Mail Call

I always love Marquesas’ mail calls and have always wanted to attempt to do one. So here is goes…

Dear Lance: I love that you check my blog every once in a while, but sometimes I wish I could post pictures and stories about you playing video games with your friend and calling me your little house wife when I placed cookies and milk on the table without you getting upset.

Dear scale: Please stop creeping up higher and higher. It depresses me when the contestants on Biggest Loser lose their weight and they aren’t very far away from my current weight.

Dear Orion: We don’t mind when you sleep on the bed, but we do mind when you jump off to lay on the couch and then decide you want back on the bed. No, we don’t want to play your game of back away when we bend down to get you.

Dear Landlord: We’ve told you about the leak and stain on the ceiling and you continue to tell us to “keep watching it”. It’s not our fault if you have to replace the whole roof when it molds or caves in due to your lack of action.

Dear Primary class: Thank you so much for being good yesterday! I really didn’t feel like catching your paper airplanes or rearranging the seating order so you wouldn’t choke the person next to you or tell you to stop climbing the walls.

Dear pregnant ladies or ladies with recent new babes: You’re giving me baby fever and it just isn’t time yet. Please stop making your bellies and babies look so darn cute.

Dear General Conference weekend: You are always so relaxing and uplifting. You couldn’t come at a better time!

Don't let sleeping dogs lie

Lance and I play a game with Orion.

If you have a dog, I invite you to try to play this game too.

You know when a dogs in that good sleep and they start twitchin' and runnin' and makin' sounds?

All you gotta do is open their mouth ever so slowly, reach in and pull out that tongue.

This is the result.

Look how long that tongue is!!

I promise you that he is asleep and not dead. I don't know why his eyes are open. Maybe he was awake and was playing along to add extra effect for the picture. I wouldn't be surprised if he was.

There hasn't been a time that we've done this that hasn't ended up with him waking up because we I laugh so much.

Campin'

On Friday we went camping with Tommy Hudson and his wife Jessica and their lab puppy. The plan was to leave right after work and get to the campsite and set up camp. BUT things happen and we didn't get to the camp grounds until almost 9. Lance had to creep around the camp ground to find the camp ranger guy to let us in the gate since they closed the gates at 6. It was a shot in the dark, literally, to find this guy and hope he'd let us in.

Once we're inside, we set up our tents. Ours is on the left and that's Jessica in theirs.

We cooked up some deer burgers and sausages. Those were good. But the best part of the night was this creation. Smores with a twist. Instead of plain chocolate, we used a reese's cup. OH. MY. GOSH. I don't think I can have it any other way now.

We are old boring people so by 11:30 we were in our tents, snuggled up, and ready to sleep. It was about 40 degrees at night but it didn't feel that bad in the tent. Lance used a sleeping bag and I had a miracle blanket plus Orion as a heater. Cold was never a problem during the night. Our air mattress however, is a different story. We woke up at 5 in the morning laying on the ground. With a little help from the air pump we were back to sleep.

Sorry to make you turn your head but this picture is not cooperating.

After Tommy and I were able to wake our beauty queens we tried to cook up some eggs that we picked up at a gas station. When the first egg was cracked we knew gas station eggs were a bad idea. The egg white was fluorescent green. With all green eggs and ham jokes aside, it was disgusting. The green egg is on the left with a normal egg on the right.

packed up camp and headed into the woods.

We did a little fishing, a little small game hunting and lots of laughing at the dogs. My manly man husband has gotten into weapons lately. He got a blow gun and has been trying to get a kill since. He took out a .22 rifle and came back victorious. Don't worry, Thumper's still thumpin. He killed a water moccasin. He has the skin drying on our porch as proof.

Please note Lance's rippling biceps. Oh baby.

I had a lot of fun camping and hanging out with the Hudson's and letting Orion run loose in the woods but that shower and bed sure felt good when we got back.

Best week of my life.

Lance asked me a few nights ago when I was going to blog about our trip to Brazil. I hadn't given it a thought because it would be such a long post with all the stories and pictures. But I guess I'll finally write one so my poor husband can stop checking this blog every day.

The flight:

We had standby tickets so it was always a game of sit and wait until 20 minutes before the flight took off. But we obviously got seats. BUT we got our first class seats! Let me tell you, that is the way to go. The seat reclined back, we got a 4 course meal of fancy shmancy gross foods, hot towels to do something with (I'm still not exactly sure what we were supposed to do with those towels). They had a bunch of tv shows and movies we could watch. I started watching Easy A,

then turned it off, started watching The Social Network, then turned it off, turned on Charlie St Cloud and finished it. After that I slept until about an hour outside of Sao Paulo. When I looked out of the window and caught my first glimpse of the city I was completely amazed.

The Hotel:

It was tiny. But had internet, a cool view and a bidet. So it worked. Here's were the magic happened.

Things we saw:

Other than street dogs everywhere, the crazy driving compact cars, crowded buses, sketchy markets, shaking sickly womens hands, and visiting families,

we went to one of the biggest Cathedrals in South America

we went to the top of the tallest building in the city

Posting pictures in a blog makes me want to poke my eyes out with a rusty fork. So if you wanna see more, I have a whole album on facebook.

It was a fun experience. I got to try new food, meet new people, even learned a few new words. My favorite part was spending all my time with Lance. If we were in public, he was holding my hand. Unfortunately, he says it was for protection and hasn't been doing since we've got back... Guess the honeymoon's over. I had such a good time while we were there and I was so sad when it was time to go back to reality.

In other news, my friend was having a baby shower and I decided to get creative. My favorite was the whale.