Artsy Fartsy FTW (For the win!)

Okay, so this morning I'm probably either racing to get my kids ready and off to their Grandma S's house or I'm already at my MRI to see what is going on. But while we are waiting I will update you on my weekend!

Quite a while ago my mom invited me to go with her to the Park City Arts festival. She has been going annually for over a decade! Up until this year she went with her mom, but due to some unfortunate events that is no longer possible, so she invited me.

We left on Friday and headed down to Salt Lake. While there we stopped to drop off some things to my Grandpa K and to visit :)

It was so good to see him! Even if he wouldn't let me get a picture of him doing "brain surgery" aka pretending to shove his pinky finger all the way up his nose while pulling a hilarious face. That stunt always brings back good memories of when I was little.... that and him "Growling"... such a ham! I love him so much and his sense of humor always has me laughing.

(He and my mom making a "pinky promise" about something.... hmmm my memory must be going!)

After visiting with "Grumpy" and going out to dinner with him we headed to our hotel for the night.

The next morning we headed up to Park City to attend the Arts Festival.. or the "Kimball Arts Festival" for those of you that are picky. :)

The art there is so cool! This rooster was part of a group of other motion sculptures... each of the heads would nodd in the wind. I loved how this ones body wasn't a solid color, but instead had texture to it.

Mom bought me a really fun hat that I'm totally going to wear to death:

My mom and I are of the opinion that these pictures we are standing in front of could totally be done by my machinist of a dad!

(See dad.... you could totally do those!)

I loved looking at all the different types of art! They sooooo make me want to try my hand at art again... even though I am sorely out of practice and would probably be disappointed in my lack of skill... even then, I want to learn how to weld at least!

I mean... how many cool things could I make!!!! Funfun! 

Okay, so maybe I'm a little ambitious... I admit... but aren't these things so cool to see? Turbo has asked me to play this one over and over again. :) Maybe I can convince Jer to let me build a shop out back? hmmmm maybe not, not enough space :( And then there's that whole... I don't know how to weld thing...

And yes, there was "normal" paintings there too... this one totally made me think of my boys! batman: check, Light saber: check, big wheel: check....

So fun!

Freak Weather and Other "Stuff"

Yesterday was BEAUTIFUL. Not too hot. Not too cold. Not windy. Just enough breeze. So unlike this part of Idaho.

Gma and Gpa J brought over Missy and Goobers birthday present (a play set) in the morning and We promptly started working on it. They also brought my grandpa "Grumpy" with them for a visit.

I enjoy projects like this, they get my mind working on something I can physically see the progress on. Like a giant jigsaw puzzle. :)

The kids loved to help out as much as they could. Little EB sure has a knack for mechanical reasoning already. Boy did he love the socket wrench and tightening bolts. Even when one of us wasn't helping him he was always picking up tools and trying to use them. And not just anyway, but the correct way! Crazy!

I was kinda dumb though... I didn't put sunscreen on ANYONE. Was too busy doing the giant puzzle to take a moment for that! Ya know....

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Jer and I both got burned pretty badly, but actually the kids made out pretty well. Goober was a little pink last night, but it's faded now. Missy wasn't ever pink, and EB is still a little pink.

I seriously considered going back out to work on the play set this morning (I really do enjoy it!) but I looked out the window and it was..... SNOWING.

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What the frack!?

Oh, well, maybe tomorrow :)

Grandpa's Funky Sense of Humor

So today my grandpa was visiting my mom. So I took a trip up there to say hi, since I haven't seen him in a long time. Probably since my step grandma passed away.

He is now living with his sister and her son and a little while ago he needed a new car. He was trying to get a VW bug that was diesel. Unfortunately those are hard to come by... so he decided to buy a Hundai. But being kind of quirky and having extra time he decided to take his "piece of shit" car (sorry his words) and turn it into a beamer. LOL He even went to the effort to get a license plate holder that was from a BMW dealership.

When asked why he would do that he responded "about 50% of people won't know the difference and the other 50% will think it's humorous."

That's my grandpa... the guy who responds the LDS bishop when asked what religion grandpa is "Buddist" or maybe it's "Muslim" now.... just for the reaction.