Annual Deer Valley Trip!!!

We typically celebrate our anniversary over Labor Day weekend (with kids) up at the Lodges in Deer Valley. Its off season up there so the prices are great and the weather is fabulous-except this year. It rained and rained and rained some more. But it turned out great because we always go to the Showcase of Homes and its all indoors-its amazing how big and crazy some of the houses can get.

Park City had a parade on Labor Day and started it with the "Running of the Balls" they had my father n laws tow company dump 1,000 tennis balls from the top of main street the problem was it was so wet the tennis balls got stuck and wouldn't roll down-it was a flop. But there were some interesting groups in the parade the funniest/weirdest was the Happy Baton Twirling Gay Group seriously that was their club name.

We got some entertainment as usual at Papa Belcher's where he seriously has a petting zoo. He started his collection with his 2 goats then he added a miniature donkey and most recently got a baby buffalo. He is currently looking into a miniature zebra and a kangaroo-fun for the grand kids.

Out Cold!!!

Logan never does well with long rides and milk. We should really know this by now but once again he threw up.
So out with old and in with the new-we threw away his car seat and bought a booster at a store. You can see we didn't figure out how to correctly use it but we have now!!! Plus we had strong uncle Jeff to protect him oh wait he feel asleep. This picture was 2 days before I had Porter and having only one child we owned or have gone through 1 baby carseat, 2 boosters and 6 car seats. You just can't keep cleaning a carseat it starts to smell.

Presenting...

Porter David Belcher

Stats:
Weight-8 lbs 5 oz.
Height-20 1/2''
Date-8-11-08
Time: 5:30 am
Born: 38 minutes after getting a hospital room
=one healthy little boy :)

Schedule of events:

Sunday August 10th I took Castor oil at 5:30 pm (drank it with OJ)-
3:30 am-water broke
spoke with someone at the hospital who wanted me to wait a while to make sure it was my water that broke (it was!)
4:20-left for the hospital
4:45-arrived to the reception desk (the lady was so rude and lame) kept asking me questions that should have been covered in my preadmission papers.
4:52-finally got a room
5:20-told to roll on my side and not move because there were no doctors available and my doctor was still on his way
5:28ish-my doctor arrived
5:30-Porter made his arrival

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Six days after Porter was born Paul went out to Manitowoc Wisconsin to check out one of our new cranes being built. I let him go on the trip because I had him cancel his Boston Red Soxs trip 3 weeks earlier (I thought I was going to deliver a little early instead of going past due) and nevermind that it was our 8th anniversary too... ok enough enough I won't bring up any more. The OC Choppers made this bike for the Manitowoc company and it was actually revealed at the Expo that we went to in Vegas-Paul got his 15 secs of fame because he was on the OC Chopper episode- so we recorded it.

I think its a bit big!!!! The main use for cranes this large is for erecting and maintaining windmills. And they say size doesn't matter-heeheeheehee.

Check out my Loot!!!

Sale + Coupons = Food Storage

I get excited when good deals come along and this one was awesome. Smith's Grocery sale was ending tomorrow and the mail in rebates started today so I had a one day window. I figured since I do not sleep well these days I would beat any rush and go at Midnight-I'm pregnant and pretty much crazy. Here's the rundown on my savings- the 84 items would have been $271.15 but with the sale and my coupons it came to $58.15 but that's not all I have 7 mail in rebates each for $10 so after all is said and done I will make $11.85 minus the cost of stamps. They paid me to take their food I love it.
We will have the stake canning machine in August so I have heard of people canning their cereal in the #10 cans and the cereal was still good after 6 years-so I figure it couldn't hurt to try.
I learned about coupons from Marilyn Hawk with Coupon Sense which was fabulous and once I got it down I have been using PinchingYourPennies.com

New sleeping arrangements

Logan has lately played the monster card so he can sleep in our bed but I can no longer handle it with my large belly- so we put him down in his bed. I was on the other side of the stairs working on something so he knew he couldn't come over my way so he stayed on his side. It was pretty cute to see him bring his pillow out and cuddle up to the wall-I'm so mean. We put him back in his bed but no worries he made his way to our bed at 6am and then went back to sleep.

5 days until 08-08-08

I figured I should at least post one picture of my pregnant self since it won't be much longer.

Company Camp out in Heber

We had a company camp out Aug 1st through the 3rd but with me about to pop I just went up on Saturday. We had yummy food and some serious entertainment. Paul and Keith Van Vrankin a crane dealer from H&E Equipment.

Logan and Grandpa downing Gatorade Now for the entertainment: A scavenger hunt on old vehicles but the catch is you have to find the part and detach using a mini excavator. Mitch was trying to get a door is this picture:
Dave was an excellent tutor in teaching the less experienced how to operate heavy machinery.

More Pictures

Logan and Kayan had their own fun!!!

Yes I am still with child!!!

I have a week to go with no intentions of being induced-so no more questions about an induction date. I am feeling great and have no reason to rush the process-I say give me a fat healthy baby. Since Logan was 5 lbs. 3 oz I say the bigger the better. Here is a picture of Logan when he was in the poor NICU.