At the beginning of June, Andrew and I went to the Taste of Home Cooking School the was held at Logan High school. We got a bag of swag and watched them make 7 or 8 meals that are easy and different. One thing they taught us to make was a taco made with 1/2 lb hamburger with mushrooms for the meat. The mushrooms end up tasting like the hamburger so its a way to cut down on the calorie intake. They also had lots of giveaways and door prizes they gave out. Andrew used his parade yelling skills by lowering his voice (there were only a few men in the audience) so he could get a T-shirt. We so got it! There was a HUGE grand price of a microwave and matching stove set from Darrell’s appliance. They picked this winner at the beginning of the show and would give hits as to who it could some were silly like is a person…haha. They gave it away at the last. Andrew and I hadn’t won anything yet so we joked and dreamed about winning it. The lady was ready to reveal the grand prize winner. She did it in an anticipating manner. “This is a women.” Hey, I’m a women. “Their name starts with a D.” Wait, my name starts with a D. “The winner is Debra P..Debra Pettingill!” I couldn’t believe it, so close! The women that did win was sitting right behind us. I felt I was this close to winning and got it ripped out of my hand. My heart continued to race for a little while after. Robbed I say!
Austin and Gavin got to go to a birthday party for one of their little friend. I thought it was an awesome idea for the party. There is a pick your own berries place in Smithfield. They had it there. We got baskets that we decorated with stickers
and went in the field to pick our own and we were allowed to eat some as we picked. After we had strawberry shortcake together and had Addy open her presents. The people over the pick your own berries was just loving the idea of having a b-day party there. They wanted it to be perfect and took lots of pics for their website.
We also went to Lagoon this year with Diane and Jeff and their kids and Julie. The last time we went to Lagoon Austin tried to drowned by falling out the little boat ride were the water is about 4 feet deep. We conquered that this year. Having Gavin here this time made it so much more fun for Austin. He was another little person that could go with him on all the rides. Gavin is also a bit more daring so because Gavin wanting to try it, made Austin want to try it. Quite the duo.
We rode lots of rides and had lots of fun. Austin did still try to drowned but at the pool. Good to know the lifeguards there are very attentive and help where needed. Nothing to scary, just under the water a little extra, Just enough to start worrying but then have nothing to worry about.
With so many kids we had to take turns watching the kids. When it was my turn I had 2 strollers and Austin to keep track of and what do I decide to do? oh, take all of them on the train of course. It was interesting to drive 2 strollers at once and keep Austin close enough so he didn’t get lost. Everyone thought I was crazy to even think of doing it! Luckily, my sister and I have the same stroller so they are the same size. When we made it there I put the stroller against building and went to take them out but the strollers were back heavy (with all our stuff on it) so it fell over so I had to maneuver quickly. In the process, I knocked over the stroller next to us which had 3 large drinks in it. so I had to switch and pick up their stuff and figure out where to put the drinks so they didn’t get everything sticky. A train just came in so we waited to see if the owners come off the train. No one claimed it. I decided not to wait for the next train and hoped they knew it wasn’t done on purpose.
After the train, the stroller was still there. In fact, it was still there a few hours later so I don’t know when it was claimed again but man they were trusting. There was a purse in the stroller too! It was a great, fun trip to take and we might go again sooner than we usually would. We’ll see!
