Dumb!

Here is a picture of the dumbest thing I've done all year. After I finished mowing and trimming my mom's lawn, I saw one tiny little patch I'd missed next to her fence so I fired up the trimmer again just to get that one patch. I realized I could get it better if I pushed the fence (chain link) out of the way with my foot, but when I did so I forgot to keep my leg/foot far enough away from the target range. I learned first-hand (as if one needed proof) that trimmers rotate quickly. It didn't cut deep, but it cut quickly and painfully. But never fear, I worked through the pain for another moment and got that stupid patch of grass. Then I hobbled inside and took care of my injury. This picture was actually taken two days later so the cuts are blending together. It looked worse the first day. Worst part was that it was all due to my own stupidity. How embarrassing!

Wisdom

She wouldn't let me take her actual picture, so this will have to do. Camilla had her wisdom teeth taken out two days ago and still looks pretty much like this. Kind of like she did when she was a baby/toddler. (She had the fattest cheeks of any child we've ever seen, but oh-so squeezable. Wouldn't advise sqeezing them right now, however.)

Look familiar?

We found it! Matt, Drew, and I headed down to Mt. Rainier National Park today and we found the cute little "chalet" we stayed in years ago as a family. Remember this?

Oh, and here's a picture of me attempting to call you from our cool hike. The Bagoo was willing but the signal was weak.

Documentation of a Hot Flash

They don't just affect Mom....we can all feel the heat!

A bit of our trip

For Bethany: Here are a couple of pictures before I go to bed (after being up 24 straight hours by now, I believe). I'm getting a bit light-headed. This one is a view of Salzburg from the fortress overlooking the city, with The Untersberg in the background (the mountain we went up on).













And here's a couple half-way up the Swiss Alps:



And one more very special one just for Dad (because it's Father's Day). Can you guess where it was taken? (They took the street sign down--it got stolen and vandalized too often.)

Our Dancer

All of my girls had relatively short careers in the dancing field, but as part of the youth Temple Celebration for the new Draper Temple on Friday night, Camilla danced with our stake in an Asian dance. Naturally, our stake's presentation was the best. It happened to be the last of the 15 groups, too. (I think I counted 25 stakes, some of them grouped as two--ours was grouped with another one also.) Anyway, all the groups did great, and there was a choir made up of youth from all 25 stakes, too. The whole evening was delightful. Someone found this picture online and told me about it. Here's our little star! (The redhead in blue with the parasol.)

Back from Hawai'i

Yes, it was tough. Six days in paradise. Good weather. Ocean view. We suffered through it. The first question everyone asks is, "Where is your tan?" Katrina's repsonse is, "It wouldn't fit it the carry-on luggage." I wasn't clever enough to think up a snappy comeback. Had I thought, I would have said, "It didn't make it through the agricultural inspection."

Being the sunburn-proned people and one sun-allergy person that we are, we choose activities other than sun-worshipping type. So this trip we went waterfall hunting

and lighthouse viewing. (Waterfalls were on both Oahu and the Big Island. The lighthouses were just on Oahu.)

Also managed to get in a 16th birthday, a volcano, and a temple.

And now we're back, facing reality, laundry, school, work, etc. Oh, well. Paradise on this earth is only temporary, I suppose. At least there's updates on Andrew and his family, without whom the trip just wasn't the same!