December 12-18, 2022 (50)

The day after my birthday

In case in are wondering, yes, Utah has a big celebration the day after my birthday.  I have often wondered if it is in honor of me and they don't want to single just one person out so they "claim" it is Pioneer Day of Days of 47'  What ever it is I love the celebration.  First it starts off with a parade.  Which now that we have kids we watch it from our home not the actual route.  

Today after the parade was over we headed down to City Creek to get these two monkeys a few more things for school.

  Our neighborhood has started a fun tradition of getting together with all of the fireworks our boys husbands have bought and bring them to light them off for one big display.  It is a lot of fun watching the men behave like teenagers.  This year my parents decided to come hang out with us for the party. 

 Emry found the perfect seat in the house. 

 Seriously, I don't know who has more fun.  The teenage boys or the grown men?

 I hardly see JJ the whole night because he is off getting his pyromaniac on.  Emma was running all over with her friends.  It was a good thing that Mapa came because who would I have hung out with?  Oh wait, that's right I have a spare or two or three.  Ellie, Elsie, and Emry were a bit nervous at first and then the older two were all over the place.  

Now, don't forget tonight is a school night for Emma and Elsie.  So we had to do blessing before the festivities and we had to hurry home after and get to bed.  Seriously what kind of State planning was this?  It just feels so wrong to send them to school.  And yes, they got to bed roughly after 11:00pm.  Ugh

Hands, Parades, and Bones

Today started out with some weirdness and ended even worse.  I was looking at Ellie's hand to check out her thumb when I noticed this on her finger.  I have no idea what it could be.  It looks awful painful though.  I guess that it is time to see the doctor again.  

Our stake entered a float into the Days of 47 parade.  Tonight it made its rounds through the stake to show it off.  It was actually really cute.  I am glad we waited to head to Park City so we could see it.  

We got our car packed up and headed on our way to Park City.  Of course it was raining and I love driving in the rain, especially at night.  We came around a turn heading down hill when It jumped out of nowhere.  It hit hard and it made a thud.  We all were terrified because the sound was horrid and the van felt like it was going to flip.  The rest of the way driving we were nervous about getting a flat tire but lucky for us we didn't get one.  We did however smell something funky.  When we got to the parking garage and got out we could smell something even more.  It was awful.  It made me start dry heaving it smelled so bad.  Then we saw it...blood on the ground...then we saw the bone.  The sight and the smell made me almost lose my dinner.  It was horrid.  We were all screaming, we called papa and he came down to check it out.  Thank goodness he was there to get this picture for all of your viewing pleasure.  

If you are not throwing up yet you should be.  It was so gross.  I believe I hit a dead carcass.  So the smell was horrid.  Thank goodness my dad was there because he took my car and cleaned it for me.  According to JJ guts were flying all over the wall of the car wash.  EEEKKKKKK!