Playing Catch-Up

So much has happened over the last few weeks and I have been so busy that it has sadly passed by without being posted here for all you avid readers of our blog. So terribly sorry! :0) Madison is asleep so we will see how far I can get on this catching up spree…

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August 23rd (the Saturday after our Havasupai excitement) was a great day for adventure, or so Clint and his friends thought! They decided to ride mountain bikes down the mountain, which probably would not have been a problem, except they took a wrong turn at one point and ended up on a trail that isn’t so much a biking trail as it is metal stuck into a giant cliff face with rocks piled on it pretending to be a trail! THEN, to top that off when they did make it back to the trail, two of the guys riding in front of Clint bumped a beehive and royally ticked off all the bees! Clint starts yelling “Bees! Bees! AAAAAAH!” and takes off. Our friend Parker is in front of him and starts pedaling as fast as he can, but can hear Clint gaining on him. He starts wondering why Clint’s bike isn’t catching his back tire when Clint zooms past him… on FOOT! THEN Clint outstrips the guy on the bike in front of Parker and keeps going! He had a helmet on and the bees were up inside stinging his head so he thought the whole swarm was still surrounding him! I can’t believe that he outran two guys pedaling DOWNHILL on bikes! My little gazelle! All in all, they ditched 3 bikes and averaged 15 stings each. Owie! (Poor Andy, it was his birthday!) Later they had to return to get the bikes, luckily the bees were MIA, but the truck broke down. It was definitely exciting!

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Some friends of ours came into possession of an extra twin bed and dinette set so guess who got to enjoy the riches? Yeehaw! We did some switching around and ended up with Andy and Michele’s old dinette set (which is BEAUTIFUL!) and put our old one on the corner – it disappeared overnight! Maddie was pretty excited for her “BIG big girl bed” and Mommy had to make her a new bed set. I picked out one I liked from Pottery Barn and with Clint’s aunt’s help figured out the design and size for it and got all the fabric on a Wednesday. The following Wednesday it was finished! It was SO MUCH WORK! But so worth it! I cut out flowers and birds and ironed them onto the squares, then did decorative stitches around each one. For the stems I sewed on some scrapbooking fuzzy string, and for the legs on the birds I used ricrac. Then I quilted around each square and each bird and flower. (That was the hardest part!) I did a pillowcase and a throw pillow to go with it, and it matches what she had in there before so I can still use those throw pillows too! It was a fun project and I’m glad I did it, but I don’t think I’ll do anything as involved for a LOOONG time!!

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Labor Day Weekend was fun, we did our traditional trek up the mountain. This time we were joined by all of Clint’s family and that was great! There were only 2 drawbacks, our campsite was far away from everything else and so was kind of isolated, and it rained pretty much the WHOLE TIME. That was miserable! Everyone went up a day before I did because I was sick (I think that blanket tried to do me in!) and the night that I missed was horrible! Everything got wet, the storm kept waking everyone up, and then it was so muddy and cloudy that the morning wasn’t much fun either. We had a birthday party for Clint’s nephew, and Jonnet gave him Moon Sand, which Madison and he loved! They made the biggest mess! Good thing they only opened one bag! It was almost Russell’s birthday and Clint’s sister Missy had got him a present too, a cool beans flashlight that is magnetic on the bottom! The boys and Missy played Frisbee since no one had a football, which is always a joy to watch! :0) Madison and I came home Sunday morning because her runny nose had turned into a chest cold and we were both feeling pretty gross. Monday the sun finally came out and dried up all the rain (any one else singing about spiders?) and Clint’s brothers thought it would be great fun to ride down the hill on Tonka trucks! I’m sad I missed that! Too fun.

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Thursday was Clint’s birthday (27 years old! I told him that 26 is still young but 27 is OLD!) and we had a party for him Friday night. Any chance we have to get together with our friends, eat pizza, play games, eat brownies and ice cream… we are SO there! You’d NEVER be able to tell what this kid likes to do based on what he got; a backpacking tent, 2 boxes of shotgun shells, a quail call, and a new day pack for hiking. See what I mean? :0) We had a lot of fun with the quail call, Parker’s was the best, followed by Madison! Maddie got him some candy and I got him new blades for his electric razor. (I know, exciting eh? But he needed them and they are expensive, so that’s what he got!)

I believe I should be pretty much caught up at this point… if not I’ll post more later! Hasta!