What do people think of Utahns?

Ryan sent me this:

FORGET REDNECKS; THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAD TO SAY ABOUT UTAHNS!
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September to May, you live in Utah .
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Utah
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Utah .
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed the wrong number, you live in Utah .
If 'vacation' means going anywhere south of Salt Lake City for the weekend, you live in Utah
If you measure distance in hours, you live in Utah
If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Utah
If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day, you live in Utah
If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both doors unlocked, you live in Utah
If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Utah
If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Utah
If the speed limit on the highway is 75 mph -- you're going 80, and everyone is still passing you, you live in Utah
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Utah
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Utah
If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly' you live in Utah
If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your friends, you live in Utah .

A Fun Free Giveaway!

My friend Cindi runs this website. It is Utahmomslife.blogspot.com She posts lots of fun ideas, recipes, outings, and GREAT deals and giveaways. This week she is giving away passes to Thanksgiving Point. Check it out!

Disneyland... I know it is a month late

We had so much fun at Disneyland...

I am the second of 10 kids
Denny, Kerri, Jeff, Marguerite, Teresa, Jon, Emilie, Jim, Meri, and Sarah...

So for Disneyland we had my mom, me, Marguerite, Emilie, Meri and Sarah and my four girls. We rode lots of rides, ate treats and had a blast. My girls are ready for big rides so Meri and Emilie promised them next time we'll do MAGIC Mountain:)
When I went home in June it was the first time in 3/4 years that I had been home so this really was a fun treat especially to see so many of the kids. Thank you Marguerite so much for getting us the tickets...
Denny and Jon and Jim had come to the graduation so we had seen them also. I love being part of such a fun family.

Darren has been working at Camp Maple Dell all summer so he hasn't gotten to do some of our fun trips. But don't feel sorry for him he is loving it and is making $$$.

More more summer fun...

Here are some more pictures of the lake...

More summer fun...

Friday we had the chance to go boating with my college roommate and her family. We met them at the resevoir and then after a fun day went to stay at their house and played and visited all night long. Our kids had so much fun and it was hard to believe that it has been 17+ years that we lived together at dear old Carroll Hall at BYU.

Sarah's Graduation Pictures

Backing up!

Okay I know I haven't posted forever. Last month in June I took the opportunity to take Ryan's little car and the four girls to my parents' home in southern Cali. Sarah my youngest sister was graduating from high school. We had figured out that Sarah with 9 older brothers and sisters she has had to sit through 7 high school and 7 college graduations so we might as well make an effort to go to hers.

While there we visited Marguerite at the Reagan Library, went to the beach, hung out at the YMCA and topped it off with a free day at Disneyland with mom and four of my sisters:)