Friday, June 27, 2008

Antelope Island

Kjarsta told us about a state park (on the Great Salt Lake) called Antelope Island. It looked like a sandy paradise from the car, but as we got closer to the waters edge we were drowning in bugs. Here are Robert's feet to give you a slight idea of how many bugs there were in every square inch. It wasn't bad though once you got into the water. So we hung out in the water the majority of the time..which was what we came to do. So we had fun.
I have never been able to float in water before (unless I was wearing water wings or a life vest) but it was so easy at the Great Salt Lake. It felt like we were laying on top of the water...as Spencer is demonstrating.

The sand was to wet to build anything fabulous...so we basically built a big pile of sand and plated it with rocks and called it good.


Salt had dried all over us! It was worth taking a freezing shower to get it all off.



Monday, June 23, 2008

Beehive Home Party

My work party. Not the greatest picture...but here I am with my friend Lindsay and her son Carson. (he has spiderman facepaint on). Lindsay and I laugh so hard when we are together. Makes the stresses of work bearable.

Camera Fun

Spencer took our camera and played around with it until he figured out how to make only one color show up on the black and white setting. Here I am with Roberts blue shirt over my shoulder.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Rescuing a baby bird

Yesterday I woke up to Robert calling "Amber Amber come quick." He had gone outside to water the flowers and found a baby bird that had fallen out of it's nest. It had not grown all of it's feathers yet. It was a wild little guy, flipping from it's front to it's back over and over. We decided the only thing to do was return it to it's home.
So Robert climbed the tree he found it under...and lo and behold 35-40 feet up he found it's nest. The baby bird had been silent the whole time he was on the ground but when Robert got him up by his nest he started chirping! And we heard the mother chirping as well. A happy reunion!

Monday, June 16, 2008

A Larger Habitat

Paco and Lupe were getting restless in their small "cage" so we upgraded. Plus we changed the ground from rocks to dirt...which they love! The dirt holds moisture in a lot better, so they come out of the water and hop around more frequently.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Parade

The Orem Parade just happened to run along the road where the Beehive Homes resides, which is where I work. So even though I was busy answering call lights, getting drinks and tending to all the residents needs, I was able to watch the parade. Heather and Chris joined the residents and I watching the parade as well.
Alene and Loraine talking to a fox.
Venetta and Marilla watching from the sidewalk!

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Orem's Summer Fest

We went with Heather and Chris Curtis to Orem's summer fest. We watched ballet dancers perform, shopped around the booths and then decided to hit the rides. It was light when we got in line to the ferris wheel...but after a half hour of waiting in line the darkness arrived so the pictures of us on the ferris wheel are not the greatest.
The ferris wheel.
While we were standing in the ticket line this man came up and sold us his tickets for 5 bucks (his family was leaving). Which was nice because we got a few extra tickets for free. So we decided to add the fun slide onto our list of things to do. Here we are about to race down on our potato sacks.