Dogs At Boarding

 Now we know where Lucy learned it from… Charlie also being king of the tower and Oscar just chillin. ❤️🐾🐾❤️🐾🐾❤️

I go to check on the dogs only to see miss princess! Queen of the tower! Lol! She kills me! She is just missing a crown!

#lucygoosey

Friday Night

 What does your Friday night look like? #lapdogs ❤️🐾🐾❤️🐾🐾❤️🐾🐾❤️

Grooming Day

 Lucy getting her fur “did” today. 

#allaboutthatbass

#junkinthetruck

#princessgoosey

Heaven got another Angel

On Monday, March 14th, I attended the funeral of an Angel who was called home. Forever she will be known to me as Willie's Mom. I am so grateful to have known her since I was 16. My how the years have flown by. She battled so many things in life and always did it with a smile. She was always an example to me of courage. There was no mountain she couldn't climb. She was such a wonderful friend to me and she will be missed. Her daughter told me at the viewing that when Willie died her Mom had said, it's just like he is going on a 2 year mission and I will see him soon. Well it's been barely over two years since Willie graduated this life. I am so grateful to the entire Cook family for their kindness, love, and support over the years!

Her funeral was so beautiful with over a hundred flower arrangements in the chapel. Beautiful words and memories spoken about her life and beautiful words sung. 

Link to Obituary

This picture was from her 70th birthday party when she had a drive thru birthday party because of covid. It was so fun to see her that day, but also bitter sweet, since it was the first time I had visited their house and Willie wasn't there. 

You will see on the program below that great picture of Karen and Willie. That is actually the back of the program. I was sitting in the chapel and had held my emotions pretty together up until that point, with the exception of a few tears that escaped when I had hugged Bill, and when I turned over to the back and saw that picture, I could no longer hold the tears back. I am sure their reunion was so wonderful!

At the end of her service the congregation sang In This Very Room. I don't think there was a dry eye to be had. What a beautiful Spirit was felt by all.

My sweet mom helped me order this beautiful standing arrangement for her service.

Tubin

Ok so this evening ended up being one comedic event after another. 

My work put on this fun event for families for dinner and tubing in Heber at Soldier Hollow. The e-mail said dinner would be at 5pm. I had told my sister we should try to get there at 5 so that we can eat, have plenty of time for tubing, and then go home early if we wanted since it would get cold and dark soon.

I show up as the first person there... then my sister shows up with her fam. I had some stuff for them to take back to their house including two sleeves of sacrament cups because i accidentally bought a thousand of them... which the kids got a kick out of.

Then we tried to go into dinner and all the doors were locked. I was like oh no! Then someone came to let us in and told us dinner wouldn't be served until 6pm but they atleast let us come in and sit down. 

After sitting down, Cole's comment was " I was told there would be food" as we sat at a table with only cups for water and lemonade. The next hour my other coworkers slowly fizzled in, Chase checked his watch every two seconds to see if the time had passed and it was time to eat, Bryce wanted everyone to play the animal game but no one would join in since it sounds like he wins every time. 

Well we made it through the hour and we all had tasty prime rib for dinner.

Next we ventured to the tubing hill. I atleast had the foresight to not join with anyone else on my first run down because I didn't know how fast it really was going to be.

In my defense, later in the evening a worker had mentioned that the conditions were really too icy and they should have shut down weeks ago. I am sure the owners were just trying to milk everything out of the season that they possibly could. 

First down the mountain was Berry and Avery on my right and Cole on my left. Then I sat down on the tube, lifted my feet and away I went, down the icy hill of death!!!!

The amount of momentum and speed that I gained I was not prepared for. For that 5 seconds down the hill, I had a bit of Tourette's moment as I realized I had absolutely zero control of my speed. I tried to put my feet down but it literally did nothing. As I got to the end the path slopes up, so I thought I would naturally slow down. This was not the case I FLEW like I have never flown before, over the hill, through fence number one, through fence number two, and bounced off the back of the green inflatable barrier. I am just sooo grateful I didn't knock anyone over. The worker told me if I broke through those fences again I would be asked to leave. Believe me, it wasn't intentional. Later I also learned that I was supposed to put my feet down when I got to the orange cones. Well I was moving so fast I never even saw the cones!!!! 

Needless to say Cole saw it happen and was scared for my life until I started laughing since I literally hit the last barrier going 30 miles an hour and of course my sister literally fell over laughing when she saw what had happened. 

The worker told me I could try going face first down the hill and drag my feet the whole way next time, but that seemed even scarier. 

I decided not to try it again after a quick prayer asking if it would be ok if I tried again, but got a very quick No. So I guess my guardian angels only had the strength to save me once that night. I don't blame them. 

Overall my sister and her kids had fun, which made it all worth it in the end!

 Don’t think I have ever traveled so fast in my life while not being in a car or airplane…

#chevychasessaucerhasnothingonme

#funtimes 

#notenoughinsuranceforasecondrun

#famtime

Clawee

 HELP! My bookshelf is being taking over from Hen's winnings from an online claw machine app! Every time I come down to my office some how a new one has mysteriously appeared. The name of these creatures are "Clawee". I mean don't get me wrong, they are super cute, but what I am going to do with all of these???

 There is a bit of a history of Hen and claw machines... I was told in high school, one time Hen got his paycheck and then spent the whole thing at the fair playing these claw games...

What is completely wild about this app is that he is playing an actual claw machine, not just some made up one on the internet. The app is linked to cameras in a real arcade and a real machine. Over the years Hen has gotten ridiculously good at these things...

Link to Clawee Game

What you may notice as well is the nose at the very bottom of the picture....One of these things has already been destroyed by the fur kids, so you know they have their eyes pegged on the next victim...