A rain video

It rained a lot.

This much rain in Utah is so completely abnormal. I love the rain. This rain was almost, ALMOST, flood like. I haven't ever seen this much rain in my neighborhood in the last 6 years that I've lived around here. Pretty cool, though. It was all gone within a couple of hours, but it had me worried for a minute or two.

In the backyard.

My front yard became a little pond.

Yippee. This is what happens when my gutters overflow. Instead of the water flowing down the street, it flows into my front yard. Amazing. I really do need to call the city and tell them to remedy the problem.

Miaya came out of her room all decked out in Dora. The shoes and the shirt are the only Dora things she owns. I was laughed when I saw her. And then I took this pic. The marks on her face are mosquito bites! She has even more now. She scratches them until they bleed and then she scratches them some more.

Miaya in her pretty new dress. And her hair is in pigtails. You can't really see it, but they're there.

more pics of the field trip.

Miaya and myself and Henry and Lete and Melanie in the background. I, of course, am the zombie looking creature.

Henry, seemingly surprised by his own strength.

Or something.

Me and Miaya again. This day was an exhausting one. Mainly because of what happened after all these good times.

henry, lete, eva, melanie, bubba.

What a great pic. I didn't take it. :)

Oh yeah. so after all the fun stuff, we went back to the cars, and a lady was writing me a ticket. I was uber pissed. It was my first one, and it was a really stupid one. Oh whale.

I heart manga and anime?

It's a true story: I love manga and anime. I, who hated cartoons with a firey passion, love these things. My favorite anime is Bleach. It is not available here. At all. Okay, they have the first 3 arcs, but that's all! Thank goodness Henry and Lete taught me some tricks. And I found out my library carries lots and lots of manga. The younger siblings have opened my eyes. hehehehehe. so fun.

The conference center

We spent a couple of hours in downtown Salt Lake. We went and took a tour of the conference center. It was interesting. I've been a couple of times. The weather was lovely and it was wild because of the babies.

Miaya and Bubba by the wild flowers.

Melanie and Miaya and Bubba

Melanie, Henry, Bubba, Me, Miaya, our tour guide, Miriam, and Eva

The main street plaza

Bye bye tree bits

Dustin is a big fan of losing our Chinese Elms. I believe that is what they are called. They are very awful trees. Everytime the wind blows, they lose branches. One of them is also in large part dead. Which is not good. The part that is not dead hangs over our neighbors garage. So Keith, our friend whom is incredibly good at cutting away large bits of tree and making sure said bits don't hit anyone or anything, came over and helped cut it down. Our other friend Vinny, whom also happens to be our neighbor, also came over to do stuff. No one and nothing was hurt during this part of the tree cutting escapades.

The picture above is the before. The picture below is the after. We also cut another large section of the tree.

Fishing for arsenic

We went to our usual fishing hole and found a sign that said catch and release fishing only. That is usually not the case. You usually have to keep everything you catch. It turns out they tested some fish recently and the levels of arsenic is higher than should be consumed. Amazing. And creepy. It was still fun though.

Dustin's so good at helping her fish. She loves it.

This is a pawn shop in Tooele. This sign makes me snort. Yes indeed.