The Future

In her homework, Rachel was asked to write about how you see yourself in the future.  This is what she wrote:

In the future, I see myself  as a billionare, and also training dolphins and doing dolphin shows for more money. But, behind the greatness, come responsibilities.  I have to buy lots of securety cameras for my mansion, and I have to train the dolphins. I will live in New York, with 5 children and a husband. I will have 3 girls and 2 boys. But even though I'm a billionare, I have to always spend money. Last week, I bought my family 8 pets. Imagine how much money I have to use to buy food!!

Annual Camping at Valley of Fire

We found a perfect weekend to go camping.  No one had early sports on Saturday and the weather was great.  We pulled the kids out of school a little early and went to our favorite camp site.  While we set up the camp, the kids went off to climb and explore.  I love going camping because even if the kids are fighting all the way there, as soon as we get out, they are best friends and they have a blast playing together.  This was the first time Ruby has gone camping.  I thought she'd like it more.  But I think she really hated that the other kids could go run and climb and she just couldn't.  She was stuck around the camp with me and Bob.

We cooked the regular hot dogs and smores.  Seth was a pyromaniac!! He loved watching his food burn in the fire.  I think he went through a whole bag himself.

We explored some of our own hikes where we found rocks that explode into sand when you throw them.  The kids all loved that! And we visited the Cabins and Elephant Rock.

Scar Face Ruby

Ruby had an accident in our backyard.  The kids were playing out there before church and Ruby tripped over the hose and landed face-first.  She got some scrapes and bruises, but her forehead just happened to hit right on the hose nozzle and it was deep.  So instead of going to church to see Bob released from the Bishopric and and our good friend called as the new Bishop, Ruby and I went to the ER.

It turned out they could just glue it instead of stitches. We're hoping that will help so she doesn't scar too badly.  She was so good through the whole ordeal.

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