I tried to burn the house down.

Well I have to admit it. I have a hard time spelling teh, I mean the......

First off because of Jen's comment about Scott grilling he demanded that I post this story exactly how it happened. He was not home, nor did he had a hand in any of this,other than telling me where the fire extinguisher was. Thanks Jen (you made me laugh)

Ok, I am putting off the inevitable, I about burned the house down. Shhhhh, don't tell my landlords. So here is the story. On Friday Amber came over to visit me and have dinner. I got some yummy fresh corn and I wanted to grill it. I love grilled corn on the cob. Here is how you do it, for those of you who want a great summer treat without the fire part. I took my corn, still in the husks, and I soaked them in a bucket of water for 20-30 minutes, this does 2 things, first it allows the husks to get water-logged so they wont' burn, but they will char, and it steams teh corn, so you get some steamed and smoked corn and it is to die for. So I was grilling corn and chicken and having a good day. First I shoudl tell you that Scott was out on a wrecker call in Snowville and was nowhere around. So Amber was here and we had just finished dinner and I went out back and there were still 3 ears of corn that weren't quite finished, so I turned the grill off, yes I am sure I turned it off, and left the corn there to finish cooking. Amber left and i was cleaning up when Mason said "mommy smoke" so i looked out on the deck and sure enough there was smoke. I went outside and saw there was fire coming out of my propane tank, not my grill. It was up against the house and I could see it melting the siding but it had not caught fire yet. I tried to lift up the lid to see if the inside was on fire, but it was too hot. So I very calmly called Scott to tell him that I was gonig to call the fire department, but to not be worried, and he said there was a fire extinguisher down stairs. Now I knew not to put water on a grease fire, and since this was a grill, teh chances that grease was involved was pretty high, so I ran down stairs and got the fire extinguisher to find out it was almost out of stuff, but I decided to give it a try anyway. I was able to extinguish the fire on the propane tank, and then used my grill scraper to roll teh grill away from the house, to find out that the fire was on the tube leading from the propane tank to the grill and i had essentially a blow torch on my back deck. The propane tank was too hot to touch, so I then used the hose to cool down the tank, and spray up under my siding to get any hot spots, and then I was able to turn off the gas that was leaking.

I was then horrified to see that it had indeed melted my siding. NOthing had caught fire, luckily, but my siding is toast, as is my grill. Scott swears he is not buying me a new grill, and that I will not be allowed around fire for the rest of the summer, but I am sure the next time I ask what he wants for dinner and he says throw some chicken on the grill, he will run out and buy me one.

That is my story. Please don't let this stop you from making grilled corn. Oh, I forgot to tie it all together. The best explaination we could come up with was one of the corn husks had some hot embers when I turned it off and the wind kind of kicked up and sparked the fire. It somehow followed teh grease trail and burned the supply tube from teh take to teh grill and just burned right through it, and Scott had literally just filled the tank, so it was just burning the propane left in the tank.

I am glad we are all okay, and I have learned to make sure all my corn is finished when I am, or to take it off the grill to keep this from happning again. I have been grilling for over 15 years, and I really really like it, and this is the first mis-hap i have ever had.

Guess what I did this weekend?????

I don't think words are necessary. I will let you all speculate and I will tell the entire story later.

7 Peaks

So I am copying my sisters announcement just because my blog is public.

We have been offered an opportunity to have teh first try at having a private party at 7 Peaks Water Park. Oh My Gosh!!!! So the tickets are only $15 for everyone over 3 years old. On August 6th from 6 PM until whenever we leave. The parking, tube rental and life jackets will all be free. The only catch is we have to have 200 people attend. That is all. A park that normally holds thousands with only 200 people, can you believe it??????

So everyone mark that day, invite your neighbors and best friends. We are opening this to anyone and everyone, except for the public of course. Amber, Tamy and myself will have some tickets. We have to have the money in by August 1st, to contact us by phone or email and we can hook you up.

Hope to see you there, this will be fun. I am serious about friends adn family, make it a date night, bring your church group, let's be creative and offer others the chance they will never get, a park closed to teh public at an affordable price.

Family Pictures

Now I can't remember if I blogged about our pictures or not, but we were privileged enough to have Steve Mackley take family portraits. I won a contest on the radio and I was soooo excited. So we went a few weeks back to some railroad tracks on Wellsville. Go to this link, Mackley Photography, click on portraits, and then click the Clients link. You can enter our code or password of ckidman and then you will be shown a slide show of our pictures.

THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!! And boy are they expensive. We are getting a large wall portrait of the entire family on the railroad tracks standing up, and one of the kids sitting on the tracks, and then a picture of scott and myself, the first one you see.

Let me know what you think.

Weekend Recap.

