The end of the summer, as we know it...

Milo started preschool last week, so hopefully things should be slowing down. This summer I went to Lake Powell, Camping at Goblin Valley, camping in the uintas, Bear Lake, Bryce Canyon, Youth Conference, Girls Camp, Lagoon, Ran two 1/2 marathons, and I am glad to say it is finally over. Josh told me that he wants to go up to Bear Lake in a few weeks, I don't think I can handle packing bags and doing laundry again for a few months. We are going to St George in October so Josh can ride his bike down there, and that is plenty of travel in one summer for me. Don't get me wrong, I love getting out, but my yard/house/closets/hair are totally suffering. I need some TLC. Although I am getting the itch to train for something again. The next race I want to do is the same day as family pics, maybe they could photoshop me in:)

My coool designer husband...

Josh's website http://www.coverduck.com/ was featured on http://www.foxycart.com/ as a good looking and highly functioning website. FYI foxycart is the site that processes our online cover orders. You can see it on the right side of their home page under "featured sites" If you click on it, there is an explanation as to why it was featured and a comment from Josh. He is feeling pretty famous today....and I feel famous because I am his wife.

If I could I would...

Re-do the scene that was made at the lake yesterday. We were at the Daybreak lake (highly recommended) and it was time to go. I told Milo to go rinse off the sand so we could get dried off and it was time to go. All the other kids were all dried off, changed and walking themselves up to the car. Well, he went as deep into the lake as he could and he stayed there. So I walked out there and said "Milo, it's time to go" He just looked at me. So I said it again, "Milo come on, we're leaving, everybody is already in the car." "I can't hear you", he says with a smirk. YA RIGHT. So I started to count to 3 with my fingers in the air so there was no mistake as to what was going on. He smiled and crept deeper into the water. Part of me was worried that he would go too far and I wouldn't be able to find him if he drowned since it was so windy, and the other part of me was just ticked that he wasn't listening. So I shouted, "if you don't come, your grounded when we get home" Still nothing. So I said my voice getting angrier at this time "if you don't get over here now, you're grounded all day tomorrow too!" Still nothing. That's it....I hiked up my skirt and started marching out into the lake with all the fury of a mad mom. Grabbed him by the arm and drug him back to the shore put the towel on him, spanked him and sent him to the car. Well the problem with this whole scene is that I saw a mom practically do the same thing the day before and I was feeling so bad that she was losing it in front of all the other mom's. So I spent the rest of the night justifying to myself, that even my perfect/patient sister in laws probably lose it on occasion, and I hope they still let their kids play at my house after witnessing my public "freak out" caused by my 4 year old. Really.. how do you hold it together at a time like that? Count to 10? a mommy time out? No he should just listen and get out of the lake like all the other kids. Good thing he does that every time we leave somewhere, so I can have a re-do.