Gene got a new toy

I have been opposed to this for all 14 years of my married life. Why did I cave now? Who knows maybe he whined long enough, maybe I feel bad for all the money he spends on me? I don’t really know all I know is I caved. Of course when we got it home Gene’s best friend doc had to come check it out.

Talk to me at the end of summer and see how I feel about it. 

Temple Square

We went to Temple Square on Sunday. It was an amazing thing. I love going up and being able to see all the lights. It was almost like a beautiful spring day when we left Springville. When we got to the point of the mountain, the fog rolled in. I have see pictures of the temple encased by fog but never witnessed it in real life. AMAZING beautiful I love the peace you fill on the temple grounds. So calming and uplifting. I am truly amazed at the sacrifice of the pioneers and what they did for us.

The fog really made you forget you where in a busy downtown City. It made it feel like temple square was of on its own little world. What an amazing feeling it was there this night.

The fog was so thick you can actually see my camera picking it up. What a beautiful time of year. One I am truly amazed at.

I am so thankful that I was able to take my family to the temple grounds and be able to teach them about our Savior and all that he has done for me and them.

I love, love, love it when our friends from Roosevelt use us for a landing pad, literally this is what happens when dads pass out on the couches and moms are to busy talking to be good moms. We just keep telling these to to go to bed. They did we had to push Reagans feet away from the door. so fun when friends come in for a visit even if it is only for 6 hours in the middle of the night. love it.

Timp Caves

Let's get one thing straight. I have never said I was in great shape but I thought I was in ok shape. Well that is until you hike Timp Caves with a ton of 4th graders who go really fast, and this hill is like straight up and down. There is not even places where it levels out for a little bit and you can get a break.

This is probably a big no no. Putting your kid's friends on your blog. Oh well one of the kids is a good friend and the other is a cousin so I guess I will get away with it this time.

We made it up the Mountain. Holy cow I have never been so happy to see the end of a destination. This hike was hard. Yes I am a wimp, yes I was super sore for like 4 days. But I guess what matters most is the memories I made by being there with James.

Our little group. We just finished the tour and came out of the cave. The kids were fairly good and had a good time to.

We made it to the bottom. I was singing praises at this point cause I am not sure which is worse the going up the hill or the coming down. Either way I did it.

Yes I know it's sad that I have lived basically at the base of this mountain range for my whole life and never done this hike.

I for one would take Lehman Caves over Timp any day. Why you ask? Timp hike 1 1/2 mile straight uphill. Lehman drive in a vehicle 2-21/2 hours from Springville.Did you hear me I said drive as in like have a diet dr. pepper right next to me and treats. Pull up to the ranger station. Walk through the ranger station and straight into the cave. Yes I am lazy. I would much rather drive than walk. I know I know get of my lazy butt. Oh well to each there own I say.

I will say that in 5 years if they still do this trip I will be back up on that mountain with Jesse. Yes I am that kind of mom. Torture myself then plan on doing it again with the next kid to go through school.

When I talk about torture you have to know to that I rode the bus. I usually never ride the bus. I always drive myself. So that I have the freedom to stop whenever I need to and get a diet dr. Pepper. That is the kind of awesome mother I am. Always thinking about myself. This time I tried the bus. TORTURE, is all I can say. The bus driver scared the crap out of me to. That is saying alot considering my driving record.

Oh well no one fell of the mountain no one got hurt we all survived barely so I guess all in all it was a good time.

James Got a new haircut

He's a true Cope.

After he was done showering he came down and said "Mom my hair fell out when I was showering."

Really James, do you have cancer that I am not aware of? Some medical condition we may have to start seeking treatment for?

So here is a word to the wise. Make sure that you watch out when you come to the Cope house wear a hat. Somehow we have a condition where you hair falls out just randomly.

Won't you be my neighbor?

So on this lovely Monday afternoon. I walked over to my neighbors house. Her tomato's where getting ripe like crazy. I picked them then knew she was totally overwhelmed with work and stuff. So I asked her what she wanted done with them. She said whole tomato's. I said OK took her bottles and the tomato's and went home.

This is what she ended up with. 10 quarts of tomato's.

I love my neighbor so much and I am glad that she is my neighbor and lets me do her canning for her. I really do like to do it.

I also proceeded to mow the lawn. All by myself. Usually I make Gene or the kids do the lower have because we have been know to have those creepy slithering things in our ward. Then I watered our yard. I mean really watered like almost flooded our yard.

Then for family night I made us all go out and weed the raspberry's. I will only do this when Gene is home to do the whole snake check thing before we start weeding.

Next thing I know is that Kelty has gone in the house. Surprise surprise she somehow managed to get out of weeding. All the sudden I hear tons of commotion in my house and hear "Dad, dad, there is a snake in the house. See previous post about how terrified of snakes I am. Thinking she is joking he walks in. Sure enough their is a snake in my new living room. He gets it kills it and then flushes it sown the toilet. Great now I have the fear that somehow its going to slither back up my toilet and bite me on the butt.

In all seriousness, he has a friend who works for the sewer plant. I really asked him if he would call him and make sure it came through the sewer so I know it is no longer anywhere near my house.

Gene proceeded to laugh and tell me no. I am serious here I wanna know its gone.

Then to top it of I have ants in my master bathroom. It's on the second floor of my house. Who what and how do you gets ants in there?

So question of the day. Who wants to be my neighbor? I will bottle tomato's for you.

Or better yet, my house is for sale. Who wants to buy house, it includes snakes, and ants in your bathroom. Great selling point huh.

LION KING

What more can I say but Lion King was simply fabulous. So glad we went and where able to take our kids to it. A serious miracle happened while we where their. Jesse sat still and was memorized by the whole thing. That my friends is a miracle in our family.

My mom went with us. It was so great that she was willing to come with me and my crazy family.

My mom and I waiting for it to begin.

My cute little family just sitting and waiting and so excited.

I would highly recommend going to see it. Good times to be had by all. The topper to the night was that my mom bought us Crown Burger for dinner. Yumm-o that is a family favorite around here. Such wonderful memories hopefully my kids will thank me for one day.