Delta After Dark

Friday found our family tired and ready for the weekend. Scott and I had worked all week, Emily had spend two days volunteering at Cub Scout Day Camp, and Erik...well, he wasn't tired at all. So, when Scott discovered that the drive in over in Delta was showing Karate Kid and Marmaduke, Erik was the first to agree we needed to go. The only problem with the drive in on June 25th is that is doesn't get dark until 9:00. Scott assured me he would drive, I could just relax the whole time.

Off we went, and watched both the movies. After the movies we realized we needed a little fuel to get back home, so we stopped and filled up. Scott turned onto the highway and asked, "What is the speed limit through here?" I told him I wasn't sure, then he told me "Well, I'm going 35, surely it isn't lower than that is it?" Now bear in mind that Scott is extremely careful about his speed when we are with him. It drives me crazy!! But, no sooner had we gone across the bridge when the blue and red lights flashed. Thinking they were probably doing sobriety checks we were extremely surprised when "Deputy Fred" informed Scott that we had been clocked at 47 in a 30 zone. "I don't think so" was Scott's reply, it went down hill from there.

I remember General Authorities in the church telling the youth that nothing good ever comes from being out after midnight, and now I agree. I also have discovered that the city of Delta has quite a little revenue raiser right through there when the officer said, "Yeah, we write about 30 or 40 tickets a day from that spot." That's great.

Top Shot - A New Family Obsession

Ok, it's only been on about 3 weeks, but already my family is waiting for Sunday nights! Of course Emily's favorite is Kelly, and so far I'm not sure who is my favorite. It was so interesting that when Cabela's had a Mosin Nagant on sale, Scott and I couldn't get in there fast enough. I called my Mom while we were on the way there, she asked what I was up to and when I told her, she said, "Oh that's just what you need, another gun." I'm glad she was on board. After our purchase we argued over whether it was his Father's Day gift or my birthday present...I think he won, since he got to the paperwork first.

There are 13 contestants left, so I'm thinking for the next 12 weeks I know where my family will be on Sunday nights. In fact, it has inspired Scott and I to maybe do our own version of Family Top Shot (no Casey won't be invited, except as an observer!). We are pretty curious about the fact that recently Erik showed a lot of promise having his Dad's natural eye, and now that Emily has glasses (she discovered that those green things in the trees were leaves) she may be even more on target than before.

No...we aren't crazy, we just have fun hobbies!

Interstate 70 Acres

Oh man, I haven't blogged in forever, so now I feel guilty! This weekend was the annual Cub Scout Family Campout (I know you're thinking...does she ever do anything besides scouts?). Anyway, I was hoping for the Uncompaghre, but was out voted to go to Island Acres. Being good sports Scott, Erik and I (Emily was still up at Girl's Camp) headed out. Once there I remembered why I like the mountains! I love to camp, but camping to me is in the Aspen trees, not ten minutes from Palisade. Anyway...we fished, caught a bunch of Blue Gills, we swam, we watched a movie under the stars that Scott rigged up, we cooked and had a pretty good day.

Then we tried to go to bed...did I mention that Island Acres is located in Debeque Canyon? Nestled between the railroad, the Colorado River, and Interstate 70? I had the opportunity to listen to every diesel, motorcycle, and Halliburton trucks that was traveling by. It was a long, long night.

We got up early, packed up, had a great breakfast (hosted by Shawnalee) and came home. A little punchy I tried to teach my Sunday school lesson, then Scott and I took about a three hour nap.

Don't worry, I reminded the kids at dinner to wish their Dad a Happy Father's Day. He's a pretty good sport to spend Father's Day weekend camping with the Scouts, but we are definitely ready to go back to work on Monday morning!