July = FUN!

It is officially here, ta da.... JULY... the best month of the whole year!!! It is summer, it is laid back , it is 2 holidays and it is my birthday month (and Katie's and soon to be, Connor's) so I love July. My whole life I have loved this month. I think it started out mostly that I loved it because I was out of school, we would go to the cabin alot and we would go to Lagoon -- good times. Coincidentally, for the theme for this month in Heidi's online scrapbooking class, she has assigned us to have Fun!! And then to make sure Paul and I do the assignment, she has graciously sent her two boys here to see that we get it done. Yes, Cory and Colton flew (unaccompanied-first-timers) here on Tuesday and as we picked them up at the airport we officially announced: "Let the Fun begin!!!" Our first stop for fun was for lunch at the Brot cart at Home Depot ... ummmmm. Then we stopped home long enough to load up the ATV's (and half the house) and head on up to the cabin for a few memorable, fun days "Up the Lazy Weber". When we were in AZ last time, Cory wanted Paul to help him build a clubhouse but we didn't have enough time so Paul has been planning an impressive club-house-building project for the past couple of weeks and the boys (meaning, Paul, Colton, Cory, Cameron, Collin, Clark) got out lots of tools and constructed an awesome little clubhouse in the forest complete with lots of camo spray painting. Now that was some major FUN. Even Aspen gave it a couple of smacks with the hammer. The rope swing continues to be ever popular with the nerves of steel crowd. The ramp getting up to the platform is more rickity than ever but it doesn't deter Cory, Colton or Collin. I know now why Grandma Wallin was such a worrier at the cabin. We did all the requisite cabin events: drinking out of Sweetwater Creek (a little stream that comes right out of the mountainside --- photo where Colton is sitting), Snake wrangling Uncle Cameron style, canoe fishing with Uncle Clark at Smith-Morehouse where Colton said the birds caught more fish than they did, Smores eating until we all just wanted to ...... you know the feeling, Aunt LaRane made the most yummy Dutch Oven apple cobbler using Uncle Eric's recipe and of course!!!!-----...... "Your OAKLEY RODEO!!!!!" The buckers were bucking high and hard and the snow cones were refreshing as ever. Cory and Colton have some new jokes they are enjoying sharing over and over, thanks to the cowboy clowns: i.e. "Do you know why they call that bull Rewind?" "Why" "Because that's his name"!!! Oh yea, that's a good one. Of course, as usual we always have lots of good food at the cabin: K-burgers, potatoe salad, watermelon, Lake Powell french toast and in the middle of one meal, Colton even asked Paul to pull his tooth because he couldn't eat his burger --- we're waiting for the tooth fairy to come by. A final stop at the Polar King on our way home and that closed up the cabin portion of our fun.... don't feel bad.... next stop LAGOON!