybe next year.  It is a really long walk from one end of disney to the other end of california adventures. Our really special treat is that we had dinner yesterday in the restaurant that is the one that you go by in the pirates of the caribbean ride. It was good but very very very very expensive. I have never paid that much for dinner, ever. Now we can say that we did it. It was fun to sit and watch the boats go by but I would not do it again. D big wish is that he wants to stay in the grand californian hotel (we walked around inside of it today, it is very cool). 

home tomorrow

I've been tagged

If you get tagged, you have to list 10 things that make you happy. What are the things that tickle your fancy, make you smile or still give you that butterfly sensation? What things do you seek out and truly enjoy? The only rule is that you can't say your kids or your spouse...it's too easy.

My sis tagged me to answer this so here goes

10 - watching a great game of soccer played by my kids. I love to watch Boo play soccer, kick some butt and get better and better every game. Her team has so far won two games and tied one so way to go La Rocca 

9- Finding that special book that connects with someone - I know it is my job but there is something special when you help someone find a book that they really connect with and I love it when they come back and tell me how much they loved it. It is especially cool when it is a kid who hates to read.

8- really good music, I love music and I will listen to about anything. I enjoy sitting in a quiet room with my ipod listening to not only the songs I grew up with but some of the new cool stuff my kids listen too. I love instrumental music, soundtracks, oldy goldies, hair bands, you name it. 

7- A really good book, nothing better

6- Movies - I love to go to the movie. I don't get to very often but I love the smell of the popcorn and the excitement waiting for those previews to roll across the screen

5- A new car - this does not happen very often but I love the smell and how much fun it is to drive a new car that doesnt rattle, that no one has puked in yet and is just a little cool

4 - An A. I love it when I worked really hard on an assignment at school and I finally get what the teacher wants and end up with an A. Nothing is better than opening up that grade book to see that I was rewarded for all of the hard work 

3- Listening to my girls play Cello or Violin. I love to hear them practice and play and get better all of the time. It just makes me feel so good to hear them.

2- Going on vacation - Getting away from home and seeing new and fun things with my family. 

1- I know you said no spouses but I really love spending time with my Husband. With our totally different work schedules I love having free days that we can spend time together even just grocery shopping. 

I tag my lovely daughters, my cool california cousin and my sister in law in Idaho. 

Your turns-

Hello from the land of MIckey Mouse

I am sitting in a hotel room in Anaheim California typing away on my 'puter isn't technology great. We have run away from home for a few days sans children and are going to go play with pluto, mickey, goofy and various other cartoon characters. We will take lots of fun pictures and hopefully have lots of fun although we just found out no haunted mansion (bummer). 

Dan decided I needed to get away and after calling in favors of family flew us to california to spend a few days at the happiest place on earth. 

Our hotel is okay, we have a lovely view of a large brick wall and the hallways are like a sauna but the room seems to be okay it is clean and cooler than the hallways. We are next door to a seven eleven (can you say slurpee heaven). The flight was full and we did not get to sit together. D sat between two guys who managed to down two vodka's each in our 90 min flight. I sat next to a large, rather smelly lady and a young hispanic kid. At least it was Jet Blue who has inflight t.v's so I could watch x-men the whole way. 

Tomorrow it is off to Disney where we will hopefully ride rides til we are sick and have a great time.