Daily Advice

I got this from Jamie and Kevin. Sounds like fun, eh?

The first 5 to respond to this win something from me! But...you have to do this:

Repost this to your own blog and offer the same thing to your first 5 responders. The first 5 who repost it to their own blog will get something made by me! My choice. For you! (Now, I know the more this goes on the more you might have to make for other people & that can be a daunting thought. But let's be honest, if you wants a free "____" from me, all you really have to do is repost it. The people replying to your blog has no effect on you receiving said free "____". Aha! It just became clear didn't it? ;)

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make

2.What I create will be just for you.

3. It'll be done this year-no guarantees on when this year, but sometime in 2009!

4. You have no clue what it's going to be. The possibilities are endless.

5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The first 5 people post this on their blog and leave a me comment telling me they did, win a nifty homemade something-or-other by me! I know, gasp & drool, you cannot believe your eyes. But, I have been known to make some cool things with my hands in the past. And be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! Sounds like fun, yes? So, go... now

Just A Bunch of Pointless Rambling

Well, I was going to catch up on my blogging. Post about the rest of our vacation, read all my peeps blogs, etc. But, I forgot to put all the vacation pics on my computer from Jeremy's work laptop. So I guess I will post about that tomorrow. Trying to recover from vacation is a hard thing. I so enjoy traveling. I appreciate other cultures, scenery, people, food, etc. Whenever I travel it always reminds me that we are so limited with everything here. Ugh. I could even do the RV living I think. Only with frequent hotel stays! I just love the act of being on the road. Being able to go anywhere.
Asher and Cullen were happy to see us. I couldn't wait to get home to see them. That's the only reason I wanted to come home. Otherwise I could have stayed on the road forever. Jeremy and I have our ten year anniversary coming up in May. We may have to venture out again.
On Wednesday I get to go to St. Louis with Nikki!!! Yay! Then on Friday I get to go to Springfield to the specialist. Ugh! Oh my goodness! I'm gonna be thirty in less than a month!!! I am FREAKING OUT!!!! Who the crap turns thirty!!! Certainly not me! It is so weird. I don't want to talk about it.

Our Message to Asher and Cullen

Okay, so this video is really cheesy but, we wanted to send a message to Asher so he doesn't think we fell off the face of the earth. We've all been traveling all day looking and feeling yucky. Sorry. And sorry you have to hear me complain about it both on here and on the video.

there is another video at the bottom of the next post. it is longer.

Warning: LOTS of Pics!

On Friday we found Grandma Trapp in Utah! Yay! WE went to the Gateway and did a little site seeing.


Cedric went to Build-A-Bear Workshop and got himself a new friend whom he named, Cedric the Great and he is 17 years old.

Tristan and Cedric at Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
It was snowing up at Snowbird Ski Resort
On Friday night Grandma Trapp took the boys to my brother, David's house, and had tons of fun there. Meanwhile Jeremy and I met Justine and her husband, Eric, and Lauren and her boyfriend, Donald at Rodizio Grill for supper! OOOOOHHH, it was so good! After that Jeremy and I went to see Jeff Foxworthy at the Delta Center....I refuse to call it the Energy Solutions Arena! He was really good and had this crazy opening group called the Standards. They were like this kinda creepy weird country boy band...with a twist. I don't know, it was strange. I forgot to take pictures of any of it!!!! I'm so annoyed.
On Saturday we went to Thanksgiving Point to the world's largest dinosaur museum. The kid's loved it although Liam through his first and only fit of the trip there!

That's a prehistoric sea turtle!!!!!

