a saturday at the allphins

Every Saturday morning chris plays basketball at 7am. This saturday the kids woke us up before then and we all played and snuggled in bed. I stayed in bed a few extra minutes after everyone else got up until Canyon came to me and said "Mommy, Sheridan is in trouble" (this is his way of telling on Sheridan). Then as fast as Micheal Phelps beat the Serbian, I was running and saying "oh my gosh it smells like nail polish". Sheridan had dumped out three bottles of nail polish, and it was only 7:15! What a start to my day! I got 95% of it off my floor, burning lungs, and a very flammable headache from the polish remover fumes. Chris walked through the door, and shouted "who's playing with nail polish", our whole house reeked! Any ideas how to get the last 5% off my vynil flooring? Oh and believe me I'm thankful it wasn't on the carpet! Then we had to go to Costco, uneventful thankfully. I went to the eye doc in search of new glasses to replace the ones Sheridan mangled. Watched the last bit of the BYU game, way to block that kick! Then we went over to Uncle Terry's again for some swimming and food! What fun! Anna, Christie and Amanda (Terry and Lisa's girls) were there and my kids just love them! We even tried out the Kareoke/theatre room at the end of the night. He has a huge selection and I got to even try out my new found love of ABBA. So while my saturday started out insane, the house was finally aired out by saturday night, and it ended very well.

camping

We have been camping a few times this summer and managed to stay dry and unstruck by lightning as we had thunderstorms every time. Our kids do so great with camping and love to get dirty. Canyon and Chris love to play Frisbee all the time, though in our house we call it Husby. That comes from Canyon mispronouncing frisbee and even making up a song about husbies, so we play with a husby, and play husby golf. Sheridan loves to play with, eat, and basically roll around in the dirt. The last time we went it was our big Rucker campout at Green's peak and there were quads to ride and skeet shooting competitions and all sorts of fun. Sheridan was so glad to have papa there (so was I) and the family had a blast. Oh and the food was amazing, way better than our lame ol hot dog on a stick camping, I'm talking full camp kitchen with marinated chicken and the best buttermilk pancakes I've ever had. (sorry dad, but you've got some more learning to do from aunt cheryl) I can't wait for next summer!

august birthdays

So I have a bit of catching up to do. First we started having family home evening with my family and it landed on Skeeters birthday, although she was in Vegas we had cupcakes and celebrated for her, we had to pressure wash the kids (Canyon, Dezirae, Simeon & Sheridan) afterwords, but we all love a good mess sometimes. For my birthday we went to the temple and later my dad took some of us (Scott, Heather, Buck -Heathers brother, quickly becoming part of the fam, Brice, Chris, Me and our kids) out for dinner. I chose Golden Corral. I love that place. I've always been a fan of the buffet and we had a great time. My mom brought me a cheesecake too, my fave, and it was a good day.

i love abba

So I got to go see Mama Mia with my sis in law heather, my friend Jaymie and her sis and the movie was so fun! I never knew I was such a an ABBA fan but I am newly devoted. It was so cute and funny. If you are a fan of musicals I recommend it. Meryl Streep was Awesome, Pierce Brosnan tried, and Amanda Seyfried (the other main chic, from mean girls)was amazing. Go see it!

saguaro lake

Uncle Terry took us to the lake with him and two of his girls; Christie and Amanda. We had a great time and got to try all the fun things we used to do when we were teenagers. We all rode the tube, even Sheridan. I haven't gone wake boarding for 7 years, and I got up on the first try. It was like riding a bike I guess, though it's been way longer than 7 years since I've done that. Christie got up for her first time too. She was a natural; she started trying to jump her first time up. We had to force Canyon on to the tube at first but right after we started going he was giving the thumbs up to go faster. Sheridan was just loving everybody and was jumping off the boat all by herself while we were stopped for swimming, and Chris got to try out knee boarding. Now us old ones are so sore but it was so much fun and totally worth it. Thanks Uncle Terry!

take me out to the ballgame....

I bought Chris some braves tickets for fathers day and we finally got to use them! Friday night was totally great, the Braves won and then we got to watch fireworks and it was a super fun night. Chris decided to take Canyon to the Saturday game and the boys had a blast eating peanuts and diamondback dogs. They gave out shirts that night and Canyon was so excited about that. I'm so glad he has his daddy for his best friend.

Memories

I saw this on my friend Jaymie's page and thought it would be so fun!
1. Leave a comment on my blog of a favorite memory of you and I together. Whether we know each other a little or a lot, just anything you remember.
2. Then, do this same post on your blog and see the fun memories that people leave about you. If you leave a memory on my comments, I will go back to your blog and write a memory about you. Fun stuff!