We Love Moab!!!

The Fam on main street

4-Wheeling Cuties

Cutie-Kate

I think we've gone to Moab more than any other vacation spot.  You'd think we'd run out of things to do, but no.  I think we could go a bajillion times and not run out of new things.  The kids love it.  Jake and I love it.  What more can we ask for?

Greg and Tracy managed to get every single kid to Moab.  An amazing feat if I do say so myself.  They made it even better by paying for all of us to stay in a hotel.  Awesome, right?  Jake and I had a hard time wrapping our brains around the words 'Moab' and 'hotel' being used in the same sentence.  This is a foreign concept to us, so we were a bit hesitant.  Not to worry though.  Moab is even fun in a hotel!  Yes, it's true.  It was good fun at that.  We even managed to walk on Main Street and check out some of the fun stores.  Jake's been to Moab like a million times and hasn't ever managed to do that.  He even bought a Moab hat, which I think is well deserved when you've been to Moab as many times as he has.

We did all kinds of fun things.  Tracy even managed to bring skotcheroos (I have no idea how to spell that) to Moab.  These treats are at every gathering we have.  Good thing too because they're delicious.  Anyway, we did do things besides eat good food.  We went on a fun new hike that was short enough that even Sage made it.  At the end of the hike?  A pool of water to play in.  How can life get better than that?  The cold water felt so good.  The best part of the hike was when all of the moms who were there flung ourselves off the tower of death.  Notice I said the moms, not the dads.  That's right.  The "men" were too scared.  We showed them.  It was like 100 feet high, and we jumped off like it was nothing.  Okay, I might be exaggerating.  Just a little.  It really wasn't super high, but I've never done anything like that before so it scared me plenty.  I was still amazing though, don't worry.

Tracy decided to continue to be amazing and watched our kids so we could go mountain biking with Brandon and Laura.  We do stuff with them like twice a year.  Its lame.  Anyway, yes we went mountain biking in the middle of the afternoon.  In the blazing sun.  Why wouldn't we?  Brandon and Laura had to rent bikes.  The first place we went to the lady wouldn't give them to us.  She said it was a bad time of day to go and people die every year of dehydration in Moab.  Not to be deterred we just continued down the road to the next bike rental place.  They were more than happy to take our money (or should I say Brandon and Laura's money).  This was Laura's first experience mountain biking.  She did awesome.  We all had good fun and didn't even die.  We're amazing.

Anyway, I've rambled long enough.  Other high-lights of the trip were 4-wheeling, Jake and Zack mountain biking, swimming at the hotel, 4-wheeling in the Pilot, and all kinds of other fun things.  Kate was so tired she was actually asking to go home.  A sign that we played hard.

PS - I don't have many pics because the rest are on Jake's phone and it could be years before I take the time to get them...

Mom of the Year and Other Stuff

Pics from our last camping trip

cute kids

Sagie Lou

Summer is officially here.  The kids are out of school thus I am now expected to entertain them with super fun activities all day long.  Good times.  No really, I do love summer.  For example, summer mornings are the best.  The best.  No more rushing, dragging the kids out of bed, throwing lunches together, etc., etc.  This morning I let the kids wake up when they wanted to wake up.  Fabulous for all parties.  They still had to do chores, but I didn't care when they got them done.  Again, fabulous.  I am being the mean mom this summer.  They WILL be doing some kind of school something every day.  I'm also getting them going with more chores around the house.  Don't get me wrong, they always have chores.  But during the school year I do back off a bit because they're so busy with everything else.  This summer?  Be prepared to work kids.  Zack's been doing the laundry today, Kate dusted, and there will be more, much more.  Vacuuming, sweeping, loading the dishwasher, weeding, weeding, and more weeding.  Just trying to keep up the Spjute tradition of weeding our brains out.  Spjutes excel at weeding.  It is vitally important that I pass this gift on to my kids.

Now, to the good mom part.  My kids brought lots of papers home from school last week.  Lots of papers.  Like why in the world did they have so many papers at school?  One of the many papers was some paper that said "unplugged" at the top.  I admit, there were so many papers that I glanced at it and then went on my merry way.  Then I started hearing whisperings of a cool community unplugged program.  So I looked it up online and what do you know?  It was super cool.  So I asked Zack and Kate if they had heard about it.  Oh yes, they knew all about it.  Kate even came home with a lanyard (I had no idea this is what they were called - I called them necklace things) for her brag tags.  (click on the above link if you want to see what brag tags are)  So I asked Zack why he didn't have a lanyard.  He said, "I could have gotten one but we don't usually do things like that so I didn't take it.  I figured we wouldn't do it."  Yes, I am the mother of the year.  Apparently we never participate in things like this.  I can't think of anything that we haven't participated in, but in Zack's mind we don't do cool things like this.  Just a quick reality check in case I was actually starting to feel like I'm a good mom.

Anyhow, this summer we will be earning brag tags, spending more time than I would like at Seven Peaks, and lets not forget Tiny.  Tiny will be a big part of our family this summer.  Let's hear it for summer!!!

ps - I think I see a salesman coming down the street.  The bad part of summer.  Got to run so it looks like I'm not home...