I didn't realize how long it had been since I had posted. It has been a busy month. The kids are all back in school and settling down - especially Meagan, who is taking concurrent enrollment classes - which means she gets college credit for them. She is also getting ready to graduate. Ack! She brought home all of the graduation invitation and cap and gown stuff on Friday. I can't believe she's old enough for that.
I barely survived YW Camp and Youth Conference. Boy, am I glad they are over! We had YW Volleyball Kickoff on Saturday and that went well. I can't believe how much I stressed over bringing muffins and juice. I think in the end, we had 20, maybe 24 girls show up and probably a dozen other people between leaders and their kids. I was surprised at how unpopular the blueberry muffins and orange juice were. Everyone seemed to prefer the double chocolate muffins, poppyseed muffins and milk. Who knew? 3 dozen muffins would have been fine, but I bought 4 dozen. Better too much than not enough, I guess? I was glad I was in charge of refreshments and not the volleyball part of it, but that went well, too.
My kids thought it was great that there were leftover muffins. Unfortunately only Cameron likes blueberry. What is wrong with people? Blueberry muffins are my favorite - if I could eat them. When the kids came upstairs, they said, "Wow! Those are humongous muffins! We thought they would be regular size!" Yes, we do not buy muffins at Costco often, as you can tell. As it turned out, they each got 1 1/2 humongous muffins - except Cameron - he got 3.
Saturday afternoon, we took a big trailer full of junk to the dump. Old fences, old tire swing, logs from long dead trees, etc, etc. We had to turn back home half way to the dump because a downpour started and we didn't have jackets, and David forgot how far north the SL County Dump is. It was the first time I had ever been to the SL dump.
I remember going to the dump with my dad when I was little. I thought it was the most fantastic place on earth. BIG piles of garbage with bulldozers running through and over them, seagulls everywhere. It was kind of a let-down because the dump now is just a big cement gully with only one bulldozer running back and forth. I guess the real "dump" is somewhere else now. The birds are now on their own little islands in a big pond and not all over the garbage. There were seagulls and pelicans, though. David assures me that the SL Dump used to be just like the Bountiful Dump was when we were kids.
By the time we got to the dump, it was sunny, which was ok with me. Meagan and Amber stayed in the Suburban while the rest of us chucked garbage in the gully. Cameron was having the most fun, seeing how many pieces he could get old logs to shatter in to and lifting big chunks of fence over his head like the Incredible Hulk and tossing them in the pit. He got a stick to stand straight up in a big cardboard box on the other side of the gully. Jarom was having fun tossing things, too. I felt kinda sorry for the bulldozer guy. I'm glad they didn't hit him with a big piece of fence.
After we had tossed everything in the gully, Cameron noticed that it said on the post to put cardboard and metal in the recycle dumpsters behind us. I guess we know for next time. Oh, and all the logs? We could have put them in the huge recycle pile just out of site from the gully. So, if you're going to the SL County dump, there's a heads up for you. And it's just west of 5600 West on California Avenue, if you were wondering.
After that, we took our old (but still nice) bookcase headboard over to Holly and Gary. We have way too much stuff crammed into our bedroom and it just wasn't fitting. Cameron had to pull the headboard out of the trailer by himself, to prove he could do it. It must weight about 200 pounds. Meagan kept telling him to stop it or he'd get injured. Meagan, our medic. She knows way more about anatomy and injuries than I do.
The cats really liked the headboard. Not too long after it was set in place, the cats were laying on top of it. Katelyn says she's glad it's not her headboard, she doesn't want cats jumping on her in the middle of the night. After that, everyone had to try out the wii. David and the boys were enamored with the bowling. Meagan read her Alanna book. Amber and Katelyn goofed off. And I watched it all. Kyle even bowled with Cameron and Jarom. Wow.