Tristan with the Megalodon

The water was freakin freezing!!!
This is an exit between Vegas and L.A. Zzyzx Rd. WOW.
So, on saturday we drove to Vegas thinking we would get a room and then drive the rest of the way to California on Sunday. What a nightmare!!!! I had told Jeremy that Vegas sucked and he has now witnessed it first hand. WE wasted two hours there looking for a decent place to stay, wwhen we decided to just leave. We then stopped at the next town and rented a room only to realize when we got to the room that we had stepped into the movie, The Shining!!! Redrum, Redrum!!!! So we quickly left and got a refund. Drove to the next town and stayed at this creepy hotel that was just barely better than the last one. I tried to get a picture but, somehow it looks better in a picture than it actually was. Anyway, we didn't get undressed and laid on top of the blankets. The beds were still made when we left at 6:30 in the morning!

We arrived in L.A. at 11:00am !!! Yahoo!

Oay, so in the video, it's when we first got there and I sound like the beach nazi! But, I did lighten up and let the kids get in the water and play. In fact Tristan got his entire body in a lot and almost got sucked out to sea by going out too far. Tristan sat right down in the water and I don't know how he didn't get hypothermia. Even though it's about 60-70 degrees right now...the water is not.
Tomorrow we head to Disney!!!!
Oh, and Liam ended up loving the ocean and getting in it alot. I don't know why I didn't get more video. We had to drag the kids away!

We're On A Road Trip

We left Nauvoo at 10:48am on Wednesday headed west. After much prayer, I decided to leave Asher and Cullen at home so that we could spend some quality time with the older boys. It was so hard. But, we left them with our good friend, Jamie Steen, and she's awesome! She used ot be our backyard neighbor and is my visiting teacher now! Anyway, she has them during the day and Debbie(Jeremy's mom) has them at night! As we traveled across the country, I was so thankful that I did decide to leave them home! This pic above is Tristan, Cedric, and Liam all playing their PSP's and Leapster. I must note that Liam is the best traveler EVER. HE hasn't asked us once "are we there yet?" HE doesn't whine. He is excited about everything. He is just down with the whole traveling thing. On the other hand, CEdric is the WORST traveler ever. He has been ever since he was born. HE whines constantly. Every 10 minutes he wants to know how much longer we have. He's thrown up. He gets a nervous stomach. Now he has sworn off eating because when he had thrown up, he had just eaten lunch, so he thinks that is why he threw up! UGH! We'll see how long he goes without eating.

This was taken yesterday in Wyoming.

Driving through the smaller mountains. We arrived in Salt Lake Thursday at 5:15pm! Forgot to take the best pic....of us driving into the valley, Doh!

We took the kids to the Mayan last night. We had to wait for 45 minutes for our table. The kids, mainly Cedric again, we're annoying and complained the whole time while we waited. Cedric and Tristan thought it was too creepy and we're a bit afraid I think. Until.....we were seated right in front of the cliff divers! Cedric turned to me and said " I can't believe I was scared!" They loved it. Tristan and Cedric are pretty sure they want to move here! I feel the same way. It's amazing how much Salt Lake has changed since we lived here. Anyway, we let them run around the Mayan and watch the divers and partially eat the food we paid too much for. Cedric was true to his word and didn't eat. HE just now woke up so we'll see if he eats breakfast.

So, we are having a lot of fun! My only complaint is my boobs!! Sorry for the men who read my blog, you may want to skip the next paragraph. I tried before I left home to leave some frozen breast milk for Cullen. So, I ate crazy amounts of oatmeal & peanut butter cookies, oatmeal, mother's milk tea, and so forth to increase my milk supply. Well it didn't work and I could only leave about 8 ounces with poor baby Cullen. I am very concerned that he won't eat from me when we get home. Anyway, now my cup overfloweth!! My little factory has increased productivity by 300%! No exaggeration. I literally could feed triplets. But, I will endure so the baby can eat when I get home. So many women these days do not breastfeed and I just don't get it. Wouldn't you do anything for your child? Including giving them the best possible food? Even if it can be uncomfortable, painful, or whatever. Which is usually isn't. hmmmm....I will step off my soap box now.

Today we are spending time in SLC and tomorrow we will leave for L.A. and go to Disneyland! I will try to blog again in two days! We miss Cullen and Asher!!!!!!