HARDWARE RANCH

We took a little family adventure a couple of weeks ago(really into those!) We all piled into the car and took a little drive up the canyon... mind you, Scott and I had been feeding the boys full of hints and clues about the amazing time we were going to have on this surprise outing for the few days before! They did their best to guess but to no avail, they just couldn't figure it out. We even told them the name "Hardware Ranch" they really thought it had something to do with tools! (I might have thought that too, had I not seen the website) It is this Elk refuge where they put out food during the winter months so that the animals can come down from the mountains and eat. There is a small visitors center where they explain their purpose and their mission in helping the animals, but the most exciting part is the wagon/sleigh rides!(they say sleigh, but pretty sure there were wheels on the bottom) We climbed onto these huge horse drawn wagons/sleighs and they take you for a ride through all these elk. They said the number changes every day but some days they get up to 500 head of Elk. It was quite the site. Something I had never seen before! Everyone loved it! If you are in the area, definetly something you should add to your "To Do, next time I'm in Logan" List! (p.s.-everyone should have one of those ;)

DOODLE's

Mr. K : "Mom, can I have a Doodle?"



Me: (confused look on my face) "Um.... What's a doodle?"



Mr. K:(looking at me slightly annoyed) "yeah know that thing you eat!"



Me:(really confused now...not sure what to say??)



Scott:(Interperter for the 4 year old) "He wants a toaster Strudel."



Mr.K: (very happy that someone understands!) "Yeah!! A doodle!"



Me:(laughing inside... happy I'm married to a Genius!) "Sure hon, you can have a Doodle."

CHANGE

I read a quote the other day that said "If you don't like something in your LIFE, then CHANGE it, if you can't CHANGE it, then CHANGE how you feel about it!" LoVe, LoVe, LoVe that.... How many times in life do things happen that we have NO control over??? (I would say quite a few :) but the magical, beautiful part of it is that.... we always have control of how we feel! No one can MaKe us feel a certain way... we CHOOSE it, by our own free will! It is empowering to ponder. No one can upset us, make us annoyed, make us FEEL special or loved, hurt us so deeply that we want to cry and scream "NO FAIR!" or make us feel comforted and secure and so happy and blissful that we want to scream "PLEASE DON"T STOP!!!" unless WE let them..... The POWER is in us!

Practical Joke

So Mr. E is our entertainer. He likes to tell jokes and be the funny man! He loves gettin a laugh out of people. His target for the day was the little brother! Mr. B came downstairs hopping on one foot one leg in his pants and the other leg of the pants hanging to the side with a knot in it! He said The big brother had tied one leg of all his pants into knots.... I wasn't sure I believed this story but low and behold upon futher investigation..... all of Mr. B's pants(including PJ's) had one leg tied in a knot! Thanks for the laugh Mr. E! (Kids- you should totally try this at home, if you get in trouble, tell em the "BLOG" made you do it! ;)

New Year's Resolutions

It would seem That I am about to embark on the adventure of Blogging! I have been blog Stalking many of you for some time now and felt it was Time to venture out into the Blogging world all on my very own!(Wish Me luck!) I have heard some great Feed back on "Blurps" and people making a blog book/Family Journal...That is something I am very interested in. Let's see, what is today?? January 3rd- Starting a blog was one of my New Years Resolutions. Not to Shabby for Shelley! Guess I will be checking this off of my list of things to get accomplished in 2010 and move on to the other bazillion things I want to do in LiFe!! Kidding ;) I plan on posting the many updates, photos, crazy, Personal, Heartbreaking, funny, Zany (that word really doesn't get used enough) Emotional, Learning, and Inspiring Moments of My life. (some of you may also get included in these posts as well... you know who you are!) So Stay tuned.... The adventure has Just Begun... YiPPiE!!!