Lovely Creatures

We have a chicken that turned into a boy over night and he got out and went to our neighbor's house and was crowing, he was looking like he was going to attack me by the way he was walking so I was getting alittle afraid to pick him up. I corralled him in our yard and finally picked him up, he just likes to fluff up his feathers...and scare me...but on the way picking him up he scratched me on my arm. I put him in the shed with the ladies and gave them all water and tried to fix the tarp so they wouldn't get out anymore and by doing so my hand really felt hot like I burned it on the hot fence and jerked my hand up but then I noticed a wasp flying away and by jerking fast I moved another wasp under my arm and it stung me there. The hotness from the fence was a wasp. So I got stung on the top of my hand and under my arm. But I'm a strong pioneer, I went inside and put a baking soda paste on my injuries and went back out and fixed the tarp. I grabbed it where there were no wasps and low and behold there was a wasp underneath it and it stung me on my thumb. I fixed the tarp and went inside..

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This was the first sting on my hand right on my third knuckle. This is what it looked like about an hour after the sting. It's about an inch.
It's quite amazing what the body does. This is a rash that started at the insides of both wrists, inside both elbows, and on my legs, my neck and head.This is the welt that started on the inside of my arm. Just about 2 inches. This is the reaction right around the sting on my arm. It started like a big welt that grew by having bumps go outward and then the large welt would emcompass the smaller bumps. By the end of the night the welt was from my elbow to my armpit. About 12 inches.


This is at the end of the night. I took 3 benadryl and slept most of the afternoon and evening. Amazingly I slept through the night too even after having all that sleep. You can kinda tell my right thumb is swollen in this photo.Comparison of both thumbs. If you can't tell, it's the thumb on the left, my right thumb that is swollen. This was not a major sting. This is my arm at the end of the night. The swelling is going past my elbow and up my arm. My whole arm is achy.

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Christian and I went on an arduous hike to Stewart Falls above Sundance Monday the 6th.

Easter 09 (a little late...)

I thought I would post this video so Nate could see the boys opening his eggs.

Every year (well for the past couple) Nate's been making his own sayings and putting them in eggs and then the boys open them up for a surprise. They LOVE it. This year they each got a Nay Nay buck, and a puzzle of Nate that they could put together and tons of eggs with hilarity. Nate's S L O W L Y making his way up on the favorite uncle list. Sure love you Nate!

I also have copied what his family does with putting money in eggs and hiding those outside. I still add the candy in the eggs too but they sure like the money. I add special money like gold dollar coins, 2$ bills, .50 cent pieces, then just regular dollars too.

DISCLAIMER: Just so you know we did find a light green egg later for Tyler.

Here ya go Nathan.

The Balloon Festival on the 3rd of July. Ty, Wendi, and I went and watched the baloons take off and float around for a while. One of the balloons even floated over Provo High football field and went right through the goalposts for a sweet fieldgoal.
Love the colors here!

Provo Airport

Christian, Ty, and I went to the Provo airport to watch the B17, B24, Bombers and P51 Mustang fly in for a two day airshow. We also saw a cool Firefighting helicopter in training. It scooped up dozens of scoops of water and dumped them like it was putting out a fire.