So this weekend I saw Transformers 2 times. Yes you heard me right. Someone at work said either I liked it a lot or I got roped into it. Well I took the kids on Friday to a maintenee and they liked it a lot, then Scott wanted to see it, so I went with him on Saturday. I won't lie, I did not mind seeing it 2 times, I like the transformers, especially Ironhide. But that is another post. Then on Saturday I really did too much helping Scott rearrange and unpack and organize the garage, and work on teh back yard. We also bought some flowers to plant out front, just some Clearance flowers from Wal Mart, I am too cheap to buy full price flowers. So after working I got another kidney attack, just to remind me that they are still there just lurking waiting for the opportune time to strike. So I spent a lot of Saturday night in bed drinking my allotment of water so my urine is "clear" and hopefully push them out. Sunday rolls around adn I get out of bed, just to get right back in. My back hurt soooo much and so my abdomin started hurting also, and I had a fever, so I am thinking they bladder/kidney infection they warned me about has hit. I am not sure where the infection is because it still does not hurt to pee, but I have a fever adn feel all around crappy. I did get a few hours while high on my pain meds where I went out front to help place our new "clearance" flowers, when we discovered a lot of wasp nests in the front of our house, and we also discovered they are attracted to the bald spot on the top of Scott's head. he got stung 3 times, good thing he isn't allergic. So back to bed I went and literally just laid there until Scott got a wrecker call to Bear Lake and he wanted me to accompany him. So we dropped the kids off at his mothers and high-tailed it to Bear Lake to get some idiot unstuck. I have pictures that I will post tomorrow, but here is the jist of it. Some guy was trying to bring in his boat on his private beach with a really old 1951 tractor and they hit a sink hole and sunk the tractor, which they quit working. So we had to drive all teh way to the waterfront and then drag chains and straps to make it 50+ feet out to the stupid tractor. The guys did not bother to tell us they were in teh water, they said they were stuck on the beach, so we were both fully clothed. We were kind of peeved, at least he could have told us to bring swim suits. Anyway the tractor was far enough out that Scott was wet from teh waist down. We finally got it out and then he wanted it towes to Laketown. When all was said adn done we gto back at 10:00 and had a good laugh, well I had a good laugh at Scott who had to ride home in wet pants. I then went to bed and he got called right back out to help a stranded family get from Ogden back to Logan. He rolled in aroud 1 AM and hit the sack just to get called out again at 6:30 this morning. SO needless to say he is bushed tonight.

HOope you all had a good weekend. Sorry for the spelling I am tired and my back hurts.

New Music

So I have added music to my blog again, and the one reason is because of my new favorite song by 311 called Hey You. If you can, please listen to it. It has intriguing lyrics and the music is complex. I really really like it. Unfortunately I do not reall like the rest of teh album, they are kind of hard for me, but they hit it big with this song.

Let me know what you think.

Sorry No Pictures....

Sorry, I am horriable at taking pictures, and worse at posting them. But for my next story I am sure you do not want pictures.

So to start off I have had a nagging side ache since thursday of last week. Always on my right side and nothing serious, just felt like a sore muscle. I had gone to the gym 4 times last week so it was possible I did hurt it. So now fast forward to Tuesday. First we wake up, and yes this story does have to include the entire day so you can feel even more sorry for me :) Mason wakes up and says "mommy blood" so I am like huh???? I look at him and he is indeed covered in blood. He had a bloody nose in his sleep and rolled around in it. He had it EVERYWHERE. The funny part was it didn't even bother him. He just wanted to be cleaned off. So I got that fixed. Rainee got stung by a bee on Sunday and she came to me Tuesday morning and said her arm hurt, so I looked at it and where she got stung, on her bicep, was huge, swollen, hot and tight and red. So I called my mom who took her to the doc to find out she has an infection from the dirty stinger of that dumb bee. Colton had a sore throat BUT it was his first Scout Camp, so I doped him up with Tylenol and let him go. It was just a day camp and he had no fever. So with 3 out of my 4 children having "issues" that morning I got off to work a little bit late.

So I worked a boring day. I went and picked everyone up to go to swim lessons at 4:30. The big kids had lessons while Mason and I swam in the pool togehter. It was great, he was sweet and loving and loves the water. No big deal, nice afternoon. The kids got done with lessons and wanted to stay and swim, but something told me no, we should go straight home. The kids were bummed, but I was stern, I didn't have to be "warned" twice. So we packed up and went straight home. So as I was pulling in home I also just "decided" that I needed a shower right away. I also need to interject right here Scott was on a wrecker call in Tremonton, so it was just me and the kids. For another odd reason I was almost frantic to take a shower. That is odd because being the mom i usually wait to shower/bath until the kids are all taken care. So this time I told Bowen to watch Mason while I jumped in the shower. Not only had I just turned the water on in the shower, it was still cold, when I had the worst pain in my lower right back. I felt like i had been stabbed, or was having labor pains. It floored me, literally. I have a bench in my shower (we have a large shower) and i tried to sit on it and could not, the pain was coming in waves with only a very short time to breath inbetween. I knew Bowen was righit outside my door, so I was trying to be quiet, but I was moaning and kind of yelling and the pain came over and over. FInally after about 10 minutes I was able to crawl, not walk, out of the shower and into my room and into bed, soaking wet. Bowen was knocking on my door going "mom, are you ok?" It was cute casue he didn't want to come in cause he knew I was in the shower, but he could tell something was wrong. SO I covered up and asked him to bring me my phone. I called Scott who came home and decided to take me to the hospital. To make this long story shorter, we went to the hospital to find out I had kidney stones and they had moved from my kidney to my bladder and that was the pain I had. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!! I have never had any kind of pain like that every before. Not even having a child. So now they prepare me to pass them again out of my bladder. They doctor gave me pain pills and I was like what good will they do, it only lasted for 15 minutes and then I was ok, and he politely told me it may not be that short next time, it could last for hours, so the medicine is for in case. So now everytime I feel a twinge I kind of tighten up and stop and wait for the horriable gut wrenching pain to come, only to be disapointed when it does not. I would prefer it to get over with, so I am drinking a large amount of water to help nature along.

So that was my tuesday. Needless to say it sucked, but oh well. I felt fine today, kind of tired and now I have blood in my urine. Just what you wanted to hear huh?