A quick summary of 2008 Summer Season at the Marshall home.
Three months of pure boredom as described by nine year old Isaiah, but in all fairness ten minutes without entertainment could be described as a lethal catastrify by him.
Talking about trips we would like to take but never took.
Well in fairness we did take a birthday celebration (Irissa's)/family trip down to the timeshare in Las Vegas. That was fun! Mom/Grandma Wheeler taught Irissa to swim in under four days. Like all trips there was the highlights and things you'd like to forget from your scrap book. Getting stuck at the Silverton Casino for four hours because of a flat tire kinda sucked even though the kids got to see the mermaid in the fish tank. Long story short, who ever thought you could get two flats in less then three weeks, should have fixed the spare.
Jeff and I did go see our Team USA Mens Basketball play in a pre-game in Vegas against Canada. Great game, well at least the half that we saw. Mapquest is not always right.... We enjoyed getting to see our Jazz guys play though, love Boozer and Williams!
We really wanted to take our boat out on Lake Powell but it wasn't finished getting repaired until today. What's the saying....Want to experience the joys of boat ownership. Stand in a cold shower tearing up one hundred dollar bills....
The upstairs toilet flooded in mega proportions and warped our hardwood floor both up and downstairs. Dealing with Farmers Insurance has not been a joy:D Back to the Vegas trip... Jeff was on one phone fighting with Farmers while I was on the other phone trying to get a tow truck out to the Casino, the sweaty frosting on the cake was temperature was in the hundreds that day in Sin City and there just isn't many kid friendly places in Casinos.
We did manage to grow quite an abundant crop of green grapes from our vines this year, the kids loved that. The tomatoes were so, so... I am not sure what happened to the peppers, they seemed to stay in a state of permanent retardation for the whole summer. I admit, I lacked in my Miracle Grow responsibilities and depended on the timer to water them. I also managed to kill two fruit trees I never got around to planting, so sorry little nectarines :C
