Dear Children, it has been a good week. We got to do fun things. And we also had fun while doing them. Dear Storms, I love a good long thunderstorm! Unfortunately poor Hailey is still terrified of thunder. The kids were watching the storm roll in when the loudest house shaking thunder clap came out of no where. Hazel ran in screaming. Kade was out there screaming in excitement with Avary. And Hailey was sobbing in the house. Dear Fry Mesa, we forgot the camera. I couldn't have carried it anyway. It was a lot of fun. Even just the drive on the dirt road going over the bumps the kids were laughing and having fun. Catching crawdads, jumping off of rocks, swimming to the waterfall, with 7 kids! Emi caught a frog and kept it with her the whole time, even jumping off of rocks into the water with it. She put it in her water bottle and brought it home. Gross. They also brought home crawdads. We still have a bunch of tadpoles from the catwalk!!! While I was wading in the water a gigantic fish swam onto my leg, I mean huge, you could see it swimming around. I seem to attract all kinds of weird things. Dear Thatcher, apparently there is a tradition here that they set off a cannon at 5:00am and then the fire/policemen drive up and down every street in town blaring their sirens honking their horns. I guess we are lucky to know Wes who drove into our driveway and gave us our very own alarm! The kids said he went up and down our street lots of times with the firetruck. He woke everyone up...except for me. Haha I slept right through it all and never heard a thing. I guess it was super loud. I told you I have been tired! Dear Independence Day, Although there are many things that are going on in our country that are just plain stupid, there is no other way to put it, that is not what it means to be an American. I am still proud to be an American and what it truly means. Dear Fireworks, after the kids stopped complaining about how this is not Heber we got to sit and watch the fireworks after burning some sparklers. Dear Will, I love our family. And I love you. You make me laugh. Even if you do smash a roach with you hand(a thin grocery bag between is still gross) put it in the toilet after I get upset and then NOT flush it. So when I wake up to pee in the night there is a roach staring at me. And even when you flush a dead bloated frog down the toilet! You flush a big frog, but not a roach? Smile. Dear Self, I have been so exhausted! Why! It drives me crazy. So tired that I fell asleep while talking..in the middle of my sentence I start dreaming and tell Hailey to get her hand out of the sugar....she got very defensive and a little confused. I quickly changed the subject and tried to pretend that didn't just happen. What sugar?
