Crazy Days!

We had a great time visiting the cousins in Utah and the new babies are just so precious! The traveling was long and a bit boring but I enjoy the car rides with my mom - we always have something to talk about. Life has been crazy since we got home from Utah! Monday we rode horses which was great after we shuffled saddles around and made ourselves comfortable then we had a family BBQ in the evening which was a lot of fun and the horses were good sports to give pony rides to the kids (some of which I am ashamed to say had never ridden our mounts until last night) and everyone had a great time! We stayed and helped clean up the kitchen and the kids so Rob and Julie could take a ride back to our house to see the newly decorated bathroom. I stayed with the (supposed to be) sleeping children and rocked a cranky baby to sleep but she ended up catching the stomach bug that's been migrating through our family and threw up all over. I am not good with throw up. My reflexes are thankfully very good and I managed to stay clean and keep any of the mess off the couch and ottoman. Luckily the naughty children who were supposed to be sleeping came running upstairs to my aid for which I was extremely grateful! And they made sure I would pass my gratitude on to their mother who would no doubt be happy to know they were still awake for a worthwhile reason. Today was another crazy day - riding, babysitting the original sickies in the family (who are thankfully feeling better - splendid and fantastic in fact, in Max's own words) then I filled out an application to a janitorial service in Boise that is looking for about 50 people to help clean the temple until the open house after all the remodeling that has gone on. I hope I get it - what a cool opportunity to get to see places in the temple I've never seen before! It is also nice that it is a temporary position so I can look for a more permanent job at a vet office but not be completely broke in the meantime. After that we took my brother's oldest two girls to watch a cutting horse competition at the Idaho Center Horse Park which was fun! Unfortunately we only saw a short part before they broke for dinner then we went grocery shopping, had dinner, I went to Tyson's soccer practice then we rode again! It was a fun fun day - being unemployed isn't too bad :) yet.