Stephanie is a Junior!

Here is Steph's Junior Year photo. She looks soooooo grown up. I don't know what I am going to do without her in the house when she leaves at 18. I will definetly need alot of shoulder's to cry on.

Roxy gets a haircut

We took Roxy in for a haircut and she looks like a new dog. I will post the before and afters.

Pepper is officially a Intermountain Therapy Dog

Well it's official. Pepper and I just finished our orientation and got our red clothes. We still have to do a shadow and then someone has to shadow us, but we are almost there. He is the best dog EVER! We did our first volunteer work at Dimple Dell rec center. We went and the experienced handler talked to the kids about dog safety. Then they got to pet the dogs. I have to admit I didn't know how Pep would do with a bunch of kids mauling him but he did awesome. He didn't seem stressed about it or anything. He definetly gravitated to the counselors (who were older teenagers) than the kids but that is not suprising as he prefers older kids and adults to little kids. We are hoping to start out in an ECF versus a children's facility and then see how it goes. Maybe South Davis or something like it. Anyway, I am so proud of him!

Mom Super Powers

Well I discovered one more of my mom super powers. As usual Jake and I had a fight the other night about him showering. After much cajoling he finally relented. But then when he got out I realized some of his hair was dry and some was wet. I asked him if he washed his hair and he said, "yes" Well needless to say I told him I had the super power of being able to tell washed hair from unwashed hair just by touching it. He went in and washed his hair. This got me thinking, what other "super Powers" do moms have? If you have any suggestions either leave it on the blog in a comment or on facebook and I will "publish" a list of them. Be creative. We all know we have eyes in the back of our head. Come up with some fun ones.

Fourth of July

As usual the fourth at my house means setting stuff on fire curtisy of Chris. He actually showed up for a while so we didn't miss the tradition. Once again we escaped with no-one burning the neighborhood down. I added a couple of pic's of Fourth of July when the kids were little. They have grown up but their love of fire has not died down.

Another Boo Boo

Jake managed to slice his hand open. It took just 6 stitches. He did it on Chris' old dagger. Luckily it made a nice clean slice.