Welcome to the Pease Family Blog: June 2008

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Spencer's Haircut

So last night around 11:30ish were packing up and getting ready and Doug says that he needs a haircut before we leave. So as I'm cutting his hair I'm thinking-hey, I should give Spencer a haicut too. The problem is that he is sleeping. Another problem is that I'm pretty tired myself-results not good. I was actually doing okay until I was cutting around his ears and neck and realized I missed a spot on the side of his hair so without thinking of putting back on the extender I buzzed him-whoops. So then I spent a good amount of time trying to fix that and even it out and then gave up and went to sleep-hoping it would better in the morning. Nope. Poor kid. So i try to fix it again and it keeps getting shorter and shorter. Doug said to just leave it-it's a good camp haircut-whatever that means. Spencer doesn't realize it's bad-I hope I get a better system down by the time he starts caring. I can't ever seem to get his right.
This picture makes it look better than it is-good thing he's such a cute kid!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Maybe goodbye for awhile

Hello-We are about to leave for Scout Camp and I am not sure if we will be able to get online at all-I will work on pics and keep stories and update it all when we get back.

I am sad that my strawberries that I planted last year have come back in full force and they are starting to turn red and were going to miss eating them.

I can't wait for our Twilight party! I will be Re-Vamping for August 2nd (Breaking Dawn)-Once again I'm requesting all who have not read Twilight to read it-you will not regret it.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Argh!

Doug and I were doing some cleaning and organizing-getting the house ready before we leave. And then my friend called and I was talking to her in the other room while Doug was vacuuming. After a few minutes of talking my friend tells me "Hey your kids are here." What? They had been playing in their room (they were supposed to be cleaning it) and then snuck out. Kailey was the instigator for sure, Spencer goes along with most of her ideas. Anyway my friend lives about three blocks away (not really busy streets or anything, but still.) So I ask to talk to Kailey and I'm so mad and lecturing her about how she can't go walking off like that. And then she says to me-But Mom, I didn't walk, I ran. Kids.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

We love Ariahs Smiles

Ariah is always so quick to smile-she's such a fun baby.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Summer at Camp Bradley

So Doug got a job for the summer up at the Boys Camp. He is going to be the head cook and we get to go too. We are going to have our own apartment thats attached to the kitchen. It has all the basics and then some-it won't be roughing it at all. There is a lake and a swimming pool-the kids are going to have so much fun. It is up past Stanley, ID (the coldest city ever-worse than Rexburg even) but it will be a great escape from our hot house. I will miss our friends and the fun summer activities that go on, but I will be back at least once (Twilight party!).

Happy Fathers Day!

Kailey made this tie for Dad in Primary. He loved it-and the candy that was attached to it.

For Fathers Day Activities on Saturday we went to the Airport (see above) and then Doug went with some friends to The Hulk movie. On Sunday he got spoiled pretty good too.

We hope he had a great day-he is a great Dad and we appreciate him a lot.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

First Foods

Ariah is loving food-She recently started solids and so far hasn't found one she doesnt like. Here she is eating

bananas.

Friday, June 6, 2008

First time blogger

Hello. Finally attempting to Blog. Maybe. I don't know how up to date it will be kept. We'll see I guess.

Our Summer

Well, we survived. Our car, however, did not. But I’ll get to that later. What a summer-We are exhausted. They never could work out an assistant cook-so that became me. Doug was my boss and he totally let it go to his head-just kidding. We were busy though. We cooked, on average, for 300 hungry teenage boys who more often than not could eat seconds and thirds. We worked at least 12 hour days. No joke- the dishwasher ran almost 8000 times (it had an odometer) by the time we left and that’s not including when the dishes were washed by hand because of a power outage-which happened a few times. We had a kitchen staff of 5 boys to start with, which three quit because it was too hard, one got home sick and went home, and they hired two more boys who lasted a day before they quit. The scout troops were a great help and would come in after meals. We had one working oven-a convection oven at least, but still. Our kids, for the most part, were uninjured-which was a miracle especially as the shooting range was behind us and the pool was not too far (with a gate that could easily be climbed under). They were eaten alive by these horrible little bugs called No see’ums. Imagine a mosquito bite given by a bug about the size of a dot who also laid eggs into your skin so that the next day you would be covered in horrible itchy blisters. I am not a fan on those guys. They loved Ariah-poor baby. We had all kinds of critters in our apartment-especially if we left the door open. We had mice and a bat (and its baby) as our official house pets. Anyway-We did have a great time. When we did get some free time we would do different camp activities. The swimming pool was perfect. It came from a natural hot spring so the temp was great. On Saturdays it would get refilled so the kids could play as it got deeper. We had staff parties at night which were pretty fun until you had to get out and then be freezing. Some other activities were the camp fires and skits, Cobbler cook off, Root Beer chug, staff hunt (hide and seek in the woods), the Yettie (Bigfoot) hike. We would have a movie night on Saturday and set up the projector and everyone would bring blankets and pillows to the dining hall and we would have popcorn and various treats. We were able to make it to the Lake at the camp and go out on a canoe. The Saturday after our birthdays we went to the Resort at Redfish Lake were played on the beach there and went on a tour of the Lake. We also visited Lake Stanley. Pretty much the whole area is incredibly beautiful. We would go to church in Stanley (about ½ hour from where we were) where there was a branch. Stanley only has about a hundred people who stick around for the winter-it really is cold. Anyway-about the car. I left a day early from camp around 9ish at night. And I was totally watching out for deer, but all of a sudden one jumped out in front of me and pretty much demolished the whole passenger side of the car.

I tried to drive it back to Redfish as the next actual town was sixty miles away. I got about a mile away from the Resorts turn off and the car died-lights, gages, everything. The kids and I slept in the car (Doug was still at the camp for two more days-theres no phone service in most of this area-it’s kinda hit and miss) and it got cold. During the night it was about twenty degrees. We were okay-we had all of our stuff from the summer, including blankets, packed in the car. Problem was that it was pretty packed, not very comfortable. But the next morning our friends that manage the resort were able to give us a ride home and the car was brought later. We couldn’t have it pulled as it would have had to go over Galena Summit-elevation about 7,000 feet and it would have been pretty rough through all the twists and turns and ups and downs of the mountains. I told Doug we could have stayed home and not had to work so hard this summer because pretty much all the money we made is going to the Van to get fixed and if we hadn’t gone up there it wouldn’t have needed to be fixed-so we pretty much broke even. We did have a lot of great experiences and met lots of great people though so it wasn’t a total loss. What a summer! Thanks to anyone who actually read through this-it got really long. I am so excited to be able to be back and get back in touch with everyone.

Jerome Airport