At what point did this happen? This morning I'm working on the computer when my little G-man brings me a yogurt from the fridge so I can open it for him. Then he walks over to the silverware drawer and searches around for a spoon. Mind you he can't see in it so this is all done by feel. With spoon in hand he walks over to his little table, sits down and proceeds to eat. I was watching him this whole time thinking what happened to my baby. He looked so big and independent. Not really needing me.
I remember clearly when that happened with my oldest. I just looked up and one day he wasn't a baby. I remember having the sudden urge to slam on the breaks of time. Oh if only there were such breaks!! It is such bitter sweet moment. You want them to grow up and be independent and do things for themselves yet at the same moment you find yourself searching their faces for a glimpse of the baby they are leaving behind.
The most AMAZING time of my life! And yes all these pictures came from my camera! My mom, friend Sherise and myself just had a blast sitting front row to our Josh. Funny story about our seats. We get there and we are to the side and kind of behind the stage. Bummed but at least we were there. Then we heard people talking about maybe getting relocated so my friend Sherise goes out to find out about it. She finds this security guard that takes her to the manager. She then tells the manager where we are sitting and asks if there is anything that can be done. The manager asks her how many are in her party and then proceeds to give her three tickets. She comes back and we are looking at our tickets unable to believe our luck. We went from $75.00 crap seats to $260 front row tickets!! It was SO amazing being that close to Josh Groban.
He sang a lot of songs from his new album Awake. My most favorite song off that album is "So She Dances". It is just so beautiful and romantic. He opened with "You Are Loved" and of course sang "You Raise Me Up". He also sang a new song not yet recorded although he said he wished he had put it on his Awake album. The extra special thing about this concert was that he had chosen SLC to be filmed for his 2007 Awake tour DVD. He said that we are the ones that get to watch this concert live and forever. Guess I have to buy that DVD now. If you want to read what the Salt Lake Tribune had to say go 
I take it back, this was the last time I smiled. I'll do anything for my blog. If you look behind Blake and I you can just see a lake. That is where the trail ends.
Okay, so pictures are taken and off we go. Like I said, the trail started off easy enough except for the rocks. Then we cross the road and the trail forks. Turns out we didn't see where anyone else went so we just chose a trail. I really should have taken a picture of this beast but I don't think it would have done it justice. There were SO many rocks that I really was afraid for my life. I ended up walking my bike through a lot of it. Well, it turns out that we didn't see anyone from our group. We (there are three of us) start to wonder if we took the right trail. We had been told it was easy and this was no where near easy. So we decide to hike it out back to the road, with bikes mind you. We pass some hikers on the way that tell us our group is up top looking for a guy and two girls. YEAH!! No, wrong group. At this point we think perhaps we should take the dirt road back. At least we knew where that led. Then we met some other bikers heading out. They tell us to take the left trail that is easiest. Oh, so we did go the wrong way great! NOT!! Wrong again. There was this huge hill with BIG rocks. We just stood there looking at it thinking "no way". Then we see a hunter and he tells us that the trail leads no where. So back out we go to the dirt road. At this point I'm doing all I can to not scream. We end up getting the hunter to give us a ride out. Eventually we meet up with everyone and find out that we saved our bodies from a whole world of hurt. Turns out my fil fell off his bike a few times about killing himself. He landed on his back after one fall and just laid there for a while. When he got up he noticed that his bike was trashed so he had to walk it down the rest of the way. Blake's uncle flies over his handle bars and hits a tree head on. He would have died if it wasn't for his helmet. They told us that the trail just kept getting worse and worse. I'm honestly grateful I didn't have to go through that. I believe it was the Lord watching out for me. Aside from a headache and a sore bum I was in pretty good shape. The funny thing is that everyone kept telling me "next time this" or "next time that". Um next time???? I don't think so!!
On Sun. the machines weren't roaming around out front so we took out the Doon Buggie and had some fun. We also rode the four wheelers around and all the kids LOVED that.
Here are the kids showing their muscles. They moved so many logs and rocks. But the end result is really cool.
Here we have the finished product. You can see the fire pit that they made. They dragged in the bigger log for a "couch" in the living room. Toward the back is the "kitchen" and a hollowed out log to sleep in. If you followed on to the back you can see their stash of firewood.
