Mega Trip Part Four- Grand Coulee Dam

On our way from Yellowstone to lake Chelan, we stopped for a few hours at the Grand Coulee Dam. Here's a view from the top. You can't drive up there anymore, but the tour will take you there in big vans.

Mega Trip Part Three- Yellowstone

Mega Trip Part Two- Wedding

So the main reason for our trip was my sister Shelley's wedding in the Logan, UT temple. Here are some fun wedding pics from that day.

Mega Trip Part One

It's so nice to have long term friends. Friends that even though it's been a few years since we saw each other, it's still just like old times when we finally manage to get together. These girls were my roommates in college for a couple years and we've kept contact ever since. OK, so one is my sister, that makes it easy to keep in touch :) We finally got together in Utah at a super fun park with all 14 kids! Now if only Lizzie could have been there as well, we'd have all been together.

Now that's a brood! Ten years ago we never would have pictured this collection of kids :)
Caleb and Caleb! I guess we all still think alike. Me, DeAnn, Lizzie, and Jen all had baby boys in 2009. And since we didn't ask each other about names, three of us chose the name Caleb! Go figure. Jen was last, after we had discovered the name repetition, and we joked that she should use the name as well. She was smart and didn't. Three Caleb's is probably enough.

Things you can say to a kid, but not to an adult...

There are some things that we can say to our kids, but would never ever EVER say to a grown up.

Case in point. In a public bathroom, there was a lady in the stall next to one of the kids. And this nameless child totally plowed through the line of what you can ask an adult, and said, " Are you pooping?" under the wall. At this point, I figured I had two choices. I could be mortified, or I could laugh. Thankfully, I just decided to laugh. Not worth worrying about. The lady that was in the stall apparently didn't choose the same, she emerged a few moments later.... mortified, lol.

Are we there yet?

you know he's thinking it... (and yes, he's wearing crackers on his face. Trying to keep him happy over a thousand miles is hard in the car)

Slugs = Uber-gross

Have you ever left home for the weekend and found something super gross when you came home? We did this weekend. We went to Redmond to play for Derby days ( Lots of fun!) and got home really late last night. It had been hot all weekend, so it was toasty in the house. We were opening all the windows and the back door, when I saw there were a bunch of huge slugs on the back deck. I called Josh over to check out the giant slugs, when we looked at the side of the house and saw this. eeeeeeeeeewwwwwww!

Ick. That would be two slugs intertwined around each other, hanging from what looks like a giant loogey. After watching for a couple minutes, the clearish white things emerged that you can see in the pictures, and they were moving around each other too. Weird! So we started wondering if they were mating? So Josh watched the slugs, while I got online and found a youtube video that confirmed that they were definitely slugs getting frisky. Gross!
Here's a close up of the blobs mixing (turns out slugs are neither male nor female....so they just refer to them both as male parts mixing and fertilizing each other.) Another reason slugs are gross...
And here they are "flowered out" just before finishing up.

So we let them finish their "business" and then promptly sprinkled Slug Death around the deck, and sprinkled (ok, dumped) salt on their frisky bodies. No baby slugs on my watch....

Slugs have reached a whole new level of gross in my book!